Mohinder Suresh

Mohinder Suresh
Portrayed by	Sendhil Ramamurthy
First appearance	Genesis
In-story stats
Known abilities	Original ability: Mohinder's ability (synthetic, corrected) Current ability: Enhanced strength (synthetic)
Nickname	Fight club
Gender
Age	32
Date of birth	April 8, 1974
Place of birth	India
Home	New York, NY; formerly Madras, India
Residences	Apartment in Brooklyn, NY
Occupations	Former agent of Pinehearst Company, former Company medical professional & agent, former taxi driver, former genetics professor
Significant others	formerly Maya Herrera, formerly Mira Shenoy
Parents	Chandra Suresh (deceased), Unnamed mother
Grandparent	Unnamed grandmother
Ward	Molly Walker
Sibling	Shanti Suresh (deceased)

Dr. Mohinder Suresh is a genetics professor from India who took up the research into evolved humans after the death of his father. Steadily unravelling the mysteries of his father's research, as well as determined to find his father's killer, eventually Mohinder joins the Company, and later defected to Pinehearst. Mohinder's research has since made the ground-breaking discovery of the way a normal human could gain abilities, with Mohinder using the new treatment on himself and becoming an artificial evolved human.

Character History

Season One

For an episode-by-episode summary, see Mohinder Suresh: Season One History.

Teaching a class in Chennai University, he finds out from Nirand that his father has been killed. He goes to New York, and lives in his father's apartment, getting a job as a taxi driver. One customer is Peter, and they witness the eclipse. At his home, he finds evidence about his father's killer, Sylar, and gets to know his neighbor, Eden. Together, they find an algorithm, and Mohinder tries warning Nathan of his fate. Peter visits him, and together they go to visit Isaac. He does not answer, and Mohinder concludes that Peter led him on a wacky adventure.

He returns to India and his job, when he thinks about closing off the algorithm. He starts dreaming about his father and mother, discovering that he had a sister. He finds an evolved human, Sanjog Iyer, and decides to return to America after finding out more about Sylar and the list.

Two weeks later, he discovers that Eden is dead, and receives a visit from Bennet, who gives him a business card. Nathan also visits him, and the two try to calm Peter down, to little success. Mohinder resumes his quest to find people with power, and meets Zane Taylor - actually Sylar in disguise. Together, they find another, Dale Smither, when Mohinder figures out that he is with Sylar. He holds him hostage using curare, but Sylar gets the upper hand and attacks Mohinder. However, after a fight between Peter and Sylar, Mohinder strikes Sylar down with the map, and destroys the list, escaping and taking Peter's body to his mother.

He contacts Thompson, and meets Molly Walker in a building. He works on curing her virus, only to find out that he is the cure. Giving her his blood, he learns about her power, only to be warned of two men trying to find her. He protects her, knocking out Matt, and holds Bennet at gun point. They eventually come to an agreement, and Mohinder and Molly escape from the building, finding D.L., Niki and Micah along the way. They witness the explosion from Kirby Plaza, as Mohinder tends to a wounded Matt.

Season Two

For an episode-by-episode summary, see Mohinder Suresh: Season Two History.

Mohinder is giving lectures about his research on the Shanti virus in various cities when a man comes to him in Cairo. He mentions Shanti, which prompts Mohinder to be aggressive, but Bob offers Mohinder a job at his company. Mohinder reluctantly takes the job, then secretly calls Noah about bringing the company down. Mohinder's first assignment is to heal the Haitian with the cure, but Mohinder forgets what happened and the Haitian escapes. Mohinder returns to his apartment, where he lives with Matt and Molly.

Mohinder is given Isaac's loft by the Company to run a lab to further his research. He finds a painting from the series of eight that foretells Noah's death. Later, Mohinder and Molly are greeted by Matt, who asks Molly to find his father. Molly freaks out after seeing Matt's father in a picture, and Mohinder asks what her problem is. She tells Mohinder and Matt that Matt's father is the nightmare man. Eventually, she helps Matt, but is rendered unconscious. Mohinder tries to calm Matt down after Molly becomes unconscious, noting that she is in shock.

Mohinder decides to bring Molly to the Company for help, which angers Noah. While Mohinder talks to Bob about Molly, he is given a new assignment to deal with another person with powers. He travels to New Orleans to get Monica. At the Company's hospital, Monica demonstrates her ability through various tests. Bob tells Mohinder to inject Monica with a variant of the virus that will disable her abilities, but Mohinder later does not, and argues wtih Bob and decides to take Molly.

Eventually, Mohinder realizes that he cannot help Molly alone, and Bob apologizes to Mohinder about asking him to inject Monica. After being partnered with Niki, Bob tells Mohinder that he needs to inject Maury with the virus. Mohinder protests, but eventually leaves with Niki to go get samples. Mohinder witnesses Niki talking to herself and suspects it is the work of Maury. As the two collect samples, Niki begins talking to herself and eventually punches Mohinder, breaking his nose. After Maury is captured and Niki injected herself with the virus, Mohinder attempts to use his blood to cure Niki, but finds the virus is immune to his blood. He informs Bob of this who tells Mohinder they can use Claire to help Niki, and reveals to Bob his partnership with Mr. Bennet and their motives to take down the company.

Mohinder is partnered with Elle to kill Noah and get Claire's blood. Bob kidnaps Claire from her home; Claire agrees to give some of her blood if they leave her father alone. Elsewhere, Elle meets up with Noah and Suresh. It appears Elle is about to attack Noah when Claire's boyfriend West swoops down and knocks Elle unconscious. Noah, having restrained Elle in his home, calls Bob to arrange an exchange: Elle for Claire. After the two daughters are released, West begins to fly to Claire to safety, but Elle fells West with an electrical bolt. Noah draws his gun and shoots Elle in the shoulder. He then points his gun at Bob, telling him "If you die, the Company dies with you." Instead, Mohinder shoots Noah in the eye, killing him. Noah's body is taken to Primatech Research, where he is given Claire's regenerative blood by Mohinder. Mohinder makes a mix of his blood and Claire's blood and begins to head to New Orleans to give an injection to Niki when he receives a phone call from Sylar, who reveals that he is at Mohinder's apartment with Molly. Mohinder rushes to his apartment, where Sylar holds Mohinder, Molly and Maya hostage and tells Mohinder to cure him of the virus. Mohinder takes all of them to his lab, where he discovers that Sylar has the same strain of the virus that Niki had. Sylar shoots Maya when she starts to manifest her ability. To test the antidote Sylar tells Mohinder to give it to Maya first. After Mohinder injects Maya, Elle appears and attempts to apprehend Sylar. Elle hits Sylar in the back with an electrical bolt, but he escapes.

The Second Coming

Mohinder comes home to his New York City apartment, and tells Maya that he has sent Molly off "somewhere safe." After arguing with Maya, Mohinder comes to a startling revelation. Seeing Maya becoming mad or upset to manifest her ability, Mohinder realizes that her power must come from her adrenal glands and not her blood. After extracting some adrenaline from Maya, he analyzes it in his lab. He finds out that he has a way to give powers to anyone. After an argument with Maya about what might happen if this fell into the wrong hands, Mohinder is left to ponder if he should use this serum, or destroy it. Later, on the docks, he stands at the edge of the water about to throw the serum away. At the last minute, he decides against it, and injects himself. He falls to the ground unconscious. While lying on the ground, two ruffians try to rob Mohinder. In self defense, he grabs the first man's gun, squeezing with enough strength to bend it. He then jumps to his feet and tosses the second man several meters away. The men run away as Mohinder, surprised, examines his hands. He runs after them only to let them go after a short run. Stupefied, he examines his hands once again.

The Butterfly Effect

Mohinder tests out his newfound powers in his lab. Maya tries to convince him to destroy the new serum he has created. Mohinder demonstrates his super strength and ability to crawl on the walls. After telling Maya that he can eventually find a way to reverse abilities, he and Maya kiss passionately. Later, Mohinder wakes up next to Maya and heads to the bathroom. While looking in the mirror, he peels a large patch of dead skin off of his back which has bulges growing underneath, and wonders what he did to himself.

I Am Become Death

Mohinder is becoming increasingly aggressive and violent as he continues to try to figure out what is happening to him in the process. While working in his lab, he hears his neighbors arguing. He goes to check the situation; Mark Spatney opens the door and his wife is behind him, bruised and crying. As his neighbor attempts to slam the door on Mohinder, Mohinder slams Spatney's head into the wall, and his wife screams at Mohinder to stop.

Later, Mohinder is commenting into his recorder that he is unable to remove the ability from himself. He also notices a substance sticking to the table when he lifts his hand. He hears someone knock on the door. He answers, only to be punched by Mark Spatney, who is furious that Mohinder "stuck his nose where it didn't belong." Mohinder retaliates in an ominous tone that it was Spatney who meddled, and grabs Spatney, lifting him off his feet, and pulls him into the lab. The door slams shut behind him.

Angels and Monsters

Mohinder sits in Central Park in the shadows under the trees, appearing to stalk a drug dealer. He goes up to the dealer, asking for something to take the edge off. When the man is suspicious, Mohinder grabs the dealer - easily parrying the dealer's blows of retaliation - and says that he needs the man himself. Mohinder takes the drug dealer's body to his lab, but when Maya comes over, he hides the body. She shows him a "Missing" poster of his neighbor, of which he pretends to know nothing. Escaping the topic, he tells Maya that he's getting closer to finding a way to remove abilities, and that he can make her happy. He wraps his arms around her, and Maya seems comforted by his embrace until she sees blood smeared across the floor from where Mohinder dragged the drug dealer into the back of his lab. When she hastens to leave, he goes into the other room to check on the dealer, as well as his neighbor, who is cocooned to the wall.

Mohinder leaves the lab, and when he returns he finds that someone has tried to free his neighbor from the cocoon. He looks around for the perpetrator, but then feels the effects of Maya's ability, who entered the lab while Mohinder was gone and was hiding under a table in terror. He convinces her to stop before she kills him, and she calls him a monster. Mohinder announces that he wishes she wouldn't have said that, and attacks her, cocooning her to the wall alongside his other victims.

Dying of the Light

Nathan and Tracy arrive at Mohinder's lab to reveal that their abilities were given to them synthetically by Dr. Zimmerman. Mohinder, intrigued and desperate to find out how side-effect-free abilities could be granted, injects Tracy and Nathan with a knock-out drug, then straps them to tables in his hive. Daphne discovers them while attempting to recruit Mohinder for the Pinehearst Company; Mohinder is infuriated when she calls him "as bad as the rest of them", and he attempts to seize her, but she escapes the lab using her super speed. Later, Tracy attempts to reason with Mohinder, telling him that maybe they are all monsters, and that she can help him. Luring him into taking her offered hand, she utilizes her freezing power to subdue Mohinder and escape from her bonds. She releases Nathan, and Mohinder recovers and hurls one of the tables over their heads to prevent them from escaping, informing them wrathfully that they are not finished here.

Eris Quod Sum

Mohinder threatens Tracy and Nathan, and Tracy summons her freezing power. Mohinder pleads for one more sample so he can relieve Maya of her power. When they refuse, he bounds over them, rips Maya from her cocoon, and leaps through the skylight. At Pinehearst, Mohinder considers the unconscious Maya, who is contained in a laboratory. Arthur introduces himself and notes he took deliberate efforts to make sure everyone believed him dead. Mohinder insists he’d do anything to keep his promise and cure Maya of her abilities. Arthur goes in, touches her, and drains her abilities into himself. Arthur looks up, his eyes briefly black before reverting to normal. Mohinder goes into the lab but Maya tells him to stay away. Outside, Mohinder asks if Arthur can take away his abilities, and Arthur wonders if he wants them removed. Arthur then takes him into the lab and shows him the two halves of the formula, and they need Mohinder to take it to the next step. Mohinder is suspicious of their agenda but Arthur tells him to leave if he doesn’t trust them. Mohinder considers it... and then asks for test subjects. Later Arthur brings Peter to Mohinder’s lab where the doctor prepares to inject him with a new version of the formula to give him powers. Peter says Mohinder warned him not to manipulate powers in the future. To prove his vision, Mohinder asks Peter what he saw of him in the future. Peter confirms that he saw Mohinder transformed into a monster, and Mohinder notes that it’s too late, exposing a scaly forearm to a shocked Peter as he brings the needle to Peter's arm. As Mohinder prepares to give Peter the injection, Sylar arrives and telekinetically throws Mohinder and Dr. Livitz back and starts to free Peter. Mohinder attacks Sylar and knocks him unconscious, while Arthur arrives and tries to stop Peter, who escapes. Arthur then stops Mohinder from beating Sylar, explaining the latter is his son and he’s been waiting a long time to be reunited with him. Mohinder goes to see Maya who is preparing to leave. She warns him to stay away, saying she can never trust him again. Mohinder says his feelings were real but she says what he did in her name was wrong. She plans to make amends for what she has done, and tells him to do the same.

It's Coming

After Mohinder tests Pinehearst's formula on a human being, his test subject mutates into something quite monstrous, due to the apparently imperfect serum. Mohinder, however, tells Arthur that theoretically, the formula is stable. He explains that there is just something missing: a catalyst. Arthur tells Mohinder that Kaito Nakamura must have hidden the final part of the formula, but Mohinder assures him that the catalyst could not be stored nor created synthetically; it had to have been stored in the blood of a human host. (Arthur determines that the host must be Claire Bennet.) Arthur notices that on Mohinder's computer screen is research on solar eclipses. When Arthur questions Mohinder about this, Mohinder tells him that most of the evolved humans he documented, abilities manifested during the last total, annular, solar eclipse. Mohinder tells Arthur that it is probably just a coincidence, but still, Mohinder is intrigued.

Later, Mohinder speaks into his recorder about the condition of the patient, but he pauses, apparently morally strained by the suffering the man is experiencing. He apologizes to the mutated patient, and euthanizes the man at his request.

The Eclipse, Part 1

As an eclipse draws near, Mohinder’s mutations progress much further, while Mohinder is doing an autopsy on his former test subject. Mohinder demands that Arthur go after the catalyst: Claire, but Arthur tells him that there might be a problem with that, and shows him a prophetic sketch that he drew. The picture is of Noah carrying an apparently dead Claire, with a gunshot wound. When Mohinder tells Arthur that what the painting predicts is not possible; for Claire can heal, Arthur asks Mohinder—being the scientist—what he thinks. Mohinder says the only explanation is the eclipse. When Mohinder tells Arthur that he needs the cure, Arthur shows him a picture of himself in a cocoon. Mohinder automatically assumes that this is a picture of his death and says, “I’m going to die?” The eclipse begins and Mohinder is alone in the lab, documenting what is happening to him, vocally. Sickly coughing and showing that he is in pain, he speaks into a tape recorder, and says that something is happening to him. He says that he can feel that something inside of him is not right. When Mohinder puts down the recorder, a web-like, sticky substance is left by his hands, on his desk. The eclipse continues, and Mohinder is forced by instinct to cocoon himself, as the painting predicted. When Mohinder wakes in the cocoon, he pushes his way out. Naked and clean from his mutations, he emerges and looks at his reflection in a mirror, relieved. The eclipse goes on and Mohinder, free from his mutations, says into the tape recorder, that somehow, miraculously, he is completely normal. He wonders if the effects are permanent, aloud, and says that further research is needed; but not yet. Mohinder then picks up a sticky note from off his desk, with Maya’s name and contact information. He puts on his coat to leave, but Arthur and Flint come in telling him that he’s not going anywhere. With this, Flint throws Mohinder against the wall demanding that he get their powers back.

The Eclipse, Part 2

Mohinder is still being held against his will by Pinehearst. Arthur orders Mohinder to find a cure to his powerless state as he is vulnerable to attacks. Flint keeps a close eye on him but Mohinder later attacks him, beating him brutally; then he picks up Maya's contact details and leaves. Relieved from his powers, he tracks Maya down to her apartment. However, just as she goes to answer the door, the eclipse ends and Mohinder notices that scales have reappeared on the back of his hand. His affliction has comes back. Disgusted by his appearance, he leaves and returns to Pinehearst, leaving Maya confused. He rejoins Arthur, who is standing over a beaten Flint, and upon being questioned by Arthur about his return, he tells Arthur that he has nowhere else to go. Arthur comments on how the eclipse has brought out the real characters of everyone before telling Mohinder that they will find a cure for Mohinder's condition, but to sort out 'the monster inside him' himself in the meantime.

Our Father

At Pinehearst, Arthur, having acquired the catalyst, enters Mohinder's lab with Tracy and Nathan. He calls for Mohinder, who comes, and then nods in approval as Arthur looks up questioningly from his latest batch of the formula. Arthur then completes the formula by adding the catalyst and, as he watches the formula glow with golden light, a smile twitches Mohinder's lips. Afterwards, Mohinder prepares syringes of the formula as Tracy instructs him that they will need fifty doses - one for every marine who signed up for the program, but Nathan argues that they will just try it on one first, to ensure that it works. Then, to Mohinder, he adds, "No offense."

After Arthur has departed, Mohinder, Tracy and Nathan stand in front of a containment cell in which the first marine awaits his injection. As Mohinder enters to administer the formula to the marine, the marine appraises him and, seeing his scaly condition, asks what happened. Mohinder tells him tersely, "Mistake." The marine begins to panic, frightened by Mohinder and the possibility that the formula could be something other than he expected, but Nathan reassures him as Mohinder holds his arm firmly and jabs the needle into his flesh and injects the formula. Then, Mohinder exits the chamber and observes, Tracy and Nathan beside him. They watch as the marine's body begins to spasm, and then when he breaks free of his restraints Mohinder reaches worriedly for the door handle. He then inquires warily how the marine feels, and, seeming to display enhanced strength, the marine pulls up the chair - which had been bolted to the floor - and throws it through the glass of the containment cell, where it lodges firmly in the opposite wall. He then announces to the stunned Mohinder, Tracy and Nathan that he feels good.

Dual

Speaking into his recorder in his lab at Pinehearst, Mohinder states that he is "out of time" because the infection has spread to his lungs. He goes on to say that injecting himself to gain abilities was as good as signing his own death certificate. He tells the recorder that the perfected formula is his only hope of being cured, and after setting down the recorder he picks up a syringe of the serum and raises it over his arm. But just as he is preparing to inject himself, Peter demands that he put it down, calling it a weapon that needs to be destroyed. Mohinder insists that his life depends upon the formula, and Peter turns his gun on Mohinder threateningly. Mohinder asks Peter to recall when they first met, when Peter tried to convince Mohinder that people with abilities actually existed. Peter notes that Mohinder didn't believe him at the time, and Mohinder explains that after he learned that evolved humans - powerful people - existed, he coveted what they had, so much so that he tried to recreate it. Peter asks Mohinder to look at what the formula he created has done to him, turning him into a monster, and Mohinder says that this is exactly why he needs the new injection - to be cured. Just then, Daphne streaks through the lab, too fast to be seen by either of the men, and snatches the syringe right out of Mohinder's hand. Peter and Mohinder remain standing for a moment, both utterly nonplussed, before Mohinder - getting the wrong impression - demands to know what Peter did. Peter points his gun, but Mohinder pushes it aside and smashes Peter across the room where he lands on a trolley, crushing syringes. Just then, Flint attacks an unsuspecting and livid Mohinder from behind, shoving him up against a support beam and announcing that it's time for payback. He cups his hand around Mohinder's jaw and says that if Mohinder moves, he'll burn his face off. Peter demands that he stop, but Knox explains that they can do this together - he and Flint want to trash the place just as much as Peter does. As Knox commences wrecking laboratory materials, Peter questions why they would help him. Flint explains that the formula makes people like them less special, giving abilities to anyone, and Mohinder - still pinned by Flint - tells Peter to look at who he is allying himself with. He demands that Peter reevaluate the situation - with Nathan in charge, he tells Peter to think of all the good they will be able to do. Peter looks silently at Mohinder for a moment before overturning a table of materials. Mohinder winces as the materials break and shatter, and Peter informs Mohinder that Nathan isn't in charge anymore. As Peter tosses and shatters a container full of the formula, Mohinder sees fit to warn them that the formula is highly combustible. Flint ponders the significance of this, since he can't be burned, but Mohinder reminds him of Peter's vulnerability, asking whether he would be willing to sacrifice Peter as well. When his prompt isn't answered, Mohinder asks Peter to reexamine his choice of accomplices, calling them thugs and killers. Flint, irritated, knees Mohinder in the groin, then throws the incapacitated doctor onto a flimsy table which falls from beneath him, leaving Mohinder unconscious on the ground among scattered and broken materials. Peter rushes to observe the damage to Mohinder, then reprimands Flint, telling him that he didn't have to do that, but Flint replies that the trashing of the lab will go twice as fast with Mohinder out of the way, and he begins creating wreckage to add to Peter's. Peter contemplates a large vat, then asks for Flint to give him a hand in knocking it over. The pair successfully overturn the vat and its lid flies off, sending a torrent of carmine-colored formula splashing across the floor. It washes over the unconscious Mohinder, awakening him, and as he coughs and splutters, the formula appears to cleanse his face of the scales and lesions there. Peter announces that the vat was the last of the things in need of trashing, and Flint ignites his hands with blue flame with the intention of burning the lab. As Flint, Peter, and a new arrival to the lab - Nathan - argue and struggle and, in turn, engulf the lab in flames, Mohinder finds a way to escape the lab safely.

Later, having escaped the burning Pinehearst lab, Mohinder staggers along on the side of the road. A sleek silver car pulls up beside him and he hastens toward it; pausing by the passenger door, he sees his reflection in the car window and looks over his face, noticing the lack of scales with relief. The driver of the car rolls down the window; it's Tracy, who gives Mohinder an inviting smile and gestures for him to get in. He climbs into the passenger seat, and a wound on the side of his head is visible, either a burn or a memento from his beating from Flint. He glances at Tracy, seeming slightly distrustful, and the two drive off.

Graphic Novel:What We Have Wrought

Picking up where the previous episode “Dual” left off, Tracy Strauss is driving Mohinder in her car towards New York City. Mohinder is clean from his mutations and glad to be. Tracy inquires about recreating the catalyzed formula, and after asking her why they would want to recreate it, he says that he could if he had a sample. However, he says that without a sample all he can do is create monsters like himself. Tracy shows Mohinder that she does in fact have a sample: the last sample, and tries to lure him into her plan. Mohinder debates whether to side with Tracy, but in the end realizes that she is wrong. Mohinder snatches the vial from her and escapes from the car. After running far enough away, he destroys the vial, getting rid of the formula once and for all. He then makes his way to New York City, and realizes that he is finally free.

A Clear and Present Danger

Two months after the explosion at Pinehearst, Mohinder attempts to go back to the normal life of a taxicab driver. Coincidentally, he gets a fare from a familiar face: Peter Petrelli. Peter reminds Mohinder that the last time that they saw each other, they weren't exactly allies, but Mohinder tells Peter that that was long ago. Peter asks Mohinder if he has kept in contact with anyone, and Mohinder says that he hasn't been seeing anyone; all except Nathan have all been laying low. Mohinder says that maybe Nathan's plan concerning trying to keep the world safe from the evolved humans (not knowing the full extent of the senator's arrangements) is for the better. Mohinder notes that he has seen the dangers of having powers first hand. Peter asks him if he would still feel that way if his brother's plans went farther than he expected and Mohinder says that they'll agree to disagree. They reach their destination, Mohinder says that the ride is on him, and lets Peter out. Mohinder's next passenger pulls a gun on him and tells Mohinder to "just drive." Mohinder says that it's his dime and drives him to a parking garage. They both get out of the cab, and Mohinder realizes that he is surrounded by men with guns. Mohinder then rips the door of the taxi off and fights off the men. They fire their guns at him, but he shields himself with the door. Then he drops it and runs away. Noah pulls up in an SUV and tells Mohinder that if he wants to live he needs to get in the car. Mohinder is hesitant, but then gets in the back door and they drive away. Despite Mohinder's confusion, Noah doesn't answer any of Mohinder's questions about who the men that were trying to kidnap him were, and instead asks Mohinder if he has made any contact with Claire or Parkman and what he talked to Peter about. Mohinder says that he’s made no contact Claire or Matt, and doesn't have time to answer the third question when Noah stops the car in front of the hunter and his men waiting for them at the exit. Noah apologizes to Mohinder and then tazers Mohinder who staggers out of the car and collapses.

An unconscious Mohinder, along with the other imprisoned evolved humans are loaded onto a cargo plane. Claire, who had been released by Nathan earlier, sneaks onto the plane and manages to unhood Peter and Mohinder; and remove the drug shunt from both of them. Peter manages to touch Mohinder's hand, gaining his ability, and breaks free from his shackles. Claire ventures to the cockpit and Peter accidentally touches Tracy, acquiring her power instead of Mohinder's. However, the guard attacks him, and Peter accidently freezes the side of the plane and it shatters. The guards and an unnamed prisoner are swept out of the plane; and Peter holds onto some netting for his life. Unfortunately, the netting comes unfastened and Peter begins to fall out of the plane. Mohinder grabs him, but starts to lose his grip...

Trust and Blood

Mohinder and Matt grab Hiro into a ditch where they remain hidden from the plane crash. When Matt enters into a trance and walks away to the other direction, Mohinder is confused and startled by his compelled state. They end up arriving at a trailer, and change into casual clothing while Matt unexpectedly draws the future. Mohinder suggests Hiro to turm himself in to the police, since it is no longer his fight. Hiro claims he is still a warrior, and that it is his duty to save his friends. As Matt finishes his drawings, they see a picture of Daphne getting shot. They go to the site of the plane crash, where they are reunited with Ando and Daphne. When Daphne is shot by Danko's team, Matt is dragged by Mohinder and escapes. The next day, Matt and Mohinder meet with Hiro, Ando, and Peter outside the Unity Light Baptist Church. As they discuss Matt's prophetic drawings, they prepare to sacrifice their old lives and begin a new fugitive path. Mohinder confirms to Hiro that he will be in India (according to one of the drawings), and also sees a drawing of two men holding guns. He believes that they will seek justice, while Matt only desires revenge.

Building 26

Mohinder helps Peter and Matt take Noah away after he falls unconscious from drinking a drugged drink at a bar in a Costa Verde hotel.

Heroes Evolutions

In chapter 2 of Operation Bad Blood in the iStory, the Pinehearst contracted player questions Mohinder in his lab in Pinehearst Headquarters, Fort Lee, NJ. The room is rather dark, lit only by the glow of his computer monitors. Mohinder is examining a moaning patient who is covered by a sheet, and the player gets a sight at some strange discolored abrasions on the back of Mohinder's neck before he notices the player is there and covers up his neckline. During questioning, Mohinder explains Anna's story and her ability, and provides the player a theory as to why Red Eye might have kidnapped her.

Evolved Human Abilities

Mohinder has acquired an ability by injecting himself with a compound isolated from Maya's adrenaline, which has enhanced all of his bodily functions to the peak of human potential. He has described these abilities as being the next step in human evolution, while still remaining completely human. These allow enhancements of his capabilities such as mind, agility, strength, stamina, speed, reflexes, balance, durability, eye sight, and immune system. Mohinder also can jump higher and farther than a normal human. However, the formula was flawed, causing adverse side-effects. He also has insect-like abilities, "cocooning" victims in his lab.

Exposure to a version of the formula enhanced with the catalyst caused his lesions to disappear, but Mohinder retained some other aspects from the ability. His strength remained enhanced enough for him to easily rip a taxi door off it's hinges, hit another person with it, then hold it up as a shield to block tasers being fired at him. (A Clear and Present Danger) The show's writters confirm that all he has now is enhanced strength: the rest of his powers were tied to his insect like lesions and now that they're gone, so are those abilities.

Equipment

• Claire's blood--used to revive Noah, and to reinforce the antibodies in his own blood
• Curare--a brain-paralyzing drug used to subdue Sylar
• Genetic modification formula--created to give himself an ability, later combined with Company's version and catalyst to cure its side effects
• Gun--taken from an ersatz exterminator and used on Sylar
• Mohinder's blood--used cure people of the Shanti virus
• License--the legal allowance to drive a taxi for the Chelsea Cab Company
• Research items--including his fathers algorithm, journal, list, map, and various files
• Tuning fork--used to torture a captive Sylar
• Taser--used to incapacitate evolved humans who are aggressive and/or not in control of their abilities

Memorable Quotes

"It's the sort of cutting-edge science we used to talk about late into the night."

"The world's worst pillow talk, I'd say."

- Mira, Mohinder (Seven Minutes to Midnight)

"Hope is great, but we need caffeine."

- Mohinder (to Sylar (who is impersonating Zane Taylor)) (Parasite)

"Your nose. Does it hurt?"

"Only when I breathe."

- Niki, Mohinder (Out of Time)

"The formula is transforming me, and I fear what I'm becoming."

- Mohinder, to his recorder (I Am Become Death)

"You really think I'm that kind of stupid, doc?"

"Honestly... yeah, I did."

- Flint, Mohinder (The Eclipse, Part 2)

Trivia

• According to an interview with Jason La Padura, Mohinder was originally conceived as a man in his 50s, essentially as the role of Chandra. However, when Sendhil Ramamurthy read for the part, the producers rethought the role to accommodate the actor they wanted to use.
• Mohinder's name is likely a variant of the name Mahendra, an amalgam of the words "maha" (great) and "Indra" (a Hindu god). His surname, Suresh, is likely a transcription of the common first name Suresha, meaning "ruler of the gods."
• Mohinder can speak some French, although not fluently. (Lizards)
• According to his dental records, Mohinder was born on April 8, 1974. Incidentally, his teeth have no cavities and he has great alignment.

External Links

• Mohinder's Volume of Periodic Accounts (fan site)
• Website by Mohinder Suresh (French fan site)

See Also

• For other uses of Mohinder, see Mohinder (disambig).
• For other uses of Suresh, see Suresh (disambig).
• For a list of his victims, see Mohinder's victims.
• For articles related to Mohinder, see Related Articles:Mohinder.
• For images of Mohinder, see Images of Mohinder Suresh.
• For Mohinder Suresh's history in the "explosion future", see Mohinder Suresh (explosion future).
• For Mohinder Suresh's history in the "exposed future", see Mohinder Suresh (exposed future).

Fan Theories

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