Episode:The Wrath of Graham
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"The Wrath of Graham"
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| Episode No. | Season 4 Episode 1 | |
| Writer(s) | Scott Peters and René Echevarria | |
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| Director | Ernest Dickerson | |
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| US airdate | June 17, 2007 | |
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| Previous Episode: | Fifty-Fifty | |
| Next Episode: | Fear Itself | |
The Wrath of Graham is the first episode of fourth season. The title is in reference to Graham Holt, a high school student with promicin induced abilities.
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[edit] Synopsis
In the episode, NTAC receives a new director, Meghan Doyle, who investigates a high school student named Graham Holt. Graham took a promicin injection and developed an ability that made people worship him like a god. Also, Tom visits Isabelle in prison, hoping to find out information on Alana's disappearance. Kyle meets a girl named Cassie, who helps him wake up Shawn from his coma. Jordan Collier is faced with the guilt of the increasing death toll from promicin injections. And Diana decides to leave Ben and Maia behind in Spain and return to Seattle to find her sister April, who took promicin. [1]
[edit] Plot
Jordan Collier has a dream where everyone gathers at the 4400 center. The world is healed and promicin has eliminated illness and war. While giving his speech, he describes that we have created "heaven on earth". His dream suddenly becomes dark and the notion that many people have died to promicin haunts him. A green, sticky substance which looks like promicin consumes Jordan just as he wakes up to Kevin Burkoff's voice. Jordan tells Kevin that he knows what kind of world he prevented, but doubts the world he created through the distribution of promicin to anybody. Next to him, on the bed, we see a newspaper with the headlines "Promicin Death Toll Predicted to Reach 6,000 by Year's End."
The scene changes to a high school student named Graham Holt, who has taken a promicin injection. It becomes clear that his ability causes others to worship him. NTAC agents Tom Baldwin and Agent Garrity go to Stevenson High to invesigate him, but when they try to arrest him, Holt's followers by surrounding the officers. NTAC later returns with soldiers, likely from the Washington National Guard, to suppress Holt, however, they end up succumbing to his ability.
Eventually, Holt proclaims himself "King of Seattle," and a message is aired on national television in which he summarizes the future of Seattle under him. Collier says that he must stop him, and Kevin says that he has Messiah envy. Collier replies, saying that he didn't give promicin away to everyone to "gather around a 16 year old boy."
Determined to stop Holt, Collier takes action. As Holt stands on the steps of city hall, his followers bring Jordan Collier to him. Collier tells Holt he has decided to surrender, and he kneels before Holt. Suddenly, however, Collier grabs Graham's face and drains the promicin from his body, revealing Collier's ability. Now powerless, Holt no longer has control over his followers, and the city returns to normal, thanks to Jordan Collier.
Meanwhile, in San Sebastian, Spain, Diana is napping under the sunset when Ben comes and kisses her. She wants more, but Maia enters in disgust. Diana explains that Maia will understand one day. Unable to contain herself, Maia tells the news that Diana got a job offer advising the European Union about "all things 4400." Diana says if she takes the job, they'll have to settle down. However, plans change when Diana returns to Seattle after hearing from Marco that April has received an illegal dose of promicin, and no one knows if she has taken the shot.
Shawn lays in a coma due to an unbalance in his promicin level. He is brought back to consciousness after Kyle bravely injected him with promicin at the advice of a young woman, Cassie Dunleavy, he encounters in a park.
The episode ends with a montage while listening to an Internet message from Jordan Collier about the Holt incident. Collier describes Holt as a clear example of what happens to promicin-induced abilities in the wrong hands. He refers Holt's siege "a scare," and tells everyone to expect many more before his mission is complete.
After visiting the Powell Museum, upon the advice of Isabelle, Tom finds Alana In Repose and realizes what has happened - Alana has been sent back to the distant past.
This was the first episode since Hidden to not feature Richard Tyler. It was also the first season premiere to be one hour long instead of two.
[edit] References
- ↑ Press Release for The Wrath of Graham, CBS Press Releases. (2007-06-05). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
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