As I said, it puts a nice little twist onto the whole human abduction theme that has been traveling through science fiction since forever. Since the season premiere was two hours long and there are a lot of intricacies in the story, I won't be able to give a traditional recap, because that would be about forty pages long. Instead, I'm going to try and make a quick run through this episode and try and connect what everything means as coherently as possible. By the time the second season is over, we might be all cut up and some of it may make sense.

Some time has passed since our last scene from the show, which had Richard and Lily driving somewhere into the Pacific Northwest in an attempt to save their baby from Jordan Collier (more on him later). Richard and Lily were both abducted, but about fifty years apart. The interesting thing is that, when he was abducted, Richard had a thing for Lily's grandmother. Although they never saw each other during their time away from earth, Richard and Lily almost instantly fell in love. For Lily, she found a perfect companion after her husband, who had remarried since she went missing, put a restraining order on her, even preventing Lily from seeing her own daughter. For Richard, it was a second chance at love, but also really the first chance. Richard is black, and during the time period when he was in love with Lily's grandmother, their relationship was so forbidden they never knew if they would ever have a chance to be together. Oh, did I mention that Lily was pregnant with some supernatural baby?

Like I said, they were on the run from Jordan Collier (played by Billy Campbell - this role was the reason for his ridiculous beard on The OC) another 4400 who was a real estate developer; and with his means, he envisioned bringing together the 4400 and protecting their community. Quite obviously he has some nefarious plans for world domination and he somehow thinks that Lily and Richard's baby is the key (we'll assume it is theirs since it is mulatto, but they didn't have sex while gone, so how can we be sure?). Therefore, Lily and Richard are trying to make their lives away from populated places where somebody could find them, and Jordan has plenty of people searching. This leaves them to live in places like cabins in the woods, and take jobs like car mechanic at the local garage. Their life is hard, but of course they care more about being together and all of that sappy shit.