Casualties of War - 
by J-Unit
I hope that everybody took my advice and watched the marathon of The 4400 this weekend as well as the finale on Sunday. Granted, taking that advice would have been dificult, since I didn't actually have a post reminding anybody, but if you did take that advice, you were treated to a great finale. Jordan Collier was determined to stick it to the government, and the government, led by Ryland and backed by Isabelle, was determined to stick it to Collier and the rest of the 4400. And luckily, there were plenty of lives of innocent bystanders hanging in the balance.
Like any father, Tom is upset at the loss of his son, and we see him at the beginning of the episode rummaging through some of Kyle's things. Considering is doing the 4400 equivalent of selling bibles, I am not sure why Tom cares so much. And if he needs comfort, why doesn't he fall into the arms of his loving wife? She was gone a long time, so I am sure there is plenty of catching up that she wants to do. If your significant other had just come back after being gone a long time, wouldn't you be creative and find something better to do than smelling somebody else's old little league t-shirts? Sure he sort of joined a cult, but is it really worse than prison?
If there is anything that Tom should be afraid of, it's Jordan Collier with a warehouse of promicin. Collier's grand plan is to give this promicin away, but like any person wanting to sell a new drug, he has to think about a few important factors. No, I'm not talking about side effects and safety; I'm talking about marketing! Without marketing, your great idea could completely go to waste. Luckily, Collier is a master of marketing, and what better way to get your idea across than a viral video?
Collier's first volunteer, is our hottie head usher/tour guide Devon. Devon wants to be a 4400, always has, and she is more than happy to try out the promicin and be in Jordan's video. Although I should be well past the days where I would try something out just because I see a hot girl in an internet video saying it is OK, I admit that if Devon told me to jump off a bridge, I would probably do that too. Then again, I am not the only one. Only hours after the video was posted on the Internet, it had already been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. NTAC was doing their best to try and get it removed off of servers, it was already on YouTube and Bittorrent long enough that there was no chance in hell they could ever suppress it.
Although there is no proof Jordan Collier is involved, Devon was enough of a high profile figure at the 4400 center that Tom and Diana recognized her and decided to look for her. Devon wasn't at the center, and when they ask Collier, he denies that he has anything to do with it, even if he approves of everything that is happening. Diana and Tom then try and ask Shawn what is going on, but even Shawn isn't going to turn snitch this time. He is also in denial mode, and even gives his Uncle Tom the old "I thought we were on the same side" lecture.
And how is Ryland acting after all of this? You would think that he would be upset that all of that time and government money he invested would go to waste, but for some reason, he seemed like he had no problem whatsoever that Collier was giving away his promicin. Isabelle wanted to know how they could just stand there and let that happen, but Ryland insisted that by giving it out for free the 4400 will be "doing out job for us", which is kind of cryptic, but I'm guessing we'll figure out what he means before too long.
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