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Previously on The 4400...

I'm not your little brother anymore.

Then stop acting like a 2-year-old.

You're my brother, she's your girlfriend. It's all good.

You goddamn freak!

- Danny, stop that! - Stop blaming me for Nikki!

Diana Skouris, your adoption of Maia Rutledge is hereby complete.

He's gonna die! I saw it! He's gonna die!

Jordan Collier?

Someone's gonna kill him.

No! No!

His body! It's not there!

- This is your new house? - It's yours, too.

I've been looking forward to this moment for too long.

Only one thing missing.

Mom.

We really tried to make it work.

- How was your first day of college? - I didn't have one!

Nobody paid my tuition.

Sorry, Kyle. I must have forgot.

You've been talking about this for months. How could you forget?

You spent three years in a coma. You have no business drinking anything!

You told me everything that happened that night, right?

Yeah.

- Any coffee left? - Help yourself.

Couldn't find a clean T-shirt?

This is what I wear to school.

- I like it. You're looking sharp. - Thanks.

So, how you doing, Dad?

Good. Fine. Why?

No reason. Just, you know, good luck.

Okay, I'll be thinking about you.

All right? I'll call you. See how it goes. Okay?

Yeah.

Hey, there he is!

- What's all this? - Welcome back.

- The prodigal son returns. - Returns from where?

Hey, get your gear on. We gotta roll.

Tom, I am so glad to see you.

Yeah, you and everyone else.

Soon as we take Doherty down, we're gonna pop the champagne.

Doherty? Who's Doherty? Diana, stop. Fill me in here. Who's Doherty?

Does he have something to do with Collier's murder?

What? Governor Collier?

What are you talking about? He's not dead.

Okay, this is Garrity's idea, right?

Gotta admit, it's creative.

But Screw With Tom Baldwin Day is over.

Hey, listen, Tom, don't do this.

The doctors gave you a clean bill of health.

Doctors? What doctors? Where's everybody headed?

And what the hell is going on around here today?

Listen, I think you should probably just stay here.

- We'll talk when I get back. - No, Diana, just...

So this guy Doherty, is he a 4400?

- What's a 4400? - Please stop this.

4400 missing people, the future sent them back in a ball of light.

Any of this sound familiar?

Diana, I'm not laughing,

so whatever game you're playing, stop it and stop it right now.

Tom, whatever you've been through in the past few months,

I can't even imagine it.

And everyone here is pulling for your recovery,

but you gotta listen to yourself.

You sound delusional. The future?

I mean, I never heard of The 4400,

and I can promise you that nobody ever came back in a ball of light.

Tell me one thing.

According to you, what have we been doing for the last year?

- You're serious? - Humour me.

It's your case, Tom. Dirty bombs, remember?

You went undercover and infiltrated an Aum Shinrikyo terror cell.

None of this means anything to you, does it?

- Of course not. Why should it? - Well, your cover was compromised.

They held you for three weeks.

Sleep deprivation. Torture. They'd have killed you if you didn't escape.

So how does Doherty fit in?

Aum Shinrikyo's been planning an attack in the US.

They've been sneaking radioactive material

into the country in museum pouches.

Doherty's the curator. He's been in bed with them all along.

But, Tom, he sold you out.

You spent three weeks in hell 'cause of this guy.

You've been on medical leave for two months, recovering,

and obviously it should have been three.

"Jordan Collier Museum of Contemporary Art"?

Tell me you recognise this place.

- I recognise it, all right. - Well, that's a start.

But everything's different.

What's happening?

There. This is the spot. This is it. This is where Collier got shot.

Oh, God. Do me a favour. Don't let anyone else hear you say that.

Tom!

Tom!

Is he in there?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay.

You want to do the honours?

Did you find anything?

Somebody's been messing with my computer.

All my case files are gone.

I type "4400" into a search engine and nothing.

How could there not be a single mention of them?

Maybe because none of it ever happened.

Yes, something has obviously changed.

This is not the same world that it was yesterday.

But I'm...

I'm still Tom Baldwin and you're still Diana Skouris,

which means that the people they took, they exist, too, right?

Gary Navarro. We worked with him last month.

- He could read thoughts. - Read thoughts? Tom, come on.

Played for Cincinnati?

- Lifetime.317 batting average. - Easy to hit.300

when you know what the pitcher's thinking.

But he was never taken.

- Richard Tyler. - What did he have? Heat vision?

No. Some of them can do things. Some of them...

Some of them can't.

He's dead.

His plane was shot down over Sinanju in 1951.

So that's two down. We gonna go through all 4,398 more?

- I'll take my boots off if we are. - Diana, your daughter. Your daughter.

Your daughter, Maia Rutledge. You adopted her, right?

She's one of them.

Tom, don't include me in your fantasy life.

You know I don't have a daughter.

Yes. Right here. It's a Seattle address for Maia Rutledge.

It's right here. Right here.

Oh, thank God. Maia, it's me. It's me. It's me, Tom. Tom Baldwin.

- I don't know you. - Don't say that, please. Don't say that.

My name is Ella. Maia's my grandmother.

Ella, who is it?

Oh, here she is. This is my grandmother.

- You're Maia Rutledge? - Can I help you?

Hey!

Didn't expect you home so soon.

How'd you do out there today?

Glad to see you, too. Everything okay?

Just tell me one thing. You were in a coma for three years, right?

If I have one more of these, I could wind up in a coma right now.

Come on, I wanna show you something. Come on.

Uncle Tommy. We can eat, finally. How you doing?

- Shawn, what are you doing here? - Well, the band got delayed in Berlin.

We're not gonna start recording until Tuesday.

Besides, I couldn't miss your big day.

Or Danny's. Tell him. Go, come on, tell him.

Believe it or not, she actually said yes. We're getting married.

Look, he bought me this!

I told him I didn't even want one till he was out of law school.

- I like it. - You like that?

Are you all right, Mr Baldwin?

Dad? Do you need to sit?

It can't be a joke. There's too many people in on it.

Sit. Sit down.

So then, either I'm cracking up or the whole world is.

Dad, the doctors said you were okay.

I don't wanna scare you, but something's wrong.

I don't recognise this place.

I mean, I sort of do, but everything's been tweaked.

Dad. Dad, look at me.

You're not making any sense. You know that, right?

You guys started without us! Just as well. Airport traffic was insane.

- Hi, guys. Nikki. - Hi, Mom. Hi.

Can you believe my kid? My youngest kid is getting married.

When the hell did we get so old?

So, you're back in the saddle. How'd it go?

- I don't think it went too good. - Really?

I was just telling your wife that you were gonna be fine.

My wife? I'm still married to Linda?

I said wife, not ex-wife.

Alana. Over here. Come here.

I've never even seen this woman before.

I think we need to be alone, go upstairs, talk.

- No. I don't know who you are. - Dad, Alana's your wife.

You've been married to her for two years. She lives here, Dad.

I don't know what any of you are talking about, but it's over.

It's over, okay? It's over. It's over.

- How'd you find me? - Guys downstairs called.

They said you've been here four hours.

Yeah. Sad, isn't it?

The only place I feel normal is hiding in a storage closet.

I guess that's what it must feel like to be insane.

You're not insane, Tom. You just need a rest.

Everyone keeps telling me I was tortured.

Maybe they... Maybe they broke my mind.

You're gonna come back from this, Tom.

It's just gonna take some time.

And I'm gonna help you. I promise.

So, tell me again about this ball of light.

When did you first come to believe it happened?

August 14, 2004. That's when they came back.

Maybe not in the world you know, but it happened in mine.

- Get her out of here! - No one's plotting against you, Tom.

I did what I had to do to get you better.

His wife's here. She's asking to see him.

I am not married. I am not married.

Look, lady, I don't know who you are, and I don't care what you have to say.

You have to play along.

I need you to get out of here so we can figure out what's going on.

What are you talking about?

None of this is real to me, either.

I know we're not married. I've never seen you before yesterday.

The things you talk about, the ball of light, The 4400?

You know about The 4400?

Know of them?

I am a 4400.

I know my behaviour was totally out of line,

and I want to apologise.

I got fixated on getting back to work,

and obviously the strain, the excitement, it was just too much.

We're gonna extend your medical leave by another six weeks.

And then we will see about getting you back out in the field.

- I'll circle the date. - Okay.

What? So I can go now?

Your psych hold is over.

Great.

I'm... I'm sorry for the ambush.

Desperate times, desperate measures.

I'll see you in six weeks.

- Tom Baldwin. - Alana Mareva.

- So I guess we're married? - So I'm told.

Let's go home.

See if we can figure out what the hell is going on.

- Where do you think we are? - I don't know.

Maybe we crossed into some kind of alternate reality.

A different dimension.

- I know, it sounds insane. - It sounds impossible.

Impossible isn't what it used to be,

and you're a 4400.

- You think I'm doing this? - Hey, it's an explanation.

- Pretty simple one, actually. - Simple, but wrong.

If I were making this up,

why would I put myself in the middle of your life?

Sorry. This can't be easy for you, either.

Yeah, easy.

My friends, my family, everything I know is gone. Erased.

I'm trapped in the middle of your life.

How do I know it's not you making this up?

Erased? What do you mean, your life has been erased?

I used to own this place.

I bought it four years ago, a few months before I was abducted.

And none of this looks familiar now?

I was my own buyer. I flew all over the world

and bought mostly sculptures, primitive art.

Excuse me.

- Can I talk to the owner? - He's not here today.

Any idea when he opened this place?

A long time ago. Fifteen, maybe 20 years.

It only gets worse.

You're sure that's the right bench?

I used to come here every week.

Believe me, I know which bench I dedicated to my husband and son.

- So, back in the world we came from... - They died.

In a car accident, shortly before I was abducted.

There's a way back home. We're gonna find it.

If you need anything, I'll be right down the hall.

What, you're sleeping in the guest room?

Under the circumstances, yeah.

I don't think that's a good idea.

We have to play along. We're supposed to be happily married.

We don't want your son asking questions.

Okay, I'll find a spot on the floor.

Are you sure you wouldn't be more comfortable

in the bathtub?

I'm kidding, Thomas. It's a big bed.

I'm sure we can keep in our own sectors.

Do you think we're the only ones?

Are there other people out there like us, wondering how they got here?

If there are, we'll find them.

We'll take out classified ads in every major city paper.

"Remember The 4400s? Drop us a line."

And we'll check out every returnee we can find.

Tell me something about yourself.

What do you wanna know?

Favourite records? Where I went to school?

How about your husband and son? What were they like?

Paul was a radiologist.

We met while he was on vacation in Tahiti.

That's where I'm from.

Linda and I thought about going there for our honeymoon.

We picked Haiti instead.

Two years later, after we were married, we had Billy.

He was so quiet, sweet.

This is unbelievable. I think this was the interview where I said

I wanted to go into medicine because nurses are sexy.

You did not say that!

I got into medical school! Stanford, baby!

Congratulations.

The real Kyle used to talk about being a doctor all the time.

- Right up until he went into a coma. - "The real Kyle"?

I know that's not exactly your son, but he seems pretty real to me.

He gets happy when he hears good news,

cranky when he gets tired.

And he forgets to put the toilet seat down.

- He's a good kid. - He was raised well.

I got a response from our ad in the Post.

Philip Kendrick. He wants to meet us.

Philip Kendrick?

- Tom Baldwin. - Yeah.

What do you remember about The 4400?

It was the best sedan Citroen ever put out.

Hydraulics came standard on every model.

You're talking about a car?

Yeah. Mine's parked outside. Where's yours?

It's in the shop. I'll send you a picture.

Tom, I don't have your address.

- Well, that was productive. - Yeah.

Should we check out the Blake exhibit while we're here?

You know, why don't you...

Why don't you go ahead? I'll catch up with you in a minute.

Thomas.

Thomas.

Thomas.

Thomas!

Thomas!

It's gone.

- What's gone? - The door.

It was back. I could open it this time.

It was some kind of operating room, I think.

I didn't see anything like that.

You were just standing there like a statue.

That room's the answer. It has to be.

It's the only thing that doesn't fit. It's not part of this reality.

If it even exists, you're the only one who can see it.

I have to get back there.

I have to get back there.

Hey, partner.

Black, two sugars.

So, the guards tell me that you spent

five hours here yesterday,

three the day before that, and one Saturday you logged up 12.

Yeah, so I like art.

It's a nice, functional door, Tom, but I wouldn't call it a work of art.

Now, maybe if it were made of black obsidian...

I read your psych file.

You planning on having me locked up again, Diana?

You know, this other reality

that you're anxious to get back to...

I mean, even if you could get back to it,

it doesn't sound that great, Tom.

Back there, you're divorced. Here, you have a beautiful wife.

Back there, your son Kyle spent four years in a coma.

Here, he's about to spend four in medical school.

Back there, your sister's family is completely dysfunctional,

your nephew is in a cult,

and the future of the world is in jeopardy.

You make it sound so... bleak. It's just...

Just life.

This is life.

And it's a better life for you and for everyone you care about.

Just accept what you have.

'Cause if you don't,

well, you're gonna spend the rest of your life just sitting in this hallway.

Alana?

What's the matter?

Have you seen these pictures?

Look at all the things we've done together.

You know, you'd think if we're trapped here,

they would give us these memories.

No? Look, we've been to China. I've wanted to go my entire life to China.

Look, look, Alana,

I don't know how long it's gonna take for us to get out of here.

- I don't know. - Who says we will?

You keep talking about that door.

Been a month already.

- What if it never comes back? - Then we're trapped, okay?

Then we're trapped. I don't...

But if we are, Alana, I promise you we will make new memories

just as good as these.

Better than these.

I believe we could, Thomas.

I like it when you call me that.

Thomas.

Then this goes up and then... I can never get these things right.

Let me take a shot. Come here.

Hold still.

Gotta remember to make big loops. Leave yourself a little room to work with.

- Hands of a surgeon. - Hands of a resident, more like.

No, you'll get there. So, how do you like it over at St Bede's?

The hours are killer, doctors treat me like a glorified candy striper,

a good night's sleep is a distant memory.

I love it!

Well, I look like I belong on top of a wedding cake.

You brought this on yourselves.

Some people go to Fiji for their 10th anniversary,

you two wanted to renew your vows.

Yeah, well, the first time just felt like pictures in a book.

This one...

This one is for me and Alana.

Ready to go, champ?

And do you, Alana Baldwin,

also renew your commitments

to honour, obey and love your husband, Thomas,

till death do you part?

I do. I do!

Then, by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you still man and wife.

Go ahead, you may kiss your beautiful bride.

I'm getting in here. I'm getting in here.

- I love you guys! - Yeah, hey.

So how do you feel, Mrs Baldwin?

Married, finally.

Feels real now, huh?

Well, it felt real for a long time.

It's hard to believe we resisted it.

Yeah.

Do you miss it? Your old life?

Yeah, I still think about it.

But after all these years, that life, that world,

it feels like a delusion.

I know, I have to concentrate to even remember a life without you.

See, I'm good that way.

You know, like a cell phone or TiVo.

Once you've got me, you can't imagine not having me.

I love you, Thomas.

It still kills me when you call me that.

Come here, woman.

You're resigning.

I'm moving on, Tom.

I've been here for 11 years.

The private sector beckons.

Dennis Ryland offered me a partnership in his consulting firm.

Nice gig.

- So you're moving to Virginia. - Three weeks.

Look, DC has asked me to submit a list of names as potential replacements.

I'm giving them one.

Yours.

Well, I'm flattered. I...

But you might need a backup or two. I mean, somewhere in my personnel file

are measurements for my straitjacket.

No, you were convalescing from injuries received in the line of duty.

Your service in that case was heroic.

I think you can talk your way around the fallout.

That is, if you want the job.

Yeah, well...

A chance to sit in the big chair? Yeah. Yeah, I...

I want it, all right.

Good. Then practise saying, "Nice to meet you, too, Senator."

Best way to prep for your confirmation hearing.

I'll spring for a new suit.

My last act as head of this division will be to make sure that this happens.

Congratulations, Tom.

You've earned this.

Thank you.

- Guess what? - Don't tell me.

You just spoke to Jarvis.

- You knew! - She might have mentioned something.

And you didn't tell me! I'm transferring you to Greenland.

Oh, look.

He's not even confirmed yet and he's mad with power.

Baldwin.

Hey, you're not going to believe this.

They've just asked me to join the board of directors

of the Collier Museum.

- Wow, that's quite an honour. - Do you think I should take it?

Best museum on the West Coast? You gotta take it.

There's a benefit at the Seattle Inner City Arts Council

on Friday night.

They wanna introduce me around.

I'm glad I didn't put my tux back into storage.

So it looks like we both got a little surprise at the office today.

- What do you mean? - Are you sitting down?

Just tell me, Thomas.

Honey, I'll see you at home tonight.

Glendon Ritter.

CEO of Stradwick Pharmaceuticals.

Isn't he President of the Arts Council?

Well, you should go say hello.

- You come with. - No, no, no, no. You...

You go. I'm all out of small talk.

Go ahead.

Mr Ritter, I'm so happy you could make it.

Thomas?

Do you see it?

No.

Why? You do?

It's been gone for eight years.

Why now?

Come back downstairs with me.

That's the way out. It...

It has to be.

And if it is,

and you walk through it,

what happens to all this? To us?

I don't know.

And I don't wanna find out.

I wanna go to Washington next month, and I wanna watch you get promoted.

- I wanna see who Kyle marries. - So do I.

But this door, it...

It's back for a reason.

It's like it wants me to walk through it.

But do you wanna walk through it?

I don't want you to, either.

Come on, Thomas, let's go home.

Kyle! Kyle! Kyle's my son!

Leave me alone! He's my son! Kyle!

Let go of me! Kyle!

Congratulations. You made it.

Where are we?

I think you know.

This is where they brought you.

And the rest of The 4400.

Yes. This is where they altered us.

Gave me the ability

to create the world we've been living in for the last eight years.

So it is you?

- You've been doing this the whole time. - We've been living in my mind.

But the instructions for your reality came from them.

They created a sanctuary for you,

an easier, less complicated world.

But none of it's real.

You are. I am.

The feelings we have for each other

are as real as anything we've ever experienced.

Is that why they did this?

Kept us here for eight years because they wanted us to fall in love?

Moments.

That's all that's passed.

But in those few seconds, we've accumulated years of memories

that will bond us in the real world.

I thought they were worried about saving the world,

not playing matchmaker.

They're worried about you. Your life is about to plunge into crisis.

Your mission will be threatened. They can't allow this to happen.

They gave you this relationship as a source of strength

to sustain you in the trials that lay ahead.

What crisis? What...

What is it?

Why can't they just tell me what it is? I could stop it from happening.

It's already begun.

But now you won't have to face it alone.

No, if it's started, I have to get back there.

Only your wife can get you home.

You are my wife.

No.

I'm part of the programme they placed in her mind.

She has no idea she's creating this.

If she did, it would interfere with the bonding.

So what? I'm supposed to just fill her in and tell her what?

Whether she knows it or not, she's willing this world into existence.

She can will it out of existence.

Yeah? What if she doesn't want to?

You have to convince her.

That will be the first test of your relationship.

They've created a damn near perfect world for me.

What if I don't wanna leave?

Then the future picked the wrong man.

No. No.

What about Kyle? He spent nine years becoming a doctor.

What, am I supposed to get rid of him? Wish him away?

- It's not really Kyle. - Don't say that!

If it's not Kyle, who's moving downstairs in the kitchen?

Kyle, Shawn, Danny, none of them are real. They're just projections.

You've spent eight years with these people.

They're as real to you as they are to me.

I love my family. I really do love them.

It's not that I wanna do this. It's that we have to do it.

But they're my family, too. Back there, I'm just a stranger to them.

What about you and me? Our life? Is that a projection, too?

No, what we have, our memories, they'll carry over into the real world.

It won't be the same. It can't be.

Maybe not, but whatever we have, it'll be real.

What are you doing?

Make it go away.

What do I do? Stare at it until it disappears?

No. Just believe it's not there.

Well, thanks for coming, everybody.

Alana and I just wanted to tell you all

that we're gonna be leaving.

We're taking a vacation. We'll be gone for a while, and...

I know it's sudden, but we just decided this morning.

Well, how long is a while?

I mean, you just got the biggest promotion of your career.

It'll have to wait.

We want to see you all one last time before we go

and tell you how much we love you.

That's so sweet!

Careful, Alana. She's gonna be crying in a minute.

Oh, no, Mom!

It's something we have to do. It's a...

It's a trip that we've been talking about for a long time.

Where are you going?

Not far.

Well, send us a postcard. At least.

To the people we love.

You have no idea how much we will miss you.

We will miss you, too.

No, don't look back.

Tom?

Tom.

Are you with me, Tom?

Can you e-mail me the Mareva file?

- Alana Mareva? - Yeah, a.k.a. returnee 2155.

She was just here doing her med eval. It's my week to do reports, remember?

Diana, The 4400, ball of light, it happened, right?

- Should I be worried about you? - Just tell me it happened!

Yes! Of course it happened!

What else have we been doing here the last year?

- That's right! - Oh, my God!

Thank you. Thank you.

Alana! Alana! Alana!

Alana. Alana, wait!

Thomas.