Eric Thompson, Jr.

Thompson, Jr.
First appearance	Donna's Big Date, Part 1
In-story stats
Known ability	None
Alias	Blake
Gender
Occupation	Company agent
Parent	Mr. Thompson

An agent of the Company, Thompson has dinner with Donna Dunlap under the name "Blake".

Character History

Graphic Novel:Donna's Big Date, Part 1

Donna meets "Blake" through an online dating service. Donna cuts their date short when the mysterious evsdropr tells her that Blake is a killer. Afterwards, while spying on Donna from across the street with night vision goggles, Blake is shot by Donna while his partner Elle watches. Later, Elle tells Donna that Blake is not really his name, but that he is the son of Mr. Thompson and is a Company agent.

Graphic Novel:Career Choices

Thompson, Jr. is reading Donna's file when she breaks into the Company file room. After complementing her on breaking into a restricted area on her fourth day on the job, he tells Donna that he is doing research as he thinks she is to be his partner on the next day's mission. He is corrected by Donna, who is seeking the answer to why she has been taken off active duty. Thompson, Jr. tells Donna he doesn't know why, but then spots something in Donna's file. He tries but fails to stop Donna from seeing a photo of a painting that shows Donna dead. Thompson, Jr. explains that the photo is real, that it's a painting of the future seen by Isaac Mendez, and that the Company must be trying to protect her by taking her off all missions.

Graphic Novel:Trust Issues, Part 1

Thompson, Jr. accompanies Gael Cruz and Devin in tracking down an evolved human agent named Cushing, who is suspected for murder. They follow him to an industrial building and find him standing in front of Jamie Wu's dead body. Thompson, Jr. follows Cushing when he flees, and spars with him. Thompson, Jr. drops his gun when Cushing hits him in the stomach with a pipe. The sparring is ended when Devin shoots Cushing just before he can kill Thompson, Jr. with his ability. Thompson, Jr. then tells Devin that he should not have killed Cushing.

Later, Thompson, Jr. realizes, from Cushing's last words and flowers sent to Thompson, Jr. by evsdropr, that evsdropr had set them up and tricked them into killing Cushing.

Two weeks later, when Thompson, Jr. is in a Company file room reading information on his new partner, Donna Dunlap, Donna interrupts him, snatches the file from him.

Graphic Novel:Trust Issues, Part 2

Thompson, Jr. takes Donna to see Noah Bennet and informs her Noah killed his father. Later, Thompson, Jr. stands by as Donna questions the doctor who autopsies Cushing's dead body. When Donna confronts him with a bagged bullet, saying it is evidence that it was his gun that killed Cushing, Thompson, Jr. pulls out his own bagged bullet and explains to Donna how evsdropr tricked him and two other agents into murder, and he gets Donna placed back on active duty as his partner.

Graphic Novel:Faces, Part 1

Thompson is hit on by Penny Logan only to be distracted by Penny's mother, Connie. He expresses his surprise that Penny is Connie's daughter.

Later, Thompson buys a drink for Penny, whose appearance was morphed to look different. He sleeps with her that night and Penny, as her normal self, later wakes up in bed with Thompson.

Graphic Novel:Faces, Part 2

Thompson, Jr. awakens alone in bed, and heads to Primatech Research where he joins Penny in the [[Company firing range|firing range]. Remembering Penny's name, but does not realizing she was the one he had slept with the night before, he tells her to say hi to her mom for him. After Thompson, Jr. has left, Connie arrives and tells her she noticed that Penny and Thompson, Jr. are both glowing.

Thompson, Jr. arrives in a Company lab, visiting a colleague of his that was also at the same Company watering hole the night before. When, without asking, the collegue matches the girl's appearance to that of the teleporter's girlfriend, a known accomplice, he races off to find her.

Thompson, Jr. arrives at the teleporter's home to find the door blocked by Penny, who is again looking like the girlfriend. Still not realizing whom she is, Thompson, Jr. is surprised when the girlfriend also arrives at the home and ushers the two women inside at gunpoint. After Penny explains the situation to Thompson, Jr., he calls for Connie and the Haitian. He watches as Connie unmorphs Penny's appearance and the Haitian erases the girlfriend's memories. After everyone else has left, Thompson, Jr. is asked by Penny if he is upset with her. He denies it, commenting that the previous night was one of the best he ever had and that he thinks it would be great if she could go out with him as someone new every night.

Heroes Evolutions

evsdropr posted the transcript of a chat between Blake and Donna Dunlap in which they flirt, arrange a date at Samsher's Palace, and Blake sends a picture of himself.

Notes

• Though he is nicknamed "Thompson, Jr.", there is no evidence that he has the same first name as his father. In fact, the first names of both father and son remain unknown. The nickname was first used in an interview with Chuck Kim, and later mentioned in Leonard Cushing's assignment tracker profile.

See Also

• For other uses of Blake, see Blake (disambig).
• For other uses of Thompson, see Thompson (disambig).