"I Am Become Death" is the fourth episode of the third season of the NBC science fiction drama series "Heroes" and thirty-eighth episode overall. It was written by Aron Coleite and directed by David Von Ancken. The episode aired on October 6, 2008. The title is a reference to a phrase from the "Bhagavad Gita" and was famously quoted by Robert Oppenheimer; "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."