The 4400: No Exit
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- August
- 6
This week’s episode was really top-notch, focusing almost entirely on the show’s really important characters — Tom, Diana, Kyle, Maia, Shawn, Isabelle, Jordan, Marco and Meghan, plus Marco’s office-mates.
Anyone who doesn’t consider Marco a really important character on the show hasn’t been paying attention. Besides his former relationship with Diana, he’s the go-to guy whenever Tom and Diana need to figure anything out that a computer or some sort of programming can even remotely help with.
The power P.J. has developed by taking Promicin is to create a virtual game in the minds of all who are involved, once they’re all asleep. Only once everyone works together to achieve the necessary objective can everyone escape the game. It takes them a little while, but they finally figure out that the objective is to “kill” the NTAC building before it kills them all.
Meghan is the first to die, electrocuted by a door lock. Then the building turns on Shawn, shredding him with shards of glass from a window that explodes for no reason. P.J. himself is third in line, squashed by the door he must walk through in order to end the game before the objective is achieved.
What I especially liked about the episode was that, though I love Tom Baldwin’s character, he sees things as too black and white. He refuses to see any gray at all when it comes to the 4400s, despite his personal experiences with Shawn and others. He’s not evil black-and-white, but he just knows that it’s illegal to take promicin, so it’s bad of people to do it. He can’t emotionally understand the draw to taking it, because he’s so hard-wired to obey those who are his superiors. When he’s disobeyed orders in the past, it’s taken a toll on him.
I also liked that Isabelle and Maia and Isabelle and Shawn managed to come to some sort of detente. And even Tom and Jordan managed to at least begin to treat one another civilly. So P.J.’s power turned out to work pretty well, I guess.
Next week should be the really good one — “Daddy’s Little Girl” — with the return of Richard Tyler. Rumor is that this story arc could result in Isabelle once again being able to have promicin powers. I always liked Richard and I look forward to his return.
The other thing that interested me about next week was — did you catch it? — the flash in the preview of Tom and Meghan kissing, with her fondling his ear. The ear behind which he has the “mark.” Coincidence? That doesn’t exist in the world of The 4400.
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on Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 5:51 pm by Amy Vernon.
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