Talk about Claire's adoptive mother here.

well... shes a dog lover... and oblivious to the devious actions of her daughter and husband. too many dog treats and cupcakes...

I think she's a bit looney.
Maybe even more than a bit.

She's gotta be Sylar.

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

Just once though

That's okay. It was funny.

Yep. If I hear it again, it won't be funny.

Yay! I got in right under "the funney"!

Seriously though, Claire's mom...

I bet she knows a lot more than she lets on. More than even Mr Bennet knows. She's just too weird not to be important.

hahahahhaha ok ive been roaming the forums for a while and first i believed when people said the character was sylar but only to find out everyone is saying on each character thread that it's sylar! even mr muggles... hahah

She was obviously picked by HRG (gads I hate that nickname, but oh well...) because she's basically clueless. She dotes on her doggie woggie, she bakes cupcakes, she excuses herself when he takes a phone call from "work." She's a little too stereotypical, offering lemonade and cookies to visiters. She doesn't seem like a typical Texan though...them are tough women. Maybe she's a midwestern transplant.

I'd like to hear more from her about Claire as a child. And why doesn't she ever suspect her husband's frequent out-of-town trips, or why he never seems to talk about work? Plus he works kinda odd hours (at night with the cop strapped to a gurney, in the early morning chasing the Congressman from his hotel bed)...

We've already heard from Claire that she doesn't want to tell her dad because "he's just a simple kinda guy, he wouldn't understand." But as a teenage girl going through "changes"...wouldn't she ask her mom about, well, girl stuff?

I hope Mrs. Bennet gets a bit more suspicious and decides to do a little digging...

Claire's 17, so most of the "girl stuff" questions would have been answered a while back.

As for his work, it's possible that she knows he works in some kind of classified work, so she just doesn't expect it. Out of town trips aren't new, lots of people take those for various reasons, even people who work for the government. I'm a government contractor and plenty of our folks are out of town at least a couple of days per week.

I'm curious to see how clueless the Mom really is though. Either she's a complete idiot, or she's extremely intelligent and isn't letting on to anything.

Tom

She loves her dog WAY too much.. *shudder*

From one of the other posts, I like the idea that HRG had The Haitian wiped her memory.

ick, the effects of too many mind wipes mr. muggles

I think the dog speaks to her like the Son of Sam guy.

I couldn't believe she actually tossed those cupcakes. I think she secretly wants to wear down Claire's self-esteem. Maybe she was thinking of saying "Claire, you shouldn't sweat those cupcakes being there because you don't need to worry about your figure" but the dog made her throw them away.

That dog, that darn dog.

Oh, No Mrs. Bennet is a stepford wife!

I think that claires mom is putting on a front and may know alot more than we think. Who wouldnt be lead astray by a woman who would probably have @#x$% with her dog

MRS BENNET'S MEMORY HAS TO HAVE BEEN ALTERED!

so remember in the episode when claire puts her hand in the garbage disposal? and mrs bennet says something like:
'you were an infant who never had a cough' (or something along those lines. key word: INFANT)

but then in the last episode mr. bennet was telling isaac that he took claire in when she was three years old!

sooooo that means that haitian guy probably is messing with her memory to cover anything up.

whattayathink?

This is even more out of sync considering we now know that his front is working at a paper supply company. Unless he's supposed to be a sales rep, that might be a good excuse for long out of town business trips.

Well, Mrs. Peter Petrelli, I think she said something like 'when you were a baby you had a cough' and heck, a baby can be any age, my youngest is 25 and I still refer to him as the baby of the family, so calling a 3 year old a baby isn't a far stretch. I do agree, there is far more to her than meets the eye. Someone brought up the poss. connection of her being a geneticist which sounds plausable, with being a dog breeder as a cover. That would fit in nicely with Mr. Bennett's work. There really is no way to know if she is really going to dog shows or going to maybe locate a "super" for the company. Just speculation.

This has come up before and I replayed every conversation between Peter and his mother and found no mention of it. I would love for someone to pin this down if it really did happen.

I think it could be brain cleansing or shes in on it. I vote in on it. If its true great cover.

Mr. Moogles is a puppetmaster super and is controlling her. She has been completely whiped clean, a shell that Moogles can act upon the world through. Moogles knows everything and has coffee with HRG each morning and discusses genetic mutations amung all species, but in an attempt for Claire to feel like she has a family HRG and moogles decided it was best for Ms. Bennet to be an ideal Stepford Wife.

lol stepford wife

Oooooo! I totally forgot about this! that's why Peter started coughing when Claire came back to talk to him! Maybe it rang a bell in HRG's memory when he saw him suddenly get a cough like Claire used to have and why he asked if he was feeling okay.

But, I agree, that a baby can be any age, a day old to nearly 5 years old. You still think of them as babies at that age.

But at least now we know from Monday that the Haitian did come to wipe the mom's memory quite often... whether he actually did or not, who knows.

You bring up a good point, and I'm willing to bet that her mom will become somewhat more important in the future because of this midewiping stuff, whether it's been done to her or not.
I wonder what Claire's gonna do to her dad when she finds out everything he's done...

I beleive her memory has been altered just like the Haitian said she seems to care about that dog more than her own children ..I think shes a prop that hrg uses to make it look like he is a caring family man ...shes just a decoy its all about claire and mr.bennet in that house lyle and sandra are props jsut like the peopel who were suppose to be calires birth parents.

So now we know her memory has been wiped, several times, which explains why she is *such a ditz*.
It also probably means that the Haitian can't "add" memories back (sorry Zach and Claires brother... whatever your name is...), or else he probably would have, er, "unchanged" the parts that made her a slobbering idiot.

shes just a wiped clean slate...

At the last part of the episode where Kates "bio" parents which arent rlly her real parents come, mr bennets like ah that went well. and the "real dad" is like call us if you need anything again.theyre not the real parents and i wonder if Sandra knows they arent the real parents..whatchou think?

When thinking about who could be a potential hero, in upcoming episodes, I started wondering just why Claire's mom would need to have her memory erased. The fact that HRG goes on trips and has odd working hours doesn't really seem enough to need a memory wipe - I'm sure that HRG could pull off just about any excuse. So why would Mrs. Bennet need to be cleaned of her memory? My theory is that she has a power (I don't know what, though) and just like with Claire, HRG thought it was a good idea to get Mrs. Bennet's memory wiped clean.

She may not be stupid as we think she is...she might just be stupid from all the memory wipes..that could just make her seem ignorant.

I have a feeling one of these days the Haitian will screw up and make the mom think it is the 80's again or something.

I don't think that she's a prop to him. In the last episode, Distractions, when Sylar came and attack Mrs. Bennet, HRG was all kicka$$, pis$ed beyond belief that he had attacked his wife. When he came to take care of Mrs. Bennet, he seemed genuinely concerned and upset that she was hurt and he wanted to make all the pain go away for her. While I totally don't agree with anyone being mind-wiped it seemed like he didn't want the horror of the world that he lived in to affect his wife, that he wanted her to be protected and sheltered.

I think that HRG is wiping her mind to protect the whole "Heroes" phenomenon from reaching the muggles. Mrs B would just discuss these weird things happening (this guy actually threw the phone out of my hands from 10 feet away, like how weird is that) with her other dog show friends.

Mrs. Bennet has really become a tragic figure.

I'm amazed at how the writers have managed to transform the character into someone the viewers (ok, me) care about.


Not based on last week's episode. If HRG had gotten his hands on Sylar, he'd have reached down Sylar's throat and torn out his liver as payback for hurting Mrs. B.

I think she dies, with the way she's spiralling downhill and all after the last Haitian memory wipe. *hat over heart, eyes closed, head bowed down solemnly*

The memory wipe is spiraling down. There has been no reason for additional memory wipes of Mrs Bennet, but the last one is getting worse and worse. She no longer remembers who Mr Muggles or Claire are. Next she will forget who she is.

Ok, so the last episode says someone will die but I think that there is more then meets the eye to Mrs. B. I think that possibly Mrs. B could have the same regeneration powers as claire and that is why she is getting her memory erased all the time (not just from knowing about claire). So she may die in the next episode but I think she may regen as well.

...Seeing as she is not in any way biologicaly related to Claire why would she have regeneration like Claire?

I doubt it for reasons in Erikexalted's post.

yeah well i was thinking that since her mind has been like wiped a gazillion times it must have been for reason when the kids were never around otherwhys don't you think things that happened they would have known about as well?

Also as someone said before she could possibly have a power that's why her mind had to be wiped a lot. That would also answer why the kids would not have to have their minds wiped heaps.. i dunno just somethings on mind.

the actress though is pretty good hey.. you got to admit.

I dont know no Mr Muggles and I dont know YOU!!

I'm rather surprised that nothing was said about where her and Lyle are now. HRG didn't mention them at all during his conversation with Matt at the diner, and there no scenes informing us of their status. You'd think HRG would be worried sick about them and how The Company might use them as leverage against him.

Yeah, I was surprised about that too. I hope they sneak in at least a mention within the next episode (or rather, the next episode set in the present), because it would be really sloppy if they just dropped them from the show without any further mention by HRG. Or anyone. If his family's dead, the man should mourn!

Never mind Sandra & Lyle, the important question is: Where is Mr. Muggles?!

Mr. Muggles shall be the ultimate evil in Season 2! He is out training..

**Gasp!** I should have known! I mean, what kind of dog laps up blood? An evil dog!

If only Sylar had known how close he really had come to death. Muggles waits for the right moment. Then, he bites.

I can't wait to see all of our Heroes face off against Mr. Muggles. He will surely defeat them all! Even Hiro!