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 d*ad 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.
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