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ABOUT THE 4400 & Episode Guides

ABOUT THE 4400 & Episode Guides


Over the past 50 years, thousands of people disappeared. Now the missing have returned.


The 4400 Aired From July 11, 2004 – September 16, 2007 On USA.



the story:
In the pilot episode, what is originally thought to be a comet deposits a group of exactly 4400 people at Highland Beach, in the Cascade Range foothills near Mount Rainier, Washington. All of the 4400 disappeared at various times starting over the past 50 years. On their return none have aged, all are disoriented, and they remember nothing between the time of their disappearance and their return.

The National Threat Assessment Command (NTAC), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, is in charge of dealing with the return of the 4400. Many of the returned people have trouble trying to get their lives back on track after being separated from their world for years. More significantly, a small number of the returnees begin to manifest paranormal abilities, such as telekinesis, telepathy, and precognition. The first season finale reveals who abducted the 4400 and that they were returned to avert a catastrophe.

The second season explains that all 4400 have a neurotransmitter in their brains called promicin, which gives them their powers. The government, afraid of what this large group would do with such power, secretly doses all 4400 with a promicin-inhibitor which works on most of the 4400. As a side effect, the inhibitor causes a potentially fatal immune deficiency.

During the third and fourth season it is revealed that only a certain faction wants to see history changed. Another faction, which prefers the status quo, opposes the 4400, and has sent their own agents, including Isabelle Tyler and “The Marked” into operation. The exact motives of both factions are not yet revealed.

Eventually, Jordan Collier, who declares himself the savior of humanity, makes promicin shots available to the general public. However, only half of the human population can actually tolerate promicin, and thus develop superhuman abilities, while the other half die upon taking the shot.


the main cast:
Jacqueline McKenzieDiana Skouris
Joel GretschTom Baldwin
Patrick FluegerShawn Farrell
Conchita CampbellMaia Rutledge
Chad FaustKyle Baldwin
Richard KahanMarco Pacella
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali Richard Tyler

info compiled from wikipedia.org

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Season 1 Episode Guide



Episode 1: Pilot   

Everyone on Earth is excited about a comet passing by, but its trajectory changes to a collision course causing widespread panic. The comet turns out to be a giant ball of light which leaves behind 4400 people. They have all been missing from anywhere between a few months to 60 years. They haven't aged at all, and have no memory of what happened. "The 4400," as they come to call them, are put in quarantine and eventually released. Some of the returnees begin to exhibit strange and uncontrollable new abilities. Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris, two Homeland Security agents, are appointed to find out what happened to the 4400.

Episode 2: The New & Improved Carl Morrissey

Carl Morrissey is a lowly supermarket employee who happens to be one of The 4400. He uses his new found powers - enhanced reflexes and strength - to become a vigilante and fight crime in his neighborhood. Lily is thrown in jail for violating the restraining order while looking in on her daughter and ex-husband's new life. Richard and Lily's romance begins to become more serious.

Episode 3:  Becoming  

Tom and Diana are sent out to investigate a homicide that resembles the MO of a serial killer who was never caught nor heard of for 21 years. The first suspect is Oliver Knox, a member of the 4400. However, Knox has an alibi for the night of the murder and another man confesses to all the crimes. Tom and Diana suspect that Knox is luring people to kill for him and try to lay a trap on him. Meanwhile, people begin to turn hostile toward the 4400, and Jordan Collier decides to organize his fellow returnees. But Richard feels uneasy about Collier's interest in them.

Episode 4:  Trial By Fire

The 4400 are attacked by a series of bombings after Barbara Yates makes their names and addresses known to the public. Tom, Diana, and Dennis try to put an end to the bombings at the same time Tom is coping with Kyle's erratic behavior. Warren Lytell, an agent from Washington is sent to "monitor" the teams progress on The 4400 investigations. Jordan Collier offers protection to The 4400, while Richard and Lily begin to question his motives

Episode 5 : White Light  

Tom is furious upon finding out that Lyttel took his son Kyle into custody. Diana offers him help in getting Kyle back. Meanwhile, Richard suspects that Collier is trying to take control of Lily's life, and as soon as Collier reveals his intentions, Richard and Lily leave Arcadia Estates. Elsewhere, Danny snaps at Shawn when he finds out that he and Nikki have slept together. Tom and Diana finally find out what really happened to the 4400, which leaves a disturbing question: is this the end - or just the beginning?

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Season 2 Episode Guide



Episode 1 - Wake up Call
Tom and Diana investigate a mysterious structure which is being built at a psychiatric hospital, based on the drawings of a schizophrenic 4400, Tess Doerner. Richard must protect his family when he and Lily are discovered to be 4400s.

Episode 2 - Voices Carry
A returnee exhibiting telepathic abilities seeks help from NTAC, but is instead used as a mole to infiltrate Jordan Collier's 4400 Center. Kyle prepares to enter into college but discovers his father his not paid his tuition fees. Lily steals money from a hotel cash register.

Episode 3 - Weight of the World
Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 whose ability to accelerate the human body's metabolism just may be the perfect weight loss drug.

Episode 4 - Suffer the Children
Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 junior high school teacher accused of child abuse.

Episode 5 - As Fate Would Have It
A morbid premonition from Maia threatens the future of the 4400 Center.

Episode 6 - Life Interrupted
Tom finds himself in a world where the 4400 abductions never happened.

Episode 7 - Carrier
A 4400 whose ability has turned her into a walking plague believes she is the next messiah.

Episode 8 - Rebirth
Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 with the ability to repair defects in fetuses.

Episode 9 - Hidden
NTAC and Tom enter a race against time as they both draw closer to Jordan Collier's assassin.

Episode 10 - Lockdown
NTAC goes into an emergency lockdown when a 4400 launches a terrorist attack.

Episode 11 - The Fifth Page
4400s across the globe are developing strange, severe illnesses, leading Tom and Diana into the heart of a terrifying conspiracy.

Episode 12 - Mommy's Bosses
Tom and Diana discover the source of the plague afflicting the 4400” a discovery that will change their lives.


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Season 3 Episode Guide



Episode 1&2 - The New World
Richard has to cope with two horrendous changes in his life after he discovers that Isabelle and Lily have both aged substantially. The Nova Group reveals itself as a group of 4400s who have the power to influence the world.

Episode 3 - Being Tom Baldwin
Tom is charged with a crime he does not remember committing, and Shawn helps Isabelle through her growing pains.

Episode 4 - Gone (Part 1)
Someone is targeting young 4400s and Maia gets kidnapped. Shawn receives a threat from the Nova Group.

Episode 5 - Gone (Part 2)
Tom and Alana experience visions of Maia, whom they have no memories of. When Diana's life is put in danger, Tom makes a grim bargain to bring back the children.

Episode 6 - Graduation Day
After Shawn is attacked, Isabelle seeks revenge on the Nova Group. Tom hesitates to kill Isabelle.

Episode 7 - The Home Front
Tom and Diana continue the hunt for terrorists, while Dennis Ryland finds one in an unlikely place. Nikki pays Shawn a visit.

Episode 8 - Blink
Exposure to a new 4400 ability causes Tom and Diana to have hallucinations of loved ones from their past. Isabelle decides she wants Shawn to marry her - no matter what.

Episode 9 - The Ballad of Kevin and Tess
Kevin is on the run after horribly mutating due to the promicin experiments. Tom and Diana go to Tess for help. Diana gets what she believes is the flu and discovers something startling.

Episode 10 - The Starzl Mutation
A former Army Ranger who was recruited for a secret government program contacts NTAC when an experiment giving him and others 4400 abilities goes wrong, causing one patient to go on a killing spree.

Episode 11 - The Gospel According to Collier
Tom and Diana discover that Jordan Collier has been spotted, and try to track him down. Kyle gets a surprising visitor in prison.

Episode 12 - Terrible Swift Sword
Jordan goes public about his "resurrection", and summons a 4400 with a tracking ability to find Kevin and Tess, who are still at large.

Episode 13 - Fifty-Fifty
Diana pulls Maia out of the 4400 Center school. Collier's promicin distribution begins. Isabelle and Haspel Corporation part ways. Shawn and Isabelle are seriously injured. Alana is abducted again.


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Season 4 Episode Guide



Episode 1: The Wrath of Graham
Season Premiere: In the fourth-season opener, the NTAC deals with a new director and a high-school student who developed a special ability after taking promicin. Meanwhile, Tom (Joel Gretsch) visits Isabelle in prison and Diana searches for her sister, who took promicin. SpoilerFix.com

Episode 2: Fear Itself
Tom and Diana look for a person who makes phobias all too real. Meanwhile, Kyle gets another lead from Cassie, this time to a book that contains a prophecy about Collier.

Episode 3: Audrey Parker's Come & Gone
An elderly woman develops the ability to astral project unseen by others, but she is stuck in limbo when her body is murdered, and she must find a way to contact Tom and Diana to help catch her killer. Elsewhere, Shawn decides to start healing people again despite threats. SpoilerFix.com


Episode 4: The Truth & Nothing But The Truth

We finally see April Soukris again after taking promicin and being on the run for four months. Let's say that the woman changed a lot and, of course, has developped a power. April will use her power to help Tom and Diana work a case. SpoilerFix.com

Episode 5: Try the Pie
Shannon Reese, a patient and lovely woman in her 30s, will teach Tom about her neighbors, who all took promicin. Shannon has the ability to remove stress in people's lives by listening to their problems. At the end of their meeting with Shannon, their problems are all turned into a small jewel. Tom doesn't seem to approve much of the fact that this town, Evanston, seems to have given promicin to all its inhabitants. Source: SpoilerFix.com

Episode 6: The Marked
At NTAC, Diana and Tom watch a black and white movie about JFK's assassination. Of course, they have a reason for watching this and that is because 4400 Curtis Peck made the movie. Neal, one of the actors, believes that Peck's movies reflect reality and that is why he was brought back as a 4400... to tell the truth. When interviewing Neal, Tom and Diana are shown a tape Peck made in case something happened to him. In it, the 4400 claims that Jordan Collier and the 4400 are not a threat but that "them" are. While trying to locate Peck, our NTAC duo must try to figure out who is "them." Kyle brings a blindfolded Shawn to an abandoned bunker to meet up with someone. Isabelle, Marco, Brady, P.J., and Meghan also appear. Source: SpoilerFix.com

Episode 7: Till We Have Built Our Jerusalem
Tom and Diana are concerned when a Delta Force team composed of enhanced soldiers is ordered to capture Jordan, dead or alive. Maia has a vision of the team killing Jordan and what follows scares the hell out of her. She tells Diana that she must save Jordan at all cost. Shawn gets in trouble when he gets sued for supposedly having used his healing powers to get sex from the daughter of the woman he healed. Meghan, Kyle, Isabelle, and Collier also appear. Source: SpoilerFix.com

Episode 8: No Exit
A lockdown at NTAC threatens the lives of Tom, Diana, Meghan, Shawn, Kyle, Jordan, Isabelle, Maia, Marco, PJ and Brady when they wakeup inside the building with no recollection of how they got there. They must work together to survive when he building appears to have a mind of its own.

Episode 9: Daddy's Little Girl
Richard kidnaps Isabelle from Collier's Promise City. Richard hopes to start a new life with his daughter. Elsewhere, Tess has taken over a 1950's diner, and Shawn is asked to intervene.

Episode 10: One of Us
The Director of National Intelligence pressures NTAC to pursue Richard and Isabelle. Richard is visited by his dead wife, Lily. Shawn and Kevin Burkhoff announce that they have developed a test that can tell people whether taking promicin will cause their death. Tom has a dream about the future and the 4400.

Episode 11: Ghost in the Machine
A computer virus attacks a large software company owned by a suspected member of The Marked. Maia visits Promise City and receives an unexpected birthday gift.

Episode 12: Tiny Machines
Isabelle works with Tom in order to get close to Jordan. Shawn recruits a small band of promicin positives to break Kevin out of Promise City. Tom and Diana face off in the backroom of a grocery store, and Diana is forced to shoot Tom.

Episode 13: The Great Leap Forward
Danny Farrell's newfound ability to spread promicin leads to several hundred deaths, including his mother. With Seattle in chaos, NTAC is forced to accept Promise City's offer of help. Shawn is faced with a difficult decision when Danny asks him to end his life to stop the spread of promicin.

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