Are we to assume that he only has telekinesis and intuitive aptitude back? Because if he had all of his powers back, how would claire have even stood a chance against him? Wouldn't he have been able to hear her pick up things to hit him with and such?

If he has telekenesis he probably has them all but maybe that's the only one he can remember how to access.

I thought it was pretty clear he was just messing around with her. He could have melted the closet door if he felt like it, but Sylar sometimes falls into the classic crazy villain problem. He likes to monologue every now and then. Him taking his time is just another way of showing how in control he really is.

Sylar did say that he wasn't entirely healed... at least not until he 'borrowed' her ability... so maybe he didn't have all of the abilities he'd acquired?

Then again, the episode did only show him using telekenesis and his own intuitive aptitude.

I wonder...

But how could she have snuck up on him like that, when he has enhanced hearing?

I'm always a bit confused with sylars powers. Cause from how he acts bullets don't do anything to him...

Eden pulls gun on him
sylar "now we both know that won't do anything to me"

Yet both claire and hiro have been able to stab him and scare him enough to think he was going to die. I really think that if he gets all his old abilities back that they need to do an episode showing him like reviewing his powers or describing them to us. maybe something like this

Claire: you think your so tough cause you can move things with your mind?
Sylar: You think thats all i can do *Laughs*
Sylar: how about this *goes through variety of powers*
Claire: Thats it?
Sylar: those are just the ones i can show you... *smiles*

I think we are to assume only what we've been presented with.

I'd say that out of his previously "stolen" powers, and ignoring his original intuition power, we've been presented with his enhanced memory and telekinesis.

That's not to say that he doesn't have the others, just that since they haven't been presented to us, we shouldn't just simply assume that he has them.

Sylar pretty much used TK 99% of the time even when he had all the other abilitites..I think its safe to say he has all his abilities..by not "entirely healed" he probably just meant that he needed Claire's ability, because lets face it, healing/immortality is a pretty important ability to have

Tk was his first aquired ability so he uses that the most...what did he use his ice powers for ? to freeze Molly's rents in season one and make a snow globe for his mommy?

we saw him use super hearing once or twice...we saw him use radiation to look cool by making his hands glow as he was overlooking the city...not to mention his other power like metal melting which we've hardly seen...he just likes to fling stuff around with his TK...I think the whole Sylar loosing his powers thing was over and done with during last episode of season 2

sylar was sneakin round the house pretty good n seemed to hav some type of shadow thing goin on.

actually thinking about the show-down between claire and sylar... he also showed his unique ability to disappear into thin air. Remember she turned the corner only a split second after he did yet he was mysteriously gone. and he also "Hovered" around a bit when he was playing cat and mouse with her, by this i mean it didn't look like he was walking.

Edit: Dang you rayne... you beat me to saying that

It's been implied before that he could have acquired camouflage/umbrakinesis and hovering... Would be nice to have some official confirmation, though.

I don't think it's safe to assume he has all of his abilities. Spoilers have stated that he didn't get them all back or doesn't have them all back yet.

The writer's have stated that, in previous seasons, what fans stated that seemed to be him using another power are often attributable to his telekinesis...
I thought he was just toying around with Claire, being all "shadowy," sneaky and stuff. I didn't think it was necessarily due to another power. Who knows? But I don't think it should be assumed just because it seems that way.

Yes, you beat me to it. It appeared when he was stalking Clair around the kitchen he was melting into the shadows. I wonder where he got this one and did he have it in season one? I ask that because that would explain how he got away from Parkman when he was after Molley, it looked like he levitated or flew straight up but from watching this episode and goig back and looking that the one in S1 it was pretty dark above him.

i think sylar was just messing with claire..even if he only had telekinesis he could still rip the closet door open (remember when peter opened the safe in season 2?)...

my question is do you think he took Karina's powers when he killed her and cruz?

and why would angela "give" him bridget bailey so he could have her powers? why would he need to be able to see the past of items?

No. He didn't.

Actually if you could see the past of items then you could get information on stuff that ripping it apart won't give you. like say he wanted a way into a secure building without drawing too much attention to himself, well with his new ability he can see what the past code was to enter the door without breaking in and setting off an alarm.

Or he can hold a piece of paper that had been burned to hide information. Find out what it said before being burned

Yeah her ability could also be easily used to track people like perhaps some escaped villains.