Right that's the third bastard time I've lost a post so I'm going to do this quickly. Sorry for the brusque tone.
1) The simplest most elegant explanation for the Haitian's presence in the police station is that he was there to block the cop's psychci probes. To look for another explanation, or a deeper mystery without good reason is silly in my book.
2) There is a long history of comic book psychics blocking each other's abiltites. There's even a word for it: psychic shields. I am, of course, assuming that the Haitian is psychic.
3) The Haitian's appearance caps a scene where the question how are the cop's abilities being blocked? is thoroughly set up.
4) The Haitian's appearance comes after the cop states that the last time he felt the same kind of psychic silence was when he was in the bar, just before he lost a load of time. The Haitian was also in the bar. His appearance also capped that scene. Hmmmm.
On Wonderstar's point that the Haitian doesn't offer a good explanation for Bennett's immunity. First of all I think we need to stop thinking in terms of Bennett's immunity and start thinking in terms of power dampening, otherwise why would anyone think that Sylar could be held? Secondly, assuming they have gone down the power dampener route with the Haitian* - something I'm not convinced of, except in the case of the Haitian and the cop - I don't see why that wouldn't suffice as an explanation for Sylar's apparent powerlessness. Sure it begs a lot of questions, but I think that some of those questions could be safely brushed under the carpet and others could be answered at the show's leisure.
On Hiro and the Dinosaur. The first thing I came up with was a museum exhibit. I thought it would do a neat job of explaining the sword and the presence of a prehisotic monster, but, yeah, most dino exhibits don't have skin. It is worth thinking about the possibility of a fictional exhibit however.
*As I said upthread, there is precedent for that kind of thing in comics |
