"I thought everybody could hear her. You guys couldn't hear her?"

First Appearance: #1.2 "Don't Look Back"

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Cop

Known Relatives/Associates: Janice Parkman (wife), Audrey Hanson (FBI liaison)

Powers: Telepathy; presumably limited to reading minds only.

Character Biography: Matt Parkman is a police officer with the LAPD and has recently worked with the FBI in tracking down a serial killer known as Sylar. He has taken the test to become a full-fledged Detective multiple times but cannot pass due to his dyslexia.

Parkman first took note of his power while at a crime scene. He began hearing a little girl and followed the sound into the house. At the time he had no idea he was the only one that couldn’t hear her. His discovery seemed very suspicious, and he was subsequently questioned and arrested by FBI Agent Audrey Hanson.

During questioning, he tried explaining that he could hear other people’s thoughts. Agent Hanson was unbelieving until Parkman proved it by revealing her innermost thoughts and insecurities. Agent Hanson had no choice but to believe him and decided to use him to help with the Sylar case. While visiting the little girl Matt had saved, they discover that Sylar is after her. The man escaped and the girl was unharmed. Matt comes home to his angry wife Janice, whom he had stood up at their latest counseling session. He begins hearing her thoughts and storms out when she wants him to leave.

Matt is drinking at the bar, listening to people’s thoughts when he comes across a mysterious Haitian man whose mind he cannot read. He then passes out, presumably having been drugged. He awakes to a man in Horn-rimmed glasses staring over him. He explains to Matt that he won’t remember any of this and then tells the Haitian to erase his memory. Matt wakes up the next day to his frantic wife, who had been worried sick about him. He makes it up to her by giving her the entire day off and reading her every thought.

Matt eventually decides to approach his wife about his ability to read minds, but she begins worrying if he had found about something she did. Her thoughts put him off from telling her about his power. Instead, Matt and Audrey begin tracking down a lead on Sylar after a body was found severely burnt, even leaving a fingerprint in the corpse’s bones. They do not find Sylar, but instead a man named Theodore Sprague. After hospitalizing his wife from his uncontrollable radioactivity, he accidentally killed the doctor with his power. At the hospital, Matt calms Sprague by communicating his wife’s dying thoughts to him. They take Sprague into custody and begin questioning him, where he reveals that he woke up one day with his powers. Matt realizes they were in very much the same situation, and that the Haitian man present before both of their abductions must have something to do with it.

Audrey is upset when she finds out that Matt was suspended for punching his ex-partner, but he had only done it after finding out his partner was having an affair with his wife. Parkman confronts his wife about this and she admits to it, but it is unclear where their marriage stands.

Back on the job, Audrey and Matt tackle a case in Odessa, TX. They could tell from the scene that this was Sylar, but they could also tell that something had gone wrong. At the local police department, Audrey and Matt interrogate Peter Petrelli; however, Matt is not able to read his mind when Peter’s power of mimicry creates odd feedback. Audrey also questions Claire Bennet, who is present with her father. Matt is also unsuccessful in getting anything out of Claire, and describes it to Audrey as the same thing that happened with the Haitian man at the bar. After a stakeout, Audrey and Matt confirm that Mr. Bennet is somehow involved with the Haitian man, but the only word Matt can pick up in is “Sylar.”

Going on a hunch, Hanson and Parkman stake out Primatech Paper, to ultimately find nothing. Their credibility is put on the line and the partnership may now be over.

Matt Parkman's personal life may be improving, however, as he has revealed the truth about himself to his wife, Janice.

Featured Episodes: #1.2 "Don't Look Back"; #1.3 "One Giant Leap"; #1.4 "Collision"; #1.5 "Hiros"; #1.7 "Nothing To Hide"; #1.8 "Seven Minutes To Midnight"; #1.10 "Six Months Ago"; #1.11 "Fallout"; #1.12 "Godsend"

Actor Biography: Greg Grunberg has always been a fan favorite from his roles in several productions created by his friend, J.J. Abrams. These roles included stints on Felicity and Alias and an appearance as the doomed pilot on Lost. He also starred in the never-aired but extremely good sitcom The Jake Effect.

Grunberg is also actively involved in the Pediatric Epilepsy Project. For more information on that, visit our Real Heroes page.

Profile Contributors: Craig Byrne, Jonathan Woollard

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