I thought Charles's power was magical negritude.

(chortle)

Isn't that the Haitian's? :-)

before the finale, I had this dream ending to the series, where there would be this kickass fight between Sylar and Peter and the Haitian would stroll up and put an end to it all. I realize that now that couldn't happen either because he's on Mama Petrelli's side. So it is unlikely he was in New York City at all.

BTW, even in the "5 Years Gone", it didn't seem like a wonderful world that Nathan unified. NYC was a burned out shell and all the heroes were getting rounded up. Do you really think Linderman would have wanted that?

Isn't that the Haitian's? :-)

Has he taught anyone inspirational lessons about appreciating what life has to offer or trusting in their own worth? I must have missed that amongst all the brain-erasing.

My pet theory about the bullet-turning-back is that there was nothing super about them, they were just bullets being shot by a telepath.

Speaking of which, they were not traveling at supersonic speed. Parkman might not have as bad of wounds as if they had been. Basically they were just objects hurled with telekinesis.

Has he taught anyone inspirational lessons about appreciating what life has to offer or trusting in their own worth?

He taught Claire about God.

Matt,

The magical negro serves as a plot device to help the protagonist get out of trouble, typically through helping the white character recognize his own faults and overcome them.[3] In this way, the magical negro is similar to the Deus ex machina; a simple way for the protagonist to overcome an obstacle almost entirely through outside help. Although he has magical powers, his "magic is ostensibly directed toward helping and enlightening a white male character."[5] It is this feature of the magical negro that some people find most troubling. Although the character seems to be showing African-Americans in a positive light, he is still ultimately subordinate to whites.

This is from wikipedia. All things considered, this is the Haitian from earlier in the season. Especially when he was helping Claire.

x-post, of course.

In that, if there's someone stronger than him that he can't beat, he would be compelled to work to fight against him, and it would kind of be an evil-you-know situation for the other powers?

Hm, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I loved Clare's calm, "I have already have a family" and then plunge through the window, but it also bugged on a technical level. I'm not a structural engineer, but aren't the glass exterior walls of highrises constructed such that one can't sort of fall against them and then plummet to one's death?

Well, the Mythbusters proved a running man could crash through a high-rise window. I can't recall how much of a lunge Claire had to throw herself out the window, though.

Claire ran about 10 feet before jumping at the window. That plus her cheerleader musculature on takeoff might have been more than enough.

Also, the fall seemed to only be about 12 floors, maybe 120-140 ft. Maybe special glass is only required above a certain height.

I wonder if every building in NYC is up to code? If a window hasn't been replaced, and it's just glass, I wonder when codes started calling for safety glass?

Whenever I think of someone jumping out of a building through a window, my mind goes to The Hudsucker Proxy.