"I blacked out and when I woke up... everything started dying."

First Appearance: #1.7 "Seven Minutes to Midnight"

Location: Los Angeles, CA; Current whereabouts unknown

Profession: Medical Equipment Salesman

Known Relatives/Associates: Karen Sprague (wife, deceased)

Powers: Ted has the power to release radiation from his body. It seems to go out of his control when his mood changes and has been shown to boil a glass of water just by holding it as well as burning a man to the bone.

Character Biography: Theodore Sprague was once a man who loved his wife, Karen, with with all his heart. After finding out she had cancer he began to blame himself for her condition due to his power to emit radiation. His downward spiral eventually led Ted to lose his temper and accidentally kill his wife's oncologist, Dr. Robert Fresco, when he told Ted there was nothing he could do to save his wife.

This incident put FBI Agent Audrey Hanson and her partner Matt Parkman on his trail, believing him to be the serial killer known as Sylar. After exploring his house which was badly damaged and giving off high radiation levels Audrey and Matt track Ted down to his wife's hospital room. There Ted confesses that he had in fact killed the doctor and states his reason. When they try to apprehend him, Ted grabs the nurse that had been caring for his wife and says that he'll let her go if they allow him to stay with his wife. Matt eventually defuses the situation by using his power to read Karen's mind, at first convinced that it was just a ploy by the agents Ted let's the nurse go when Matt reveals to him a nick name his wife called him, Teddy Bear. He let's the nurse go, leaving a burn where his hand had been holding her and holds his wife's hand as Matt relays to him her final thoughts. Karen dies shortly after, letting Ted know, through Matt how much she loved him. Ted then surrenders himself into custody.

At the FBI office Audrey and Matt begin to interrogate Ted on the recent events that led up to everything. Ted begins to tell Matt, through his thoughts, that he had blacked out and when he woke up things started changing. He then reveals to Matt two marks on the curve of his neck, marks that Matt also possessed. He then relays his story that while in Kansas he blacked out and woke up two days later in Arizona, with cuts and bruises all over his body, afterwards his powers started materializing themselves.

Matt and Ted begin discussing having shared a similar experience after seeing a Haitian. Before they can delve any deeper the Department of Homeland Security comes to take Ted believing him to be a terrorist. As he's being taken away, Ted looks at Matt and tells him to "find the Haitian."

Later that evening Audrey calls Matt to inform him that Ted had escaped, leaving the car that had been transporting him in flames.

Featured Episodes: #1.7 "Nothing To Hide"; #1.8 "Seven Minutes To Midnight"; #1.12 "Godsend"

Actor Biography: Chicago native Matthew John Armstrong began his television acting career playing Joey Turk in the short lived series Turks. Since then he has paved a wide path for himself appearing in episodes of The Shield, Crossing Jordan, the revival of the classic TV series Dragnet, House as well as a recurring role on American Dreams, before ending up on Heroes as their own resident Radioactive Man. Up and atom!

Profile Contributors: stept

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