Narrator

Previously on The 4400:

Tom

(on the phone to Alana)  They just arrested a suspect in the Collier killing.

Kyle

(to Tom)  He didn’t kill Jordan Collier.

Tom

And neither did you, Kyle.

Alison

(in the Marsden doorway, slapping Kyle)  You son of a bitch.  You tell your daddy Roy didn’t kill anybody.

Marco

(to Diana)  If Maia’s having visions, you should know about it.  And, you should know what they are.

Maia

(a voice-over as Diana reads an entry)  Mommy’s Bosses will be punished for betraying us.  (in NTAC, sick)  I want to go home.

Diana

I know you do, Honey, but Dr. Hudson is going to take very good care of you here.

Shawn

(to Lily, in his room)  Don’t tell anyone I can’t heal.

Lily

Sure.

Richard

What are you going to do?

Shawn

What I have to.  (he enters the Camp Dekker quarantine hospital facility)

Richard

(during a news conference)  If you’re sick, the responsible thing is to report to NTAC.  But if you’re well, walking into quarantine is an easy step.  But walking out: that might be considerably more difficult.

Kevin

(to Diana and Tom, reporting his findings)  There is a synthetic substance present in the blood of every 4400.  They even gave it a name.  They call it—

Tom

—promicin inhibitor.

Diana

Every time they came to NTAC medical, every checkup.

Matthew

(to Richard and Lily)  Your daughter is the Rosetta Stone for understanding what happened to the 4400.

Lily

(hotly)  We’re her parents.  We decide.

Brian

(to Lily, as she leaves the safe house with Isabelle)  Are you sure you want to do this?

Lily

Just get me and Isabelle some place safe.

Ryland

But if it comes down to a choice between the safety of the American people and the welfare of the 4400, Tom!  That’s no choice at all!  We tried being reasonable.  In ten hours we start rounding them up.

(opening scene: in aback alley, down a street, Nate McCullough [disappeared September 8, 2000] runs to hide from NTAC)

Tom

(grabbing Nate)  Easy, McCullough.

Nate

(to Diana and Tom)  Let me go!  I’m not sick!  There’s nothing wrong with me!

Diana

We know that.  But you’re a 4400, and everybody has to go in.

Tom

Nate, I don’t want to hurt you, but if you run again, you’re gonna give me no choice.

Nate

Quarantine is just a word to you guys.  Try living it.

Tom

Come on.  (he drags Nate away and put him in a car)  What are we doing here, Diana?  This is so wrong.

Diana

All right.  What do you suggest?  We walk into the middle of NTAC and shout out: “We did this!  We made them sick!”?

Tom

Yeah.  Yeah.  That’s a good start.  We got the medical records.  We can take them to Dennis.

Diana

You really think that Max Hudson and a couple of rogue doctors hatched a covert plan to poison the 4400?  I mean, you really think they could do that without approval?

Tom

Who’s approval?

Diana

Dennis Ryland’s for one.  He was the head of this Division when this whole thing started.  I mean, you think he didn’t know?  Until we know how far up this goes, we gotta stay calm, work quietly.

Tom

Watch our backs.

Nate

(looks at a piece of paper with the address: 139 Lebanon St.; he tears it up)

(scene change: 139 Lebanon St. safe house)

Richard

(on the telephone with Lily)  Don’t tell me to calm down, Lily.  How am I supposed to be calm when my wife and daughter left in the middle of the night?

Lily

We didn’t leave you, Richard.  I just didn’t feel like Isabelle was safe there.  You’ve turned this resistance quarantine into your personal mission.

Richard

NTAC turned it into my personal mission when they started rounding us up.

Lily

And I admire what you’re doing, but it is not my fight.  And, I sure as hell won’t let it be Isabelle’s fight.

Richard

Just tell me where you are.  Put my mind at ease.  I’ll come see you.  Lily—

Lily

Sorry.  I just feel it’s better this way for now.  I’ll call soon.  (she hangs up; Richard throws his cell phone against the wall; to Isabelle)  That didn’t go as well as I had hoped.  (she discovers the rash on her arm, checking the mirror, it has spread all over her body; she dials her cell phone)

Operator

911.  Please state the nature of your emergency.

Lily

I need an ambulance.  I’m sick.  I’ve got this—  (she looks at the mirror, and the rash is gone)

Operator

Hello?  Hello.  Miss, are you there?

Lily

Never mind.  (she hangs up and looks at Isabelle)

(scene change: NTAC; Diana and Tom exit an elevator)

Tom

(seeing Ryland and Nina conversing)  Think they’re sharing trade secrets?

Diana

That, or she is asking for her office back.

Tom

(entering first the Director’s office; to Diana)  Thanks.  Nina, good to see you.

Nina

Thanks.  Wish the circumstances were a little better.

Ryland

We lost the first 4400s to this thing overnight: seven dead.  There’ll be more by day’s end.

Tom

No word about a vaccine?  A cure?

Nina

I just got off the phone with Husdon.  He said they worked on a few things overnight.

Diana

I’m going to quarantine.

Ryland

Diana, we know this is frustrating.  We got the best minds in the country—in the world—working on this.

Tom

Yeah.  Well, they better work fast.  Seven people are dead.  Alana could be next or Maia.  And still, nobody has any idea where this came from, do they?

Ryland

We’ll get it.  We’ll figure it out.  (Diana and Tom exit; he gives Nina a knowing look)

(scene change: Camp Dekker; a woman is covered up and wheeled out)

Tom

(to Alana)  Hey, Sweetie.  It’s me, Tom.

Alana

Who are you?  Who are you?

Shawn

(to Diana, referring to Maia)  She was awake earlier, only for a few minutes.

Diana

Did she say anything?

Shawn

She talked about you.  She said you can make everything okay.  I hope she’s right.

Diana

Me, too.  (she walks to Tom)  Let’s go.

Tom

Where are we headed?

Diana

We have an appointment with the good doctor Hudson.  (they enter Hudson’s office)

Hudson

Diana—  (he stops when Diana points her weapon in his face)  What?  What the hell are you doing?

Diana

We got some things we need to talk about, Max.  (Tom closes the blinds)

(scene change: flashback; NTAC; Ryland’s office; October 12, 2004, eight weeks after the 4400 arrived)

Hudson

(looking at a folder on Orson)  We may have let them out too soon.  This guy your agents brought in—Orson Bailey—I think I can explain how he developed this—Jesus, I can’t even say the word.

Ryland

Telekinesis.

Hudson

Thank you.  The body produces four main neuro-transmitters—like traffic cops—to the brain.  They control everything, regulate everything.

Ryland

Tell me something I don’t know.

Hudson

Bailey is producing a fifth neuro-transmitter.  We’ve never seen it before.  Nobody has.

Ryland

I guess it factors into Bailey’s ability to bend spoons with his mind.

Hudson

Let’s just say that promicin is, basically, a back-stage pass to the VIP section of the brain.  He is using parts of his cerebellum no human has ever had access to.  I ran some tests on the 4400 who are still in quarantine: every single one of them is producing trace amounts of promicin.

Ryland

So, it’s just a matter of time before every 4400 develops telekinesis?

Hudson

Promicin’s behavior is unpredictable.  They might not get telekinesis, but they’ll get something.

Ryland

Put everything on paper.  I want to get my talking points straight before I try explaining this to DC.

Hudson

(back to the present; in Hudson’s office)  DC panicked.  I was ordered to work on a drug to suppress the production of promicin in the 4400.  Once I synthesized the inhibitor, we gave it to every 4400, every time they came in for a checkup.

Tom

But it doesn’t even work.  4400s are developing abilities all of the time.

Hudson

A small percentage of them are.  But if it wasn’t for the inhibitor, they’d all have them.  I know, it didn’t work perfectly.

Diana

(angry)  Perfectly?  Seven 4400s died last night.  It was your inhibitor that did it.  You made them sick!

Hudson

(rising, hotly)  You think I don’t know that!  We weren’t trying to kill them.  Anyone.  We were preserving the status quo, doing a good thing.

Tom

I guess it backfired.

Hudson

I am trying to undo it.  But if you want to pull that trigger, please—be my guest.  Maybe, then finally, I’ll get some sleep.  (Diana lowers her weapon, frustrated)  All right.  If you’re not gonna shoot me, let me get back to work.  I don’t want anyone else to die.

(scene change: Tom’s home; Alison bangs on the door and rings the bell)

Kyle

(opening the door)  Alison, what are you doing here?

Alison

(she enters the house)  They are going to give Roy life.  They are going to give him life, and he’s going to take it.

Kyle

What are you talking about?

Alison

(in tears)  The state was going to go for the death penalty, and this public defender convinced Roy to take a plea bargain.

Kyle

But they’ve got no case against him.  My Dad told me.

Alison

(frustrated)  I don’t know!  This lawyer is handling—like—ten different cases, and he doesn’t want to see the inside of a courtroom.  I don’t know!

Kyle

But, he didn’t do it.  Okay?  He didn’t kill Jordan Collier.

Alison

You keep saying that.  Does your dad know something?  What?  Is there evidence that they’re hiding?  (Kyle backs away)  Well, you have to tell me!  If Roy takes this deal, he can’t even get parole for twenty years.

Kyle

(with conviction)  He’s not going to prison.

Alison

Why?

(scene change: NTAC)

Diana

4400 came back August 14th.  Hudson discovered promicin October 11th.

Tom

Well, they probably gave the first dose of the inhibitor sometime at the end of the month.

Diana

We have every internal document for October: there is nothing about any of this.

Tom

There is not even a mention of Orson Bailey.  We both wrote reports about him, Diana.  They’re gone!

Diana

They were hoping that was gonna be the only extra-human ability that ever developed in a 4400.  If they destroyed all records of it—

Tom

—nobody would ever know.  But this went to the top of the food chain.  Here, Britain, France, Korea—everywhere there is a sick 4400.  There has to be a paper trail.

Diana

It doesn’t even matter.  Even if we can find a memo signed by the entire United Nations Security Council, it’s not going to cure anyone.

Tom

Diana, we delivered confidential medical records to Dr. Burkhoff.  We’ve got this so cold: the father of the 4400 technology working on the case, and you just stuck a gun to the head of NTAC’s medical director.  We’ve done everything we can to get the right people working on a cure.

Diana

That’s if NTAC even wants a cure.  We are talking about people in DC who have been on a wartime footing for months.  This is nothing but a stroke of luck for them.

Tom

You think they want them all dead?

(scene change: 4400 Center)

Kevin

(to Matthew, Tom, and Diana)  I told you.  I told you I wasn’t safe here.  (he sits down at a table)

Diana

It’s just a precaution, Kevin.  We think you’ll be safer if you move to a less exposed location.

Kevin

It’s because I told you about that inhibitor thing, right?  (Tom and Diana sit down)

Diana

I’m sure—

Kevin

Six years in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a paranoid personality disorder.  As soon as I get out, you two put me smack in the middle of a massive conspiracy.

Matthew

(seated)  Dr. Burkhoff has been spinning all kinds of stories about NTAC.  Very interesting stuff.

Tom

Well, he can spin theories all he wants, just not here.

Matthew

I’ll make sure he has a safe place to work.

Kevin

I figured out what promicin is.  That’s the name they gave the neuro-transmitter, right?  The one that gives the 4400 their abilities?  And, if I can find one 4400 that hasn’t been exposed to the inhibitor—(a view of Isabelle)—I could neutralize it.

(scene change: Lily’s safe house; someone knocks on the door)

Brian

(entering with groceries)  Hey.

Lily

You scared me.  Why didn’t you use your key?

Brian

Oh.  Sorry.  My hands were full.  (he sets the bags on the table)  I just brought you guys some supplies.  You like chocolate cherry.

Lily

That sounds great.  Thank you.  (she drops a cereal box)

Brian

You okay?

Lily

Yeah.  I’m just jumpy.  So quiet out here.

Brian

Yeah.  A lot of places are closed up for the season.  (Lily finds a bottle of wine)  Oh, I thought that—uh—maybe I could stay for a little dinner or something.

Lily

You don’t have to get back home?

Brian

No.  Not really.  Carol’s gone.  She found out that you and I were talking.  Don’t worry.  She doesn’t know you’re here, but she got mad.

Lily

Brian, I’m sorry.

Brian

She’ll stay away for a few nights.  I’ll stay on the couch for a while.  But in the meantime, Heidi’s staying with a friend.  I figured why eat alone.

Lily

Sure.  But I hope you’re not expecting much.  I haven’t made pot roast in a while.

Brian

(touching her face)  You know, Lily, the truth is: I should never have married Carol in the first place.

Lily

What are you doing, Brian?

Brian

Come on.  I’m alone.  You’re alone.  You and Richard aren’t happy.

Lily

That’s not true.

Brian

We can have it back, Lily.  (he moves in to kiss her)

Lily

Don’t, Brian!

Brian

(insistent)  Come on!  Why are you fighting it?

Lily

Brian, stop it!

Brian

Don’t fight me.

Lily

Let me go!

Brian

(angry)  Listen.  I don’t want to hurt you, Lily!

Lily

(slugs Brian)  Stop it!

Brian

You little bitch!  (he strikes back; Lily grabs a knife and plunges it into Brian’s abdomen; the cell phone rings) 

Lily

(answering the phone)  Hello?

Brian

Lily?  Are you okay?

Lily

Brian?  (she looks down; the Brian who she stabbed is gone)

Brian

Yeah.  I was gonna bring by some food.

Lily

Don’t.  Something’s not right here.  (she looks at Isabelle)

(scene change: Richard’s safe house)

Matthew

I haven’t heard from the safe house in Winham for a day.  We have to assume it has been compromised.

Richard

That’s the third one that’s gone silent.  They’re picking us off one-by-one.  We might want to think about fighting back.

Matthew

We can do that, Richard.  We certainly have 4400s that can do some damage.  But once we take that step, then there’s no turning back.

Kevin

Excuse me, but shouldn’t there be bars on these windows?

Matthew

The point is: to be unobtrusive, Dr. Burkoff.

Kevin

Well, this seems to be a little lax to me.  I mean, most of you are 4400s.  I’m a collaborator.  Do you know what they do to collaborators?

Matthew

(to Richard)  We need to get him working.  It calms him down considerably.

Richard

We cleared out a room for you.  Anything you need, let us know.

Kevin

What I need is a clean 4400, one that hasn’t been exposed to the inhibitor.  I don’t guess you have one of those, do you?

Richard

Actually, I might.

(scene change: in Lily’s safe house; her cell phone rings; she turns it off)

(scene change: NTAC; Ryland puts a glass of whiskey on a table in front of Tom)

Tom

Twenty years: I’ve never seen you pour a drink on government property.

Ryland

I’ve never supervised the roundup of innocent citizens before.  (he drinks)

Tom

Conscience bothering you, Dennis?

Ryland

Hell, yes.  It is.  And given the circumstances, I’d say that’s a good sign.  But I’m trying to focus on my job, Tom.  And, I need the same from you.

Tom

But sometimes when you look for one thing, you—uh—you learn something else.  You know how it is, Dennis. 

Ryland

I know exactly what you mean. (scene of Dr. Hudson in a parking garage, getting ready to enter his car)  I’ve learned some things myself.  (he places an envelope on the table)  Open it.  (inside are pictures of Kyle entering a taxi)  Knowledge is a burden.  Huh, Tom?  Did you think I would release Kyle from Quarantine and not keep an eye on him?  (Dr. Hudson is about to start his car)

Tom

Why didn’t you stop this?

Ryland

Because I didn’t exactly know what Kyle was gonna do.  (Tom stands up in shock)  I just sort of let the future play out.  Isn’t that what you’re always talking about?

Tom

You set up Roy Marsden.

Ryland

That was my gift to you, Tom.  Would you rather I just turn these over to my bosses?

Tom

I would rather you be the friend—you be the Ryland I worked with for twenty years.

Ryland

I haven’t changed.  I have a tough job, and I’m doing my best.  And, as your boss—and as your friend—I expect support.  (Tom starts to leave)  Kyle hated Quarantine.  I wonder what he’d think of prison.  (Tom slams his hand against the glass wall and exits; Hudson is dead of a gunshot wound to the head)

Diana

More awake than you look.

(scene change: Tom’s house)

Tom

(entering; to Kyle sitting on the couch)  They know.  NTAC knows that you shot Collier.

Kyle

What?  How?

Tom

They’ve known all along.  They let it happen.  I need you to get ready to get out of here.  I’m gonna call Alana’s friends.

Kyle

You’re sending me to Spain?

Tom

If they come after you, I need you to be ready to leave right away.

Kyle

Did you hear Roy Marsden is being sent to jail for life?

Tom

(he starts walking quickly around the house)  Yeah.  They set him up.

Kyle

And if I run—

Tom

Shh.  Let’s do one thing at a time, Kyle.  Let me worry about you, and I’ll deal with Marsden.

Kyle

You want me to start packing?

Tom

(near panic)  Yeah, Kyle!  Aren’t you hearing me?  (he races upstairs; Kyle picks up a pad of paper he has been writing on: his confession)

(scene change: NTAC; Nina’s office)

Diana

He committed suicide?  I know that Max was under a lot of strain, but he had all of those people’s lives in his hands: Maia’s—

Nina

I know.  But Dr. Pinaro has been Dr. Hudson’s number two from the very beginning.  He knows everything Hudson knew.  Look.  We’re still gonna beat this thing.  (Tom enters)  Morning, Tom.

Tom

Nina.  (after Nina leaves; to Diana, he hands an envelope to her)  Here.  Grab this; found in the mail copy.

Diana

Did you hear about Hudson?

Tom

You okay?  They’re calling it a suicide.

Diana

What are you calling it?  (she shows him a memo from Hudson: “Find the Firewall memo.”)  Tom, look at this.  It’s from Max.  “Firewall memo.”  What is that?

Tom

I don’t know.  (they leave)

(scene change: in Lily’s safe house)

Lily

How you doing this, Isabelle?  Mommy needs to know.  I brought you here so we could be safe.  Don’t you want that?

Brian

(knocking on a window door)  Lily, what’s going on out here?  You okay?

Lily

No.  Go away!  I told you not to come here!

Brian

That’s why I’m here.  Lily, please let me in.

Lily

How do I know you’re real?

Brian

What are you talking about?  Of course I’m real.

Lily

Did Carol leave you?

Brian

Why would she leave me?  Lily, I’m coming in, okay?

Lily

No.  No.  (she runs and gets a knife)

Brian

(entering)  Lily, whoa, whoa, whoa!  Put down the knife.  Please!  I just came to check on you guys, make sure you were okay.  Look.  It’s me, Brian.  Put the knife down.  (she turns and puts the knife down on the couch)

Shawn

Lily, we’re all going to die.  Is that what you want?

Lily

(screams)  Stop it, Isabelle!  No!

Brian

(entering)  Lil, I heard screaming.  What is going on?

Lily

Brian, if you’re real, you got to get me out.  Isabelle doesn’t want me here.

(scene change: NTAC, in the Theory Room)

Marco

(to Tom and Diana)  Firewall: it’s a program, a safety net that keeps viruses off your hard drive.

Diana

Okay.  Did you ever see a memo with the word “firewall” written in the subject line?

Marco

No, but I don’t read most of the memos that circulate around here anyway.  But, how long are you guys gonna be working in here?  What?  They painting your offices?

Tom

We need a little privacy, okay?

Diana

Tom, you know this memo or whatever: I doubt that it went out on a general distribution, and every copy probably went through the shredder months ago.

Tom

So, if there’s no hard copy, and if Marco’s the only one we even trust to talk about it with, then we’re in a dead end.

Diana

We can always march into Ryland’s office and ask him about it.

Marco

The guy does know memos.  I mean, when he was working here, I must have thrown away—like—fifteen every day.

Diana

More like twenty.  He liked to keep his keyboard burning.

Marco

Who, Ryland?

Diana

Yeah.

Marco

No.  He didn’t type.  He used to call me in sometimes when he froze up his computer, hunt-and-peck city.  You know?  It took him ten minutes to type in an E-mail address.

Tom

Ryland dictated everything to his secretary.  She had “L”-level security clearance.  (he shows a folder to Diana)  Look.

Diana

(reading)  “DR/jo.”  Everything says “DR/jo.”  “DR”’s Dennis Ryland.

Tom

And “jo” is Jane Ormand.  She worked for him for twenty-two years.

Diana

She stay in Seattle?  (they leave)

Marco

Say “hi” for me.

(scene change: Richard’s safe house; Lily and Isabelle return with Brian)

Richard

(coming downstairs)  Lily.  You came back.  (he hugs her)  You all right?

Lily

I thought I was doing the smart thing, but Isabelle—

Richard

What happened?

Lily

She just wanted to be with you, you and this place.  I don’t know.

Richard

(laughs and bends down to Isabelle)  Hey.  Did you miss Daddy?  Yeah?  Well, I missed you.  (looks up at Lily)  Both of you.

Brian

Listen.  I’m—uh—I’m gonna take off.

Lily

Brian, thank you for everything.

Richard

(to Brian)  Hey—uh—do me a favor: forget this address.  Forget about all of us.  And, I’ll forget you drove off with my wife in the middle of the night.

Brian

Good luck, Lil.  (he leaves)

Richard

(to Lily)  I’ve been calling you all day.  There’s a guy here who can set things straight.

Kevin

(entering)  Excuse me.  Did anyone hear that car pull up?  (he stops when he sees Lily and Isabelle)  Is that her?

Richard

(picking up Isabelle)  I think there’s somebody here who wants to meet you.  (Kevin kneels down)  This is Isabelle.  (Isabelle smiles at Kevin)

(scene change: at Jane’s house)

Tom

(to Diana)  So, what are we supposed to say?  Remember that massive conspiracy to suppress the abilities of the 4400?  We were just kind of hoping you would—uh—fill us in on the particulars?

Diana

And don’t be nervous, but we had to shake a government tail on the way here to do it.

Tom

Yeah.  Sounds like a start.  (he starts to knock, but Jane opens the door)

Jane

Tom Baldwin.

Tom

Long time, Jane.  Do you remember my partner, Diana Skouris?

Jane

Of course.

Diana

Yeah.  Hi.

Jane

I was wondering who would show up.  I should have figured it would be the two of you.  You’re here about Firewall, right?  (Tom and Diana are taken off guard)  Come on in.

(scene change: flashback; October 28, 2004; ten weeks after the 4400 appeared; Jane listens in on a conversation)

Hudson

The inhibitor hasn’t been tested.  It is not ready.

Ryland

One of the 4400 is a serial killer, using—I don’t know—some kind of mind control to get people to commit murder!  The inhibitor’s ready.

Hudson

This is wrong, Dennis.

Ryland

(shouting)  We are beyond right and wrong here.  There’s no precedent for this.  Now, DC’s been advised of the operation; it’s been approved at the highest level.  There is nothing further to discuss.  Is there?

Hudson

I am not doing this.  (he storms out of Ryland’s office and dumps the plan into the garbage can)

Jane

(back to the present; she shows Tom and Diana the plan)  I took it home with me that night.  The next day, I put in my notice.  I mean, you have to understand.  For two decades, I thought Dennis Ryland was the finest man I ever met.  And, after I read this, I couldn’t work for him anymore.  I kept telling myself I should send this somewhere: newspapers or I don’t know.  But the names that signed off on this, I was just a secretary.  What could I do against those names?

Diana

(to Tom as they leave the house)  It’s all here.  Did you see the names?  When Maia said: “Mommy’s Bosses are going to be punished,” I had no idea she meant all the way up the chain of command.

Tom

We can’t go public yet.

Diana

What?

Tom

(insistent)  We can’t go public.

Diana

Listen.  The faster this gets exposed, the better it is for Maia, Alana, Shawn, all of them.  No more secrets.  No more relying on the people who did this to find a cure.  At the very least, they are going to have to rescind the quarantine order.

Tom

Diana, Ryland’s got something on me.

Diana

Ryland?  This entire memo is over his signature.  What could he possibly have over you?

Tom

He knows Kyle killed Jordan Collier.

Diana

What?

Tom

That night on Highland Beach, they put someone inside of him.  Or some program: I don’t know.  Directing his actions.  Ryland has evidence.

Diana

I’m sorry, Tom, but I can’t just sit on this!  Maia’s getting sicker!

Tom

Just give me one hour, Diana.  Just one hour.  Please.  (Diana gets into the car)

(scene change: in Tom’s house)

Tom

Stop saying that.  It is not okay, Kyle.  If I go through with this, they are going to come after you.  It doesn’t matter if you’re in Spain or Siberia.

Kyle

I know, but all those lives at stake: you have to do it.

Tom

Okay.  I’m taking you to the airport.

Kyle

Dad, I’m not going anywhere.  This actually makes it easier.  I didn’t know I was going to tell you.

Tom

Tell me what?

Kyle

I can’t live like this anymore.  (he picks up his confession)  I can’t live, knowing that guy’s in jail.  I go through every day trying to pretend it’s all normal, but it’s just a cover-up.  (he shows Tom his confession)

Tom

I can’t let you do it, Kyle.  Marsden shot at me.  He—uh—he shot at other cops, too.  Even if you confess, Kyle, he is still going to jail.

Kyle

When you try to bury stuff like this, it changes you.  All right.  Look at what it did to your boss.  Ryland used to be your friend.  Uh, it’s over, Dad.  No more lies.  (they hug)  I can’t do it anymore.  I just can’t do it.  Okay.  You can’t stop me.  Okay?

Tom

Don’t you do anything until I get back.  You hear me?  (he leaves)

(scene change: Camp Dekker Quarantine Facility)

Ryland

(to Nate through a glass window)  This is the right form, the heroic thing.  And being a hero comes with perks.  You tell me what I need to know, I’ll see that you’re transferred to a private quarantine facility this afternoon.  You can walk the grounds; you can choose your own meals; what’s wrong with that?

Nate

139 Lebanon Street.  That’s where they told me to go.

(scene change: Richard’s safe house; a hypodermic needle rests on a table)

Kevin

The inhibitor is piggy-backing on glucose.  It enters the brain through facilitative diffusion.  It’s a binding protein; that’s how they get into it.

Lily

What’s the cure for it?

Kevin

But this serum has pure promicin in it.  It can neutralize the charge.  The inhibitor won’t be able to cross membranes anymore.  We can flush it out of their systems.

Richard

So, once it is gone, the disease goes away.

Kevin

Please!  Stop saying “disease.”  For the last time, it is a side-affect.  Remove the inhibitor; the immune system functions.  It will happen virtually instantly.

Lily

So, the substance—

Kevin

Promicin.  It’s what makes you people unique.

Lily

How did you get it out of my daughter?

Kevin

She has trace amounts of it in her blood stream.  Before the inhibitor, you all did.  That’s how they found it in the first place.  But, she is an infant, and I could draw only enough blood to make one shot.

Richard

If you can get that into quarantine, one shot might be all you need.

(scene change: NTAC operations center)

Tom

(entering with Diana)  Where’s Ryland?

Nina

A 4400 gave up the Seattle safe house.  They’re on their way to take it down.

(scene change: in the parking garage; Kevin meets with Tom and Diana)

Kevin

Excuse me.  Please.  Don’t shoot.

Diana

Dr. Burkhoff, why would we shoot you?

Kevin

I have no idea, but I’m feeling a little insecure right now.  (he holds up the serum in the hypodermic needle)  I brought something for you.  Whatever you do, don’t drop it.

(scene change: outside Richard’s safe house; Ryland and NTAC officers arrive)

Ryland

(over a bullhorn)  Everybody in this house is subject to quarantine and arrest under Emergency Order 74.  You have five minutes to come out peacefully.  If not, we’ll come in and get you.

Richard

(looking out the window)  There’s an army out there.

Tom

(pulls off and calls to Ryland)  Ryland!  Call it off!  It’s over!  Quarantine.  Everything.

Ryland

Agent Baldwin’s obstructing justice.  Arrest him.

Tom

I don’t think so, Dennis.  I know about Firewall.

Ryland

(to an officer)  Keep your weapon on him.  Do you really willing to give up your son?

Tom

Kyle’s turning himself in.  He can’t live with the cover-up.

Ryland

When I wrote that memo, we had no idea where the 4400 were from or why they were brought back.  Dr. Hudson gave me information; I acted on it, Tom.  If you were in my chair, you would have done the same thing.

(scene change: Camp Dekker Quarantine Facility)

Diana

(to Shawn)  Hi.  I got some medicine for you.  To be honest with you, I’d rather be giving this to Maia, but a crazy neuro scientist I know said that was not the right thing to do.  So, if you wouldn’t mind holding still for a minute.

(scene change: outside the safe house)

Ryland

You saw Orson Bailey up close and person.  Oliver Knox.  You know what these people are capable of.  Hell.  I attached your reports to the memo when I sent it to DC.

Tom

But we learned better, Dennis.

Ryland

Highland Beach?  Save the future?  Heartfelt message, Tom.  And, while they were giving it to you, they were programming your son to commit murder.  Does that sound to you like they were guiding us to a new future.

Tom

I don’t know.  But I sure as hell don’t want to go where you are taking me.

Ryland

Goddammit, Tom!  What does it even mean?  Save the future?  Save the future how?  Kill us all?  Start over with a smaller, more evolved population?  Is that an outcome you can live with?

Tom

What can you live with, Dennis?  Was Max Hudson really a suicide?  Or, did you pull that little string, too?  And what about me, Dennis.  ‘Cause if you’re holding on to any hope of keeping this covered up, you’re gonna have to start by putting me in the ground, right here and right now!

(scene change: Camp Dekker Quarantine Facility; Diana helps Shawn get up and heal Maia)

Ryland

(voice over)  Tom, you’re reducing the fate of the planet to a question of your personal faith.  (Maia wakes up)  Without the inhibitor program, who the hell knows what will happen.

Tom

(outside the safe house)  Who the hell ever knows?

Ryland

(frustrated)  Very wise.  Pithy.  But if the world turns out to be a place of unchecked 4400 abilities, I hope we don’t live to regret it.  (to NTAC teams)  Stand down.  (to Tom)  We’re done here.  (NTAC leaves)

Tom

(to Richard inside)  You can all go home now.

(scene change: Camp Dekker Quarantine Facility; Tom enters and is welcomingly surprised to see everyone up and around)

Alana

Thomas!

Tom

Alana!

Alana

Thomas!

Tom

What happened here?

Alison

A miracle.  (Tom kisses her and then sees Diana and Maia hugging; he smiles at a very weak Shawn who is being helped to a bed by two nurses)

(scene change: Tom’s house; twenty-four hours later)

Tom

(opening the door to Alana)  Welcome home.

Alana

Home!  I never even unpacked.

Tom

We’ll take care of that right now.

Alana

Where’s Kyle?  I can’t wait to see him.

Tom

Yeah.  I told him you were coming home.  (shouting upstairs)  Hey, Kyle!  We’re back!

(scene change: 4400 Center; Shawn’s bedroom; Shawn lies on the couch; Kyle enters and knocks)

Shawn

(weakly)  Hey, Kyle.  I thought I was never gonna see you again.

Kyle

You’re okay, right?

Shawn

I feel like I did fifteen cake-stands last night.  We—uh—pretty much all are.  Dr. Burkhoff took blood samples from the people I healed.  Every sample cures something else.

Kyle

Hey.  You guys kind of lucked out, huh?

Shawn

Lucked out?  There’s twenty-three of us dead, and they don’t even have a final count, yet.  I don’t think that was part of the plan, you know?  That’s not why they brought us back.

Kyle

So, at the end there’s some kind of plan: I don’t know.  I wish I could believe that.

Shawn

Just trust me when I say that there is a plan; it’s important; and every 4400 is a part of it, okay?

Kyle

Shawn?  I killed Jordan Collier.

Shawn

What?

Kyle

I bought a rifle.  I went up on that roof, took out two government agents, and then I shot him.  Remember when I was in trouble?  Losing chunks of time?  That was what I was doing.  Planning out an assassination.

Shawn

Why?

Kyle

Do you think I know?  There is something inside me, Shawn.  Or someone.  It takes over.  Those people who took you: if they have a plan, it includes me killing Jordan Collier.

Shawn

That’s not true, Kyle.

Kyle

(raising his voice)  Then why did they make me do it?  Why did they make me ruin my life?  It isn’t for the people you worship.

Shawn

(between angry and crying)  You murdered Jordan?

Kyle

I didn’t mean—  I didn’t know what I was doing, Shawn.  I’m sorry.  (he starts to leave)  So sorry.

Shawn

Kyle.  (painfully, he stands up and approaches and hugs Kyle; they cry; then he gets angry and uses his ability against Kyle) 

Kyle

Stop it!  You’re killing me.

Shawn

I’m freeing you.  Free.  (an entity begins to exit out of Kyle’s mouth)  I’ve got a hold of you!  Don’t look, Kyle.  It’s working.  (an explosion blasts them apart)

(scene change: in Diana’s apartment; she has made a candlelight dinner and is dressed up)

Marco

You didn’t really have to do this, you know.

Diana

Actually, I really think I needed to.

Marco

Ha!

Diana

Well, what?

Marco

Well, I—  You’re supposed to say: “I wanted to.”

Diana

Huh-huh.  Yeah.  (she pushes Marco’s glasses up)  Don’t push your luck.  (she kisses him)

Marco

(after the kiss)  Whoa!  (looking at a newspaper)  Uh, it looks like they’re talking about charging these people with murder: Ryland, the whole crew.  Looks like Mommy’s gonna get a whole bunch of new bosses.

Diana

Well, I hope they go away for a very long time.  I’ll be in the front row at the hearings.

Marco

Guess I’ll have to buy a suit.  I’m gonna be sitting next to you until the whole thing’s over.  (they clink glasses of wine)

Maia

(entering)  Nothing’s over.  It’s just starting.

Diana

Sweetie, what are you talking about?  What’s starting?

Maia

The war.

(scene change: in Tom’s house; Kyle enters)

Alana

Kyle!  (she hugs him)

Kyle

(to Tom)  I’m ready.

Tom

Are you sure?

Kyle

Yeah.

Tom

I’ll come with you.  (he and Kyle leave)

(scene changes: NTAC; Nina’s office; Ryland replaces Nina’s nameplate on her desk and submits himself to arrest; Kevin injects himself; Richard reads a newspaper in the park; Tom escorts Kyle to the courthouse; Isabelle’s crib is empty)

Lily

Isabelle?  (she frantically looks for)  Isabelle?

(scene change: 4400 Center; Shawn’s apartment; a woman enters)

Isabelle

Hello, Shawn.  I’m Isabelle.

(scene change: Collier finds himself at Highland Beach, his hair and beard grown long)

End of the Season; to be continued