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Molly describes her power as the ability to "find people". By thinking of someone, Molly can psychically determine their exact location fairly quickly and can point out their location on a map. She also receives psychic visions of the person's surroundings. The full extent of her power and what it can locate, beyond people, has not been revealed; Adair Tishler stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Molly's ability is to "find anyone or anything".<ref name=ewinterview>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20151421,00.html Adair Tishler: Chatting with the youngest Hero | Heroes | THE Q&A | TV | Entertainment Weekly<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Those with telepathic powers, namely [[Maury Parkman]], can detect and resist her attempts to locate them. Maury, dubbed the "Nightmare Man" by Molly because of this, can even affect Molly's mind if she attempts to track him. As seen in "Powerless", she can only find people who are alive, as she unsuccessfully tries to find Maya's dead brother. |
Molly describes her power as the ability to "find people". By thinking of someone, Molly can psychically determine their exact location fairly quickly and can point out their location on a map. She also receives psychic visions of the person's surroundings. The full extent of her power and what it can locate, beyond people, has not been revealed; Adair Tishler stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Molly's ability is to "find anyone or anything".<ref name=ewinterview>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20151421,00.html Adair Tishler: Chatting with the youngest Hero | Heroes | THE Q&A | TV | Entertainment Weekly<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Those with telepathic powers, namely [[Maury Parkman]], can detect and resist her attempts to locate them. Maury, dubbed the "Nightmare Man" by Molly because of this, can even affect Molly's mind if she attempts to track him. As seen in "Powerless", she can only find people who are alive, as she unsuccessfully tries to find Maya's dead brother. |
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==Notes== |
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* Adair appears in [[Ten Inch Hero]] with [[Clea DuVall]] who portrayed Agent Hanson in the Heroes series and in [[Within]] with [[Stacy Haiduk]] who portrayed Elisa Thayer in the series. |
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* Tishler describes Molly as, "...a fun-loving girl. She's raised by two men so I suspect she might grow up to be a tomboy. She's a little paranoid because she did see her parents get killed in front of her."<ref name=ewinterview/> |
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Revision as of 13:55, 21 February 2008
Template:Heroes character box Molly Walker, portrayed by Adair Tishler, is a fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. She is a young girl with the power to find anyone just by thinking about them.
Character appearances
Background
Molly Walker is a little girl whose parents were murdered cruelly by Sylar. She is discovered hiding at the crime scene by Matt Parkman's telepathy. Parkman later rescues her again from an abduction attempt by Sylar.
The Shanti Virus
Later it is revealed that she is the Company's "Walker Tracking System", with the ability to locate anyone in the world by mere thought.[1] Her powers were inhibited by the same neuro-degrading virus that killed Shanti Suresh, and are restored when Mohinder Suresh cures the virus using antibodies found in his own blood. Mohinder later protects Molly from Bennet, who planned to kill her and disable the tracking system in order to protect Claire. Matt Parkman, with whom Molly seems to have a strong relation, promises that she won't be harmed, as he only agreed to help Bennet because he was under the impression that the "Walker Tracking System" was technology-based.
Four Months Later
Matt later starts protecting Molly with the help of Mohinder.[2] Molly mentions that there is one person far worse than even Sylar (her boogeyman) whom she is afraid to locate: when she thinks about him, he can see her.[3] Because of that, she suffers from nightmares. When Matt uses his powers to listen in to one of the dreams, he hears a man's voice telling Molly that he can see her. He finds out later in "The Kindness of Strangers" that the voice inside of Molly's head is his father's. Matt asks Molly to find him and she gives Matt a complete address and apartment number. Matt's father retaliates by telepathically knocking her out and forcing her into an induced nightmare where she stays trapped inside her own mind. In "Out of Time", Molly is rescued by Matt Parkman when he confronts his father within his nightmare world. As Matt reveals to his father his ability to manipulate the same dreams he can, Parkman traps his father within his very own nightmare, and he and Molly escape from the nightmare world.
Alternate Future
Molly is referenced in the Heroes 360 experience in an email from the future Hiro Nakamura, in which he says he has found Molly Walker and is searching for "others" like her. In the alternate future of "Five Years Gone", she is mentioned to be under Mr. Bennet's care.
Character development and conception
In a December 2007 interview with World Balloon podcast, Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb stated that originally they brought Adair on the show, with the idea that they would use her again later down the line, but not knowing exactly when. When the idea came about in the writer's room to have the Company's tracking system be a physical person, the idea of Molly Walker and Adair Tishler came into the forefront. Jeph Loeb stated that he really hoped that Adair could act, because she did not have a speaking part in the first couple of episodes that she guest starred in. Jeph stated that if Tishler could not act, then they were "screwed." Fortunatly, Loeb and Alexander both commented that Tishler did an excellent job, and she was brought on into a bigger role in season two, with the production staff considering promoting her to a series regular in the future.[4]
Powers and abilities
Molly describes her power as the ability to "find people". By thinking of someone, Molly can psychically determine their exact location fairly quickly and can point out their location on a map. She also receives psychic visions of the person's surroundings. The full extent of her power and what it can locate, beyond people, has not been revealed; Adair Tishler stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that Molly's ability is to "find anyone or anything".[5] Those with telepathic powers, namely Maury Parkman, can detect and resist her attempts to locate them. Maury, dubbed the "Nightmare Man" by Molly because of this, can even affect Molly's mind if she attempts to track him. As seen in "Powerless", she can only find people who are alive, as she unsuccessfully tries to find Maya's dead brother.
References
- ^ Director: John Badham, Writer: Aron Eli Coleite (2007-05-07). "The Hard Part". Heroes. NBC.
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{{cite episode}}: Unknown parameter|episodelink=ignored (|episode-link=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|serieslink=ignored (|series-link=suggested) (help) - ^ Director: Allan Arkush, Writer: Tim Kring (2007-05-21). "How to Stop an Exploding Man". Heroes. NBC.
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- ^ Adair Tishler: Chatting with the youngest Hero | Heroes | THE Q&A | TV | Entertainment Weekly
