“Becoming” quotes from The 4400

Maia

Yeah, school might be fun. Diana, you're not going to like what's in there.

Look, I know how tempting the math is on this murder, I disappear in '83, the killings stop, here I am and the poor girl is dead.

Why don't you start with something easy, tell me something about your parents.

My parents?

They use to argue about money a lot, but that was before they split up.

They divorced?

Yeah. I was 14.

Do you remember how that made you feel?

Depressed, I don't know, angry maybe.

They're gone. Got a few cousins outside St. Louis who'll remember me as a picture in an old photo album.

Beautiful, aren't they? I wonder if that's where we were.

What's everybody doing here?

What are you doing here?

I don't know, just wanted to see where we came back, I figured it'd be a good place to come and think, you know, clear my head.

Most people come for the conversation.

Well there's not a lot of that going on.

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.

Who's this?

Let me tell you something about her, her name's Felicia and she works over at the barn on Cliff Street.

Dennis Ryland

Don't you hide behind freedom of the press, what you do isn't journalism, it's shouting fire in a crowded theater and you're gonna stop before the stampede begins.

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.