Although, threatening with suicide after you've just discovered that the man your brother presumably loved and admired most committed suicide and attempted it several times before is pretty far out, and it is very emotionally manipulative, which is clearly something he got from his mother.
It's pretty far out, but one has to remember the episode starts with Nathan telling Peter the flying thing did not happen and that Peter jumped. "The rest is just crazy talk." Depending on how one reads the scene, this is either Nathan saying "you tried to commit suicide and were hallucinating" (which is pretty out there as well), or saying "we're not talking about what happened, okay? This is the official story, and I refuse to discuss anything else with you". Either way, it gives Peter a motive for believing he has to push Nathan in a major way before Nathan comes clean with what happened that morning.
Which in turn would be a sign that he is somewhat aware that she is manipulative, after all.
Hm, I think to some degree, he is, which is also why Peter at no point attempts to tell her just about anything that's going on with him - from flying dreams to Simone to saving the cheerleader and the world to the awareness he could explode - but not completely. For example, he takes her at face value in the police station, obviously, and thinks he has to comfort her about Nathan's rudeness (though stops and switches to defending Nathan as soon as Angela takes that as an opening for her, err, analysis of the family situation).
Re: part 2
It's pretty far out, but one has to remember the episode starts with Nathan telling Peter the flying thing did not happen and that Peter jumped. "The rest is just crazy talk." Depending on how one reads the scene, this is either Nathan saying "you tried to commit suicide and were hallucinating" (which is pretty out there as well), or saying "we're not talking about what happened, okay? This is the official story, and I refuse to discuss anything else with you". Either way, it gives Peter a motive for believing he has to push Nathan in a major way before Nathan comes clean with what happened that morning.
Which in turn would be a sign that he is somewhat aware that she is manipulative, after all.
Hm, I think to some degree, he is, which is also why Peter at no point attempts to tell her just about anything that's going on with him - from flying dreams to Simone to saving the cheerleader and the world to the awareness he could explode - but not completely. For example, he takes her at face value in the police station, obviously, and thinks he has to comfort her about Nathan's rudeness (though stops and switches to defending Nathan as soon as Angela takes that as an opening for her, err, analysis of the family situation).