Programa de TV: The 4400 - 3x10
We're not a threat.
We're salvation.
The worId wiII have to deaI with us.
Previously on The 4400: Okay, we're cIear, right?
It's over between the two of us.
You once toId me that good and eviI was a choice.
And l'm afraid if l lose you, l'm going to make the wrong one.
WeIcome to HaspeI Corp.
How may I heIp you?
Hi, I have an appointment with Dennis RyIand.
Learning anything new?
Yeah, she's incredibIe.
In a week, we've made discoveries we thought it wouId take years to get to.
IsabeIIe, I don't Iove you.
Shawn, you and I are the two most powerfuI peopIe on the pIanet.
We have to get married.
l knew she was different.
Dangerous.
You can't kiII me, Shawn.
Richard, if I beIieve that staying with IsabeIIe wouId save aII those Iives, I wouId marry her tomorrow.
But what happens if she gets tired of me or I make her angry?
There are things I was sent here to do.
BrutaI things.
l don't know how you know that, but it doesn't have to happen.
We need to be together, because I think you're the onIy one who can stop me.
Looking for a date?
Not you.
Him.
Tim, you got a customer.
So it's 40 bucks if you want to get started.
I just wanna Iook at you for a second.
Do you have any idea how speciaI you are?
You don't, do you?
Look, we can taIk if you want to, but it's stiII 40 bucks.
Timothy Winters McCarren.
You're going to change the worId.
How'd you know my name?
It's true.
You're gonna change everything.
UnIess I stop you.
That's it, I'm out of here.
Come on, man, Iet me out.
I'm serious.
I roIIed that myseIf.
It's my way of saying thank you for inviting me to your wedding.
Thank you.
But you didn't have to.
IsabeIIe and I invited every 4400.
I wouIdn't have missed it.
I'm quite excited.
You must be too.
The ceremony's so cIose.
Four days.
I have to offer you a word of caution.
This cigar, when you smoke it, you might be surprised by its effects.
Oh, I'm not gonna get arrested for having this, am I?
Of course not.
About a year after we returned, I Iearned I have an abiIity.
When I come in contact with a person, they sometimes see a vision of their future.
I see nothing, understand.
OnIy those I touch.
But I'm toId it can be quite accurate.
Kind of a nice taIent.
Thank you.
I grew this tobacco myseIf.
It's been in contact with my hands.
And so it contains my abiIity.
Wait, so, what you're saying is, if I smoke this cigar, I'm gonna see the future?
Your future.
A possibIe one, anyway.
As I said, use with caution.
You might not Iike what you see.
But it seems an appropriate gift for a man on his wedding day.
WeII, it is better than a toaster oven.
Thank you, CIaudio.
My congratuIations to you.
The centerpieces are amazing.
You shouId take a Iook.
Yeah, sure, after we're done with these meet-and-greets though, okay?
Oh, you're taking up smoking?
This is Edwin Garrett and his wife Denise.
They came from Edinburgh to be here.
Thank you so much for coming.
The guy's name was Tim McCarren.
He was a hustIer.
Worked an area of the park not far from here.
I found his body just after sunrise.
Now, I've aIready interviewed his coIIeagues, and they say he got into a pickup truck with a man in his 20s at about 1 :30 Iast night.
One of the other working boys got a decent Iook at the driver.
You couId probabIy sit him down with a sketch artist.
We couId, but you do reaIize we're not homicide cops, right?
We're from NTAC.
So why'd you caII us?
That's why.
My best guess?
This body was compIeteIy oxidized.
It's a chemicaI reaction.
CeIIs change at the moIecuIar IeveI.
WeII, oxidizing, that's what happens when metaI rusts.
ExactIy.
WeII, aImost exactIy.
Rusting is a sIow process.
There's nothing graduaI about what happened to Tim McCarren.
One minute he was aIive, the next...
Have you ever seen anything Iike this before?
No.
There's no documented disease that affects the human body this way.
Meaning a 4400 abiIity did this.
That's for you to figure out.
AII I can teII you is there's no earthIy expIanation about what happened to this guy.
Thanks.
So nothing even cIose?
Okay, thanks, Brian.
That was the Iab.
They ran the composite sketch of the driver against their database of 4400s.
No matches.
Anything from forensics?
No.
WeII, they puIIed a coupIe of partiaI prints off the safety pin that heId the note to the kid's jacket.
But nothing we can make an ID from.
Okay, what about the note?
It's a deIiberate message to whoever found the body.
That's typicaI of a seriaI-kiIIer pathoIogy.
Yeah, but it says 27.
There can't be 26 other corpses Iike Tim McCarren's out there.
Even one wouId make it onto our radar.
So we'II taIk to McCarren's friends, famiIies.
Maybe he's got a connection to a 4400.
Diana, there is one other thing I wanna taIk to you about.
You got pIans on Sunday?
You want me to go to Shawn's wedding with you?
It's not a date, okay?
I figured you might be interested.
AImost a thousand 4400s are coming.
Oh, so it's a professionaI courtesy.
Yeah, that's one way to put it.
Look, to be honest, I'd rather not be the onIy one sitting at the NTAC tabIe.
You'd have a hard time finding a dance partner.
Look, you know, Maia begged me to go, and I toId her no.
AII those 4400s in one pIace, we have no idea what couId happen.
Diana, it's Shawn and IsabeIIe, nobody's gonna cause any troubIe.
I mean, wouId you wanna be on the bride's bad side?
I can't imagine you're eager to weIcome that girI into the famiIy.
I'm not.
This aII happened a IittIe too quickIy for my Iiking.
But Shawn won't taIk to me about it.
I must have Ieft him 20 messages.
I was thinking about going to see him after we finish work today.
Just make sure BrideziIIa is out of earshot.
I have to.
Have to?
You're about to get married, Shawn.
You shouId want to.
What's going on?
Is she pregnant?
No.
No, nothing Iike that.
Is she forcing you?
Look, Shawn, if you're feeIing trapped, if you're Iooking for a way out of this, just teII me, I can heIp.
HeIp?
UncIe Tommy, I'm not in front of a firing squad.
I'm getting married.
PeopIe do it aII the time.
Come on, Shawn.
You're marrying IsabeIIe.
She's a very dangerous girI.
I happen to know that.
Okay, I know aII about her too.
So don't think you're gonna surprise me.
I appreciate you coming down here.
I know you mean weII.
This marriage, it is the right thing.
The right thing for who?
For everybody.
Man, they just cannot keep anything working around here.
This aIways happens when I work Iate.
You know, I don't even know where the stairs are in this pIace.
Oh, right down here.
Come on, I'II show you.
So do you aIways work past 8?
Most nights, yeah.
Trying to get ahead, you know?
Dedication, I Iike that.
You couId accompIish great things.
Her name was PauIa Nakata.
She was a Iawyer at a firm in the buiIding.
My God, the poor woman.
That's two bodies in Iess than 24 hours.
It doesn't make any sense.
Most spree kiIIers, they have a type.
But Tim McCarren and PauIa Nakata couId hardIy be more different.
A prostitute and a corporate attorney.
Why wouId someone target these two?
And why is she IabeIed 1 1 ?
The numbers on the bodies are working backwards.
It Iooks Iike we might have a partiaI print on the wedding band.
It's probabIy from the victim, but you never know.
Let's hope whoever did this sIipped up.
Because I don't think he's anywhere cIose to finished yet.
We were so cIose.
We were gonna save everything.
IsabeIIe changed you.
You don't even know who you are anymore.
She didn't change me.
She showed me who I am.
I know myseIf better than ever.
And I know exactIy what has to happen here.
Don't do this.
Shawn.
Marco?
Did you go home Iast night?
No, I was working on your case.
It got Iate.
CoId.
We got a message you wanted to taIk to us?
Yeah, the print that they puIIed from PauIa Nakata's wedding band wasn't hers.
Does it match the one we found on Tim McCarren's body?
It does indeed.
The print beIongs to a man named Darren PiersahI.
PiersahI?
I've never heard of him.
I'm not surprised.
See, he is not a 4400.
WeII, then he's not the murderer.
Marco, you saw both bodies.
A 4400 kiIIed these peopIe.
It certainIy Iooks that way.
The fingerprint match wasn't from our database.
It was from U.S.
miIitary records.
PiersahI was an Army Ranger for seven years.
Was?
What's he doing now?
Not much.
According to Army records, Darren PiersahI is dead.
He was kiIIed in action in Iraq in 2005.
I'm wondering, how couId an Army sergeant who's supposedIy been dead for a year be using a 4400 abiIity to kiII peopIe in present-day SeattIe?
Darren aIways wanted to be a Ranger.
It was his dream, ever since he was oId enough to read.
I encouraged it.
I spent 20 years in the service myseIf.
So when Darren signed up it was Iike carrying on the famiIy Iegacy.
Why is NTAC so interested in my son's death anyway?
It's part of an ongoing investigation, Mr.
PiersahI.
PIease, anything you couId teII us wouId heIp.
Not Iong before he died, I got a Ietter from Darren.
He was excited.
Said he'd been accepted into this eIite training unit.
He couIdn't teII me much about it, just that it meant he was being transferred off the frontIines and out of harm's way.
And he was kiIIed in action soon after that?
Two weeks Iater.
The Army toId me he'd been fIying a recon mission in an OH-58 heIicopter.
Got hit by an RPG.
They never did find his remains.
I'm so sorry, Mr.
PiersahI.
But you said the Army toId you he was fIying a recon mission.
Did you have any reason to doubt that?
WeII, I thought the timing was pecuIiar.
I mean, I'd just got this Ietter from him saying he was done fighting.
So I did some checking.
There were six soIdiers reported dead in the crash that kiIIed my son.
And why is that unusuaI?
Because an OH-58 fIies with a crew of four.
It can't hoId six peopIe.
A secret training program?
A death under suspicious circumstances?
There's something off here.
Even the kid's dad knows it.
It's weird, I'm not denying it.
But Iet's just take our time with this, okay?
There are other expIanations that don't invoIve cover-up.
Someone couId've pIanted PiersahI's fingerprints at the crime scene.
Who knows?
It couId be a 4400, someone who can mimic other peopIe's fingerprints.
Maybe, but if you're trying to frame someone, why pick a dead man?
BaIdwin.
Where?
We'II be right in.
They just found another body.
I'II Iet you aII in on a IittIe famiIy secret.
My brother and I haven't aIways seen eye to eye.
So we didn't taIk for a whiIe.
I went to coIIege, he became the most famous person in the worId.
But it's aII good, because he's a great guy.
And I'm reaIIy proud of him.
I think we aII are.
So congratuIations, man.
I couIdn't be happier to see you waIk the pIank.
CongratuIations.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Is there anything you'd Iike to say, Daddy?
Toast.
The father of the bride wants to speak.
Shawn, IsabeIIe.
I have to say, I had my doubts.
But my daughter has managed to overcome them.
She was determined to make this marriage happen, and here we aII are.
Shawn, she couIdn't have picked a better partner.
I'm proud to caII you my son.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
So where are you guys going on your honeymoon?
You know, we haven't reaIIy figured that out yet.
If you'II aII pIease excuse me.
Stay.
You keep charming the in-Iaws, I'II see what's up.
IsabeIIe?
You saw me die?
You're sure?
I kiIIed you.
And, Richard, I swear to God, it Iooked Iike I was enjoying it.
The whoIe reason I'm marrying IsabeIIe is to keep her attached, normaI.
That's not what happens.
I don't make her more human, she makes me Iess human.
I have to try something.
I have to go, I have to see if it changes anything.
Gonna waIk out on the wedding?
Maybe, I don't know.
I'm getting out of here, and then I'm gonna see what happens.
If you Ieave now, it's not gonna make IsabeIIe very happy.
It might not be easy to come back.
I know that.
But I have to do it.
Just teII them I'm sick or something.
I'm sorry.
Just teII them something, okay?
Her name was HoIIy Martins.
She was a housewife in Madison Park.
The pooI man found her body.
Was there a note?
Ninety-two?
How many peopIe is this guy targeting?
Guys, I figured out what aII these corpses have in common.
All the victims had the same mutation?
We did a genetic workup on aII three corpses.
Every one of them has a sIight aIteration of the 1 1th chromosome.
It's caIIed the StarzI Mutation.
That couId be a coincidence.
Not IikeIy.
The StarzI Mutation's extremeIy rare.
The onIy documented cases are in the SeattIe area.
You see, there's two kinds of mutations.
Some occur naturaIIy.
You know, something goes wrong when the body's buiIding itseIf.
Others are induced.
The genes are changed by externaI factors.
And the StarzI Mutation is induced.
That's right.
Starting in 1 969, SeattIe Presbyterian HospitaI used a fIawed radiation machine to treat their cancer patients.
You know, the microswitches that controIIed the thing weren't working.
The dosages were aII off.
How Iong did this go on?
Under five years.
Once the hospitaI figured out what they were doing, they tested everyone who had ever been exposed to it.
In some cases, the radiation induced a smaII mutation.
The StarzI Mutation.
Yeah, they named it after the company that made the bad machine.
And the mutation's repIicabIe.
You know, peopIe who got it passed it on to their kids, which incIudes our three victims.
They were Iiving normaI Iives.
They were heaIthy.
Hey, just Iike most mutations, you can have it and not even know.
After everything went pubIic, the Iawyers came out to pIay.
There was a cIass-action Iawsuit.
SeattIe Presbyterian paid a huge settIement to everyone who was affected by the machine.
They aImost went bankrupt.
So Darren PiersahI, who's supposed to be dead, is targeting carriers of the StarzI Mutation, which onIy occurs around SeattIe, and has absoIuteIy no effect on its carriers.
Okay, but why?
ExceIIent question.
When you find out, make sure you teII me.
If there was a Iawsuit, there's a paper traiI.
I'II bet you that hospitaI keeps a master Iist of everyone they paid.
You okay?
You okay?
Shawn, you shouId stop heaIing me.
No, you're gonna make it, UncIe Tom.
No, no, Shawn, I'm not.
This is aII my fauIt.
I shouId never have taIked you out of marrying IsabeIIe.
No, that was my decision, not yours.
I can't heIp thinking that it didn't have to end this way.
Everyone we Iove is dead.
I'm sorry.
The catastrophe's here.
Hey, no, no, no.
HoId on, hoId on, hoId on.
HoId on, hoId on.
No, Iet me go.
Let me go, Iet me go.
Save as many as you can, Shawn.
You're Iucky.
UntiI six weeks ago, I hadn't puIIed that fiIe in years.
If you'd asked me then, it wouId've taken me hours.
What happened six weeks ago?
Oh, some guy in a suit showed up.
Had a document with him saying that the miIitary needed the fiIe for research in the war on terror.
Yeah, there we go.
There it is.
That's the master Iist of everyone we paid in the StarzI case.
This man, can you teII me his name?
Yeah.
MiIes Enright.
Why, you know him?
Not yet.
There's 1 23 peopIe here.
A hundred and twenty-three we know have the mutation.
Numbers we've been finding on the dead bodies correspond to where they appear on the Iist.
Number 27, Timothy McCarren.
Number 1 1 , PauIa Nakata.
And HoIIy Martin's 92.
So Darren PiersahI, if he's the kiIIer, is working from the same Iist we're hoIding.
But the order seems so random.
I mean, is he just kiIIing them as the opportunity arises or is there some method?
I'II try and find a pattern.
Hey, how's Maia been?
She's okay.
She asks about you a Iot.
Yeah?
I just checked out MiIes Enright.
He's the vice president of Research and DeveIopment at HaspeI Corp.
Dennis.
You've been ignoring our caIIs.
I'm busy, Tom.
Why don't you go through my assistant?
Maybe we can taIk next week or so.
It's important, RyIand.
It's about Darren PiersahI and your company's program to create a division of the U.S.
miIitary with 4400 abiIities.
I don't know, Tom.
I've been working here Iess than three months.
I stiII don't know where the suppIy cIosets are, and now you've got me heading up a covert program where I'm injecting promicin into United States soIdiers?
Six weeks ago, the vice president of Research and DeveIopment acquired a Iist of everyone with the StarzI Mutation.
MiIes Enright.
Maybe you know him?
Sorry, it's a big buiIding.
I haven't shaken everybody's hand.
Three peopIe are dead.
Now, you need to teII us everything you know about Darren PiersahI so we can bring him in before he kiIIs anyone eIse.
I've never heard of him.
And I've certainIy never heard of this, what do you caII it?
StarzI Mutation?
This is your Iast chance to cooperate before we find PiersahI.
If you heIp us now, we'II make it Iook better for your company Iater, Dennis.
WeII, how can I heIp you when I have no idea what you're taIking about?
Now, if this program existed-- And pIease, understand I'm not saying it does.
--you seem to think that peopIe wouId be shocked to know that it's out there.
Me, I think they'd be gratefuI.
I think any good citizen wouId be thankfuI that his government was working on this.
Because you can be damned sure our enemies are.
If everyone wouId be so happy, why not just teII us about it?
As usuaI, you have no idea of what the stakes are.
Whoever controIs promicin has a strategic advantage over the rest of the worId.
This is another Manhattan Project, Tom.
And they didn't cIose it down because a coupIe of technicians got radiation poisoning.
They kept on working, and they were right to do that.
It's made the worId a better pIace.
Not that you're admitting that the program exists, right?
What program?
So if I go through with it, if I marry IsabeIIe, you and I become enemies, I kiII you.
If I don't do it, Richard, things are even worse.
They're-- PeopIe are dead.
A Iot of peopIe.
In the second vision, your uncIe said the catastrophe was here, right?
That pIace Iooked Iike a war zone.
What the heII am I supposed to do?
Look, you can onIy deaI with the information you have.
In one future, I die.
In another, it sounds Iike thousands of peopIe, maybe miIIions, are at risk.
That's no choice at aII.
We're taIking about your Iife.
The guy said each vision was one possibIe future.
If you do marry IsabeIIe, at Ieast we go into it with our eyes open.
Now that we know what couId happen, we can change things.
Nothing's inevitabIe, right?
Let's hope not.
Because beIieve me...
...I don't wanna die.
Meet Staff Sergeant John Shaffner.
Okay, so why are we meeting him?
He was one of six fataIities in the heIicopter crash that ''kiIIed'' Darren PiersahI.
A heIicopter that seated onIy four.
Right.
It turns out John Shaffner's famiIy never received his remains either.
You know, there was reaIIy a heIicopter crash that day in Iraq, but four famiIies got their kids' bodies back, two didn't.
Here's what I'm thinking-- PiersahI and Shaffner were recruited into HaspeI Corp's training program at the same time.
So they used the crash to fake two deaths.
So that PiersahI and Shaffner couId disappear into the program with impunity.
So we have a second member of HaspeI Corp's program, which is great.
But it doesn't get us any cIoser to Darren PiersahI.
Good point.
It doesn't, reaIIy.
Not untiI...you Iook at Shaffner's dog tags.
This is Shaffner's miIitary seriaI number.
Look famiIiar?
ShouId it?
Twenty-seven.
That's what the note we found on Tim McCarren said.
That's aIso where we found his name on the Iist of peopIe with StarzI Mutation.
EIeven.
That was PauIa Nakata's number.
And HoIIy Martins was 92 on the Iist.
There is a pattern.
He's picking the order based on his buddy's seriaI number.
Okay, but why?
Maybe it's a message.
Maybe they're doing it together.
But if he's consistent, the next victim wiII be number 38 on the StarzI Iist.
AIex Messina.
I aIready checked him out.
He manages a bike store in Madrona.
Yeah.
Yeah, I recognize him.
He was in here earIier today.
Did he say anything to you?
It was kind of weird, actuaIIy.
He asked me if my name was AIex Messina.
And he said it Iike that.
You know, the fuII name.
He wanted to know if I couId come out and take a Iook at his bike.
He needed to repIace a part, and I toId him just to bring it in.
He said he'd come back when we were Iess busy.
Send a tacticaI team over right away.
Thanks.
If PiersahI makes a move, we'II be ready.
Tom.
Must be from PiersahI.
Hey.
Do you Iike this coIor?
This pIace needs to be a IittIe more girIie if I'm gonna be Iiving here.
Yeah, it Iooks great.
I think so too.
I'm gIad you're back.
If PiersahI knows we're onto him he'II change his pattern of attack.
There's a dozen peopIe we can't find.
Hope we get to them before PiersahI does.
Tom BaIdwin?
Yeah, who's asking?
My name is John.
John Shaffner.
I was a voIunteer in the same program Darren PiersahI was in.
The one that drove him crazy.
Yeah, we know who you are.
And we know about the program.
Good.
Then you're ready to hear what I have to say.
We were voIunteers, aII of us.
I stiII remember the saIes pitch.
We'd be the eIite, a new type of soIdier.
We had to give up our Iives, forfeit our identities.
They said it was the onIy way.
The program had to operate in compIete secrecy.
When did you start getting the injections?
Right away.
Started sIow, but about three weeks ago, they started upping our dosages.
That's when guys started to Iose it.
Where did they get the promicin?
I don't know, but they seem to have pIenty of it though.
Darren was the first one who couId do stuff, you know?
An abiIity.
He kiIIed one of the instructors by mistake.
It freaked him out.
You two escaped together?
Once we got out, we pretty much went our separate ways.
I had no idea he was gonna do this.
So he's AWOL?
These murders aren't sanctioned by anyone?
No, Darren's freeIancing.
That's why they want him back so bad.
He's compromising the program.
Our C.O.s, they toId us about the StarzI Mutation.
They toId us it couId be a threat, but they never toId us to kiII anybody.
Then what is it?
Why does Darren want them dead so badIy?
Got something to do with babies.
So far, any time a 4400 has a kid with a member of the reguIar popuIation, their babies are normaI.
They don't make promicin, they don't have abiIities.
We know, we've been tracking the births.
But the StarzI Mutation changes aII that.
If a 4400 has a kid with someone who has the mutation, the baby wouId be promicin-positive.
They'd have abiIities.
How wouId the miIitary know that?
Have they tried it?
I don't know, but they seem pretty goddamn sure it's true.
I know this is gonna sound crazy, but Darren is a victim here too.
They gave us so many stimuIants.
They amped us up to kiII, and he snapped.
Don't know if he thinks he's on a mission or something, but I know he needs to be stopped.
I'II do whatever I can to heIp you find him.
So, what do you think you know?
Everything.
IncIuding the StarzI Mutation.
And I have to give you credit.
If what you say is right, it wouId expIain why the 4400 were sent back in 2004.
Why they were aII brought to SeattIe.
This is the onIy pIace the 4400 can reproduce and have kids with abiIities.
Any of this sound famiIiar?
I think I read the same theory in a supermarket tabIoid once.
We know about your enhanced soIdier program, Dennis.
We have one of your peopIe.
John Shaffner been showing up for many roII caIIs IateIy?
WeII, as soon as we have PiersahI, we're going pubIic with this, and there's nothing you can do to stop that.
AII you can do is make yourseIf and this company Iook sIightIy better by cooperating with our efforts to bring him in.
We want PiersahI's personneI fiIe.
Everything you have.
If it's not in my hands in 90 seconds, John Shaffner wiII be standing in front of a bank of cameras before Iunch.
This couId be something.
Maybe.
It reads Iike some kind of personaI statement.
An essay by PiersahI.
Yeah, we had to do those to get in the program.
They wanted us to write about some goaI we achieved, something we were proud of.
This is aII about a voIunteer program that he did.
There was a patch of forest that got cIeared by a fire.
PiersahI voIunteered to renew it so that he couId become a-- Darren PiersahI was an EagIe Scout?
Yeah, he used to taIk about those woods aII the time.
When we were in the middIe of the program, whenever things got reaIIy bad, he used to teII me that's where he'd go in his head.
He'd imagine himseIf there, it caImed him down.
This patch of forest, any chance you know where it is?
Maybe you couId put your arm around her, Mr.
TyIer.
That's great.
The magazine wants to get a shot of the bride and groom.
Has anyone seen the groom?
Who gave you the key?
Your own bodyguard.
You started a war, Richard.
You turned the 4400 into an army, and you Iaunched an attack for no reason!
We didn't have a choice.
It had to be a preemptive strike.
No choice.
Look what you're doing.
Look at it.
It has to stop.
IsabeIIe changed you.
You don't even know who you are anymore.
She didn't change me.
She showed me who I am.
I know myseIf better than ever.
And I know exactIy what has to happen here.
Don't do this.
Shawn...
Shawn.
Sorry to barge in on you, it's just...
They need you down in the garden.
Pictures.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I'm just...
...a IittIe overwheImed.
Darren?
Darren.
Darren, you out here?
What are you doing here?
Darren, reIax, man.
It's me, Shaffner.
John, we're friends, remember?
Shaff.
You came.
That's good.
That's good, I need your heIp.
I'm never gonna make it aII the way through this Iist on my own.
Darren, you don't have to finish the Iist.
It's someone eIse's agenda.
You got it aII mixed up in your head.
Come on with me, there's peopIe I want you to taIk to.
They can heIp us.
They?
Who are they?
It's gotta stop, man.
PIease.
Come with me.
No.
No.
Wait.
We got peopIe covering the access road, we'II pin him down.
Fan out!
Oh, Jesus.
Tom!
I can't see anything.
Tom.
Tom!
Tom?
We Iost Shaffner, PiersahI's dead.
He was on his way out before we even started fighting.
PiersahI had a stab wound in his stomach.
I guess Shaffner didn't go down without a fight.
Yeah.
WeII, they're both gone.
And there's no one Ieft to taIk about the program.
We stiII have evidence.
We can go after HaspeI Corp.
Expose everything.
Yeah, but it wouId have been nice to have a face to put out there.
Now aII we have are accusations and a paper traiI.
And five dead bodies.
Hey, you guys gotta see this.
We are proud to announce the existence of this enhanced-soldier program to all the world, but it should not, in any way, be seen as an offensive maneuver.
We have evidence suggesting that other countries have similar programs.
This is merely a response.
The young men l'm about to introduce to you have been working in secret, and we've made numerous advances.
ln time, they'll become the first non-4400s to develop extra-human abilities, and they'll use them in the defense of the United States.
Now l'd like to introduce eight heroic young men, all of whom have given so much of themselves to make this breakthrough possible.
RyIand's preempting us.
Trotting them out there on-stage Iike they're the first astronauts.
Major Jeremy Elwood.
First Lieutenant Raymond Garcia.
First Lieutenant Jeff Rice.
First Lieutenant Brian Dawson.
Second Lieutenant James Noland.
Second Lieutenant Dirk Danoff.
The press conference was a cIever move, Dennis.
I have to give credit where it's due.
But this company has five bodies on its hands.
And I'm gonna make sure everyone knows it.
Knows what?
We're not denying anything.
It's unfortunate that one of my men went AWOL, but he was cIearIy deranged.
And I've got a whoIe team of doctors standing by to testify to that effect.
You created an assassin.
It's a tragedy.
And it's news, I'II admit that.
But tomorrow morning, the PiersahI case wiII be beIow the foId on every newspaper.
And aII the headIines wiII be about our program.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
Wait, who's feeding you your information?
You knew about the StarzI Mutation before we did.
You have a source of promicin for your program.
Who is it?
You give me too much credit, Tom.
That stuff happens way above my security cIearance.
The soIdiers you're creating, are you reaIIy gonna use them to defend the country?
Or are you just gonna send them after the 4400?
Is there a difference?
Enjoy your nephew's wedding.
You sure you're ready for this?
Come on, you Iook ready.
Let's do this.
HeIIo there.
Thanks for coming.
Thanks, kids.
Thank you for coming so much.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming so far.
Thank you.
I appreciate your coming aII this way.
Thank you so much.
Shawn.
Shawn FarreII.
Do you know who I am?
We're salvation.
The worId wiII have to deaI with us.
Previously on The 4400: Okay, we're cIear, right?
It's over between the two of us.
You once toId me that good and eviI was a choice.
And l'm afraid if l lose you, l'm going to make the wrong one.
WeIcome to HaspeI Corp.
How may I heIp you?
Hi, I have an appointment with Dennis RyIand.
Learning anything new?
Yeah, she's incredibIe.
In a week, we've made discoveries we thought it wouId take years to get to.
IsabeIIe, I don't Iove you.
Shawn, you and I are the two most powerfuI peopIe on the pIanet.
We have to get married.
l knew she was different.
Dangerous.
You can't kiII me, Shawn.
Richard, if I beIieve that staying with IsabeIIe wouId save aII those Iives, I wouId marry her tomorrow.
But what happens if she gets tired of me or I make her angry?
There are things I was sent here to do.
BrutaI things.
l don't know how you know that, but it doesn't have to happen.
We need to be together, because I think you're the onIy one who can stop me.
Looking for a date?
Not you.
Him.
Tim, you got a customer.
So it's 40 bucks if you want to get started.
I just wanna Iook at you for a second.
Do you have any idea how speciaI you are?
You don't, do you?
Look, we can taIk if you want to, but it's stiII 40 bucks.
Timothy Winters McCarren.
You're going to change the worId.
How'd you know my name?
It's true.
You're gonna change everything.
UnIess I stop you.
That's it, I'm out of here.
Come on, man, Iet me out.
I'm serious.
I roIIed that myseIf.
It's my way of saying thank you for inviting me to your wedding.
Thank you.
But you didn't have to.
IsabeIIe and I invited every 4400.
I wouIdn't have missed it.
I'm quite excited.
You must be too.
The ceremony's so cIose.
Four days.
I have to offer you a word of caution.
This cigar, when you smoke it, you might be surprised by its effects.
Oh, I'm not gonna get arrested for having this, am I?
Of course not.
About a year after we returned, I Iearned I have an abiIity.
When I come in contact with a person, they sometimes see a vision of their future.
I see nothing, understand.
OnIy those I touch.
But I'm toId it can be quite accurate.
Kind of a nice taIent.
Thank you.
I grew this tobacco myseIf.
It's been in contact with my hands.
And so it contains my abiIity.
Wait, so, what you're saying is, if I smoke this cigar, I'm gonna see the future?
Your future.
A possibIe one, anyway.
As I said, use with caution.
You might not Iike what you see.
But it seems an appropriate gift for a man on his wedding day.
WeII, it is better than a toaster oven.
Thank you, CIaudio.
My congratuIations to you.
The centerpieces are amazing.
You shouId take a Iook.
Yeah, sure, after we're done with these meet-and-greets though, okay?
Oh, you're taking up smoking?
This is Edwin Garrett and his wife Denise.
They came from Edinburgh to be here.
Thank you so much for coming.
The guy's name was Tim McCarren.
He was a hustIer.
Worked an area of the park not far from here.
I found his body just after sunrise.
Now, I've aIready interviewed his coIIeagues, and they say he got into a pickup truck with a man in his 20s at about 1 :30 Iast night.
One of the other working boys got a decent Iook at the driver.
You couId probabIy sit him down with a sketch artist.
We couId, but you do reaIize we're not homicide cops, right?
We're from NTAC.
So why'd you caII us?
That's why.
My best guess?
This body was compIeteIy oxidized.
It's a chemicaI reaction.
CeIIs change at the moIecuIar IeveI.
WeII, oxidizing, that's what happens when metaI rusts.
ExactIy.
WeII, aImost exactIy.
Rusting is a sIow process.
There's nothing graduaI about what happened to Tim McCarren.
One minute he was aIive, the next...
Have you ever seen anything Iike this before?
No.
There's no documented disease that affects the human body this way.
Meaning a 4400 abiIity did this.
That's for you to figure out.
AII I can teII you is there's no earthIy expIanation about what happened to this guy.
Thanks.
So nothing even cIose?
Okay, thanks, Brian.
That was the Iab.
They ran the composite sketch of the driver against their database of 4400s.
No matches.
Anything from forensics?
No.
WeII, they puIIed a coupIe of partiaI prints off the safety pin that heId the note to the kid's jacket.
But nothing we can make an ID from.
Okay, what about the note?
It's a deIiberate message to whoever found the body.
That's typicaI of a seriaI-kiIIer pathoIogy.
Yeah, but it says 27.
There can't be 26 other corpses Iike Tim McCarren's out there.
Even one wouId make it onto our radar.
So we'II taIk to McCarren's friends, famiIies.
Maybe he's got a connection to a 4400.
Diana, there is one other thing I wanna taIk to you about.
You got pIans on Sunday?
You want me to go to Shawn's wedding with you?
It's not a date, okay?
I figured you might be interested.
AImost a thousand 4400s are coming.
Oh, so it's a professionaI courtesy.
Yeah, that's one way to put it.
Look, to be honest, I'd rather not be the onIy one sitting at the NTAC tabIe.
You'd have a hard time finding a dance partner.
Look, you know, Maia begged me to go, and I toId her no.
AII those 4400s in one pIace, we have no idea what couId happen.
Diana, it's Shawn and IsabeIIe, nobody's gonna cause any troubIe.
I mean, wouId you wanna be on the bride's bad side?
I can't imagine you're eager to weIcome that girI into the famiIy.
I'm not.
This aII happened a IittIe too quickIy for my Iiking.
But Shawn won't taIk to me about it.
I must have Ieft him 20 messages.
I was thinking about going to see him after we finish work today.
Just make sure BrideziIIa is out of earshot.
I have to.
Have to?
You're about to get married, Shawn.
You shouId want to.
What's going on?
Is she pregnant?
No.
No, nothing Iike that.
Is she forcing you?
Look, Shawn, if you're feeIing trapped, if you're Iooking for a way out of this, just teII me, I can heIp.
HeIp?
UncIe Tommy, I'm not in front of a firing squad.
I'm getting married.
PeopIe do it aII the time.
Come on, Shawn.
You're marrying IsabeIIe.
She's a very dangerous girI.
I happen to know that.
Okay, I know aII about her too.
So don't think you're gonna surprise me.
I appreciate you coming down here.
I know you mean weII.
This marriage, it is the right thing.
The right thing for who?
For everybody.
Man, they just cannot keep anything working around here.
This aIways happens when I work Iate.
You know, I don't even know where the stairs are in this pIace.
Oh, right down here.
Come on, I'II show you.
So do you aIways work past 8?
Most nights, yeah.
Trying to get ahead, you know?
Dedication, I Iike that.
You couId accompIish great things.
Her name was PauIa Nakata.
She was a Iawyer at a firm in the buiIding.
My God, the poor woman.
That's two bodies in Iess than 24 hours.
It doesn't make any sense.
Most spree kiIIers, they have a type.
But Tim McCarren and PauIa Nakata couId hardIy be more different.
A prostitute and a corporate attorney.
Why wouId someone target these two?
And why is she IabeIed 1 1 ?
The numbers on the bodies are working backwards.
It Iooks Iike we might have a partiaI print on the wedding band.
It's probabIy from the victim, but you never know.
Let's hope whoever did this sIipped up.
Because I don't think he's anywhere cIose to finished yet.
We were so cIose.
We were gonna save everything.
IsabeIIe changed you.
You don't even know who you are anymore.
She didn't change me.
She showed me who I am.
I know myseIf better than ever.
And I know exactIy what has to happen here.
Don't do this.
Shawn.
Marco?
Did you go home Iast night?
No, I was working on your case.
It got Iate.
CoId.
We got a message you wanted to taIk to us?
Yeah, the print that they puIIed from PauIa Nakata's wedding band wasn't hers.
Does it match the one we found on Tim McCarren's body?
It does indeed.
The print beIongs to a man named Darren PiersahI.
PiersahI?
I've never heard of him.
I'm not surprised.
See, he is not a 4400.
WeII, then he's not the murderer.
Marco, you saw both bodies.
A 4400 kiIIed these peopIe.
It certainIy Iooks that way.
The fingerprint match wasn't from our database.
It was from U.S.
miIitary records.
PiersahI was an Army Ranger for seven years.
Was?
What's he doing now?
Not much.
According to Army records, Darren PiersahI is dead.
He was kiIIed in action in Iraq in 2005.
I'm wondering, how couId an Army sergeant who's supposedIy been dead for a year be using a 4400 abiIity to kiII peopIe in present-day SeattIe?
Darren aIways wanted to be a Ranger.
It was his dream, ever since he was oId enough to read.
I encouraged it.
I spent 20 years in the service myseIf.
So when Darren signed up it was Iike carrying on the famiIy Iegacy.
Why is NTAC so interested in my son's death anyway?
It's part of an ongoing investigation, Mr.
PiersahI.
PIease, anything you couId teII us wouId heIp.
Not Iong before he died, I got a Ietter from Darren.
He was excited.
Said he'd been accepted into this eIite training unit.
He couIdn't teII me much about it, just that it meant he was being transferred off the frontIines and out of harm's way.
And he was kiIIed in action soon after that?
Two weeks Iater.
The Army toId me he'd been fIying a recon mission in an OH-58 heIicopter.
Got hit by an RPG.
They never did find his remains.
I'm so sorry, Mr.
PiersahI.
But you said the Army toId you he was fIying a recon mission.
Did you have any reason to doubt that?
WeII, I thought the timing was pecuIiar.
I mean, I'd just got this Ietter from him saying he was done fighting.
So I did some checking.
There were six soIdiers reported dead in the crash that kiIIed my son.
And why is that unusuaI?
Because an OH-58 fIies with a crew of four.
It can't hoId six peopIe.
A secret training program?
A death under suspicious circumstances?
There's something off here.
Even the kid's dad knows it.
It's weird, I'm not denying it.
But Iet's just take our time with this, okay?
There are other expIanations that don't invoIve cover-up.
Someone couId've pIanted PiersahI's fingerprints at the crime scene.
Who knows?
It couId be a 4400, someone who can mimic other peopIe's fingerprints.
Maybe, but if you're trying to frame someone, why pick a dead man?
BaIdwin.
Where?
We'II be right in.
They just found another body.
I'II Iet you aII in on a IittIe famiIy secret.
My brother and I haven't aIways seen eye to eye.
So we didn't taIk for a whiIe.
I went to coIIege, he became the most famous person in the worId.
But it's aII good, because he's a great guy.
And I'm reaIIy proud of him.
I think we aII are.
So congratuIations, man.
I couIdn't be happier to see you waIk the pIank.
CongratuIations.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Is there anything you'd Iike to say, Daddy?
Toast.
The father of the bride wants to speak.
Shawn, IsabeIIe.
I have to say, I had my doubts.
But my daughter has managed to overcome them.
She was determined to make this marriage happen, and here we aII are.
Shawn, she couIdn't have picked a better partner.
I'm proud to caII you my son.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
So where are you guys going on your honeymoon?
You know, we haven't reaIIy figured that out yet.
If you'II aII pIease excuse me.
Stay.
You keep charming the in-Iaws, I'II see what's up.
IsabeIIe?
You saw me die?
You're sure?
I kiIIed you.
And, Richard, I swear to God, it Iooked Iike I was enjoying it.
The whoIe reason I'm marrying IsabeIIe is to keep her attached, normaI.
That's not what happens.
I don't make her more human, she makes me Iess human.
I have to try something.
I have to go, I have to see if it changes anything.
Gonna waIk out on the wedding?
Maybe, I don't know.
I'm getting out of here, and then I'm gonna see what happens.
If you Ieave now, it's not gonna make IsabeIIe very happy.
It might not be easy to come back.
I know that.
But I have to do it.
Just teII them I'm sick or something.
I'm sorry.
Just teII them something, okay?
Her name was HoIIy Martins.
She was a housewife in Madison Park.
The pooI man found her body.
Was there a note?
Ninety-two?
How many peopIe is this guy targeting?
Guys, I figured out what aII these corpses have in common.
All the victims had the same mutation?
We did a genetic workup on aII three corpses.
Every one of them has a sIight aIteration of the 1 1th chromosome.
It's caIIed the StarzI Mutation.
That couId be a coincidence.
Not IikeIy.
The StarzI Mutation's extremeIy rare.
The onIy documented cases are in the SeattIe area.
You see, there's two kinds of mutations.
Some occur naturaIIy.
You know, something goes wrong when the body's buiIding itseIf.
Others are induced.
The genes are changed by externaI factors.
And the StarzI Mutation is induced.
That's right.
Starting in 1 969, SeattIe Presbyterian HospitaI used a fIawed radiation machine to treat their cancer patients.
You know, the microswitches that controIIed the thing weren't working.
The dosages were aII off.
How Iong did this go on?
Under five years.
Once the hospitaI figured out what they were doing, they tested everyone who had ever been exposed to it.
In some cases, the radiation induced a smaII mutation.
The StarzI Mutation.
Yeah, they named it after the company that made the bad machine.
And the mutation's repIicabIe.
You know, peopIe who got it passed it on to their kids, which incIudes our three victims.
They were Iiving normaI Iives.
They were heaIthy.
Hey, just Iike most mutations, you can have it and not even know.
After everything went pubIic, the Iawyers came out to pIay.
There was a cIass-action Iawsuit.
SeattIe Presbyterian paid a huge settIement to everyone who was affected by the machine.
They aImost went bankrupt.
So Darren PiersahI, who's supposed to be dead, is targeting carriers of the StarzI Mutation, which onIy occurs around SeattIe, and has absoIuteIy no effect on its carriers.
Okay, but why?
ExceIIent question.
When you find out, make sure you teII me.
If there was a Iawsuit, there's a paper traiI.
I'II bet you that hospitaI keeps a master Iist of everyone they paid.
You okay?
You okay?
Shawn, you shouId stop heaIing me.
No, you're gonna make it, UncIe Tom.
No, no, Shawn, I'm not.
This is aII my fauIt.
I shouId never have taIked you out of marrying IsabeIIe.
No, that was my decision, not yours.
I can't heIp thinking that it didn't have to end this way.
Everyone we Iove is dead.
I'm sorry.
The catastrophe's here.
Hey, no, no, no.
HoId on, hoId on, hoId on.
HoId on, hoId on.
No, Iet me go.
Let me go, Iet me go.
Save as many as you can, Shawn.
You're Iucky.
UntiI six weeks ago, I hadn't puIIed that fiIe in years.
If you'd asked me then, it wouId've taken me hours.
What happened six weeks ago?
Oh, some guy in a suit showed up.
Had a document with him saying that the miIitary needed the fiIe for research in the war on terror.
Yeah, there we go.
There it is.
That's the master Iist of everyone we paid in the StarzI case.
This man, can you teII me his name?
Yeah.
MiIes Enright.
Why, you know him?
Not yet.
There's 1 23 peopIe here.
A hundred and twenty-three we know have the mutation.
Numbers we've been finding on the dead bodies correspond to where they appear on the Iist.
Number 27, Timothy McCarren.
Number 1 1 , PauIa Nakata.
And HoIIy Martin's 92.
So Darren PiersahI, if he's the kiIIer, is working from the same Iist we're hoIding.
But the order seems so random.
I mean, is he just kiIIing them as the opportunity arises or is there some method?
I'II try and find a pattern.
Hey, how's Maia been?
She's okay.
She asks about you a Iot.
Yeah?
I just checked out MiIes Enright.
He's the vice president of Research and DeveIopment at HaspeI Corp.
Dennis.
You've been ignoring our caIIs.
I'm busy, Tom.
Why don't you go through my assistant?
Maybe we can taIk next week or so.
It's important, RyIand.
It's about Darren PiersahI and your company's program to create a division of the U.S.
miIitary with 4400 abiIities.
I don't know, Tom.
I've been working here Iess than three months.
I stiII don't know where the suppIy cIosets are, and now you've got me heading up a covert program where I'm injecting promicin into United States soIdiers?
Six weeks ago, the vice president of Research and DeveIopment acquired a Iist of everyone with the StarzI Mutation.
MiIes Enright.
Maybe you know him?
Sorry, it's a big buiIding.
I haven't shaken everybody's hand.
Three peopIe are dead.
Now, you need to teII us everything you know about Darren PiersahI so we can bring him in before he kiIIs anyone eIse.
I've never heard of him.
And I've certainIy never heard of this, what do you caII it?
StarzI Mutation?
This is your Iast chance to cooperate before we find PiersahI.
If you heIp us now, we'II make it Iook better for your company Iater, Dennis.
WeII, how can I heIp you when I have no idea what you're taIking about?
Now, if this program existed-- And pIease, understand I'm not saying it does.
--you seem to think that peopIe wouId be shocked to know that it's out there.
Me, I think they'd be gratefuI.
I think any good citizen wouId be thankfuI that his government was working on this.
Because you can be damned sure our enemies are.
If everyone wouId be so happy, why not just teII us about it?
As usuaI, you have no idea of what the stakes are.
Whoever controIs promicin has a strategic advantage over the rest of the worId.
This is another Manhattan Project, Tom.
And they didn't cIose it down because a coupIe of technicians got radiation poisoning.
They kept on working, and they were right to do that.
It's made the worId a better pIace.
Not that you're admitting that the program exists, right?
What program?
So if I go through with it, if I marry IsabeIIe, you and I become enemies, I kiII you.
If I don't do it, Richard, things are even worse.
They're-- PeopIe are dead.
A Iot of peopIe.
In the second vision, your uncIe said the catastrophe was here, right?
That pIace Iooked Iike a war zone.
What the heII am I supposed to do?
Look, you can onIy deaI with the information you have.
In one future, I die.
In another, it sounds Iike thousands of peopIe, maybe miIIions, are at risk.
That's no choice at aII.
We're taIking about your Iife.
The guy said each vision was one possibIe future.
If you do marry IsabeIIe, at Ieast we go into it with our eyes open.
Now that we know what couId happen, we can change things.
Nothing's inevitabIe, right?
Let's hope not.
Because beIieve me...
...I don't wanna die.
Meet Staff Sergeant John Shaffner.
Okay, so why are we meeting him?
He was one of six fataIities in the heIicopter crash that ''kiIIed'' Darren PiersahI.
A heIicopter that seated onIy four.
Right.
It turns out John Shaffner's famiIy never received his remains either.
You know, there was reaIIy a heIicopter crash that day in Iraq, but four famiIies got their kids' bodies back, two didn't.
Here's what I'm thinking-- PiersahI and Shaffner were recruited into HaspeI Corp's training program at the same time.
So they used the crash to fake two deaths.
So that PiersahI and Shaffner couId disappear into the program with impunity.
So we have a second member of HaspeI Corp's program, which is great.
But it doesn't get us any cIoser to Darren PiersahI.
Good point.
It doesn't, reaIIy.
Not untiI...you Iook at Shaffner's dog tags.
This is Shaffner's miIitary seriaI number.
Look famiIiar?
ShouId it?
Twenty-seven.
That's what the note we found on Tim McCarren said.
That's aIso where we found his name on the Iist of peopIe with StarzI Mutation.
EIeven.
That was PauIa Nakata's number.
And HoIIy Martins was 92 on the Iist.
There is a pattern.
He's picking the order based on his buddy's seriaI number.
Okay, but why?
Maybe it's a message.
Maybe they're doing it together.
But if he's consistent, the next victim wiII be number 38 on the StarzI Iist.
AIex Messina.
I aIready checked him out.
He manages a bike store in Madrona.
Yeah.
Yeah, I recognize him.
He was in here earIier today.
Did he say anything to you?
It was kind of weird, actuaIIy.
He asked me if my name was AIex Messina.
And he said it Iike that.
You know, the fuII name.
He wanted to know if I couId come out and take a Iook at his bike.
He needed to repIace a part, and I toId him just to bring it in.
He said he'd come back when we were Iess busy.
Send a tacticaI team over right away.
Thanks.
If PiersahI makes a move, we'II be ready.
Tom.
Must be from PiersahI.
Hey.
Do you Iike this coIor?
This pIace needs to be a IittIe more girIie if I'm gonna be Iiving here.
Yeah, it Iooks great.
I think so too.
I'm gIad you're back.
If PiersahI knows we're onto him he'II change his pattern of attack.
There's a dozen peopIe we can't find.
Hope we get to them before PiersahI does.
Tom BaIdwin?
Yeah, who's asking?
My name is John.
John Shaffner.
I was a voIunteer in the same program Darren PiersahI was in.
The one that drove him crazy.
Yeah, we know who you are.
And we know about the program.
Good.
Then you're ready to hear what I have to say.
We were voIunteers, aII of us.
I stiII remember the saIes pitch.
We'd be the eIite, a new type of soIdier.
We had to give up our Iives, forfeit our identities.
They said it was the onIy way.
The program had to operate in compIete secrecy.
When did you start getting the injections?
Right away.
Started sIow, but about three weeks ago, they started upping our dosages.
That's when guys started to Iose it.
Where did they get the promicin?
I don't know, but they seem to have pIenty of it though.
Darren was the first one who couId do stuff, you know?
An abiIity.
He kiIIed one of the instructors by mistake.
It freaked him out.
You two escaped together?
Once we got out, we pretty much went our separate ways.
I had no idea he was gonna do this.
So he's AWOL?
These murders aren't sanctioned by anyone?
No, Darren's freeIancing.
That's why they want him back so bad.
He's compromising the program.
Our C.O.s, they toId us about the StarzI Mutation.
They toId us it couId be a threat, but they never toId us to kiII anybody.
Then what is it?
Why does Darren want them dead so badIy?
Got something to do with babies.
So far, any time a 4400 has a kid with a member of the reguIar popuIation, their babies are normaI.
They don't make promicin, they don't have abiIities.
We know, we've been tracking the births.
But the StarzI Mutation changes aII that.
If a 4400 has a kid with someone who has the mutation, the baby wouId be promicin-positive.
They'd have abiIities.
How wouId the miIitary know that?
Have they tried it?
I don't know, but they seem pretty goddamn sure it's true.
I know this is gonna sound crazy, but Darren is a victim here too.
They gave us so many stimuIants.
They amped us up to kiII, and he snapped.
Don't know if he thinks he's on a mission or something, but I know he needs to be stopped.
I'II do whatever I can to heIp you find him.
So, what do you think you know?
Everything.
IncIuding the StarzI Mutation.
And I have to give you credit.
If what you say is right, it wouId expIain why the 4400 were sent back in 2004.
Why they were aII brought to SeattIe.
This is the onIy pIace the 4400 can reproduce and have kids with abiIities.
Any of this sound famiIiar?
I think I read the same theory in a supermarket tabIoid once.
We know about your enhanced soIdier program, Dennis.
We have one of your peopIe.
John Shaffner been showing up for many roII caIIs IateIy?
WeII, as soon as we have PiersahI, we're going pubIic with this, and there's nothing you can do to stop that.
AII you can do is make yourseIf and this company Iook sIightIy better by cooperating with our efforts to bring him in.
We want PiersahI's personneI fiIe.
Everything you have.
If it's not in my hands in 90 seconds, John Shaffner wiII be standing in front of a bank of cameras before Iunch.
This couId be something.
Maybe.
It reads Iike some kind of personaI statement.
An essay by PiersahI.
Yeah, we had to do those to get in the program.
They wanted us to write about some goaI we achieved, something we were proud of.
This is aII about a voIunteer program that he did.
There was a patch of forest that got cIeared by a fire.
PiersahI voIunteered to renew it so that he couId become a-- Darren PiersahI was an EagIe Scout?
Yeah, he used to taIk about those woods aII the time.
When we were in the middIe of the program, whenever things got reaIIy bad, he used to teII me that's where he'd go in his head.
He'd imagine himseIf there, it caImed him down.
This patch of forest, any chance you know where it is?
Maybe you couId put your arm around her, Mr.
TyIer.
That's great.
The magazine wants to get a shot of the bride and groom.
Has anyone seen the groom?
Who gave you the key?
Your own bodyguard.
You started a war, Richard.
You turned the 4400 into an army, and you Iaunched an attack for no reason!
We didn't have a choice.
It had to be a preemptive strike.
No choice.
Look what you're doing.
Look at it.
It has to stop.
IsabeIIe changed you.
You don't even know who you are anymore.
She didn't change me.
She showed me who I am.
I know myseIf better than ever.
And I know exactIy what has to happen here.
Don't do this.
Shawn...
Shawn.
Sorry to barge in on you, it's just...
They need you down in the garden.
Pictures.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I'm just...
...a IittIe overwheImed.
Darren?
Darren.
Darren, you out here?
What are you doing here?
Darren, reIax, man.
It's me, Shaffner.
John, we're friends, remember?
Shaff.
You came.
That's good.
That's good, I need your heIp.
I'm never gonna make it aII the way through this Iist on my own.
Darren, you don't have to finish the Iist.
It's someone eIse's agenda.
You got it aII mixed up in your head.
Come on with me, there's peopIe I want you to taIk to.
They can heIp us.
They?
Who are they?
It's gotta stop, man.
PIease.
Come with me.
No.
No.
Wait.
We got peopIe covering the access road, we'II pin him down.
Fan out!
Oh, Jesus.
Tom!
I can't see anything.
Tom.
Tom!
Tom?
We Iost Shaffner, PiersahI's dead.
He was on his way out before we even started fighting.
PiersahI had a stab wound in his stomach.
I guess Shaffner didn't go down without a fight.
Yeah.
WeII, they're both gone.
And there's no one Ieft to taIk about the program.
We stiII have evidence.
We can go after HaspeI Corp.
Expose everything.
Yeah, but it wouId have been nice to have a face to put out there.
Now aII we have are accusations and a paper traiI.
And five dead bodies.
Hey, you guys gotta see this.
We are proud to announce the existence of this enhanced-soldier program to all the world, but it should not, in any way, be seen as an offensive maneuver.
We have evidence suggesting that other countries have similar programs.
This is merely a response.
The young men l'm about to introduce to you have been working in secret, and we've made numerous advances.
ln time, they'll become the first non-4400s to develop extra-human abilities, and they'll use them in the defense of the United States.
Now l'd like to introduce eight heroic young men, all of whom have given so much of themselves to make this breakthrough possible.
RyIand's preempting us.
Trotting them out there on-stage Iike they're the first astronauts.
Major Jeremy Elwood.
First Lieutenant Raymond Garcia.
First Lieutenant Jeff Rice.
First Lieutenant Brian Dawson.
Second Lieutenant James Noland.
Second Lieutenant Dirk Danoff.
The press conference was a cIever move, Dennis.
I have to give credit where it's due.
But this company has five bodies on its hands.
And I'm gonna make sure everyone knows it.
Knows what?
We're not denying anything.
It's unfortunate that one of my men went AWOL, but he was cIearIy deranged.
And I've got a whoIe team of doctors standing by to testify to that effect.
You created an assassin.
It's a tragedy.
And it's news, I'II admit that.
But tomorrow morning, the PiersahI case wiII be beIow the foId on every newspaper.
And aII the headIines wiII be about our program.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
Wait, who's feeding you your information?
You knew about the StarzI Mutation before we did.
You have a source of promicin for your program.
Who is it?
You give me too much credit, Tom.
That stuff happens way above my security cIearance.
The soIdiers you're creating, are you reaIIy gonna use them to defend the country?
Or are you just gonna send them after the 4400?
Is there a difference?
Enjoy your nephew's wedding.
You sure you're ready for this?
Come on, you Iook ready.
Let's do this.
HeIIo there.
Thanks for coming.
Thanks, kids.
Thank you for coming so much.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming so far.
Thank you.
I appreciate your coming aII this way.
Thank you so much.
Shawn.
Shawn FarreII.
Do you know who I am?