I'm with you, Matt. Jessica seemed to notice the other personality around the time she got her super strength. So I'm wondering if there is a connection.

Dana, but was that Jessica or Niki. Wasn't there a point in the finale when Niki actually exhibited the strength?

Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, by that point, Niki had (supposedly) (metaphorically) kicked Jessica's ass, hadn't she? I just have trouble treating them like two separate people. It doesn't make sense to me.

well, I'm only doing so to understand what Peter might have captured from Niki. He if met only Niki, he might likely only have what she demonstrated.

I thought Bob implied that Niki developed Jessica (and later Gina) to cope with the shock of discovering her powers, and that it had happened to other - have they given a name to superpowered people?

-t, I completely missed that. huh.

Of course that requires the assumption that (1) Bob was telling Nikki the truth, and (2) that he was right.

Oh, I agree, Bob is not a reliable source. What we saw in the first season supports the idea that Nikki had a traumatic childhood and MPD rooted in that, but Bob's hypothesis is on the table.

I'm rewatching, and the entire scene with Nathan and Peter was absolutely awesome. Possibly the awesomest thing in the entire ep for me. Them arguing about letting Peter go, the long lingering explosion, Nathan being knocked away by the blast, Nathan falling limply and me going oh shit oh shit he's going to hit the ground and he can't survive that, and then the beauty that was Peter flying from the background and catching him. Just so many kinds of gorgeous and awesome.

(I look past the fact that Peter's clothes survived.)

On a related (but tangential) note, Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls is a very cool story about two people with MPD falling in love. It's such a great read--twists your brain in unexected ways. Regardless of whether you actually believe in the disorder, I highly recommend the book.

I recommend all of Ruff's books! The man gave us the floating, holographic head of Ayn Rand! Awesome to the nth degree!

But yeah, I think I would have been terribly disappointed if Nikii had just been cured, because every MPD case I've heard tell of has been sort of a twisty road to reintegration, and there's often several personalities that never manifest until things are beginning to order themselves -- places (and it's somewhat instructive to think of the personality as a "place" more than a "person") where various feelings and emotions have been placed to keep them from being destructive, or to keep them safe while the main person was in pain.