Regarding Linderman (spoilers of the first two eps)

[Matt]

Is he alive or dead? I suppose there is a case for both. On the one hand, the nurse couldn't see him...on the other, if he is dead, who healed Nathan? What do you guys think?

 

[The Question]

I think he is dead, and that Nathan's seeing him and Nathan's being healed somehow ties into the source of their powers.

 

[Captain_BluTac]

I think someone else healed Nathan, and Nathan is just crazy and only imagining Linderman. Either that or there is another multi-powered being running around, with both Linderman and Candace's powers, maybe another alternate Peter?

 

[stillanerd]

My guess is that Linderman is not really Linderman at all. We think it's Linderman because of his healing powers, but in season 1, Linderman specifically said that, dispite his powers, he couldn't bring someone back from the dead and Nathan was pronouced dead on the operating table. Also, Linderman never had the power to selectively make certain people unable to see him. And third, D.L. clearly killed him. Even if Adam had a chance to revive him after he escaped, Linderman had already been dead and buried for four months.

No, I think that "Linderman" is actually Arthur Petrelli. How? Because I think Arthur Petrelli, like his son Peter, can also copy other peoples powers and so he has the powers of all the founding members, including Linderman, Adam, and, more importantly, Parkman's dad, who has advanced telepathy to not only read minds but to plant suggestions into others--like making a person think they are seeing someone else or making themselves invisible to others, for instance. Which would be a perfect explanation as to why only Nathan can see "Linderman" and how "Linderman" instantly knew that Tracy was not Niki. And it would explain how Nathan was healed because he used the "healing blood" technique.

 

[Magneto29]

Did Peter ever meet Linderman ? It has to be something to do with Peter, given he was right there when Nathan came back to life. Perhaps he's absorbed some healing power from him or elsewhere, without knowing it.

 

[Koz]

The comics made it clear that Linderman could not resurrect people. Unless the writers changed that somewhere along the way, he could only heal the living. Nathan was pronounced dead, so I don't think Linderman or anyone with Linderman's power brought Nathan back. I think it would be funny if FuturePeter had picked up some sort of resurrection power from someone within those four years, but didn't know it and unintentionally brought Nathan back to life. It wouldn't be the first time he used a power he didn't know he had. I don't think Adam's power had anything to do with Nathan coming back either. Nathan still looked like crap when he came back to life. I'd think someone healed by Linderman or Adam's power would be a little more vibrant and less zombie-esque.

I certainly hope they don't tell us Arthur Petrelli is a power mimic like Peter. This show needs another multi-powered character like I need a hole in the head. But these writers seem intent on overloading their show with characters and their characters with too many powers, so they probably will do something exactly like that.

As for Linderman? I like it when dead characters stay dead, so I hope the Linderman we see is not the real one.