I know that Jordan Collier fancies himself a nouveau messiah, but you would think that after the last resurrection of the person with initials of JC people would have learned a few things. For instance, why not cut your hair? People have had a few thousand years to study this, so why must all resurrections begin with somebody who looks like a backup singer for Lynyrd Skynyrd? You can't blame the first JC for his look, but JC 2006 should know better. Who wants to go on the talk show circuit looking like they were homeless?

And by the way, I have another reason to strive for the life of a billionaire industrialist: you can go around telling everybody that civilization is on the verge of apocalypse, but instead of putting you in a mental institution, you get to do the talk show circuit. Haven't these folks learned anything? Jordan decided on the big media push because he wants to make sure that everybody knows that the 4400 are not a danger. When he first came back, he treated the 4400 center and all of the returnees as sort of this exclusive club. The 4400s were supposed to save the world, and only 4400s could save the world.

Nowadays, Jordan realizes that saving the world is a lot of work. He talks about the war of the future being fought in the past, but it's not about 4400s and non-4400s, it's all about good vs. evil. He says that many people have made sacrifices and more sacrifices will be necessary. What are they fighting for? Well, only the fate of mankind.

While all of this is going on, we cut to a shot of NTAC. It looks like everybody is slumped over their desks, and downstairs; it looks like all of the people in custody have escaped. Minutes later we see that the people in NTAC were sleeping, and haven't been harmed, but the loss of all of those prisoners really is troubling. Among them were several members of the NOVA group, and if they were killers before, what is going to stop them now? They obviously have a lot of scores to settle and Shawn, Dennis Ryland, Kyle, and Alana could all be targets.

As a courtesy, Tom and Diana visit Dennis Ryland to tell him that his life may be in danger, and offer their protection. Ryland is a jackass, but when he laughs at the thought of NTAC protecting him, he does have a point. When the NOVA group first tried to kill Ryland, NTAC was charged with protecting him, and the NOVA group still had a couple of pretty good attempts at his life. Besides, he now has his own security, but seriously, what kind of army does he have that will protect him from the NOVA group? Haspell might be a little more secure, but whoever beat NTAC security can get past a bunch of mercenary lackeys, don't you think? Well, if one of those mercenary lackeys were named Isabelle Tyler, I would have to give a slight edge to Dennis Ryland. While NTAC has a poor record against the NOVA group, Isabelle is batting a thousand.

As soon as Tom Isabelle, he told Shawn, and Shawn told Richard. Shawn and Richard have been struggling to figure out their roles after Collier's return, and while they were happy with the tough stance he took with Isabelle, Shawn didn't think that sending her away only to have her land in the hands of Haspell Corporation was going to help anybody. Richard, on the other hand, wasn't so sure. He said that he has always tried to see something good in Isabelle, and now thought that maybe he was just wasting his time. Even when she was a baby he gave her trouble, and he realizes that maybe that human part of her he has been looking for just never existed.

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