For most audience members, that's a migraine right there.

Considering the problems they still have with the three timelines of 5YG, you're probably right.

For her, talking through her pain helps he works through her feelings (being that she is a functional human being). For him, it just dredges up memories and pain and he care barely handle repressing, let alone dwelling on it.

And that would be yet another reason why it's a good thing Claire was raised as a Bennet.*g* But yes. And I love that the phone call means they're actually going to have a relationship this season, so very much.

I think that, all along, it hasn't so much been that Nathan lacks a moral center, as that he has no confidence in it.

Probably true, and I think his arc for the first half of the season will be to develop that, being forced to live both without Peter and without his old agendas. And to find out what his belief system actually is.

Very probably someone that the Company got it's paws on, too. Maybe Claire's new boyfriend?

He'd have to be able to fly from the West Coast to the East Coast rather quickly then, even counting the sonic thing. Otoh, this is the show where Hiro sits down in Vegas and meets Nathan about what looks an hour later despite the fact Nathan in the previous scene was still in New York....

But I like the idea of Nathan as a red herring and someone else dreamwalk-controlled as the assassin, too. Though again, I point out to Kaito recognizing the person on a very personal level, which I don't think would fit either Nathan or West or a mind-controlled random guy.