Heroes Season 1(#20)---4/30/07-'(Five Years Gone)String Theory'

[Vocenoctum]

Or it's called the Linderman Act because he was outed as a threat and taken down.

Just sayin'.

usually you don't name acts after the criminals. If he was a victim, maybe, but...

 

[John Crichton]

usually you don't name acts after the criminals. If he was a victim, maybe, but...

Yeah, I thought about that after the fact.

Could be a timing thing, too. He could have pushed for the act and then been bitten in the ass by it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I think he didn't become Nathan until relatively recently -- or at least, well after New York. Doesn't Sylar comment that Nathan was already "turning against his own kind" when he killed him?

I think Nathan is already "turning against his own kind" in this moment. The whole "let some mutant destroy New York and use it to unite the world" obviously requires the mutants to be seen as the enemy of humans.
(In some ways, he is turning against this own kind in another way, too: He is going to sacrifice half of his fellow New Yorkians to get what he wants).

That suggests to me that Nathan was elected president, and laid the groundwork (the Linderman Act) that Sylar exploited. Sylar killing Nathan didn't have to happen at the explosion, after all - once he had Candice's power, he could be anyone, or no one, anywhere or anytime.

Linderman might have made a big turn in the view of the public after the New York explosion. If he helped the government or the victims with his money and aided in taking up measures against dangerous mutants, he might have become a hero. Maybe he even became another victim of the mutants (Jessica/Nikki and DL will want revenge for his betrayal and the death of their son).