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Heroes
Season 1, Episode 8 (13 Nov. 2006): “Seven Minutes to Midnight”
by Tim Kring, Paul Edwards

Heroes - Season 1, Episode 8

Title: “Seven Minutes to Midnight”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 13 Nov. 2006

Publisher: NBC
Written by: Tim Kring
Directed by: Paul Edwards

Keywords: Hinduism, Sanskrit, funeral, religious ceremony, reincarnation, God, miracle, destiny, fate


1 characters in this story:

Character
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and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Hiro Nakamura Hiro Nakamura hero
CBR Scale: S Bushido / Buddhist
Asian NBC 70

Timecode: 1 minute, 9 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] The Earth is large. Large enough that you thing you can hide from anything. From fate, from God. If onliy you found a place far enough away. So you run...

Timecode: 1 minute, 20 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [chanting in Sanskrit]

Mohinder is a Hindu. He's participating in a Hindu funeral. It's a funeral ceremony for his dad, who is dead.

Timecode: 1 minute, 34 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] ...to the edge of the Earth, where all is safe again. Quiet and warm. The solace of salt air. The piece of danger left behind. The luxury of grief. And maybe for a moment, you believe you have esccaped.

Timecode: 2 minutes, 20 seconds:

Mohinder's mom: You musn't look back, Mohinder. Your father's moved on to the next life.

Timecode: 26 minutes, 58 seconds:

Note the sculpture of a Hindu god.

Timecode: 30 minutes, 30 seconds:

Noah Bennet: Fourteen years ago, there was just such a case, which, sadly, ended in a death. Well, one left behind a baby girl who had no one to take care of her. My wife and I had been having a hard time conceiving a child of our own at the time, and... And it was like God had reached down and given us a miracle.

Timecode: 41 minutes, 40 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] You can run far, you can take your small precautions, but have you really gotten away? Can you ever escape? Or is the truth that you do not have the strength or cunning to hide from destiny? But the world is not small. You are.

Timecode: 42 minutes, 39 seconds:

Mohinder Suresh: [narrating] And fate can find you anywhere.