Episode 1: The Pilot
The premise of the show is great, 4400 people who have disappeared between 1946 and the present day, suddenly reappear en masse. For each of the returning 4400, no time has passed at all. Now, let them loose back into the population, stir and you have a t.v. show. Plus, only five of the returnees had their story told, so, we could have 880 episodes of just the first bit of time back and we wouldn't even have to repeat a character. Considering that this season was only 5 episodes long, that's 126 seasons of the show right there.
Of course, that assumes that all of the characters are roughly the same when it comes to being interesting and what are the odds of that? Plus, they might actually follow one of the characters throughout their story.
Episode 2: The New and Improved Carl Morrissey
We're still following four of the five from the pilot episode, so much for my plan for how many shows they could get out of this concept. Does this also mean that each episode will have a new cast-member-of-the-week? And if so, are they all going to be redshirts?
We're following, Maya an eight year old clairvoyant who may or may not have had these tendencies before she was taken (maybe I'm reading too much into a scene with her in the pilot), we have Sean who is 17 and can heal with his touch, we have Lily a 30-something mom-to-be that has a baby who can take empathic readings of a place and convey them to Lily, and we have Richard who is a man in his mid-thirties and hasn't yet revealed his ability. The other two members of the 4400 that have been shown also have abilities. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the majority if not entirety of the 4400 have some kind of special power.
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