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AIR-DATE: 27/8/06
Written by: Ira Steven Behr and Craig Sweeny
Directed by: Nick Copus
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Starring: Peter Coyote, Summer Glau, Sean Marquette, Jody Thompson
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis 4400 Centre employee Devon appears in an internet video, injecting herself with promicin and promising that the shots will soon be available everywhere. Tom and Diana meet a wall of silence at the Centre and Diana pulls Maia from her classroom. Marco analyses Devon’s video and pinpoints her location.
At the hideout, Devon begins to seize and despite Shawn’s efforts, she dies just as NTAC agents arrive on the scene. Tom and Diana approach Ryland, who says he’s not surprised – there was a 50% rejection rate among his super-soldiers. Shawn’s arrested and, when he won’t talk, Nina has Tom convince Alana to help, but Ryland gets there first with Isabelle. Her interrogation leaves Shawn hospitalised and Tom finally decides to kill Isabelle.
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Ryland’s soldiers go with Isabelle to Collier’s warehouse. She holds Collier in a chokehold, but one soldier finds the promicin is fake, and it’s not really Collier – it’s Boyd! He detonates a bomb and destroys the warehouse, but Isabelle survives. She decides to attack the 4400 Centre and takes Maia’s classroom – including Maia, who’s come back without Diana’s knowledge – hostage. Maia tells Isabelle her plan won’t work, just as Tom and Diana arrive. Diana shoots Isabelle as the kids run away, but as Tom tries to inject Isabelle, she wakes up and flings both them across the room. Isabelle and Tom struggle for the syringe. Richard arrives and levitates the syringe, thrusting it into Isabelle’s throat. The injection doesn’t kill her, but depowers her. Tom shoots her in the shoulder.
Following the stand-off, Diana decides to take Maia and go to Spain with Ben. Maia tells Alana that they’ll be back, but Alana won’t be there. Later, Alana’s reabducted. Kyle and April both consider taking the promicin as the first reports of new abilities come in.
Review Unlike last year’s season finale, this one won’t have you shouting, “Oh my God!” repeatedly, but it’s great viewing nonetheless. You can tell that it was all shot before the announcement of a fourth season was made – the final shot, where the promicin distributor breaks the fourth wall to say “how about you?”, is a classic “the end” shot. Fortunately, the closing moments make for a satisfying finale without tying up too many loose ends (and, indeed, opening a few new plot points) so it doesn’t suffer. I love the twist with the syringe too – although since Tom just incapacitated Isabelle rather than killing her, I wonder how that’ll impact things later on. I’m really looking forward to season four now. Let’s just hope they start out strong this time…
Dialogue Boyd Gelder: “I have a message from Jordan Collier. It’s a new world. And there’s no place for you in it!”
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