It seems that after 1977 (when Adam Monroe was locked up), factions started to form as he had help locating shanti virus strain 138, here is what it looks like:


The "Adam Monroe - Let's bring an apocalypse and make most humans die" faction (1977-2006)

Daniel Linderman - He thought that Adam had the right idea, but needed to cause a lot of deaths on a smaller scale, a city rather than a global scale.

Maury Parkman - He had the ability to locate the virus by scanning minds.

Angela Petrelli - She originally supported Adam Monroe, but eventually decided he was going a bit too far.



The "Heal the world by nuking it" faction (1977-2006)

Daniel Linderman - A great manipulator that approves of a living nuclear weapon, but not an apocalyptic virus.

Angela Petrelli - She supported Linderman as it would eventally lead to Nathan becoming president.

Bob Bishop - He wouldn't be in the position that he was after "Four months later...", if he wasn't on Linderman's good side.


The "Save the world from the Armageddon Party" (19XX-2007)

Charles Deveaux - He believed that Peter would be "the one they need" for his compassion, more than Nathan for his strength and didn't approve of nuking New York just to improve Nathan's political career.

Kaito Nakamura - He didn't approve of Lniderman's small nuclear holocaust plan, he wanted no part of it, in fact, one reason why his stock is "in the toilet" is Linderman pulled some strings to achieve that goal to punish Kaito for his disloyalty, for his feelings of guilt, for trying to make up for the dark deeds that he did, aiding Hiro gave him the means to at least try to make up for them.

I was thinking that there were different branches within the OWI.
1. Research - Virus manipulation, testing abilities to their limits, breeding program, etc.
2. Bag & Tag - Find those with abilities and track them for the organization. (HRG was in this group)
3. Excutive - making decisions for the entire OWI. Seems the Petrellis were here.

We know that Kaito, Linderman, (and I assume Papa Petrelli) and now Bob leads/lead the OWI at different times; maybe a rotating basis.

Research = Virus Manipulation is out (at least in creating new strains, if Mohinder Suresh has anything to do with it), the other two are still there.
Bag & Tag = The bag part certainly as Hana physically made the electronic based tracking system burn up on re-entry. They still have access to Molly though, only telepaths can scare her away.
Executive = Day-to-Day details, still intact compared to the other two.

I'm wondering if the Company didn't have a spare satellite that just needed launching. It seems to me given Bob's ability and the fact that they easily covered up the explosion in NYC, they would have a contingency plan for the now crashed satellite beyond Molly. One would think she would be under lock and key rather than allowed out with Matt and Mohinder as Sylar or any other dangerous and disturbed special could get their hands on her.

This always makes me wonder whether Angela sanctioned the proposed bagging and tagging of Nathan...? At least in this case, I feel the left hand didn't know what the right was doing.

It is possible that she wasn't part of that decision, but she knew it was taking place as the Haitian either had instructions to NOT stop him from flying, then again he could've let him go as he was the son of the one he was working for and didn't want to get on her bad side. She appears to operate things from the distance and in more recent episodes appears to question what she helped found, understanding the reasons behind certain actions, but warning company affiliates that they've made a terrible mistake.

Mohinder Suresh appears to be the new head of the research department in hartsdale as he doesn't report to anyone else, other than Bob Bishop. Bag and tag appears to be more bagging than tagging and is not the "KGB abduction" type operation anymore, it seems that the personal approach of Mohinder Suresh seems to be less threatening and nessesary as the Haitian has disappeared (which eliminates the memory frying option).

They probably used some kind of drugs to erase memory or to see that it was impaired before the Haitian was discovered. We know Noah carried a tranquilizer gun at one point.

That is more likely to incapacitate the target to minimise damage to them. There is no evidence that it fries memory.

I wasn't saying that the tranq gun did, but I'm thinking the Company had some kind of drugs to mess up memory before they found the Haitian.

Well, they certainly didn't use it on Monica Dawson after her visit to Hartsdale.

Change in policy, perhaps? Or maybe they went easy on her due to Mohinder. Though I have to wonder that Bob didn't put some subliminal stuff on that i-Pod.

What like, "If you meet Peter Petrelli, beat the brains out of him, he is an enemy!" ?

It is possible that her iPod has some form of tracking device in it as the tracking satillite was destroyed by Hana Gitelman and no mark was on her (at least none noticed by Micah or any others).

Angela is rather passive within the Company at the moment so she wouldn't kow about Nathan's tagging, like she din't know about Peter still being alive. Also, I think she wouldn't obect as Bob had Elle tested

I'm still waiting for the explanation of how they've been finding and compiling lists of people with abilities since the Vietnam war.. There must have been someone similiar to Molly at work there, right?


I thought most people had decided it is only mental-based abilities the Haitian could block, and the physical ones like Flight and Radiation Manipulation are beyond his reach...? I agree Angela is very mysterious... In the first episode especially, she was reduced to shoplifting socks as a cry for attention. hardly the actions of a Pre-cog with her hands in the "blow-up-NYC-and-make-my-son-President" cookie jar.

LOL, All she can do is copy what she sees, Martial arts won't be much use against TK or Telepathic mind control, unless she takes him by suprise, Peter will TK her against the wall and/or make her tell him why she attacked him and to go back home.




The cry for attention is a possible misdirection, a petty criminal act to distract those who notice what she does, then again it could just be a "family" problem. In Nathan's case, it didn't look like the Haitian was even trying to dampen his abilities, either flight can't be blocked or he didn't want to get on Angela's bad side. As for Radiation Emmision, they were playing loose and easy with that, it is possible that he can't dampen abilities while radiation is being emitted, that or he wasn't close enough for his ability to take effect.

Then again, invisibility wasn't blocked or why would he and Noah Bennet need IR goggles to see Peter Petrelli and Claude Rains when both are invisible? Could that imply that he can only dampen one person's ability at a time or he has to see someone to dampen their ability.

They stopped tagging people as the orbiting tracking system was burned up on re-entry around about the same time as Peter nuked Nathan (based on the fact that it isn't listed in Donna Dunlap's file).