Heroes (TV Series)

Chapter Fourteen 'Distractions' (2007)

Milo Ventimiglia: Peter Petrelli

Quotes 

• Claude : I spend a lot a time moving around people's homes, their bedrooms. You get to know people if you see them when they think they're alone you see them for what they truly are: Selfish, Deceitful... and Gassy.

  Peter Petrelli : So what, is that your big truth about the world?

  Claude : The sooner you learn it, the sooner we get that collar off your neck.

• Claude : People suck friend. Every last one of them, never forget that.

  Peter Petrelli : Not all of them.

  Claude : Oh right, there's a girl.

  Peter Petrelli : She's not like the rest of them.

  Claude : Everyone's like the rest, that's why they're the rest.

  [pause] 

  Claude : Fine, let's go and see what your girl's up to, then maybe we can clear your head.

• Peter Petrelli : You threw me off of a thirty-story building! If I didn't regenerate, I would be dead!

  Claude : Well, you could have flown. Listen, if you hadn't had worked this one out you would have been hopeless anyway and I just diffused the biggest bomb ever.

• [first lines] 

  Peter Petrelli : I don't see how petty theft is part of my training.

  Claude : There's a lot you don't see. You've no idea how to use these gifts of yours properly.

  Peter Petrelli : Yeah, and you know.

  Claude : Right now your ability only shows up as a reflex, automatic, like swallowing. That's a dog's trick. Making it a conscious choice, using it. That's what makes you more than poodle.

  Peter Petrelli : Is insulting me really going to help me learn to do this?

  Claude : Listen you're the one who is a bomb threatening to go off and blow up me and everyone else in this city unless I can get you housebroken.

• Peter Petrelli : Thanks for nearly getting me arrested.

  Claude : A little more patience and you could have had some cash and some fresh lipstick!

• Claude : Peter can't use his powers without someone holding his hands.

  [about Nathan Petrelli] 

  Claude : How can you not punch that face everytime you see it?

  Peter Petrelli : He's not like that.

  Claude : He is, trust me.

  Peter Petrelli : You don't know him.

  Claude : I don't need to. I've spent a lotta time movin' around people's homes, their bedrooms. You get to know people if you see them when they think they're alone. You see them for what they truly are. Selfish, deceitful... and gassy.

• Claude : You have to get rid of your distractions.

  Peter Petrelli : The people that I love are not distractions.

  Claude : Then why can't you fly? You've done it. You're body remembers how. The only thing standing in your way is you.

  Peter Petrelli : What am I supposed to do? Cut them out of my life? How cold do you expect me to be?

  Claude : Did you forget you're a bomb? You've got to remember what this is about. Or do you have to ask your brother's permission for that as well?

  Peter Petrelli : Anything else that I have to do? Do you want to make a list?

  Claude : You're a sad cartoon of a broken heart bleeding all over the place. I'm just trying to get your head straight.

• Peter Petrelli : And I am tired of you telling me what I have to do. I don't have to do anything!

  Claude : Except fly.

  [pushes Peter off of rooftop] 

  Peter Petrelli : Son of a bitch.

• Peter Petrelli : Before I hit the ground, when I knew what was about to happen I had this flash, in my head of this girl that I met in Texas. This cheerleader, she could heal herself. God, she's this sweet kid. Sad little smile and she just... You were wrong! I don't have to cut her out! I have to remember her, how she made me feel. That's how I...

  [Peter starts cycling through abilities] 

  Peter Petrelli : Oh, God! It's happening. I'm losing it!

  [Claude punches him, knocking him out] 

  Claude : Well, it's a start.

• Claude : You've got this rosy film over your eyes, like a kid. It's no wonder you live like an adolescent. Posters on the wall, hair in your face. You've got to see the world as it is, it's the only way you'II learn how to save it.

  Peter Petrelli : And, what, be like you, a hermit? No one knows you're alive except for some pigeons!