
She asks Ted how he's able to do what he does. Audrey tells him that they need him to answer a few more questions. Theodore complains that they won't let him go to his wife's funeral. Ted is sitting alone in an interrogation room when Matt Parkman and Audrey Hanson come in. They are identical to marks Matt discovers on his own neck. Later, as he is being processed by the police, two small marks are apparent on his neck. After a last reminiscence, Karen dies, and Ted agrees to go peaceably with Audrey for questioning. Ted releases the nurse, whose arm is covered in radiation burns. Matt uses his telepathic abilities to calm Ted by relaying messages from a comatose Karen. He grabs a nurse and holds her hostage, and tells them that he doesn't know what will happen if they shoot him. Fresco when they argued about Karen's prognosis, and only resists when Matt and Audrey try to take him away from his wife's bedside. He readily admits to accidentally killing Dr. He and Audrey travel to Karen's hospital, where they encounter Ted watching vigil at his dying wife's bedside. Matt finds a chemotherapy prescription belonging to Karen Sprague and issued by Dr. Matt and Audrey investigate the house and find signs of severe radiation damage throughout: photographs have the faces singed out, there are burns on the keyboard of a computer and around a doorknob, and nearly everything in the bedroom, where the radiation count is highest, is burned and melted into scrap. He was an evolved human who had the ability to emit radiation from his body. The specifics of his childhood are unknown.

Ted Sprague was the son of Mindy Sprague (father unknown).

Born with a superpower to emit radioactivity, Ted Sprague went on the run, trying not to hurt people with his power.
