Jordan Collier quotes from The 4400

Jordan Collier

Well what can I do for you this afternoon, Lily '93. Don't worry, it's not a line, though I do have to say that you're the most attractive abductee I've seen this afternoon.

Jordan Collier

We are not a threat, we are salvation... and the world will have to deal with us.

Jordan Collier

The war for the future will be fought in the past.

Jordan

Look, Richard, we need people to start developing abilities.

Jordan

The sacrifices of the past few days have not been in vain. This tragedy, terrible as it may have been, had meaning. And those who died... are the heralds of a new age!

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.

Alright, I'll ask the question. What are we gonna do with 17,432 units of Promicin?

Jordan

We're going to give it away.

To whom?

Jordan

To everyone.

Jordan

I did not give promicin out to the world to have it unite under a... a 16-year old boy. He has to be stopped.

Oh! I see. You're having Messiah envy.

Jordan

It must have been difficult to take the promicin shot. But I've read your book. It's wrong. I'm no Messiah.

I know how it sounds. It was hard for me to believe, too. I'm nobody's religious nut, but these visions I have are never wrong, not once, and if they say that book is important, I have to believe what's in there. Promicin isn't just here to improve the world, Jordan. It's here to bring Heaven to Earth. I don't know exactly what that means, but you're supposed to make it happen and I'm supposed to help you. It's like it says in the book. You are going to lead us all to God.

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.

What's your alternative? Do you really want the entire world to take promicin?

Jordan

Yes. Yes, I do. It's what I've always said has to happen.

Half of the planet will die! You're talking about mass suicide!

Jordan

I am talking about a single generation of sacrifice. And at the end of it, a more fully-evolved species. All of our failings as human beings will be addressed when we are all gifted. I am not making any announcement. And no one who cares about what's right for the world would.