La Cinquième Page
(2x12: The Fifth Page)
Written by CRAIG SWEENY & IRA STEVEN BEHR
Directed by SCOTT PETERS
**Previously on The 4400**
When Tom first meets Diana.
Ryland: This is where I give you the speech about how you’re my best field scientist, and Tom is my best lead investigator, and how together you’re gonna make a good team.
Tom’s home, around the dinner table, after meeting Alana.
Kyle : Let me see if I’ve got this straight: you two met, fell in love, and spent eight years together in some kind of alternate reality.
Tom: Yeah.
Tom to Alana, as she prepares to take Kyle abroad
Tom: What time is the flight?
Alana: Uh, noon.
Kyle: Say goodbye to Mom for me.
Diana to Tom at the bus terminal
Diana: They arrested a suspect forty minutes ago. Claim he’s our guy.
In a car garage.
Nina: Roy Keith Marsden.
In Tom's office; to Alana on the phone
Tom: Forget about the flight. Bring Kyle home. They just arrested a suspect in the Collier k*lling.
In Shawn's office; to Olivia who is blind
Shawn: It’s gonna feel a little weird, but when we’re done, you’ll be able to see again.
Olivia: When does it start? When do I see again?
Shawn has lost the ability to heal.
Shawn: Just give me one moment, okay?
At the Abendson Mental Facility.
Tess: Kevin’s a genius, you know.
A scene after Kevin att*cks Tom when he and Diana take Tess from the facility.
Tom: You’re saying that Burkhoff is the father of the 4400 technology.
Kevin to Dr. Clayton
Kevin: I can think again, too.
In Diana's home; to Maia
Diana: You’ve got a real fever, young lady.
In the NTAC Medical.
Diana to Dr. Hudson, referring to Maia’s rash
Diana: I’ve worked at the CDC for seven years, and I never saw anything like it.
Lily to Richard in their apartment
Lily: I was changing her. She has these marks on her skin.
Richard: Marks? Bruises?
Lily: No. Like irritations. Like someone had her hooked up to something.
Nina to the rioting male agents
Nina: What did I just tell you?
Park sh**t her.
After the situation ends, to Tom as she is placed in an ambulance
Nina: You’re in charge until I’m relieved. Whatever manpower is still up walking, start picking up the pieces.
Tom: I’ll handle it. Don’t worry about it.
Opening scene: Tom’s home.
Moving boxes, Tom to Kyle
Tom: Okay. Seriously. My back is about to call it a day. Okay? Just come on.
Kyle: You’re not helping.
Tom: Where’s this going?
Alana moves to help.
Alana: Right there.
Alana is Putting down the box, laughing.
Tom: Please say that was the last box.
Alana: That’s it.
Tom is breathless.
Tom: Okay.
Alana: We’re officially living in sin.
Tom: Oh, really. Well, I prefer to call it: “resuming our eight-year marriage.”
He kisses her.
Kyle: Call it whatever you want, just don’t kiss in front of me again, okay? That’s disgusting.
He breaks into a smile.
Alana: Oh, your father thinks this is so romantic, but what he doesn’t know is the reason I’m moving in is to take down his tacky golf stuff.
Tom: What? And replace it with what? Oh, oh! Paint splatters? Maybe a picture of a triangle that sells for three grand?
Kyle: Kids!
Alana: It’s art.
Kyle: Kids! Work out these decorating issues amongst yourselves. But I’m dead serious about this kissing rule, okay? It’s non-negotiable.
Tom kisses her, and they both laugh.
Alana: Oh, Kyle, my allergies are bothering me again. Could you write me another prescription before you go?
Tom: Uh, Alana. Kyle’s only a doctor in the world you created for me, remember?
Alana double-takes.
Alana: I’m sorry. Ah! I had a brain freeze.
She laughs it off.
Alana: Right.
She leaves.
Scene change: hospital room.
Diana tries to decipher Maia’s medical writeup.
Hudson: Trying to decipher my handwriting?
Diana: I was just on the verge of giving up, actually.
Hudson: Good. Bad penmanship is the best way for a doctor to keep his mystique.
He takes the paperwork from Diana.
Diana: There’s a page missing in there. It goes from page four to page six.
Hudson: Sorry. I’m breaking in a new nurse.
Diana murmurs.
Dr Hudson: So, listen. I think we finally know what’s wrong with your daughter. Maia’s suffering from a type of pneumonia called pneumocystis jiroveci; it’s “PJP” for short.
Diana: I’ve never heard of it.
Hudson: It’s rare, but we can treat it.
Diana is relieved.
Diana: Well, thank God!
Hudson: But this kind of pneumonia could be a symptom for something more serious. Now, we’ve tested her for every virus: all negative.
Diana: So, where is it coming from?
Hudson: We don’t know, but we’re running more tests. We’ll figure it out.
Scene change: 4400 Center.
Shawn to Lily
Shawn: It’s not that big of a deal. You know. I’ve just—I’ve been working real hard lately. I think I got the flue or something. Everybody gets that, right?
Lily: Sure. It’s just—Shawn—you can’t heal.
Shawn: For now.
Lily: I think you should get it checked out.
Shawn: If I can’t kick it in a day or two, I will. But—uh—until then, can you reschedule all my foundation appointments? Tell them that it’s temporary.
Lily murmurs.
Shawn: Make sure they know that.
As she starts to leave
Shawn: Lily, don’t tell anyone I can’t heal.
Lily: Sure.
She starts to leave.
Shawn: Thank you.
Pause.
Shawn: Lily, I mean it. Nobody.
After she exits, he rises.
Shawn: Oh, God!
He examines himself in a mirror. He is covered with the rash.
Shawn: Ah!
Scene change: San Antonio, Texas.
Rose Woodard [disappeared December 1, 1991] examines her arm with the same rash.
Utica, New York: Matthew Lombard, a homeless man [disappeared May 30, 1977], coughs as he sits on a street.
Frankfurt, Germany: Werner Loecher [disappeared April 19, 1973] is wheeled into an ambulance.
Scene change: NTAC.
looking at a screen in the operations room showing a depiction of hundreds of people becoming sick.
Tom: How many are sick?
Marco: Three hundred—that we know of. Medical says more calls keep coming in.
Tom: So, what is it?
Diana: Well, it’s some kind of immune system disorder, and it’s leaving the 4400 vulnerable to all kinds of diseases.
Scene change: NTAC helipad.
Agent to a female agent
Agent: His plane landed at Seatac on schedule. Chopper should be here any minute.
He takes a folder from her; he looks at a Styrofoam cup.
Agent: What’s that?
Woman: They told me he likes green tea.
In the operations room.
Tom: Is it contagious?
Diana: We don’t know.
Marco: Were they infected while they were gone? Maybe they brought this back with them.
Diana: Well, maybe, we just don’t know.
Agent to Ryland
Agent: The situation is fluid.
Agent hands Ryland a folder.
Agent: But here’s a summary of what we know so far.
Woman: Uh, sir?
She hands Ryland the green tea.
Woman: They told me you’d want this.
Diana: The numbers just keep getting bigger.
Marco: So, we’re recovering from an att*ck on this building, the Division commander’s still in the hospital, what are we supposed to do?
Ryland addressing the room
Ryland: We take to the field.
Garrity: Ryland? Where did he come from?
Ryland: We’re gonna have every 4400 in this jurisdiction tested for this sickness by day’s end.
Tom: Dennis! Is it good to see you!
Ryland shaking his hand.
Ryland: Tom. Diana.
Diana: What brings you to Seattle, Ryland?
Ryland: I’m assuming temporary command of this division. My orders are to do something about the spread of this epidemic. I’m gonna figure out a way to do just that.
In Nina’s office, referring to Nina’s nameplate.
Tom: You might want to move that, unless you want people calling you “Nina.”
Tom picks up the nameplate.
Ryland chuckles.
Ryland: How’s Jarvis doing?
Tom: They set her collarbone. Doctors said she should be back in two weeks.
Ryland: My guess: she makes it in one.
Tom sitting down.
Tom: Yeah. So, how’s DC?
Ryland: Oh, it’s a lot of networking. Lots of dinner parties. Patty loves it.
Tom: And you?
Ryland: Well, the Pacific Northwest is the flashpoint. I kind of feel like I was promoted out of the game.
Tom: A lot of guys here would trade places with you.
Ryland: I wouldn’t blame them. A woman releases plague into the air; a t*rror1st att*ck on the building: some people I work for think you’re in the middle of a w*r.
Tom: I’m sure it looks that way on paper.
Ryland: Well, don’t get defensive. I’m still preaching the gospel of Highland Beach. I still believe the 4400 came back here to change things for the better.
Tom: Yeah. And the people you work for?
Ryland: Don’t worry about them. One day, this’ll be over. We’ll go out for a beer. We’ll kick back. We’ll trade w*r stories.
Tom: Yeah.
Scene change: 4400 Center; Daycare Facility.
Ruth to Richard and Lily, referring to Isabelle
Ruth: She was a little cranky this morning. I think she’s cutting another tooth.
Lily: They come in fast, huh.
Ruth: She’s at that age.
Lily: Bye-bye, Sweetie.
Ruth: We’ll see you tomorrow.
Richard: Thank you, Ruth.
Ruth leaves.
Lily checks Isabelle for a rash.
Richard: Lily, what are you doing? I thought we agreed nobody was doing science experiments on our baby.
Lily: Just making sure.
Scene change: in Shawn’s office.
Matthew entering.
Matthew: Shawn, we need to rearrange your healing schedule. There’s something going on: some sort of illness spreading among the 4400.
Shawn feeling and looking very ill.
Shawn: I know all about it.
Scene change: at home, Kyle reads about Marsden’s home being vandalized in the paper.
He visits the home. Alison exits and sees the flat tires on her car.
Alison to Kyle
Alison: You. Did you do this?
Kyle: No, no. It wasn’t me.
Alison: Then what are you doing here?
Kyle: I read about this place in the paper. I just—I was curious.
Alison: Yeah, well be curious somewhere else, because people still live here, okay?
She kneels down next to her car.
Kyle: Need some help?
Alison: What, are you a mechanic now?
Kyle: Well, I can change a tire.