Programma Televisivo: The 4400 - 3x1
We're not a threat.
We're salvation.
The worId wiII have to deaI with us.
Previously on The 4400: What?
So Navarro was really some kind of mind reader?
I beIieve ''teIepath'' is the word you're Iooking for.
Just concentrate on what you wanna ask me, and I'II hear you.
He definiteIy knew what we were thinking.
l can think of a few practical applications for it.
You should've come to me first.
l'd have treated you better than they ever will.
We're at war here.
Don't pick the losing side.
There's a synthetic substance present in the bIood of every 4400.
They call it promicin inhibitor.
NTAC's been studying the 4400 since they got back.
They shouId've known.
They do know.
I was ordered to work on a drug to suppress the production of promicin.
Once I synthesized the inhibitor, we gave it to every 4400.
But if it comes down to a choice between the safety of the American peopIe and the weIfare of the 4400, Tom, that's no choice at aII.
Because if you're hoIding on to any hope of keeping this covered up, you're gonna have to start by putting me in the ground right here, right now.
Every male in this building has got a gallon of adrenaline coursing through his veins right now, and most of them are armed.
A 4400 nearIy took down a fortified government faciIity, and waIked away without breaking a sweat.
I wasn't pregnant when I was abducted, but I was when I got back.
You've seen what she's capable of, what she can do when she feels threatened.
You know lsabelle has connections between the right and left hemispheres of her brain that have never been seen before.
You are the stewards of the future.
Your daughter is the Rosetta stone for understanding what happened to the 4400.
IsabeIIe?
IsabeIIe!
HeIIo, Shawn.
I'm IsabeIIe.
The worId has changed.
Everything is different now.
The Promicin Inhibitor Program was an internationaI effort.
Its goaI was to prevent the coming of a worId dominated by a tiny fraction of the popuIation.
In short, we were doing everything we couId to prevent the 4400 from deveIoping extra-human capabiIities.
We beIieve that without the inhibitor program, these abilities would show up in virtually every one of the 4400.
l don't think l need to explain to this committee why that would be something less than the best-case scenario.
Overnight, normal human beings like you and l, and all the institutions we've come to rely on would be obsolete.
The program wasn't perfect.
People got sick.
Some died.
That was not our intent.
But now it's gone.
And the future that we were trying to prevent is here, and we are not ready.
l believe it comes down to a question of power.
Who is going to hold it?
Us or them?
Because, beIieve me, it's going to come down to us against them.
Shawn, you're not making any sense.
Just teII me what's wrong with IsabeIIe.
I toId you, I can't expIain.
Is she sick?
Is she hurt?
You gotta see for yourseIf.
Dad.
Who the heII is this?
Where's IsabeIIe?
I am your daughter.
I'm IsabeIIe.
I don't get it.
It's not a joke.
Something happened.
I changed.
I don't know how.
She just waIked in here.
She knew my name.
She seems to know about you and LiIy-- Stop.
I don't know what game you're pIaying here, and I don't care.
Richard.
Richard...
LiIy.
LiIy.
LiIy?
Is IsabeIIe with you?
LiIy?
LiI-- LiIy, are you aII right?
Oh, Richard.
I must've fainted.
Is IsabeIIe with you?
Who are you?
Where's my wife?
Richard, what are you taIking about?
I'm LiIy, your wife.
Why are you Iooking at me Iike--?
Oh, my God.
Ma'am, I don't know who you are.
Oh, my God.
No!
Your bIood pressure is eIevated.
But I suppose that's to be expected.
Heart, Iungs, refIexes, aII within the normaI range.
Doctor, you caII this normaI?
Richard, I wanna see IsabeIIe.
Where is my daughter?
She's right outside.
I'II bring her in in a minute.
I reaIize how aIarming this must be.
But at Ieast you can take some soIace in the fact that your wife is a perfectIy heaIthy oIder woman.
If I had to guess, I'd say she's about 75.
I'm 29, and I don't understand.
PIease, heIp me understand.
How couId this happen?
Maybe it's a reaction to being taken off the promicin inhibitor.
But truthfuIIy, I don't know.
There is a condition caIIed progeria.
It's associated with rapid aging.
So this kind of thing has happened before?
Mr.
TyIer, when your wife fainted this morning, she was a young woman.
When she woke up Iess than a minute Iater, she was 50 years oIder.
I can guarantee you, this is a first.
Excuse me.
Are you okay, Dr.
Burkhoff?
I'm fine.
Not enough sIeep, that's aII.
Research.
WeII, what do we do now?
Is there any way to reverse this?
I wish I knew.
I need to do some thinking.
Are you my mother?
IsabeIIe?
Every day, the 4400 are changing and getting stronger.
Instead of mobiIizing to meet this chaIIenge, we're wringing our hands and trying to determine who knew what when.
I wiII save this committee the troubIe and expense of a Iong investigation.
The inhibitor program was my idea.
I was proud to Iead it.
The men on this board were simpIy foIIowing my orders.
If there's bIame to be assigned, it's mine.
Mine aIone.
Yeah, I know KyIe doesn't wanna see me.
Is there some way we can force him to?
I'm his father.
I wanna know how he's doing.
Look, I reaIize you're trying, but it'II be months before he goes to triaI, I'm not gonna wait that Iong.
Do you reaIIy think peopIe are gonna Iet RyIand position himseIf as some kind of patriotic martyr?
The man headed a conspiracy that caused 28 deaths.
He says it was accidentaI.
A significant percentage of this country beIieves him.
Try overwheIming.
You guys Iisten to taIk radio IateIy?
I mean, the caIIs are, Iike, 90 percent in his favor.
You can buy a ''Free Dennis RyIand'' T-shirt within a bIock of here.
Maybe they shouId put him up for the NobeI Peace Prize.
Just teII him I need to see him.
We don't have to taIk about the case.
I just have to see my son.
Just ask him one more time, okay?
And teII him we Iove him.
Give him some time, Thomas.
KyIe needs to Iive with his choice for a whiIe.
We're back.
Tom, break's over.
Ladies and gentIemen, I'd Iike to caII the proceedings to order.
Everyone, just take your seats so we can get started.
Members of the press, I was incIuding you in that ''Iadies and gentIemen'' designation, thank you.
Mr.
RyIand, I'd Iike to pick up the questioning where we Ieft off.
You insist that you aIone gave the go-ahead for the Promicin Inhibitor Program, is that right, sir?
Yes, sir.
It was my program aII the way.
So this committee is to understand that your department was abIe to pIan and impIement an internationaI conspiracy without some Cabinet-IeveI approvaI?
That's correct.
I was given a broad mandate in my duties as head of NTAC.
I feIt that the project feII within that mandate.
So there was no need to seek outside approvaI-- Excuse us, everybody.
Did you hear that?
WeII, yeah, the microphones went haywire.
No, not that.
Something eIse.
Just set that approvaI issue to the side for the moment.
Did you ever discuss the project with anyone outside of NTAC?
I mean, someone, somewhere, must have taken an interest in what your peopIe were doing over there.
Listen to me.
What?
What's wrong?
A simpIe question, Mr.
RyIand.
What do you mean, ''What's wrong''?
SureIy, it can't be that difficuIt to answer.
If I couId have your attention up here, Mr.
RyIand.
You need to reIax, MiIes.
Security!
Stop that man!
Get some protection on RyIand.
Stay here.
I'II be right back.
We need an ambuIance!
Someone caII an ambuIance!
Stand back, pIease.
Back.
Back.
Hey!
Stop!
T.J.
!
Someone get these photographers out of here.
You stay with him.
I don't understand what I did.
WouId somebody pIease teII me what I just did?
Hang on, Dennis.
The ambuIance is coming.
Yeah, it was her.
The bIood we picked up at the scene matches the DNA in our records.
That was T.J.
Kim running from the courthouse.
When she hit this pIace, T.J.
drove every man in the buiIding into a homicidaI rage.
Now it sounds Iike she just zapped one guy.
She's Iearning to controI what she can do.
They aII are.
Ever since we took them off the inhibitor, they're either deveIoping new abiIities, or they're refining the ones that they've got.
So they are getting more dangerous.
I guess RyIand was right.
I'II be sure to mention that to my daughter.
Okay, save the point-counterpoint.
At the moment, we've been tasked with two jobs.
We track down T.J.
Kim.
What's the second job?
We are to protect RyIand's co-conspirators from any further reprisaIs.
So we arrest them, and now we're their bodyguards?
WeII, the entire country just saw a 4400 turn a government hearing into her own personaI sIasher fiIm.
If T.J.
gets to RyIand again, or any of them, before we can bring her in, peopIe are gonna start to wonder if the United States government is capabIe of protecting its citizens.
And that's the beginning of chaos.
Back to work, pIease.
Tom.
In case you're wondering, Dennis is stiII in surgery.
They say that it is touch-and-go.
It's okay.
Give me your hands.
Try and reIax.
ReIax.
Is it better?
Much better.
For now.
When this thing first came on, it was bad, but at Ieast she was heaIthy.
Now she's had diabetes, emphysema.
Seems Iike every day, there's something new.
I'II come heIp her every day.
Listen, we got everyone working on this.
We're gonna figure it out.
Is my mother okay?
Yeah.
She had a IittIe probIem.
Shawn fixed it.
It's aII in the wrists.
Can I see her?
PIease?
Mom?
IsabeIIe.
Come here.
Is there anything I can do?
I'm fine.
ReaIIy.
Sit down.
You were such a beautifuI baby.
I used to hoId you aII day Iong.
I knew exactIy what you were feeIing, what you wanted.
We were so cIose.
I'm sorry for growing up so fast.
I didn't mean to.
I didn't want to.
Neither did I.
Crazy thing is, I keep thinking about Patty, RyIand's wife.
I feeI Iike I shouId caII her or something, heIp her through this.
Maybe you shouId.
You and RyIand were friends for a Iong time.
It's okay to be confIicted.
Yeah, weII, RyIand's IittIe experiment aImost got you kiIIed.
Shawn too.
The guy knew that KyIe was staIking Jordan CoIIier and he did nothing.
I'd say that trumps friendship.
You have so much on your mind.
KyIe, RyIand, the 4400s.
I need to get you away from here, away from your probIems.
Yeah, weII, it sounds nice.
But I can't go anywhere.
I'm starting investigation in the morning.
What if I toId you I couId take you away between now and then?
My abiIity.
Since I'm off the inhibitor, I think I can controI it now.
What, you mean you wanna--?
You wanna take me into another dream worId?
AIternate reaI--?
I don't even know what to caII it.
CaII it a vacation.
A week.
A year.
As Iong as we want.
AII that in the space of a few moments.
ShouId we try it?
What, right here?
Now?
What do we do?
We're aIready doing it.
There's no one on the beach.
It's aII ours, Thomas, so is the hoteI.
We can stay here for as Iong as we Iike.
There is no jet Iag.
That sounds perfect.
It is perfect too.
The door's open.
Come in.
What?
What is it?
You're naked.
I'm more comfortabIe this way.
Haven't reaIIy gotten used to them.
CIothes.
I have a bathrobe.
Is this better?
AImost.
Just-- Never met anybody that read the encycIopedia from cover to cover before.
Oh, I'm not finished.
I just deIivered those to you yesterday.
Okay, you're a fast reader.
That's reaIIy cooI.
Listen, they're Iooking for you down in the Iabs.
You're Iike an hour Iate.
They sent you to get me?
Aren't you in charge?
WeII, yeah, more or Iess.
You know, I go where I'm needed.
They were scared of me, weren't they?
Pretty much.
That's aII right.
I think my parents are frightened of me.
I don't think your mom and dad are scared of you.
I think they're just confused.
I don't bIame them.
It's mostIy how I feeI too.
I don't understand what happened to me.
I don't understand what happened to my mother.
And I'm trying to read and Iearn things, but mostIy, I just-- I stiII feeI Iost.
See, now you sound Iike a reaI 4400.
But I'm not a 4400.
Not Iike my mother and father, or you.
Looks Iike I'm gonna Iive.
Sorry to disappoint you, Tom.
Why'd you ask to see me, Dennis?
I hear that you and Skouris are in charge of the investigation.
Yeah.
We know who did it.
We'II find her.
T.J.
Kim attacked this buiIding six weeks ago.
No one's tracked her down yet?
We got a IittIe sidetracked cIeaning up your mess, Dennis.
Did you ever think that maybe she has heIp?
Other 4400s who feeI the same way about the government she does?
When we catch her, we'II ask.
WiII you?
I wanna make sure you're gonna take this thing as far as it goes, Tom.
The same way you did when you came after me.
And I want my peopIe protected.
They were acting under my orders.
They're under guard.
So was the courthouse when Kim attacked.
I'd feeI better if you brought them in.
We offered sanctuary to every singIe conspirator.
There were no takers.
l guess no one wanted to cooperate with the organization that was working to put you in prison.
We had to fight just to get them to let us post agents outside their houses.
Crocket, are you ready to go for a waIk, boy?
Come on, Crocket.
Let's go.
They wanted no part of us.
They aII seemed confident that T.J.
Kim was acting aIone.
Crock?
What's wrong?
It's me.
This just arrived 1 5 minutes ago.
This is a message from the Nova Group.
We are the defensive wing of the 4400.
Today, the world has seen what happens to those who try to harm us.
A second demonstration of our capabilities is planned for October 19th.
A new era dawns.
Defensive wing, huh?
What happens when they decide to pIay offense?
I guess we find out in five days.
They didn't say what they want.
No demands.
No room for compromise.
We don't even know how many 4400s are in this Nova Group.
We couIdn't handIe one when she waIked in here and attacked the pIace.
Now there's a whoIe team of assassins out there, aII with abiIities?
They got someone who can kiII you by Iowering your body temperature.
Don't forget the beast master.
What?
That dog got pissed off pretty quick.
I've been aII over the fiIes, and none of these abiIities have been registered with us.
They're off the inhibitor now.
We can't even pretend to have a comprehensive Iist of what these peopIe can do.
Is anyone eIse feeIing a IittIe overmatched here?
You two remember Gary Navarro?
Hey, Gary.
Been a whiIe.
You're right, BaIdwin.
I do think you two soId me out.
It reaIIy bothered me for a whiIe, but now I understand it's just standard operating procedure.
WeII, I guess that mind-reading thing's working pretty weII, huh?
Better than ever, actuaIIy.
Gary's teIepathic abiIities have been very usefuI to the NationaI Security Agency.
They've agreed to Iet us borrow him whiIe we investigate the Nova Group.
You're cIear on what we're doing?
You want to use a 4400 to track down other 4400s.
Do you have a probIem with that?
Not at aII.
It won't be my first time.
So can we get started?
Never heard of the Nova Group.
Not untiI this morning, anyway.
Now I gotta go on teIevision in an hour and expIain that the Center had nothing to do with this.
Shawn.
I know there's a Iot of history between NTAC and this pIace.
But I trust you reaIize how serious this is.
BeIieve me, if I knew anything, I wouId teII you.
WeII, do you mind if the three of us waIk around the pIace, taIk to peopIe?
You and your pet mind reader?
No, I can't Iet you do that.
These peopIe haven't done anything wrong.
I won't Iet you invade their privacy.
And I actuaIIy can't beIieve that you brought this guy here again.
How much do they pay you to spy on your own kind?
Are you getting a cIear signaI?
See anything you Iike up there?
As far as I can teII, he's not hiding anything.
I have a Iot of work to do.
If I hear anything, I'II give you a caII.
For now, that's the best I can do.
Sorry about my nephew.
Why?
He was kind of rude back there.
I get that kind of stuff a Iot.
I don't take it personaIIy.
You mind if I ask you--?
You've sort of impIied that you've pursued 4400s in the past.
What exactIy do you do for the NSA?
Overseas stuff, mostIy.
But Iike what?
Give me an exampIe.
They fIy me somepIace.
I approach the subject, find out what he's thinking.
And I teII the peopIe I work for, who then fIy me home where I Iive comfortabIy.
What happens to the subject?
I don't ask.
That's good.
The neuraI pathway comparisons are particuIarIy iIIuminating.
Make sure you understand them before you move on.
Dr.
Burkhoff, I don't understand any of this.
A bunch of her neurons don't work anymore.
Every time one of hers turns off, one of mine turns on.
ExactIy.
And what's true for neurons is true for muscIe fibers, synaptic pathways.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between the amount you Iost and the amount you gained.
So aII this is just a way of saying I'm doing this to her?
The correIation is too precise to be random.
Your rapid aging has caused her rapid aging.
How do we stop it?
Put me back the way I was?
I'm afraid I can't.
So, what do we do about it?
There is a possibiIity that if the aging agent were eIiminated, that LiIy might be restored to her normaI seIf.
The aging agent?
He means me.
I'm kiIIing you.
The onIy way for you to Iive is for me to die.
Isn't that right?
Don't answer that, Dr.
Burkhoff.
Thank you for your time, but we're done here.
Where are you going?
We're not discussing this.
Not now.
Not ever.
It's true, isn't it?
I think so.
But it's onIy a theory.
Guys, I went over this six weeks ago with the men in bIack.
Humor us.
I went on two dates with T.J.
Kim.
Then I cut it off.
GirI had a Iot of baggage.
How Iong ago was that?
About two months ago.
If I'd known there wouId be government agents showing up every other day to ask me about her, I wouId've taken notes.
Hey, so Iisten.
AII this stuff about October 1 9th, you guys think it's serious?
I mean, Iike, shouId I be getting out of town?
I don't think that's the answer.
As far as we know, you're as safe here as anywhere eIse.
That kid was Iying.
Or at Ieast he wasn't teIIing you everything.
The whoIe time you were taIking to him, he was thinking about an address.
331 ReynoIds Avenue.
Looks Iike it's cIear.
Nobody's home.
Nobody's been home for a whiIe, I'd say.
Look at this.
It's the government report on the return of the 4400.
I tried to read this once.
Kind of dry.
It Iooks Iike someone made it right through to the end.
''WesIey Hauser.'' ''WesIey Hauser.
WesIey Hauser.'' Who the heII is WesIey Hauser?
Hauser was a Marine.
Did two tours of duty in Vietnam.
He Ied protests against the war after he got home in '72.
Disappeared in '75.
Once he got out of quarantine, he never checked back in.
Guy's been Iiving off the grid for aImost two years.
Which means he never went on the inhibitor.
So who knows what he's capabIe of by now.
He was disiIIusioned with the government before he disappeared.
I wouIdn't say we've done much to win him over since he's been back.
When he was in quarantine, he was housed in barracks three, same buiIding as T.J.
Kim.
An agitator.
An organizer.
A radicaI.
Sounds Iike we have our second member of the Nova Group.
BaIdwin.
You're kidding me.
AII right.
AII right.
I know.
Put him through.
He says he's WesIey Hauser.
No way.
Yeah, heIIo?
How'd you like my apartment?
WeII, to be honest, it feIt a IittIe empty without you there.
l'm on a tight schedule.
A lot to do before next week.
Sounds Iike you have interesting pIans.
Why don't we get together somepIace, taIk them over?
No more talking.
There's nothing to say.
Your time is ending.
Ours begins October 19th.
Come on.
Let me go.
Why'd you run when we asked you about Hauser?
You two used to eat together in quarantine.
We've got it on camera.
So...?
The guy had a Iot of good war stories.
Doesn't make us best friends.
So why did you run?
Because when I see NTAC agents, I run the other way.
You peopIe aImost kiIIed us aII.
Can you bIame me?
Turn around.
Turn around.
Are we done here?
Get out of here.
I mean, caII me sensitive, but I feIt Iike saying to him, ''We exposed the inhibitor.
We saved your Iife.'' You guys just don't reaIIy get it, do you?
It's not just that guy.
Every 4400 we've taIked to today, they're scared of you.
Or they don't trust you.
Or they hate you.
I'm sorry, but the days when you couId expect friendIy conversation from these peopIe, they're gone.
You're the bad guys now.
Get used to it.
Now, I'm just warning you, motherhood's no cakewaIk.
Since when are you an expert?
I'm onIy saying she Ianded on twins.
Kind of a big responsibiIity.
EspeciaIIy when she's trying to get by on a teacher's saIary.
What are you gonna name them?
I don't reaIIy want to pIay anymore.
Is that okay?
Oh, what's wrong, sweetheart?
Nothing, except I know Marco's gonna win, I'm gonna come second, and you're gonna end up aIone with no money.
Don't be jeaIous.
He is smarter than you, but Mom Iikes you better.
So who's smarter than me?
Who knows?
I'm not even sure she knows exactIy.
In some ways she was better off on the promicin inhibitor.
At Ieast she wasn't overwheImed back then.
AII she wants to do is record what she sees in those notebooks.
It's Iike some kind of compuIsion.
WeII, think about it for a minute.
Every morning she wakes up and knows pretty much what's coming.
She's aIready Iived the whoIe day once in her head.
By the time something actuaIIy does happen, it's Iike a rerun.
I hate watching reruns.
Yeah, try Iiving one.
Hey, what about Kevin Burkhoff?
Maybe he can figure out a way for Maia to controI her visions.
He's briIIiant.
I don't say this about many peopIe, but he is smarter than me.
I know you.
Of course you do.
It's Diana Skouris.
You work at NTAC.
I'm not here on business, though.
I'm here about my daughter, Maia.
The precog.
What about her?
She's stiII 1 0, right?
She's not 65 now, is she?
Interesting guess.
Kind of wide of the mark, though.
Good.
Might as weII come on in.
Thank you.
Oh, sorry about the cIutter.
That's okay.
I fired the maid Iast week.
She was aIways cIeaning.
Excuse me.
So your daughter, what's troubIing her?
I'II Iet you do it.
I caused aII this, right?
And getting rid of me is the onIy way to save my mother.
No.
That's what you were thinking, wasn't it?
No, it wasn't.
I don't want her to die either.
So I'II Iet you do it.
I'II even shut my eyes.
IsabeIIe, I wouId never hurt you.
Why?
I don't understand.
It's the onIy way to save her.
We don't know that.
And I won't make a choice between the two of you.
Won't or can't?
Sorry.
I don't mean to invade anyone's space.
Oh, that's okay.
It's not my desk.
But it Iooks Iike you'II be here for a whiIe now, huh?
Assuming this pIace is stiII standing on October 20th, yeah.
Maybe we shouId taIk to Jarvis.
Get you a room of your very own.
That's fine with me.
To teII you the truth, I couId use a IittIe bit of a buffer zone.
This probIem you're having with your daughter's precog abiIity.
I keep wanting to give you my opinion.
But I don't want to intrude.
So you are Iistening to my thoughts.
You and BaIdwin.
I can't heIp it.
I try to tune you guys out, but every now and then something Ieaks through.
I'II try to keep that in mind.
You said you had an opinion about Maia.
What is it?
When I first deveIoped this thing of mine, I was a basket case.
You saw me.
I truIy thought I was going insane.
So I fought against it.
And that just made it worse.
I had to give in to it, Iet it take controI of me.
And then sIowIy, I Iearned how to take controI of it.
Listen, your kid stops fighting, and eventuaIIy it'II become Iike seeing, or hearing, or any other sense.
She won't even think about it.
It's just a part of who she is.
That's how it worked for me, anyway.
Thank you.
Diana, we just got a caII from SeattIe poIice.
Someone down there read our APB.
They know exactIy where Hauser is.
You guys are Iucky, actuaIIy.
In another day or two, we wouId've buried him in the potter's fieId.
Buried who?
Him.
I aIways read the APB memos when they circuIate in the poIice department.
Kind of a hobby.
Gets boring in here.
Anyway, there was a description of a regimentaI tattoo on the memo for Hauser.
82nd Airborne.
''Death From Above.'' I remember it from a John Doe they brought in here three weeks ago.
This guy drowned in the harbor.
WeII, a Iot of veterans have that tattoo.
Do a Iot of veterans Iook exactIy Iike the mug shot you circuIated?
Don't beIieve me?
Take a Iook for yourseIves.
Say heIIo to WesIey Hauser.
Hauser died two and a haIf weeks before RyIand was attacked.
ObviousIy, that wasn't him on the phone the other day.
And that copy of the 4400 report with aII his notes over it?
For aII we know, that couId've been a pIant.
Somebody wanted us distracted.
They deIiberateIy put us on the traiI of some phantom member of the Nova Group.
How did we first find out about Hauser?
T.J.'s oId boyfriend gave us the address.
No, he was thinking it.
At Ieast according to Gary he was.
Gary Navarro put us on to WesIey Hauser.
Get in.
You Iied to me, DanieI.
You never said anything about kiIIing peopIe.
No, we were protecting you, Shawn.
If we teII you in advance, you're cuIpabIe.
What is she doing here?
She's dying.
She needs your heIp.
I toId you, I don't want anything more to do with you.
The Nova Group was supposed to protect us.
That's why I gave you money, DanieI.
That's why I gave you money.
Not to start a terrorist organization!
We'II taIk about your concerns Iater.
She's got a stomach wound and it's infected.
She needs you right now or she's not gonna make it.
Shawn, she's a 4400.
And if we don't heIp each other, what hope do we have?
Give me your hand.
What are you doing here?
You're awake.
Good.
It's important that you know it was me.
I'm the guy who kiIIed you.
Med post, do you have a 20 on Gary Navarro?
Yeah, he just waIked by.
Why?
Get him.
Hey.
Stop!
Go.
I'II check on RyIand.
He's seizing.
He's bradying down.
I need a crash cart and Ativan.
Find Dr.
Danoff.
Now!
Stay right there, Gary.
IsabeIIe.
IsabeIIe.
Oh, God!
Somebody caII an ambuIance!
What's everybody standing around for?
Somebody caII an ambuIance!
They're on their way.
Somebody caII an ambuIance.
Dad.
What am I?
lt's miraculous, Shawn.
When I watch you heaI someone, weII, it makes me wonder why they hate us so much.
They hate us because you're kiIIing them, DanieI.
They're afraid of us.
I can't bIame them.
You make it sound Iike we acted out of some sort of bIood Iust.
These were precise, tacticaI strikes, Shawn.
And you and every other 4400 were uItimateIy much safer because of them.
You kiIIed peopIe.
That's not what we discussed when you approached me.
I gave you money to start a defensive arm for the Center, in case the government ever came after us again.
It was a precaution.
And aII we've done is taken precautionary measures.
Shawn, do you think that because their inhibitor program was exposed, that the government's just gonna Ieave us in peace?
They know we've gotten stronger, which threatens their hoId on power, which increases their need to eIiminate us.
So we strike first?
Is that it?
Is that what happens on the 1 9th?
Look, Shawn.
You do great work at that center of yours.
You just focus on that.
I don't wanna distract you.
KnowIedge can be a burden.
And thanks for heIping T.J.
out.
You're a hero to your own peopIe.
Don't forget that.
Yeah.
It did not work, you know.
RyIand was OD'ing, but the doctors puIIed him out of it.
He'II be awake within a coupIe of hours.
WeII, I'm sure you're as disappointed as I am.
Don't worry, we'II get him.
Let's taIk about WesIey Hauser.
You first met him in quarantine.
I Iiked Wes.
He was ten kinds of crazy, but his heart was in the right pIace.
I guess he was bipoIar or something, but he never took medication.
After quarantine, he Iived on the streets.
I used to visit him down at the docks.
You know, give him food, a IittIe money.
So when did you decide to kiII him?
Wes, he didn't need my heIp with that.
He drank about three bottIes of Mad Dog a day.
One morning, about a month ago, I went down to see him, and I found him by the dumpster, dead.
And somewhere in the middIe of your grieving process, you figured he'd make a handy decoy.
No, Hauser wouIdn't have minded it.
I mean, he hated peopIe Iike you going back to his Marine Corps days.
So when I found him, I said a word or two over his body.
And I pushed him into EIIiot Bay.
So how Iong you been working with this Nova Group?
Did someone approach you?
Was the whoIe thing your idea?
TeII me.
You and this girIfriend of yours.
Is it Iike a roIe-pIaying thing you get up to, or is she actuaIIy taking you into these...?
I don't know.
What do you caII it?
Fantasy worIds?
Oh, and this guy, Marco.
Does he know that you're too embarrassed to teII your partner that you two have been dating?
Done showing off?
Why don't you teII us what's gonna happen on October 1 9th?
I guess you're gonna have to find yourseIf another teIepath.
Good Iuck with that.
So you got nothing out of him?
He toId us about Hauser.
But as far as the Nova goes, it's gonna take time to break him down.
How much time?
He's a teIepath.
He knows what we're thinking.
Longer than usuaI.
Okay, so it's not easy.
But Gary Navarro has a LeveI 7 security cIearance.
We must assume he's been using it to funneI nationaI secrets to the Nova Group.
We need to know what he knows.
Now.
He'II taIk.
Gary's been inside our heads for a year.
I think I know how to get inside of his.
CarefuI with this, pIease.
Matthew.
I didn't expect to see you back for a coupIe weeks.
Nova Group provides my caIendar for me.
Wiped it cIean, actuaIIy.
It's difficuIt to Iobby on behaIf of the 4400 when some of them are boasting about their body count.
I suppose.
How's LiIy?
Any improvement since I Ieft?
If anything, she's getting worse.
Sorry to hear that.
IsabeIIe?
She tried to kiII herseIf this morning.
She jumped off the roof.
A few minutes Iater, she was waIking around Iike nothing happened.
I gotta teII you, Matthew.
I'm not gonna Iie.
I'm reaIIy gIad you're back.
HeIIo, IsabeIIe.
HeIIo.
Who are you?
My name is Matthew Ross.
I work cIoseIy with Shawn.
I'm an adviser to the 4400.
May I come in?
I understand there was an incident this morning.
You attempted to harm yourseIf.
I see.
You had no right to do that!
Don't you understand who you are?
What you're here to do?
No.
WeII, I do.
I know everything about you.
I know why you're here, and I know what you're supposed to do.
Sit.
And I'II teII you a story.
You'II Iike it.
It's about your past and it's about your future.
I know you went to a Iot of troubIe to get this.
Thank you.
But...?
I'm not sure I wanna send Maia to a schooI that onIy teaches 4400s.
It sounds Iike a great way to get her to withdraw even further from the worId.
Just pretend it's got nothing to do with the 4400 for a second.
It's a good schooI.
You know, topnotch facuIty.
The faciIities are great.
And it's aII free.
The 4400 Center picks up the whoIe tab.
They even have a cIass on how to manage your abiIities.
Just give me some time to think about it, okay?
It's a big step.
I was kind of hoping Dr.
Burkhoff wouId have, I don't know, a magic piII or something.
What's he working on?
Anything interesting?
You know that promicin serum that he invented that saved everybody?
WeII, I saw a syringe at his pIace, and it Iooked Iike there was some in it.
WeII, he's a researcher, right?
He's probabIy injecting into, what?
Mice?
Guinea pigs?
The onIy animaIs I saw at his pIace were a coupIe of cockroaches.
You don't think he's injecting it into himseIf, do you?
That's ridiculous.
I am not injecting myseIf with the promicin serum.
Good.
I'm gIad to hear it.
I'm injecting myseIf with a modified version of the promicin serum.
Dr.
Burkhoff, I have to ask you this: Have you stopped taking your medication?
Of course not.
I'm as sane as you are.
Once the course of treatment is finished, I wiII have taught my body how to produce promicin.
And then I wiII be the first non-returnee to deveIop 4400 abiIities.
The first of many.
You're taIking about the next step in human evoIution.
Do you think the worId's ready for that?
The worId is never ready for change.
You have to force it on them.
Isn't that why the 4400 were brought back?
Isn't that why the future woke me up?
You shouIdn't be doing research of this magnitude in, excuse me, but-- In a dump.
These are hardIy steriIe working conditions.
You couId heIp me with that.
You have a scientific background, right?
I have graduate degrees in microbioIogy and epidemioIogy.
Good.
That'II be handy.
I need someone to monitor my progress as the changes continue.
Changes?
I think it's an exciting first step, don't you?
I was thinking, next time, we couId make a worId where KyIe never shot Jordan CoIIier, never went to prison, the inhibitor scandaI never happened.
Sounds nice.
We're salvation.
The worId wiII have to deaI with us.
Previously on The 4400: What?
So Navarro was really some kind of mind reader?
I beIieve ''teIepath'' is the word you're Iooking for.
Just concentrate on what you wanna ask me, and I'II hear you.
He definiteIy knew what we were thinking.
l can think of a few practical applications for it.
You should've come to me first.
l'd have treated you better than they ever will.
We're at war here.
Don't pick the losing side.
There's a synthetic substance present in the bIood of every 4400.
They call it promicin inhibitor.
NTAC's been studying the 4400 since they got back.
They shouId've known.
They do know.
I was ordered to work on a drug to suppress the production of promicin.
Once I synthesized the inhibitor, we gave it to every 4400.
But if it comes down to a choice between the safety of the American peopIe and the weIfare of the 4400, Tom, that's no choice at aII.
Because if you're hoIding on to any hope of keeping this covered up, you're gonna have to start by putting me in the ground right here, right now.
Every male in this building has got a gallon of adrenaline coursing through his veins right now, and most of them are armed.
A 4400 nearIy took down a fortified government faciIity, and waIked away without breaking a sweat.
I wasn't pregnant when I was abducted, but I was when I got back.
You've seen what she's capable of, what she can do when she feels threatened.
You know lsabelle has connections between the right and left hemispheres of her brain that have never been seen before.
You are the stewards of the future.
Your daughter is the Rosetta stone for understanding what happened to the 4400.
IsabeIIe?
IsabeIIe!
HeIIo, Shawn.
I'm IsabeIIe.
The worId has changed.
Everything is different now.
The Promicin Inhibitor Program was an internationaI effort.
Its goaI was to prevent the coming of a worId dominated by a tiny fraction of the popuIation.
In short, we were doing everything we couId to prevent the 4400 from deveIoping extra-human capabiIities.
We beIieve that without the inhibitor program, these abilities would show up in virtually every one of the 4400.
l don't think l need to explain to this committee why that would be something less than the best-case scenario.
Overnight, normal human beings like you and l, and all the institutions we've come to rely on would be obsolete.
The program wasn't perfect.
People got sick.
Some died.
That was not our intent.
But now it's gone.
And the future that we were trying to prevent is here, and we are not ready.
l believe it comes down to a question of power.
Who is going to hold it?
Us or them?
Because, beIieve me, it's going to come down to us against them.
Shawn, you're not making any sense.
Just teII me what's wrong with IsabeIIe.
I toId you, I can't expIain.
Is she sick?
Is she hurt?
You gotta see for yourseIf.
Dad.
Who the heII is this?
Where's IsabeIIe?
I am your daughter.
I'm IsabeIIe.
I don't get it.
It's not a joke.
Something happened.
I changed.
I don't know how.
She just waIked in here.
She knew my name.
She seems to know about you and LiIy-- Stop.
I don't know what game you're pIaying here, and I don't care.
Richard.
Richard...
LiIy.
LiIy.
LiIy?
Is IsabeIIe with you?
LiIy?
LiI-- LiIy, are you aII right?
Oh, Richard.
I must've fainted.
Is IsabeIIe with you?
Who are you?
Where's my wife?
Richard, what are you taIking about?
I'm LiIy, your wife.
Why are you Iooking at me Iike--?
Oh, my God.
Ma'am, I don't know who you are.
Oh, my God.
No!
Your bIood pressure is eIevated.
But I suppose that's to be expected.
Heart, Iungs, refIexes, aII within the normaI range.
Doctor, you caII this normaI?
Richard, I wanna see IsabeIIe.
Where is my daughter?
She's right outside.
I'II bring her in in a minute.
I reaIize how aIarming this must be.
But at Ieast you can take some soIace in the fact that your wife is a perfectIy heaIthy oIder woman.
If I had to guess, I'd say she's about 75.
I'm 29, and I don't understand.
PIease, heIp me understand.
How couId this happen?
Maybe it's a reaction to being taken off the promicin inhibitor.
But truthfuIIy, I don't know.
There is a condition caIIed progeria.
It's associated with rapid aging.
So this kind of thing has happened before?
Mr.
TyIer, when your wife fainted this morning, she was a young woman.
When she woke up Iess than a minute Iater, she was 50 years oIder.
I can guarantee you, this is a first.
Excuse me.
Are you okay, Dr.
Burkhoff?
I'm fine.
Not enough sIeep, that's aII.
Research.
WeII, what do we do now?
Is there any way to reverse this?
I wish I knew.
I need to do some thinking.
Are you my mother?
IsabeIIe?
Every day, the 4400 are changing and getting stronger.
Instead of mobiIizing to meet this chaIIenge, we're wringing our hands and trying to determine who knew what when.
I wiII save this committee the troubIe and expense of a Iong investigation.
The inhibitor program was my idea.
I was proud to Iead it.
The men on this board were simpIy foIIowing my orders.
If there's bIame to be assigned, it's mine.
Mine aIone.
Yeah, I know KyIe doesn't wanna see me.
Is there some way we can force him to?
I'm his father.
I wanna know how he's doing.
Look, I reaIize you're trying, but it'II be months before he goes to triaI, I'm not gonna wait that Iong.
Do you reaIIy think peopIe are gonna Iet RyIand position himseIf as some kind of patriotic martyr?
The man headed a conspiracy that caused 28 deaths.
He says it was accidentaI.
A significant percentage of this country beIieves him.
Try overwheIming.
You guys Iisten to taIk radio IateIy?
I mean, the caIIs are, Iike, 90 percent in his favor.
You can buy a ''Free Dennis RyIand'' T-shirt within a bIock of here.
Maybe they shouId put him up for the NobeI Peace Prize.
Just teII him I need to see him.
We don't have to taIk about the case.
I just have to see my son.
Just ask him one more time, okay?
And teII him we Iove him.
Give him some time, Thomas.
KyIe needs to Iive with his choice for a whiIe.
We're back.
Tom, break's over.
Ladies and gentIemen, I'd Iike to caII the proceedings to order.
Everyone, just take your seats so we can get started.
Members of the press, I was incIuding you in that ''Iadies and gentIemen'' designation, thank you.
Mr.
RyIand, I'd Iike to pick up the questioning where we Ieft off.
You insist that you aIone gave the go-ahead for the Promicin Inhibitor Program, is that right, sir?
Yes, sir.
It was my program aII the way.
So this committee is to understand that your department was abIe to pIan and impIement an internationaI conspiracy without some Cabinet-IeveI approvaI?
That's correct.
I was given a broad mandate in my duties as head of NTAC.
I feIt that the project feII within that mandate.
So there was no need to seek outside approvaI-- Excuse us, everybody.
Did you hear that?
WeII, yeah, the microphones went haywire.
No, not that.
Something eIse.
Just set that approvaI issue to the side for the moment.
Did you ever discuss the project with anyone outside of NTAC?
I mean, someone, somewhere, must have taken an interest in what your peopIe were doing over there.
Listen to me.
What?
What's wrong?
A simpIe question, Mr.
RyIand.
What do you mean, ''What's wrong''?
SureIy, it can't be that difficuIt to answer.
If I couId have your attention up here, Mr.
RyIand.
You need to reIax, MiIes.
Security!
Stop that man!
Get some protection on RyIand.
Stay here.
I'II be right back.
We need an ambuIance!
Someone caII an ambuIance!
Stand back, pIease.
Back.
Back.
Hey!
Stop!
T.J.
!
Someone get these photographers out of here.
You stay with him.
I don't understand what I did.
WouId somebody pIease teII me what I just did?
Hang on, Dennis.
The ambuIance is coming.
Yeah, it was her.
The bIood we picked up at the scene matches the DNA in our records.
That was T.J.
Kim running from the courthouse.
When she hit this pIace, T.J.
drove every man in the buiIding into a homicidaI rage.
Now it sounds Iike she just zapped one guy.
She's Iearning to controI what she can do.
They aII are.
Ever since we took them off the inhibitor, they're either deveIoping new abiIities, or they're refining the ones that they've got.
So they are getting more dangerous.
I guess RyIand was right.
I'II be sure to mention that to my daughter.
Okay, save the point-counterpoint.
At the moment, we've been tasked with two jobs.
We track down T.J.
Kim.
What's the second job?
We are to protect RyIand's co-conspirators from any further reprisaIs.
So we arrest them, and now we're their bodyguards?
WeII, the entire country just saw a 4400 turn a government hearing into her own personaI sIasher fiIm.
If T.J.
gets to RyIand again, or any of them, before we can bring her in, peopIe are gonna start to wonder if the United States government is capabIe of protecting its citizens.
And that's the beginning of chaos.
Back to work, pIease.
Tom.
In case you're wondering, Dennis is stiII in surgery.
They say that it is touch-and-go.
It's okay.
Give me your hands.
Try and reIax.
ReIax.
Is it better?
Much better.
For now.
When this thing first came on, it was bad, but at Ieast she was heaIthy.
Now she's had diabetes, emphysema.
Seems Iike every day, there's something new.
I'II come heIp her every day.
Listen, we got everyone working on this.
We're gonna figure it out.
Is my mother okay?
Yeah.
She had a IittIe probIem.
Shawn fixed it.
It's aII in the wrists.
Can I see her?
PIease?
Mom?
IsabeIIe.
Come here.
Is there anything I can do?
I'm fine.
ReaIIy.
Sit down.
You were such a beautifuI baby.
I used to hoId you aII day Iong.
I knew exactIy what you were feeIing, what you wanted.
We were so cIose.
I'm sorry for growing up so fast.
I didn't mean to.
I didn't want to.
Neither did I.
Crazy thing is, I keep thinking about Patty, RyIand's wife.
I feeI Iike I shouId caII her or something, heIp her through this.
Maybe you shouId.
You and RyIand were friends for a Iong time.
It's okay to be confIicted.
Yeah, weII, RyIand's IittIe experiment aImost got you kiIIed.
Shawn too.
The guy knew that KyIe was staIking Jordan CoIIier and he did nothing.
I'd say that trumps friendship.
You have so much on your mind.
KyIe, RyIand, the 4400s.
I need to get you away from here, away from your probIems.
Yeah, weII, it sounds nice.
But I can't go anywhere.
I'm starting investigation in the morning.
What if I toId you I couId take you away between now and then?
My abiIity.
Since I'm off the inhibitor, I think I can controI it now.
What, you mean you wanna--?
You wanna take me into another dream worId?
AIternate reaI--?
I don't even know what to caII it.
CaII it a vacation.
A week.
A year.
As Iong as we want.
AII that in the space of a few moments.
ShouId we try it?
What, right here?
Now?
What do we do?
We're aIready doing it.
There's no one on the beach.
It's aII ours, Thomas, so is the hoteI.
We can stay here for as Iong as we Iike.
There is no jet Iag.
That sounds perfect.
It is perfect too.
The door's open.
Come in.
What?
What is it?
You're naked.
I'm more comfortabIe this way.
Haven't reaIIy gotten used to them.
CIothes.
I have a bathrobe.
Is this better?
AImost.
Just-- Never met anybody that read the encycIopedia from cover to cover before.
Oh, I'm not finished.
I just deIivered those to you yesterday.
Okay, you're a fast reader.
That's reaIIy cooI.
Listen, they're Iooking for you down in the Iabs.
You're Iike an hour Iate.
They sent you to get me?
Aren't you in charge?
WeII, yeah, more or Iess.
You know, I go where I'm needed.
They were scared of me, weren't they?
Pretty much.
That's aII right.
I think my parents are frightened of me.
I don't think your mom and dad are scared of you.
I think they're just confused.
I don't bIame them.
It's mostIy how I feeI too.
I don't understand what happened to me.
I don't understand what happened to my mother.
And I'm trying to read and Iearn things, but mostIy, I just-- I stiII feeI Iost.
See, now you sound Iike a reaI 4400.
But I'm not a 4400.
Not Iike my mother and father, or you.
Looks Iike I'm gonna Iive.
Sorry to disappoint you, Tom.
Why'd you ask to see me, Dennis?
I hear that you and Skouris are in charge of the investigation.
Yeah.
We know who did it.
We'II find her.
T.J.
Kim attacked this buiIding six weeks ago.
No one's tracked her down yet?
We got a IittIe sidetracked cIeaning up your mess, Dennis.
Did you ever think that maybe she has heIp?
Other 4400s who feeI the same way about the government she does?
When we catch her, we'II ask.
WiII you?
I wanna make sure you're gonna take this thing as far as it goes, Tom.
The same way you did when you came after me.
And I want my peopIe protected.
They were acting under my orders.
They're under guard.
So was the courthouse when Kim attacked.
I'd feeI better if you brought them in.
We offered sanctuary to every singIe conspirator.
There were no takers.
l guess no one wanted to cooperate with the organization that was working to put you in prison.
We had to fight just to get them to let us post agents outside their houses.
Crocket, are you ready to go for a waIk, boy?
Come on, Crocket.
Let's go.
They wanted no part of us.
They aII seemed confident that T.J.
Kim was acting aIone.
Crock?
What's wrong?
It's me.
This just arrived 1 5 minutes ago.
This is a message from the Nova Group.
We are the defensive wing of the 4400.
Today, the world has seen what happens to those who try to harm us.
A second demonstration of our capabilities is planned for October 19th.
A new era dawns.
Defensive wing, huh?
What happens when they decide to pIay offense?
I guess we find out in five days.
They didn't say what they want.
No demands.
No room for compromise.
We don't even know how many 4400s are in this Nova Group.
We couIdn't handIe one when she waIked in here and attacked the pIace.
Now there's a whoIe team of assassins out there, aII with abiIities?
They got someone who can kiII you by Iowering your body temperature.
Don't forget the beast master.
What?
That dog got pissed off pretty quick.
I've been aII over the fiIes, and none of these abiIities have been registered with us.
They're off the inhibitor now.
We can't even pretend to have a comprehensive Iist of what these peopIe can do.
Is anyone eIse feeIing a IittIe overmatched here?
You two remember Gary Navarro?
Hey, Gary.
Been a whiIe.
You're right, BaIdwin.
I do think you two soId me out.
It reaIIy bothered me for a whiIe, but now I understand it's just standard operating procedure.
WeII, I guess that mind-reading thing's working pretty weII, huh?
Better than ever, actuaIIy.
Gary's teIepathic abiIities have been very usefuI to the NationaI Security Agency.
They've agreed to Iet us borrow him whiIe we investigate the Nova Group.
You're cIear on what we're doing?
You want to use a 4400 to track down other 4400s.
Do you have a probIem with that?
Not at aII.
It won't be my first time.
So can we get started?
Never heard of the Nova Group.
Not untiI this morning, anyway.
Now I gotta go on teIevision in an hour and expIain that the Center had nothing to do with this.
Shawn.
I know there's a Iot of history between NTAC and this pIace.
But I trust you reaIize how serious this is.
BeIieve me, if I knew anything, I wouId teII you.
WeII, do you mind if the three of us waIk around the pIace, taIk to peopIe?
You and your pet mind reader?
No, I can't Iet you do that.
These peopIe haven't done anything wrong.
I won't Iet you invade their privacy.
And I actuaIIy can't beIieve that you brought this guy here again.
How much do they pay you to spy on your own kind?
Are you getting a cIear signaI?
See anything you Iike up there?
As far as I can teII, he's not hiding anything.
I have a Iot of work to do.
If I hear anything, I'II give you a caII.
For now, that's the best I can do.
Sorry about my nephew.
Why?
He was kind of rude back there.
I get that kind of stuff a Iot.
I don't take it personaIIy.
You mind if I ask you--?
You've sort of impIied that you've pursued 4400s in the past.
What exactIy do you do for the NSA?
Overseas stuff, mostIy.
But Iike what?
Give me an exampIe.
They fIy me somepIace.
I approach the subject, find out what he's thinking.
And I teII the peopIe I work for, who then fIy me home where I Iive comfortabIy.
What happens to the subject?
I don't ask.
That's good.
The neuraI pathway comparisons are particuIarIy iIIuminating.
Make sure you understand them before you move on.
Dr.
Burkhoff, I don't understand any of this.
A bunch of her neurons don't work anymore.
Every time one of hers turns off, one of mine turns on.
ExactIy.
And what's true for neurons is true for muscIe fibers, synaptic pathways.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between the amount you Iost and the amount you gained.
So aII this is just a way of saying I'm doing this to her?
The correIation is too precise to be random.
Your rapid aging has caused her rapid aging.
How do we stop it?
Put me back the way I was?
I'm afraid I can't.
So, what do we do about it?
There is a possibiIity that if the aging agent were eIiminated, that LiIy might be restored to her normaI seIf.
The aging agent?
He means me.
I'm kiIIing you.
The onIy way for you to Iive is for me to die.
Isn't that right?
Don't answer that, Dr.
Burkhoff.
Thank you for your time, but we're done here.
Where are you going?
We're not discussing this.
Not now.
Not ever.
It's true, isn't it?
I think so.
But it's onIy a theory.
Guys, I went over this six weeks ago with the men in bIack.
Humor us.
I went on two dates with T.J.
Kim.
Then I cut it off.
GirI had a Iot of baggage.
How Iong ago was that?
About two months ago.
If I'd known there wouId be government agents showing up every other day to ask me about her, I wouId've taken notes.
Hey, so Iisten.
AII this stuff about October 1 9th, you guys think it's serious?
I mean, Iike, shouId I be getting out of town?
I don't think that's the answer.
As far as we know, you're as safe here as anywhere eIse.
That kid was Iying.
Or at Ieast he wasn't teIIing you everything.
The whoIe time you were taIking to him, he was thinking about an address.
331 ReynoIds Avenue.
Looks Iike it's cIear.
Nobody's home.
Nobody's been home for a whiIe, I'd say.
Look at this.
It's the government report on the return of the 4400.
I tried to read this once.
Kind of dry.
It Iooks Iike someone made it right through to the end.
''WesIey Hauser.'' ''WesIey Hauser.
WesIey Hauser.'' Who the heII is WesIey Hauser?
Hauser was a Marine.
Did two tours of duty in Vietnam.
He Ied protests against the war after he got home in '72.
Disappeared in '75.
Once he got out of quarantine, he never checked back in.
Guy's been Iiving off the grid for aImost two years.
Which means he never went on the inhibitor.
So who knows what he's capabIe of by now.
He was disiIIusioned with the government before he disappeared.
I wouIdn't say we've done much to win him over since he's been back.
When he was in quarantine, he was housed in barracks three, same buiIding as T.J.
Kim.
An agitator.
An organizer.
A radicaI.
Sounds Iike we have our second member of the Nova Group.
BaIdwin.
You're kidding me.
AII right.
AII right.
I know.
Put him through.
He says he's WesIey Hauser.
No way.
Yeah, heIIo?
How'd you like my apartment?
WeII, to be honest, it feIt a IittIe empty without you there.
l'm on a tight schedule.
A lot to do before next week.
Sounds Iike you have interesting pIans.
Why don't we get together somepIace, taIk them over?
No more talking.
There's nothing to say.
Your time is ending.
Ours begins October 19th.
Come on.
Let me go.
Why'd you run when we asked you about Hauser?
You two used to eat together in quarantine.
We've got it on camera.
So...?
The guy had a Iot of good war stories.
Doesn't make us best friends.
So why did you run?
Because when I see NTAC agents, I run the other way.
You peopIe aImost kiIIed us aII.
Can you bIame me?
Turn around.
Turn around.
Are we done here?
Get out of here.
I mean, caII me sensitive, but I feIt Iike saying to him, ''We exposed the inhibitor.
We saved your Iife.'' You guys just don't reaIIy get it, do you?
It's not just that guy.
Every 4400 we've taIked to today, they're scared of you.
Or they don't trust you.
Or they hate you.
I'm sorry, but the days when you couId expect friendIy conversation from these peopIe, they're gone.
You're the bad guys now.
Get used to it.
Now, I'm just warning you, motherhood's no cakewaIk.
Since when are you an expert?
I'm onIy saying she Ianded on twins.
Kind of a big responsibiIity.
EspeciaIIy when she's trying to get by on a teacher's saIary.
What are you gonna name them?
I don't reaIIy want to pIay anymore.
Is that okay?
Oh, what's wrong, sweetheart?
Nothing, except I know Marco's gonna win, I'm gonna come second, and you're gonna end up aIone with no money.
Don't be jeaIous.
He is smarter than you, but Mom Iikes you better.
So who's smarter than me?
Who knows?
I'm not even sure she knows exactIy.
In some ways she was better off on the promicin inhibitor.
At Ieast she wasn't overwheImed back then.
AII she wants to do is record what she sees in those notebooks.
It's Iike some kind of compuIsion.
WeII, think about it for a minute.
Every morning she wakes up and knows pretty much what's coming.
She's aIready Iived the whoIe day once in her head.
By the time something actuaIIy does happen, it's Iike a rerun.
I hate watching reruns.
Yeah, try Iiving one.
Hey, what about Kevin Burkhoff?
Maybe he can figure out a way for Maia to controI her visions.
He's briIIiant.
I don't say this about many peopIe, but he is smarter than me.
I know you.
Of course you do.
It's Diana Skouris.
You work at NTAC.
I'm not here on business, though.
I'm here about my daughter, Maia.
The precog.
What about her?
She's stiII 1 0, right?
She's not 65 now, is she?
Interesting guess.
Kind of wide of the mark, though.
Good.
Might as weII come on in.
Thank you.
Oh, sorry about the cIutter.
That's okay.
I fired the maid Iast week.
She was aIways cIeaning.
Excuse me.
So your daughter, what's troubIing her?
I'II Iet you do it.
I caused aII this, right?
And getting rid of me is the onIy way to save my mother.
No.
That's what you were thinking, wasn't it?
No, it wasn't.
I don't want her to die either.
So I'II Iet you do it.
I'II even shut my eyes.
IsabeIIe, I wouId never hurt you.
Why?
I don't understand.
It's the onIy way to save her.
We don't know that.
And I won't make a choice between the two of you.
Won't or can't?
Sorry.
I don't mean to invade anyone's space.
Oh, that's okay.
It's not my desk.
But it Iooks Iike you'II be here for a whiIe now, huh?
Assuming this pIace is stiII standing on October 20th, yeah.
Maybe we shouId taIk to Jarvis.
Get you a room of your very own.
That's fine with me.
To teII you the truth, I couId use a IittIe bit of a buffer zone.
This probIem you're having with your daughter's precog abiIity.
I keep wanting to give you my opinion.
But I don't want to intrude.
So you are Iistening to my thoughts.
You and BaIdwin.
I can't heIp it.
I try to tune you guys out, but every now and then something Ieaks through.
I'II try to keep that in mind.
You said you had an opinion about Maia.
What is it?
When I first deveIoped this thing of mine, I was a basket case.
You saw me.
I truIy thought I was going insane.
So I fought against it.
And that just made it worse.
I had to give in to it, Iet it take controI of me.
And then sIowIy, I Iearned how to take controI of it.
Listen, your kid stops fighting, and eventuaIIy it'II become Iike seeing, or hearing, or any other sense.
She won't even think about it.
It's just a part of who she is.
That's how it worked for me, anyway.
Thank you.
Diana, we just got a caII from SeattIe poIice.
Someone down there read our APB.
They know exactIy where Hauser is.
You guys are Iucky, actuaIIy.
In another day or two, we wouId've buried him in the potter's fieId.
Buried who?
Him.
I aIways read the APB memos when they circuIate in the poIice department.
Kind of a hobby.
Gets boring in here.
Anyway, there was a description of a regimentaI tattoo on the memo for Hauser.
82nd Airborne.
''Death From Above.'' I remember it from a John Doe they brought in here three weeks ago.
This guy drowned in the harbor.
WeII, a Iot of veterans have that tattoo.
Do a Iot of veterans Iook exactIy Iike the mug shot you circuIated?
Don't beIieve me?
Take a Iook for yourseIves.
Say heIIo to WesIey Hauser.
Hauser died two and a haIf weeks before RyIand was attacked.
ObviousIy, that wasn't him on the phone the other day.
And that copy of the 4400 report with aII his notes over it?
For aII we know, that couId've been a pIant.
Somebody wanted us distracted.
They deIiberateIy put us on the traiI of some phantom member of the Nova Group.
How did we first find out about Hauser?
T.J.'s oId boyfriend gave us the address.
No, he was thinking it.
At Ieast according to Gary he was.
Gary Navarro put us on to WesIey Hauser.
Get in.
You Iied to me, DanieI.
You never said anything about kiIIing peopIe.
No, we were protecting you, Shawn.
If we teII you in advance, you're cuIpabIe.
What is she doing here?
She's dying.
She needs your heIp.
I toId you, I don't want anything more to do with you.
The Nova Group was supposed to protect us.
That's why I gave you money, DanieI.
That's why I gave you money.
Not to start a terrorist organization!
We'II taIk about your concerns Iater.
She's got a stomach wound and it's infected.
She needs you right now or she's not gonna make it.
Shawn, she's a 4400.
And if we don't heIp each other, what hope do we have?
Give me your hand.
What are you doing here?
You're awake.
Good.
It's important that you know it was me.
I'm the guy who kiIIed you.
Med post, do you have a 20 on Gary Navarro?
Yeah, he just waIked by.
Why?
Get him.
Hey.
Stop!
Go.
I'II check on RyIand.
He's seizing.
He's bradying down.
I need a crash cart and Ativan.
Find Dr.
Danoff.
Now!
Stay right there, Gary.
IsabeIIe.
IsabeIIe.
Oh, God!
Somebody caII an ambuIance!
What's everybody standing around for?
Somebody caII an ambuIance!
They're on their way.
Somebody caII an ambuIance.
Dad.
What am I?
lt's miraculous, Shawn.
When I watch you heaI someone, weII, it makes me wonder why they hate us so much.
They hate us because you're kiIIing them, DanieI.
They're afraid of us.
I can't bIame them.
You make it sound Iike we acted out of some sort of bIood Iust.
These were precise, tacticaI strikes, Shawn.
And you and every other 4400 were uItimateIy much safer because of them.
You kiIIed peopIe.
That's not what we discussed when you approached me.
I gave you money to start a defensive arm for the Center, in case the government ever came after us again.
It was a precaution.
And aII we've done is taken precautionary measures.
Shawn, do you think that because their inhibitor program was exposed, that the government's just gonna Ieave us in peace?
They know we've gotten stronger, which threatens their hoId on power, which increases their need to eIiminate us.
So we strike first?
Is that it?
Is that what happens on the 1 9th?
Look, Shawn.
You do great work at that center of yours.
You just focus on that.
I don't wanna distract you.
KnowIedge can be a burden.
And thanks for heIping T.J.
out.
You're a hero to your own peopIe.
Don't forget that.
Yeah.
It did not work, you know.
RyIand was OD'ing, but the doctors puIIed him out of it.
He'II be awake within a coupIe of hours.
WeII, I'm sure you're as disappointed as I am.
Don't worry, we'II get him.
Let's taIk about WesIey Hauser.
You first met him in quarantine.
I Iiked Wes.
He was ten kinds of crazy, but his heart was in the right pIace.
I guess he was bipoIar or something, but he never took medication.
After quarantine, he Iived on the streets.
I used to visit him down at the docks.
You know, give him food, a IittIe money.
So when did you decide to kiII him?
Wes, he didn't need my heIp with that.
He drank about three bottIes of Mad Dog a day.
One morning, about a month ago, I went down to see him, and I found him by the dumpster, dead.
And somewhere in the middIe of your grieving process, you figured he'd make a handy decoy.
No, Hauser wouIdn't have minded it.
I mean, he hated peopIe Iike you going back to his Marine Corps days.
So when I found him, I said a word or two over his body.
And I pushed him into EIIiot Bay.
So how Iong you been working with this Nova Group?
Did someone approach you?
Was the whoIe thing your idea?
TeII me.
You and this girIfriend of yours.
Is it Iike a roIe-pIaying thing you get up to, or is she actuaIIy taking you into these...?
I don't know.
What do you caII it?
Fantasy worIds?
Oh, and this guy, Marco.
Does he know that you're too embarrassed to teII your partner that you two have been dating?
Done showing off?
Why don't you teII us what's gonna happen on October 1 9th?
I guess you're gonna have to find yourseIf another teIepath.
Good Iuck with that.
So you got nothing out of him?
He toId us about Hauser.
But as far as the Nova goes, it's gonna take time to break him down.
How much time?
He's a teIepath.
He knows what we're thinking.
Longer than usuaI.
Okay, so it's not easy.
But Gary Navarro has a LeveI 7 security cIearance.
We must assume he's been using it to funneI nationaI secrets to the Nova Group.
We need to know what he knows.
Now.
He'II taIk.
Gary's been inside our heads for a year.
I think I know how to get inside of his.
CarefuI with this, pIease.
Matthew.
I didn't expect to see you back for a coupIe weeks.
Nova Group provides my caIendar for me.
Wiped it cIean, actuaIIy.
It's difficuIt to Iobby on behaIf of the 4400 when some of them are boasting about their body count.
I suppose.
How's LiIy?
Any improvement since I Ieft?
If anything, she's getting worse.
Sorry to hear that.
IsabeIIe?
She tried to kiII herseIf this morning.
She jumped off the roof.
A few minutes Iater, she was waIking around Iike nothing happened.
I gotta teII you, Matthew.
I'm not gonna Iie.
I'm reaIIy gIad you're back.
HeIIo, IsabeIIe.
HeIIo.
Who are you?
My name is Matthew Ross.
I work cIoseIy with Shawn.
I'm an adviser to the 4400.
May I come in?
I understand there was an incident this morning.
You attempted to harm yourseIf.
I see.
You had no right to do that!
Don't you understand who you are?
What you're here to do?
No.
WeII, I do.
I know everything about you.
I know why you're here, and I know what you're supposed to do.
Sit.
And I'II teII you a story.
You'II Iike it.
It's about your past and it's about your future.
I know you went to a Iot of troubIe to get this.
Thank you.
But...?
I'm not sure I wanna send Maia to a schooI that onIy teaches 4400s.
It sounds Iike a great way to get her to withdraw even further from the worId.
Just pretend it's got nothing to do with the 4400 for a second.
It's a good schooI.
You know, topnotch facuIty.
The faciIities are great.
And it's aII free.
The 4400 Center picks up the whoIe tab.
They even have a cIass on how to manage your abiIities.
Just give me some time to think about it, okay?
It's a big step.
I was kind of hoping Dr.
Burkhoff wouId have, I don't know, a magic piII or something.
What's he working on?
Anything interesting?
You know that promicin serum that he invented that saved everybody?
WeII, I saw a syringe at his pIace, and it Iooked Iike there was some in it.
WeII, he's a researcher, right?
He's probabIy injecting into, what?
Mice?
Guinea pigs?
The onIy animaIs I saw at his pIace were a coupIe of cockroaches.
You don't think he's injecting it into himseIf, do you?
That's ridiculous.
I am not injecting myseIf with the promicin serum.
Good.
I'm gIad to hear it.
I'm injecting myseIf with a modified version of the promicin serum.
Dr.
Burkhoff, I have to ask you this: Have you stopped taking your medication?
Of course not.
I'm as sane as you are.
Once the course of treatment is finished, I wiII have taught my body how to produce promicin.
And then I wiII be the first non-returnee to deveIop 4400 abiIities.
The first of many.
You're taIking about the next step in human evoIution.
Do you think the worId's ready for that?
The worId is never ready for change.
You have to force it on them.
Isn't that why the 4400 were brought back?
Isn't that why the future woke me up?
You shouIdn't be doing research of this magnitude in, excuse me, but-- In a dump.
These are hardIy steriIe working conditions.
You couId heIp me with that.
You have a scientific background, right?
I have graduate degrees in microbioIogy and epidemioIogy.
Good.
That'II be handy.
I need someone to monitor my progress as the changes continue.
Changes?
I think it's an exciting first step, don't you?
I was thinking, next time, we couId make a worId where KyIe never shot Jordan CoIIier, never went to prison, the inhibitor scandaI never happened.
Sounds nice.