The tragedy with jeremey lays the ground work for a great possible storyline. Samuel is out recruiting for heroes nonstop coupled with his desire to correct injustices against specials or plain grudges. The idea of noah unretiring was enough for samuel to question lydia in disbelief. If samuel ever decides to seek retribution against noah using his family, its set for some nice drama. Especially since it seems like samuel has knowledge about the heroes but not of their history with noah.

Noah is not special. Maybe that has something to do with it?

How would noah being special or not have anything to do with it considering...

1)Samuel runs a carnivale comprised people strong abilities. Not to mention samuel is pretty powerful himself and has adopted a lost but powerful sylar. Yet, the sight of noah on lydia seemed to cause fear in samuel.

2)Samuel doesn't seem to discriminate when it comes to his personal grudges, retribution for specials or people questioning him. He's killed normal people after he visited his old home and the sheriff's station. He threatened lydia and choked edgar. Samuel dropped a sheriff's station for jeremy. Given noah's history he's makes a prime target for samuel's retribution.

3)The possible conflict heroes would be faced with if they joined the circus and samuel went after noah. I believe it would be difficult for the heroes to have anything to due attacking/killing noah. Especially after fighting side by side with him.

So what's your point

Next volume I want you as writer.