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Guessing everyone's feeling a little closer to compos mentis now. Great, that's gonna make this a whole lot easier.

My name is Nathan Petrelli. I'm Senator for New York, elected representative of the people, and recently made Head of Homeland Security by the President himself. It's my job to do what's in the best interests of the people, and in this case I figure that's gonna be easier said than done.

I don't want any of you to worry. Once I get up to speed on the details of what's going on here, I intend to get to the bottom of how we got here, why we were brought here, and how to go about getting back. And I mean how and why, not the bullshit they've been feeding you about jumping and wormholes and the ship needing a crew. There's a malicious intent here I'm gonna address, and then I'm getting everyone back where we belong.

I realise we're not all Americans here, and maybe you think I have no jurisdiction, but I earned the right to intervene the moment I woke up with a tube shoved down my throat, just like everyone else. I want to speak to people who know the most about this place, or be directed toward them. Captain Kirk: you're on my list for starters, but I'd rather speak to the real Captain, rather than some washed up wannabe.

Oh, and before I wrap this up, there's one other thing. A few of you will have spoken to my brother, Peter; he got here during the 'jump' previous to this one, and as I understand it he's been pretty liberal with his imagination ever since. Some time ago my brother convinced himself that he could fly. He stood on top of a twelve story building one day, called me up and told me he was going to show me he could do it. He jumped, and he fell - fortunately only as far as the fire escape - and a couple days later woke up in the hospital with minor injuries. It wasn't long after my father's death, right in the middle of my run for Congress, and I guess he was desperate for attention.

What I'm trying to say is that he's had brushes with depression before - it runs in the family - and he's not exactly stable right now. All of this doesn't make it any easier. If everyone could please be delicate with him, take what he says with a grain of salt, and inform me if it sounds like he's planning to do something that might hurt himself or others. I appreciate it.

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The secret clubhouse remains a your brother free zone.

...If you ever want to talk, I was going to school to be a paid listener.

Federal and criminal law, mostly. Temporal physics and quantum mechanics? I'm sorry, should I have gone into bullshitting as a career?

I don't know who set it up, Nathan, but it doesn't really matter who, because it happened. [ And this, this is why he's so mad at you.... along with everything else. ]

And you think you have the right to take away all of ours, just because you decided we're all dangerous. From a few files, you decided to send us all away. Including Claire. And Hiro?

What about you, Nathan? What about you makes you so goddamn special that you get to leave yourself out. What, flying isn't dangerous enough? Because if it doesn't matter to you who you're trying to put away, then you're no better than Danko.

[ Oh, hello sword guy. ]

That right? You think this is arrogance? It's called putting my finger out.

So what do you want me to do, raise my hands and march myself in? Sign me up? And woe betide if it hurts anyone else. You, and Ma, and Claire? I was trying to protect you, but just like usual you were too thick headed to accept my help graciously.

After New York, after you locked yourself away and didn't even bother to call to say you were alive, you're gonna tell me finding a way to control dangerous powers isn't a good idea? Just because you've got yours under control doesn't mean everyone else has.

You're naive.

[ That almost makes Peter laugh all of a sudden, just because it's weirdly ironic. ]

Paid listener or not, i'd take a shoulder. [ not necessarily to cry on but Nathan, Sylar, and Elle all at once are a bit much to take at once. ]

East Coast.

[ Everything is America, what are you talking about. ]

[ Peter just stares for a second because bringing up his stay in Primatech? Is another low blow, at least to Peter. Because he tries not to ever think about it. Or Adam. Ever. ]

I didn't give you a call because I wasn't allowed to. It was a prison, Nathan, don't use that against me.

Real men aren't oiled to a sickly yellow glow. Besides which if how they treat their clothes is how they treat their ship, I know whose I'd rather not be on.

[ Look, he can do witty. ]

Well, then you're in luck. I have two of them, and they're open whenever for fellow clubhouse members.

Keep your finger to yourself unless you wish to lose it. [ Entirely mildly. He's not threatening. He's stating a fact. ]

You have no authority here.

[ He knows Peter, spoke to him about powers and believes him well enough, and he's heard of people rejecting those in their family with the mutant gene before, so there's just a cold kind of glare for this. That, and, he's also been creeping on your talk with him up there. ]

Bullshit.

[ Small hum of thanks. ]

Do you know this man?

'Sickly' is not the word I'd use. Stop by fight club sometime, you'll see.

[ who did this turn into 'ogle kirk' hour. how. ]

It was a prison you walked yourself into because you didn't trust the right people, and you didn't believe in your family to do the right thing for you. After I almost died for you.

You don't want to talk about this? Too bad. You did wrong by us, Pete. Wrong by me. I started drinking, and I lost my family, even told Ma she could go to hell if not for the fact she was already there. So you know what? [ He shook his head, cutting himself off. ] Forget it.

He can fuck off. Because we're anything but.

I'm not playing King of the Castle, I'm petitioning for change, and looking for some indication of who is in charge. And if there isn't anyone, with this many people around, I'm wondering why the hell not.

Fight Club? Like the movie?

I'd love to explain, but you know the first rule.

[ Oh. Hey. ]

Getting pretty repetitive, that one. What is it this time?

[ ... you are talking to a King of the Castle, my dear Nathan.

Softly: ] Your words contradict themselves, Nathan of House Petrelli, even if you do not realise it.

I do. I always did wonder how those guys figured out when and where they were supposed to be meeting.

Can you write it down?

[ Congratulations Nathan, you got Erik to show up on video, unafraid. In the space of a simple conversation you've managed to not only piss him off but also earn an enemy in Erik. A press of the button, and Erik's face comes on directly, a mere foot away from his face. It's not clear if he's sitting or standing, but that shouldn't matter, given that Erik is letting the device hover. ]

You know what sounds like a nightmare to me?

You're ignorant.

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