I’ve been away for a bit and was going to come in here and ask about this. I noticed the link to the commentary track on the NBC website. I just wanted to know, is it worth listening to?
Peter has said that he can sense when he’s around people with powers, but he hasn’t actually showd this on the scale of, say, the Highlander getting that “whoosh” feeling whenever another Immortal comes within melee distance. I always figured the way he “sensed” they had powers was that he suddenly acquired them and thought, “who, must be a superhero around here somewhere.”
But that doesn’t seem to fit this time: it didn’t look like he was aware he he’d gained a power, that he was invisible and now who could he have gotten that from? It seemed he just noticed that this guy was stealing without anyone else seeming to care and it wasn’t until much later he grokked the invisibility thing.
Even if Peter does turn out to be able to borrow more than one power at a time, he doesn’t strike me as being quick-witted enough to steal Nathan’s flight power in order to get himself to a safe distance from the city before he goes boom. And to be fair, I don’t know that I would think of it either if I were preoccupied with trying to keep myself from going critical with my newly-acquired nuclear abilities.
During his dream he sees the invisible man and channels radioactive man at the same time.