Network: USA
Episodes: 45 (hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: July 11, 2004 — September 16, 2007
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Jacqueline McKenzie, Joel Gretsch, Patrick Flueger, Conchita Campbell, Chad Faust, Richard Kahan, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Bill Campbell, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Samantha Ferris, Kavan Smith, Laura Allen, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Karina Lombard, Jody Thompson, Jenni Baird, Peter Coyote, Chilton Crane, Garret Dillahunt, and Jordan Lasorsa-Simon.
TV show description:
A group of 4,400 people are suddenly deposited, by what appears to be a comet, at Highland Beach near Mount Rainier, Washington. All of them had disappeared in a beam of light at various times as far back as 1946. None of them have aged or remember anything of what happened to them while they were gone.
A division of Homeland Security is set up to deal with the return and multiple agents are assigned to investigate. Two of them are Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie). Their superiors on the project include Tom’s former friend, Dennis Ryland (Peter Coyote); Nina Jarvis (Samantha Ferris); and Meghan Doyle (Jenni Bairdand). Tom’s son Kyle (Chad Faust) has been in a coma since the disappearance of his cousin, Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger), but awakens when Shawn returns with the 4400. Both young men have developed the ability to heal people.
Others in the 4400 include persuasive Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell); telepathic widow Alana Mareva (Karina Lombard); and Maia Skouris (Conchita Campbell), a precognitive eight-year old.
Former abductees Richard Tyler (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) and Lily Moore (Laura Allen) have a child, Isabelle (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who quickly ages to an adult and has mysterious telekinetic powers.
It’s later learned that the 4400 were abducted, not by aliens but, by humans from the future. They are returned with special abilities to help avert a catastrophe. Kyle, not Shawn, was supposed to have been taken and was intended to be the group’s leader.
Episode 45 – The Great Leap Forward
Tom (Joel Gretsch) is put into a truck where Diana (Jacqueline McKenzie), Meghan (Jenni Baird), Marco (Richard Kahan), and Shawn (Patrick Flueger) are waiting. Marco injects Tom with Polonium that burns the nano-machines inside him and destroys the body snatcher. The process ultimately kills him but Shawn saves Tom by healing him. Tom still retains all of the memories from being marked and is horrified about what he’s done. He tells Diana and Meghan that he needs to go back to free Collier. Because they believe he’s marked, Tom says that he’s the only one who can succeed.
Danny (Kaj-Erik Eriksen) goes with his mother (Chilton Crane) to the hospital. He notices that people begin to exhibit the same symptoms and begin dying, as if they’d taken a promicin injection. Danny realizes that he’s developed the ability to spread promicin like an airborne virus. As a result, he ends up causing hundreds to either die or develop abilities. He goes to the 4400 center to ask for Shawn’s help, to tell him that he is the one responsible for the deaths/abilities, and that their mother has died. Kevin (Jeffrey Combs) gives Danny an inhibitor so that he’s no longer contagious.
Meanwhile, the people of Seattle are being infected. The outbreak wasn’t contained to the hospital and it’s spreading through the police force and the NTAC. The NTAC is forced to work with the Promise City residents to try to control the violence and chaos that is taking place.
Strangely, Diana is the only survivor at NTAC who hasn’t tested positive for promicin. Marco attributes this to the fact that earlier, Kevin had given her a series of promicin shots. This has somehow made her immune to it. She goes to the 4400 center and Kevin determines that an enzyme called ubiquinone is what is allowing her to resist the promicin exposure. Fortunately, the enzyme is contained in a common over-the-counter drug. Diana sends an order to have supplies of the drug made available to those in Seattle who have not yet been exposed to the virus.
Meanwhile, a marked Isabelle (Megalyn Echikunwoke) tracks down Kyle (Chad Faust) who has become the new leader of the Promise City residents. The marked are not pleased. The effects of Danny’s ability are ruining their plans to terminate 4400s and prevent people from gaining abilities. Tom returns to try and free Collier (Billy Campbell) but is unsuccessful. When he hears that Isabelle was sent to kill Kyle, he flinches and gives himself away.
Isabelle resists killing Kyle and instead returns to free Tom and Collier. She kills the marked bodyguards and Rebecca Parrish (Penny Johnson) but is ultimately killed herself. Tom and Collier escape and learn how the city has changed.
Back at the 4400 center, the inhibitor is working on Danny but the promicin is building up in his body. Since it’s no longer being released, it’s slowly killing him. He tells Shawn that he doesn’t want to stop taking the inhibitor because he knows that others will die. He would rather be the last. Danny begs Shawn to kill him and, heartbroken, Shawn complies.
With over 9,000 deaths and as many newly empowered people, Seattle has really changed. We see Meghan turn a pen into a flower, Agent Garrity (Kavan Smith) create an energy-clone of himself, and Marco unintentionally teleport himself from NTAC to Promise City.
Seattle is renamed Promise City and is now under the control of Collier and his followers. Maia remarks to Diana that she believes that it’s better this way. Kyle visits his father and tells him that, even though he has killed people, he must move on and leaves him a shot of promicin.
First aired: September 16, 2007
The show was cancelled after four seasons. There have been no reported plans to revive the series or wrap up the story.
I have only 2 episodes left. I love this show and it needs to come back. Please bring it back
Please bring this show back and give us a proper ending. I love this shoe
I sign up to petition that the show gets back on the air it is an amazing show!!! It needs a proper ending!!! It deserves one!!!
Yes please please bring the show back I just finished all seasons and want to know what happens next.
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please bring this show back me and my whole family watch which is like 12 people. give it one more chance please
bring it back!!!!!!! AMAZING SHOW !!!!!!!
PLEASE BRING BACK THIS SHOW I LOVVVVVEEED IT AND THERE WAS VIRTUALLY NO ENDING THAT KILLS ME. ITS THE BEST SHOW EVER AND WE ALL LOVE IT. BIG BIG BIG MISTAKE CANCELLING. AND IM A 26 YEAR OLD STUDENT AND I LOVED IT
Bring it back!!
Plz plz plz bring back the 4400
I just discovered this ago on Netflix. I have watched it all in just a few short weeks. I love it. As I’m sure 1000s of others do too. Please finish the story.
Please continue the 4400 season 5 it is an awesome show that needs a proper finale,really disappointing that every good series gets cut off
You can’t leave it like that!!! Finish the show. Show some humanity and let us know what the hell happened. Too many shows have ended this way!!! Y’all are making us insane!!!!
Agree
Yes! Absolutely
Path To Revival (Bring Back The 440) video featuring the cast! We just release it yesterday!
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Please don’t spam this post with the same comment over and over.
Many apologies. My intent was to reply to each individual inquiring about The 4400 coming back in hopes that they would be notified via email that their comment was replied to. But again, my apologies. Misjudgment on my part, as I figured it wouldn’t be considered spamming if my replies were directly related to their comments.
No problem.
Best show ever please bring back more…. Please…..
GREAT NEWS! There is a CURRENT push to revive the 4400 that is being supported by the cast and crew by way of a petition! Check it out!
Petition Link: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bring-back-the-4400
Any more news on this please
Please finish the show or tell us the ending
Please Finish the rest of the show
Hi Juanita,
Want ‘The 4400’ back? Then please sign and share this official petition requesting that Netflix and Scott Peters partner up to continue the show. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bring-back-the-4400
WHAT? WE CAN BRING IT BACK??
Vregier8 yes why couldn’t we bring it back!!!! I use to watch a show called Jericho and they canceled it. People that were true fans got upset about it and petitioned that the bring it back on and finish the story sure enough they brought the show back on and finished the series. So yes it can happen if we get enough Signatures!!! So make sure u sign the petition!!!! 🙂
Vregier8 yes why couldn’t we bring it back!!!! I use to watch a show called Jericho and they canceled it. People that were true fans got upset about it and petitioned that the bring it back on and finish the story sure enough they brought the show back on and finished the series. So yes it can happen if we get enough Signatures!!! So make sure u sign the petition!!!! 🙂
We most certainly can! Major support from the cast and crew! But we have to show them we want this! So please join the movement and sign and share the petition!
Thanks!