Diana Skouris quotes from The 4400

Dennis Ryland

It's changed course!

Diana Skouris

That's impossible! Comets don't just change course.

Dennis Ryland

Well, this one has.

Diana Skouris

Then it's not a comet.

Diana Skouris

It's as if it was coming in for a landing!

Landing? Like a plane?

No. More like a mothership!

Dennis Ryland

For instance, yesterday Maia was talking to an employee in the cafeteria. She told her that her daughter would be in the hospital soon, but that she'd be okay. The next day the little girl was in a car accident.

Diana Skouris

So you're saying what? That she's got some kind of second sight?

Dennis

I'm saying I have five stories just like that.

Yeah, but we know Adam Kensington's company was perpetrating a massive fraud on the public, and now we've learned that since Carl Morrisey's death his neighbors have formed a watch committee thats helping to protect Bradley Park. Anyone starting to see a pattern?

Diana

What, you're talking about some kind of ripple effect?

Diana Skouris to the head of the class!

Diana

The incidents themselves are just catalyst for change, a positive one in these two cases.

Diana

Mr. Tyler, I know you're trying to protect your family, but you have to realize that by staying here, you could be putting yourself in serious danger.

Maybe. But you know, I was born in 1922--in Missouri. And my skin was as black then as it is now. So I've had to worry about fire bombings and lynchings and beatings my entire life. If there's anything I've learned, it's this. Eventually a man's gotta take a stand. I'm making mine right here.

Maia

How long am I going to be like this?

Diana

Like what?

Maia

I don't wanna know things before they happen. I wanna be normal, like I used to be.

Diana

It's gonna be okay, sweetie. Besides, I mean, you know, who's normal anyway?

Maia

You are.

Diana

Ha. You wanna know a secret? Normal people, like me... they just wish they were special, like you.

Diana

Maia, what's wrong?

I'm sorry, I know it's late, but Maia really wanted to come home.

Diana

Well why's that sweetie?

Maia

I don't want to talk about it.

Some of the girls, not my daughter, but some of the other girls, were teasing Maia because she says she has a crush on Frank Sinatra.

Diana

Old blue eyes. Do you blame her?

Most nine year olds don't even know who Frank Sinatra was.

Diana

We can't do this.

We just did.

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.

Meghan

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen La Dolce Vita?

Diana

Dubbed or subtitled?

Meghan

Do I look like I watch dubbed movies?

Diana

Do I?

Meghan

Welcome back, Agent Skouris.

Diana

I'm being reinstated because I like foreign films?

Meghan

Of course not, but it doesn't hurt your cause.

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.

Diana

It's Benjamin Franklin.

Well, at least you are an educated tyrant.

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.

Diana

Yeah, but we're talking about prison camps. Maia hasn't broken any laws. She is a 4400. She didn't take promicin.

I'm afraid that distinction doesn't mean much these days. People are scared. A lot of them wanna lock up every p-positive out there. The wrong leader comes to power, someone who exploits all that fear everybody's feeling, and suddenly this doesn't seem so far-fetched.