- Tess Doerner
The 4400 character
name = Tess Doerner
caption = Summer Glau as Tess Doerner
portrayer =Summer Glau
first = "Wake Up Call"
disappeared =April 3 ,1955
abilities = Mind controlTess Doerner is a fictional character on the
USA Network science fiction television series "The 4400 ", played bySummer Glau .Character
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Tess is first seen in the second season premiere episode "Wake Up Call", a paranoid
schizophrenic living in apsychiatric hospital . She has mentally taken control of the patients and staff at the hospital to undertake a task of building an unknown structure. Once completed, an attempt at powering up this unknown device seems to fail, until Tess's friend and protectorKevin Burkhoff speaks for the first time in many years; he has been "woken up" by the device and is revealed to be the probable "father" of 4400 technology.eason Three
Tess is later seen in the episode "The Ballad of Kevin and Tess", when Tom Baldwin and
Diana Skouris are looking for Kevin. Tess claims not to have seen him; however, secretly she is keeping Kevin at her house, as he has mutated due to hispromicin experiments. Tess has also been instructing Diana to come to her house using her abilities so that Kevin could inject her with promicin. After the events that follow, Kevin and Tess run off.In the episode "Terrible Swift Sword",
Jordan Collier receives help from 4400s with the ability to trace people to track Kevin and Tess and discovers where they are hiding; he then goes to visit them and enlists them in his plan to stealDennis Ryland 's stores of promicin.She uses her ability to prevent
Richard Tyler from destroying the entire supply of stolen promicin in the third season finale "Fifty-Fifty ".eason Four
In the fourth season premiere, Tess suffers a relapse into schizophrenia and begins "seeing" dead people. In the episode "Daddy's Little Girl," Tess's schizophrenia is finally cured by
Shawn Farrell .External links
* [http://www.usanetwork.com/series/the4400/theshow/characterprofiles/tess Tess Doerner's profile] at the official 4400 website provided by
USA Network .
* [http://www.the4400wiki.org/Tess_Doerner Tess Doerner] at the 4400 wiki.
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