Usutu's probably thinking, "Why? Why me? What did I do to deserve this!"

And I'm left wondering if he really exists at all, or if he's just one of the strange ways Matt's powers manifest after one too many late nights watching The Legend of Bagger Vance.

If he's a delusion, he's a persistent enough one to be shared by Hiro, Ando, and Arthur Petrelli when Parkman's on the other side of the world.

he's a persistent enough one to be shared by Hiro, Ando, and Arthur Petrelli when Parkman's on the other side of the world

Before or after his death?

Before, but I thought the speculation was that he was Parkman's hallucination from his first appearance.

I thought he appeared after he died. Anyway, I thought she meant after his death.

Speaking of whom, not only did Usutu have, as Jess put it a while back, the worst power ever -- clairvoyantly painting the life of Matt Parkman -- now it seems he's also cursed having to haunt the guy after death

On a side, nit-picky note, that scene was muy distracting to watch because in some camera angles he had his staff across his shoulders and in other angles he was holding it in front of him, it was just instantly popping back and forth while the angles changed. Granted, it can easily be hand-waved as "freaky hallucination effect" or whatever, but their shot continuity person was apparently sleeping during that scene.

their shot continuity person was apparently sleeping during that scene.

I assumed it was on purpose.

Maybe it was like the PM's tie in Love Actually. They didn't notice it at first but decided it was amusing and kept it.

I didn't notice it but I was watching on my computer.

Anyway, I thought she meant after his death.

I meant all the time, but it was mostly just wishful thinking. The magic negro trope makes me twinge, especially in a show with two white people who are effectively immortal and two who have come back from the dead.

I missed the beginning.