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Theory	Citations	Notes
Usutu does not have the ability of precognition. He gains it artificially.	None.	+ Matt seems to enter a trance after consuming Usutu's paste, and then listening to Usutu's Walkman. Usutu might use the same paste to make his drawings. - Usutu has not been shown eating his own paste.
Part of Usutu's ability is to allow others to experience his visions.	Matt has a vision of the future after eating Usutu's paste and listening to his walkman.	- Since Usutu's visions have been mainly focused on Matt, perhaps only Matt is able to experience them. This might also only be possible because of Matt's telepathy. + The food and walkman may only be necessary to put Matt's mind in the right state of consciousness, much like Isaac's heroin, but Usutu is able to access his ability without them. Matt may have to be in Usutu's presence to channel his vision. - The turtle may be giving Matt his vision and not Usutu.
Usutu's mention of "the dark son rises" is a reference to Gabriel or Peter.	Usutu speaks this in Eris Quod Sum.	+ This is potentially double-speak, and literally could mean the "Dark Son" - He could have said "sun" and not "son", meaning an eclipse. + Both men are Arthur's sons, and have reasons to be considered 'evil'. - Gabriel/Sylar is not Arthur's son. - It could also refer to Nathan, who is Peter's brother, turning "dark". Nathan "rises" when he uses his ability to fly. - Or it could mean Nathan rising to power, not flying. + It could be symbolic of Sylar (the dark son) rising to goodness, like an ascension to the ways of a hero. - Sylar is not the son of Arthur as previously thought, and he did not rise to "goodness".
Usutu is not dead.	None.	+ Arthur could have been putting images in Hiro's and Ando's minds, just like Matt did with Knox. + Arthur wanted to recruit Usutu and use him for his own personal need. - Arthur saw Usutu as a threat. He probably did not want him alive. - Arthur already had precognition; he did not need another precog.
Usutu let Arthur kill him for a reason.	None.	+ Usutu can see the future. It would be possible that he can see that letting Arthur kill him would be for the greater good. + This would be parallel to Isaac in Season One, where he painted his death by Sylar's hand and so accepted it, seeing it through the scope of all the events he saw. - Why would he scream and be shocked? + So was Isaac. + Because he was having his head ripped off.
Usutu was a robot who was created by Mohinder Suresh after his dad died.	None.	+ Mohinder felt lonely, so he created Usutu to help him after Chandra died, and gave Usutu the ability to see the future so that Mohinder could see into it to see if anything else bad was going to happen to him or his family. - We probably would of heard of Usutu in season one. + There's a lot of things that happened in season one that we haven't heard of, like Sylar, Noah, and Elle, Flint and Meredith, etc. - Mohinder would have made Usutu look more like his dad because he has the stuff to do that. • No one is in any position to make definite statements about a character's intentions. - Usutu never mentioned Mohinder. • It's possible Usutu is not aware of this. - Usutu's decapitated head and neck were bloody. + Mohinder might have just made Usutu to be incredibly realistic. - Robots can't get abilities. • So a robot that can create fire or possess incredible strength is completely out of the question? - Mohinder is a geneticist; I doubt he can create artificial intelligence.
Usutu is a spirit guide.	In Dual, Matt sees him after Daphne and Hiro return.
Usutu is still alive.	He was seen at the end of Dual.	- It could be a vision of some sort. - He had his entire head ripped off.