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Character: Adam Monroe / Takezo Kensei
Episode Count: 14
Status: Aired
Heroes is a serial saga about people all over the world discovering that they have superpowers and trying to deal with how this change affects their lives.
Episode Guide
Character Quotes
Hiro Nakamura: That’s fighting dirty!
Takezo Sensei: No that’s fighting smart sir; oh don’t get me wrong I give him a fair wage… if he lives.
Takezo Kensei: [to Hiro] You look like a fish when you talk. Like a giant carp.
Takezo Sensei: You can make me the hero she sees in me.
Hiro Nakamura: As long as you stop drinking.
Takezo Sensei: No promises.
Hiro Nakamura: [in Japanese, to himself] I can live with that.
Takezo Kensei: Lazarus risen. You’ve cursed me.
Takezo Kensei: [after discovering his invulnerability] This’ll make me richer than the pope!
Takezo Kensei: I can’t do this without you. Only you can keep me from returning to my heathen ways. You’re like a conscience. Only I take heed of you.
Takezo Kensei: We did make a good team, you and I. You showed me how to be a hero. How to love. And then… you took it all away.
Hiro Nakamura: Kensei! You were my friend.
Adam Monroe: You were more than a friend to me. You were my inspiration. I was a rudderless drunk, and then you came along and taught me to be a hero.
Hiro Nakamura: Only to have you become a villain.
Adam Monroe: I learned that from you.
Hiro Nakamura: I found myself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong.
Adam Monroe: Objection, your honor. He’s reciting the opening to “Quantum Leap”.