OK, so here's the teaser shot of the guy that was going after the little girl. It MIGHT be Sylar, or maye it's one of his goons... who knows.
Anybody have inputs?

i think that is sylar

Well, if it helps...we now know that, on occassion, he wears a hat!

I believe that is sylar.

I vote not sylar.

maybe he has no head or its all brains under there ewwww gross

Here's my question. If that was Sylar going after the little girl in LA, how could he be in NY shorly after cleaning out his apartment and apparently watching Mohinder? Unless he can teleport, it can't be the same guy.

Maybe he's just one of those people who can alter reality itself...

It's probably Sylar, but his apartment is cleaned out by the HRG team. The girl Mohinder is hanging with is a plant and she informed HRG where the apartment is. They cleaned it out.

At least that's what I think..

I vote Sylar, just from the yells of "THAT'S HIM! THAT'S SYLAR!".

I totally vote Sylar too!

And Sylar is Claire's Dad for sure!

I totally was freaked out dude, during the autopsy!

Can't wait till next week, I'm so excited! hee yee

I don't think Sylar needs goons...

They are not the same. You can hear Sylar's voice on the answering machine and it's not the same. Sylar is an addictive serial killer, instinctive and hungry. HRG is calm and calculating. He wouldn't be examining Matt (in the previews) if all he wanted was his brain.

Serial killers work alone.

Ok, can I ask a question? This isn't like most super hero shows, or stories for that matter, is it? I assume that's why most like it. So why is everyone jumping on the cliche bandwagon?

Sylar being that man in question AND Claire's dad is WAY too easy to figure out, think about it, this show is from the mind of Crossing Jordan. I like the show because it puts me in a position where I can see a cliff hanger and say "Well, anything could happen at this point" and I hope it stays like that. What the masses are predicting is way too typical for a show as deep as this.

I think that guy is just a goon, Sylar seems like a smart person (like Suresh smart), why would he just go on and try to take her (and FAIL) if he's supposed to be a huge threat. Not the 'smart' thing to do and not the 'huge threat' thing to to.

UNLESS, Sylar isn't as grand a they're making him out to be and it gets bigger than him, he himself could be a goon (now that would be unexpected)

What the poster below me says sums it up...

Not Sylar, just someone close to him.

I'm voting Sylar just because the many powers he seemed to possess (mind control, invulnerability, flight or at least high jump) go well with the prevailing theory that Sylar is in some way stealing powers.

I don't believe Sylar cleaned out his room. From a film perspective, the camera kept switching back from Mohinder to Eden, suggesting she is in some way involved.

Also, I don't believe HRG is Sylar. Their methods seem completely different. Sylar seems far more irrational and I believe this botched kidnapping is meant to further illustrate this. Also, and I may be completely off base here, I believe Sylar has facial hair, wheras HRG is clean shaven. Again, it was all in shadow so it was hard to tell, but still.

I like the theory that Sylar isn't the true mastermind. Here's hoping for a twist.

Not Sylar! waaaaaay to easy. some guy pretending to b sylar to throw us and the cops off. hmmmmmmmmmmm?

If it is Sylar, he's definitely not the big problem here, it has to get bigger than him. He can't be Claire's Dad (HRG), his motives seems different (But I can believe he has something to do with Claire's autopsy).

Out of curiousity, when was it confirmed that Sylar can mimick powers? Or is that just a theory?

I say no Sylar. And Sylar isn't Claire's father neither imo. But still I wonder who this Sylar is?!?

Whoever that is..he has Milo Ventimiglia's ears and jaw-shape..

Look.

LOL, it's no longer Elektra's father from DareDevil, Mr. Nachios? Affirmative action contacted NBC and said, that they had too many bald people and needed to add more hair or else they would protest!

Nope, those are not his ears. They look different. Although it would explain the multiple powers this guy seems to possess, if it turns out Peter is a power-leecher.

If you turn up the brightness on the possibly-Sylar shots a bit you get this:


http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e246/Bra.../sylarornot.png

It appears that he has facial hair. Not that this proves anything. If it is Sylar, he might be able to teleport in time and could have grown the facial hair, looking like one we already know without it.

Something that is interesting, but I'm in no way implying anything...look at this shot of Chandra Suresh:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e246/Bra...s/chandra01.png

I can't deny that they could be the same person. But I don't favor that theory.

Edit: Sorry, I messed up...I suck with the picture posting...can't figure out how to do thumbnails for those images. I'll resize them to fit on the page.
Won't work...no idea, I just leave it for the time being. Sorry.

In the new preview they changed Chandra's picture on the book, maybe for the express purpose of having too many bald people on the same show...

Yeah, I was thinking...wasn't the photo in the other eps completely different?
Then I guess the similarity can be thrown out the window, anyway. Those episodes have long been shot when the photos were changed.

The Kidnapper/Sylar is Nathan im almost positive. He seems like he has known about his powers for a long time, i mean everyone else is out testing there ability and he doesnt even care. Plus he just has this Evil/Bad aura around his character. plus upon examination of the picture with a little light added to it they look quite similar. but maybe I might be reaching but i doubt it.

Nah..Nathan only has the power of flight.

The only way Nathan was Sylar, is if he was ALSO an empath/mimic and gained a evil alter ego from Niki..which I think would be a stretch.

Maybe Sylar is just a created persona to throw everyone (including us viewers) off. This could actually just be a string of 'non-heros' that make the work seem like that of one person - an organization. Just a thought, although, some of you seem a little to sure, even with the absence of actual confirming information...

I would agree. That lighted picture shows some facial features of Nathan. It would make sense with the polarity of Peter and Sylar if they were brothers.

Nah, how do you explain the beard that Nathan does not have? Does he have the power to grow hair really fast?

Time travel, dude...time travel!
It explains everything!

Compare the Sylar pic with this one of Milo Ventimiglia (who plays Peter Petrelli) I rotated the pic so the face the same way. A lot of similarities eh?


So if this is the case where Peter is Sylar, I figure he comes to the realization that his only power is to mimic other heroes' powers while in their presence. So then because he wanted so badly to have a higher purpose and his own special power, he becomes obsessed with attaining the other heroes' powers. So he goes after each hero, one by one, becoming increasingly hungry for more powers. Also he is a nurse/medical professional, so that could be hinting at the fact of the brain removals and research.

Peter's voice sounds nothing like the voice we are supposed to believe belongs to Sylar. It could still be possible that the guy trying to kidnap Molly was not Sylar, but rather Peter.

Which brings us back to time travel. There is no other way. And I think it is the cheapest way possible.
I think the writers will come up with an explanation for Hiro's powers which completely rules out any possibility for Sylar or anyone else to have traveled back and forth in time.
Which will make me happy, then.

Also, Peter is a hospice nurse. Believe me, he doesn't know anything about the removal of brains. I think not even your regular doctor knows about it.

Nice match! Good work... BUT Doesn't anybody else think it's odd that Nathan keep shrugging off the fact that he has powers? I know he's a politician and trying to save face, but it seems like he has known about his abilities, and is trying to"get off the subject". Sylar does look a lot like Peter though.. Not only that but craziness does run in his family.. Very good speculation smilin'!

I can't tell--all these white guys look alike to me.

Tom

nah, they don't really look alike if you really look at it...Because Sylar's pic is unclear, it gives off that it could be Peter...

Two things stand out...The nose...Peter has a pointy thin nose...Sylar's nose is wider towards the bottom.

see how you can see Sylar's nostrils from looking at him from the front, but Peter's you can't. Peter's are more horizontal, his nostrils that is. Sylar's are at clost to a 45 degree angle.

Also, Peter's face isn't as wide as Sylars. Pete has a slim face. Sylar is more rounded.

As far as time travel...I don't think Sylar can do it...If he was Pete, why Travel back in time to get the lil girl? Why not get her in Real time? If he's as powerful as he is in the future(Peter that is) why travel back in time to kill people.

Confucious says, "dont use cannon to kill mosquito"

It would be too much. I don't think they are going to write the show and make it that far fetched. If he's from the future...That let's us know that

1) New York doesn't explode in 5 weeks because that's where Peter is and if it did, he would die in the explosion.

along with a lot of other stuff..All in all, good try...But I don't think that's it. But You do really have to look at Pete and Sylar to see the differences.