01. says i'm a bad man (VIDEO)

[grayatonement]

[Sylar turns on the console. Before the screen is a man who looks nothing like Sylar himself. Instead, he sits in a full suit with horn-rimmed glasses adorning his very Jack Coleman-like appearance. When he addresses the camera, it's confident, professional, and direct.]

My name is Noah Bennet. I'm an Agent in a very specialized division of Homeland Security within the United States Government.

If anyone here knows anything about.. potentially extraordinary individuals, or works with the U.S. government, I'd like to speak to you.

Thank you.

Comments

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[unetrustworthy]

[Vague. Hesitant. Either she was being treated like a child, or this person was being purposely discreet about what he was looking for. Question was: why?]

Like somebody who's good with machines, maybe?

[An innocent enough guess: there were a number of people who seemed to be able to use encryptions around here. She would be lost in a sea of technological geniuses.]

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[grayatonement]

Maybe. We've certainly worked with technopaths in the past. Is that something you can do?

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[unetrustworthy]

[She has no idea what a technopath is, so when she plays 'innocent', it's not entirely an act.]

I'm talking to you with one right now, aren't I?

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[grayatonement]

You're talking to me with something like a computer, yes, but technopaths are extremely gifted. I knew one who could talk to machines.

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[unetrustworthy]

[Oh.]

[Hmm.]

No. I can't do that.

Are you saying you know people who can?

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[grayatonement]

Yes. Two of them.

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[unetrustworthy]

Are they here?

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[grayatonement]

Not that I've seen.

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[unetrustworthy]

But there are other people here who can do...things.

[Nope, still not quite ready to use the words 'magic' or 'powers' so openly.]

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[grayatonement]

It seems that way.

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[unetrustworthy]

What about you?

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[grayatonement]

Me? I don't have any talents like that. Just my training.

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[unetrustworthy]

Then why are you asking?

What were you trained in, exactly?

[A lot of questions coming from a girl that none of this directly applied to. Except it did apply to her, because there were things and people on thus Turtle she wanted to know about. Just in case.]

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[grayatonement]

We worked together. One of us, one of them.

Standard training for agents, plus over 30 years of experience.

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[unetrustworthy]

So you're looking for a...partner?

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[grayatonement]

Maybe. I'm looking to understand what they're like here, in this world.

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[unetrustworthy]

Secretive, for one.

[Maybe not so much about their identities--at least, the ones she knewof, for certain--but there were far too many messages being exchanged under a range of encryptions not to wonder what it was people were hiding. The curiosity, Midii could understand. So long as that's all it was.]

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[grayatonement]

An astute observation.

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[unetrustworthy]

It wasn't that hard to figure out.

Anybody who read the Network would come to the same conclusion.

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[grayatonement]

Not many would take the time to do so. You seem to be a very gifted young woman.

What's your name?

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[unetrustworthy]

[She stiffened a little at the attempt to single her out. It was only because she had known there were people who did the same thing that she had felt comfortable with divulging that much.]

Midii.

You're making too much out of it. A lot of people read the Network. It's how we learn anything around here.

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[grayatonement]

Midii. It's nice to meet you.

You should have more confidence in your strengths. They'll be your greatest asset should the need ever arise.

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[unetrustworthy]

[She was confident. She just didn't want anybody to know that.]

I don't have any strengths. I'm only a kid.

Bringing me here was a mistake.

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[grayatonement]

I doubt that. Children are sometimes the most perceptive among us.

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[unetrustworthy]

[Well, obviously. It was all a matter of perspective. And a lack of hormones blurring objectivity.]

Sometimes. Not always.