[AlexM]

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Peter can heal himself though. Syler can't.

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my groundless theory on this is that since sylar's power is "see how things work", once he met peter he "saw how he worked" and didn't need to kill to gain powers anymore.

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If that were true, he wouldn't have needed to kill people in the first place.