[Transcript] Gabriel/Sylar scenes from 1.10 Six Months Ago
I did a transcript of the Gabriel scenes in Six Months Ago. Mostly for my own sake, I'm trying to write some Sylar/Gabriel and some Gabriel/Chandra and I've found that writing transcripts helps me find their voices (I think). I'm sure there are better transcripts elsewhere on the net. But you know, if you only want the Gabriel scenes then here you go :)
Scene 1, 2:06 - 4:18
The front of a watchmaker’s shop named ‘Gray and Sons’.
CAPTION: CHAPTER TEN “SIX MONTHS AGO”
Inside a young man wearing multilensed glasses is working on a watch. It starts ticking when he puts it together. He studies it and smiles happily
CAPTION: SIX MONTHS AGO - BROOKLYN
A man enters. The watchmaker looks up as the door slams shut. The man is holding a book (Activating Evolution) and staring at him.
Gabriel: Can I help you?
Chandra: (nodding) I hope so, Mr. Gray.
He walks towards Gabriel, holding the book to his chest, but the young man immediately focuses on the golden watch around his wrist. He lifts his hand to it.
Gabriel: I can fix it.
Chandra: My watch isn’t broken.
Gabriel: Actually, it is.
He holds his hand out and Chandra gives him the watch. The professor’s also wearing a wedding band. Gabriel accepts the watch and holds it up to his ear, listening to its ticking.
Gabriel: Yeah, the self-winding coil is loose. Your watch is running two seconds slow.
Chandra: How did you know?
Gabriel: Just a talent I have for the way things work. How the parts should go.
Chandra: (indicating the watch Gabriel was working on before, hushed voice) Looks rather complicated.
Gabriel: That. Oh, the body’s standard. But the part’s, the insides, are German. 1917. I’ve been working on it for seven years. (chuckling)
He gives Chandra his watch back.
Chandra: How much do I owe you?
Gabriel: (smiling) Oh please, don’t worry about it.
He looks up at Chandra and becomes serious.
Gabriel: (taking his glasses off) You didn’t come here for the watch.
Chandra: I came to find you, Gabriel.
Gabriel stands up.
Chandra: My name is Chandra Suresh. I’m a geneticist. I have a theory about human evolution and I believe you (handing Gabriel the book) are a part of it. Read it. If you’d like to talk more, I’ve written my phone number and address inside.
He walks out. Gabriel stares after him.
Scene 2, 12:18 - 13:49
Interior of Chandra’s apartment. He pins a picture of Nathan Petrelli to a map filled with strings and more pictures. There’s a knock on the door. He goes to answer.
Chandra’s book is on the table and an anatomy book which Gabriel leafs through. Chandra is pouring tea into two green cups.
Gabriel: So, what? You’re gonna cut me open?
Chandra: (laughing) I’d like to run some tests. EEG, EKG, nothing invasive.
Gabriel nods and sips his tea.
Chandra: A friend at Columbia has access to an MRI.
He leads over to some chairs and sits down. Gabriel remains standing.
Gabriel: Mapping the brain.
Chandra: Measuring alpha waves. Resting rates. Neuron clusters. The, eh, brain controls every human action. Voluntary or involuntary. Every breath, every heartbeat, every emotion. If the soul exists, scientifically speaking, it exist in the brain.
Gabriel: (laughing and sitting down) When I was a kid I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn’t really my family. Th-they weren’t bad people, they were just insignificant. And I wanted to be different. Special. I wanted to change. A new name. A new life. The watchmaker’s son… became a watchmaker. It is so futile. I wanted to be… important.
Chandra: (smiling) You are important, Gabriel.
Gabriel: (shifting closer) What do you think my abilities might be?
Scene 3, 24:19 - 25:52
In Chandra’s apartment. The room is dark, but there is light outside. Chandra is sitting at one side of a desk, watching readings on a screen, and Gabriel is sitting on the other side, with electrodes attached to his head.
Chandra: Why do you repair watches, Gabriel?
Gabriel: My father didn’t really give me a choice.
Chandra: Yes, but why not do what you want to? Why not change?
Gabriel: You use a phrase in your book. Evolutionary imperative.
Chandra: That which we are destined to do.
Gabriel: Sea turtles die on the same exact beach where they were born. Lions slaughter gazelles. Spiders eat their young. They don’t want to, they have to.
Chandra: (bitterly) Good news is, you’re healthy.
He stands up to take the electrodes off Gabriel.
Gabriel: You mean… normal? What, there’s still no signs? (flailing the last electrodes off)
Chandra: No.
Gabriel puts his glasses back on.
Gabriel: Well, maybe tomorrow. We’re still going to the CT scannery? (voice shaking)
Chandra: I think we should prepare for the possibility that I may have been wrong. You may not have a special ability.
Gabriel: (abruptly standing up) I am so close. I can feel it!
Chandra tries to speak.
Gabriel: You came to me! I am on your list!
Chandra: These tests aren’t a hundred percent.
Gabriel: (intently) Don’t give up on me.
Chandra: (sighing heavily, dismissive) There are other opportunities I need to focus on.
Gabriel: (grabbing a file) Oh, what, these people, huh? They’re important? (ripping off a post-it note with a name and address) This guy - Brian Davies? You think he’s… telekinetic? Move things with his mind? Or you just gonna toss him aside too? (throws the files)
Chandra: You better leave now, Mr. Gray.
Gabriel grabs his jacket and storms off. Outside he stops and reads the post-it. Behind him Noah Bennet steps out of a cab and looks up the building.
[Interesting facts from the Noah/Chandra scene:
- Chandra says that it’s possible Claire’s genetic abnormality might never affect her (to which he adds “It’s possible. I might be wrong.” The manipulative bastard)
- He found the picture of Claire at the Union Wells High School website (the creepy stalker!)
- He says it because of Shanti (who was five when she died) that he started his research
- He thinks it’s the destiny of those with abilities to change the world]
Scene 4, 36:40 - 38:34
Inside Gray and Sons. Loud ticking. Gabriel is working on a Sylar watch. The door opens and the bell rings. A man walks in.
Gabriel: (taking his glasses off) Can I help you?
Brian: Yeah, uh, somebody called me. My name is Brian Davies.
Gabriel narrows his eyes. We see quick flashbacks to Chandra, to the post-it note, and Gabriel walking stopping on the street to look at the note. It’s all speeded up a bit and overlaid with a tense sound.
Gabriel: (standing up) Yes, I called you. My name is…
His head snaps quickly down to stare at the desk. There’s a sort of jerking close up of the face of the Sylar watch. It ticks loudly.
Gabriel: My name is Sylar. (looking back at Brian) Gabriel Sylar.
Time hop. They stand at one of the display cages together. Brian is staring hard at a mug, which twitches and jerks a small way over the table.
Gabriel: That’s incredible!
Brian: Can you make it go away?
Gabriel: Why would you wanna do that?
Brian: (stepping closer) I-I don’t know what this is, or who it might hurt. I don’t want it.
Gabriel stares at him. There’s a quick close up of Gabriel working on a watch earlier.
Gabriel: You’re broken.
Brian: What?
Gabriel pushes Chandra’s book at him and walks around him to the other side of the table. Brian leafs through it, while Gabriel is staring at the back of his head.
Gabriel: Suresh was right. It’s so clear to me now. How it all works. Pieces fitting together: It is in the brain.
Brian: So you can help?
Gabriel looks down to a large cluster of crystals at the table by his hand. He picks it up.
Gabriel: Don’t worry, Brian. I can fix it. (raises the crystal) It’s an evolutionary imperative!
He strikes Brian over the back of his head. Brian falls down and lies still on the floor, a puddle of blood by his head. Gabriel picks up his multilensed glasses and moves.
Scene 5, 39:12 -
Gabriel and Chandra are sitting at a table in the professor’s apartment. Gabriel looks a bit different; his hair isn’t neatly combed down, he’s wearing a knitted jacket over a casual shirt instead of his usual sweater vest over white shirt combination, and he’s not wearing glasses. He’s concentrating on an empty glass. It moves smoothly over the table. Chandra looks up at Gabriel. The glass suddenly snaps away and crashes against the wall. Both of the men seem startled.
Gabriel: (swallowing and smiling) I’m sorry about the glass.
Chandra: It’s… just glass. (almost breathless)
Gabriel: (standing up and stepping away) About the other day. I should have behaved myself. It was uncalled for. I’m sorry.
Chandra: You were angry. A man can say and do most awful things when he’s angry.
Gabriel: (smiling) Well, I’m different now. I feel I’ve been given a chance to start over. A new life. A new identity. New purpose.
Chandra: (standing up and walking to Gabriel) I came halfway around the world looking for proof and I threw him out the door. No one returns my phone calls anymore. They all think I’m insane.
Gabriel: I don’t.
He touches Chandra’s shoulder before pointing to the map.
Gabriel: (walking to the map) These people are all out there waiting to be told that they’re important. Waiting to unlock their true potential. I know. (turning to Chandra) I can… feel them. We’ll find them together.
Chandra looks at Gabriel apprehensively.
Gabriel: We are the future.
Scene 1, 2:06 - 4:18
The front of a watchmaker’s shop named ‘Gray and Sons’.
CAPTION: CHAPTER TEN “SIX MONTHS AGO”
Inside a young man wearing multilensed glasses is working on a watch. It starts ticking when he puts it together. He studies it and smiles happily
CAPTION: SIX MONTHS AGO - BROOKLYN
A man enters. The watchmaker looks up as the door slams shut. The man is holding a book (Activating Evolution) and staring at him.
Gabriel: Can I help you?
Chandra: (nodding) I hope so, Mr. Gray.
He walks towards Gabriel, holding the book to his chest, but the young man immediately focuses on the golden watch around his wrist. He lifts his hand to it.
Gabriel: I can fix it.
Chandra: My watch isn’t broken.
Gabriel: Actually, it is.
He holds his hand out and Chandra gives him the watch. The professor’s also wearing a wedding band. Gabriel accepts the watch and holds it up to his ear, listening to its ticking.
Gabriel: Yeah, the self-winding coil is loose. Your watch is running two seconds slow.
Chandra: How did you know?
Gabriel: Just a talent I have for the way things work. How the parts should go.
Chandra: (indicating the watch Gabriel was working on before, hushed voice) Looks rather complicated.
Gabriel: That. Oh, the body’s standard. But the part’s, the insides, are German. 1917. I’ve been working on it for seven years. (chuckling)
He gives Chandra his watch back.
Chandra: How much do I owe you?
Gabriel: (smiling) Oh please, don’t worry about it.
He looks up at Chandra and becomes serious.
Gabriel: (taking his glasses off) You didn’t come here for the watch.
Chandra: I came to find you, Gabriel.
Gabriel stands up.
Chandra: My name is Chandra Suresh. I’m a geneticist. I have a theory about human evolution and I believe you (handing Gabriel the book) are a part of it. Read it. If you’d like to talk more, I’ve written my phone number and address inside.
He walks out. Gabriel stares after him.
Scene 2, 12:18 - 13:49
Interior of Chandra’s apartment. He pins a picture of Nathan Petrelli to a map filled with strings and more pictures. There’s a knock on the door. He goes to answer.
Chandra’s book is on the table and an anatomy book which Gabriel leafs through. Chandra is pouring tea into two green cups.
Gabriel: So, what? You’re gonna cut me open?
Chandra: (laughing) I’d like to run some tests. EEG, EKG, nothing invasive.
Gabriel nods and sips his tea.
Chandra: A friend at Columbia has access to an MRI.
He leads over to some chairs and sits down. Gabriel remains standing.
Gabriel: Mapping the brain.
Chandra: Measuring alpha waves. Resting rates. Neuron clusters. The, eh, brain controls every human action. Voluntary or involuntary. Every breath, every heartbeat, every emotion. If the soul exists, scientifically speaking, it exist in the brain.
Gabriel: (laughing and sitting down) When I was a kid I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn’t really my family. Th-they weren’t bad people, they were just insignificant. And I wanted to be different. Special. I wanted to change. A new name. A new life. The watchmaker’s son… became a watchmaker. It is so futile. I wanted to be… important.
Chandra: (smiling) You are important, Gabriel.
Gabriel: (shifting closer) What do you think my abilities might be?
Scene 3, 24:19 - 25:52
In Chandra’s apartment. The room is dark, but there is light outside. Chandra is sitting at one side of a desk, watching readings on a screen, and Gabriel is sitting on the other side, with electrodes attached to his head.
Chandra: Why do you repair watches, Gabriel?
Gabriel: My father didn’t really give me a choice.
Chandra: Yes, but why not do what you want to? Why not change?
Gabriel: You use a phrase in your book. Evolutionary imperative.
Chandra: That which we are destined to do.
Gabriel: Sea turtles die on the same exact beach where they were born. Lions slaughter gazelles. Spiders eat their young. They don’t want to, they have to.
Chandra: (bitterly) Good news is, you’re healthy.
He stands up to take the electrodes off Gabriel.
Gabriel: You mean… normal? What, there’s still no signs? (flailing the last electrodes off)
Chandra: No.
Gabriel puts his glasses back on.
Gabriel: Well, maybe tomorrow. We’re still going to the CT scannery? (voice shaking)
Chandra: I think we should prepare for the possibility that I may have been wrong. You may not have a special ability.
Gabriel: (abruptly standing up) I am so close. I can feel it!
Chandra tries to speak.
Gabriel: You came to me! I am on your list!
Chandra: These tests aren’t a hundred percent.
Gabriel: (intently) Don’t give up on me.
Chandra: (sighing heavily, dismissive) There are other opportunities I need to focus on.
Gabriel: (grabbing a file) Oh, what, these people, huh? They’re important? (ripping off a post-it note with a name and address) This guy - Brian Davies? You think he’s… telekinetic? Move things with his mind? Or you just gonna toss him aside too? (throws the files)
Chandra: You better leave now, Mr. Gray.
Gabriel grabs his jacket and storms off. Outside he stops and reads the post-it. Behind him Noah Bennet steps out of a cab and looks up the building.
[Interesting facts from the Noah/Chandra scene:
- Chandra says that it’s possible Claire’s genetic abnormality might never affect her (to which he adds “It’s possible. I might be wrong.” The manipulative bastard)
- He found the picture of Claire at the Union Wells High School website (the creepy stalker!)
- He says it because of Shanti (who was five when she died) that he started his research
- He thinks it’s the destiny of those with abilities to change the world]
Scene 4, 36:40 - 38:34
Inside Gray and Sons. Loud ticking. Gabriel is working on a Sylar watch. The door opens and the bell rings. A man walks in.
Gabriel: (taking his glasses off) Can I help you?
Brian: Yeah, uh, somebody called me. My name is Brian Davies.
Gabriel narrows his eyes. We see quick flashbacks to Chandra, to the post-it note, and Gabriel walking stopping on the street to look at the note. It’s all speeded up a bit and overlaid with a tense sound.
Gabriel: (standing up) Yes, I called you. My name is…
His head snaps quickly down to stare at the desk. There’s a sort of jerking close up of the face of the Sylar watch. It ticks loudly.
Gabriel: My name is Sylar. (looking back at Brian) Gabriel Sylar.
Time hop. They stand at one of the display cages together. Brian is staring hard at a mug, which twitches and jerks a small way over the table.
Gabriel: That’s incredible!
Brian: Can you make it go away?
Gabriel: Why would you wanna do that?
Brian: (stepping closer) I-I don’t know what this is, or who it might hurt. I don’t want it.
Gabriel stares at him. There’s a quick close up of Gabriel working on a watch earlier.
Gabriel: You’re broken.
Brian: What?
Gabriel pushes Chandra’s book at him and walks around him to the other side of the table. Brian leafs through it, while Gabriel is staring at the back of his head.
Gabriel: Suresh was right. It’s so clear to me now. How it all works. Pieces fitting together: It is in the brain.
Brian: So you can help?
Gabriel looks down to a large cluster of crystals at the table by his hand. He picks it up.
Gabriel: Don’t worry, Brian. I can fix it. (raises the crystal) It’s an evolutionary imperative!
He strikes Brian over the back of his head. Brian falls down and lies still on the floor, a puddle of blood by his head. Gabriel picks up his multilensed glasses and moves.
Scene 5, 39:12 -
Gabriel and Chandra are sitting at a table in the professor’s apartment. Gabriel looks a bit different; his hair isn’t neatly combed down, he’s wearing a knitted jacket over a casual shirt instead of his usual sweater vest over white shirt combination, and he’s not wearing glasses. He’s concentrating on an empty glass. It moves smoothly over the table. Chandra looks up at Gabriel. The glass suddenly snaps away and crashes against the wall. Both of the men seem startled.
Gabriel: (swallowing and smiling) I’m sorry about the glass.
Chandra: It’s… just glass. (almost breathless)
Gabriel: (standing up and stepping away) About the other day. I should have behaved myself. It was uncalled for. I’m sorry.
Chandra: You were angry. A man can say and do most awful things when he’s angry.
Gabriel: (smiling) Well, I’m different now. I feel I’ve been given a chance to start over. A new life. A new identity. New purpose.
Chandra: (standing up and walking to Gabriel) I came halfway around the world looking for proof and I threw him out the door. No one returns my phone calls anymore. They all think I’m insane.
Gabriel: I don’t.
He touches Chandra’s shoulder before pointing to the map.
Gabriel: (walking to the map) These people are all out there waiting to be told that they’re important. Waiting to unlock their true potential. I know. (turning to Chandra) I can… feel them. We’ll find them together.
Chandra looks at Gabriel apprehensively.
Gabriel: We are the future.