Molly Walker: She'd Be the World's Greatest Bounty Hunter

[MarkHB]

Played by Adair Tishler (Heroes, S1-3), Francesca Eastwood (Heroes Reborn)
 
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Wikipedia Entry.

 

Extraordinary Ability: Can locate any person, anywhere, just by thinking about them.  Usually needs a photo to locate a stranger.
 
Character bio: Molly first appeared in the unaired pilot, in scenes which became part of S1 E2, "Don't Look Back."  Her parents were frozen and killed in one of Sylar's earliest attacks, in the scene which first showed us a body from which Sylar had opened the skull and removed the brain.  Molly was found hiding under the stairs, and was rescued by Officer Matt Parkman.
 
At the end of S1, she was found to be at the heart of The Company's "Walker System" for locating persons with abilities, and her power was revealed. My personal favorite memory of her was when she was being rescued from Linderman's building in New York by Niki, D.L. and Micah, and her face lit up when she saw Micah use his power to talk to an elevator, igniting hopes of an eventual "Teen Titans" arc that never materialized (except in the online comics).
 
In Season 2, she was living with Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh, and at the beginning of S3 she was sent away, later shown in the comics to have been sent to Mohinder's mother in India for safety.
 
At the beginning of Heroes Reborn, she is an adult who appears to be surviving as a fugitive petty grifter.
 
MOD NOTE: Adair Tishler, the actress from the original series, is currently living a private life far from Los Angeles and does not appear to be in the entertainment industry at this time.  Unless she does something that merits actual news coverage, discussion of her current life will be considered off limits and deleted.

[Tryangle]

Does the time passage match up with what we'd expect an older Molly Walker to be? I'd have thought she'd have been younger than how she looks, but I suppose she could still be a teenager here.

[scarynikki12]

The first thing I always think of when I think of Molly was when she revealed that she can find anyone, except one man because, "he can see me".  That still scares the shit out of me.  I've since blocked most of the post-season 1 stuff from memory so I can't remember if we ever found out who that man was.  I feel like we did (season 2 maybe?) but I just can't remember.

[MarkHB]

The Nightmare Man, the man Molly couldn't (or didn't dare) see, was Matt Parkman's father Maury, played by Alan Blumenfeld.  Unfortunately, he didn't really get to be the "big bad" of Season 2... that role went to the virus.

[MarkHB]

Does the time passage match up with what we'd expect an older Molly Walker to be? I'd have thought she'd have been younger than how she looks, but I suppose she could still be a teenager here.

 

The new actress is 3 years older and 5 inches taller than the original, so I would say she's been SORAS'd a bit.

[caprice]

 MOD NOTE: Adair Tishler, the actress from the original series, is currently living a private life far from Los Angeles and does not appear to be in the entertainment industry at this time.  Unless she does something that merits actual news coverage, discussion of her current life will be considered off limits and deleted.

You so totally rock.

[shapeshifter]

Thanks for this thread's info. I couldn't remember what Molly's relationship was to Matt P. So I guess she lived with him and Mohinder before Mohinder's reenactment of Jeff Goldblum's The Fly, right?

The new actress is 3 years older and 5 inches taller than the original, so I would say she's been SORAS'd a bit.

That helps too. I was wondering if she was Hiro's wife back from the dead, un-aged.

[Spiderella2]

They could have used her storyline a lot better. What a waste.

[bagert]

They could have used her storyline a lot better. What a waste.

 

Molly's story is not over yet - Francesca Eastwood is listed on the guest cast of the press release for each of the June 13th Odessa episodes.  With Hiro and HRG trying to change the past, who knows what might happen?

Edited October 27, 2015 by bagert

[jhlipton]

If Hiro and HRG change the past, the past 6 episodes will be totally meaningless.  I'd feel robbed if every single hour had been wasted.

[MarkHB]

I will say that, in the first flashback episode, Molly seemed a lot more like the original than "Sexy Grifter Molly" did.  It was also good seeing her meet up with Mohinder, however briefly.