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Theory	Citations	Notes
Bob and Noah Bennet are brothers.	None	+ Switching your last name from Bishop to Bennet to Butler is not a huge stretch. Perhaps he wanted to prove his own value, instead of being known as the 'Boss's kid brother. - Bennet has no knowledge of Linderman's connection to the Company and is imprisoned without appeal. Very odd if his brother is one of the leaders... • Bob nor Noah may not knowif they're brothers or not. - Thompson mentions bringing him in personally. + An "HRG" shot with Bob (over the shoulder, from the back) was in Powerless. Besides being symbolic reference of Bob's control over Noah, it could also be symbolic of their possible family ties. - Saying that two characters are related because of one camera shot seems sort of out there.
Bob adopted Elle when she was taken into the Company.	Claire was adopted. (Company Man)	- Unlike Bennet, Bob has powers and it is plausible that his children would have powers. + Many parallels have been drawn between Claire and Elle, and it's implied that Bob had the Haitian erase all of Elle's previous life. - Bennet's description of how Bob brought Elle in to be tested by The Company seems to suggest strongly that she is Bob's biological daughter.(Cautionary Tales) • Bennet was supposed to return his adopted daughter to the company once she manifested her powers. - Bob's wife and Elle's mother is not evident.
Bob was allied with Linderman towards blowing up New York.	Sandra recognizes Bob as Noah's boss. (Cautionary Tales) Noah's other boss, Thompson, openly supports Linderman's plan. (The Hard Part)	+ Bob seems pretty well set up (comfy office, access to files, prisoners, experimental viruses and cures, no hint of conflict in the Company other than a pair of runaways and a telepathic assassin, i.e. noone questions his authority), for a guy who's just taken over the Company in less than 24 hours. • Linderman spends his time running a vast crime syndicate and lives in Vegas. Someone has to handle the day-to-day affairs of the Company... - Bob talks about fixing the problems that Linderman made when he first talks to Niki. + Bob is clearly manipulative. He may have been dishonest in order to win Niki's trust by implying that they were both enemies of Linderman. - Angela only mentions herself and Linderman as supporters of Adam's plans. + If Angela was still working with Bob, it would have been unwise to expose their each other, hence it makes sense if Angela was also being dishonest. - Matt and Nathan already knew about the connection between Bob and Angela, there would be no point in hiding that information, especially after the failure of the bomb and Linderman's death.
Bob ordered Nathan's death.	None.	+ Bob has a motive, Nathan was going to expose his company. + Bob also knows Angela personally, and would be able to call her and talk so informally. + Bob suggested that he would have to take measures to silence Claire when she threatened to expose the Company like Nathan did. + Bob has surveillance over many different Company areas. A surveillance camera caught Nathan revealing his plan on-tape. + The person Angela was talking to seemed to be a co-worker; someone of equal status. It might have been one of the Company's Founders. + If this is true, then it must have been Bob, as he and Maury, besides Angela, are the only ones alive, and Maury is incarcerated.
Bob is a sociopath like Elle.	None.	+ Elle says that she was diagnosed as a sociopath; it could be genetic. - It is unclear if Bob is Elle's biological father - Noah Bennet told Elle that she was tested on by her father and had her memories removed. Her unstable behavior probably has more to do with her environment than genetics. + Bob is very manipulative and works for a rather "morally gray" group. + He let tests be made on Elle at age of seven, even if she's is not his daughter this shows a rather dark personality. + His powers could represent how he is materialist and may not care about people, thinking them as objects.
Sylar might start targeting the company after he regains his powers and Bob might become desperate enough to call on Peter Petrelli's help to stop him.	None.	+ He might believe that Peter is the only one he knows that could stop him and seek him out to enlist his aid (out of fear of having his brain removed by Sylar). - Peter will hold being detained for four months and Nathan's assassination attempt against him. + Peter might not want Sylar to succeed in gaining access to more people with powers anymore than Bob would. + Bob can be willing to negotiate, as in Noah Bennet's case, he released him from his cell and allowed his family to live a normal life in exchange for working for him and leaving them (and making sure that Claire doesn't expose them). - It is unknown who wanted Sylar to survive, he could've been the one to pay for the 8 operations needed for being stabbed by Hiro in Kirby Plaza. Bob could've paid for the operations as he is the company's "personal Fort Knox".
Bob orchestrated the rise of Sylar, by pointing Chandra to the location of "Patient Zero" or by other means.	None.	+ Victoria Pratt obtained Strain 138 from Shanti. The Company must have had at least some awareness of Chandra's research. + Noah kept Sylar alive by strict orders from his boss. (Godsend). Bob was his boss. (Truth & Consequences) + It has been theorized that Angela Petrelli or Carlos Mendez have the power of precognition, and could foresee the evolution of Gabriel Gray into the psychopath Sylar. • This is speculation. • It may have to do with the brain located in the Vault. - There is no solid evidence for this theory.