Tom quotes from The 4400

Tom

(on the phone, after sedating Maia) It's done. I gave the girl a massive dose of the inhibitor. She won't be having any visions for a couple of weeks.

Maia

Don't worry. You'll find him.

Find who?

Maia

Your son, Kyle. He's the answer.

Tom

The answer to what?

Maia

Everything.

I know I'm not perfect.

Tom

You're not even alive.

Tom

You disappeared. Do you have any idea where you've been?

Jordan

Everywhere. I have been everywhere. I've been alive for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Tom

This isn't just a plan. It's a revolution. You realize that, don't you? Handing out promicin like candy changes everything, Shawn. Nobody will be able to enforce the law. It'll be chaos!

Diana

Nobody can predict what's gonna happen once people everywhere start developing abilities!

Tom

You need to tell us where he's keeping this stuff.

I don't get you guys. All along you've been saying we're on the same side, no matter what our differences are. That our goals are the same; for things to change, get better. Now a man is back from the dead to show us how to get there, and you two wanna stop him. You know what? You can't! Our phone lines have been jammed up all morning. People are dyin to know how they can get their hands on the shot.

Tom

So what do you tell them?

I tell them that we have nothing to do with it. And then I wish them good luck.

Dennis Ryland

I'm not at all surprised that girl died. That's exactly why we need to get the stuff out of Colliers hands.

Tom

We need to know about your promicin supply, Dennis. Your people have been working with it for months. Have you ever seen anything like this?

Dennis Ryland

We've had some casualties among the volunteers.

Tom

Casualties?[pauses and looks around in disbelief] How many?

Dennis Ryland

We recruited 20 men for the program. Half of them rejected the promicin within 48 hours of their first shot.

Diana

Rejected? You mean died.

Dennis Ryland

We knew there'd be risks, Diana. We explained it to the volunteers before the signed on.

Diana

Oh my God. You knew. You knew what would happen when people took this? Why didn't you tell us when it was stolen? We could have warned Collier, warned the public.

Dennis Ryland

Beacuse gods don't make mistakes. What better way to show the people that Collier is not some sort of messiah, than have him fall flat on his face in public?

Tom

You kept quiet so you could discredit Collier? A woman is dead, Dennis! And you're just as responsible as he is!

Dennis Ryland

She shouldn't have been injecting stolen promicin. And anybody who follows her lead will have to live with the consequences. Or not.

Are you here to give yourselves body and soul to Graham?

Tom

Not exactly.

You want to have hope, don't you? You want to believe she's coming back?

Tom

Of course.

Then you don't want to know what I know.

I took the shot to make my life better.

Tom

Better, better? Better how, huh? By driving a bunch of people crazy? They're at Abendson Psychiatric Hospital writhing around in straitjackets.

It wasn't me, I swear. My ability's harmless. I-I play music. I pick up any instrument, and I'm like a virtuoso.

Really? Well I'll go home and get my clarinet!

Meghan

That's exactly why this journal is making people in D.C. nervous. The author doesn't sound like a radical. She sounds like... somebody's aunt.

Tom

Yeah, and if your aunt's willing to take a chance on getting an ability, why shouldn't you?

Tom

The head of NTAC, benefiting personally from a 4400 ability? You sure you're up for the fallout?

Meghan

They let this place stay open. They blinked. Let them fire me.

Diana

Assuming the woman is telling the truth about what she can do, I mean, okay, it might be irresponsible that she's writing about it, but it's not a threat. Isn't that what we do here, we track down threats? We're not the thought police.

Tom

Taking promicin is illegal. Not to mention, potentially fatal. If that blog inspires 20 people to take promicin, 10 of them are going to die.

Meghan

Don't forget about the ones who survive. Do you really think they'll all be lovely people too? Do you think their abilities will be as benign as hers? This woman has to be stopped and we can find out exactly what her intentions were, just as soon as you find her. Bring her in.

Diana

I'll go put on the riot gear. Tom, get the tear gas.

I'm coming with you. You want the truth? I can get it for you.

Tom

Are you sure about that? I mean, people beat lie detectors all the time.

Tom, do you like my sister?

Tom

Diana, yeah, sure, she's my partner, my friend.

(using her ability) Ever had a sexual fantasy about her?

Tom

Well, once or twice. We were working late, Diana mentioned we were the only two people in the building and--

Diana

Uh!

Tom

(quietly to April) You can come.

Tom

I keep telling myself it's just a game. But you know what? I still don't feel like dying.

Jordan

It's not an experience I'm looking to revisit.

Tom

You're going to hotwire the door open?

Meghan

Don't look so surprised. I worked in a think tank for years. You'd be amazed at the kinds of things I picked up around the water cooler.