Richard Tyler
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| Richard Tyler | |
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| Name | Richard Tyler |
| Born | September 18, 1922 |
| Age | 32 |
| Occupation | Supporter of the Promicin Movement |
| Introduced | Pilot |
| Abducted | May 11, 1951 — Sinanju, Korea |
| Ability | Telekinesis |
| Last seen | One of Us |
| Status | Alive |
| Marital Status | Widower |
| Relatives | Lily Tyler (wife; deceased), Isabelle Tyler (daughter; deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Mahershalalhashbaz Ali |
| Richard Tyler is a member of The 4400 | |
| Richard Tyler is a member of NTAC | |
Richard Tyler was born in the early 1922, at a time when segragation and racism were at its height, and as such, Richard experienced a traumatic childhood filled with firebombings and beatings. This, however, made him stronger, and soon Richard became a world-weary, yet strong, man. Richard is, chronologically, the oldest living member of the 4400.
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[edit] Korean War
Richard somehow was able to get into the U.S. Air Force, and pilot their fighter jets during the Korean War, where Richard even made white friends, especially Milton "Milt" Weinberg, who was the first white person to invite him to his dinner table. His new "friends" (exclusing Milt) however turned on him, when they realized he had been having an affair with a white woman. This gang's extremely racist leader; Lee, repeatedly beat him while the others stopped him from leaving. After an intense punching, Richard was abducted.
The gang assumed Richard had gone AWOL due to finally cracking after the gang inflicted so much pain on him (which they began to regret), while Milt remained convinced Lee had actually killed Richard accidently.
[edit] Time In The Future
Richard is also the first 4400 to be seen in the future immediately after his abduction; Richard was kept in a form of stasis in the Future Room, where a scientist was checking if he remained under after teleportation to their timeperiod. At this time, two future agents loyal to the Brutal and Powerful Elite arrived and killed the scientist, and then extracted Richard's DNA and impregnated it into another subject nearby; Lily Moore, Lily Bonham's grand-daughter.
[edit] Return to Earth
As with the rest of the "4400", Richard and the others were sent back to Earth in the Ball of Light and placed into Quarantine upon landing. Richard, while there, read magazines and newspapers, and was stunned when he realized black people were now accepted as equals and occupied powerful positions in authority (such as the U.S. Secretary of Treasury and National Security Advisor), and racism was effectively gone (along with the word "coloured"). Richard befriended Shawn Farrell, and was also strangely drawn to Lily, and became friends upon realizing her connection to Lily Bonham, though was deeply saddened upon hearing she had since died. It was soon revealed to the couple that they were expecting.
Since release, Richard's primary has been to provide for his new family, albeit suffered when he realized that everyone he knew was long gone and everything, even his old neighbourhood, was gone as well. Richard and Lily soon became part of Jordan Collier's movement to create a world of out own, where they moved to the new Arcadia Estates, where Richard became head of security. When Jordan became increasingly interfering with their lives, especially when he tried to break them up upon discovering Richard was accused of assaulting a woman on his 23rd birthday (though the charges were dropped and he was exonerated), Richard and Lily fled.
[edit] On the Road
A year later, with their daughter Isabelle born, Richard worked as a mechanic in small town, with the Tylers living in a cabin on the outside of town. Eventually, a religious fanatic and his sons, having somehow discovered their real identities, began distributing anti-4400 leaflets across town and accosted Lily in a shop, with their insults directed at Isabelle (who they regarded as "the devil"). Eventually, the Tylers were forced to flee, with the shotgun-wielding fanatics in tow, and Richard nearly gave his life to keep them back, but just as it seemed Josiah would kill them, Isabelle used her own un-earthly powers to slay them.
On the run once again, Richard and Lily's relationship was increasingly strained, though this problem never got too out-of-control, as Richard was arrested by local sheriffs at a gas station. As it turned out, the sheriff's were loyal to Jordan, who was still searching for them. Jordan bailed Richard, and made him an offer; bring Isabelle to him, who would determine if he had changed as he so insisted, and if accepted, he could use his organization and powerful lawyers to make NTAC stop hunting for them. Richard, having seen Jordan had changed and it was a tempting offer, accepted, and when Isabelle accepted Jordan, the Tylers moved to The 4400 Center, where they finally settled down to a peaceful life, with Richard gaining a god job, and reconnecting with Shawn and his old air force buddies at Milt's funeral.
[edit] Movement Leader
Following Jordan's assassination, Shawn took over running of the Center, though Richard was called up to help during the promicin-inhibitor crisis, where his clear-headed ideas and experienced intelligence allowed Richard to arrange for hundreds of unaffected 4400's to escape forced-quarantine, making Richard popular in the eyes of the group. Upon the end of the crisis, Richard's own entirely-suppressed ability manifested; telekinesis.
[edit] Changes
Soon after the crisis, Richard experienced one tragedy after another, with Lily suddenly rapidly aging and dying despite his efforts and then Isabelle aging to a middle-aged woman. Richard somehow moved forward, and became co-leader of the center (with Shawn) upon Matthew Ross's advice when Shawn was discovered to have ties with the Nova Group, a radical faction of 4400's responsible for assassinating those responsible for the promicin-inhibitor crisis. Richard also had to take in Isabelle's new relationship with Shawn, with Richard near powerless to stop it despite his objections, and eventually led to marriage. This motivated him to ask Heather Tobey to help refine his abilities, which now allowed him to throw knives life bullets across the room.
[edit] The Promicin War
Upon Jordan's resurrection, Richard became one of his fiercest supporters, with him even threatening to break him out of NTAC with his own abilities if the government held him without reason, although he became wary when Isabelle was banished by Jordan from the Center and eventually allied with Dennis Ryland. Even though he helped steal Haspelcorp's supply of promicin, the element that gives a 4400 his or her abilities, he felt it was too dangerous when he found out about its 50% mortality rate, and believing it should be destroyed, began using his power to shatter the vials of promicin/ Though Tess Doerner commanded him to stop, Jordan assured Richard he would have an important role to play, which happened sooner than expected, as Richard used Tom Baldwin's anti-promicin syringe to strip Isabelle of her abilities. With his daughter incapacitated, Richard pleaded with Tom not to kill Isabelle. Tom agreed, but shot her in the shoulder anyway. When the Center was closed down by NTAC, Richard, with his wife dead and his daughter in a world of trouble, was left with no where to go.
[edit] Fugitive
Jordan's distribution of the promicin gave thousands of people abilities, though it killed thousands of others, and eventually led to the formation and rise of the Promicin Movement, whose "Promicin Positive members erected Promise City to create paradise on Earth with their abilities. The world's governments responded by outlawing promicin, and decreeing that anyone found to be "Promicin Positive" was to be arrested and sent to prison for life without trial. Because of his part in the theft of the promicin supply from the government; Richard, while not officially a member of the movement, was declared by the government to be the most wanted 4400 terrorist in the United States (with Jordan as the most wanted in the entire world) and he became a fugititve. For the next six months, Richard remains in hiding, using a network of sympathetic 4400's to get by.
When Richard reconnects with Cora Tomkins, an old friend from quarantine, he discovers she has a remarkable ability to manipulate people's aging, and Richard plots to de-age Isabelle to her proper age, and start life over with newer, happier memories. Upon convincing Cora to give him a bottle of water containing the agent necessary to de-age Isabelle (on the pretense of giving it to an old Air Force buddy), Richard located Isabelle in Promise City, and contacted some friends of his to "leave the key under the mat" for him. Upon entrance, an overjoyed Jordan welcomes Richard in with open arms while father and daughter re-unite. While Jordan and supporters of Richard plan a welcoming party, Richard, alone with Isabelle, renders her unconscious with his ability and escapes the City, killing two National Guardsmen and destroying a blockade at the edge of the city.
Richard then takes Isabelle to an isolated farmhouse provided by old friend Michael Anslet, where Isabelle becomes younger and younger due to the effects of the agent, with Richard unwavering at Isabelle's protests. Eventually NTAC Agents led by Tom and Diana Skouris, and Movement member Kyle Baldwin tracked Richard down and fight, though Richard beats the agents with ease, using his telekinetic abilities to force them away, while Richard and Isabelle escape. When safe, Richard realized Kyle, who was shocked and angry at Richard's actions, Isabelle really must have changed for him to be so loyal to her, and offers her the choice to finish de-aging or go back. By now, Isabelle believes de-aging is for the best, and finishes with the water, and the next day, she's three years old again, leaving Richard happy.
Richard initially begins living the life he wanted with Isabelle, though was disturbed when an image of Lily appeared, content with the situation to live together again. Over the next few days, Richard's guilt mounts up, and finally overwhelms and forces him to confess what he did to Lily. Before fading away, Lily persuades Richard that his actions were wrong and to change Isabelle back. Desperate to find a way to reverse the process, Richard comes back to Cora, who successfully reverses the agin process and restores Isabelle to mobile. It is at this time Tom and Skouris catch up, and after a short battle, Richard is tranquilized and rendered unconscious.
With Concentrated Promicin-Inhibitor suppressing his power, Richard is brought to NTAC in chains, and after a brief stay in NTAC's prison hall, is transferred to the NTAC Holding Facility in Virginia. It is uncertain how long his sentence will last.
[edit] Status
While Richard remained in jail, Isabelle began working for agents of The Marked, in exchange for them to arrange her father's release, though eventually began having doubts when faced with capturing Jordan and bringing him to the Marked. Tom motivated her to continue, threatening that the Marked's agents would have Richard killed during his flight to Virginia if Isabelle didn't continue with the plan. When the Marked ultimately went back on the deal, Isabelle began leaving to break her father out of prison, though Rebecca Parrish stopped her with the fail-safe device in her brain.
It is most likely that, with the annexation of Seattle, defeat of the Marked, and expanding Promicin Positive population, the government will be desperate enough for a way to contain the phenomenon, that it will arrange Richard's release in exchange for services for NTAC, as his powers make him powerful enough to warrant exception to the law.
[edit] External links
Richard Tyler - Official Profile
| Characters |
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| Major |
| Tom Baldwin | Diana Skouris | Jordan Collier | Shawn Farrell | Maia Skouris | Kyle Baldwin | Meghan Doyle | Nina Jarvis | Alana Mareva | Marco Pacella | Dennis Ryland | Isabelle Tyler | Lily Tyler | Richard Tyler | Kevin Burkhoff | Tess Doerner |
| Recurring |
| Danny Farrell | Susan Farrell | Jed Garrity | Nikki Hudson | Brian Moore | Devon Moore | Heidi Moore | Wendy Paulson | Matthew Ross | April Skouris | Heather Tobey |
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