Heroes Executive Producer Tim Kring, reveals some secrets about the rest of the season. It’s a great interview about Sylar, HRG, Hiro and Peter - oh don’t forget the Ted - The Radioactive Guy- , who will be reappear on episode 12 - GODSEND!

If Peter has the ability to absorb other people’s powers, doesn’t that make him like Sylar?
Peter and Sylar are two halves of a similar coin. Both are able to absorb people’s powers, but in two very different ways. Peter’s is based on his empathy and his ability to connect with people and when he’s around them. Sylar actually has to take your brain and do something with it.

In the mid-season cliffhanger, we see Peter is responsible for the explosion in New York. Some people assumed Ted Sprague was going to be the cause of it.
Well, Ted [Matthew John Armstrong] still factor into it in a way because there has to be an explanation how Peter has absorbed enough power to do that.
Peter’s got to figure out how to use his power because he’s just overwhelmed. He gets more powerful and all jumbled up in a big mess. That’s where Chris [Eccleston] is going to come in. Chris becomes a real character on the show. He’s starting with an arc, and we’ll see where it goes. He becomes an integral character to the plot for several episodes.

And Hiro still has to prevent what happens to New York.
Hiro [Masi Oka] goes off on a new mission to find a sacred object that he needs in order to save the world, and that sacred object is a samurai sword. It’s going to be a very nice little arc of several episodes�“The Quest for the Sword.�

Is Ted on the run? Like a Bruce Banner-type who can’t stay in one place too long because he’s afraid the authorities will catch up to him?

Yes, exactly, but he’s actually more kind of on their tail. He’s hell bent on finding out what happened to him. Ted is a really a fun character, but we drop him for several episodes while he’s out there in the wind.

You can read rest of the interview at Wizard Entertainment.