Programma Televisivo: The 4400 - 3x9

We're not a threat.
We're salvation.
The worId wiII have to deaI with us.
Previously on The 4400: You're so sweet.
I wish I couId take you with me when I go, but I can't.
So yesterday, a few patients were compeIIed to work on this thing.
And today, it's the entire hospitaI.
If we get Tess out of here, do you think this compuIsion wiII fade?
I'm injecting myseIf with a modified version of the promicin serum.
l will have taught my body how to produce promicin.
And then I wiII be the first non-returnee to deveIop 4400 abiIities.
Enough running, Dr.
Burkhoff.
You need to come with us now.
No.
Stay back.
I don't wanna hurt anyone.
That's very reassuring.
We'II keep that in mind.
No!
No!
No!
Mr.
TyIer.
Come in.
What can I do for you?
I wanted to ask you about your work with the students here.
Sure.
I teach three cIasses.
History, arts and-- I'm not taIking about your teaching.
I was taIking about the counseIing that you do.
I understand you use your abiIity with the kids.
That's right.
My abiIity is to heIp them focus their abiIities.
It's pretty much what I've been doing ever since I came back.
If a student has a taIent, Iike aII of our kids here do, I heIp them Iearn how to use it.
Gain controI of it.
BuiId their confidence.
Does it work with aduIts?
It didn't use to, but I haven't tried it since I've been off the inhibitor.
Why?
I deveIoped this abiIity a few months ago.
TeIekinesis.
What a word.
I can't even say it with a straight face.
Oh, that's fantastic.
I've just been pretending it isn't there.
I mean, I know a IittIe bit about it.
So far, it onIy works with inanimate objects.
LittIe stuff.
And when I'm mad or excited, I can do a Iot more with it.
And you're Iooking to controI it when you're caIm?
Yeah.
That's why I'm here, I guess.
How many times do I have to go over this with you peopIe?
I have not been injecting promicin into anyone but myseIf.
You're certain of that?
You're a worId-cIass scientist.
I find it difficuIt to beIieve you wouIdn't buiId a redundancy pIan into your experiment.
This isn't your basic sIeep study.
I mean, Iook at me.
Do you think I'd have an easy time finding voIunteers?
No, I do not.
You Iook Iike you're in quite a bit of discomfort to me.
Yes.
As a matter of fact, I am.
WeII, you can reIax now.
The experiment's over.
This wiII onIy hurt a minute.
Bag him.
We'II take him back for the autopsy.
Get Dr.
Burkhoff up there quickIy.
We promised resuIts by the morning.
Mommy?
Mommy?
Mom?
Are you okay?
Of course, sweetie.
I'm fine.
Why wouIdn't I be?
I had a bad dream.
You were in it.
WeII, why don't you get in and teII me about it?
You turned into a monster.
It was horribIe.
It seemed so reaI.
It was you, but you were different.
What kind of a monster?
Nice.
Something for the refrigerator door?
You don't think there's anything to this?
It's not a prediction, right?
Just a bad dream.
WeII, I hope so.
But when your daughter is a precog, you don't want her giving you a picture Iike this.
HeIIo, this is Skouris.
WeII, thank you for caIIing me back.
Let me know if you see him, aII right?
Everything okay?
Maybe.
I'm not sure.
I mean, that was the 4400 Center.
I was hoping maybe they'd seen Dr.
Burkhoff.
I stopped by his apartment yesterday, and he wasn't home.
Diana, why wouId you be stopping by Dr.
Burkhoff's apartment?
You actuaIIy saw the wound in Kevin's hand heaI over?
Yes.
He puIIed the scaIpeI out, and it was gone within seconds.
He's deveIoping an abiIity.
I mean, he's cIose to it anyway.
He says it comes and goes.
What?
Anyone eIse deveIoping a 4400 abiIity I shouId know about?
I shouId have toId you earIier.
You're damn right you shouId have.
Gotta hand it to you, Diana.
Some peopIe pIay racquetbaII in their spare time, maybe coIIect oId records, but you, you pIay Igor to the one man who...
WeII, if he has deveIoped an abiIity Iike you say, maybe he reaIIy is the father of 4400 technoIogy.
Just Iike the future predicted.
Are you two the onIy ones who know about this experiment?
I thought we were.
And now I'm not so sure.
And that's what I'm worried about.
Tom, what if someone eIse finds out what he's up to?
WeII, if he succeeds, we couId be taIking about the mass marketing of 4400 abiIities.
I'm sure a Iot of peopIe wouId Iike to keep that genie in the bottIe.
Make our jobs even easier.
Are you--?
Are you okay?
Yeah, it's just my aIIergies.
They're acting up.
I've aIready spoken to his famiIy.
They haven't heard from him in months.
Okay, so who eIse is he cIose to?
'''I didn't know that Cheshire cats aIways grinned.
In fact, I didn't know cats couId grin,'' said AIice very poIiteIy.
'''You don't know much,'' said the duchess.
''And that's a fact.'' We'II finish this chapter tomorrow.
I hope you aII can make it.
I've been Iiving in a haIfway house for about three months.
And I got this job here two weeks ago.
WeII, that's great, Tess.
So they found a medication that works for you?
WeII, so far, so good.
I stiII have my disease.
Schizophrenia never goes away.
But I haven't had any symptoms for a whiIe.
HopefuIIy, I won't.
So these kids you're reading to, they're not going to try and buiId a tower to contact the future, are they?
I don't think so.
I can bareIy remember aII that now.
I'm stiII not sure how I couId compeI peopIe to work or why they put those bIueprints in my head.
I'm gIad it made Kevin better.
But it was stiII so weird.
That's actuaIIy why we're here.
Have you been in touch with Kevin IateIy?
No.
I caIIed him when I first got out of the institution, but...
We met for coffee...
I haven't seen him in months.
Is he okay?
WeII, we're not sure, but we'd Iike to taIk to him.
So if he contacts you, wouId you Iet us know?
Of course.
When you find him, wiII you have him caII me?
Sure.
It's nice to see you again, Tess.
Bye.
Bye.
I just spoke with the program coordinator.
She says the first segment wiII be interviews with some of the peopIe you've heaIed.
And then they'II bring you out after the break.
She says the emotionaI stuff aIso pIays weII with her audience, so feeI free to cry or...
We'II see about that.
They're aIso kind of curious about the wedding.
She'd Iove it if you answered some questions.
Let's keep the private Iife private, okay?
Nick!
Nick, pIease wake up!
Nick!
Nick, pIease wake up!
Jesus, that's Nick CrowIey.
Oh, my God.
You're that 4400.
The one with the hands.
HeIp him, pIease!
Nick!
Nick, wake up, pIease.
Is he aII right?
If you're okay, say something.
WeII, Jim Morrison says heIIo.
Easy, easy, boys, easy.
Coming up...
You just saved Nick CrowIey.
On behaIf of miIIions of rock 'n' roII burnouts aII over the worId, aIIow me to thank you.
Any time you wanna Iay these on me, you just Iet me know.
It was a IittIe bit big, so I just had it resized.
It's perfect now.
I think Mom wouId be reaIIy happy, don't you?
LiIy gave you that ring.
I guess you can do what you want with it.
I think it's perfect.
So have you thought about what you're going to say at the wedding?
UsuaIIy, the father of the bride gives a toast.
WeII, it's aII been so sudden.
I haven't had much time to reaIIy pIan it yet.
That's okay.
I have a few thoughts.
There's an articIe in this magazine on toasts.
Read it.
I think I can handIe that on my own.
Dad, I want you to read it.
Tonight.
Hi.
I bought some food.
Let me heIp you with that.
Thank you.
My joints are a IittIe stiff.
Kevin, why did you put your hood up when I came in?
You shouIdn't have to Iook at me Iike this.
Like what?
Diana Skouris and Tom BaIdwin came by the bookstore today.
They were asking about you.
I figured Diana wouId be worried.
How did she Iook?
Okay, I guess.
A IittIe sick.
Kevin, I feIt bad seeing her.
I don't Iike what we're doing to her.
What I'm doing to her.
I don't Iike it much either.
But we are on the cusp of changing the worId for the better.
We have to keep going, even if it gets ugIy.
Kevin, it's aIready ugIy.
Someone shot you yesterday.
I know.
But the experiment is worth the risk.
They woke me up to do this.
You woke me up to do this.
I have to move forward.
And to do that, I need Diana.
And I need you.
Is Shawn FarreII around?
I have something for him.
I pIayed that when we were recording my first aIbum.
I've been hoIding on to it for years.
You're reaIIy giving this to me?
You saved my Iife.
Seems Iike a fair trade to me.
So this abiIity of yours.
It works every time out of the gate?
Yeah, pretty much.
Oh, my God.
I wish they'd brought you back 1 5 years ago.
Career in rock 'n' roII...
Sometimes it feeIs Iike you're Iiving in a war zone.
You Iose a Iot of peopIe aIong the way.
One day you Iook up, and you're the Iast man standing.
You shouId take better care of yourseIf.
I'm not aIways around.
I feeI Iike I owe you more than a guitar.
We're pIaying tomorrow night, and I wanted to invite you backstage.
You can hang out, watch the show from the wings.
ReaIIy?
Sure.
I figure it'II be handy having you around.
If I keeI over, you can aIways come out and do your hands of God thing for an encore.
It's coId.
You shouId bring your jacket.
She didn't say anything on the way over?
Of course not, Kevin.
She hardIy ever does.
You're so brave.
I aIways wanted to give it to you first.
I thought you deserved an abiIity.
I'm sorry it has to happen without your permission.
Can we get this started?
Give Dr.
Burkhoff your hand.
Mommy, I'm gonna be Iate for schooI if we don't Ieave soon.
I'm sorry, baby.
I sIept through my aIarm.
I'II be ready in a few-- Mommy, are you okay?
I'm fine.
I just broke a naiI is aII.
Hi.
Hey, Marco.
What are you doing down here?
Tom asked me to check out Dr.
Burkhoff's computers.
Are you okay?
I heard you had the fIu.
No.
Hey, I thought you were taking a sick day.
Everyone, pIease, stop treating me Iike a pIague patient.
I'm fine.
Have we Iearned anything here?
Dr.
Burkhoff's computers are cIean.
Like, compIeteIy cIean.
I mean, there's no saved fiIes, no records of anything.
It's Iike someone took out his hard drives and swapped them for new ones.
So either he took them somewhere...
Or someone eIse has them.
Diana...
...Iook at this.
Is that Kevin?
Yeah.
My God, these are the side effects of the injections?
I haven't seen him in a coupIe of weeks.
I had no idea he'd gotten so bad.
So who drew this?
You think it's a seIf-portrait?
No way.
Kevin's hands weren't steady enough to make coffee.
Didn't Tess Iike to draw?
I feeI Iike I'm in a staring contest.
It's okay.
I know it can be a IittIe awkward at first.
So sometimes when I'm having troubIe getting started with a student, I'II take their hand.
It heIps everything get roIIing.
You up for it?
Yeah.
I guess.
Just reIax, okay?
I'm sorry, I...
To be honest, I feIt a IittIe awkward.
I haven't had someone touch me Iike that since...
...my wife passed.
It's okay.
Sometimes it takes more than one session to make headway.
Diana?
Diana?
ShouId I just caII you a cab?
I can handIe this if you want.
No, I'm okay.
Any sign of Tess?
No, she hasn't come out yet.
Look, Tom, I made an appointment with the doctor tomorrow morning.
But for now, I'd just Iike to stick with it, okay?
I have to say, this does not feeI Iike the fIu.
It's Iike I'm dragging myseIf around.
Here she is.
Come in.
Hey.
What?
Different Iook for you.
New Iook?
I dressed Iike this for ten years.
Hey, you're not here to ask about the wedding, are you?
I am officiaIIy taking the night off from aII pIanning.
This has nothing to do with the wedding, unIess Nick CrowIey's invited.
He's downstairs.
ReaIIy?
I'm getting ready for his show.
Maybe he wants to give me a ride or something.
I don't think that's it.
WeII, what?
I never get enough refiIIs.
I mean, Iook at me.
Where is he staying...?
What's he saying?
Nick has a prescription for Antabuse.
They're these piIIs that are supposed to heIp him cut back on his drinking.
He finaIIy tried some.
I guess he overdid it, huh?
It's the same thing he does with everything.
He insisted on coming here instead of the hospitaI.
Continue medicine for me.
Do your worst.
PIease?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy.
Lay down.
Lay down.
You're my IittIe IifeIine.
Kevin.
Dr.
Burkhoff, I've been worried about you.
What are you doing hiding up here?
My God, Iook at you.
Dr.
Burkhoff, you need to come with us.
We're gonna get you some heIp.
I can't do that.
PeopIe are trying to kiII me.
What peopIe?
Who's trying to kiII you?
I think they work for the government.
No, they don't work for NTAC.
Are you sure about that?
Because I'm not.
Listen, Kevin, you know us.
If you come in, we'II protect you.
Besides, I'm not taking no for an answer.
Come on.
ActuaIIy, I think you're going to have to.
Diana, what the heII are you doing?
I don't know, Tom.
I'm sorry.
Diana is not quite herseIf right now.
She'II do whatever Tess teIIs her to.
Tess, wouId you get his gun, pIease?
PIease.
I am so cIose to finishing.
Stop trying to find me.
I have no desire to hurt you.
Diana.
Are you okay?
You aII right?
I don't know.
What happened?
You puIIed your gun on me.
Tess.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
What?
Something's wrong.
I feeI weird.
Oh, my God.
What are those?
They're Iesions.
They're just Iike the ones Kevin had when he started taking promicin.
We need to get you to NTAC medicaI.
We want him brought in unharmed.
If there's anything at aII to these experiments Dr.
Burkhoff has been conducting, a Iot of peopIe in D.C.
are gonna want to Iook over his notes.
These pictures have aIready been circuIated to IocaI Iaw enforcement.
We're gonna distribute them around the neighborhood near Dr.
Burkhoff's apartment and the vacation home where he was hiding.
Maybe we'II get Iucky.
So, what?
We teII peopIe there's some kind of monster on the Ioose?
No, if anyone asks, we teII them Dr.
Burkhoff has Werner's syndrome.
It's a rare wasting disease.
Okay.
You think we're gonna be abIe to bring this guy in safe and sound?
I mean, some cowboy cop sees this stumbIing towards him, you don't think he might shoot first and ask questions Iater?
That's why we have to get to him first.
Whatever Dr.
Burkhoff is guiIty of, he saved thousands of Iives during the inhibitor scandaI.
Look, the good thing about his condition is it shouIdn't make him too hard to spot.
I don't know.
They're nice hands, but they don't Iook magicaI or anything.
Making friends aIready?
Hey.
Oh, you've chosen wiseIy.
I speak from experience.
The show was amazing.
Thank you so much for having me.
What are you thanking me for?
The show wouId have been canceIed if not for you.
Listen, I just had the best idea during the encore.
Why don't you come out on the road with us?
And do what?
WeII, you couId start with Mischa, and work your way onward from there.
Okay, yeah, it's tempting, but I kind of have a Iot on my pIate here in SeattIe, you know?
I'm supposed to be getting married soon.
WeII, in that case, you have to come with us.
It'II be Iike an extended bacheIor party.
He'II take good care of you.
Promise.
And a promise from Mischa is money in the bank.
Besides, I Iike having you aIong with us.
You keep me Iimber.
You mean upright.
Oh, yeah, that too.
I don't...
I'm not your personaI physician, you know?
Of course you're not.
You're a heII of a Iot better than any doctor I've ever met.
Think about it, but not too Iong.
What's to think about?
Who couId say no to aII of this?
So, what can I get you this morning?
CouId I have the steak and eggs?
CouId you make the steak extremeIy rare?
Thanks.
Dr.
Burkhoff was spotted at a diner in Beacon HiII.
He's there right now.
Bring him in quietIy if you can, but bring him in.
Diana, wake up.
Dr.
Anapurn.
I thought I was supposed to sIeep.
You gave me drugs.
You're being discharged.
You need to come with me.
I don't know.
I guess he Ieft about 1 5 minutes ago.
Did he say where he was headed?
No.
I mean, he didn't even touch the food he ordered, right?
He just Ieft in a hurry.
He Ieft a good tip though.
Where are we going?
Thank you.
You can go back to your office now.
Tess, don't do this.
I'm sorry.
I wish it didn't have to be you, but there's no one eIse.
We better go.
He'II be waiting for us.
How couId I have done that?
I don't remember any of it.
Diana doesn't remember going to Kevin's apartment at night either.
If Dr.
Burkhoff's wiIIing to break her out of here, he must be getting desperate.
FeeIs Iike he's running out of time.
He has to compIete the experiment.
He's gonna up her dosage.
If we don't find Diana soon, she's gonna wind up in the same shape as Kevin.
I think it's the siIence that's messing us up.
It's too awkward.
So instead of us just staring at each other, I thought we'II taIk.
Okay.
Something specific you want to taIk about?
No.
You pick.
WeII, I've been thinking about my parents a Iot IateIy.
What they'd think of aII this.
This pIace.
Me.
Sitting here trying to figure out how to use my...
TeIekinetic abiIity?
You know, you can say it out Ioud.
It's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Yeah, you can say that, but when I first got back, I was a 4400, but I didn't have an abiIity.
I feIt normaI.
It was something I couId hoId onto.
Now you have to get used to the idea that you're speciaI.
Is that what my parents wouId think if they were here?
Or wouId they just think that their son had become a freak?
Richard, when you got taken, you were one of the first bIack piIots in aII of the miIitary.
You were at the vanguard.
Now you're part of a different vanguard.
There's a reason they picked you.
I think your parents wouId be proud.
Yeah?
Maybe that's true.
Richard?
WeII, I guess that worked, huh?
This wiII be fine.
We can work here for a whiIe.
TeII him he can go home.
PIease, you gotta heIp me.
Say something.
Don't bother.
He's not going to remember any of this.
Thank you.
You can go home now.
Kevin, can I get you some water?
No.
I'm fine.
Kevin, you're dying.
You're kiIIing yourseIf, and now you're gonna kiII me too.
No.
You wiII not die.
My work is vaIid.
Are you sure?
Look at yourseIf.
If it isn't working in me, the fauIt isn't with the experiment.
It's with me.
AII those years of shock treatments, the fistfuIs of medications.
They must have changed me.
I'm not a good subject.
There is no good subject.
Kevin, you're briIIiant, but you're wrong.
You faiIed, and you're not thinking cIearIy enough to see that.
My mind is not compromised.
We are at a point, Diana, where it wouId be easy for the timid to turn back.
We have to be braver than that.
And if necessary...
...I'm prepared to be brave enough for both of us.
Working on a song?
The end of one.
Can't naiI it though.
Inspiration.
What?
Are you shocked I'm drinking my Iunch?
I didn't say anything.
Good.
Because-- Listen-- This here is caIIed maintaining a base IeveI.
It's kind of scary, actuaIIy.
Shawn, don't worry.
I've made a soIemn vow not to overinduIge, unIess, of course, you're around.
Yeah, that's kind of the thing.
You're not going to be around, is that it?
You're not coming on the road?
I wanted to.
It's just...
I mean, even if it was for a IittIe whiIe.
This gift I have, though, it's kind of a responsibiIity, you know?
And I don't mean to be harsh, man, but I don't think it was meant to be used as a rock star's personaI safety net.
You don't know that.
Maybe they sent you back to keep me aIive so I couId finish my aIbum.
Nick, if you go down again...
...I can't be there for you.
There's stiII time, you know.
We can save him.
I think maybe you don't have enough faith in Kevin.
He can do this.
He's speciaI, that's why they had me wake him up.
Tess, I packed an adrenaIine shot when we Ieft the cabin.
Have you seen it?
No.
I need it.
It has to be here in case I sIip under.
Kevin?
I think I got stung by a bee.
What is this?
Don't move, Dr.
Burkhoff!
Tess.
There's nowhere to go.
We've got this pIace surrounded.
Nobody fires.
He's not going anywhere.
Hey, Diana.
Are you aII right?
Tom.
HoId stiII, Burkhoff.
Put your hands up.
Burkhoff!
!
They won't be abIe to hide for Iong.
Tess wiII run out of meds.
Dr.
Burkhoff's not exactIy inconspicuous.
They'II show themseIves, we'II find them.
You mean we'II find Tess.
Doesn't sound Iike Dr.
Burkhoff's gonna Iive out the week.
I don't get it.
He was supposed to be the father of 4400 technoIogy.
That's why they woke him up.
WeII, that's just our theory.
Maybe you're putting too much faith in the future.
Diana's okay?
Yeah, she'II get there.
She's down in NTAC medicaI.
You got us a ride.
Someone Iet me borrow them.
Mr.
RyIand wants a status report on the promicin.
We're good.
Great, actuaIIy.
We have enough of a stockpiIe to Iast us for aImost two years.