Les 4400 >

Written by CRAIG SWEENY & IRA STEVEN BEH
Directed by LESLIE LIBMAN





Previously on the 4400

Flashbacks to season one


Six Months Later


Richard is running through some woodland. The sound of a baby can be heard in the background.

Richard: Isabelle! Isabelle!


A loud scream is heard, followed by a gunshot. Richard see's blood on his hands and begins to scream.


He suddenly wakes up and sits up in bed, waking Lily

Lily: What is it baby? It's a bad dream.

Richard: It's the same one.


She puts her arms around him

Lily: She's fine Richard. We're all fine. Come back to bed.


They hear footsteps outside.

Lily: It's just a racoon

Richard get's out of bed and picks up a stick. Opening the door he looks around and see's the taillights of a car. He returns inside and closes the door.

Lily: Who was it?

Richard: They took off before I could ask.

Lily: They left something behind.


A note has been pushed under the door. On the top in large red letters, are the words 'YOU ARE WARNED' The rest of the piece of paper is fulled with passages from the bible.

Lily: Someone tracked us down.

Richard: Who? NTAC? Collier? This look like their calling card, to you?

Lily: I don't know who it is, but someone knows we're 4400's.

Richard: Start packing. I'll drive into town tomorrow, pick up my last paycheck and then we're out of here.

Lily: Can't we just go now?

Richard: We're gonna need that money, Lily.


A car pulls up outside the 4400 centre. Devon comes out to meet it.

Devon: Mr and Mrs Sumlin. Peter? If you'll follow me.


They enter the lobby, which is in the middle of being decorated.

Devon: Forgive our appearance. As you know, the centre doesn't officially open until tomorrow.

Mrs Sumlin: Peter doesn't have time to wait.


Collier appears


Collier: That's where you're wrong Mrs Sumlin. Peter has all the time in the world.


He bends down to look the young boy in the eye. The boy is connected to an oxygen tube.

Collier: Hi Peter. My name is Jordan Collier.


They step out of an elevator

Collier: Just this way. Our medical lab isn't quite ready, so we thought Peter would be more comfortable up here.


They enter Shawns room.

Shawn: Hello Peter. I'm Shawn. What do you say we get started. Yeah?


The little boy nods and the two of them sit opposite each other.

Shawn: Ok buddy, I want you to take my hands and try to relax, ok?


Peter begins to shake.

Shawn: You're ok. You're doing good. You're doing so good. It's ok.

Mrs Sumlin: Oh my God, is he ok?

Collier: He's fine. Just watch.


Shawn continues to hold the boys hands.

Shawn: You're doing fine. You're ok. You're ok.


Peter suddenly stops shaking and his mother kneels on the floor beside him

Mrs Sumlin: Peter? How do you feel honey?

Mr Sumlin: How are you doing son?


Peter rips the oxygen tube from his face


He takes some breaths without it and smiles.


Later the Sumlins hand Collier a cheque

Collier: Thankyou for your generous donation.

Mr Sumlin: We tried everything. Radiation. Bone marrow transplants. Is he really cured?

Collier: Take him back to his Doctor. Run some tests. Peter's leukaemia is gone.

Mrs Sumlin: This is a miracle.

Collier: For now it has to remain a private miracle. May I remind you that the confidentiality agreement you have signed, is strictly binding.

Mrs Sumlin: But people should know about that young man.

Collier: And they will. In time, they'll know everything.


Diana and Maia walk hand in hand up to a court building.

Diana: Are you nervous?

Maia: Aren't you?

Diana: No, not at all.....Well maybe a little bit. Ok, a lot. Now you really wanna do this right?

Maia: Right.

Diana: Ok, let's go.


Inside the Judge's office

Judge Biederman: Says here she registered an ability under the Densman-Lenhoff bill. Some kind of precognitive insight?

Diana: Her visions stopped about four months ago. We're not sure why.

Judge Biederman: Huh, too bad. I was going to ask if teledex would hit it's quarterly projection.

Diana: Well, we'd like to get started if that's alright.

Judge Biederman: Certainly. Just sign where indicated. Diana Skouris, your adoption of Maia Rutledge is hereby complete, legal and binding. So witnessed by me, Henry Biederman, tenth circuit family court of Seattle. You know, some of us have to look far and wide to find people to call family. You two had to look clear across time. Diana, let me introduce you to your daughter, Maia. Maia, say hello to mommy.


Maia flings her arms around Diana.


National Threat Assessment Command Seattle, Washington.


Kyle is in a room pacing angrily.

Kyle: I'm not doing it. I mean it this time, no way!

Tom: It's just a catscan Kyle, you've had them before.

Kyle: This one's gonna tell them the same thing the last 150 told them. Nothing!


He points to his head.

Kyle: There's nobody in here but me.

Tom: I know that. And sooner or later they're gonna stop looking.

Kyle: When? When?

Tom: I wish I knew. But with NTAC, the Government, they've got bigger issues than you or me ok? Just...Kyle, they're still trying to make sense about what happened that night at Highland Beach, that's all.

Kyle: Are they afraid if they let me out I'm going to spill the beans about their big secret? Well they can relax. I just want to get out of here and be normal again, and normal people don't go around sounding off about future humans and the end of the world. Besides, I don't even remember what happened.

Tom: I know


Kyle looks up at the camera

Kyle: You listening? I don't remember!!

Tom: Just calm down. Just calm down.

Kyle: Talk to someone, anyone, please, cos....

Tom: Ok, ok, ok, ok


Tom is in the gym hitting a punching bag. Diana walks in.

Diana:Tom! Been a while, huh?

Tom: Yeah, you know how it is. Us desk jockey's don't have much cause to mix with you hotshot field agents.

Diana: Someone feeling a little sorry for himself today?

Tom: The 4400 was sent back to save humanity and I'm supposed to help them.

Diana: I was there, on the beach, remember?

Tom: They gave me a mission, and what's my biggest accomplishment of the week? I convinced my son to take another catscan. Though somehow I don't think that's what they had in mind.


Diana's new partner enters the room

Agent: Diana, you ready to roll?

Diana: In a minute.

Hubbard: Because we have to check in on three returnee's in a row. I wanna make sure we get our reports in by five.

Diana: Ok, why don't you keep the car warmed up and I'll be right there.


He leaves the room

Tom: Vic Hubbard's the best lead investigator you could find?

Diana: Oh no, he's the fourth one this year. Two more, I break a record. We gotta get you out from behind that desk.

Tom: I'm lucky to have a job here. I put a gun to another Agents head, remember?

Diana: Yeah well, I never said it was gonna be easy.


He begins to hit the bag again.


Intel Room 3

Brady: It's obvious what really happened.

Marco: Whoa, are you gonna start in with your negative energy again?

Brady: White holes. See, they're the answer. That's how they took them and that's how they brought them back.


Diana enters the room

Diana: Guys. Guys! Am I interrupting?

Marco: Brady's back on his white hole kick again.

Diana: One day you'll explain to me the difference between the white one's and the black one's, right?

Marco: Well, how about tonight?

Diana: How about you just give me that thing that we discussed.

Marco: Can't.

Diana: Why not?

Marco: I already sent it upstairs.

Diana: Ah. Wonder if anyone's read it yet.

Marco: When they do, I'm sure you're gonna hear about it.

Diana: I owe you one, handsome.


Abendson Psychiatric Care Facility


Tess Doerner, abductetd on April 3rd, 1955, sits in the communal area drawing a picture. Another man approaches and takes a book from under his jumper.

Tess: H P Lovecrafts.The Mountains Of Madness. Are you trying to tell me something? Which orderly did you steal it from.


Matt picks up her drawing and stares at it.

Tess: Matt? You're so sweet. You're the only person here, who doesn't want me dead. I wish I could take you with me when I go, but I can't. They only want me. I'll be leaving soon. Very soon.


The exact same scene she has drawn is being enacted outside. Two inmates are putting pieces of scrap metal together whilst Arlo and Matt, two orderlys, look on.

Arlo: Joanne, Paul? What are you doing?

Joanne: Sex maniac. Don't go flashing those bedroom eyes at me.

Arlo: Joanne, I'm serious. Put that stuff down before you hurt yourself.

Joanne: We're building something.

Arlo: I can see that!

Joanne: Can you really? It's gonna be gigantic.

Arlo: Humungous. Rival the pyramids. But some things are better left to the imagination, Joanne. Besides, you two have physical therapy now. Let's go!


The two move inside

Arlo: Building something. Building nothing. Help me get rid of this junk.


Richard is in town to collect his wages. He finds flyers scattered around, identical to the warning note from earlier. Looking up, he sees a man dressed in black.


Shawn is at the centre having a massage

Shawn: Ow

Masseuse: I'm sorry, too hard?

Shawn: No it's ok. Give it your best shot.

Masseuse: Whatever you do, you must be pretty good at it.

Shawn: Yeah, I work with my hands, same as you.

Masseuse: My apartment doesn't look anything like this.

Shawn: Well, it helps to have friends in high places.

Masseuse: I'm always open to making new friends.


Someone knocks on the door.

Shawn: Come in!


Collier enters.

Shawn: Speak of the devil

Collier: Give us a moment.


The girl leaves the room

Shawn: Has anyone ever told you, your timing sucks?

Collier: If they did I'd probably fire them.


He hands Shawn his book. 'The 4400 And Counting'

Collier: For you

Shawn: Oh.

Collier: It's in book stores tomorrow.

Shawn: Jordan. This is going to sell a million copies. People are gonna freak out when they read this.

Collier: Big ideas make a loud noise when the land, Shawn.


Diana enters the office of Nina Jarvis, Director NTAC Pacific Northwest Division.

Diana: You wanted to see me, Nina?

Nina: Are you sleeping with Tom Baldwin?

Diana: Should I come back in? Maybe we could start over.

Nina: Answer the question.

Diana: Never even held hands.

Nina: Do you owe him money?

Diana: What game are we playing here, because if I knew the rules....

Nina: I am playing the theory room paper game.

Diana: I don't know that one.

Nina: Well let me give you a hint.


She begins to read a report sent up from Marco

Nina: The necessity for the immediate reassignment of Thomas Baldwin to active field duty.

Diana: Catchy title.

Nina: Did you come up with it yourself, or did the big brains of the basement pitch in?

Diana: Let's just say that I agree with the sentiment. Tom's the best agent I've ever worked with. Maybe the best you've got in this division. In the three months that Baldwin was investigating the 4400, this department learned more, far more than in the entire year he's been shuffling paper.

Nina: He threatened another agents life.

Diana: He was trying to protect his son, who these future people or whoever they are, chose as their spokesman. Not to mention that his nephew, Shawn, is one of the 4400.

Nina: All of which sound like major conflicts of interest to me.

Diana: That's not what Dennis Ryland believed.

Nina: Dennis Ryland is no longer in charge here.

Diana: Maybe you should call Washington, talk to him.

Nina: I don't have to call Washington. They've got me on speed dial. Congressmen, Senators, Committee Chairs, Sub Committee Chairs. All of them are looking to this department, to me, for answers.

Diana: Which is why you can't keep an agent like Tom Baldwin on the shelf. He's a major player in this case. He's maybe, the major player.

Nina: See, funny, that's exactly what it say's in this paper.

Diana: Maybe Marco had me check it for typo's.

Nina: Alright, the next time that you want to send me a message, put your name on it.


Diana stands up straight, turns and leaves the room.


Later, back at the sanitarium.

Clayton: Mr Woolcock! Get down there.

Matt: Arlo!

Clayton: Mr Woolcock, get down from there!

Matt: Arlo! You heard the man!

Clayton: Woolcock, get down from there this instant.


Arlo, the orderly from earlier, is clambering across the roof, on his stomach. He reaches the weather vane and pulls it loose.


Clayton: I've called security! This is your last chance!

Matt: What the hell you doing up there? Arlo!

Arlo: I've got it!


He hugs the weather vane to his chest.

Clayton: Arlo, this is your last warning!

Matt: Arlo, please!


He makes his way backwards towards the ladder

Matt: Arlo, be careful!

Arlo: I'm coming down!

Matt: Arnold, be careful! Watch what you're doing!


He places one foot on the ladder.

Arlo: I got it! I got it!


He starts to make his way down the ladder, but it begins to fall, taking the man with it. He falls to the ground, screaming.

Clayton: Oh my God!


We're shown one of Tess' drawings, which includes a picture of the weather vane, which is perched on top of the device she is drawing. Pictures cover the wall of her room.


Richard returns home to find Lily has packed their bags


Richard: Lily I'm home. Lily relax, we don't have to leave. Some nut papered the entire town with these things. He wasn't singling us out.

Lily: Well I still think we should go.

Richard: I was scared last night too, but did you read this? It's a rant, not a witchhunt.

Lily: Maybe, but Richard, we still don't feel safe here anymore.

Richard: You mean Isabelle doesn't feel safe.

Lily: Richard, we've gone over this a dozen times. I don't know why she talks to me and not to you.

Richard: Talks?

Lily: Communicates. Whatever.

Richard: Did she happen to mention where we should go? Does she have a place picked out, or will she know when she see's it?

Lily: We can find a town.

Richard: We already did. Right here. Isabelle is six months old. I know she's a special kid, but we're still her parents. We make decisions for her, she doesn't make them for us.


Isabelle begins to cry and Lily rushes into the bedroom, picking her up. Richard picks up the bags and takes them back into the room.

Richard: We're staying put.


At Diana's apartment, Maia is sat on her bed, writing in her journal.

Diana: Maia!


As she hears Diana call, she quickly hides the journal under her pillow. Diana opens the door and is wearing a party hat.

Diana: Party time.


Balloons decorate the apartment. Diana brings some food to the table.


Diana: Macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and white bread.

Maia: Everything I like.

Diana: They're the only things you'll eat. You gotta promise me that you'll outgrow this phase soon.

Maia: Mommy, how do you make this taste so good?

Diana: It's a hidden talent I guess. You just called me Mommy.

Maia: You're my Mom now, right?

Diana: Now and forever.

Maia: I like that.

Diana: Me too.

Maia: Do you think I'll ever go back to school?

Diana: Weren't you just telling me that you got a 97 on your math test?

Maia: Not home school, real school with a playground and recess.

Diana: Well sure you will, you know, when you get a bit older.

Maia: How much older? I'm not seeing things that are going to happen, anymore. So it should be ok for me to be around other kids. I think I'd be happy at school.

Diana: Aren't you happy now?

Maia: I'm glad you're my mom for real, but I could still use a friend or two. More mac and cheese please.

Diana: Just a little.


Tom and Diana are in Nina's office. She hands him a piece of paper.

Nina: Sign this.

Tom: What is it?

Nina: Your letter of resignation.

Tom: I thought I was being reassigned to field duty.

Nina: You are, effective immediately. I need results. We have a high priced collection of sheepskin in the basement that tells me you're the best way to get them, so I'm willing to take a risk. But I need some insurance. This. I left the date blank. You cross the line, I fill it in.

Tom: Fair enough.


He picks up a pen and signs.

Nina: Good! Here, look at this.


She turns a screen around to face them bringing up details on Tess.

Diana: Tess Doerner. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 15. Disappeared from Abbotson psychiatric hospital on April of 1955.

Tom: Well maybe they sent her back without bothering to cure her.

Diana: Curing people was not part of their agenda.

Nina: We just got a call from the CA over at the hospital. One of the orderly's is dead and he claims that there's some kind of connection.


Diana stands up to leave

Diana: We'll check it out.

Tom: Hold on. There's still one piece of business we need to get straight.

Nina: You're setting conditions?


Tom brings Kyle home

Kyle: This is your new house?

Tom: It's yours too.


Kyle takes a look around while Tom stands watching him. They make their way into Kyle's new bedroom.


Tom: All your stuff is here. Kind of looks like our old place, huh? Well try it, anyway.

Kyle: Only one thing missing. Mom.

Tom: Yeah I know. Sometimes I can't believe she's not here either. But we tried Kyle. We really tried to make it work.

Kyle: I wish you both would have tried a little harder.

Tom: I'm sorry. You know, when something terrible happens to a family, when you were in the hospital, it can bring people closer together or it can drive them apart. Your Mom and me....

Kyle: Well I'll have to call her. Let her know I'm out of quarantine.

Tom: Yeah, you should do that. It would make her really happy.

Kyle: Shawn's gonna freak out too.

Tom: Well....

Kyle: I'm going to see him, right?

Tom: You're a good cousin. Just don't expect too much. You know, people change in four years. I can't believe you're standing here. I've been looking forward to this moment for too long. Hey, you remember how we used to love to go to the batting cages?

Kyle: You never could hit that curve ball.

Tom: That was you. I've got plenty of quarters saved up.

Kyle: Maybe we should stop off at the driving range, too.

Tom: You wanna learn how to play golf? I used to beg to teach you.

Kyle: There are a lot of things I wanna try now, Dad.

Tom: You make a list. You want it, we'll do it. Anything. You can show me tonight, okay?


Tom makes his way out of the room

Kyle: You're leaving? I just got here.

Tom: It's my job, buddy. Now get started on that list.


Tom and Diana arrive at the sanitarium, to find building of Tess' device in progress.


Diana: You people really take your arts and crafts seriously, don't you.

Tom: You sure Tess drew this before they started building?

Clayton: She made her first sketch two weeks ago. That thing started going up yesterday.

Diana: And you think that the orderly who died is connected to all of this.

Clayton: He was on the ledge of B building, prying off a weather vane. I believe it was this weather vane.


He shows them one of Tess' drawings.


They make their way inside

Tom: So why don't you just confine all of the other patients to their rooms.

Clayton: Well I intend to, but this kind of cooperative behaviour is unheard of with these illnessess. Besides I wanted you to take a look at that thing before we tore it down again.

One of the patients comes out of a room

Clayton: It's alright Kevin. They're just here to talk to Tess.


He turns to Tom and Diana

Clayton: He's very protective of her. She's his only friend in here. Really, it's ok.


He opens the door to her room

Clayton: I'll just let her know you're coming.

Tom: Great.


Inside Tess' room


Diana: We saw some of the pictures you did, Tess. They're really good.

Tess: Shhhh! They'll hear you. There's microphones in the walls. They broadcast by satellite to the submarines.

Diana: Who does?

Tess: The Doctors.

Tom: The Doctors here in the hospital?

Tess: Some of them are here in the hospital. Some of them are stationed on a submarine.

Diana: We'll just talk really softly.

Tess: They take my crayons away, but they're too late.

Tom: Yeah? Why's that?

Tess: Because it's gonna get built anyway. They want me to get in touch with them. That's why they put the plans in my head.

Tom: Um, now, are we talking about the Doctors here in the hospital, or the Doctors under the sea.

Tess: Neither. We're talking about the people who took me. Stupid.

Diana: So, the people who took you. They want the patients here to build that tower?

Tess: They'll do anything to get me back. They like me.

Tom: Did you ask the other patients for help, Tess?

Tess: I don't like talking to them. They're crazy.

Diana: Was Arlo crazy?

Tess: I never thought he was. Maybe crazy is catching.


Diana and Tom leave the building and walk towards their car.

Tom: So, my first day back. What's going on? Not much. Just a bunch of mental patients building a machine to contact the future.

Diana: Well that's what Tess thinks, anyway. She also thinks there are Doctors stationed under the Pacific Ocean, listening to a radio broadcast of her private conversations.

Tom: Could be some kind of collective hysteria. Doesn't explain this guy Arlo, though.

Diana: He's a middle aged hospital orderly, who's wife just left him. He could have been suicidal.

Tom: Lost his nerve at the last minute and tried to grab the weather vane?

Diana: I wonder how long it is since Marco got some sun. I was thinking we could bring him down to have a look at that thing they're building.

Tom: A lone trip for Marco.

Diana: He goes outside Tom. We could have some sunblock handy.

Tom: It would be something though, huh? If she could actually do it? Contact the future?

Diana: Tess is right. Maybe crazy is catching.


The 4400 Centre at night


Collier is on the floor of his office, crying out in pain. Shawn and a secretary rush in.

Secretary: He was dictating a letter. He just grabbed his head and started screaming.

Shawn: Wait outside. Now!


She leaves and Shawn grabs Colliers head and begins to try and take the pain away.

Shawn: Hold still.


Eventually he succeeds and they both remain exhausted on the floor.




Collier: Thanks. Thankyou.

Shawn: They're getting worse. Jordan, they're coming more often, too.

Collier: You ok?

Shawn: I'm fine. I don't get it. I don't get why these attacks keep coming back. I cured emphysema, leukaimia. That baby really kicked your ass.

Collier: Well you just remember that when we find Richard and Lily.

Shawn: You sound pretty confident Jordan, but it's been a year. Sometimes I forget they're still out there.

Collier: I never forget and neither do the men I'm paying to find them.

Shawn: Ok, but if I were you, I wouldn't want to be in the same timezone as that kid. If you two meet up again, it might just finish you off.

Collier: I have my reasons.


He helps Shawn to his feet.

Collier: You get some rest.

Shawn: Alright.

Collier: Big day tomorrow.

Shawn: Yeah.


Newscast

Newscaster: In breaking news, a revelation about the origins of the 4400. In his newly published autobiography former real estate agent, Jordan Collier, claims that the 4400 were abducted by Human Beings from the future. The book contains copies of classified government memoranda, that Collier say's prove his claims. The documents are said to come from an anonymous source within the National Threat Assessment Command. According to Collier, the 4400 were returned to avert a catastrophe that threatens the survival of mankind.


Diana and Maia are watching the broadcast

Maia: Why didn't you tell me?

Newscaster: Collier charges that the government has had this information for more than a year, but has kept it secret in an effort to avert a public panic.


Richard is at work watching the broadcast.

Newscaster: The government claims that the documents are purely speculative and have been quoted out of context.


Back in Richards workplace.

Mechanic: I don't care who took them. I don't care who sent them back. The government should have kept them behind bars.

Mechanic 2: You heard what the man said. They're here to save the world.

Mechanic: Well what do you expect him to say. He's one of them. You're awful quiet.

Richard: I deal in facts. The fact is, I gotta flush this radiator before lunch.


He begins to work on a car.


Nina holds a meeting.


Nina: Did everybody hear that Mr Collier's source, is anonymous no more. Agent Hubbard will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Diana: So what about Collier?

Tom: Can't buy national secrets on the black market.

Nina: I'm sure we'd all like to see Collier charged with treason, but it's unlikely. I doubt we'll be able to trace the payments directly to him. Now, as for the so called 4400 center. Around the clock surveillance is in effect until further notice. I want pictures of everyone who comes within a hundred yards of that place.

Agent: Is it true that Collier is filing for tax exempt status?

Nina: Apparently.

Tom: What, he's turned the 4400 into some kind of religion?

Agent: More like a cult.

Tom: A cult is what the big congregation calls a little congregation.

Agent 2: Cult, religion, whatever. What's he basing it on?

Diana: Have you read this thing? Collier claims that he can unlock the 4400 within anybody.

Agent 3: So he expects a guy punching a clock in Pittsburgh, to believe he has some kind of latent superpower?

Agent 2: Most of the 4400 don't even have those kinds of abilities. Not yet anyway.

Diana: No, but if you thought there was a chance that you had an ability locked away inside you.

Nina: You sound like you're ready to sign up.

Diana: No. But I wouldn't blame anyone for being curious.

Tom: Now we keep telling the public, that biologically, the 4400 aren't any different than the rest of us. They haven't been altered genetically, neurologically.

Agent 3: As far as we can tell. But if Collier thinks that people are just gonna sign up their lives and their life savings over to some metaphysical pyramid scheme, then he's in for a rude awakening.


Kyle arrives at the 4400 center which is open to the public for a book signing. He walks among the crowd and is greeted by Devon.

Devon: Welcome to the 4400 center. My name is Devon. What's your name?

Kyle: Kyle

Devon: Nice to meet you Kyle. Can I sign you up for a tour?

Kyle: Thanks. I'm just looking for my cousin? Shawn Farrell?

Devon: I'm sorry. Mr Farrell's not available right now.

Kyle: Can you tell him Kyle's looking for him? He does live here, right?

Devon: I'm afraid policy prohibits me from discussing our membership.

Kyle: I'm not looking for a discussion. I just want to say hi to my cousin.


She blocks his way


Devon: If you want to leave your name and number.

Kyle: I'm not leaving anything. What is the problem here?

Devon: There's no problem.

Kyle: Then tell Shawn I'm here. If he doesn't want to see me, fine! But that's up to him, right?

Devon: Would you lower your voice please?

Kyle: Look, I've got nothing against you personally. I hope the pod people return your body to you someday. If it's all the same, I'll find Shawn myself.


Three security guards come up to him and begin to drag him out.

Guard: This way sir.

Kyle: Get your hands off me!


Back at the sanitarium, the building continues.

Marco: You guys didn't tell me this thing was so big.

Tom: It wasn't.

Diana: Not yesterday.

Marco: Those don't look like patients to me.

Diana:They're not.

Tom: Dr Clayton.

Clayton: I know what you're gonna say. We're falling behind. We'll make up the time this afternoon.

Diana: So is the entire hospital working on this thing?

Clayton: It's the only way to get it done. Excuse me. Randy? Winston? We're gonna need a little help here with the satellite dish.


Diana turns to Marco

Diana: Ok, so first the patients, now the staff. If this is some kind of mass hysteria, it's spreading.


Back at Richard and Lily's house. Richard is holding Isabelle.

Richard: Who does Daddy love? Mom, Elizabeth. Yes he does. You know what he see's when he looks at you? A beautiful baby, yes he does. But Mommy see's much more than that. You know why? You communicate with Mommy, but you never talk to daddy. So how about it. Anything you want to say to Daddy? Huh? Cos I'm listening. Ok then. Guess I'm left to muddle along, all alone.


Lily enters the room.

Lily: Richard. We've gotta get a copy of that book, I wanna read it.

Richard: You and me both, but I've checked in town. They won't have any copies till tomorrow.

Lily: I don't know about you, but I kinda got used to the idea that we'd never know where she came from.

Richard: Well, if we went to the future. At least we came back with a souvenier.

Lily: The people who took us. They made all this happen, right? They saw to it that we got Isabelle. They must have something in mind for her.

Richard: I have something in mind for us, too. A normal life.

Lily: Sounds good, but we left normal behind a long time ago now.


Back at the sanitarium, Agents are pulling people away from the device.

Clayton: This is outrageous. We have work to finish here. Important work.

Tom: Doctors are allowed to make their rounds. No-ones stopping them from taking care of their patients. From now on, the tower and the court area are off limits. You got it?

Agent: I've got it.


Marco walks up to the tower device

Marco: Man, look at the size of that thing. I wouldn't mind having one of those in my backyard, huh?

Tom: Road trips over. Wait in the car.


Marco leaves and Diana walks over to stand by Tom's side.

Diana: So yesterday, a few patients were compelled to work on this thing, and today it's the entire hospital.

Tom: If we get Tess out of here, you think this compulsion will fade?

Diana: I don't know.

Tom: It's worth a try, isn't it?


Diana and Tom take Tess from her room and lead her into the corridor. She's upset and crying.

Tom: Alright, I got you.

Tess: I'm not a bad person. I'm not.

Diana: No-one's saying that you are, Tess.

Tess: Then why are you gonna stick wires in my brain?

Tom: I promise Tess. Nobody's gonna hurt you.

Tess: That's what everybody say's right before they hurt you. Why am I being punished? I'm a good person really. I'm only doing what they want.


Kevin comes rushing up the corridor yelling and rushes at Tom.

Tom: Guards! Guards! Get over here.


He is dragged off and walks down the corridor, yelling. Tess is sobbing and is taken through the doors.

Tess: Kevin! Kevin!

Tom: It's alright.


Maia and a friend are playing go fish in Diana's apartment. The babysitter is setting the table for dinner.

Maia: Do you have a seven?

Kerry: Go fish.


Diana enters

Diana: I am so sorry I'm late. Oh, who do we have here?

Maia: This is Kerry. She lives downstairs. The UPS man left a package for us by mistake, and when her Mom came to get it, Kerry was with her, and now I'm invited to her birthday party. And it's a sleepover. I can go, right?

Diana: Hi Kerry, I'm Diana.

Kerry: It's nice to meet you.

Diana: It's nice to meet you.

Maia: I already said it's ok.

Diana: Well I think we should probably talk to Kerry's Mom, don't you? Oh look, you know what? It sounds fine to me.


Maia rushes up to hug her

Maia: Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.


Jordan Colliers office.

Shawn: You never told me I was a prisoner.

Collier: Have you ever seen a prison cell Shawn? It looks nothing like your apartment.

Shawn: Goddammit Jordan! Since when do you decide who I see and talk to.

Collier: This is about your cousin, isn't it?

Shawn: So you did know he was here?

Collier: I know he was rude and aggressive and had to be escorted from the premises.

Shawn: You mean thrown out!

Collier: It might have been handled more smoothly Shawn, but all in all I have to say it was for the best.

Shawn: Kyle is my friend.

Collier: He was your friend. Look, a year ago you came to me looking for a new life. Your old one in shambles. Kyle, friend or not, is part of that old life.

Shawn: So what do you want me to do? You just want me to cut him loose and forget he exists?

Collier: He's no different than your Mother, your brother or your friend Nikki.

Shawn: Don't.

Collier: They do not understand what it is we're trying to accomplish here.

Shawn: Maybe I don't either.

Collier: Well then I suggest you pack your bags and leave.


Shawn sits down.

Shawn: So what happens next time you start screaming out in pain?

Collier: Do what's right for you Shawn. I'll take care of myself.


Tom is sat in the office when Diana enters

Diana: I got the full physical work up on Tess.

Tom: Let me guess. Physically normal across the board.

Diana: I'll say this for the 4400. They're consistent.

Tom: Tess draws a picture of a tower or a monument.

Diana: Or a beacon.

Tom: The the people around her drop everything and start building it.

Diana: Well, they can't help themselves. They have to work.

Tom: It's like ants. Come here.


He beckons her over and she takes a look at this laptop screen.

Tom: The Queen secretes a chemical telling the other ants what to do.

Diana: The drones don't stop working until the job is done. Doesn't matter if one of them dies or if a storm comes and washes away the ant hill.

Tom: They just keep working, unless you take the Queen away. I just hope our drones respond the same way.

Diana: So the future sent back a schizophrenic Queen ant with a blueprint to an interstellar walkie talkie?

Tom: Let's see what Tess can tell us.

Diana: You know, we'd better not get too close, because if your theory's right, anyone who get's too close to her, could be vulnerable.

Tom: Alright I'll talk to Tess. You check with Garrity over at the hospital.


Tom goes to see Tess. He speaks to her through a glass window.

Tom: These friends of yours. The one's who took you. What do you think they want to talk about?

Tess: They're so much smarter than you, it isn't even funny.

Tom: Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. They figured out how to take you and how to send you back.

Tess: Sending me back was a mistake and you know it. I'm supposed to be there.

Tom: Where exactly is there?

Tess: There were Doctors there too. They were nice. All of them.

Tom: Do you remember where you were taken?

Tess: We slept a lot, but not all the time. We wore grey clothes. There's a giant building. The Doctors wore shiny jackets. I miss it so much.


She approaches the dividing screen.

Tom: Go on. I really like hearing you talk about it.

Tess: Our rooms had round windows. Our doorways with arches in them. The stones had writing in them. Math symbols or something. Inscriptions. Jars of purplish metals and rods with stained tips.

Tom: These symbols. Tess, what did they look like? Tess? Tess, do you remember what the inscriptions said?

Tess: They're waiting to hear from me. I need to get in touch with them.


She moves away

Tom: Tess, Tess. Tess, wait!


Diana is in the office, trying to get hold of Garrity.

Diana: Garitty, why haven't you been picking up your cell phone?

Garrity: I'm sorry, it's been kind of crazy down here.

Diana: So is everything alright?

Garrity: Yeah, fine. Just about done here.

Diana: Done?

Garrity: Well, the satellite dish is a bitch to hook up, but we'll get em.


Down at the sanitarium

Garrity: Come on people, let's get those dishes secured. We don't have all day.


Tom appears in the office

Tom: I just had the most unbelievable conversation with Tess.

Diana: Well it couldn't be any more unbelievable than the one I just had with Garitty.


Lily is walking down a street pushing Isabelle in a pushchair. She walks past a cinema and into a gift shop, where she picks up a copy of Collier's book. The man Richard saw earlier placing warning leaflets is talking to the owner.

Shopkeeper: Can't say I see it that way.

Josiah: No other way to see it. That book is blasphemy.

Shopkeeper: Well don't buy it, if that's how you feel.

Josiah: The third angel blew his trumpet and a great sorrow fell from heaven, burning like a torch. Revelations 8:10.

Shopkeeper: I'll take your word for it.

Josiah: The day they came back was the beginning of the end times.

Shopkeeper: Sounds like you've done a little more thinking on it than I have.

Josiah: Either remove the book from the store or my boy here will remove it for you.

Shopkeeper: Like hell he will.


Lily accidentally knocks over a table, gaining the attention of the man. He walks over, seeing the book in her hands.

Josiah: Do you know what you're carrying there, woman?

Lily: It's just a book.

Josiah: It's the doorway to hell.


Isabelle is watching him. He turns to her and Lily rushes over.

Josiah: That child yours?

Lily: It's my daughter.

Josiah: Abomination begets abomination.


Lily picks up the baby. Isabelle looks at the man over her mother's shoulders and as she does so, the windows of the store blow out and goods fly everywhere. She rushes out and quickly makes her way to Richard who is working on a car.

Lily: Richard!

Richard: What's going on?

Lily: We gotta get out of here, now!


He follows her over to their car.


Back at the sanitarium, the tower is on fire. Agents hold back those wishing to save it.

Tom: What the hell happened here.

Clayton: These new guys you sent us are no good.

Garrity: Park told me he had experience with a welding torch, so....

Clayton: Experience in what? Starting fires? Now our schedule's in the toilet.

Diana: Did either of you call the fire department?


Tom looks up at the fire. Kevin falls to his knees, while in her room, Tess begins to scream.


Richard and Lily hurriedly pack, as a car pulls up outside.

Richard: Time to go.


Josiah kicks the door open, while Richard and Lily try to get away in the car.

Lily: Hurry Richard. Hurry


Josiah goes into the bedroom, where the cot mobile is still playing. He looks around and see's the open window. Opening the door, he fires his rifle at the car blowing out the windows. Lily screams as Richard starts the engine and drives away.


Nina holds a meeting

Nina: As of tonight, Abottson state hospital is officially under quarantine. The patients will remain locked down. Hospital staff and affected NTAC personnel will be confined to the site, until we've isolated the source of the compulsion.

Tom: That sounds like a good plan, but who's gonna watch over them? The last group we sent was compromised within hours.

Diana: Which is quite frankly, a little disturbing. I mean, if you think of this like an epidemic. I the CDC, we'd call Tess the sole disease factor. You remove her, you remove the urge to build. Except, as far as we know....

Tom: None of those agents had any contact with Tess.

Diana: So it's like the flu, or any other airborne virus. If you catch it you can pass it on.


Nina looks at one of the drawings

Nina: What is this thing supposed to be anyway?

Marco: My guess, and I cannot emphasise the word guess strongly enough, is that Tess is telling us the truth. It's some kind of communication device.

Nina: To contact who? The future?

Tom: The only way to find out is to let the patients finish building it. That night on Highland Beach, they were trying to tell us something. The conversation was cut short.

Diana: Which is why we've been stumbling around in the dark this last year.

Tom: Tess is the ony 4400 who remembers where she was taken.

Nina: No, claims to remember where she was taken. She's also the only paranoid schizophrenic, and it sounds to me like you too have been spending a little too much time around her.

Marco: Well, maybe I caught the bug too, but I agree with them.

Nina: The quarantine orders for the hospital will remain in effect until further notice. The guards will rotate shifts to minimise their exposure.

Tom: So where does that leave us?

Nina: Until we're sure the compulsion is not spreading anymore, you two aren't going anywhere near that facility.


Richard and Lily have pulled up at a gas station.

Lily: Isabelle is asleep. The rainy day came sooner than expected. Do you think we lost them?

Richard: I'm not ready to stop for pies just yet. I've got 1200 here. Another 300 in my pocket.

Lily: I'm carrying too.

Richard: I'm gonna have to get those back windows replaced in the morning. That should be enough to carry us through to Montana.

Lily: What did Eric say when you called him?

Richard: He was a little surprised to hear from me. Back in quarantine he used to say that us 4400's should stick together.

Lily: Yeah well, we didn't have much choice back then though, did we.


He takes her hand

Richard: We'll have to get by on our savings when we get there.

Lily: If things get really bad, we can sell these.

Richard: I put that ring on your finger forever. Guess you and Isabelle were right. We should have taken off when we had the chance.


They kiss

Lily: It's gonna be a long night. You want me to drive a shift?

Richard: Get some sleep.


Diana's sitting on her bed, when there's a knock at the door. Maia is with the woman from downstairs


Diana: Maia, what's wrong?

Woman: I'm sorry, I know it's late, but Maia really wanted to come home.

Diana: Well why's that sweetie?

Maia: I don't want to talk about it.

Woman: Some of the girls, not my daughter, but some of the other girls, were teasing Maia because she say's she has a crush on Frank Sinatra.

Diana: Old blue eyes. Do you blame her?

Woman: Most nine year old's don't even know who Frank Sinatra was.

Maia: I want to go to bed.


She runs off into her room

Woman: I guess it got pretty nasty. I feel terrible. Maybe Maia can come back another time. Just her and Kerry?

Diana: Yeah, we'll talk about it. Thankyou. Goodnight.

Woman: Goodnight.


Diana walks into Maia's bedroom to find her lying in bed with her eyes closed.


Diana: Maia! I know you didn't fall asleep that fast.

Maia: It was awful, you were right.

Diana: I didn't want to be right.

Maia: I don't need any friends.

Diana: Everyone needs friends Maia. Maia, I really think we should talk about this.

Maia: Well I don't.


Josiah and his sons pull up at the petrol station and find that Richard and Lily have been through there. The attendant shows them the direction they went in.


Tom is at home looking through Tess' drawings. Kyle walks into the room

Kyle: A Bucks burger is as good as I remember.

Tom: That's kind of a strange thing to have on top of your list, but hey, you know what? I think we can make your dreams come true!


Kyle begins playing his guitar

Tom: Kyle, shouldn't you be in bed?

Kyle: Dad, I'm 21

Tom: Yeah, that's what I have to keep reminding myself.

Kyle: I'm making some popcorn, you want some?

Tom: You're kidding me. You could eat more?

Kyle: I've been eating quarantine food for a year. You guys may be keeping the country safe, but your cafeteria sucks!


The phone rings

Kyle: Hello? Hello?


Shawn is on the other end and pauses before answering

Shawn: Kyle


Richard and Lily continue to drive


Lily: We've gotta get the baby out of the cold.

Richard: I don't think there's any motels on this road. I'm thinking we should head south. Catch the 35.


They see a truck behind them

Lily: This is the first car we've seen in what, like, fifty miles?


Josiah's truck closes in on them

Richard: Get your head down!


The truck tries to drive them off the road

Lily: Richard, it's them! Hurry!

Richard: Hold on, hold on!


The car swerves down into the woods and hits a tree


Richard: Is everybody ok?

Lily: I think so.

Richard: Ok, let's go.



The truck pulls up behind the car. Lily and Richard make their way on foot into the woods. Josiah and his son's walk up to the car with rifles in their hands.

Josiah: Spread out.


Diana goes into Maia's bedroom

Diana: Hey Maia sweetie. It's wake up time.

Maia: I'm tired.

Diana: Huh? A late night huh? Alright, fifteen more minutes. You know what? Frank Sinatra is the coolest and don't you let anyone ever tell you different.


She finds Maia's diary in her drawer. On the first page are written the words. 'Things I See'


Later that morning she walks with Marco through a hallway, at work

Marco: So you didn't read any of it?

Diana: Well no. I wouldn't want my daughter reading my diary.

Marco: You keep a diary? Am I in it?

Diana: Oh come on. Don't flatter yourself.

Marco: So really, you don't even know if, what she see's, means things during the day. TV shows, ponies, whatknot. Or it could be,what she see's a week, a month, a year down the line.

Diana: No, no. She hasn't had one of those visions in like, four months.

Marco: Well that's what she tells you, anyway.

Diana: Well why would she lie?

Marco: She wants to be normal, right? Everytime she makes a prediction, someone calls her a freak. Look, I understand, you're her Mom now, there are certain protocols. Next time I'm over, why don't I take a peek.

Diana: Oh c