 However, Sendhil Ramamurthy's audition was so convincing that the main character part was rewritten to be a younger geneticist following in his father's footsteps.The concept of the older geneticist was spun off into the minor, yet central, character of Chandra Suresh.After hearing news of his father's death in New York, Mohinder suspects that his father was murdered to silence the findings of his genetics research.