 What likely happens to Thaddeus after the story ends?
He stood there unmoving until a ward attendant came and took his arm an hour later to lead him off to the patients' mess hall. The sun set, darkness fell over the stilled hospital grounds and the ward lights winked out at nine o'clock, leaving just a single light burning in each ward office. An instant later, the shattering roar and blast of the explosion struck the hospital buildings in a wave of force and the bursting crash of a thousand windows was lost in the fury of the explosion and the wild screams of the frightened and demented patients. Thaddeus Funston took his hands from his face and lay back in his bed with a small, secret smile on his lips.
 Various government agencies continue to study him to find out his secrets
 He uses the Washington Monument to travel to space  Various government agencies continue to study him to find out his secrets  He is locked in the Pentagon forever so he cannot create any more devices  He is sent back to the mental institution to continue his care