Even though she's smart, I think she may be naive enough to think she can get a job at the lab without taking Adam's job specifically. She did say she'd do ANYTHING including janitorial duties just to get a foot in the door so she can prove herself. I can see why Adam felt threatened by her, but I don't think she meant to be threatening.
While I was watching the current episode, I thought back to her initial appearance and
Smallville. We've already established that Sarah Carter worked on Smallville, but what's really interesting is that on
Smallville, there's a character named Chloe Sullivan who--while not exactly like Haylen--has some of the same traits.
Both would do what others might consider "menial" tasks. Chloe mentions that she'd rather serving coffee at the
Daily Planet rather than reporting for the
Inqusitor (a tabloid). Cleaning test tubes for Haylen.
They both show an early interest in the fields they want to work in. As a little girl Chloe writes articles for her own newspaper. For Haylen, it's the cat poisoning.
Both tried to get hired, don't and then get the job because of their aggressive natures. Chloe doesn't get an internship (long story, lots of baggage), but she gets hired in a basement level position by finding a story and turning it in. Hayeln gets the grant.
And they're both blonde. Well, Chloe is actually not a natural blonde, but who cares?
I wonder if someone on the staff likes
Smallville but hates the character assassination that's been going on with Chloe the last couple of seasons. If so, they they could have hired Sarah Carter because she's from
Smallville and think it's a nice easter egg.
This may sound weird. But I remember reading about some
Heroes writers who were fans of Clark/Chloe, so they set up Claire (a blonde) with a guy who flies and looks kind of like Clark Kent. However, I believe the storyline was aborted because of the Writer's Strike.
And if Haylen's big secret is an identity change...
I see her as being a love interest for Adam down the road, given what I know about the series (Danny/Linsday plot) that would be a bad idea.
I don't think she will. Based on interviews (and the past two seasons), it looks like they're setting up a relationship between Stella and Adam. Of course, Haylen showing an interest in Adam could be one of the reasons it gets "complicated" (per Melina's interviews).
i didn't like the characters introduction to the show. i think her showing Adam up was a bad way to bring her, there are many Adam fans (including me) that were upset with the whole thing going on with them and did not put the new character in a good light (but i do agree that Adam was a bit pissy. he did make a mistake and could not get over it).
He
didn't make a mistake. And I think most people would get defensive in his position. When I originally saw the scene and heard that someone might be accusing Adam of not doing his job, I thought, "Huh?! This is Adam. Who is this person?" Which are probably the kind of thoughts he had. He is an ultra-thorough lab tech with an implied history of OCD. She is someone who he didn't know, so it was reasonable to assume that she didn't know him and didn't know how thorough he is. But it just turns out that the fingerprint appeared because he was doing his job and was really noticeable because he had been so thorough. The only "mistake" was not going back to the elevator later in the day, but there had been no reason to do so until the fingerprint appeared and Haylen found it.
Anyway, if Mac or Stella had been the one to say that there was unrecovered evidence, I think he would have treated the statement with less disbelief because he knows them and he knows that they know how he works. And earlier in the conference room when he says that he didn't find anything, Danny says, "Fire him, Mac. The kid's slacking off." He doesn't get defensive then because he knows it's a joke. And everyone gets a chuckle or a smile because they know just how anal Adam is about his job.
