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The Company is a clandestine espionage organization created after a single or series of terrible incidents involving one or more specially powered. Because of this, they seek out powered agents who they believe are not too dangerous or out of control, especially those they can maneuver into a place where they feel accepted and indebted to the organization. To this end they take all measures to follow and monitor those who may be special. They are also likely trying to develop a program to create these gifts.	The Company employs several agents with powers: The Haitian (One Giant Leap), Eden McCain (Better Halves), Claude Rains (Company Man), Hana Gitelman (Wireless, Part 2), and Isaac Mendez. (Distractions) The Company is conducting research into evolved humans by kidnapping and evaluating subjects. (Collision, Nothing to Hide)	+ The Company uses a pneumatic needle to inject a tracking isotope into people with powers leaving a mark on the neck. (How Do You Stop an Exploding Man?) + Mr. Bennet's boss insists on keeping Sylar alive to be studied. (The Fix) + With the apparent resources available to The Company and the knowledge of many of the people who have abilities (sometimes even before the people themselves know about their abilities), they could most likely kill most of them before they developed abilities or reasonable control over them.
The Company is some manner of medical organization or corporation, akin to the Center for Disease Control.	Examples of this are Bennet's unwillingness to shoot an escaping Nathan despite having a gun drawn on him (Hiros), Bennet's superiors ordering him to study Sylar despite his suggestion that Sylar is too dangerous to live (Fallout), and Hana's mission to secure information on a biological weapon. (Wireless, Part 3)	+ Mr. Bennet and Company seem to have been more interested in studying evolved humans and preventing medical disasters than anything else.
One of the aims of The Company is the controlled breeding of those with powers. While the initial aim may have been to save the world and the current stated aim is to control those with abilities, those with powers may die or go rogue, thus necessitating the cultivation of the next generation of Company men with powers. It also beats trying to find those spontatneously born with abilities.	None.	+ It could explain why characters with powers (e.g. the Petrellis, Matt, Hiro) have parents involved with the Company. • As the superpowers have been established since the very beginning as the result of genetic mutation, clearly there is always a chance that an evolved human is going to give birth to another, whether paired with another evolved human or not. Like anyone, members of the Company may want to have children of their own. Their children will likely be born with superpowers as a purely natural phenomenon. To assume there needs to be any "explanation" is to think backwards. In this case, it would do us well to consider the egg as coming before the chicken, and not the other way around. Matt Parkman does not inexplicably have a father who is connected with the Company, but rather Maury Parkman quite simply has a son. + In Landslide Linderman states that D.L.'s and Niki's meeting (and implicitly the conception and birth of Micah) was no accident and that he has been watching them their whole lives. + In a similar strain, Peter and Simone Deveaux (who, while she may not have explicitly had any abilities, was at least a carrier of the gene that allowed for her father's ability) could have been paired by The Company, with the orchestration of their eventual, albeit short-lived, romance. + It could explain how Adam Monroe feels himself to a god even though his power seems paltry in comparison to some others. He is the brains behind The Company and controls those who would control (by saving or destroying) the world. As strongly suggested in Out of Time, since Adam doesn't age, and is in a sense immortal, he's the only one in the Company able to sit back and watch his work unfold.
The Company is fronted by many everyday average companies such as: Primetech Paper, The Linderman Group (Corinthian Casino), The Deveaux Society, Yamagato Industries, The Petrelli Law firm and many other unnamed everyday companies such as the Russian textile factory.	None.	+ The founding members of the company each have front companies they over-run. + Bob Bishop ran Primatech Paper. + Daniel Linderman ran the Corinthian Casino. + Kaito Nakamura ran Yamagato Industries. + Charles Deveaux ran the Deveaux Society. + Arthur Petrelli ran the Petrelli Lawfirm.
The Company will get a new group of members who will run it. They will keep the world safe from people like Sylar making sure the people who have abilities can control them.	None.	+ Ando, Hiro, Peter, Matt, Claire, Mohinder, Nathan, Monica, Noah, The Haitian, Molly, Angela the new 12 leaders of the company.