The theme is that the heroes have these latent abilities that all emerge about the same time to avert some kind of apocalypse. Each hero goes through a crisis when he or she discovers their talent. In this case this, man who was low-ranking police officer, suddenly discovered that he could read people's thoughts.
The interesting part is that his wife started to cheat on him, largely did so because of his low self-esteeem. He kept beating himself up about his career failures and it turned her off. She ended up hooking up with a strong self-confident, successful man.
This theme repeats itself a lot in men's relationship manuals (Daeda and Cunningham).
