“The 4400″ returns for its fourth season and it’s promising fans resolution–not only to last year’s season ending cliffhanger, but to some of the show’s bigger mythology questions.
Executive producer Ira Steven Behr, recently said this season will give us the answer to one of the biggest questions in the series’ run: Why exactly were people abducted in a big ball of light, only to be returned with superhuman abilities?
“What most excites me about this season is that we finally answer—or may answer, depending on your point of view—what it was all about, what ultimately it’s all about,” Behr said. “Most shows won’t do that and then still feel they have enough credence to continue on. But, you know, I think it’s a pretty cool outgrowth of what the original concept series was. And it always bugged me from the very beginning:
… Why did everyone come back?
… I wanted answers, you know?”
But first, the show will resolve the cliffhanger from last season, which saw Jordan Collier, played by Billy Campbell, handing out Promicin to the general population in an attempt to give everyone in the world 4400-like powers. The downside is the drug has a 50-50 chance of either working or killing the person using it.