Tess Doerner
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| Tess Doerner | |
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 Summer Glau as Tess Doerner |
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| First appearance | "Wake Up Call" |
| Statistics | |
| Gender | Female |
| Abilities | Mind control |
| Disappeared | April 3, 1955 |
| Portrayed by | Summer Glau |
Tess Doerner is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.
Tess was first seen in the second season premiere "Wake Up Call," a paranoid schizophrenic living in a psychiatric hospital. She had 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 seemed to have failed, until Tess's friend and protector Kevin Burkhoff spoke for the first time in numerous years; he had been "woken up" by the device and was revealed to be the probable "father" of 4400 technology.
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 his promicin experiments. Tess had also been instructing Diana to come to her house using her abilities so that Kevin could inject her with promicin. After the events that followed, Kevin and Tess run off.
In the episode "Terrible Swift Sword," Jordan Collier gets the help of some 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 steal Dennis Ryland's stores of promicin.
In "Fifty Fifty," she uses her ability to prevent Richard Tyler from destroying the entire supply of stolen promicin.
| The 4400 | |||
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| 4400 Returnees | NTAC Agents | ||
| Richard Tyler | Lily Tyler | Shawn Farrell | Jordan Collier Alana Mareva | Maia Skouris | Tess Doerner |
Tom Baldwin | Diana Skouris | Dennis Ryland Nina Jarvis | Marco Pacella |
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| Other Characters | General | ||
| Kyle Baldwin | Kevin Burkhoff | Isabelle Tyler Minor Characters | Recurring Characters |
Episodes | Promicin | Official Website | Quotes Haspel Corp | 4400 Center | Highland Beach |
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