Matt looked back and forth between Sylar and Peter and realized that Sylar must have pulled Peter away from the mist in the doorway even though that would have been nearly impossible with his current body mass. Matt watched Mohinder grab Sylar and yell at him, but before Sylar could respond, Matt yelled at Mohinder, "Check Peter for Christ sake. Don't you care if he's okay?"
Noah rolled his eyes and said, "He heals, of course he's okay."
Noah knew that if Sylar had any powers he would have used them already, so he put his taser away, and got a bottle of chloroform and a clean rag out of his suit jacket. As he was pouring some of the chloroform on the rag he said, "Welcome back to the company Sylar."
Sylar pulled away viciously as he screamed out, "NO!"
Mohinder grinned down at him with great satisfaction as he held him fast by both arms as Noah wrapped the cloth around his mouth and he breathed the burning fumes in sputtering and jerking in a desperate attempt to get away. Within moments, Sylar's vision began to blur and the world went black.
Noah tossed the rag on the floor and said to both Matt and Mohinder. "Load him up in the back of the car while I debrief my agent."
Matt looked over at Peter and said, "What about Peter?"
Noah shrugged, "What about him. Leave him here, he'll be fine."
"Leave him here?" Matt didn't like the sound of that at all. In fact this whole thing just seemed less and less right as each moment went by.
Noah tried to be patient and spoke to Matt slowly, "He's more of a threat to us out in the open like this then the other way around."
Seeing that Matt probably wasn't going to be all that helpful Noah said to Mohinder, "Put Sylar in the car please. I'll meet you out there."
Mohinder scooped the limp form up and over his shoulder. As he turned to leave, he saw Matt still staring off worriedly at Peter. He grabbed a hold of his shoulder with his free hand and stated, "Snap out of it; this is for the best… besides, Peter never saw us coming. We got Sylar; it's over now."
Matt tried to shake himself out of it and nodded at Mohinder. Matt tried to think about all those months of searching for Sylar and looking at the bodies of the people he'd killed. "Yeah, I know you're right, Sylar needs to be locked away.... I just hated going behind Peter's back."
Matt followed Mohinder out to Noah's car, where Mohinder put Sylar in the back and sat next to him. Matt sat in the passenger seat and they waited for Noah.
Noah spoke with his fellow agents and gave them instructions for making sure there had been no witnesses, and to get out fast before Peter woke. A few minutes later he arrived at the car and headed them all to a holding facility that the company owned in upstate New York.
A very short time later Noah was carrying Sylar through the building with Matt and Mohinder in tow. Noah got Sylar into a cell and shut the door behind him. The three men looked at Sylar behind the glass. Matt said, "What now?"
Noah said, "I'd like both of you to stay here until he wakes up." Noah looked at Matt and said, "You can stay out of his line of sight and read his thoughts to make sure he's telling us the truth." He turned to Mohnider and said, "And you can take some blood samples to make sure your serum is working and his powers are gone for good."
Mohinder nodded moving into action to get the supplies he needed to extract some blood samples. It didn't take long for Mohinder to extract a few test tubes worth, and as he did so, he couldn't help feeling a small pang of guilt for going behind Peter's back, but he justified to himself that they really had done the right thing. Peter was better off, they all were better off. Mohinder took his samples and headed up to the lab facilities the Company had provided promising answers within a few hours' time.
When Sylar awoke, his head felt as if it were stuffed with cotton and from the dampness in the air and the cool chill given from the metal sheet he was laying on, it left him with no doubt that he had been locked away in some secured facility of the Company to rot. It wasn't until he let his eyes flutter open did he see Noah watching him. He was tied down to the gurney, so the only movement he could manage was to lift his head off the table and scowl at the man in front of him as he spat, "Congratulations the big bad Company took down a man in a seven year olds body with no powers; this must be a proud day for you."
Taking no notice of Sylar's comment, Noah started the questioning. "Tell me how your body changed from a twenty nine year old man, into a seven year old boy."
Sylar's mind traveled back to how this all came to be, and the first feeling that came over him was shame at what he had been. He let his head lower back down onto the table as he stared up at the ceiling thinking, 'It was an act of God…a leash to cage the demon I'd let loose upon the world. Maybe there still is a bit of mercy out there even for someone like me.' He didn't feel like explaining how it had happened, and he certainly didn't want to appease Noah of all people, so instead he elicited to say nothing at all.
Matt was standing just out of sight, listening in to Sylar's thoughts, and was amazed by what he heard.
Noah's cheek twitched in irritation when he heard nothing but silence from Sylar. He said calmly, "I'm sure if you're not up for a conversation, we can give you something to loosen up your tongue. Let's try again. We know you've been living with Peter Petrelli for the past two weeks. You hate him, so why did you stay with him that whole time?
Sylar's eyebrows knitted together in frustration at Noah's threat as he spat, "Why do you care? You've got me here now, what does it matter why I stayed?" He thought, 'Someone like Peter is a hard man to keep hating... he's one of the few people who actually wanted to believe I could be something better... not to mention he spanks pretty damn hard, so running away was just not a good option!'
Matt's jaw dropped open at that one, and he just had trouble believing it. It seemed so wrong. Sylar wasn't actually a kid; he was an adult. But the more Matt thought about Peter, and what he was trying to accomplish by keeping Sylar, the more it made sense. And it had obviously been working, because the last time he'd read Sylar's thoughts, they'd been murderous, and now he seemed to have some respect for Peter.
Noah smiled and said, "It matters because we keep tabs on all of you, not just those of you who cause chaos and destruction. Did Peter tell you how his ability works? Have you seen him use his powers?"
Noah thought, 'That's something the Haitian will need to remove. If we don't wipe out all of his memories that is.'
Matt felt kind of sick as he listened in on Noah's thoughts, and wished he hadn't agreed to this without checking in on Peter to see how things were going first.
Sylar growled in agitation, "Tabs? This what your definition of keeping tabs is? You've got some audacity! All of you people think you know what's right when you're just as bad as the people you lock away. I'm not answering any more of your questions, so you can just take a flying leap." He thought, 'This is what I really deserve; I'm a monster. I have no right to be happy, but I sure as hell am not going to drag Peter under the bus with me.'
Noah was calm as he said, "I didn't think you'd actually talk willingly. Lucky for me, you don't have to be willing. I'll be back."
Noah walked away, and Matt who was still hidden from Sylar's view followed. Once they were far enough away, Noah said, "What was he thinking?"
Matt wasn't sure he really wanted to give Noah any information, finding himself trusting the man less and less as he got to know him. He said, "When you asked him about how he got changed into a child, he didn't think about the woman who changed him. He thought that it was the work of God helping to stop a monster. When you asked him why he stayed with Peter he was thinking that he stayed because Peter was the only one who believed he could change. And he doesn't want to repay Peter by giving you information on him."
After a pause Matt said, "His thoughts are very different now then they were when we first found and captured him. He's changed for the better."
Noah sighed and said, "He must have known you were there."
"I don't think so."
Noah shook his head and ignored Matt. He said, "Well let's take a break and see what Mohinder comes up with. Then we'll see if we can get Sylar to talk."
