I don't know if I'm the only one that's been getting the vibe that there may be much more to Mr. Bennet then what meets the eye. I have a feeling that he's one of those bad good guys. I think he's working toward helping all the Heroes in some way and understanding them but he can't let them know or else his plan might be ruined and in order to do that he has to do some bad things like killing people. He knows that if the government or some high power like that finds out then the Heroes really will be in big trouble and might end up disappearing without a trace, meaning they're being held down in some lab being tested on. Am I the only thinking along these lines or not?

I can't speculate to your whole theory but I think he'll be a good guy, or is a good guy with questionable tactics. Maybe he has a ends justify the means attitude. I mean he only had matt hooked up to an EKG or something, wiped his mind and let him go.

He also defended his daughter to brody who he knows has powers. He said she's going through a tough time and is confused and doesn't need brody making it worse.

If he was as evil as we thought, he would have snatched her and had her dissected by now.

He didn't shoot Nathan, said it was Entirely unnecessary, and "gave" Brody a "second chance".

The Haitian smiled when he got his orders on Brody. He was going to Enjoy it.

hmm... now that I think about it... Nathan wanted to fly more... Claire keeps doing things to herslef... Hiro about busted a vein trying his... Maybe the abilities have an addictive element?

The Hunger...

Anyway um yeah, after reading all the newest speculation on the guy I'm willing to see where he might have some good... so a lil good, lil bad.

Drugging a cop and wiping his mind and dumping him home a day later mind wiped with the problems he's been having... (and he should know, seeing he's up on all of them, and Matt's Dr. records should show the counciling) that just doesn't scream good guy to me.

I was also thinking along those guide lines Steve. Evil people don't usually let other people go if they saw their true face even if they did wipe their memory so they didn't remember them. If he was evil he proably would have wanted to study him longer then a day.

Yep. And wasn't terribly aggressive with Nathan in Vegas. I mean he could have shot him the second he ran. He even said this wasn't necessary like he didn't want to draw his weapon.

The only unanswered question is what he meant when he was in the cab with Rohinder.. He was pretty callus about his father being dead. He almost implied like he knew something about it and it totally freaked out Rohinder..

Think about it though. Rohinder still wants Sylar and Issak painted Sylar going after claire. Claire is HRG's daughter..

This is all going to be very interesting.

Very interesting indeed. I vote he's a good guy!

It's Mohinder

I'm getting the good guy vibe off of him. He hasn't hurt any of them and he's showing a lot more feeling. I just can't help but wonder what his motivation is...

So far it's looking like most people don't think he's a completely bad guy. I wish they would just tell us what's side he's on by now but then again all the suspence would be gone, oh no! (yes that last part was sarcasm incase you couldn't tell.)

I am actually still coming down on the "villain" side. So far he has behaved somewhat protectively of Claire and Nathan, but OTOH, he used language that described them more as "assets" than as people. I think he loves Claire, but I think he is out to further an agenda that probably is not in her best interest, and he's screwing with people's memories, even kidnapping Matt -- I'm just not going to trust this guy yet.

It's like my firend said when I called him up about it...I was asserting that HRG wasn't evil and he replied that he ceritanly wasn't good either...I think only time will tell one way or another...

The whole bad guy maybe good thing reminds me of Locke on Lost.

Next HRG will start hunting boars lol!

Now that you mention it it does kind of remind me of LOST a little bit with the Others and how we're not sure if they're completely evil or not and all that jazz.

I have to agree with this post. Just because he hasn't killed anyone yet doesn't make him good. The most truely evil people only do the really evil things when they need to, until then they manipulate and make sure things are where they need to be.

I think to me, its the looks he gives Claire, especially when she isn't looking that makes me doubt his sincerity towards her. I can't tell if he is looking at her as a scientist would a specimen in a petri dish or what exactly, but I don't trust it.

He didn't shoot Nathan one because he didn't need a dead politician on his hands, and two because he wants to learn more about the heroes, which aparently can't be done very well if they are dead. Ditto on why I think Matt is still alive.

I guess I'm forced to agree with you there for the first and last paragraph but not the second. To me it's obvious he cares deeply for Claire and would never do anything to purposely hurt her even though she can heal herself, he loves her to much. When Claire finally comes out to her father then he might get her to do something to demonstrate her power but I don't think he'll ever force her to do something she doesn't want too.

I voted a little of both because although it seems HRG has good intentions, his actions aren't always those of a "good guy". It seems to me that he genuinely does care about Claire..not as property but as his daughter. Brody's lucky all that happened was he lost his memory because my father would've done much worse! But kidnapping someone is only justifiable if it was something in their best interest and you EXPLAIN to them why you're doing it and how they might be in danger. I think Mr. Bennett has an agenda that he sees in a positive way which allows him to justify his actions to himself.

I said both I think hes working for an undisclosed company or whatever that is on the edgy side but when he discovers Sylar and his intention he will go to more of a good side!

What are the odds that HRG is responsible for some of the heroes' powers? That's how he knows about them. He has studied them several times to see how far along they are and then has them mind-wiped.

Just an idea.