#andre simpson

Andre is pretty basic in that regard... he wants, no, needs to be a strong man for his son, and he gets to be. Literally.

Rodney needs things to go fast. He's running out of time and out of patience for making enough money so he can provide for himself, his mother and probably also his sister. He's also running himself ragged doing it. (It's not a realistic wish, but it does appear to be a genuine one). Everything needs to move faster. So now he does. (Looking at it this way -- this kid is young. My initial estimate of 22 may be overestimating it)

Sabrina has her hands full all day, taking care of her patients and her sister. She's putting in lots of overtime and doing a lot of extra work. She could use an extra pair of hands. Or just not needing to use her hands to lift her load at all.

Now, Michael... he's actually a bit harder to explain in this kind of logic, especially because he activates before that great time-jump.

If the time jump had been his first activation, I might have said that at that exact moment, he's at the happiest he's ever been and he'd want freeze time there, to preserve that moment forever. But he activates a few hours before that, when he's still anticipating that perfect moment.

But maybe that's enough. Maybe he's anticipating it so strongly... and then he gets stabbed. Can't let that happen. So he gets to turn back time.

What that doesn't explain is why he also gets teleportation along with the time-travel. Yes, yes, space-time is one thing, Time and Relative Dimension in Space; I don't have a TARDIS as my profile pic for nothing. But that's a different show and it's not even on Netflix. :D

And the time-freezing is actually even weirder. Because it's highly localised. We see other people watch Michael move around the frozen people on cameras. If he'd really frozen space-time nobody but Michael and/or whoever he brought along should even know anything happened. I think this is also how Michael's power is different from Hiro Nakamura's. Hiro could freeze time entirely IIRC.

In a fully frozen-time world, Michael moving around while nothing else is could look like teleportation without being it. But no, he's actually teleporting, not freezing the world while he takes a walk.