Can Michah just manipulate technology or mechanics too?
When will we get to see Glowy hands man get involved in alll this?
(To all Heroes graphic novel readers)What is Hannah’s importance to everything?
Linderman must be important because he is tied in with everything (D.L and Nikki robbing him, Nathan’s involvement with him, Simone selling Issac’s paintings to him and now Hiro is going to visit him!!!) so he must have a superpower.
COuld Linderman be in “cahoots” with Sylar?
So what was the significance of the license plate and was there a “Petrelli for Senate” bumper sticker on the car?
Your comment made me think of something - so I googled around a bit. And sure as shit, you can get Petrelli for Congress T-shirts!!! Just go to Cafepress and search around - sorry I couldn’t get the direct link to work.
(I mean, I should have known, but I just hadn’t thought of it until now.)
There’s a very small chance that he might base his relationships on something other than hair color. 
He wasn’t tapping into his recovery powers until he was forced to. Claude was right in that sense.
There might be some truth to this. The downfall of criminals is very very often ego. A lot of people could get away with crimes if they just had the sense to shut up about it and not leave calling cards and such.
By the way, does anyone else feel that Claude’s mentor-role is just painfully unintegrated into the story and tacked on? It was practically like when Peter met him, he should’ve said “Oh, you have a superpower too! That must mean you’re the mystic sage guy who’s supposed to teach me!”
re: Linderman (mild spoilers as to his identity)
He’s definitely not someone who’s already been on the show. I can’t remember who it was they cast but it’s someone new.
Rumors have been swirling that it’s … well … I’ll spoiler:
Malcolm McDowell, my droog.
I don’t get the confusion regarding timeframes.
Sure, the current crop of heroes has just found out about their power in the last six months, but, from Episode 1, AED has had a well-established organization to ferret them out and study them. So the true ramifications of this are just starting to be revealed. Claude, HotMomma, and Nathan are all a part of this older, emerging story line. Dr. Suresh may be too. As far as how that relates to Claire, remember we get introduced to her demonstrating her powers, so she is not just discovering them now, like some of the others. She would have no memory of the fire at age 18 months, but certainly may have become aware of her abilities as time went on.
As far as Niki in the mirror goes, they used the reflection-stays-in-the-mirror-when-the-subject-moves-on gimmick to show that there was something not quite right in episode 1. Showing Niki “trapped” in the mirror symbolizes that the Jessica personality has taken over and won’t “let Nikki out” anymore.
I do think, however, that this is a case of multiple personalities, and only the Jessica personality can currently tap into Niki’s super strength. She will indeed have to incorporate her personalities to be mentally stable and physically strong at the same time, similarly to how Isaac had to learn that he retained his powers without heroin.
Now, why the producers think we find Niki to be a compelling enough character for us to give a rat’s ass for the length of time they seem to want to drag this out for, that another question entirely.
The Sylar thing is very interesting.
Last week I wondered if the Haitian had just stopped doing his mind-wipe on people, seeing as how as of last week’s cliffhanger, we know he didn’t use it on Claire, and Sylar remembered her, even though he wasn’t supposed to.
But this week, he used it on Mrs. Bennett, which means he probably DID mind-wipe Sylar… and it didn’t work. Suggesting that Sylar absorbed Haitian’s power-blocking ability without killing him. Which means that even though he didn’t slice Eden’ s head open, he absorbed her power as well, as evidenced by the change in his voice just before AED and the Haitian burst in to save Mrs. Bennett.
All of which leans toward the idea that Sylar can absorb powers as easily as Peter does, but slices people’s heads open once he gets their power just because he can and he likes to, given that he’s nucking futs and all.
Oh, and I agree with whoever said that HotMomma was less than 100% excited about Claire’s visit. She doesn’t look that old… maybe she was a kid who had a baby with her short-term boyfriend, Nathan Petrelli, and thought her power allowed her an “out”, shall we say, from her predicament.
I forgot to mention my two favorite things about this episode:
- A total and complete absence of Mohinder
- No stupid, pretentious voice-over to begin and end the episode (I think).
Peter had already dreamed him in a vision of the future that he didn’t understand. When he met Clause, the vision that Claude could mentor him became clearer. Remember, Peter has Isaac’s power to see/change the future although I think the dreams started before he met Isaac.
I noticed that too and was wondering about the change. I have noticed that in the last few episodes my brain shuts off during the voice over and the words don’t penetrate at all. I’ll be happy if it doesn’t return.
There is absolutely nothing whatsoever that supports the notion that the Haitian tried to mindwipe Sylar and it didn’t take, nothign whatsoever to support the notion that Sylar has absorbed the Haitian’s powers and nothing other than a short voice distortion to support the notion that Sylar has absorbed Eden’s powers (and as previously noted the same vocal effect had already manifested during one of Peter’s dream/visions before Eden’s death).
There is more than enough going on with this show that this sort of wild unsupported speculation seems rather silly. I like a good speculation as much as the next guy but here really ought to be something in the text to support it.
Nonsense. AED ordered the Haitian specifically to make him forget all about Claire, and Sylar woke up and said “How’s Claire”?
Then how did he remember Claire despite the mindwipe?
But Peter’s was in a dream, and Sylar’s was in “real life”, and the only other place we’ve heard it in real life is when Eden talked that way.
Granted, any of this could just disappear in the notoriously sloppy writing on this show, but to say none of it is plausible given what has occurred on the show is just silly.
Regarding Niki/Jessica - the whole show is about superpowers and unusual abilities - how come you guys are so willing to buy the rather mundane explanation of simple psychological trauma/multiple personalities, rather than the much more interesting idea that there actually ARE two women in one body? I think that’s a fascinating idea, and as per Otto’s request, has been supported by the show multiple times. Yeah, you can show a person with multiple personality disorder (I can’t remember what we’re calling it now) talking to themselves in a mirror, etc, but they don’t leave one of their personalities behind when they walk away. Did we learn nothing from “Sixth Sense?” It’s up to us to see what the director shows us.
Okay, I’m done ranting (for now). 
On reflection (pun intended), my vote is for Niki and Jessica being interdimensional beings (like in “The Talisman” novel or the phantom zone). They swap back and forth into this reality.
Or like Billy Batson and Captain Marvel. I’m totally behind the idea that Niki & Jessica are both real.
Are you sure? I don’t remember that.
(Maybe Hatian Guy got to me too.)
From this point forward, let this defense be known simply as the “Hatian Defense”…
Similar to pleading the 5th, you can now simply state that you are invoking the “Hatian Defense”.
All in favor?
What was the question?
Except we saw the Jessica personality take over right in front of the psychologist. Shouldn’t there be some sort of special effect for an interdimensional swap?
There probably is some sort of physical transformation though. It’s like Bruce Banner and Hulk, except in Jessica’s case her appearance doesn’t change except for the tattoo. Bruce Banner looks into a mirror and sees the Hulk, but that doesn’t mean the Hulk is lurking in another dimension. That’s just how they occasionally see each other. But breaking those cuffs should have left marks on Jessica’s skin if she were “normal” Niki. And Normal Niki got knocked out by a little ol’ clonk on the head with a stick. I’m sure in Jessica form she wouldn’t even feel it.
I wonder if even bullets can stop Jessica-form? There was an awful lot of gun fire in the poker scene.
Sigh
No, it’s my memory that’s faulty. Time to eat crow.
I thought I remembered AED asking the Haitian to mindwipe Sylar with words along the line of “make sure he doesn’t remember Claire”. However, on reviewing what material is available, that line refers to Dr. Suresh in the episode “Six Months Ago”, not Sylar.
According to the recap of “Homecoming” on TWOP, the Haitian does something to Sylar to make him fall down after Eden’s command to “go to sleep” seems to not quite take, but apparently it’s not clearly a mind-wipe (The Homecoming Ep doesn’t seem to be on NBC’s site anymore). None of the scenes with Sylar in captivity seem to have AED ordering the Haitian to clean Sylar out. Which is kind of inexplicable, when you think about it.
I think they repeated the line during a “previously on Heroes” while I was out of the room, and I conflated that with my memory of the Haitian overtaking Sylar. My bad, and apologies to Otto.