The 4400: Life, Interrupted
In the strangest 4400 Episode yet, Tom Baldwin wakes in an alternate reality where no one has ever heard of the 4400 and he has just returned to work after a traumatic hostage situation. C’mon, even the people who haven’t watched the show have heard of the 4400!!!!
Baldwin discovers a strange door in the Jordan Collier (his governor here) Museum of Fine Arts that no one else can see, but that appears to showcase a body on table beneath a white sheet. Captured by Diana and NTAC, Baldwin is encouraged by his ‘wife,’ Alana Mareva (Karina Lombard), to stop talking about the 4400 so that NTAC will let him go. Once they are clear of security, she tells him that she knows she is not his wife, that she is of the 4400, and that they must be in an alternate universe.
Eight-plus years later, Baldwin marries Alana but sees the door again. She begs him to let go of the door because they have stability in their alternate life and success continues to find them there. Baldwin ends up going through the door, regardless of how it will effect his present life—and ends up conversing with those who sent the 4400 (but only through the body of Alana).
The alternate universe is a creation of Alana’s mind where everything is perfect and the relationship is the 4400’s agenda. The future people know that trauma is about to impact Baldwin’s real-world life and that he needed someone he could count on, so they ‘gave’ him Alana. When he asks what if he doesn’t want to leave, but would stay in the easy, perfect world? The future people reply: then they picked the wrong man.
Anyone who has been watching the show KNOWS (gut feeling!) that Baldwin will make the right choice and go back. Faced with the easy, comfortable road, how many of us would choose to take the harder road? The path to a deeper, fuller life never runs through an easy pool but rather a whirling river. Whatever the agenda of the 4400, Baldwin keeps rising to the occasion.
Baldwin discovers a strange door in the Jordan Collier (his governor here) Museum of Fine Arts that no one else can see, but that appears to showcase a body on table beneath a white sheet. Captured by Diana and NTAC, Baldwin is encouraged by his ‘wife,’ Alana Mareva (Karina Lombard), to stop talking about the 4400 so that NTAC will let him go. Once they are clear of security, she tells him that she knows she is not his wife, that she is of the 4400, and that they must be in an alternate universe.
Eight-plus years later, Baldwin marries Alana but sees the door again. She begs him to let go of the door because they have stability in their alternate life and success continues to find them there. Baldwin ends up going through the door, regardless of how it will effect his present life—and ends up conversing with those who sent the 4400 (but only through the body of Alana).
The alternate universe is a creation of Alana’s mind where everything is perfect and the relationship is the 4400’s agenda. The future people know that trauma is about to impact Baldwin’s real-world life and that he needed someone he could count on, so they ‘gave’ him Alana. When he asks what if he doesn’t want to leave, but would stay in the easy, perfect world? The future people reply: then they picked the wrong man.
Anyone who has been watching the show KNOWS (gut feeling!) that Baldwin will make the right choice and go back. Faced with the easy, comfortable road, how many of us would choose to take the harder road? The path to a deeper, fuller life never runs through an easy pool but rather a whirling river. Whatever the agenda of the 4400, Baldwin keeps rising to the occasion.
REVIEWS
—The 4400: Life, Interrupted (on blog)
— The 4400: As Fate Would Have It (on blog)
—The 4400: Suffer the Children (on blog) ok
—The 4400: The Weight of the World (on blog)
—The 4400: Voices Carry (on blog)
—The 4400: Season 2, Wake Up Call (on blog)
—The 4400: Season One (on blog)
2 Comments:
For God's sake tell us how it ends!
SPOILER! If you mean the Life, Interrupted episode-- it leaves Baldwin with a new 'friend' in Alana, back in his initial reality. If you mean the whole series...if I only knew...! thanks for writing.
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