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First he wanted to build a super-powered army to do good in the world, in the sense that sending a bunch of super-powered Marines around to police the world in the name of American interests would be "good". Now, he's devoting himself toward imprisoning every single person he knows has superpowers... even though most of them are devoted toward doing good.

* I can see a case for Nathan concluding - after three weeks of thought on the matter - that since his plans were monkey-wrenched by three super-powered criminals and his [[Badass Normal]] brother - who is now, once again, potentially the most powerful person on the planet - that the dangers of superpowers far outweigh the other evils in the world he wants to correct and that the only solution is locking up everyone he knows could be a threat to his own efforts to save the world.

* Slightly justified: Nathan tells Simone in S1 that his strategy would be to round every super up and put them in camps if it were up to him. Further, Sylar (though he may have been lying) tells Peter that Nathan had already turned against his own kind by the time he was killed. It could be that S3 was him wanting to avoid that by siding with his father (how are you going to lock everyone up?) and once Peter destroyed that avenue, he decided to go back to his original plan out of spite.

 

== Nathan took his soldiers to task for trying to capture Sylar and not killing him. Given that he's going out of his way to spare Claire, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? ==

Granting that he's not quite enough of a bad guy to kill his own daughter, you'd think he'd realize that Claire can't be bribed, threatened or silenced by now. Bribery and emotional appeals didn't work in the first season when he and Angela offered her the blood family she always wanted. As Claire herself pointed out (in a scene I did enjoy), Nathan has nothing to threaten her with. Physically, she's immune to torture and most if not all of her loved ones (we haven't seen Sandra or Lyle so far this season - could they have been killed in the last three months?) are either already imprisoned or signed-on with Nathan's team. And ironically the only thing that saves Nathan from Claire going to the press and blowing the lid off of the whole "government kidnapping innocent people" scandal in the making is Claire's unwillingness to stand idly by while her uncle and allies are being sent God Knows Where, where God Knows What might happen.

** My point is that Nathan dresses his men down for trying to take Sylar alive because he is an enemy that can't be subdued or negotiated with. And yet Nathan is blind to the fact that Claire is just as much of a threat to his plans as Sylar. She isn't a killer but he knew her well enough to try and hide his plans from her, knowing that her first reaction would be to play Paul Revere and tip off all the other Heroes she knew how to contact.

** And after ''Nathan's Nazis'' take Claire when they take Matt Parkman and he finds out that - sure enough - Claire tried to do what he was afraid she would, what is his reaction? Get rid of whatever they're pumping her with that's keeping her subdued, stick her in a car and tell her to just forget she saw anything. Even after Claire points out that there's not a damn thing he can do to stop her from telling the world The Truth if she's allowed to go free, Nathan avoids doing the smart thing, which is to either throw Claire on the plane with everyone else or shoot her in the back of the head.

 

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