This starts on USA Network on Sunday 11th 9/8C. Apparently there have been trailers running this week. Anyone going to watch this?
4,400 random missing people reappear one day, years or even decades after they vanished. They returned physically unchanged but some of them have been affected in mysterious ways, and some have certain abilities, both good and bad. Each hasn't aged a day.
A large cast is headed by Peter Coyote (HBO's "Deadwood") and an Michael Moriarty (Law & Order). Coyote plays Dennis Ryland, head of the Washington state Department of Homeland Security.
Moriarty plays life insurance salesman Orson Bailey, who disappeared in 1979. He returns home to find his job gone and his wife in a nursing home. He can also crack a man's skull like an eggshell, simply by losing his temper.
Lead investigators Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie) resemble the Mulder-Scully team.
'The 4400' opens with little Maia Rutledge (Conchita Campbell) disappearing into a bright light from the sky during a family picnic on a rainy afternoon. The date is March 3, 1946, and Maia is 8 years old. She's also the first of the 4,400.
She's followed by a fighter pilot during the Korean War in 1951, Moriarty's insurance man in 1979, and a beer-swilling teen out with his cousin in 2001.
Not every reappearance is a happy one. They must deal with traumatic changes, driven by the mystery of what happened and why. Maia's parents are long dead. Lily Moore (Laura Allen) finds her husband remarried and her daughter unaware of her existence. Fighter pilot Richard Tyler (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) finds his St. Louis home gone, and a strict no-smoking policy at a local diner. Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger) is derided by his friends as a freak.
Richard Tyler saw a ball of light sailing towards Earth. But other abductees are left with no memory of their otherworldly experiences.
As the returnees achieve cult status around the country, the Homeland Security investigators can only wonder what's happening. "You have to admit, it's a nice round number," Skouris tells her partner. He replies "You mean if 3,781 people suddenly showed up that night, it wouldn't be as strange?"
I've read speculation that the "4400" is from the 'Book of Revelations'.
In Chapter 7, verse 4: "And I heard the number of those who were sealed; and it was a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel."
In Chapter 14, verse 1: "And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father..."
But, surely that is 1,4400 not 4400?
4,400 random missing people reappear one day, years or even decades after they vanished. They returned physically unchanged but some of them have been affected in mysterious ways, and some have certain abilities, both good and bad. Each hasn't aged a day.
A large cast is headed by Peter Coyote (HBO's "Deadwood") and an Michael Moriarty (Law & Order). Coyote plays Dennis Ryland, head of the Washington state Department of Homeland Security.
Moriarty plays life insurance salesman Orson Bailey, who disappeared in 1979. He returns home to find his job gone and his wife in a nursing home. He can also crack a man's skull like an eggshell, simply by losing his temper.
Lead investigators Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie) resemble the Mulder-Scully team.
'The 4400' opens with little Maia Rutledge (Conchita Campbell) disappearing into a bright light from the sky during a family picnic on a rainy afternoon. The date is March 3, 1946, and Maia is 8 years old. She's also the first of the 4,400.
She's followed by a fighter pilot during the Korean War in 1951, Moriarty's insurance man in 1979, and a beer-swilling teen out with his cousin in 2001.
Not every reappearance is a happy one. They must deal with traumatic changes, driven by the mystery of what happened and why. Maia's parents are long dead. Lily Moore (Laura Allen) finds her husband remarried and her daughter unaware of her existence. Fighter pilot Richard Tyler (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) finds his St. Louis home gone, and a strict no-smoking policy at a local diner. Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger) is derided by his friends as a freak.
Richard Tyler saw a ball of light sailing towards Earth. But other abductees are left with no memory of their otherworldly experiences.
As the returnees achieve cult status around the country, the Homeland Security investigators can only wonder what's happening. "You have to admit, it's a nice round number," Skouris tells her partner. He replies "You mean if 3,781 people suddenly showed up that night, it wouldn't be as strange?"
I've read speculation that the "4400" is from the 'Book of Revelations'.
In Chapter 7, verse 4: "And I heard the number of those who were sealed; and it was a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel."
In Chapter 14, verse 1: "And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father..."
But, surely that is 1,4400 not 4400?
