"Despite showing that he could pick up fine control of nuclear abilities in a heartbeat, maybe his mind reading bit took him off guard enough that he forgot to try it on Adam once he had pulled the Odessa location from her head (the first use of that power since his amnesia, if I remembe correctly)."
Nope, it wasn't the first use. First use of that power since his amnesia was back in Ireland, when he picked up that the member of the gang was intending on betraying the leader. He told the leader, leader didn't believe him, then it turns out that Peter was right.
And when he did it with Victoria, he was doing it deliberately, as evidenced by the scrunched "I'm taking a difficult dump" face that both he and Parkman make when they are reading minds. So, he knew he could read minds, did it to get the location, but, inexplicably, didn't do it to determine who was lying.
Secondly, even if Peter were "immune" to a forced time jump, that still doesn't explain why Hiro just didn't TALK to Peter. Right there. Time is stopped. Nothing bad is going to happen "in the meantime." So just stand there and tell Peter the whole story, of Japan, Kensei, coming back, finding the files in his dad's office, going back in time and seeing Adam trying to release the virus, and that being why his dad locked Adam up, going back in time and seeing Adam kill his father, the whole thing. Although Peter seems to be suffering from Mohinder's superpower of Overwhelming Obtuseness/Gullibility, eventually, even he would have had to notice how Hiro's story was matching up with the things other people said.
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Date: 2007-12-08 02:47 am (UTC)Nope, it wasn't the first use. First use of that power since his amnesia was back in Ireland, when he picked up that the member of the gang was intending on betraying the leader. He told the leader, leader didn't believe him, then it turns out that Peter was right.
And when he did it with Victoria, he was doing it deliberately, as evidenced by the scrunched "I'm taking a difficult dump" face that both he and Parkman make when they are reading minds. So, he knew he could read minds, did it to get the location, but, inexplicably, didn't do it to determine who was lying.
Secondly, even if Peter were "immune" to a forced time jump, that still doesn't explain why Hiro just didn't TALK to Peter. Right there. Time is stopped. Nothing bad is going to happen "in the meantime." So just stand there and tell Peter the whole story, of Japan, Kensei, coming back, finding the files in his dad's office, going back in time and seeing Adam trying to release the virus, and that being why his dad locked Adam up, going back in time and seeing Adam kill his father, the whole thing. Although Peter seems to be suffering from Mohinder's superpower of Overwhelming Obtuseness/Gullibility, eventually, even he would have had to notice how Hiro's story was matching up with the things other people said.
~Aramada