Theory about the nuke explosion: Who ever explodes (Peter, Sylar, or actual Nuke guy (forgot his name already,)) I’m guessing that Nathan will save the day, and it will pretty much be his one act as a hero. He will notice who ever it is about to go thermo-nuclear, and then grab them and fly as fast as he fucking can straight up.
You heard it here first.
Then you should have ASKED where I got it rather than posting it out in the open first. You screwed up so don’t try to blame someone else for it. The source was spoilerfix.com.
Actually you heard it here third, since I posted this theory weeks ago and reposted it yesterday in the “Six Months Ago” thread.
The questions I have as of the end of this episode:
(1) Who’s AED working for? He’s gotten “marching orders” from someone – and while we don’t know whether he agrees with those orders (I’m thinking not), we do know that he’s not willing to go against them like Eden was.
(2) Who’s the Haitian working for? Conversely, if he really is only working for AED, why has he kept some unknown but presumably important things from AED? As a subquestion, why does he want everyone to think he’s mute?
(3) How is Jessica going to react to the fact that she hurt her/Niki’s son? She has claimed to be acting to protect him in the past (and even in this episode), but hurting him is a bad way of protecting him.
(4) Peter apparently has two separate powers – spotty precognition (i.e., dreams and visions) and power mimicry. Aside from Sylar, is he the only one with two powers?
Plot conjectures:
(1) Assuming Mohinder was talking to the FBI, he should be getting a visit from Matt and Audrey in the near future.
(2) Niki is turning out not to be quite as shallow as we thought she was (though she’s still far from deep or intelligent). She’s absolutely right when she says she can’t be trusted, although how a rural Utah town is going to keep super-strong Jessica in jail is a good question. I suspect Jessica’s going to walk out of prison (although differently than DL did) at the first opportunity.
(3) The mistakes AED is making seem to me to be mostly in the form of over-reacting where Claire’s concerned. Like his sending the Haitian to mindwipe Claire – when she’s just going to figure out that she has powers all over again at some point. Maybe he’s mindwiped her before? If so, something’s different about this time, because the Haitian refused to do it.
(4) If Nathan does fly the radioactive exploding person (whoever it turns out to be) out to sea, I suspect he’ll survive the action so he can win in a landslide. It would be nicely ironic if this man who apparently despises the thought of superpowers wins only because of them.
And on that nicely symmetric note, I’ll conclude by saying that was a very good episode, one of the better ones, and a nice antidote to last week’s fluffiness (aside from Hiro).
I think the Hatian Dude (who I have a strong urge to call “Eight-Ball”) qualifies. Power-blocking and mind-wiping.
Niki / Jessica: Body-switching and super strength
There are DVD recorders that have a hard drive. They get program information off the air. Not as user-friendly as TiVo, but its free (there are some spots reserved for ads but I’ve yet to see one) and no information can get back (well, not practically). Most of the time I just record to the HD and erase, but you can also archive shows to DVD.
Brian
I thought the previews said someone was going to the dark side, but I can’t remember who did that last night, unless it was the Haitian. Does anyone know?
I recall teasing about a hero being “lost” (aka dead), but nothing about the dark side.
We also saw GhostDad come clear through the wall in the first fight in Niki’s house.
I had been wondering something about Sylar’s cell–they may have made it immune to outgoing telekinetic force. He broke the window by grabbing Eden and yanking her into the glass hard enough to break it, which they might not have expected him to be able to do.
Hiro and Ando need to find a way to convince the truly tripping Isaac to just use the sketchbook rather than take all that time doing those fully-detailed color paintings. He’d get a lot more precognition done in a lot less time.
Maybe Peter’s power weakens him? He hasn’t used them much, and usually a few days apart. In the past day, he’s been exposed to Claire, Sylar, Matt, Bennett (assuming he has powers)… oh, and his brother. He’s OD’ing on superpowers.
I don’t think the Haitian was going to remove Claire’s knowledge of her powers, but rather her memories of having told anyone about them. Whcih even if the Haitian had followed through would have been ineffective because AED doesn’t know that she told Peter.
There’s no evidence that Niki-as-Niki has any superpowers. Jessica appears to be the result of “MPD” or a dissociative disorder, not a superpower.
Unintentional moment of hilarity last nght: Claire asks Lyle how he got home from practice and they did that wickedly overdramatic pan-zoom thing on his face when he answered.
This was one of my questions too, as well as how Isaac was able to leave and meet Hiro. I thought he was being kept locked up for them to monitor his visions?
My favorite was Hiro’s friend “It’s destiny!” “I was kind of hoping destiny had lost our number.”
Eden let him go.
Jessica has crazy strength as witnessed by her ability to rip people apart. I would predict… for what it’s worth, that Niki will somehow be able to tap into that strength .
Are you positing that it is a Hulk-type scenario? I’m not saying yea or nay to your theory, just curious. Personally, it being a superhero show, I was figuring two distinct people vying for one body, not a fractured psyche.
For the record, the dinosaur depicted in the painting is, in fact, a Carnotaurus.
If this show actually has a scene with Hiro swordfighting with a Carnotaurus, I will declare it the best show in the history of television.
I don’t know that he could actually be that selective. Every time he’s wiped a memory, he’s taken out a complete time period, not just specific incidents. (When he wiped Zach’s mind, he took away all memories of their renewed friendship, not just his knowledge of Claire’s powers.)
Well, it seems to be Hulk-like, at this point. Niki is an average, everyday, moderately annoying work-from-home mom. Jessica rips people in half. I find it hard to believe that the mechanism that makes Jessica strong is entirely mental–Niki’s body has to be capable of the super-strength, she just can’t access it. Maybe Jessica blocks her deliberately, maybe Niki just doesn’t have the right rage. But it seems to me that if Niki can defeat Jessica, she can plot a route through her brain to the Super Strength Depository.
As for the multiple personality angle–Jessica claims that she’s been inside Niki all along, since her own death. Whereas all the other heroes didn’t develop their powers until late spring of 2006. I think the ability is hardwired, if you will, to Niki’s body–if they were twins (which I have assumed they were, but I could be wrong), it stands to reason that Jessica would have had the same ability, had she survived–and it will still be there even if Jessica is gone. But while all the other heroes have slowly come to terms with their abilities, or at least noticed them, Niki never did, because Jessica got to them first.
I think that last paragraph was unnecessarily convoluted, but I tried. 
The interview at tvguide.com said that one of the heroes would start working for AED. I didn’t see that happen yesterday but maybe it’ll happen on Jan 22.
More like a Crazy Jane scenario.
Lois the Carnotaurus it is!
When he wiped Brody McRapist (under instruction to “hollow him out”) he seemed to clear just Brody’s memories of Claire. Brody still knew how to speak English for example and seemed to be able to function in a school setting. It’s still up in the air for me whether he can wipe specific memories or not.
All of the heroes we know about, you mean. AED indicated that Claire’s birth mother was powered and that would’ve been some 15 years ago. Assuming he was telling the truth of course. But even if he wasn’t, absent some as yet unrevealed New Universe-style “White Event” six months ago it doesn’t make sense that powers that are supposed to be genetically based would all only suddenly start manifesting within days of each other in a genetically diverse population.