I don’t recall Maury ever being on Level 5. He was one of the group that founded the Company – that’s how Matt saw him in the picture. Matt and Nathan went to confront Maury in his dingy apartment… somewhere. Mind-mojo, etc., etc… and Maury was (last we knew before this season) left locked up in his own mind, by Matt, just like he’d tried to do to Matt.
This season, he shows up working for Arthur, with the implication (I guess) that he’s been working for Arthur the whole time he’s been on the run from the Company.
Actually, I wish they’d flashbacked us some of the history of the Company. We’ve seen Sylar’s backstory enough, and does anyone really care about the Fire Twins’ backstory? Whereas I think showing how Linderman, Maury, Arthur, Angela, Kaito, Bob, etc. broke apart would have been much more interesting and would have given us Arthur’s backstory just as well.
Hmnn, I think it’s ambiguous. I don’t think there’s anything to really suggest he is doing anything other than lying low from everyone prior to imprisoning Molly in her coma for ‘finding’ him. After all, Arthur’s plan only gets moving immediately after the breakout on Level 5. It seems likely that Bob would have stuck him there after Matt’s attack, by the way - he was trying to kill them all at the time. And being a founder member of the group didn’t stop them locking Adam up, after all. Still, it would be nice if they could be clearer about it all.
Plus, up until season two or three, the brains are gone when they’re examining the bodies afterward. Beginning of season 3, mental illusion girl gets to keep her brain.
Not a retcon at all. It was never established that he eats brains except for a horribly frightened little girl’s statement - a little girl who had just witnessed a particularly gruesome murder of those closest to her. To say it would be unreliable would be an understatement.
I was thinking that maybe Sylar was grabbing the brains and making a quick getaway before getting caught, giving him time to examine the brains at his leisure. When he’s not in immediate danger of getting caught, he can examine them in situ, so to speak.
Everyone else seemed to stumble around a lot when they were first learning to use/control their powers… why not him?
And we now have the answer why Nathan was able to fly away from Noah and the Haitian in Las Vegas. The Haitian was, in fact, working with his mom, and almost certainly had instructions from her to protect him. Especially since it was right after Arthur’s death (and her prior discovery of Arthur’s attempt to kill Nathan… she was probably assuming that anyone in the Company other than the Haitian would be trying to kill him too).
But why did Thompson suddenly take pity on Meredith and let her go? Why would he care what lie the Company told her about Claire? He would have to know that they’d lied to her, given he was Noah’s boss and knew exactly where she was. Hell, if he didn’t know the entirety of Claire’s history he’da been sleeping on the job.
I also thought they were going to answer why Sylar regained his TK but nothing else after his virus cure this episode.
Wow, Noah Bennett is really (in flashback, at least) seeming as evil as anybody else in the show. He’s loyal to his family, but otherwise seems to have no problem sacrificing innocent lives left and right. He sent the Goth boy with the magic bang-finger to die horribly just so they could watch and study the process.
That seemed consistent with the way he was at the beginning of season 1, though. He was very much a Company man, and he didn’t begin to question his loyalty until he realized what Claire could do, and realizing what the Company would want from her/him once they found out. He even let them erase his wife’s mind, repeatedly and over the course of years, to the point of neurological damage.
He’s still pretty morally grey, anyway. He still shot people in cold blood even after fleeing the Company (e.g. Ivan whatsisface in the Ukraine when he was trying to find the missing paintings).