A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

A WASTE OF THE TALENTS OF AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED GAY JAPANESE-AMERICAN SENIOR-CITIZEN 1960S SCI-FI ACTOR: Last night Mohinder, Parkman, DL, and (mostly) Boy Wonder and Nathan took the night off, leaving us with a very brisk hour of bonding, tutoring, and stalking, interlaced with a Very Special Episode of stereotypes-wrapped-around-girl-power pabulum ("you have brought shame to our family"/"I have a crazy idea -- my sister can be CEO"?). It left me with a few questions, though:

• If Peter can now and forever turn invisible, regenerate, paint the future, and presumably fly just because he was in the vicinity of Invisible Guy, Claire, Isaac, and Nathan, can he also turn back time, teleport, read minds, move things telekinetically, and do all of the other things for which Sylar ate brains, just because he has been close to people who can do those things?
  
• And while we're on that subject, say that Peter can do those things, and Sylar eats Hiro's brain and gets that power too. Shouldn't they just declare a truce? Every time one or the other got an advantage in a fight, the other would just take a mulligan and start the fight over. That episode will be lame.
  
• Heroes are rare, and most people are not open about their powers. So why is it that we're now aware of at least three couplings between the superpowered (Nathan-Claire's mom; Nathan-Niki/Jessica; Niki-DL)? And why don't Ma Petrelli and George Takei have powers (of which we know, I guess)?
  
• I thought peoples' powers really started coming out as part of a simultaneous genetic mutation -- like an awakening -- six or eight months ago. Based on the Claire-and-her-mom story, apparently not?
  
• This is really a question from last week, but if Claire's mom is Lincoln Burrows's dead wife from Prison Break, then does that make Michael Scofield Claire's uncle? My guess is his superpower is "incredible dumb luck," though Spacewoman would probably vote for "penetrating steely gaze."
  
• Speaking of Prison Break, it seems to me that Mrs. Bennet is of the Prison Break school of Housewives of a Certain Age, in that she shares their defining characteristic: a belief that greasy child-molestery-types are totally hottt.

Didn't mean for this to be a Prison Break post, but since it's going there, feel free to hijack the comments.