The 4400 quotes

I can give you a few minutes, Mr. Powell, but then I'm afraid you're going to have to come with us.

My son has been in a prison his entire life. I'm happy to trade places with him.

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.

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.

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.

Who knows, man? You could become mayor, maybe even governor.

Just one step at a time. I don't even know if I can get elected to city council.

You heal people with your hands. Show me an opponent who can beat that.

So, what do you do, Peter?

I'm V.P. of client relations for ANEXXO. We're in the fortune 500. Energy, communications, some defense work.

I get it. You're one of the guys that runs the world.

Well, I work for those guys.

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.

What are you doing here?

I wanted to see you without the cameras. When you put your public face up for the night, have a look at your eyes. I have reason to believe that you're capable of terrible things and that you have an evil living inside of you.

What if you did see evil? Then what?

Honestly, I don't know what I would do, but the truth is I can't see anything. You may be full of fear and hatred, but you're just a man for now. Listen, you may not know it yet, you wouldn't make a very good leader. I'm not gonna let you become one.

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.

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.