I almost thought I was watching an episode of Lost when Tom and Alana, driving down a wooded highway, suddenly encounter a young girl. With a blank face. Obviously it is Maia trying to re-assert the memory of her life in their subconscious. But does she have to go about it in such a spooky fashion?
Pretty soon we end up with a dream-world threesome as Diana, Tom and Alana pool their memories in order to try and retrieve Maia from the timeline. Not a Good Idea. Instead of appearing in Diana’s apartment, they instead find themselves outside a judge’s chambers. The judge who ratified Diana’s adoption of a girl called Maia. Cue lightbulbs going on.
Marco meanwhile has done some historical sleuthing, and discovered that Maia died from smallpox on a wagon trek in the 1800s. The other kids who were erased along with her invented artificial petroleum and designed the technology used in the first moon colony, among others.
Diana ends up in a coma in ICU because she refuses to leave the dream world for fear of letting go of Maia forever, just when she has found her. Again. (It sort of makes sense in the long run, don’t worry.)
Tom meanwhile has the bright idea to tie a rope to his neck and thrown himself off a bridge. Just as he had hoped, he finds himself in the Future Room with the woman who claimed to be Maia’s sister, Sarah.
Sarah, of course, is played by the delicious Alice Krige, who has made a career out of playing weird femme fatales. Remember her fantastically gross heads-up entrance as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact?
The upshot of this is that whenever we Alice Krige on screen these days, we assume she’s the Bad Gal and liable to go off the deep end at any moment. But her role in The 4400 is strikingly normal. Or is this just a front?
Sarah gravely informs Tom that, apart from saving his neck (literally), she and her cohorts have failed in their grand experiment of ‘reseeding’ the timeline, and that a Great Evil is about to be unleashed upon humanity. Frankly, my neighbours deserve it.
If Tom decides to have Maia and the other kids returned to his timeline, a great sacrifice will be demanded of him – a sacrifice that he’ll probably not be prepared to make. (So why ask such a morally conflicted sod, I asked himself?)
All that Tom has to do in order for the world to live happily ever is to kill Isabelle …
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