Tom's first opportunity to kill Isabelle comes relatively quickly, as it turns out she has already been captured by the time he gets to work. When he gets there, Diana asks if he is ready to get started, and we cut to a shot of Isabelle in an interrogation room with the needle right next to her. Ahhh, obviously this is just a dream sequence. When Tom wakes up, he's in bed. Isabelle at the office might be a dream, but when he checks his safe and sees that the needle is still there, he knows that he still has a job to do.

Now I know that it was a big deal with Tom discovering that a bunch of people he doesn't know want him to kill perhaps the most power being on earth, there was still the problem of Shawn and the razorblades he was using to cut himself open looking for a bug that he says somebody placed on him. He finally stops, and starts to wander around the center. I would think that there would be plenty of surveillance all around the center, and somebody would have noticed the leader of the movement walking around in his bathrobe with blood dripping down his arms, but I would be wrong. Instead, Shawn bumps into Maia, who was playing tag. Maia skins her knee, and Shawn is eager to help, but something is wrong. Shawn isn't healing her, but is instead killing her.

Security pulls Shawn off Maia in time, but obviously there is something wrong. Diana goes to visit Maia, but Tom goes with her, so maybe Richard called NTAC. Shawn's prognosis is not so good; he's having delusions and hearing voices. The doctor says that all the signs point to some sort of schizophrenia, but he's never seen such a rapid onset of symptoms and can't figure out what the cause could be. But just because the doctor might be a little behind the times when it comes to the 4400 doesn't every other person in the room is as naive. Tom, Richard, and Diana know that with such symptoms showing up so rapidly, there is a good chance that one of the 4400 is involved.

Richard tells Diana and Tom about Daniel Armand, and how he threatened Shawn, but there is no way that Diana is just letting Shawn go; she's even talking about assault charges. Complicating the situation is the fact that Isabelle has now found out about Shawn, and seeing how she almost killed her own father when he said she couldn't see Shawn, what is going to stop her from splitting Tom and Diana in two? Luckily, Richard still has at least a little bit of control of his daughter and tells her to calm down, and then tells Tom and Diana that they will send Shawn to a private hospital until things will clear up, and they can find out what is going on.

Another development from last week was Alana's new job at the 4400 center. I was wondering exactly how she was going to use her ability, but when they explained what her job was, it all made a lot of sense. One of the most difficult things about being a 4400 is the people that you leave behind. Young kids may come back to find that their parents aren't alive, and the adults might come back and find out that their husbands or wives are remarried and quite happy. Some come back and have new brothers and sister and stepparents they might have never met. Building those relationships takes time, but time is one thing Alana can give. She is able to take children who may have had a hard time adjusting, and create their fantasy world where they can learn to bond with people they never me.

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