Have we met anyone who works at the Company who doesn’t have a power?

HRG’s boss? The one that got shot in the head at the end of the first season? Also, I THINK in one of the latest graphic novels on the NBC website, in a flashback, he positively said that he has no powers except his ruthlessness and guile. Also, from the graphic novels, it looks like they used to pair up two “talented” people but now prefer to keep one “normal” on the team instead to keep the special people under better watch. Seems that this change occurred around the time Claude lost the partner he has before HRG.

As far as DL, Nikki and Micah visited his grave 4 months after Peter exploded. DL apparently spent about a month recouperating from a bullet wound to the abdomen from Linderman, became a firefighter (in a ridiculously short amount of time from being shot in the first place), then went after Nikki and got shot AGAIN around the 3 month mark if I remember right.

Very interesting thought about the passive/active elements in each Hero’s power. Nice observation.

All in all, I’ll say what I said last week. Flashback episodes, for all the helpful backstory that they provide, are weak. This easily should have been a series of graphic novels on the NBC site and would have made far more sense. Instead, what momentum was gained in the last few episodes has been sacrificed and will be that much harder to pick back up.

HRG’s boss? The one that got shot in the head at the end of the first season?

You mean Linderman (played by Malcolm McDowell)? He healed Nathan’s wheelchair-bound wife, not to mention the rose when he was expostulating in his warehouse filled with works of art (and Kensai’s sword, later stolen by Hiro).

I also agree that Mama Petrelli has that “Eye of Power”. She could sell a turd to a perfumier…

HRG’s boss? The one that got shot in the head at the end of the first season?

That was Eric Roberts character.

That was Eric Roberts character

Exactly. If he did have a power we certainly never saw it. Again, It was all ruthlessness and apparent lack of a soul that makes the “normals” the company hires valuable.

Also, How about Hiro’s dad? Special circumstance yes, But he was a founder of the company and apparently had zilch for powers.

Yeah there was Thompson, and also apparently the man who trained Claude and HRG, who was holding the paintings.

And I believe that they consider Peter’s proximity to DL at the event with Sylar to be enough contact for him.  It would also mean that he has Molly and Micah’s powers as well.

- Peter.  The Peter that flew in and saved Nathan had FuturePeter’s emo-boy haircut and was wearing totally different clothes than PresentPeter (who just exploded, or radiated an explosion, or something).  It was the Peter that FutureHiro met in String Theory.  The one that was with Nikki.  BUT...that same guy was zapped by LightningGirl and held in the joint with Adam.  Why doesn’t he remember he’s Futurepeter?  If he does, there was absolutely no indication of it.  he was acting like PresentPeter, the one who explod-a-radiated.

I’m somewhat confused by what you’re saying here.  For one Future Peter had a large scar on his face.  Also the clothing peter wore just went through a nuclear blast.  When he is at the hospital you can see that they scorched and grayed.  Hairstyle just seems to be a bit of laziness in not putting a wig on him.

Passive flying power, its simple.  You can’t fall to your death. i.e. Peter/Nathan season one when peter jumped off the building.  Oh, and I gotta take a little credit here.  I think it was in this blog that I posted that Nathan dropped Peter and saved himself and that is why he felt so bad.  Could be that the flying passive power is super fast facial hair growth.

On a side note, does anyone else think that flying boy (Clarie’s BF, sounds and kinda looks like he could be related to Owen and Luke Wilson) I swear he has the same intonation and speach pattern.  Anyway, that whole 11 episode thing SUCKS!!

PS, Jim feel free to post more ladies in your gallery.  You have wonderful taste.  Thank you for Ariel!

More please

Passive flying power, its simple.  You can’t fall to your death.

Not necessarily true. When Peter was being taught how to use his other powers, he was tossed off a high building and landed smack on top of a car parked below. He would have died if he hadn’t absorbed Claire’s healing powers.

(And what would her active power be, if she just has regeneration/healing?)

And what would her active power be

If we assume that Claire’s ability is the same as Adam’s then… Adam has a passive ability wherein his cells (and probably his whole molecular structure/signature i.e. being blasted into thousands of indistinct smoking bits and still re-coalescing again) automagically regenerates and heals itself. His active ability is those cells ability to also heal others of their wounds. We can infer that this is limited to immediate wounds already sustained since every whore the guy has ever pounded isn’t still walking around just cause they gave him a happy ending.

Again though, Just depends on whether Claire and Adam have the same ability.

If we assume that Claire’s ability is the same as Adam’s then…

Objection, your Honor. Assumes facts not in evidence…

We can infer that this is limited to immediate wounds already sustained since every whore the guy has ever pounded isn’t still walking around just cause they gave him a happy ending.

But those cells are still present in the circulatory system of anyone ever “healed” by him (and he had to have tested this at some point - or had this tested by someone else - otherwise he wouldn’t have even suspected the possibility), making those people capable of healing minor wounds from then on.

Which leads to an interesting question - is it the cells, or the matrix wherein they reside, that allows them to perform in an ongoing basis?

Which leads to an interesting question - is it the cells, or the matrix wherein they reside, that allows them to perform in an ongoing basis?

Well, Only one way to tell so far. I can’t remember but maybe someone else can. Has Nathan been injured this season at all? He and Parkman fought in Papa Parkman’s place but I can’t remember any injuries to him.

Also, I do believe that Claire and Adam’s powers are the same just like Nathan and Super-Boytoy have the same powers. An assumption yes, but there is enough evidence for it to be a good one.

An assumption yes, but there is enough evidence for it to be a good one.

Contradiction. If there is any evidence whatsoever, it is no longer considered an assumption - it is a tentative conclusion based on probabilities.

However, your only evidence is the similarity in powers, and that isn’t necessarily the case, because there are only just so many possibilities for powers. Sooner or later, you’re going to have a duplicate.

BTW, did Peter get his power to shoot lightning bolts from close proximity to the blonde? Even though it was during the time when he was under meds designed to nullify his powers?

BTW, did Peter get his power to shoot lightning bolts from close proximity to the blonde? Even though it was during the time when he was under meds designed to nullify his powers?

He’d have acquired it on his first contact with her, when he wasn’t under the influence of the meds.  Or after he had stopped taking the meds.  Either way he was near her at points with full use of his ability.

The real question to ask is does he now have the Haitian’s power?  Or because the Haitian puts out a nullifying field was he unable to pacify it?  I also don’t believe his nullifying ability is a passive power.  Since it would mean he could never work with a another Hero, and also would have meant Nathan couldn’t have escaped him and HRG.  And he also worked with Eve, when they stopped Sylar at the school.  So its definitely a power that isn’t passive.

ok, didn’t want to get into an argument of “assumption” vs “tentative conclusion” and the semantics involved. I’m just gonna go ahead and speculate (in the transitive conjugation) that Claire and Adam have the same power and see what happens. If I’m wrong, I’ll be the first to say so.