Sylar Vs. Claire => Yet Another Hole In The Plot?

Think about it... Sylar always tries to understand the powers of their victims before killing them.
He asks them to show their powers to learn it and then he kills them.
But what happened with Claire? That looked more like an execution!
He didn't care about learning her skills, just wanted to kill her!
He didn't even know that he was killing the wrong girl!

So, what happened there? Someone asked Sylar to assassinate Claire whoever she was?
Is someone above Sylar ordering the killings?

If someone wants to point out some similarity with Charlie's death, consider that she was using her super memory abilities all the time taking orders, and Sylar was drinking a coffee calmly presumably catching her power every time she used her memory.

Does this mean anything or is something that the producers overlooked to add more emphasis?
Any good theories?

[Guest]

I`m vich, can't login... again...

OK, here is the part where I think you're wrong in your theory: you think that Sylar needs to see the other people using their power to learn it and make it one of his powers, but thats no it, Sylar obtains his powers by inserting in his DNA or hes brain some part of the victims brain, thats why he cuts off their heads and their brains dessapear.

if you think that he needs to see other people use their power, is beacusa what happened in 3 of the 4 attacks that we have seen, but remember that in those 3 he had no idea of what power those guys had, or even if they trully were people with abillities, but in Claires case he already knows that she can survive in the fire, maybe some kind of super human resistance or something like that, he really doesn't care what power he gets, he only wants power.




I'm trully sorry if it is hard to understand, it's 1:30 AM in Spain and I have this felling that what I've been writting has little sense, sorry.

[Guest]

me again...

by the way, you forget a very important thing: Sylar is nuts, he's out of his mind, I think he may have schizophrenia or something like that, you just have to see how he acts with mohinder and the other peolpe.

I understand you but I think that everyone who think that he needs people's dna are wrong, either eating their brain or anything else...
Why is that? Remember the first time that he got his first power, telekinesis.
Sylar was uncertain that he had a power, he really wanted to have one but the Dr. said maybe he was wrong since he didn't show anything.

Then he goes to this Joe's house and the guy shows his telekinetic powers. Then he "feels" something... he says "I see" and his face is shining and you should listen to the thrilling sound in that moment, like he can hear the "tick" of that power, he realizes it... then to keep it only for himself, murders that guy.

Think about it, if he didn't feel anything or he was just amazed of the telekinetic guy he wouldn't never killed that guy. Would he be guessing that if he eats his brain will get super? Not at all, his face doesn't show any doubt or reasoning, he just got it. So even in that case, he must have felt how the power was coming out of the telekinetic guy, he got how it worked, and he wanted to be the ONLY one who got it.

And that guy's head wasn't cut off with a saw and he didn't bite him or anything like that.

So the reason of the decapitations are because he is just a freak, and nothing suggests that he needs to eat their flesh to get their dna to get the powers.

And why do you think that the screenwriters will bother to mention his precise skill to know how well clocks work? Remember when Dr. Suresh goes to his shop and says "your watch is 2 seconds late"... don't you think that is a wink or a hint to his real abilities? That analogy is spread all over the episodes... Bennet mentioning about the "Tick", and so on...

[Guest]

i can't wait to see if Peter kill Sylar ASAP. I can't wait to see Peter emerge as the ultimate hero in the process and also save Suresh and other Heroes.

[b00m]

" And that guy's head wasn't cut off with a saw and he didn't bite him or anything like that." toronja
sylar hit Joe's head with a crystal thingy and he might have cracked the skull then, and he wore his watch-fixin glasses then end of the scene, so maybe how he got peoples powers is by studying their brains just like how he fix watches.

[Joker49_01]

1) Sylar is not being controlled by anyone. I think it's pretty clear at this point that he's out to help himself and only himself.

2) You miss the point of the meeting with the telekinetic. He is indeed figuring something out in that scene, but it's his own power. He realizes his gift is the ability to tear things apart and figure out how they work.

3) By the time we get to Claire the audience knows the drill, this guy is going to split her head open and get her power and we already know Claire's power so we don't need an exposition. The focus at that point is not what Sylar can do or what he will gain, but whether Peter can stop Sylar. Plus in the previous killings I think he was curious about these "special" people and he was a bit more cautious.

[anon2388]

you guys are overlooking the fact that Sylar killed Chandra Suresh and stole his list of people with special abilities.

The list has several people listed with special abilities, but not everyone in the world. Claire was on that list and therefore he already knew Claire's power. And plus by the time of the homecoming at Claire's highschool, it has already been established that Sylar is a psycho serial killer so it would be kinda oxymoronic for him to ask Claire to show him her power.

So, Sylar obviously planned to take Claire's power, therefore he already knew what her power was, just as how he plans to steal other people's powers (he already knows the powers of the people that he plans to kill, the people that are on the list).

Think about when Sylar goes with Mohinder Suresh to meet the mechanic with the super human hearing ability. He didnt know her ability b/c he didnt know about her. He finds out she has super hearing when Mohinder asks her and she tells Mohinder.

That's my understanding of it.

[b00m]

no, mohinders list doesnt say whats the ability of the person listed

[bmumble]

Originally Posted by b00m

" And that guy's head wasn't cut off with a saw and he didn't bite him or anything like that." toronja
sylar hit Joe's head with a crystal thingy and he might have cracked the skull then, and he wore his watch-fixin glasses then end of the scene, so maybe how he got peoples powers is by studying their brains just like how he fix watches.

I totally agree with that... I don't believe he eats brains... To me, the connection of his talent as a watch maker/repairer is the hint to how he "understands" how things work... He needs to open up the heads to look at the brain which is the control of the powers (or else, why would Claire die if her brain is hit? Plus, in "The Hard Part" Peter mentions the spot where the glass hit his head.... maybe Sylar needs to view that particular area?). Looking at the brain is like looking at technical specs of the human...