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But there was the question of why Sylar would lie to protect Peter. He didn't. Nathan did that before Sylar killed him. By the time Sylar took Nathan's position (sometime during the war that was mentioned several times), Peter was already safe.
A coworker said the same thing. Peter specifically said Sylar though, and at that point even he didn't know that Nathan was really Sylar.
I have three theories on why Sylar protected Peter.
1. To protect himself. It was safer letting everyone else think he was dead. Though I bet it irritated him that his name was villified.
2. In order to get some time to gain powers that would let him defeat Peter, i.e. Claire. This is probably why he was ok with killing all of the others with special powers as well, he wanted to be the only one
3. If he did go after Peter, he'd blow his cover. He said Nathan had already turned against his kind when he killed him. That means the whole lie was already in place and if he had killed Peter, people would know he was lying about being Nathan. Or if he exposed Peter as the real bomb.
Those three, especially the first, make a lot of sense. Thanks
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