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Fans of Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (Richard Tyler) take note. There’s a great interview with him at the UnderGroundOnline website. He answers questions and talks about himself. They also have interviews with other cast members. Check it out!
In this episode of “The 4400″ we are introduced to Carl Morrissey, who disappeared February 16, 2003. Carl works in the seafood department of a supermarket, where he takes abuse from his boss over chatting with the customers. Carl’s wife, Grace, meets him at the market after work and they walk home together.
Grace tells Carl that, in the time he has been gone, their community has gone downhill-that no one cares any more. They walk past Bradley Park-the place where Carl had proposed to Grace. The park is filled with trash and graffiti. As Grace and Carl stand at the edge of the park talking, Carl catches a baseball-which appeared out of nowhere!
Later that night, Carl returns to the park by himself. We hear his memories of proposing to Grace. As he sits alone, remembering, he is jumped by thugs. Carl, who is not a big or tough man, beats up both of the larger men. When Carl goes home to his wife, he is very hyped. He tells her that he is a different man, that he beat both of his attackers. Grace is afraid and wants him to see his counselor. Carl tells her that he has too much to do to see a counselor. He plans to clean up the park and make it safe again.
The next night, Carl gets up in the middle of the night, leaving Grace sleeping. He goes to Bradley Park, where he begins painting and fixing things up in the park. While there, he hears screaming. Investigating, he finds three men attempting to rape a young woman. He saves her. When the woman he saved is questioned by Tom and Diana, she tells them that the man who saved her did not look strong enough to be capable of fighting off all three men.
In the supermarket the next day, Carl is talking with a customer, when he is once again confronted by his boss. Carl grabs the man’s wrist and forces him to his knees, telling the boss to leave him alone. The boss and customers are stunned.
Carl’s wife begs him to stop going to the park. He refuses, telling her that he is doing these things for them. He tells her that no one can hurt him, and that he can make the neighborhood safe again. He returns to the park at night and finds kids spraying graffiti on an area he has just cleaned. He confronts them and they begin fighting.
Tom and Diana have finally identified Carl Morrissey as the man they have been looking for. They go to his apartment, where Grace tells them them that he’s only trying to make things better. She takes them to Bradley Park, where they find Carl sitting on a park bench, stabbed and dying.
Also in this episode, Dennis Ryland, talks with Diana and Tom about Maia’s precognitive ability. When the two of them talk with Maia, they tell her that the doctor’s will check her again and run more tests. Maia asks Diana if she will check on her. Caught off-guard, Diana promises Maia that she will.
When Diana does return to check on Maia, she finds Maia has been left alone in an examining room by the doctors. Maia asks if she can go home with Diana, and stay with her. Diana tells her that this is something she will have to think about. Diana does end up taking Maia home.
Richard goes with Lily to help her check out apartments. In one apartment that they both like, Lily asks Richard to share the apartment with her. Still unused to the way things have changed since 1951, Richard at first refuses, then agrees to move in with her. As they are talking, Lily’s vision blurs and she becomes very uncomfortable, insisting that she has to get out of there.
Later, as they walk down the street, talking about the baby, Lily says that she knows the baby didn’t like the apartment. She tells Richard that she wants to see her daughter, Heidi. Richard tells her to give things some time-that once Heidi’s father is used to Lily being back, he will drop the restraining order against her.
Lily later goes to her former husband Brian’s house and watches Heidi through the window. When her vision again blurs, and she feels dizzy, she is caught by Brian, who has her arrested for violating the restraining order. Richard visits Brian, asking him to drop the charges against Lily, and promising Brian that this will not happen again.
Richard picks up Lily at the police station. At home in their new apartment, they have a candlelight dinner, with music and dancing. Lily promises Richard that she will stay away from Heidi, unless Heidi needs her.
Tom and his ex-wife, Linda, meet at Kyle’s bedside. Kyle’s doctor tells them that Kyle’s EEG shows he had a momentary burst of increased brain activity, and that he will run more tests. Tom and Linda agree to meet at a restaurant to sign their divorce papers. Checking with the nurse at the desk, Tom finds out that Shawn visited Kyle on the night his brain activity increased.
Shawn is visited at school by Tom. Shawn admits that he visited Kyle, but denies that he did or saw anything unusual. Nikki asks Shawn to see a concert with her, Danny, and some friends. Shawn refuses. Later, Shawn and his brother, Danny, talk at home. Danny wants to know what is going on between Shawn and Nikki. Shawn tells him that nothing is going on-that Danny is his brother; Nikki is Danny’s girlfriend and it’s all good.
Shawn is working on his car in the garage when Nikki shows up to see him. While they talk, Nikki burns her hand on the car’s hot engine. When Shawn takes her hand to look at it, the burns disappear. Although Shawn insists that he did nothing, Nikki knows that, somehow, he healed the burns. They kiss, and Nikki leaves.
At Homeland Security, Tom and Diana visit with Marco. Marco has checked out some random sites of disappearances and found that gravity is weaker at those sites, but only marginally. Marco also informs them that Adam Kensington, the insurance man killed by Orson Bailey in the first episode, was involved in insurance fraud. Orson Bailey probably saved the state of Washington millions of dollars by killing Kensington. Diana theorizes that Bailey may have been sent back for that purpose.
Dennis Ryland talks with Tom about his impending divorce. His advice is that Tom should go ahead and sign the divorce papers. Eventually, Tom does so.
The day after Carl Morrissey’s death, Tom and Diana sit in Bradley Park, wondering why Carl was sent back with his power, only to be killed. As they watch, other people from the neighborhood arrive and begin cleaning the park.
In the final scenes, Kyle goes into surgery to drain the fluid building up on his brain. As Tom and Linda wait in his room, Shawn and Danny arrive.
Jacqueline McKenzie (Diana Skouris) has a great MySpace page, where you can see pictures, hear some of her music, and even have you added to her friends! I hadn’t heard any of her music before. A few of the songs have a folksy sound that is really good. And she has tons of her musical influences llisted. If you’re a fan of Jacqui, check out this site!
Titan Books has announced that it will publish The 4400: The Official Companion to Seasons 1 & 2 in summer of 2007 to coincide with the fourth season premiere and the release of the third season on DVD. Personally, I can’t wait for this book!
Read more about it and preorder a copy at the Titan Books website!
In some great videos at Spacecast Patick Flueger(Shawn Farrell) talks about The 4400, about his band, Sleeper 7, and about what he would do if he disappeared and came back three years later. Some good stuff if you’re a Flueger Fan!
On November 6, Joel Gretsch (Tom Baldwin) participated in the Golf Digest Celebrity Invitational. In December, 2005, he was named to Golf Digest’s list of The Top 100 Celebrity Golfers. He was in a three-way tie for 26th place with Richard Karn (Al of “Home Improvement”) and Scott Wolf (Everwood). Check out the list and see which of your favorite celebrities is there. Hope Tom’s getting lots of time to work on his handicap!
The first few minutes of “The 4400″ shows us the disappearances of some significant characters:
Maia Rutledge, who disappeared in 1946 in California
Richard Tyler, who disappeared in 1951 in South Korea
Orson Baily, disappearing in 1979 in the state of Washington
Shawn Farrell, disappearing in 2001, also in Washington.
Then, the action switches to present day, where we meet Tom Baldwin, Diana Skouris, and Dennis Ryland, all of the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. It seems a comet is headed for earth-except that this comet changes course and, as it comes closer, slows down.
The comet, which now appears to be a giant ball of light, approaches Mt. Rainier. The ball of light dwindles and almost disappears-then there is an explosion of light. Out of the mist which is left in its wake come several thousand people-4400 to be exact-all of whom disappeared at some time within the past 60 years.
Dubbed “The 4400″ by the press, these people are moved to a quarantine facility by Homeland Security. While in quarantine, they are tested and questioned endlessly by government officials. None of the “returnees” remember anything-either about their disappearances or the time they’ve been gone.
Baldwin and Skouris are assigned to work together, as one of the teams who will be investigating what has happened to the returnees. Tom’s son, Kyle, was with his cousin Shawn on the night Shawn disappeared. Since that night, three years before, Kyle has been in a coma, for which doctors can find no cause. In that three years, Tom has devoted his life to finding Shawn and discovering what happened to Kyle that night. However, when Tom interviews him, Shawn is unable to give him any answers. Desperate for those answers, Tom does not fully believe that his nephew cannot remember anything about that night. (more…)
If you’re a fan of Peter Coyote (Dennis Ryland), you’ll want to visit the Official Peter Coyote website. They have news on his upcoming projects, his writing, political and environmental activism, and lots of other interesting things about him!
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