The 4400

The 4400 tells the stories of 4,400 abductees after they are returned to earth, but they ended up being abducted by people from the future to save mankind. In the words of the executive producers, these are stories of people dealing with traumatic changes, driven by the mystery of what happened and why. Some of them have been affected in mysterious ways, and some will have certain abilities, both good and bad, so part of the drama will be watching them adjust to these changes within themselves.

The series kicks off with a ball of light sailing toward Earth, but rather than the expected catastrophic event, thousands of returned abductees are left with no memory of their otherworldly experiences. Each has been gone anywhere from a few months to several decades but hasn't aged a day.

News:

3rd season of The 4400 starts on Sky1 on Wednesday 9.8.06 at 22.00 hrs

Cast

Joel Gretsch
Role: Tom Baldwin

Birthplace: St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
Birthday: 12-20-1963

Audiences were first introduced to Gretsch when he received rave reviews for his major motion picture debut: his portrayal of Bobby Jones for director Robert Redford in the DreamWorks film The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon, Will Smith, and Charlize Theron.

In 2002, Gretsch was featured alongside Tom Cruise in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report; starred opposite Kevin Klein in The Emperor's Club; and also starred in the Steven Spielberg-produced, 10-part, Emmy award winning miniseries Taken for SCI FI.

A Minnesota native, Gretsch studied acting at the renowned Guthrie Theatre for six months prior to moving to Los Angeles in 1989. He made his professional debut in a small production of Tartuffe and subsequently starred as the title character in John Patrick Shanley's West Coast production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
He has also appeared in such television shows as CSI: Miami, JAG, Friends, Melrose Place, and NCIS.

Jacqueline McKenzie
Role: Diana Skouris

Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: 10-24-1967

McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theater Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper (1992), and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most promising young actresses.
She received Australiain Film Institute Award nominations for her roles in Stark, This Won't Hurt a Bit (both 1993), The Battlers and Traps (both 1994) before winning two awards in 1995 for "Best Actress in a Television Drama" for Halifax f.p: Lies of the Mind, and “Best Actress In Leading Role" for Angel Baby.
With this success she ventured to the US and secured a Green Card, as a "Person of Extraordinary Ability". Her subsequent acting roles in films such as Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) failed to establish her in Hollywood.

Chad Faust
Role: Kyle Baldwin

Birthplace: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: 7-14-1980

Raised in Victoria, Canada, his interests have included song-writing, film directing, acting, love, and long walks through unknown forests. One day, while writing a biography for himself on an Internet site he realized how ridiculous it is to sum up a life in a short collection of words, especially when it is your own. So he stopped writing and lived the life he was trying to summarize.

Patrick Flueger
Role: Shawn Farrell

Birthplace: Red Wing, Minnesota, USA
Birthday: 12-10-1983

Patrick Flueger (born December 10, 1983 in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States) received his big break when he auditioned for the 2001 family hit, The Princess Diaries (2001). He and four others competed for the leading male role, but that part went to Robert Schwatrzman. Patrick made his mark with director, Garry Marshall , though, and Marshall wrote him a part as Jeremiah, a fun-loving card-trick master who charmed the lead character's best friend. Flueger is a graduate of Red Wing High School and has two younger siblings.

He is making his mark, slowly but surely, in the acting world with small parts in television shows, such as Law and Order: special Victims Unit and most recently, as a star in the series The 4400.

Mahershalalhashbaz Ali
Role: Richard Tyler

Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Birthday: 2-16-1974

Ali was raised in the city of Hayward by his parents and extended family.

Ali played basketball for St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California (just east of Berkeley), where he received his bachelor of arts degree in mass communications. He began taking acting classes in his junior year, and in his senior year, he had a featured role in the school’s production of “Spunk.”

The summer after his graduation, Ali made his professional debut performing for a season with the California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, California, where he also served as an apprentice. Soon after, he was accepted into graduate school at New York University, where he received a master’s degree in acting.

While at NYU, Ali appeared in productions of Blues for an Alabama Sky, The School for Scandal, A Lie of the Mind, A Doll’s House Monkey in the Middle, The Merchant of Venice, The New Place and Secret Injury, Secret Revenge. His additional stage credits include appearing in Washington, D.C. at the Arena Stage in the title role of The Great White Hope and in The Long Walk and Jack and Jill.

Ali made his feature-film debut in the independent film Pig Music.

Karina Lombard
Role: Alana Mareva

Birthplace: Tahiti
Birthday: 1-21-1969

Karina Lombard is the daughter of a Lakota Sioux Indian medicine woman and Henry Lombard, the Swiss-Russian heir to a Geneva banking dynasty. She was born in beautiful Tahiti and would later move about the world with her father. While growing up Karina attended private boarding schools and lived throughout Europe, learning many languages along the way.

Into young adult hood Karina relocated to New York, and started a career in modeling with the assistance of photographer Bruce Weber. Her training at the Strasberg Institute and the Actors Studio was the key in preparing Karina for several stage performances.

Karina has been on the big screen, but her roles have been small but memorable. However on the small screen Karina has taken viewers by storm with her acting in a Showtime Original Series. And now the USA Network is graced with her presence on the hit original series The 4400.

Conchita Campbell
Role: Maia Rutledge

Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Birthday: 10-25-1995

Conchita Campbell has also made two guest appearances on CTV's hit show Cold Squad. She starred on Wilder Days with Petr Falk and Tim Daly in 2003. She starred in the 2004 film Pursued. Her feature film debut ultimately came with Scary Movie 4, which set the box office record for Easter weekend. Filming for the third season of The 4400 began at the end of March 2005

Laura Allen
Role: Lily Tyler

Birthplace: Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthday: 3-21-1974

Grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Attended Wellesley College as a Sociology major and graduated in 1996. She worked with the NYPD as a domestic violence counselor before pursuing acting.

Megalyn Echikunwoke.
Role: Isabelle Tyler

Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, USA
Birthday: 5-28-1983

The daughter of a Nigerian father and a Navajo Indian mother, Megalyn was born in Spokane, Washington on May 28, 1983. After the death of her father, her mother raised Megalyn and her three brothers on a Navajo Indian reservation in Chinle. Her family includes a brother, Miki.
Echikunwoke has had guest roles in shows like The Steve harvey Show,Boston Public, ER,What I Like About You, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, That 70’s Show and, most recently, Supernatural. She was also a recurring character during the first season of 24.
She has a main role in The 4400 third season as an adult version of baby Isabelle.

Season 1

The Return

Episode Number: 1

Everyone on Earth is excited about a comet passing by, but as soon as its trajectory changes to a collision course, everyone starts to panic. The comet turns out to be a giant ball of light that, after exploding, leaves behind 4400 people. They are missing persons who have been gone from a few months to 60 years, and none have aged a day. The 4400 are put in quarantine and eventually released. Some of the returnees begin to exhibit strange and uncontrollable new abilities. Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris, two Homeland Security agents, are appointed to find out what happened to the 4400.

The New And Improved Carl Morrissey

Episode Number: 2

Carl Morrissey is a lowly supermarket employee who happens to be one of the 4400 returned abductees. He uses his new found powers - enhanced reflexes and strength - to become a vigilante and fight crime in his neighborhood. Meanwhile, Lily is thrown in jail for violating the restraining order while looking in on her daughter and ex-husband's new life. After picking up Lily from the police, Richard and Lily go back to the apartment they now share and we see the romance between the two begin to become more serious. Also, Shawn begins to learn more about his healing powers, and we are left with a cliff-hanger ending of whether he will heal his cousin.

Becoming

Episode Number: 3

Tom and Diana are sent out to investigate a homicide that resembles the MO of a serial killer who was never caught nor heard of for 25 years. The first suspect is Oliver Knox, a member of the 4400. However, Knox has an alibi for the night of the murder and another man confesses to all the crimes. Tom and Diana suspect that Knox is luring people to kill for him and try to lay a trap on him. Meanwhile, people begin to turn hostile toward the 4400, and Jordan Collier decides to organize his fellow returnees. But Richard feels uneasy about Collier's interest in them.

Trial By Fire

Episode Number: 4

The 4400 are attacked by a series of fire-bombings after Barbara Yates made their names and addresses known to the public. Tom, Diana, and Ryland try to put an end to the bombings at the same time as Tom tries to deal with the disturbing behavior of Kyle, and Diana tries real hard to be a good substitute mother to Maia. However, the arrival of a Homeland Security agent from Washington, Warren Lyttel, makes their work even harder. Jordan Collier tries to provide his followers with safe shelter, but Richard and Lily begin to question his intentions as the bombings intensify.

White Light

Episode Number: 5

Tom is furious upon finding out that Lyttel took his son Kyle into custody. Diana offers him help in getting Kyle back. Meanwhile, Richard suspects that Collier is trying to take control of Lily's life, and as soon as Collier reveals his intentions, Richard and Lily leave Arcadia Estates. Elsewhere, Danny snaps at Shawn when he finds out that he and Nikki have slept together. Tom and Diana finally find out what really happened to the 4400, which leaves a disturbing question: is this the end - or just the beginning?

Season 2

Wake Up Call (1)

Episode Number: 6

It's been one year since the 4400 returned. After a period of intense medical observation, Tom has returned to NTAC in a limited capacity, assigned only to desk duty. Diana, having been through a series of inept partners, finally finds a way to cut through the red tape and get Tom back, all while in the midst of formally adopting Maia. Meanwhile, Richard, Lily and the baby are still living in meager conditions in a mountain cabin far away from Jordan. Jordan has now closed Arcadia Estates, and is on the verge of opening "The 4400 Centers," a place for non-members of the 4400 to discover "the 4400 within themselves." Collier becomes Shawn's guardian, and enlists him to heal important benefactors of the Centers.

Wake Up Call (2)

Episode Number: 7

Voices Carry

Episode Number: 8

Gary Navarro, a minor league baseball player back after a 30-year absence, finds that hearing everyone's unspoken thoughts is driving him to the edge of madness. When he seeks help from NTAC, the higher-ups are more interested in how he can unearth information about Jordan Collier than how they can assist Gary with getting his life back. As the case occupies the majority of his time, Tom finds himself struggling with his responsibilities as a single father. Meanwhile, Kyle starts to get his life back through the prospect of a new relationship, Diana finds herself dealing with the unexpected arrival of her younger sister April, and as Richard, Lily, and Isabelle continue their life on the run, Richard grows increasingly disturbed by his daughter's apparent abilities.

Weight Of The World

Episode Number: 9

Someone puts his 4400 ability up for auction, and the Supreme Court will have a special session to determine if it's legal and if the auction can continue. Diana and Tom are ordered to investigate. Meanwhile, pop diva Chloe Granger is at the 4400 Center and claims that Jordan's book was a revelation to her. She even cut her tour short because she felt she needed to come to the 4400 Center and become a student. Jordan makes sure this new "recruit" is well treated as it will profit the center. Shawn is working on a recruitment video for the 4400 Center. Richard and Lily travel to Montana where they meet with Eric Papequash, who disappeared in 1955.

Suffer The Children

Episode Number: 10

A school teacher terrifies parents with her supernatural ability to inspire artistic students. Meanwhile, Richard and Lily are confronted by police, and Jordan warns Shawn not to overuse his healing gift.

As Fate Would Have It

Episode Number: 11

Maia sees a vision Jordan Collier's death. Kyle's frightening blackouts are disrupting Tom's personal life. Diana is asked to hand over Maia's diary to NTAC.

Life Interrupted

Episode Number: 12

Tom and Diana track down a man to a museum, and during the chase, Tom finds a mysterious lab that only he can see. Later at the office, Tom finds that all his 4400 case files are gone, and no one has ever heard of the 4400.

Carrier

Episode Number: 13

Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 who has released a plague that's wiped out an entire town's population, and her powers could wipe out humanity. Meanwhile, a Washington D.C. lobbyist joins the 4400 Center in order to add some political muscle to the movement. Also, April uses Maia's powers to win gambling bets.

Rebirth

Episode Number: 14

Tom and Diana investigate a 4400 whose ability is to heal damaged foetal chromosomes while in utero. Unfortunately, it turns out this man is responsible for the slaughter of an entire clinic. Tom and Diana are torn apart over their different opinions.

Hidden

Episode Number: 15

NTAC follows a series of clues which leads them to Jordan Collier's killer, and when Tom discovers Kyle was the murderer, he must choose between the law and his family. Meanwhile, at the 4400 Center, Danny stirs up a mess with Liv, as well as with his brother Shawn in the process.

Lockdown

Episode Number: 16

Maia is sick, and Diana brings her into NTAC, where a 4400 terrorist is marking the date of Jordan Collier's birthday by placing a device that makes the males go savage, bringing on a lockdown of the facility. Meanwhile, Kyle's life takes a more normal turn with him going back to college and the start of a romantic relationship. Also, Lily begins to doubt that the 4400 Center's interest in Isabelle is trustworthy. And after a less than perfect interview with the media, Shawn tries to make changes at the 4400 Center to make it seem less like a cult to the general public

The Fifth Page

Episode Number: 17

4400's across the world are coming down with strange and life threatening illnesses, and Baldwin and Skouris are thrust into a very delicate situation. Dennis Ryland comes back to head NTAC and issues the unpopular order to quarantine the sick as well as the unaffected 4400's. This then forces the 4400 Center to become involved and establish a safe house in the hopes of some of its members will avoid quarantine. Meanwhile, Baldwin and Skouris learn a horrible secret that the government may have directly caused the illnesses of the 4400's.

Mommy’s Bosses

Episode Number: 18

As 4400's begin dying from the side effects of the inhibitor, Tom and Diana race to find a cure. Meanwhile, Kyle contemplates turning himself in.

The 4400: Unlocking The Secrets

Episode Number: 19

An NBC special

The New World (1)

Episode Number: 20

Ryland and other government officials are on trial for withholding vital information that they discovered about the returnees, when a disturbing sound is heard the courtroom. Tom and Diana with the help of Gary Navarro try and track down T.J Kim, who they believe is responsible for the piercing sound heard in the courtroom. Richard and Lily are forced to deal with a now grown Isabelle. Lily also suffers from a rapid aging disease that Shawn is unable to heal. Tom and Diana also investigate a radical organisation called the Nova Group that appears to have ties with Shawn the 4400 Center.

The New World (2)

Episode Number: 21

Gray Navarro is arrested for the second attempt to assassinate Dennis Ryland. Knowing she is the key to her mother's survival, Isabelle attempts to kill herself by jumping off the 4400 center building, only to survive without a scratch. Matthew Ross expresses his displeasure at her actions and tells her of the destiny she is to face. Isabelle is troubled about what Matthew told her, but after a discussion with Shawn she decides it's her choice with what she does with her life. Matthew gives Isabelle a substance that can kill her if its injected. In the end, Isabel chooses her own life over her mother's. As Lily Tyler passes away, the Nova Group surprises the world by growing a wheat field in the desert which benefits humanity.

Being Tom Baldwin

Episode Number: 22

Tom is accused of murdering TJ Kim. 17 year old Boyd Gelder, has the ability to change his appearance whenever he chooses. Shawn and Isabelle grow closer.

Gone (1)

Episode Number: 23

Someone is targeting young 4400's and Maia gets kidnapped. Shawn receives a threat from the Nova Group.

Gone (2)

Episode Number: 24

Tom and Diana investigate Chris Dubov a 4400 with the ability of cupid. Diana has to deal with sudden health problems.