Also not heard on Heroes 11/20

'If you do this you won't just be like your father, you'll have become him.'

'Really? Is a cop with a gun no different from a guy robbing a bank with one?'

Of course people can easily talk like this, but the impression I got from the way it was presented was that this was supposed to be a real point that really indicates he's turning bad. And it doesn't. Motivations matter, a lot. There's a big difference between forcing someone to do your bidding as part of a vague conspiracy that might be for the world's good but mostly helps you become powerful, and doing it to directly save someone's life. And it's not as if he could go and get a warrant to authorize mind control.

You're not too familiar with the conventions of the superhero genre, are you? Tim Kring is, as it happens. That scene was the beginning of the seduction of Parkman to the Dark Side. Next season, he'll have an epiphany, and come back to the side of light. All on schedule.

What I find troubling is that the writing for Parkman doesn't seem to make him out to be the brightest bulb. He sort of plods along. In this case he seems to blindly want the twelve names. Why? Aren't there far more important questions he could ask her? For example, why does this other woman deserve to remain anonymous?

Yes, I am, that's why I have a problem with it. If this was a normal sci-fi story, I'd take that to mean she was simply playing with Parkman's head (figuratively, but ironically on a telepath).

It's only because it's superhero genre that I think it could have been meant as a serious statement about where Parkman's headed.

And as a serious statement, I don't buy it, because it's one of those superhero cliches that doesn't make sense.

I'd take that to mean she was simply

You agree, then, that it is, in fact, the cliche they were aiming

Right. Why would any rational person be concerned because he is using mind control to get his child to be compliant, his boss to be lenient, and his prisoner to give up secrets they'd rather die than tell?

Yes, this is not something new.

He sort of plods along. In this

The 'other woman's' name is the one he was pushing for.

Well, to be fair, he wasn't really using it to make the kid do his bidding. He used it once on her without realizing he was doing it, then once more just to confirm to himself that he did indeed now have the power of mind control.

And I don't have nearly as much of a problem with him using his power on Dame Petrelli as opposed to random innocent people. Petrelli was (and may still be) part of a conspiracy that has violated the rights, privacy and personal autonomy (and even ended the lives) of god knows how many people. She chose to play in that pool. If she ends up having a power used against her at some point, well, that's just karma.

'If he puts one of yours in the hospital, you put one of his in the morgue.'

But it often makes it just.

Why can't it be both. Angela was trying to stop Matt from learning Victoria's name and location but equally there was an element of truth that he was crossing a line, which as other have mentioned has already been crossed by Matt at least once.