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Returning home, Alana and Tom decide that they are going to put ads in major newspapers asking people if they remember the 4400 and to get in touch if they have. This is a good strategy, but in a couple of weeks when they get an answer, the guy who remembers the 4400 is talking about a classic automobile and not people returned from future humans. Having met at the Museum/4400 center, Tom once again looks for the door and goes in. He sees a surgery table, but just before he is able to see who is having surgery, Alana interrupts him before he can get any answers. Tom knows that the answers lie within that door, so he basically camps out in front of it for a while.

The security at the museum think it is strange that Tom is spending all of his time there, so they let NTAC know and Diana comes by once again. She doesn't tranquilize him, but she does try to reason with him, and you have to admit, her reasoning is pretty good. What is so bad about this reality? His son is in med school, his nephew is not in a cult, he has a gorgeous wife (a brunette with an accent - the perfect woman, no?), and this universe is not in any danger from being destroyed.

Tom leaves and goes back to his house. Alana is looking at pictures and she wonders why whoever placed them there decided that they shouldn't have any old memories. Now, this wasn't that strange of an occurrence, but during this time, they got to talking and we found out that Alana is from Tahiti. Hearing that, Tom says that he and his first wife thought about going there for their honeymoon, but they decided on Haiti. Uh, Haiti? What was it that turned him on to Haiti? The shantytowns? The gangs? The rampant poverty? I know that a lot of these Caribbean islands are very poor outside of the resort locations that people frequent, but Haiti? What was his second choice? East Timor? Nablus? Darfur?

Strange honeymoon choices aside, Tom and Alana decide that there is nothing that they can do except create new memories and try and have a happy life. They had been sleeping in the same bed to keep up appearances of a married couple, but they finally consummated their relationship that night.

We all know that one evening of good sex means that two people will have a wonderful life together, and that is what happens with Tom and Alana. Fast forward eight years later to what would be their tenth anniversary, and they decide to renew their vows. This type of ceremony is usually one that I loathe, but they literally didn't remember any of their first wedding, so I won't complain. Everybody is so happy, even Diana decides to change her hairstyle, and it appears the Chen helmet has really caught on in 2013.

Things keep getting better for the couple. Tom finds out that they want him to be the director of NTAC, and since most of his craziness was after he had been tortured in the line of duty, most of those transgressions could be overlooked in front of any Senate sub-committee. Alana learns that she has asked to be on the board of trustees of that famous art museum. There is a benefit dinner, and the power couple decide to attend.

Once there, Tom is once again attracted to that door. He sees it, but before he can go in, Alana finds him. They have built so many good memories, why try and destroy them with what is behind that door. He decides she is right, but after he has a nightmare about Kyle, who is being apprehended by the police and has blood all over him, he goes back to the door. This time, he goes in, and there is nobody around to stop him from looking at who is underneath the cloth on the surgeon's table.

When he lifts it up, it is Alana, or at least a representation of Alana. What he is seeing is the place from the future where all of the 4400 were changed. Tom had always wondered if Alana was involved with the alternate reality, and it looks like he was right, sort of. Alana was creating the alternate reality, but she didn't know it. The 4400 wanted her to do it, wanted her and Tom to make a connection, because in the real world, he was going to need a support system for the difficult times ahead. When he goes back to the real world, he and Alana will remember all that happened in this one. He'll have a loved one who has spent eight years with, even though only moments have passed in the reality he previously thought was correct.

How to get back? He has to convince Alana that she is creating everything, and convince her to take everything away. But Tom is starting to wonder why he would want it changed. He does like this reality. He loves Alana, and the way things are. Why change? Well, as Alana says (the future human-controlled Alana in the strange room), if he doesn't, then they have picked the wrong person to save mankind. Well, that's the gist of it at least.

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Posted by J-Unit on July 24, 2005 12:56 AM