What Is Real?

The 4400

If you have not seen USA’s The 4400 I suggest you rent it, or buy the first season on DVD (only $20). It is a great show although not as good as ABC’s Lost. Once you watch the five shows from last season, then you need to watch the season premier that came on last night. I believe last night’s show will re-run a few times before the next one airs.

If you did not see the show last night but plan on watching it you probably will not want to read anything below this point.

A major part of the season premier episode centered around a girl in a mental hospital who was taken. They (the abducters) planted plans into her head to build a large metal receiver (tower-like) structure out of scrap metal and satellites. Then they (the abducters) gave her ability to telepathically make other people want to build this tower for her. Part of the story revolved around the suspense as to whether this receiver tower would actually get finished. It finally gets finished just in the nick of time and is activated. All of this was suppose to do nothing more than cure another mental patient who was apparently a brilliant scientist before he want crazy. The part that I don’t understand is why they went through all of that trouble when they could have just taken the one patient they actually wanted to cure and fix him themselves.