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Season 1 Episode Guide



Ep 1: Wheel of Fortune
Johnny Smith was leading an idyllic small-town life: working as a high school science teacher, engaged to the love of his life, Sarah, and being a devoted son to his widowed mother, Vera, who lives nearby. But after a near-fatal car accident puts him in a deep coma, Johnny awakens six years later to find everything has changed: Sarah is now is married to someone else, local sheriff Walt Bannerman; the child they are raising is actually Johnny's son and knows nothing about his real father; and Johnny's mother Vera has passed away, leaving Johnny's finances under the thumb of Reverend Purdy, an influential religious leader who is also his mother's former lover. But, most importantly, Johnny himself has changed: he now finds himself with the gift (or curse) of second sight. Through visions he sees with a simple touch, he becomes responsible for saving a nurse's little girl from a fire, helping his Vietnamese doctor reunite with the mother he thought was killed during the fall of Saigon, and now must prevent a local serial killer from striking again. Now Johnny is faced with the daunting task of coming to grips with his new powers - and navigating his way through his new life.

Ep 2: What It Seems
With the help of his new friend Bruce, Johnny attempts to stop the Bangor Strangler from claiming another victim.

Ep 3: Quality of Life
Johnny returns to his old school as a substitute teacher and as a hockey coach. During practice, Johnny has a vision inside a player's heart that indicates he may have a serious heart condition. However, there is no medical evidence to support him. Johnny's vision of Todd, and his previous publicity, cause an outcry by the parents who demand that Johnny be fired.

Ep 4: Enigma
Johnny works to reunite two long lost loves who have not seen each other for more than 50 years. Johnny sees visions of their lives and love for each other.

Ep 5: Unreasonable Doubt
Johnny is summoned to jury duty on a murder trial. Johnny starts to get visions which lead him to believe the accused is innocent. He is the only not-guilty vote.

Ep 6: The House
Johnny moves into his new house and starts having visions of a tub filled with blood. He also sees visions of his dead mother, and comes to believe that Rev. Purdy killed his mother. The facts seem to suggest that Purdy did indeed engage in a cover-up concerning the death of Johnny's mother. In a final confrontation Johnny touches Purdy and gains a vision of Purdy finding Johnny's mother dead by suicide. Realizing what the death of a child can drive a parent to do, he goes to the aid of a local neighbor girl whose brother died on a military mission and whose mother is preparing to kill herself.

Ep 7: Enemy Mind
While helping to track down a runaway, Jill, who is involved with drugs, Johnny is exposed to a drug that causes him to start getting weird (weirder than usual) visions. He insists on trying to find Jill, despite the concerns of Bruce and Sarah. Confusing matters further is that Jill's boyfriend is in trouble with his supplier. The boyfriend gets killed and Jill and Johnny go on the run. In the final showdown, Johnny manages to fight past his hallucinations and knock the drug dealer off a high ledge, while Jill is reunited with her mother.

Ep 8: Netherworld
Johnny ends up in a fantasy world (or vision?) when he wakes up one day to find himself married to Sarah and the father of her two children.

Ep 9: The Siege

Conrad Hurley, a disgruntled electrician fired by the town council, goes into the bank with a shotgun and a revolver, tries to rob it, and takes everyone present (including Sara) hostage. Waiting outside for Sara, Johnny gets a vision of a future massacre and goes in to try to alter the future he perceives. Guided by his visions and scrambling wildly to adapt to the altering futures he keeps seeing in which he dies, Sara dies, Conrad dies, and/or everyone dies each time he changes something, Johnny soon becomes Conrad's unlikely ally. Finally Johnny manages to earn Conrad's trust and manage to talk him into releasing the hostages and giving himself up.

Ep 10: Here There Be Monsters

Johnny and Bruce drive into the small town of Hobb's Landing where Johnny gets a vision of himself being burned at the stake. He goes to the police and has a vision of the murder of a local girl. The police hold him on charges of witchcraft and he is sent to trial.

Ep 11: Dinner with Dana
Dana is stalked by her ex-lover when she breaks off the relationship. Meanwhile, Johnny agrees to have dinner with Dana but is plagued by visions of her ex-lovers. Johnny also sees that she is going to be hit by a car sometime in the near future.

Ep 12: Shaman
While travelling out in the wilderness Johnny is plagued by visions of a meteor hitting a mountain and people vanishing. To find out which mountain it is he goes out into the wilderness and injures his leg. Taking refuge in a cave, Johnny picks up a fragment and has a vision of an Indian shaman in the past...who can see Johnny as well.

Ep 13: Destiny
In the past Johnny Smith as a child and Greg Stilson, the son of a Bible salesman, briefly meet and Johnny has a future vision of danger. In the present Johnny has a vision of a restaurant graduation party tragedy and warns his employer, the father of a student. Stilson, now a Senatorial candidate being backed by Rev. Purdy, comes to town after the tragedy and Johnny gets visions of catastrophe in Stilson's wake. Johnny and Sara get together while in flashback we see how Stilson has been a total bastard all of his life, and that Johnny came out of his coma just as Stilson was sworn in as state representative. When they meet at a rally Johnny shakes Stilson's hand and sees him as the source of catastrophe - Washington D.C. devastated by a nuclear holocaust.

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Season 2 Episode Guide



Ep 1: Valley of the Shadow
The season premiere finds Johnny still shaken by his Armageddonvisions and growing increasingly obsessed with Stillson, whom he'ssecretly investigating. But another mystery draws him back into thepublic eye: a test of Johnny's powers by an adversary who is asobsessed with him as Johnny is with Stillson.

Ep 2: Descent (1)
As Walt begins to wonder what's between Johnny and his wife Sara, agroup of teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that wasowned by Johnny's grandfather. Walt brings Johnny in to help with therescue and Smith soon begins to get visions not only of the teens butof the miners who died in an incident in 1949 brought on by hisgrandfather's actions. The ghost miners seem to be striking back atJohnny and Walt is seriously injured. The teens are rescued but Johnnygets a vision of Walt's funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance.

Ep 3: Ascent (2)
Walt ends up in a coma after the events of the previous episode,Johnny tries to use his powers to reach Walt in his mind and lead himback to consciousness. But while inside Walt's mind Johnny realizesthat he is not the only person inside Walt's mind. There is also amysterious man trying to make Walt go into the light...

Ep 4: The Outsider
Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future.

Ep 5: Precipitate

Johnny must stop a series of bad future visions based on the blood donations he receives from six different donors.

Ep 6: Scars
After learning Stillson's congressional rival, a long-timeincumbent is a war veteran with a dark secret. Johnny ponders whetherthe truth is more important than Stillson's defeat.

Ep 7: Misbegotten
Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a haunted house- each has their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed withJohnny and wants to have his baby, Maddy plans on making a "BlairWitch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy, and Anita isseemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there.While Dana and Sara reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" thatJohnny receives, Johnny himself unravels the mystery through hisvisions, and discovers that the young son Nicholas who survived isresponsible...and that Anita is that boy, dressed as a woman. With thewomen's help the police arrive just in time as Anita/Nicholas goesberserk. Johnny manages to restrain her long enough to save his lifeand Anita is taken away.

Ep 8: Cabin Pressure
Johnny and Rev. Purdy are traveling on a plane when Johnny gets avision of the plane crashing and eventually determines that the pilotwill put the plane into a dive as the engine explodes. He manages toconvince the air marshal he's telling the truth but he sees the samevision of destruction compliments of the co-pilot and realizes both menare trying to save the plane. Using his gift Johnny determines thewings are covered with ice due to an instrument malfunction. When theco-pilot is injured Johnny is forced to take his seat and direct thepilot with his visions to take the proper steps to save the plane.

Ep 9: The Man Who Never Was
Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions ofhimself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to ashut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by his delivery man. Johnnybriefly visits him and Grissom talks about wondering where his old homewas, then Johnny returns the next day with information to find outGrissom and any trace of him have completely disappeared. Johnny isdetermined to follow up when he gets a vision of people removingGrissom and the new family moving in. Johnny gets visions of peoplegoing through his own home as well and gets close enough to the peoplefollowing him to get a vision of Grissom in a new home and visits himthere. Grissom reveals he is a retired spy kept buried by the U.S.government due to valuable knowledge in his head. The government showup to threaten Johnny and make him "vanish" as well but Johnny trumpsthem by calling in Dana and the media and having them all follow himand Grissom to his old home . . . where he disappears, escaping hisgovernment keepers.,

Ep 10: Dead Men Tell Tales

Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.

Ep 11: Playing God

A wild old high school friend, Jason, comes to see Johnny seeking avision of the future as he will be dying of a heart condition. Johnnysees him receiving a successful heart transplant and gives him the goodnews, but later gets a vision of Jason's sister Kate being killed in adriving accident and becoming the donor. Johnny later gets a vision ofthe other driver's license plate while Jason takes a turn for theworse, then sees a vision of him and Kate arguing which leads to hergoing out and getting in the accident. Johnny soon realizes even if hesaves Kate and gets Jason a heart through Purdy's connections, someoneelse who would have received the heart will die. Johnny tracks down thedrunk driver, Patrick Hanchin, and confronts him, but sees that even ifJohnny stops him from killing Kate, he'll hit a school bus. Trapped ina web of fate where anything he does will make things worse, Johnnyends up provoking a fight with Kate and she dies and Jason lives, as heforesaw . . . but Jason learns from the experience.

Ep 12: Zion
Johnny goes tothe funeral of Bruce's father and somehow gives Bruce visions of whatBruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny.

Ep 13: The Storm

In the aftermath of Kate's death, Johnny's friends stage anintervention to shake him out of his guilt, but as Bruce drives him toPurdy's lakeside resort, he senses a storm is brewing. Now Johnny isforced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save thepeople he loves.

Ep 14: Plague
While at the science fair Johnny gets a disturbing vision of agroup of children getting extremely ill. Johnny persuades Walt toquarantine the building and eventually the children begin to get sick.Johnny realizes that without his help the children will die, includingJJ...

Ep 15: Deja Voodoo

Johnny is forced into a series of changing visions to help a young woman he's romantically attracted to.

Ep 16: The Hunt
Johnny is recruited to help the CIA track down Osama Bin Laden.

Ep 17: The Mountain

Johnny, Walt, Sarah, and JJ get involved in a search for $2 million on a missing plane.

Ep 18: The Combination
After Johnny sees a vision of a boxer dying in the ring, he setsout to try and save the boxer. But soon it seems that Johnny may not beable to save this man as every vision Johnny has results in the boxersdeath.,

Ep 19: Visions

Johnny tries to determine who the mysterious hooded man in hisvisions are and aid him in the present, while determining more aboutwhat the future holds for him personally.

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Season 3 Episode Guide



Ep 1: Finding Rachel (1)
Johnny attempts to piece together his visions to fill in the largegap of missing time in his memory in order to figure out what happenedto one of Stillson's campaign volunteers who mysteriously disappearedwhile she was with him.

Ep 2: Finding Rachel (2)

Arrested for the murder of Rachel Caldwell, Johnny seeks theassistance of her sister, a reluctant Rebecca--who believes that he isguilty--and his friends to prove his innocence and help figure out whatreally happened to her.

Ep 3: Collision
While following a missing person's case of an eleven year old namedKatie Mercer, Johnny's visions of the girl intercede with visions ofthe night of his crash 9 years ago. He struggles with the help ofRebecca to relive and endure the night of his accident so that he couldfigure out where Katie is located as the intensity of the physical andemotional pain of his visions start to wear him down. As Johnny sortsout this strange intertwining of the past and present, he is led to themysterious person that saved his life.

Ep 4: Cold Hard Truth
Johnny comes to the aid of shock jock Jack Jericho after the latteris severely beaten by angry listeners. Johnny, a frequent victim ofJack's rantings, is concerned that the radio host's self-destructivebehavior may lead to his death. Meanwhile, Johnny attempts to help Waltand Sarah with J.J., who is having problems at school and at home.

Ep 5: Total Awareness
Johnny is stalked both by a woman accused of killing three other psychics and a mysterious government security organization.

Ep 6: No Questions Asked
Walt'spast comes back to haunt him; Johnny helps Walt deal with his problemsbut Walt specifies there can be "no questions asked."

Ep 7: Looking Glass

Lawyer twins use Johnny to help prove his visions can be false andan invasion of privacy but Johnny believes his visions of a murder arereal.

Ep 8: Speak Now
Johnny has a vision of himself interrupting a wedding, and becomesinvolved to determine why the marriage should or shouldn't be stopped,while dealing with the repercussions of Sarah's decision to abandon himand marry Walt.

Ep 9: Cycle of Violence

While at the school Johnny gets a vision of a student going on ashooting spree and must find out who it is before it's too late.

Ep 10: Instinct
A series of wild and domestic animal attacks lie at the heart of amystery that Johnny must solve before the entire town is destroyed

Ep 11: Shadows
Johnny must unravel a series of future visions of himself killing a man in revenge for the death of someone close to him.

Ep 12: Tipping Point (1)
The continuing strain of visions takes its toll on Johnny while heand Rebecca try to bring Stillson to justice for Rachel's murder, andReverend Purdy confesses his sins.

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Season 4 Episode Guide


Ep 1: Broken Circle (2)

Johnny is forced to try and save Greg Stillson...by stopping RachelCaldwell from making a fatal mistake, even though it may cause nucleararmageddon.

Ep 2: The Collector

When a friend of Sara's goes missing, Johnny becomes involvedtrying to find her twisted abductor...before he kills the missingwoman.

Ep 3: Double Vision
Johnny runs into an attractive psychic as they both try to find and stop a sniper.

Ep 4: Still Life
A painter's daughter and model has disappeared and Johnny tries tohelp locate her, but is swept into a web of obsession and hiddensecrets.

Ep 5: Heroes & Demons
An autistic boy makes his way to Johnny to "ask" him to help clearhis father - a cop on death row for the murder of an undercover cop.

Ep 6: The Last Goodbye

Johnny gets a vision of a rock star who is believed to have died...but Johnny realizes he's still alive.

Ep 7: Grains of Sand
When an immigrant woman dies, Johnny is determined to take care of her baby and reunite it with the father.

Ep 8: Vanguard
Johnny must help a former student, now a researcher for a plasticscompany, with a future of destruction setting off the doomsday ofJohnny's visions.

Ep 9: Babble On

Johnny has been getting visions of his dead father, who is apparently trying to warn him of some coming disaster.

Ep 10: Coming Home
Johnny gets a vision of death concerning Sara's father, who isapparently being stalked by a "Shadow Man" who is preying on an oldfolks' community home.

Ep 11: Saved
When Stillson's girlfriend disappears, he must reluctantly turn to Johnny Smith for help in locating her.

12: A Very Dead Zone Christmas

Johnny prepares for a Christmas celebration and has to deal with avisit by Alex, an amnesiac Santa, three young brothers without afamily, and... turducken.

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Season 5 Episode Guide


Ep 1: Forbidden Fruit

Johnnyvows to find a way to stop Miranda from marrying Greg Stillson...beforeshe ends up being killed. Meanwhile the mysterious Janus furtherinsinuates himself into Stillson's and Purdy's lives.

Ep 2: Independence Day
Johnny has a vision of a dead Bruce in a multi-car accident on thehighway, but finds that his every effort to stop it only makes thingsworse.

Ep 3: Panic

Johnny is trapped in his house with J.J. and another neighborhoodteen by vicious killers, and discovers a family secret while trying tokeep one step ahead of the intruders.

Ep 4: Articles of Faith
Johnny helps in the investigation of a hate-crime committed by theson of a neo-Nazi, but soon has reason to believe the boy's confessionmay be false.

Ep 5: The Inside Man

Johnny ends up taking the place of the inside man in a museumrobbery to stop the crime and prevent several deaths, but soon finds hemay have to help them escape to prevent innocent people from beingkilled.

Ep 6: Lotto Fever
Johnny must deal with an angry man who got winning Lotto ticketsfrom Johnny after meeting him... but is now frustrated with all theproblems the money brought with it.

Ep 7: Symmetry
After Johnny is attacked, he begins to experience visions of his attacker's life and the life of one of the attacker's victims.

Ep 8: Vortex
Tosave a child, Johnny infiltrates a compound belonging to a cult, butsoon finds that the place is loaded with explosives and must stop aconfrontation between the cult leader and the FBI before the entireplace goes up.

Ep 9: Revelations
A womanclaiming to be Purdy's lost-long daughter arrives in Cleaves Mills.Johnny has a vision of the woman causing harm to Purdy, who ignoresJohnny's warning. While investigating the woman, Johnny learns ofPurdy's secret past.

Ep 10: Into the Heart of Darkness
The Collector returns, seeking his revenge on Johnny. Now Johnnymust race against time to save a newly pregnant Sara from his grasp.

Ep 11: The Hunting Party
Johnny tries to thwart the assassination of the Vice President andprotect the man that Janus' secret conspiracy has set up to take theblame, but it soon becomes clear that Janus has his own plans to assureStillson's ascension to the White House.

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Season 6 Episode Guide


Ep 1: Heritage

Johnny views visions of his friends in danger at a festival. Hebelieves he has averted the disaster, but a fire later claims twopeople — changing Johnny's life and the world's fate.

Ep 2: Ego
Johnny investigates a psychiatrist after a vision shows her being shot, he uncovers several patients who would like her dead.

Ep 3: Re-Entry
Johnny gets a vision of disaster on a private space mission and is forced to work with Stillson to save the crew.

Ep 4: Big Top
Johnny visits an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed circus and becomespart of a ten year old murder. Johnny later realizes that J.J. may haveinherited a part of his psychic powers.

Ep 5: Interred
Johnny has a vision of a man who has been buried alive. Johnny, with the help of Turner, rushes to locate the man.

Ep 6: Switch
Johnny is taking a train trip when he has a vision of someonethrowing a woman from the train. Johnny goes to help and becomesromantically involved with her, but soon suspects that she's a fraud.

Ep 7: Numb
Sarah must take unexpected actions to save Johnny's life after he goes into a coma.

Ep 8: Outcome
Johnny must turn to a friend of Sarah's for help when he gets a vision of an imminent bus station bombing.

Ep 9: Transgression
Johnny becomes involved in a murder case involving a young woman and demonic possession, where everything isn't as it seems.

Ep 10: Drift
While on a trip to visit Bruce, Johnny views a racehorse beingstolen in a vision. He also realizes that he may have lost the chanceto reunite with Sarah and J.J. thanks to Stilson's efforts.

Ep 11: Exile
Johnny goes to the aid of his psychic friend, but soon finds he'sthe one who needs help. Meanwhile, Sarah moves out of Johnny's houseand goes to Stillson, who reveals information that sheds light on theevents leading up to Walt's death.

Ep 12: Ambush
While further investigating Walt's death, Johnny determines a link between him and his successor, Anna Turner.

Ep 13: Denouement

In the sixth season finale, visions of Walt lead Johnny to anamazing discovery about his father Herb, and secrets from the past areexposed.

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