Okay. I just re-watched last nights episode.
So, after Peter is forced to snatch that ladies purse, he reveals that Claude has had 15 years to get familiar with his power. That, for me, brings up the question, why did our heroes powers only manifest themselves 6 months ago? Was the solar eclipse the trigger? And if so, how has Claude had his powers for so long and what triggered them?
BTW, It looked to me like HRG driver's license only had his last name on it. It just said Bennet. He even signed it as just Bennet.
i was talking about that with DH2B earlier. considering HRG said "it seems like an old friend isn't quite as dead as we thought he was" i'm thinking that there were heroes a while ago also, but something must have happened and they drastically went down in numbers.
and also, Clarie's mom probably started the fire, and that was about 18(i think Claire went to her prom this year, so she's probably 18) years ago, and Nathan didn't sound too surprised to hear about it, so i'm betting he knew about his power also.
what i'm thinking is neither of them, nor the invisible guy(sorry, don't know his name yet) really told anyone or made it noticable. they're probably the few that are left from "before". because now we're seeing Peter, Issac, Nikki, and Hiro pretty much just beginning to figure out how their abilities work.
which is another question in itself......did they ALWAYS have these abilities?? or did they just start getting them?? because i think Claire made a comment before to either her mother or father about "i've never been sick" which could mean that she has had the ability all her life, but is just now realizing the extent of it.
and i'm not so sure that Nikki has an ability, either. i'm thinking that "Jessica" might have actually had the ability. but that one kinda confuses me to really think about.
and now that i've racked my brain i'm exhausted and need to stop typing about this lol.