In the Line of Fire - 
by J-Unit
Although one could argue that the entire existence of The 4400 is for the purpose of throwing out a whole lot of questions that aren't necessarily going to be answered, the second season has come up with two big question marks in particular. Yes, there is the ongoing saga of Jordan Collier and just what his true motivations might be with the 4400 centers, not to mention that whole thing where Maia is predicting that Mommy's bosses will pay for betraying the 4400. However the real question marks, in my mind, start with Isabelle, Richard and Lily's cute, cuddly, and seemingly capable of serial murder at any whim baby. The other big question mark is Kyle Baldwin, the once-in-a-coma son of NTAC specialist Tom Baldwin, who channeled the future humans in order to tell us the purpose of the 4400, and recent victim of unexplained, random blackouts. In this last episode, we got a few more hints to the mysteries, but not a whole lot in terms of answers.
Since I didn't recap the last episode and want to get caught up at some point in time, you will have to have the one-paragraph version of events for the episode that I skipped. In short, Jordan tracks down Richard and Lily, but Isabelle has no problems with Jordan, so they decided to go back to the 4400 center. While that was going on, Kyle had another blackout, this time while his cousin Danny (older brother of Shawn and hater of all things alien, including Shawn, who tapped Danny's girlfriend last season, or so we think) was about to get into a fight with some meatheads. Diana and Tom spent their time trying to figure out why some parents accused a teacher of child abuse simply because she used her 4400 power to make them music and art prodigies. Got it? Sweet. I'll fill in more gaps as needed.
Jordan has always been obsessed with Isabelle. He believes that she is the key to the future. Now that she is back and she isn't, you know, warping his mind to kill himself with a shotgun, he enjoys talking to her, rolling her around in the stroller, etc., etc. And he has many happy thoughts on his mind, including the success of the 4400 centers, and the upcoming 4400 reunion. It was going to be just like old times, with as many of the 4400 coming back as possible, but we are assuming everybody is coming at their own free will and that there will be a lack of anal probes and/or memory loss.
As exciting as all of that is, Maia is here to rain on that parade. Maia is pretty darn accurate at her visions, and her latest vision was so scary that she woke up and had to tell her mom. "He's going to die!" and "he" == Jordan Collier.
I knew that they were looking to shake things up, but would they really kill off Jordan Collier? The 4400 movement is tied to him in so many ways, you wonder what would happen if he wasn't around any more. It seems like he has prepared a lot for his departure, with Shawn basically getting everything, but he is a powerful and charismatic figurehead.
Anyway, after Maia tells Diana, Diana has no choice but to tell her bosses, even though she has told people Maia is not having visions anymore. NTAC decides to tell Jordan, but they are met with a lot of resistance. I mean, it just sounds a little too convenient, no? "Well, uhhh, there's this girl, and, um, she, ahhh, can tell the future, and she like, said you were going to die. We want you to be safe so, ahhh, we thought that, like, maybe you should hide in a bunker, until, um, further notice? 'Time frame'? I don't know...forever?" Jordan really doesn't want to buy it because his indefinite detention would be of major use to NTAC as they see him as an agitator.
Even though he doesn't believe that NTAC would be creative enough to come up with such an elaborate scheme to get him detained, he brushes them off anyway, saying that he has plenty of his own security and that he isn't worried. Shawn isn't so sure. Although he admonished Jordan for having sex with that celebrity just to get some 4400 recognition and was bewildered at how anybody could become so attached to one person in the movement when he learned the assistant Devon had slept with him as well, you can see that Shawn also cultivates a lot of those dependencies, although we are pretty sure he is not sleeping with Collier in order to gain spirituality, despite what that Larry Ellison-meets-Karl Hungus beard Billy Campbell has been sporting tells us.
Kyle has his own problems though. Last time, he befriended a bunch of homeless kids, bought them a guitar, and accidentally used his powers on one of them when he was about to die. Now some people know his secret, and since Vancouver is too far away and Hilary Clinton isn't president, they know that the best chance at free health care lies with Shawn. One of the homeless kids, a young girl named Liv, who Shawn sort of was hot for even though she was already in a nice committed relationship (he always goes after the ones who are taken), begs him to help, but Shawn tells her that he can't help everybody, and if he could, it drains him anyway. She storms off, or actually, she probably just shuffled off, since she had some homeless and/or injured stragglers along for the ride, but you know she'll be back again.
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