Good point, though it doesn’t necessarily have to have been “dad” she was calling. I missed that implication in Hazel’s first response. For all we know she was calling Mr. Bennett, though I admit it strongly implied she was calling the birthfather.
featherlou makes a good point against one of my justifications.
Well, I hope the watch on Claire-dad’s wrist doesn’t symbolize time travel or something. That could throw all kinds of things out of whack.
Hiro?
=O.o=
Another argument for it not being Sylar… Meredith would have had to call a number she knew, where she knew she would reach him. The FBI is after him - all his known phones (work, home etc) would be bugged or the building watched or something. It just doesn’t work.
I vote for AED or Nathan.
The promo says exactly: “Now you’ve met Claire’s mommy, wait 'til you meet daddy.” Which implies he’s someone we haven’t met before. But promos lie.
The watch in the promo doesn’t strike me as significant. It seems more like it’s the shot where Claire’s bio-dad appears and it’s simply stopped before we see his face. The watch is gold (Sylar’s eponymous and/or iconic watch is black) and the guy is wearing a pinkish dress shirt. That argues against Sylar and IMHO against Nathan as well since he doesn’t strike me as the pink shirt type. My money’s on Linderman being at the other end of the phone, but it’s a small bet because I’m not that confident.
Good points. Even worse is that the newest promo for the big reveal talks about how the internet is all abuzz, then shows pictures of all the candidates with question marks next to them. Sylar is the first one shown, so that kinda blows my “nobody suspects Sylar” angle.
mnemosyne, that is indeed a problem, as pointed out by both HazelNutCoffee and levdrakon. She may not be calling the bio-dad, but the promos sure seem to imply that she is.
A couple other problems: Didn’t we see Mr. Bennett’s first meeting of Sylar on the show, in his watch shop? Seems to me that it’s been implied that he knew the real bio-parents before we see him first meet Sylar. And Sylar’s an evil bastard, going around stealing powers willy nilly. Why wouldn’t he have already stolen the fire-chick’s powers? It’s not like he’s still seeing her; the impression I get is that he is a loser/loner that hasn’t touched a boob in a decade.
Oh well. My money is still on Sylar, but we’ll see in a couple days. Not only do I think that Sylar is Claire’s bio-dad, but I also think he’s Linderman.
I avoid network promos when I can because they’re horrible and often either mislead or spoil. It sounds like that one is incredibly cheesy, on par with some sort of soap opera “FIND OUT WHOSE BABY SHE’S HAVING!” gimmick drama. Sounds like it would be wince-worthy.
It’s as bad as you think. NBC is far and away the worst network when it comes to over-the-top hyperbolic promos, and this one was no exception.
Finally got a chance to watch the ep online this weekend.
If other posters weren’t saying that Dad’s hand is caucasian, I was going to guess the Haitian. It would explain why he suddenly doesn’t want to carry out AED’s orders.
The question is, does Sylar remember Claire because he absorbed a power that allows him to block the Haitian’s mind-wipe, or is the Haitian blatantly disregarding orders right and left now?
IMDB lists George Takei as Mr. Nakimora for a 4-episode arc, starting with “Godsend”(?). Does anyone remember him in that earlier ep?
I’ll spoilerbox this next bit, since Otto got upset when I didn’t a couple of months ago:
[SPOILER]According to a brief article in TV guide a number of weeks back, Tim Kring seems to think the show is The Sopranos II.
From the article:
'…and now Tim Kring has a problem. “This show will survive on our ability to kill off characters and repopulate,” he says. “But everything’s going so well it’s been hard to pull the trigger on anyone.”
Still, that’s what Kring did - literally - to Nora Zehetner’s Eden in the December 4 mid-season finale. The character had the ability to control people with her voice. But when she commanded the hero-slaying Sylar (Zachary Quinto) to kill himself, he tried to absorb her powers - so she put a bullet to her own brain. Kring tells us there’ll be "other deaths before the end of the season. …’
I don’t think Kring’s instincts are right on this one, and it makes me fear for the future quality of the show, whose writing has already shown a tendency toward sloppiness.
I don’t think the fans are going to appreciate putting up with some of the more excrutiating story lines (Niki’s Super-Family, Peter and Nathan’s poor-little-rich-boy upbringing, etc.) if the payoff is that one of them just dies and we sat through all that crap for nothing.
Also in that same issue, Masi Oka declared that we WOULD get to see Hiro fighting a T-Rex, but that moment in “Godsend” with the museum piece had all the marks of being the Isaac-painting-fulfilling moment, so I think he was just bullshitting.[/SPOILER]
OK, now that one is a little out there.
I think Sylar is Linderman, Niki, Nathan, Claire, and Invisible Guy. And Mrs. Bennert’s dog. He’s a shapeshifter. 
But it wouldn’t explain why his semen was making very white looking children. Unless besides being able to erase people’s minds and their gay, he could erase people’s blackness. Sound’s like a Christian fundamentalist’s dream hero!
Are you suggesting that Christian fundamentalists are against people being black?
I thought Mom’s line was, “Our daughter just called me.” Which does more than “imply” she was calling the birth father, IMO.
Guess we’ll find out for sure in (checks clock) 6 1/2 hours.
Blackness is dominant. He could have a white ancestor who passed on a recessive gene.
Speaking of genes, the Human Genome Project storyline doesn’t phase me a lot. There’s lots of tantalizing unknowns there to play with.
To explain:
The HGP set out to map all the base pairs in the Human Genome. Each set of three (triplet) of base pairs codes for a particular amino acid, and the sequence of triplets causes the amino acids to be strung together into proteins. There are 64 possible triplets, and not that many amino acids. So there are multiple triplets that code for identical AA’s, and a goodly number of triplets that don’t code for anything at all, known as “junk”.
All genetically coded proteins start with the same amino acid, and they all end with same different amino acid. There is only one triplet that codes for each, making them, effectively a “start here” and “stop here” sign in the DNA.
By completing the HGP, we know where all the triplets are, and therefore where all the starts and stops are, and therefore where all the proteins are coded. We just don’t know what they all do. The current field of proteomics aims to find out what they are all for.
This lends itself to at least three scientifically plausible plot lines:
Dr. Suresh could have found out that some of the proteins code for superpowers. DNA tends to recombine leaving certain sequences intact, and if he was lucky enough to come across a preserved sequence that dictated something that might be found by a thorough (perhaps semi-legal or even illegal) search of various medical records, a pattern could develop that could be followed through family trees (as is currently done to trace genetic diseases like hemophilia) that might lead to the list.
I just saw on a recent episode of Nova ScienceNow that they have discovered a new wrinkle in genetics. Some geneticists decided to try and make the giant purple pansy even more purple by doubling up in the amount of “purpling” protein in the genome, placing a second copy of it immediately adjacent to an existing copy. The resulting pansies came out white, the purpling protein somehow not getting expressed. Apparently there is some “chemical cop” that lives in our nuclei that prevents doubled proteins from being expressed at all. Scientists assume that this came about as a defense against certain viruses with certain behavior patterns. It is hoped it can be used as a tool. Double a protein, see what’s wrong with the resulting organism when the protein is not expressed, and you know what the protein does.
So maybe Suresh “undoubles” a protein, and discovers hidden human powers. Then he uses the same sort of information in item 1 to arrive at the list.
So, having spent fifty years finding out what the protein genes do, we can now begin from scratch figuring out what the rest of the genome does, because it turns out it ain’t necessarily junk.
Perhaps Suresh found out it causes Powers Beyond the Ken of Man™.