Note: thanks for the nice feedback everyone.
Note2: for non 4400 watchers I'm putting some things under here so you can catch up on what happened on 4400 that also happened in this fic. This because I'll mention it later on or have already.
Note3: Also if you are a 4400 watcher you might want to read the interaction I put between Nikki and Shawn. I've changed it slightly and so I could get Shawn to Capeside, for a while at least. I have a plan for the 4 of them to be together weather it is Seattle or Capeside high school or even somewhere else, you'll see.
Previously on the 4400:
There's a welcome home party at Shawn's house. He's walking through, welcoming people, whilst his arm remains around Danny's shoulder.
Shawn: Hey mom. Hey guys, it's good to see you.
Danny: I'm sorry your buddies didn't show up. I guess most of them are away at college.
Shawn: They're just jealous that I get to enjoy two more years of high school.
Nikki approaches them
Nikki: High School's not that bad. Hi Shawn. Remember me?
Shawn: Nikki? Last time I saw you, you were just a little kid. Now look at you.
Danny has his arm around her
Danny: Look at me, huh?
Shawn: Definitely, little brother.
Shawn looks at them then around and can't help but feel out of place at his own party. He looks at the phone feeling the urge to call one of his new friends, maybe Jen. He then excuses himself and head outside.
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Diana and Tom are in the kitchen
Diana: Why did you bring me here?
Tom: I thought it would put a Human face on the returnee's, for you. Remind you they're people not virus'.
Linda walks in
Linda: Tom, are you gonna introduce me to your new friend?
Tom: Ah, Linda. This is my partner. My work partner, Diana Scouriz. Diana this is my wife, Linda.
Linda: We're separated. Call me. We need to talk.
Diana: Well that was awkward.
Tom: Really?
Diana: Yeah.
Tom: I hadn't noticed. Give me a second.
He heads outside, to find Shawn sitting on the porch
Tom: You look thirsty.
Shawn: Thank you.
Tom: I just wanted you to know, I really am glad you're back.
Shawn: Whatever, Uncle Tom, I mean...
A bird flies into the side of the house, killing itself. Shawn picks it up and cradles it in his hands
Shawn: Geez
Tom: Neck's broken.
Shawn: Reflection must have confused him, huh?
Tom: Why don't you come back inside. You're missing your own party.
Shawn: I know, it's just weird being in there.
The birds eyes open and it flies away
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Orson is walking through what seems to be an old people's home. He approaches an elderly woman sat on a bed
Orson: Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: Orson? Where have you been? I've been waiting for you.
He kisses her hand
Orson: I know.
Elizabeth: Where's the car. We're going to be late for dinner.
Orson: I'm sorry honey. Things got a little out of control. But it won't happen again.
He begins to cry
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Maia: I have to come to see the Doctor, every week?
Diana: I know, it doesn't sound like much fun to me either, but hey, you know, you get to live with these lovely people, and that beats a bunk in quarantine, right?
Foster Mother: Besides, there's nothing we can't handle, right Maia?
Maia: That would be nice.
Kenneth: Well we should get going. It's a bit of a drive to Everett.
Diana: Yeah, terrific. Good luck Maia.
Maia: You'll see me again.
Diana: Yeah, next week.
Maia: Sooner than that.
Diana looks confused and Maia walks away
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Orson is walking with his business partners son at the offices of Kensington and Bailey
Adam: Can I get you anything?
Orson: Uh, water, that'll be fine.
Adam: Mary, could you get Mr. Bailey some water? Just down here. You know, I can't get over it. You look exactly the same as the last time I saw you.
Orson: And you were what, thirteen. Your father asked me to show you the ropes.
Adam: Yes
Orson: It looks like I succeeded.
Adam: Please have a seat.
Orson: Thank you
Adam: So, what can I do for you Mr. Bailey.
Orson: My old corner office, for starters. Thank you. A secretary, some business cards. I should be able to start seeing clients within a week or so.
Adam: You're looking for a job?
Orson: This is still Kensington and Bailey, isn't it?
Adam: I'm embarrassed. Times are tight. I just had to lay off three of my actuaries. I don't have any openings right now, Mr. Bailey.
Orson: Openings? I'm a partner here.
Adam: Mr. Bailey, your interest in the company, was bought out, when you were declared dead.
Orson: I'm not dead.
Adam: Well, your wife accepted the settlement. It is all legal.
Orson: Don't be too sure of that. What happened to me, there's no precedent.
Adam: You are right about that, but it might be years until precedent is established. Until that happens, all of you returnee's are gonna have to get in line and plead your case in front of a judge. Do you have the kind of resources to...
Orson: Have you seen the kind of place my wife is in? I have to get her out of there!
Adam: I don't have permission to discuss this any further.
Orson: I need money, now!
He squeezes a glass until it shatters
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Maia arrives at her new home.
Foster Mother: This is the living room and there's the kitchen. Do you wanna see your room?
Maia: Ok.
Foster Mother: I think it's really nice. It's the one over here.
Kenneth: We just had it redone.
Maia: It's a very nice room.
Foster Mother: I got you a few things to start. Tomorrow we can go shopping and you can pick out a few bits, yourself.
Maia: Ok
She hops up onto the bed and takes her trainers off, putting them on the chair.
Kenneth: Maia honey, we have a rule. No shoes on the furniture.
Maia: I didn't want them to get wet.
Foster Mother: Wet? Why would they get wet?
Kenneth: Why don't you get cleaned up. We're going to eat soon.
They leave the room. Maia picks up the shoes and places them back on the chair
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Orson arrives in a taxi at the gate's of Adam's house. He begins to press the bell
Orson: Adam, it's Orson. Let me in, I wanna talk.
He continues to press the buzzer, but Adam's ignoring it
Orson: I know you can hear me. Let me in! You want me to wake the whole neighborhood?
Orson begins to shake the gate and as he does so, the house begins to shake, smashing things inside. The windows blow out and Adam grabs his head as Orson begins to yell. Adam falls to the ground, dead, with some glass embedded in his chest
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Kyle's hospital room. Diana turns up to find Tom asleep in the chair
Diana: Tom?
Tom: What are you doing here?
Diana: Your phone is off. Ryland wants us to come in.
Tom: What's up?
Diana: There's been a murder. The police are holding one of the 4400.
Homeland Security
A picture of Orson is brought up on a monitor
Ryland: That's him. That's Orson Bailey.
Tom: Bailey? Some kind of businessman, right?
Ryland: Right.
Tom: Life insurance?
Ryland: Yeah.
Diana: Disappeared in the 70's.
Ryland: '79. Declared dead in '86. Seattle police are holding him in connection with a homocide in Madison Park, last night.
Tom: Do they know he's one of the 4400?
Ryland: Bailey told them. That's why they called us.
Diana: Well, I thought the returnee's were told not to discuss their status?
Ryland: Well we counsel them to avoid it, if they possibly can, but we were talking job interviews and housing applications. There's not really a protocol for being questioned about a murder.
Tom: He said holding, not charging.
Ryland: That's right. There are some conflicting reports about what actually went on at the crime scene.
Tom: We'll check it out.
Ryland: Quietly. I don't want to be dodging microphones at the six 'o'clock news.
Tom: Quietly it is.
Ryland: Diana!
He hands her a folder, and they leave
Tom leaves the building with Diana and uses his mobile to call his wife. He reaches her answer phone
Answer phone: Hi, this is Linda. I can't come to the phone right now, but just leave a message and I'll call you back.
Tom: Linda it's me again. You said we needed to talk, so pick up the phone. Linda, come on. Alright, call me.
Diana: Everything alright?
Tom: Same old, same old. Call me, don't call me. I wish she'd make up her mind.
Diana: You know, I had a boyfriend once. Every time...
Tom: Boyfriend?
Diana: Well, don't look so surprised. God! Yeah, anyway, the thing about this guy thing...
Tom: You can stop!
Diana: I barely got started.
Tom: All I'm saying is, you don't have to try to make me feel better.
Diana: Well, it was more of an attempt at bonding, via a shared similar experience. Can you open the door?
Tom: How long did you go out with this guy?
Diana: Nine months.
Tom: Nine months. So you're equating your nine months of dating, with my nineteen years of marriage.
Diana: You're right, ok, forget it. You want me to drive?
Tom: What for?
Diana: I don't know. So you can brood?
Tom: Just get in.
He gets into the car and leaves her standing. She taps on the window as her door is still locked
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Shawn's first day back at High School. He walks up to find his locker. The halls are filled with people, all staring at him. Someone rushes up and pushes him against the locker. Kenny and Nikki are watching
Brad: Look who floated in on a ball of light. Remember me?
Shawn: Rossi. Hi. It looks like the steroids finally kicked in
Brad: Funny man, funny. I always did appreciate your sense of humor. But that time you sold me those concert tickets, right before you disappeared.
Shawn: To see the Foo Fighters? How was the show?
Brad: The police were waiting for me when I showed up. The tickets were stolen man. You got me arrested.
Shawn: You got arrested for stolen tickets?
Brad: Yeah, I had 5 tabs of X on me. I had to pee into a cup, once a week, for two years, because of you.
Shawn is being hit up against the locker. Nikki and Kenny rush over
Nikki: Stop it!
Danny: Come on, get off of him!
Brad: It's between me and your brother.
Danny: Yeah? Well I'm making it between you and me.
Brad: See you around, freak. Oh by the way. I like the new paint job on your ride.
(Freak had been painted on Shawn's car in the middle of the night)
Brad walks away
Nikki: You ok?
Shawn: Fine.
Shawn walks away.
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Diana and Tom are looking at the surveillance video of Orson
Officer: The security camera's caught everything. The guy definitely had a bug up his ass. Except, as far as we can tell, he never went inside. Kensington fell into all that glass, and impaled himself.
Tom: You've been through all the footage?
Officer: Every scrap. He never made it past the gate.
Tom: Hold on a second. Did you see that?
They watch as Orson shakes the gate so violently that it comes away from the concrete posts
Tom: That's glass.
Diana: Yeah, something blew out the windows, but from the inside.
Officer: Yeah, we're still trying to figure that one out. There was no seismic activity. No evidence of a bomb or gas leak.
Tom: And Bailey's not talking?
Officer: We've sent half a dozen guys in there, but he hasn't given us anything.
Orson in interviewed
Orson: Look, I've been over and over this, with you people.
Tom: We're not the police, we're Homeland Security.
Orson: Well tell the bozo's out there, that I had nothing to do with what happened to Adam.
Tom: Let's just go over your day again. You went to see Adam Kensington about a job, and even though your name is still on the company letterhead, he brushed you off. I know how that would make me feel.
Orson: I admit I was angry. I went to Adam's house to...I don't know why I went. But I didn't kill him.
Orson: Now I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not an idiot either. You've had me here for twelve hours. Either you charge me with something, or let me go.
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Maia lays flowers on the graves of her parents
Maia: Do you think they ever thought about me?
Foster Mother: Oh sweetie, they were your parents. I am sure that they thought about you every day.
Maia: Thanks for bringing me here.
Kenneth: This place used to be so nice. Now the kids leave their garbage everywhere.
Foster Mother: It's a shame.
Maia: You don't have to worry. Cranridge is nice.
Kenneth: Cranridge cemetary?
Maia: Yes, that's where you will be.
Kenneth: Be? Be what?
Maia: Buried.
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Tom and Diana go to the morgue
Medical Examiner : Kensington's a popular guy around here today. The whole staffs been through here for the post mortem.
Tom: Why's that?
Medical Examiner : Well, he may have been a boring old suit when he was alive? But in death, he's a rock star.
Diana: God, look at that. Those were his parietal bones?
They're looking at x-rays of his skull
Medical Examiner :We've seen bleeding deaths in here, as bad as you can imagine. Even a guy who jumped off the space needle and had to be brought to us in a garbage bag, but I have never seen a skull in this kind of shape before. Thousands of tiny little bone fragments that...
Tom: Kensington was impaled. Are you saying that's not how he died?
Medical Examiner :Oh, that would have killed him, but he was already dead, from a shattered skull.
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Seacrest Senior High School
Shawn is walking down the stairs.
Nikki: Shawn!
Shawn: Hey, how you doing? What's up?
Nikki: Good. Did you get your car fixed?
Shawn: It's gonna be in the shop for about a week.
Nikki: Yeah. You know, Danny and I are going to a party tonight at Irvin Chobey's house. You should come.
Shawn: I don't think so.
Nikki: Why not?
Shawn: Um, well, they're gonna be listening to music I've never listened to. Talking about movies I've never seen. School is bad enough. Partying with a bunch of runts from...
Nikki: Is that how you saw me? A runt?
Shawn: You were fourteen, Nikki. Besides everyone except you and Danny look at me here like I'm some sort of freak. I really am not interested in a party where people will do that. I won't have fun, you go though. I think I may visit some friends I made during quarantine. I got to Go now, class.
Shawn walks off.
Disappointed Nikki watches him go.
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Orson goes to visit his wife. He finds her cubicle empty
Orson: Where's my wife?
Manager: Mr Bailey, you have our deepest condolences.
Orson: What?
Manager: We called your hotel room, there was no answer.
Orson: Elizabeth?
Manager: It was a pulmonary embolism, about one 'o'clock this morning. We tried to revive her.
Orson: No! She's all I have!
He has the man hold by the collar
Manager: Please just calm down.
Orson: She's all I have!
He begins to lose control. Things begin to explode and his nose is bleeding again
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Homeland Security
Diana: So, the red dots mark the spots where the American members of the 4400 originally lived.
Tom: You mean, the returnee's.
Diana: Not according to the press. It's the 4400. Now you have to admit, it's a bit strange. A nice, round number, like that. I wonder if it has any significance.
Tom: So you're saying that if 3781 people, had suddenly shown up that night, it wouldn't have been as strange.
Diana: I'd say, slightly less strange. This however, is downright weird. Here's where the 4400 are right now, two weeks after their release.
Tom: 65 are still in Seattle.
Diana: They're just not going home, and none of them can come up with a good reason as to why.
Tom: You think it means something?
Diana: In the CDC, we'd call this a statistically significant, disease cluster.
Tom: Yeah well, in the FBI, we'd call it a freaky coincidence.
Diana: I don't believe in coincidences. Disease clusters. I believe in those.
Back at the residential home
Manager: At first I thought it was an earthquake. Everything was shaking, falling off the walls, but then, I can't believe I'm gonna say this... things started to fly around the room. Papers, chairs.
Tom: What do you mean, fly?
Manager: I mean fly. Like it was a tornado. Except there was no wind. Everybody was screaming. Mr Bailey Was shouting.My head felt like it was gonna burst, and then suddenly it was over.
Tom: What about Bailey?
Manager: Oh, he looked scared, like the rest of us. That's when he ran away. The staff, everyone's saying he's one of these people. The 4400? Is that true?
Tom: Listen to me very carefully. You are not going to talk about this to the press or anyone else, and the same goes for your staff. If I pick up a paper and see a word of this, or I see it reported on the news, I'm gonna take an interest in this place.
Tom, Diana and Ryland take a walk outside the Homeland Security building
Ryland: Things flying around the room.
Tom: I know, but we got a half a dozen witnesses, all saying the same thing.
Ryland: Yeah, flying. I gotta do a briefing for Home Sect DC in the morning and I'm gonna tell them what?
Diana: Well I'd go with, the incident is under investigation.
Tom: Bailey checked out of his hotel, after he left the nursing home. He could be on the run, we're not sure.
Ryland: Find him. You bought us some time, but this story is gonna leak and I want Bailey in our hands before it does.
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Nikki, Danny and Shawn are on campus
Nikki: Is this campus, everything you remember it to be?
Danny: You heard about Williams and Miss Sinclair, right?
Shawn: No.
Danny: No? They found them in the janitors closet.
Shawn: What is that?
Danny: Making out. Not bad.
Rossi watches them as they walk past
Shawn: What?
Danny: Everybody in school's been talking about it.
Brad: Yo, freak! Still hiding behind your little brother?
Shawn: You know what Brad? You need to shut it down.
Brad: You wanna shut me down? You know, the only thing I'm shutting down, is you, bitch!
Shawn drops his bag, as Brad stands up
Shawn: You're really starting to piss me off, now.
Brad: Come on, bring it! Knock me down
They begin to fight on the grass. Shawn gets him on the floor and holds him there. Brad begins to turn blue and Kenny runs over shouting.
Danny: Hey, come on! Let him go! Shawn!
Shawn get's up.
Danny: What did you do to him?
Shawn is bleeding from the mouth, and walks away
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Maia's foster father has a brochure from a cemetary
Kenneth: I don't wanna hear anymore.
Foster Mother: Keep your voice down, she'll hear you.
Kenneth: It's bad enough she tells us we're gonna be buried in Crown Ridge cemetary, but then the next day, we get a brochure from the place, in the mail?
Foster Mother: It's a coincidence. Look, she's not what we expected, so let's just talk to her.
Kenneth: Yeah.
The woman goes to Maia's room and finds her standing there with her bag packed
Maia: It's ok. I knew I wasn't going to be here very long.
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Shawn is playing basketball in the street with Danny
Danny: Come on, come on let's go.
Shawn: Give me the ball.
Danny: Your shot space boy.
Shawn: What is your problem
Danny: What's my problem?
Shawn: Yeah, what's your problem
Danny: Come on Danny, not you too. Come on!
Danny: The way he went down? That's not normal. You know it, I know it, everybody saw it!
Shawn: What are you saying?
Danny: You tell me.
Shawn: I didn't do anything to him, alright, Danny? Not a thing!
He walks away angry an decides to take the bus to Capeside to see Jen, Joey and Pacey. Needing people who understood him to talk to.
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Tom and Diana are going through some of Elizabeth's belongings
Diana: Is this all that's left, when you're done? Poor Mrs Bailey. A box of trinkets.
Tom: They're not trinkets. They're memories. The kind you leave behind, you know, for family and friends?
Diana: Hmmm. I should get to work on that.
Tom: I'm not going there.
Diana: Well, believe it or not, some of us are happier alone.
Tom: No-one's happy alone. If they think that, they're kidding themselves.
Diana: I thought you weren't going there?
Tom: Did you see this? This looks promising.
He finds a photo of Orson and Elizabeth
Diana: Wyler summer cabin. Wyler was Elizabeth's maiden name.
Tom: Orson's panicking, he needs a place to run.
Diana: Well there's no address.
Tom: Then we'll have to find one.
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Maia is taken back to Homeland Security
Kenneth: It's better this way, for everyone.
Foster Mother: Everyone? Or just you?
They say goodbye to her
Foster Mother: Maia honey? You know this isn't about you. You are a wonderful girl. It's just, Kenneth and I, we just made a mistake. We are not ready to be parents yet.
Maia: It's ok.
Foster Mother: No, it's not. But sweetie? Those things you say? They can scare people, if you're not careful. Do you understand?
She nods
Foster Mother: Good
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Homeland Security
Tom: Ok, bring up the sattellite charts.
Diana: So we're looking for a small house, with a north facing exposure, somewhere within the vicinity of Appleton Lake.
Tom: If it's still standing.
Diana: No structures within grids 1,2,3 and 9. 4 and 7 each have one, but they're the wrong shape.
Tom: Let's eliminate all those.
Diana: That leaves us with five, six and eight. That's too small. Wrong orientation. That's too small, that's too big. Nothing but tree's and air, it's not there anymore.
Tom: Hang on a second. Get a little tighter on this.
Diana: It looks like it could be a house.
Tom: This Picture was taken fifty years ago. These tree's would be huge by now. Enlarge again.
Diana: Bingo! There's your house.
Tom: Bingo.
They leave the building
Diana: Appleton's what? About seventy miles?
Tom: Yeah. Look, when we get up there, I'll handle Bailey.
Diana: Alright. Are we leaning on him?
Tom: No leaning.
Diana: No problem.
A man approaches them
Court Officer : Excuse me. Are you Tom Baldwin?
Tom: Yeah, who are you?
Court Officer : You've been served. Sorry man.
He leaves, and Tom opens the envelope
Diana: You're getting sued?
Tom: Linda's filed for divorce.
Maia is sat on the grass, outside Homeland Security. Ryland approaches and sit's down next to her
Ryland: Hello Maia.
Maia: Hello.
Ryland: Oh, I like it out here. It's much better than my stuffy office.
Maia: But you didn't bring me out here to talk about the weather.
Ryland: You're a very smart little girl.
Maia: Thank you. The thing is that the Griffins didn't really give a reason, why they brought you back.
Maia: Maybe they didn't have a reason.
Ryland: Could be. Were they mean to you?
Maia: No.
Ryland: Were you mean to them?
Maia: No.
Ryland: Why do you think you're back here?
Maia: I don't think they like kid's, much.
Ryland: Why do you say that?
Maia: They brought me back, and I'm a kid.
Ryland: You don't really wanna tell me the reason, do you? It's ok. Maybe you'll change your mind one day.
Maia: Maybe.
Tom reaches Linda's answer phone, as he's driving to Orson's cabin
Answer phone: Hi, this is Linda. I can't take your call right now, but please leave me a message and I'll call you back.
Diana: What, she's still not answering?
Tom: Nope.
Diana: Can I ask you a question?
Tom: No.
Diana: Well I'm gonna ask you anyway. So your son, how long has he been in a coma?
Tom: Three years.
Diana: That's a long time.
Tom: You have no idea.
Diana: Maybe you and your wife can work things out.
Tom: Yeah, one day Kyle's gonna wake up and I'll have to tell him his whole family's fallen apart. I go to that hospital every day, and I tell myself that makes me a good father.
Diana: Oh you are a good father. Kyle's lucky to have a Dad like you. Cos, not everyone does. You can trust me, cos I know.
Orson is sat in the cabin. Tom and Diana turn up and get out of the car. Orson hears them and hides. Tom makes his way up the steps and approach the door.
Tom: Mr. Bailey, it's Tom Baldwin, Homeland Security. We met at the police station, remember?
Diana points and makes her way around the house
Tom: Mr. Bailey, we're here to help, but you've gotta talk to us.
Orson: Go away!
Tom: I'm afraid we can't do that.
Orson: I just wanna be left alone. I don't wanna hurt anyone.
Tom: That's good, because we don't want anyone else hurt.
Orson: If you leave, I promise, no-one will ever see me again. I'll just stay here, away from everybody.
Tom: Listen to me. We both know that's not going to work, Mr. Bailey. Now please, open the door. We can figure this out together. I'm on your side!
Orson: No you're not! No-one is.
Tom: My nephew, he's one of the 4400, just like you. I've seen how hard it is for him. I know it's even harder for you.
Orson: You don't know anything. My wife, she was everything to me.
Tom: Believe me, I'm sorry for your loss.
Orson: I don't need pity out of you! Go away! I just wanna be left alone.
Tom: We can't do that.
Orson: I said get away from me.
The house begins to shake
Orson: Please stay away. Please.
His nose is bleeding. Things are falling down. Tom's nose is bleeding, as is Diana's ears
Diana: Tom, your nose.
Tom kicks the door in and gets out his gun. As he gets inside he falls to his knee's.
Orson: I can't control it. I can't control it.
Tom is on the floor, screaming
Diana is standing in the doorway and is pointing her gun at Orson
Diana: Whatever it is you're doing, Mr. Bailey, stop it!
Orson: I can't control it.
Diana: Stop it now!
She shoots him in the shoulder and he falls to the ground. The shaking stops and Tom get's up.
Diana: Are you alright?
Tom: Yeah, I'll call for an ambulance.
Diana: Ok. We're gonna get you some help Mr. Bailey. Just don't die on me.
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Homeland Security
Ryland: Bailey's alive, but it doesn't look like he's gonna be talking to us anytime soon. As far at the general public's concerned? We're gonna deny it ever happened.
Diana: Yeah well, we know better. The question is, will it happen again?
Tom: So what do you suggest we do? Round them all up and put them all back in quarantine?
Diana: You saw what Bailey could do. You felt it, the same as me. Who knows what the rest of them are capable of.
Ryland: I sure as hell don't. But then again, it's not my job to find out. It's yours. Aren't you glad you wanted back in.
He leaves the room
Tom: I haven't thanked you for saving my life.
Diana: I never shot anyone before. Just seeing him lying there like that.
Tom: Are you gonna be ok?
Diana: Yeah, I'll get there. You know, I meant what I said to Ryland back there. If Orson can do those things, who knows where all this is going?
Tom: So far we've got one case, and maybe that's all that will ever happen.
Diana: You ever noticed anything unusual with Shawn? Cos I just need to know, if you had, you'd tell me.
He thinks back to the bird hitting the wall
Tom: There's nothing to tell.
Chapter 9 wil have Shawn in Capeside, the first day of schoolfor the 3 Capeside 4400, and more.