How did Niki/Tracy get a new power?!

My guess is that somehow the Shanti virus and the cure somehow affected her power and changed it dramatically. That or Niki/Tracy/Jessica/Whoever has always had more than one power and just discovered it, what are your thoughts?

The effects on her cyrokinesis was awesome! I flipped out!

But I seriously want to know how she came to be...

Or, this is not Niki, but a completely different person like she said. It appears that she has been working/ sleeping with this governor for a while, and it seemed that that reporter knew her for more than a couple days. My point is, how would Niki be able to get blown up in N.O., and then have time solidify her place with the New York governor, in, what, a couple days? I dont think so. New person imo.

That's a good point. So, do we have some kind of twin thing going on here?

I'm thinkin' we had triplets...

Maybe Linderman has an entire floor of cryogenicy frozen Nikis with various powers he just releases into the world as he pleases? Na.....

That entire scene was absolutely AMAZING!

I think it is Jessica! Like the actual Jessica, the sister we have always known as dead,

Read MY THEORY under WATERMAN...

That's a possibility...

So then Niki's MPD wouldn't be from Jessica overtaking her, it'd be from her own mind. LoL.

Great scene!

But she got really upset when the reporter was confronting her about Niki, like she knew something. It seemed she had a guilty conscience and did NOT want the reporter outing her...whatever the hell is going on.

If she freezes sylar into mini ice cubes do you think he would be defeated then?

You all have some good theories. I wish it was the old Nikki/Jessica, I really liked her, but I'm not sure it is.

If it IS Niki/Jessica, then WTH HAPPENED IN THAT BLOWN UP BUILDING TO MAKE HER:

A: not die, and
B: turn into Tracy.

And what happened to Micah and Monica??

I don't think this is Niki, I think it's a new character, maybe another sister who's been thrown in to the mix. I like the character and her power so far, can't wait to see how she develops.

I like the idea that it's Jessica, whose death was faked to give her a chance at a normal life. Seems a lot of them 'special' kids were given (or hidden) away at birth.

that was so cool!

and ali larter is a great actress can totally tell its a different personality/person.

I'm sure someone has said this before, but since I don't read spoilers I haven't come across it. And being from aGN, might be a spoiler to non-readers, so I'll add tags: I think Tracy Strauss is related to Dr. Henry Strauss from the GN Wireless Part 3. Probably involved in the DNA manipulation research too.

As to her relation to Niki, I think there is one and she knows about it. But only knows enough to scare her (maybe she's had bad dreams or just faint memories).

She's a really versatile actress. The characters/personalities she plays are so diverse and she does a pretty good job making each one distinct in its own right.

Remember, they came from an abusive home. What have we heard about their mother? Perhaps, as was said, the death of Jessica was staged.


Or someone is SERIOUSLY screwing with stuff.

Also, Niki's life was manipulated from the beginning by Linderman. Her entire life. Maybe Linderman took Jessica and placed her somewhere else.

considering the amoutn of manipulation thats KNOWn can you imagine how mcuh isprobly not known.

he KNEW tracy when she walked in. he himself said thats not niki. i dont know if that was linderman himself or a hallucination of natahn though.

i think that Tracy is another personality that niki has, and that her powers change depending on which personality she is in...like its an amplification of her emotions or something..i.e. she has strength when she is the aggressive jessica, and she freezes things when she is the emotionally "cold" Tracy..don't flame me too bad

I like the idea of (and will stake a claim in it, too) that Tracy is Jessica (the real one). We know Linderman had a lot of control in Niki's life, who's to say that he wasn't always in control?

Hm... maybe we should give old Hal a call and see what he has to say about all this?

That's how I feel as well. I think this is a different person. Why she looks like Niki? I have no idea. I'm sure there's someone out there that can change people's appearances. Maybe that's the story. Whatever the answer, I am excited for this development and that's coming from someone who has been bored to tears by Niki for the last two seasons.

When did we first see Tracy? After FPeter shot Nathan, right? So maybe she is a product..SOMEHOW..of this changed future? A stretch, I know..but something to keep in mind.

If memory serves, wasn't the original power listing for Nikki "a mother than can be in two places at once"? Maybe Nikki could duplicate herself and the duplicates have their own abilities. I think Tracy could just be a duplicate.

Crazy stuff, another sister? I can't imagine Nikki lived but then...a lot of people in this just won't die.

I hope they revisit the Hawkins family storyline soon.

Wow, lots of crazy stuff going on with this Tracy character. Lots left to be explained. So much we don't know. The being the REAL Jessica seems most likely for it to fit the situation, though. This much sudden change from the endangered Niki we left off with, it doesn't add up. Pretty significant revelation no matter what's going on here. We should find out what's the deal soon enough this season, I'd imagine.

We know so little into Niki's past..I would love if they finally cleared some of it up. Specially since we know DL's mother was involved with The Company.

you know thers a point theretoo. if dl's mom was involved and niki is in essence the companys creation (lindermans creation) wonder what paulette knew about her to begin with,

I wouldn't mind a brand new character that just happens to be played by Ali Larter...I just hope there's no screwy "I am the missing triplet" plot twist to explain her likeness to Nikki. She does seem to have a new freeze power...so maybe she's just new?

if you guys really wanan knwo who tracy is. the sfx magainze link in spoilers section will tell you.

I theorize with ya all even though i know cause it woudltn be nice of me to spoil any one.

I have no idea what is going on with this character,lol.

If I had to guess, I would have to say that she is a product of this formula that Hiro is searching for. I mean, we don't REALLY know what kind of effects this formula has, and maybe Tracey is example of said "side-effect". Maybe this has ties with Niki somehow?

But that's just the comic-book logic for you.

ok just thought of something from someone else's post.. ok there is a DR Strauss right? We know Tracy's last name is Strauss. and we also know she looks "alot" like nikki.

Couldn't it be possible for them to have cloned nikki during the time she was sick. i mean i know she gave blood and i know with everyone having powers, someone would know how to accelerate the growth of a clone to the point to catch up to the age of nikki.

OK OK OK NIKKI and..., Friggen Icecubes? what is going on here...

Is it maybe that her different personalities bring on different abilities?

Ideas?

and is anyone else saying... WTF... Obviously this is how she survived the fire... but why have they not flashed the original nikki into the mix just to ease our pain...

this character seems headed for even further desaster

My theory is that Tracy is NOT just another personality of Niki's. I think there's a chance that Tracy is in Niki the way Peter is in Jesse. With maybe a bit of Haitian-style memory erasing to make the real Tracy forget her true appearance so she doesn't realize anything's different when she sees herself in the mirror. Just a total guess here, but that's what I'm sticking with for now...

I thought about the whole Nikki-Tracy deal and the only thing I can come up with is that it's not Nikki at all. Perhaps its her twin sister that she thought died... that would be the only way there could be a different power-set to my knowledge. Last we saw Nikki she was loosing her powers and about to die in a building on fire. I think we're purposely not being shown Mica (her son) so that they can prolong the suspense.

then why did she snap like that and freeze the reporter/greatest american hero when he showed her the video of her (nikki) and nathan? it seemed to me that she began to realize this guy wasn't messing with her, his proof wasn't a photoshop hack-job, and she really was a stripper from vegas.

Well, Niki was a stripper, and anyone who followed season 1 know that! And Tracy and Niki, no matter the reason, do look alike, even Nathan points it out! Adding the fact that both Tracy and Niki (well, Jessica) have met Nathan in a political way (Niki/Jessica's one being least ''political'', maybe ), the situation is subject to questions from a reporter who may think Tracy did stripping with the alias of Niki.

As for the frozing thing, well, it was obviously an accident: I think it's the first time Tracy use her skills, and it was because she was always getting cornered by the reporter (kinda like when Maya's power manifest when she's angry).

What about the possibility that each personality has a different ability. With what Mohinder learned, about the powers being a manifestation of the adrenal system, it could be possible that each personality had different triggers...and therefore different powers. She seemed obviously disturbed when she saw the videos, and didn't really look like she was seeing someone who looked just like her...I think there is a part of her that knows. Besides, don't personalities manifest after serious trauma? I think that almost dying in a fire is a traumatic experience...perhaps that's why she's so convinced that she is this Tracy character.

I think it has to do with what Mohinder said about the powers being connected to emotions, if Niki (if it is actually Niki) has absolutely no knowlege of who she was before, maybe her powers changed.

I hope we get to see Micah and Monica at some point, I thought their storyline had potential, I hope they weren't written out.

Whoa... guys... this whole idea of mine that the Tracy/Niki thing is another instance of the Peter/Jesse thing... two people combined... What if it turns out that Niki's power all along has been to absorb other people's essences (i.e. the her other "personalities" aren't really part of a split personality disorder, but are actually real people Niki absorbed?) Niki could have absorbed her sister just before their father killed her physical body.

thank you for agreeing with me... it really is the most logical way of explaining it... some people are saying twins just a bit too much on this forum... with sylar/peter and with nikki/tracy...

This was already done in season 2 with Maya and her forgetable brother

the personality absorbing theory could work... it would explain peters power to put another person into another body... but... If nikki is unaware of what she is doing... then why ONLY female personalities?

Well logical is a pretty far fetched word to use in this series where anything can happen. I would say that any one of these theories are possible from what the Series has shown us. Although, I still disagree with the possibility of different personalities = different powers. At the core its still the same genetics. The only explanation if this was the case, would be something along the lines of what Only3Penguins spoke of.

Tracy, Nikki and Jessica were triplets that were produced by linderman.
They were either clones from one of each other or just three children that got seperated from each other.
There will be scenes in which tracy goes to nikkis funeral seeing her dead sister in her coffin being in shock.
I guess that in tracys case either the haitian did some mind wipe or she got totally seperated raised so she never knew about her sisters while nikki and jessica sticked together until jessica died and nikki got the MDP.

Monica and Micah unfortunately got written out.
I just hope they won't go as corpses but rather go away and come back next season or later.

I think the Nikki/Jessica/Tracy thing might have something to do with this power future peter has to switch peoples conciouness. Makes more sense with Nikki/Tracy than Nikki/Jessica.

Linderman foreshadowed why Tracy is really NOT Nikki. Also, in a previous scene, Mohinder talked about the emotions. The reporter said to her that she was some kind of "Ice Queen", or something similar, due to her demeanor. Well, that "ice princess" personality manifested as having an ice power. By the way, I thought it was fantastic. That one scene topped pretty much all of the "nikki/Jessica" scenes combined. I think that I would prefer that this character stays.

Maya is the one that "changes the world", its already confirmed and in these episodes mohinder already created the serum out of her blood/strains that will give powers to normal humans.

Well in one GN one girl dreamt of a twin sister she never had trying to escape the Company.

Her sister help her get out but her sister was caught.