4400: Pilot

"One minute I'm sitting there with Kyle on the beach, the next, it's three years later and I'm standing next to some mountain with a couple thousand strangers around me."

- Shawn Farrell

"Pilot" is the premiere episode of the television series The 4400. Directed by Yves Simoneau, it first aired on July 11th, 2004. The premise of the episode involves a group of 4,400 people who were abducted at various points in time by a strange, possibly extraterrestrial force and returned to Earth at the base of Mount Rainier in the year 2004. The returnees are quarantined for six weeks, but when they are released, they find that they have all developed fantastic superhuman abilities. The Department of Homeland Security teams NTAC agent Tom Baldwin with CDC field agent Diana Skouris to monitor the actions of the returnees who go on to become known as the 4400.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode has been made available on The 4400: The Complete Series and The 4400: The Complete First Season DVD collections.


 * Actors Joel Gretsch, Chad Faust and Michael Moriarity have also appeared in Taken, a television mini-series that likewise dealt with alien abduction.