Note: thanks for the nice feedback everyone, enjoy.
Note2: I changed some dialogs between Tom and Linda, Shawn and Nikki, Shawn and Danny and Tom and Shawn, since Shawn never did try to heal his cousin, yet anyways.
Previously on the 4400:
Ryland, Tom and Diana are at Homeland Security watching Maia on tape
Ryland: The complaints started after her foster parents brought her back to quarantine last week.
Diana: What kind of complaints?
Ryland: Well, for instance, yesterday, Maia spoke to an employee in the cafeteria. She told her that her daughter would be in the hospital soon, but would be Ok. Then the little girl was in a car accident.
Diana: So you're saying what, she's got some kind of second sight?
Ryland: I have five stories just like that one.
Tom: Why hold a little girl for 60 years and then send her back able to predict the future? What were they thinking?
Diana: We don't know if there is a they.
Tom:He, she it, take your pick.
Ryland: Let's leave that for the team in the theory room.
Tom: When they're not playing video games.
Diana: That's why they're intimidated. They feel your hostility.
Tom: Good.
Ryland: I wouldn't worry too much about the big brains. Just talk to that girl.
Tom and Diana leave Ryland's office
Maia is drawing in an interview room, when Tom and Diana enter. Tom sit's at the table with her, while Diana stands by the window.
Tom: Thanks.
Maia: I never meant to scare anyone.
Tom: We know that, sweetie. But why did you say those things to Mrs. Krause about her daughter?
Maia: Because they're true.
Tom: But how did you know?
Maia: I just do.
Tom: lf I asked you if it was going to rain next Sunday, would you know the answer?
Maia: Maybe. I don't know What's going to happen to me now?
Tom: The doctors here are going to take another look at you. Don't worry. lt won't hurt.
Maia: I don't believe you. It's gonna hurt, isn't it?
Diana: You might be uncomfortable some of the time, but mostly it's going to be boring.
Maia: Will you look in on me now and then?
Diana: Me?
Maia: To see that I'm all right.
Diana: Sure.
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Linda is at Kyle's bedside holding his hand, when Tom enters the room.
Tom: Linda, hey?
Tom: So how have you been?
Linda: Good! My lawyer was asking if you'd signed those divorce papers yet.
Tom: I thought maybe if we had dinner one night...we could sign them together.
Linda: You mean make plans that you cancel at the last minute?
Tom: I'll bring the papers, we'll have a good meal, a couple of glasses of wine...
Linda: And a good cry.
Tom: That, too.
Linda: Stefano's?
Tom: Yeah. Where else?
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Tom goes to Shawn's school to confront him about the other night. He catches up with him outside.
Shawn: I already thought we cleared this up?
Tom: No, nothing was cleared up that bullet that was fired from the gun was in perfect condition.
Shawn: well maybe it wasn't that bullet then, maybe the girl dropped it before. Why are you still digging into this? We already told you what happened.
Tom: So nothing weird happened, as far as you know?
Shawn: What could have happened? You really think Pacey could generate some sort of force field.
Tom: At your welcome home party, a bird smacked into the window, remember?
Shawn: It was stunned. What about it?
Tom: No, it was more than that. And then...you picked it up. Suddenly, it was alive and well. Then Orson Bailey can make things fly around the room. And then there is an eight year old girls who can see the future.
Shawn: Argh! We didn't do anything wrong. Look, I really like these little chats we have, Uncle Tommy, but I gotta go to class.
Tom: Shawn. We'll talk again.
Shawn: Oh, I can't wait.
He begins to walk up the steps. Nikki and Danny run to catch up with him
Nikki: A bunch of us are going to see Fountains Of Wayne this weekend.
Shawn: Have fun.
Nikki: You know, this whole loner thing is so tired.
Shawn: Well, it works for me. Besides I have friends coming over this weekend.
Shawn walks away and Danny turns to Nikki angrily
Nikki: Fountains of Wayne...Friday night!
Danny: What is with you? Why do you keep pushing him?
Nikki: Someone has to. I don't see you doing anything.
Danny: I 'm giving him his space, let him figure things out for himself. You should try it sometime.
Nikki: Ugh!
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Diana and Tom go to the theory room at Homeland Security
Diana: Marco.
Marco: Skouris. Good. I checked out your idea.
Tom: What idea?
Diana: So am I a genius or am I crazy?
Marco: We don't make that distinction in here. Anyway's, I visited a sampling of disappearance sites on the west coast, like you suggested. Turns out you were right. The gravity at those sites is weaker. But only by five parts per billion.
Diana: That's barely measurable.
Tom: Not to mention barely understandable. English, please.
Diana: The gravity changed at some of the places where people disappeared. The question is, was it natural or was it manipulated?
Marco: If it was manipulated, the question is, by who?
Diana: So back to the possibility of alien abductions?
Marco: I wouldn't rule out little green men, but obviously, I'm going to need to take more measurements.
Tom: So in other words, you've made no progress.
Marco: Er...you explain it to him. Oh, hold on! You remember Adam Kensington? The insurance guy Orson Bailey killed.
Tom: Yeah, what about him?
Marco: Not one of the good guys as it turns out. He was point man in an insurance scheme to defraud policy holders. Bailey saved Washington state a billion-dollar buy-out. Could have been Enron all over again.
Diana: God! That's interesting. Brings up all kinds of possibilities.
Marco: Well, er...don't be a stranger.
They leave the room
Tom: So this thing about Bailey. You're trying to say, whoever sent him back meant him to go after Kensington?
Diana: It's a theory. That's why they call it the theory room.
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Shawn is sitting on the garage floor playing guitar. Danny walks over to him
Danny: That's tight.
Shawn: Oh, no. I suck. Hey, is this about the concert thing?
Danny: No, no, it's got nothing to do with that. I just want to know what's going on with you and Nikki.
Shawn: Me and Nikki what?
Danny: I just want to know what's going on between you two.
Shawn: What do you think is going on?
Danny: Something. She's always talking about you. Can't go anywhere without her wanting to bring you along.
Shawn: How's that my problem, Danny?
Danny: Just do me a favor. Leave her alone, ok?
Shawn: I thought that's what I'd been doing. Look, you got a problem with your girlfriend, go talk to her about it, ok?.
Danny: Yeah. We're the same age. I'm not your little brother now.
Shawn: Then stop acting like a two-year-old. You're my brother. She's your girlfriend. It's all good...right?
Danny: Yeah, right.
Shawn: Besides I'm interested in someone else.
Danny: Is it one of your friends from what was it Capeside?
Shawn smiles.
Shawn: Yeah, she, and 2 other friends are coming over Friday afternoon. I think it's mom's evaluation about me going to school in Capeside.
Danny: You're going to switch schools?
Shawn: Yeah, didn't mom tell you? Jen's grandmother has an extra room and she says it's ok as long as help out with groceries and stuff.
Danny: So that's her name, Jen?
Shawn looks at his little brother
Shawn: Yeah, that's her name, we're just friends for now though. I really like her, I don't want to screw it up by dating her instantly. I want to get to know her better first. I don't want to mess this up.
Danny: I never thought I'd see the day Shawn Farrell in love.
Shawn: I wouldn't say it's love. It's…I don't know, maybe it is. I've never felt this way about a girl before.
Danny: I know the feeling.
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Diana walks into the examination room, to find Maia curled up on a table, alone.
Diana: Hey, Maia. How long have they left you like this?
Maia: A while. I think they all went on their coffee break.
Diana: Oh! Well! You know, that's pretty dumb of them, isn't it?
Maia: Will you stay until they come back?
Diana: Of course. When they show up, your doctors and I are going to have a little talk.
Maia: And then can l go home?
Diana: Home?
Maia: With you. I don't like being here alone.
Diana: You want to stay with me?
Maia: You don't like being alone either. I can always come back for my checkups. Please.
Diana: Look, Maia, l'm not even sure I'm the kind of person I want to live with. No, I...eat cold pizza for breakfast and...
Maia: That sounds all right to me.
Diana: Yeah. You know, Maia, just let me think about it, OK?
She returns to her office, where she finds Tom waiting
Tom: Where have you been?
Diana: I was looking in on Maia.
Tom: Really?
Diana: I promised her, didn't I? So what have you got?
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They go to see the female attempted rape victim, who is working behind the counter of a cafe
Tom: One guy taking on three attackers doesn't sound that far-fetched. :
Female Victim: But if you saw him, you'd think it was impossible. He was...35, 40, maybe five-foot-six, weighed 150 pounds.
Diana: So not exactly the Rock, huh?
Female Victim: lt was the way that he moved.
Tom: Could he have been on drug, maybe PCP?
Female Victim: He didn't act like he was on drugs. You know, most guys would have walked away. Or, er...maybe called the cops later, after it was too late. But, er...this guy, he saved me.
Tom's phone rings
Tom: I'm sorry.Into phone Baldwin. Linda. Dinner. Yeah, no... Linda, l'm s... Don't hang up, Linda. Just...
Linda has put the phone down. Tom turns back to the woman
Diana: Anything else you can remember?
Female Victim: Just one thing. This guy...I don't mean to be rude or anything, but...he smelled funny. Like day-old fish.
They walk outside the diner
Diana: So that was your wife on the phone?
Tom: I don't wanna talk about it.
Diana: Fair enough. But if you ask me you should just sign those papers.
Tom: So what, are we in Orson Bailey territory here?
Diana: I wouldn't rule it out, which would give us what? A telekinetic insurance salesman, a clairvoyant eight-year-old, and now some kind of sad sack super vigilante. And then there is the whole deal with a certain group of teenagers.
Tom: They're hiding something, but as long as it doesn't hurt anyone I don't see what's the harm in letting them keep it a secret. For now at least.
Diana: I don't think they're dangerous, although I think they should let us examine them if they do have powers it is their call. I mean these powers were given to them for a reason right.
Tom looks at her with admiration, she's come a long way from comparing them to viruses to treating them as actual people.
Tom: Ok, I wasn't sure if I should tell you or not since you were comparing my nephew to a virus. But the other day when we were at his welcome home party a bird smacked into the window. It's neck was broken, Shawn just touched it and held it in his hands and it suddenly flew away.
Diana looked at him.
Diana: You're saying Shawn has the ability to heal?
Tom: I think so, but he continues to deny it to me. I think his other 4400 friends know, but I want him to tell me when he's ready to.
Diana: Well I can imagine him wanting to keep it quiet, can you imagine what would happen if this got out? People from all over the world would come to see him for healing.
Tom: I know.
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Shawn is working on his car in the garage, when Nikki enters
Shawn: Danny's inside.
Nikki: I'm not here to see Danny.
She turns off the engine
Shawn: Cute. Can you turn it back on, please?
Nikki: Did Danny say something to you? Is that why you're acting like his? Our friendship has nothing to do with him.
Shawn: Nikki, you really need to stop reaching out to me and start paying more attention to your boyfriend? I appreciate you trying to make me feel better and become friends but you don't understand what I'm going through and you're not going to because I'm not going to pull you into this weirdness that is my life.
Nikki: Shawn, listen to me...
She touches the hot engine
Nikki: Ah! Ah! Ah!
Shawn: Hey, hey, come here. Let me see it. Let me see.
He rubs her hand and the burn disappears
Nikki: It's gone. It doesn't hurt any more.
Shawn: It mustn't been that bad of a burn.
Nikki: Yes, it was. You did something to it, didn't you?
Shawn: Like I said weird stuff happens in my life. Don't tell anyone about this. And please go talk to Danny and stop hovering over me. I don't know what you're expecting of me but just do you know. I'm not interesting in you other then a friend. I like someone else. Her name is Jen and she and 2 other friends are coming over Friday.
Nikki looks at him and then goes into the house leaving Shawn to return working on his car.
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Tom signs the divorce petition whilst at work. Diana walks in.
Diana: Tom. See, the thing about vigilantes is that they're not very common, except in Charles Bronson movies, so l have to create my own profile. Now, we know he's a white male,slender, somewhere between 30 and 50. He works a blue-collar job, has low self-esteem, lives in a high-crime area.
Tom: I'm with you so far.
Diana: I cross-checked my profile with the members of the 4400 in and around the Seattle area and I came up with 37 names.
Tom: You're not taking me through all 37.
Diana: Of those 37, I was able to eliminate 24. I 'm sure you don't care how. And that left me with 13.
Tom: l'm on the edge of my seat.
Diana: Here are my two favourites - Robert Lorenzano and Carl Morrissey. They both fit the profile, but Carl, he's our guy. Check out his occupation.
Tom: Supermarket employee.
Diana: Yeah, I called the store. Carl works in the seafood section.
Tom: And our guy smelled like day-old fish.
Diana: Oh, yeah. l'm good.
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It's night and Carl is walking through the park when he spots a man spraying graffiti
Carl: Hey! What the hell are you doing? I just cleaned that!
The man throws the can of paint and attacks him. Carl easily fells him to the ground. He turns to some others
Carl: Come on!
Meanwhile, Tom and Diana go to his home
Tom: We'd like to talk to your husband.
Grace: Why?
Tom: Any idea where he was Tuesday night?
Grace: He was here.
Tom: You sure about that?
Grace: I just told you.
Diana: Have you heard of the ''Bradley Park vigilante''?
Grace: What does that have to do with Carl?
Tom: You tell us, Mrs. Morrissey.
Grace: You're not going to throw him back into quarantine, are you?
Tom: We want to help him.
Grace: That's funny. That's all Carl wants to do is help. People grumble but nobody does anything, nobody tries to make anything better, except Carl.
Tom: Where is he, Mrs. Morrissey?
She takes them to the park, where they find him sat on a bench with a large bleeding wound in his abdomen
Grace: Carl.
Carl: Grace. I got rid of all the graffiti.
Grace: Oh, my God, Carl.
Carl: You should have seen it. They were falling like bowling pins. I didn't see the knife. I don't know why l didn't see the knife.
Tom get's on the phone
Tom: This is Agent Baldwin... Get an ambulance to Bradley Park right away.
Carl: I thought I could clean the whole neighborhood up myself. I thought that's why they sent me back, but I guess I was wrong.
Grace: No, no, no, no! No, don't leave me, Carl. Please.
He's dying
Grace: No! No! I just want you. I just...want you.
Carl is dead
Grace: No.
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The next morning, Tom and Diana sit by a statue in the park
Tom: Why take this guy, give him extra juice to think he can make a difference, send him back...
Diana: Only to get himself killed. What's the point?
Tom: I wish to hell l knew.
New's Reporter: The wife of slain Bradley Park vigilante, Carl Morrissey, revealed that her husband was one of the controversial 4400. Mrs Morrissey stated that her husband was a true neighborhood hero, a sentiment echoed by many area residents. Law enforcement officials and a spokesperson for the National Threat Assessment Command refused to confirm or deny Mrs Morrissey's statement.
People from the neighborhood take action and begin to clean up the park in honor of Carl
Diana decides to let Maia live with her
Doctor: That paperwork. OK. I need you to sign there. And there. And initial here. And sign there.
Diana: That's it?
Doctor: You got Mr. Ryland to sign the approvals, that simplifies things.
She enters the room
Maia: l thought you were one of the doctors.
Diana: Yeah. I thought you were asleep. So you sure fooled me. How would you like to get out of here?
Maia: Now?
Diana: Right now.
Maia's case is already packed and she's dressed. It appears she already knew that Diana was on her way.
Next chapter is a quick view of the past week for Capeside events and then the weekend trip to Seattle.