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.

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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.

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[grayatonement]

Not always. [He agrees. Because Claire is the opposite of perceptive and so was Luke.]

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[unetrustworthy]

You shouldn't make assumptions so quickly.

[Especially about precocious children.]

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[grayatonement]

Being an intelligent or perceptive young woman doesn't mean you aren't weak in other things. In that sense, it's more of an observation than an assumption.

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[unetrustworthy]

One you're making publicly. Where anybody could hear you.

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[grayatonement]

Does it concern you that the public might know things about you?

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[unetrustworthy]

They don't know anything about me.

And besides, it's none of their business.

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[grayatonement]

You're right. It isn't.

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[unetrustworthy]

I'm sure other people feel the same way too.

[Meaning she's not surprised that there are people who are less than willing to comply with his original request.]

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[grayatonement]

[He sees what you did there.]

I wasn't asking anyone to expose themselves if they weren't ready to.

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[unetrustworthy]

[She may or may not actually be more clever than she wants people to think.]

Then why bother to ask so publicly at all?

If you already know all these things, you must have expected to get bad reactions.

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[grayatonement]

Some people want to talk about it and don't know who to turn to. You have to give people the chance.

Besides, I've learned a great deal about a number of people here.

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[unetrustworthy]

So you think it was worth it?

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[grayatonement]

Absolutely.