Carrier (The 4400 episode)
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"Carrier" is an episode of the science fiction
television series The 4400
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tries to understand his father's eight year relationship that occurred in seconds in the previous episode.
Diana
tries to find a way to stop NTAC from seizing Maia
’s diary, but “What NTAC wants, NTAC gets.” – Marco
offers to help by making coffee
for her.
Alana
talks to Kyle and assures him that she does not want to replace his mother and that she would just like to be a good friend to him.
At a café several people lay deceased against tables as if having suddenly died; the dead bodies and also dead birds also litter street outside, although one woman surrounds all the death, alive and shocked she wanders and runs away.
Matthew Ross attends the 4400 Center
to see Shawn
; on arrival he signs the legal documents surrounding a tired Shawn and notifies him and his secretary that he has booked an exclusive interview with 60 minutes. Matthew informs Shawn that if Jordan
was to ever die, that he was to step up to help him out.
At NTAC Nina
informs her staff that the FBI is heading the investigation into Collier's death, but that NTAC is still in the game.
April tries her luck at gambling
with scratch cards and asks Maia about her abilities to see into the future, April finishing her question is interrupted by Maia telling her “That one.” April purchases the scratch card Maia pointed to and scratches it off, discovering she is a winner.
Nina pulls Tom and Diana off the Collier case when a town in Oregon becomes the victim of a lethal and highly contagious virus, and tells them that all victims are accounted for, except a 4400, returnee #0188.
Jean DeLynn Baker hitches a ride to Seattle on a truck, intending to go to the 4400 Center, she tells the driver that she had woken up in a town full of dead people, and that she thinks she may have caused them all to die, the driver thinks she is making fun of his beliefs, Jean responds by telling him that she does not think that he is a freak and that she believes in everything he is saying.
Tom and Diana attend the village to where the outbreak occurred, learning that the virus dissipates within 30 to 40 minutes of being air born.
Shawn reads some of the letters he has been receiving pleading for his help in curing their loved ones, Shawn becomes distraught crumpling and chucking the letter on the floor.
Matthew Ross offers Lily
a job, though she is apprehensive, stating that she does not think she is qualified for the job.
Tom and Diana go to Jean DeLynn Baker’s home, Tom asks Marco to try and find a pattern, and the way that she thinks, Tom would like to beat her to way she is heading. Jean rings the 4400 Center
saying she needs help and she did not mean to kill them, the agent who answers her call asks her where she is and notifies Matthew Ross who tells her to get NTAC on the phone.
Maia experiments with make-up and April wins a bet she places thanks to Maia’s precognitive ability, April asks her for who to pick on the next bet, Maia asks April how much she is betting, April tells her the whole 200$USD, and asks her if she is getting anything, Maia asks April if she likes her, not for her ability but for who she is.
The man who was driving Jean DeLynn Baker is found dead at the wheel of his truck which has swerved off road. Jean begins reading and reciting the bible when her hotel window is smashed and a capsule is thrown in releasing tear gas into the room, several men in white Hazmat suits enter, Jean warns them to stop as she is scared and they start to itch when she is scared, both men die within seconds and on leaving the hotel room the man outside instantly drops dead, Jean enters a car with highly blistered hands.
Tom receives a phone call on his mobile phone while he and Diana are driving, on answer Jean speaks to him telling him she called them for help and they scared her. Tom attempts to get her to tell him where she is, she tells him she is going to end it before she kills anyone else.
Shawn reveals to Matthew he needs a vacation, Matthew tells him that he is ignoring his request, Shawn tells Matthew he is leaving anyway.
Tom notifies Marco that there men are dead; Marco tells him that the virus would need to be on a sub-atomic level to pass through the suit, Diana and Marco conclude that Jean releases spores when she is scared or angry, sending the virus air borne.
Lily visits Shawn after hearing about his intentions to leave for a while, and reveals an idea to Shawn, Lily would like to set up a foundation and hire staffs to read his letters and pick those that really need help.
Jean calls Tom again saying she could not go through with it, she tells him she knows where to go, and she has finally figured out what she needs to do “Purify humanity
.”
April shouts at Maia after she bets her mothers diamond ring and discovers Maia lied to her telling her the wrong team, and that she let her down.
Tom and Diana catch up with Jean; Tom tells her she does not have to let them turn her into a mass murderer, Jean tells Tom that it is to late, that her hands itch so bad, as Jean raises her hand a gun fires hitting her and killing her, Diana
pulled the trigger.
Marco reveals he has produced a forgery of Maia’s diary to get NTAC off her back, with Diana remarking its one of the nicest things anybody’s ever done for her.
Lily and Matthew meet up and Lily reveals to him she’s not a believer, Matthew reveals neither is he. Diana presents the forged diary to Nina.
Kyle has flashbacks regarding the shooting of Jordan Collier
, learning he killed him.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
television series The 4400
The 4400
The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie...
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Synopsis
A deadly woman threatens mankind when she discovers she is a walking plaguePandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic...
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Plot
KyleKyle Baldwin
Kyle Baldwin is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.- Season One:Kyle Baldwin is Tom and Linda Baldwin's son and Shawn Farrell's cousin. The two were drinking beer at Highland beach in 2001 when Shawn was abducted. After Shawn's abduction, Kyle is...
tries to understand his father's eight year relationship that occurred in seconds in the previous episode.
Diana
Diana Skouris
Diana Skouris is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.-Season One :Initially portrayed as somewhat cold and removed, Diana Skouris was partnered with Tom Baldwin in the pilot episode to investigate the 4400 returnees. She expresses displeasure at being...
tries to find a way to stop NTAC from seizing Maia
Maia Skouris
Maia Skouris is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction TV show The 4400.- Season One :...
’s diary, but “What NTAC wants, NTAC gets.” – Marco
Marco Pacella
Marco Pacella is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction The 4400.-Character:Marco is in charge of NTAC's theory room, and is the one who initially proposed that each 4400 has caused a "ripple effect"...
offers to help by making coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
for her.
Alana
Alana Mareva
Alana Mareva is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.- Background :Alana was born October 17, 1969, in Tahiti, and disappeared September 5, 2001, from Seattle, Wash. Prior to her abduction, her husband and only son Billy had been killed by a drunk driver...
talks to Kyle and assures him that she does not want to replace his mother and that she would just like to be a good friend to him.
At a café several people lay deceased against tables as if having suddenly died; the dead bodies and also dead birds also litter street outside, although one woman surrounds all the death, alive and shocked she wanders and runs away.
Matthew Ross attends the 4400 Center
4400 Center
The 4400 Center is a fictional building in the science fiction TV series The 4400. According to a postcard in the Season 3 episode "Gone", the fictional location of the center is 6265 Crescent Road, Seattle, WA...
to see Shawn
Shawn Farrell
Shawn Farrell is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.- Season One:Shawn was born December 12, 1983, and disappeared April 22, 2001 from Highland Beach near Seattle, Washington, while with his cousin Kyle Baldwin...
; on arrival he signs the legal documents surrounding a tired Shawn and notifies him and his secretary that he has booked an exclusive interview with 60 minutes. Matthew informs Shawn that if Jordan
Jordan Collier
Jordan Collier is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400. He is portrayed by American actor Billy Campbell.-Character Profile:...
was to ever die, that he was to step up to help him out.
At NTAC Nina
Nina Jarvis
Nina Jarvis is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.Nina became the director of NTAC in season two after succeeding Dennis Ryland; Ryland took his role back temporarily while Nina recovered from a gunshot wound...
informs her staff that the FBI is heading the investigation into Collier's death, but that NTAC is still in the game.
April tries her luck at gambling
Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...
with scratch cards and asks Maia about her abilities to see into the future, April finishing her question is interrupted by Maia telling her “That one.” April purchases the scratch card Maia pointed to and scratches it off, discovering she is a winner.
Nina pulls Tom and Diana off the Collier case when a town in Oregon becomes the victim of a lethal and highly contagious virus, and tells them that all victims are accounted for, except a 4400, returnee #0188.
Jean DeLynn Baker hitches a ride to Seattle on a truck, intending to go to the 4400 Center, she tells the driver that she had woken up in a town full of dead people, and that she thinks she may have caused them all to die, the driver thinks she is making fun of his beliefs, Jean responds by telling him that she does not think that he is a freak and that she believes in everything he is saying.
Tom and Diana attend the village to where the outbreak occurred, learning that the virus dissipates within 30 to 40 minutes of being air born.
Shawn reads some of the letters he has been receiving pleading for his help in curing their loved ones, Shawn becomes distraught crumpling and chucking the letter on the floor.
Matthew Ross offers Lily
Lily Tyler
Lily Tyler is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.- Background :...
a job, though she is apprehensive, stating that she does not think she is qualified for the job.
Tom and Diana go to Jean DeLynn Baker’s home, Tom asks Marco to try and find a pattern, and the way that she thinks, Tom would like to beat her to way she is heading. Jean rings the 4400 Center
4400 Center
The 4400 Center is a fictional building in the science fiction TV series The 4400. According to a postcard in the Season 3 episode "Gone", the fictional location of the center is 6265 Crescent Road, Seattle, WA...
saying she needs help and she did not mean to kill them, the agent who answers her call asks her where she is and notifies Matthew Ross who tells her to get NTAC on the phone.
Maia experiments with make-up and April wins a bet she places thanks to Maia’s precognitive ability, April asks her for who to pick on the next bet, Maia asks April how much she is betting, April tells her the whole 200$USD, and asks her if she is getting anything, Maia asks April if she likes her, not for her ability but for who she is.
The man who was driving Jean DeLynn Baker is found dead at the wheel of his truck which has swerved off road. Jean begins reading and reciting the bible when her hotel window is smashed and a capsule is thrown in releasing tear gas into the room, several men in white Hazmat suits enter, Jean warns them to stop as she is scared and they start to itch when she is scared, both men die within seconds and on leaving the hotel room the man outside instantly drops dead, Jean enters a car with highly blistered hands.
Tom receives a phone call on his mobile phone while he and Diana are driving, on answer Jean speaks to him telling him she called them for help and they scared her. Tom attempts to get her to tell him where she is, she tells him she is going to end it before she kills anyone else.
Shawn reveals to Matthew he needs a vacation, Matthew tells him that he is ignoring his request, Shawn tells Matthew he is leaving anyway.
Tom notifies Marco that there men are dead; Marco tells him that the virus would need to be on a sub-atomic level to pass through the suit, Diana and Marco conclude that Jean releases spores when she is scared or angry, sending the virus air borne.
Lily visits Shawn after hearing about his intentions to leave for a while, and reveals an idea to Shawn, Lily would like to set up a foundation and hire staffs to read his letters and pick those that really need help.
Jean calls Tom again saying she could not go through with it, she tells him she knows where to go, and she has finally figured out what she needs to do “Purify humanity
Human Race
Human Race refers to the Human species.Human race may also refer to:*The Human Race, 79th episode of YuYu Hakusho* Human Race Theatre Company of Dayton Ohio* Human Race Machine, a computer graphics device...
.”
April shouts at Maia after she bets her mothers diamond ring and discovers Maia lied to her telling her the wrong team, and that she let her down.
Tom and Diana catch up with Jean; Tom tells her she does not have to let them turn her into a mass murderer, Jean tells Tom that it is to late, that her hands itch so bad, as Jean raises her hand a gun fires hitting her and killing her, Diana
Diana Skouris
Diana Skouris is a fictional character in the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.-Season One :Initially portrayed as somewhat cold and removed, Diana Skouris was partnered with Tom Baldwin in the pilot episode to investigate the 4400 returnees. She expresses displeasure at being...
pulled the trigger.
Marco reveals he has produced a forgery of Maia’s diary to get NTAC off her back, with Diana remarking its one of the nicest things anybody’s ever done for her.
Lily and Matthew meet up and Lily reveals to him she’s not a believer, Matthew reveals neither is he. Diana presents the forged diary to Nina.
Kyle has flashbacks regarding the shooting of Jordan Collier
Jordan Collier
Jordan Collier is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400. He is portrayed by American actor Billy Campbell.-Character Profile:...
, learning he killed him.
External links
- "Carrier" at the official 4400 website provided by USA NetworkUSA NetworkUSA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...
. - "Carrier" at The 4400 wiki.