Mohinder Suresh
| Mohinder Suresh | |
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| Portrayed by | Sendhil Ramamurthy |
| First appearance | Genesis |
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| Known ability | None |
| Gender | |
| Age | 34 |
| Home | New York, NY, formerly Madras, India |
| Residences | Apartment in Brooklyn, NY |
| Occupations | Geneticist (Chennai, India), former taxi driver (New York City, USA), currently an agent of the Company |
| Significant other | (formerly) Mira Shenoy |
| Parents | Chandra Suresh (father, deceased), Unnamed mother |
| Ward | Molly Walker |
| Sibling | Shanti Suresh (deceased sister) |
Mohinder Suresh is a genetics professor and the son of Chandra Suresh. When he learns of his father's murder, he becomes determined to find the killer and unravel the mysteries of his father's research.
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 neighbour, 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 upperhand 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.
Four Months Later
Mohinder is giving a lecture in Cairo about the evolved humans that have become threatened by a disease that only targets the evolved humans. Bob walks in and listens to the lecture. Mohinder urges the very few people at the lecture to spread the word and tells them that with proper funding they may be able to find a cure and save these people because evolved humans are the key to the evolutionary process. After the lecture Bob approaches Mohinder and asks for his autograph. After Bob mentions Shanti, Mohinder pushes him against the wall. Bob offers Mohinder a job at the company but Mohinder declines. Afterwards Bob insists on buying him lunch to talk about it.
During lunch, Mohinder appears to be reluctant to accept the job. After being properly persuaded, Mohinder accepts. Mohinder later talks with Noah Bennet on the phone about bringing the company down, once and for all.
Lizards
Mohinder accepts an assignment from Bob to investigate an evolved human in Port Au Prince, Haiti, who they suspect has the Shanti virus. This man turns out to be the Haitian, and after Mohinder cures him, he wipes Mohinder's memory. At the end of the episode he telephones Mr. Bennet and relates what he remembers of his first assignment for the Company.
Kindred
Mohinder returns to his apartment and is frightened by Matt and his gun. Mohinder argues with Matt that he can take care of himself and that he won't get caught by the Company.
Later when Mohinder is with Bob at Isaac's loft, he is informed that Isaac was murdered by Sylar. The loft has been turned into Mohinder's own lab. Bob tells him that a team of people will help Mohinder with his every need. Mohinder works in close quarters with Bob, but finds time to search the loft and find the last painting in a series of eight. Mohinder calls Noah with the news that the painting foretells Mr. Bennet's death.
Graphic Novel:The Crossroads
After successfully curing the Haitian, Mohinder instructs him on how to meet with Noah in Costa Verde and join their crusade against the Company.
The Kindness of Strangers
In New York, Molly wakes up screaming. Mohinder comes in, and he and Matt go to get her water. Mohinder and Matt talk to try to figure out what's going on. Molly asks Mohinder when the nightmares will stop, and Mohinder tells her he doesn't know, then sings her a lullaby.
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.
Mohinder comforts Molly while Matt insists that Molly must find his father. Mohinder accuses Matt of wanting to get back at daddy and Matt makes a jibe at Mohinder's own rocky relationship with his father, Chandra. Molly interrupts the pair and tells them that she will try and find Matt's father.
Mohinder and Matt give support to Molly when she uses her ability. Mohinder tries to calm Matt down after Molly becomes unconscious, noting that she is in shock.
Fight or Flight
As Matt and Mohinder figure out what to do about Molly's condition, Matt decides it's time to go visit his father in Philadelphia. Mohinder stays beside Molly and calls Noah about turning her into the Company. He says that he really shouldn't do that, but Mohinder states that she isn't getting better here.
While Mohinder talks to Bob about Molly, he is given a new assignment to deal with another person with powers. Just as he is handed a stun gun, Niki bursts through some nearby doors and makes her way to Bob, shoving Mohinder against a door. As she chokes Bob to death, Mohinder manages to fire the stun gun and incapacitate her.
Later on, Mohinder is in Niki's cell thinking of a way to get her out of here. She tells him it was her choice to come here, and he appears shocked. He later travels to New Orleans on his assignment: Monica.
The Line
In a gym at the Company's hospital, Monica copies the moves of a gymnist on the television for Mohinder, who is testing her. When she asks about others like her, he tells her that there are others but their powers are different, that she was the first to demonstrate adoptive muscle memory. Bob enters and reassures her that her ability is incredible. Monica asks who he is, and he introduces himself as chief of operations for the Company. He asks to speak to Mohinder in private. Later, Mohinder comes up to Monica with a syringe with the new variant of the Shanti virus, telling Monica it's standard procedure. She tells him she doesn't do needles, but he promises her that it's the last step in her training before they let her go home. She winces and turns away, but Mohinder decides against it and bursts in on Bob. He tells Bob that he won't inject Monica. Bob tells him that they'll find someone else to do it, and there's plenty more of the virus left over. Mohinder throws a stool at a storage cabinet full of vials and tells Bob that he's taking Molly.
Mohinder finds Molly still in a coma, and Bob comes to apologize to Mohinder. Bob explains that he has been with the Company for thirty years, and they have made many difficult decisions, some of which he still regrets. Bob explains that in dealing with a dangerous individual, he made a poor decision in forcing Mohinder to give Monica the virus. Mohinder remembers the file with Adam Monroe's name written on it, and Bob agrees. Bob explains that Mohinder is with the Company not just for his research or his blood, but to keep them in line. Mohinder notes that Molly is not ready to leave, and that he does not trust Bob at all, and Bob explains that he has someone who will help with Mohinder's trust issues.
At the Company hospital, Mohinder is greeted by Niki, who tells him that she feels much better, and that she is Mohinder's partner. She explains that Bob and Mohinder have trust issues, and she is there to ensure that there aren't any problems.
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Equipment
- Curare--a brain-paralyzing drug used to subdue Sylar
- Gun--taken from an ersatz exterminator and used on Sylar
- 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
"Man is a narcissistic species by nature. We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet. But we are not the pinnacle of so-called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food. Remaining alive headless for weeks at a time. Resistant to radiation. If God has indeed created himself in his own image, then I submit to you that God is a cockroach. They say that man uses only a tenth of his brain power. Another percent, and we might actually be worthy of God's image. Unless, of course, that day has already arrived. The human genome project has discovered that tiny variations in man's genetic code are taking place at increasingly rapid rates. Teleportation, levitation, tissue regeneration. Is this outside the realm of possibility? Or is man entering a new gateway to evolution? Is he finally standing at the threshold to true human potential?"
- - Mohinder (Genesis)
"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)
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)
External Links
- Mohinder's Volume of Periodic Accounts (fan site)
- Website by Mohinder Suresh (French fan site)
See Also
- For articles related to Mohinder, see Related Articles:Mohinder.
- For images of Mohinder, see Images of Mohinder Suresh.
- For Mohinder as he appeared in the dark future, see Mohinder Suresh (future)
- For other uses of Mohinder, see Mohinder (disambig).
Fan Theories
Please refer to Theory:Mohinder Suresh for fan-created theories and other speculation.