How does sylar cut open heads

Peter was going to cut open Nathans head to see why he joined his father and he was going to cut his mothers head open to find out her secrets. Obviously they can get more than powers or else they never would have written it into the scripts. Maybe the pain caused by cutting their heads allows someone to 'read' them more. I can't remember if Sylar has an ability where he can hear thoughts or not? Maybe he was just torturing her to get information out of her.

No brain powers for sylar other than intuitive aptitude. However he CAN hear heart beats and know when someone is lieing if he taught himself how to pick it out. Does Sylar's "hunger" have to do with the need to have power, or the need to have knowledge? I have yet to figure that one out. At first I thought it was the need for power with will make him "special", but now I'm just clueless. I was thinking about the option that cutting head off can give Sylar some informations about the victim but than I realised that if its truth than all first season line when Mohinder was with Sylar would be plothole because if he could take informations from cutting heads than he just needed to cut Chandra Suresh head and than he would know how to make a new list so I think when he cuts someones head off he just get the ability and understanding how to use that power.

It may be the 'narcissist' influence of his ability at play sometimes. He does not want to spend time putting all the information he has gleamed together. It will be convenient to let Mohinder who has the information, and secondly is going to synthesis or put the information together, just do his work Mohinder is an asset, so to speak. I don't think Sylar can get information that one has not absorbed or learned from anyone's brain. And Mohinder doesn't have any interesting power to make him crave a walkabout through Mohinders brain cells.

Sylar is driven by the hunger for abilities, fueled by his aptitude ability or vice versa. Sylar then kills Isaac at his apartment and gains Isaac's power of precognition. After seeing an explosion with his newly stolen power, he believes and fears that he will be the cause of the deaths of many innocent people.

He visits his mother and tells her that she helped him realize that he could do anything, even become president if he wanted to.

Their meeting, however, ends in a fight and Sylar accidentally stabs his mother in the heart. Sylar later kills Ted Sprague and takes his ability of induced radioactivity.

Hiro appears and seemingly kills Sylar by running him through with Ando's sword , Sylar's body disappears, leaving only a trail of blood that leads into a manhole. For an episode-by-episode summary, see Sylar: Season Two History. Sylar awakens on a beach with a redhead , who explains that she dragged him away from Kirby Plaza and that the people that she works for fixed his wounds. Sylar tries to use his powers , but finds himself unable to.

Sylar kills her and attempts to take her power , but cannot use it. He then leaves the building for the first time and discovers that he is in the middle of a Mexican jungle. He is eventually found in the middle of the road by Derek , Maya , and Alejandro. They give him a ride, and he tells Maya and Alejandro that he knows Chandra Suresh. After killing Derek, Sylar finds that Maya and Alejandro are special.

He helps them get into America to get them to Dr. When they finally get to the border, they are surrounded by a Citizen's Border Patrol. Maya gets upset and uses her ability , causing the men fall down. Sylar holds Alejandro back from using his ability , presumably killing the men as they drive away.

Sylar and Alejandro fight, and knowing Alejandro can't understand English, he tells him that the only reason he is helping the twins is so that when his powers return he can kill them and steal their powers. He says that even if he cannot get his powers back, Maya is his new toy and she's all his. Sylar teaches Maya to learn how to control her power , and convinces her that Alejandro blames her for his wife's death. Sylar is later attacked by Alejandro and Sylar kills him with a knife.

Maya shows up without knowing he had just killed her brother. She tells Sylar that he was right about everything and thanks him for helping them.

They share a kiss as Sylar shuts the door on her dead brother. Later, Sylar calls Mohinder from Mohinder's apartment. As Sylar strokes a sleeping Molly 's hair, he tells Mohinder that he has brought Maya to talk to the doctor. Upon returning home, Mohinder is greeted by Sylar and introduced to Maya, who needs Mohinder's help. Mohinder tells Maya that Sylar is a killer, but she admits that she has killed people as well, and describes her ability to Mohinder.

Sylar tells Mohinder that he needs help too. He opened Mohinder's laptop and found lab work on a virus that takes away a person's abilities. He wants Mohinder to help him cure this virus, noting that Mohinder's blood, mixed with a certain cheerleader's blood, can cure the virus. Mohinder reluctantly agrees to help Sylar, and the two, Maya and Molly go to Mohinder's lab.

Mohinder draws a sample of Sylar's blood, and finds that Sylar has the same strain of the virus that Niki has, telling him that the Company injected him with it as well.

Sylar tells Mohinder to test the cure on Maya, who was shot by Sylar. Mohinder injects Maya, causing her wound to heal and the bullet to be expelled from her body.

As Sylar prepares for his injection, Elle arrives and shoots bolts at Sylar. He quickly grabs the medicinal case with the remedy and runs from her, getting struck in the back and falling through a pane of glass. Sylar sits against a building with the virus's antidote. He injects himself and the wounds inflicted from falling through glass start to heal. He extends his arm toward a can across the alley and successfully moves a can from across the alley.

For an episode-by-episode summary, see Sylar: Season Three History. Arriving in Costa Verde , Sylar surprises Claire in her house and, after psychologically torturing her, takes her ability , along with a list of prisoners kept within the Company. He refuses to kill Claire, calling her "special". He leaves for Hartsdale , where he successfully breaks into Primatech Research and murders Bob Bishop , acquiring another ability. Sylar attempts to regain his abilities by releasing the Level 5 prisoners for his own personal gain, but the battle against Noah and Elle proves too much, and he is knocked unconscious and held captive by the pair.

During this time, he learns from Angela that he is her son, making him the brother of Peter and Nathan. With this newfound knowledge, Sylar, after being fed a third ability by Angela, attempts to redeem himself by becoming Noah's partner within the Company, but loses himself during a bank heist, ending with him murdering Jesse for his power of sound manipulation.

He is subsequently placed back in his cell, where he mediates until he is ambushed by Peter, whom arrives from the future and tells Sylar about his future.

Sylar sees this as proof that he can change, but ends up having to knock out Peter as he has absorbed Sylar's ability. After nearly being recruited into The Company , Sylar helps Noah and Claire with an escaped prisoner, Stephen Canfield , which ends when Stephen kills himself.

Later, Sylar and Peter attempt to work together when they find Angela in a coma, although they quickly come to blows, with Peter prevailing and locking Sylar away in Level 5. Sylar breaks out with Angela's help in time, and rescues Peter from Pinehearst , until he is nearly killed by Mohinder. Arthur saves him, then tells Sylar about his childhood, which causes Sylar to change allegiances, but not before allowing Peter to escape with his own brand of help.

Meanwhile, Hiro views Sylar's history and his chance at suicide and redemption, which became hindered through the interventions of Elle and Noah, who fed him his second ability.

Now under Pinehearst's banner, Arthur leads Sylar to a prison cell, where Elle is chained to the floor. Sylar suffers immense pain as Elle yells at him for murdering her father, but Sylar continues to seek his redemption without giving into pain.

Elle eventually tires, and Sylar copies Elle's ability, astounding her. They rebuild their relationship, and are eventually sent on a mission together by Arthur. Elle convinces Sylar to become the bad guy again, and they steal a car to race to Stephen Canfield's house , where they arrive to take Claire from Noah. At the same time, the eclipse occurs, leading to Sylar, Claire and Elle having no abilities.

Claire is shot in the confusion, while Sylar and Elle are left wounded on the ground. After a few minutes, Sylar and Elle have sex and regroup as Noah hunts them down for what they did to Claire, which climaxes when Noah successfully kills Sylar.

However, the eclipse ends, and Sylar returns , holding Sandra and Noah hostage, when Hiro arrives and teleports Elle and Sylar to a beach. There, Sylar gives up on his path of redemption and murders Elle.

Sylar refuses to return to Pinehearst, and instead uses Elle's phone to find his next victim - Sue Landers , who can detect lies. Having disguised himself as a delivery man, Sylar murders Sue and steals her ability, then returns to Pinehearst in the middle of a tense conflict between Peter, Arthur and the Haitian. Sylar stops a bullet fired by Peter at Arthur, discovers the truth behind his parentage, and pushes the bullet forward, ending Arthur.

Sylar leaves without battling Peter, as he does not have an ability he wants. Having taken down his fake father, Sylar arrives at Primatech Research , pitting Claire, Noah, Angela and Meredith against one another while battling Eric Doyle , Echo and Danny Pine , in order to learn the truth behind his parents. Sylar injects Meredith with adrenaline, and captures Angela on her own, when he learns that she knows about his real father.

Before he can react to the information, Claire stabs him in the back of the head with a shard of glass, killing him instantly and leaving him to die in the blaze Meredith starts. The shard melts during the blaze, allowing Sylar to resurrect and take another ability. Several weeks later, Sylar visits his foster father , who admits his failure at upholding a rocky marriage and passes Sylar the address of his real father.

Joined: Aug 17, Location: Vancouver. So did Sylar loose all of the new powers he had gained in S1? Was he basically "reset" in season two and now has to start building up his power "collection" again? What's the deal with that? Mallet , Oct 1, Joined: Sep 24, Considering he has his telekinesis power still, I'd say no he wasn't 'reset. As for his main power, I just don't understand it. How did he come to realize studying someone's brain would give them their power?

It requires a huge leap of faith to assume Syler just knew that's what he had to do. Especially if you've watched how he gained that first power. I'mma go over and steal his power and automagically know I have to lop off his scalp and prod his brain. And what did he do with all those other brains? A Clockwork Lim , Oct 1, Well I was wondering if telekinesis was one of his natural abilities, rather then a "learned" one. Also, is the "laser finger" a natural ability or did he "learn" that off of someone?

I worry that the writers are just making Sylar's powers up as they go along. Actually I am pretty sure they are making up the whole series as they go along with no idea what is going to happen next. Sylar's power is to see how things work.