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===[[Episode:Hysterical Blindness|Hysterical Blindness]]===
===[[Episode:Hysterical Blindness|Hysterical Blindness]]===
[[image:Pemma.jpg|thumb|right|Emma shares [[Enhanced synesthesia|her lights]] with [[Peter]].]]
[[Dr. Coolidge]] comes to visit Emma in her office to discuss whether or not Emma still believes she has synesthesia. Dr. Coolidge tells Emma that she believes she is suffering from hysterical blindness and Emma becomes angry. She asks the doctor if she follows all of her patients like this and Dr. Coolidge says that she only does when the patient is her daughter. Emma becomes even more angry when her mother tells her that the hospital is willing to give her a residency but Emma refuses. Dr. Coolidge tells her that [[Christopher]] died six years ago and that it is time to stop grieving. Angry, Emma tells her that she is not grieving and storms off. Emma leaves the hospital and as she is walking down the street, [[Enhanced synesthesia|her ability]] reactivates and she is overwhelmed by the light that she sees coming from a construction site. She backs away onto the road and is almost hit by a bus, but [[Peter]] [[Super speed|rushes out]] to rescue her. He asks Emma if she is alright and tries to take her hand, but she does not want to talk and runs away.
[[Dr. Coolidge]] comes to visit Emma in her office to discuss whether or not Emma still believes she has synesthesia. Dr. Coolidge tells Emma that she believes she is suffering from hysterical blindness and Emma becomes angry. She asks the doctor if she follows all of her patients like this and Dr. Coolidge says that she only does when the patient is her daughter. Emma becomes even more angry when her mother tells her that the hospital is willing to give her a residency but Emma refuses. Dr. Coolidge tells her that [[Christopher]] died six years ago and that it is time to stop grieving. Angry, Emma tells her that she is not grieving and storms off. Emma leaves the hospital and as she is walking down the street, [[Enhanced synesthesia|her ability]] reactivates and she is overwhelmed by the light that she sees coming from a construction site. She backs away onto the road and is almost hit by a bus, but [[Peter]] [[Super speed|rushes out]] to rescue her. He asks Emma if she is alright and tries to take her hand, but she does not want to talk and runs away.


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===[[Episode:Shadowboxing|Shadowboxing]]===
===[[Episode:Shadowboxing|Shadowboxing]]===
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Emma watches as the hospital is very chaotic after two trains collided. Emma helps a nurse who drops what she is carrying, but the nurse leaves a suture kit behind. She runs into a paramedic who, after learning she works at the hospital, has her keep pressure on a woman's leg wound telling her to tell the next available nurse or doctor that the wound needs to be sutured. Watching the woman, she takes the suture kit, decides to help, and stitches the woman's wound herself. She is watched by a nearby Peter.
Emma watches as the hospital is very chaotic after two trains collided. Emma helps a nurse who drops what she is carrying, but the nurse leaves a suture kit behind. She runs into a paramedic who, after learning she works at the hospital, has her keep pressure on a woman's leg wound telling her to tell the next available nurse or doctor that the wound needs to be sutured. Watching the woman, she takes the suture kit, decides to help, and stitches the woman's wound herself. She is watched by a nearby Peter.


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===[[Episode:Upon This Rock|Upon This Rock]]===
===[[Episode:Upon This Rock|Upon This Rock]]===
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Emma opens her mail and discovers that her application for medical school has been denied, although she is encouraged to apply next year. Emma is disappointed and returns home where she contemplates the mysterious [[cello]] that was left for her. The door bell light flashes and Emma goes to see [[Samuel Sullivan]] waiting for her. He communicates with her through sign language and states that he is like her. Emma believes him to be deaf but Samuel clarifies that he has [[Terrakinesis|an ability]] and that he sent her the cello. Emma is then shown Samuel's [[compass]] [[tattoo]] and sees that it matches a compass engraved onto her cello. Emma invites Samuel in who explains that he [[Empathy|learned]] about [[Enhanced synesthesia|Emma's ability]] from a woman named [[Lydia]]. He goes on to say that the cello was meant for someone special and that it has found its true home. Emma explains that the last time she played she caused a crack in the wall but Samuel explains it was her fear, not the cello. He then asks Emma for her help in finding a man named [[Ian Michaels]]. He explains that Ian can [[Plant control|control plant growth]] and once again asks for her assistance.
 
Samuel and Emma arrive at [[Central Park]] where Samuel explains to Emma that her ability allows her to merge her emotions into her music and draw people in. Emma focuses on Ian and begins to play the cello. As she plays, parkgoers become entranced by the music and gather around her. Eventually, Ian emerges and, after some encouragement from Samuel, forces a tree to blossom, delighting both Emma and Samuel.


==[[Evolved Human]] [[Enhanced synesthesia|Abilities]]==
==[[Evolved Human]] [[Enhanced synesthesia|Abilities]]==
Emma has the ability to [[Enhanced synesthesia|see sound waves as beautiful lights]]. Her power can also shoot out the sound waves as a concussive blast if heavily pressured enough. She demonstrates this by playing her [[cello]] so furiously that a blast of "sound" leaves a scar on the wall. (''[[Hysterical Blindness]]'')
Emma has the ability to [[Enhanced synesthesia|see sound waves as beautiful lights]]. She is able to produce beautiful music from these lights by "merging" her emotions into her power. This causes a sort of entrancement for all those around Emma as they become drawn to her side.
 
Emma has shown that when she feels powerful emotions, such as fear, she is able to force the lights into a concussive blast powerful enough to leave a scar embedded into her apartment wall. (''[[Hysterical Blindness]]'')


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 00:53, 5 January 2010

Emma Coolidge
Portrayed by Deanne Bray
First appearance Ink
In-story stats
Known ability Enhanced synesthesia
Nickname Emma the (also) Magnificent
Gender
Home New York, NY
Residence Apartment in NYC
Occupation Hospital file clerk
Parent Dr. Coolidge
Other relatives Christopher (nephew, deceased)

Dr. Emma Coolidge is a co-worker of Peter Petrelli. She is an evolved human with the ability to see and manipulate sound waves. Emma once attended medical school but dropped out because she was unable to save her nephew Christopher. After saving another child, Emma decides to practice medicine again.

Character History

Ink

Emma's vibration alarm awakens her, prompting her to get ready for work. Before leaving, she pets her cat and puts in iPod ear-buds to keep people from realizing that she is deaf, and then notices an odd twinkling from water dripping from her faucet. She smiles and turns off the water. Later, at work, Emma hands Peter some files that he must sign. She wheels across the room and notices that Peter is talking to her. Accidentally knocking over a mug of tea, she sees a flash of red light as the mug shatters. After Peter leaves, Emma goes to see a doctor and she admits that she has been seeing strange lights. The doctor speculates that she may be experiencing a crossover of senses, a condition known as "synesthesia", and asks her why she is disengaged from her work. Emma tells the doctor that she would prefer not to see those who pity her.

Later that evening, while she is eating a sandwich in the park, Emma watches a cellist playing. She sees the music as flowing red energy and when the cellist leaves, Emma stands and plucks a string, producing more lights. She follows the lights, and plays beautiful music. When she finishes and realizes what she has done, she hands the bow to the cellist and leaves in a hurry.

Hysterical Blindness

Emma shares her lights with Peter.

Dr. Coolidge comes to visit Emma in her office to discuss whether or not Emma still believes she has synesthesia. Dr. Coolidge tells Emma that she believes she is suffering from hysterical blindness and Emma becomes angry. She asks the doctor if she follows all of her patients like this and Dr. Coolidge says that she only does when the patient is her daughter. Emma becomes even more angry when her mother tells her that the hospital is willing to give her a residency but Emma refuses. Dr. Coolidge tells her that Christopher died six years ago and that it is time to stop grieving. Angry, Emma tells her that she is not grieving and storms off. Emma leaves the hospital and as she is walking down the street, her ability reactivates and she is overwhelmed by the light that she sees coming from a construction site. She backs away onto the road and is almost hit by a bus, but Peter rushes out to rescue her. He asks Emma if she is alright and tries to take her hand, but she does not want to talk and runs away.

Peter later finds Emma watching a children's choir. Their song, the theme to The Greatest American Hero, is creating an aurora of colored lights. Thanks to his ability, Peter is able to see the lights as well, which Emma notices. Peter tries to tell Emma that she is not alone in the world and that there are others like them everywhere, but Emma is skeptical when he tells her that flight and teleportation really exist. The two of them sit down at the piano begin to play. They are able to produce beautiful music and Peter offers to take Emma to lunch, suggesting that it would get her out of the file room. Angry, Emma says that she is fine in the file room and leaves. Later, at home, Emma finds a cello next to a large blue container with the Sullivan Bros. Carnival logo printed on it. While playing, she suddenly begins to get very intense, and the lights that she creates generate a blast of light and sound that damages her wall. Emma looks shocked.

Tabula Rasa

Emma rushes to see Peter and demands to know if he sent the cello to her apartment. Peter says that he would like to help her but he is currently trying to save Hiro. He then suggests that Emma go and see Hiro, as he is like them. Emma does go and see Hiro and asks him how she can get her ability to go away. Hiro is confused and tells Emma that when a hero is called, they must answer it. Emma claims that she cannot hear the call and leaves. Hiro follows her and asks her to describe her ability. Emma tells him that she can see sound as light and Hiro explains a little about his ability. He tells Emma that she is special but Emma is not sure he is right about that and leaves.

When Emma returns to her office she finds a notice about the "Amazing Hiro". She goes to the talent show and finds Hiro performing a magic act. He calls Emma his assistant and gets her to help him. He tells the audience that he will make her disappear and then stops time. Emma watches the soundwave lights frozen and as Hiro tells her he stopped time. Hiro reassures her that she can do amazing things with her power and then finishes his magic act. Later, Emma once again plays the piano and creates beautiful music. Hiro appears and smiles, prompting Emma to stop. She tells him that he promised to stay in bed and takes him back to his room. As they walk, Hiro disappears. Peter returns and asks Emma where Hiro is. She explains what happened and the two of them check Hiro's room. They find Hiro's list and the words "Save Charlie".

Shadowboxing

[[image: Emma watches as the hospital is very chaotic after two trains collided. Emma helps a nurse who drops what she is carrying, but the nurse leaves a suture kit behind. She runs into a paramedic who, after learning she works at the hospital, has her keep pressure on a woman's leg wound telling her to tell the next available nurse or doctor that the wound needs to be sutured. Watching the woman, she takes the suture kit, decides to help, and stitches the woman's wound herself. She is watched by a nearby Peter.

Later, she meets up with an exhausted Peter who tells her that using his new ability is exhausting him. Peter asks her how she knew how to stitch the woman's leg and she at first jokes she learned it at clown college before finally telling him she went to medical school, but lies saying she quit, after which Peter heads back to help more patients from the train crash despite it exhausting him. Walking into a storage room, Emma finds an unconscious little girl named Megan who is not breathing and starts CPR while yelling for help. Peter hears her and rushes to her aid and Emma says the girl has a pneumothorax and will not make it to the ER. She has Peter continue CPR while she uses a large needle taken from a nearby shelf to perform a thoracotomy. Her efforts work and Megan starts breathing again and survives.

Later, Emma plays the piano in the hospital lounge and watches the colors it makes. Peter joins her and asks about the picture of a young boy she has on top of the piano and Emma reveals it's her nephew Christopher. She reveals she was babysitting him and got distracted and he drowned. She tried to save him but was unable to, so she gave up on being a doctor and quit medical school. Peter gives her Megan's tiara saying Megan gave him to give to her telling him that only special people deserve it. Peter asks Emma if she's going to return to medical school and she tells him that she couldn't save Christopher but Peter reminds her she saved Megan which seems to cause Emma to start to reconsider. She thanks Peter for saving her life and asks him if he can still see the colors like she can. He tells her he no longer has that ability but they can still play the piano together, to which she agrees.

At home that night, Emma takes her old doctor jacket out of her closet, considers it and walks away with it, having apparently decided to go back to being a doctor.

Thanksgiving

Hiro sees Emma when Damien affects Hiro's memory.

The Fifth Stage

During Samuel's speech, Emma can be seen playing the cello.

Upon This Rock

Emma opens her mail and discovers that her application for medical school has been denied, although she is encouraged to apply next year. Emma is disappointed and returns home where she contemplates the mysterious cello that was left for her. The door bell light flashes and Emma goes to see Samuel Sullivan waiting for her. He communicates with her through sign language and states that he is like her. Emma believes him to be deaf but Samuel clarifies that he has an ability and that he sent her the cello. Emma is then shown Samuel's compass tattoo and sees that it matches a compass engraved onto her cello. Emma invites Samuel in who explains that he learned about Emma's ability from a woman named Lydia. He goes on to say that the cello was meant for someone special and that it has found its true home. Emma explains that the last time she played she caused a crack in the wall but Samuel explains it was her fear, not the cello. He then asks Emma for her help in finding a man named Ian Michaels. He explains that Ian can control plant growth and once again asks for her assistance.

Samuel and Emma arrive at Central Park where Samuel explains to Emma that her ability allows her to merge her emotions into her music and draw people in. Emma focuses on Ian and begins to play the cello. As she plays, parkgoers become entranced by the music and gather around her. Eventually, Ian emerges and, after some encouragement from Samuel, forces a tree to blossom, delighting both Emma and Samuel.

Evolved Human Abilities

Emma has the ability to see sound waves as beautiful lights. She is able to produce beautiful music from these lights by "merging" her emotions into her power. This causes a sort of entrancement for all those around Emma as they become drawn to her side.

Emma has shown that when she feels powerful emotions, such as fear, she is able to force the lights into a concussive blast powerful enough to leave a scar embedded into her apartment wall. (Hysterical Blindness)

Notes

  • Dr. Coolidge tells Emma that she could be treating patients instead of filing papers (Ink). Emma actually has a degree in biomedicine from Arlington University and she used to be a resident at Mercy Heights, but quit after the death of her young nephew Christopher who drowned while she was babysitting him and was unable to revive him. She had been about to start her second year of residency. With some encouragement from Peter after saving the life of a little girl named Megan, she has apparently changed her mind.
  • According to the casting call, Emma is 25 to 28 years old, "attractive, smart, and sensitive."
  • Emma has at least one sibling.

Fan Theories

Please refer to Theory:Emma Coolidge for fan-created theories and other speculation.

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