White Light (The 4400 episode)

The 4400 episode
Title = White Light
Season = 1
Episode = 06
Airdate = August 8, 2004
Writer = Scott Peters
Director = Tim Hunter
Prev = Trial By Fire
Next = Wake Up Call
IMDb_id = 0502812"White Light" is an episode of the science fiction television series "The 4400".

Synopsis

Tom and Diana break Kyle out of quarantine and head to Highland Beach, where all is revealed.

Plot

Kyle is in the hospital. Diana takes Maia out for the day and Maia questions what’s normal; Diana replies that “normal people just wish they were special like you.”

Tom offers to help Kyle look for whatever he is looking for, but Agent Lytell takes Kyle into custody of the government. Kyle reveals to his mother he knows where he has to go.

Tom points a gun to Lytell's throat trying to find out where his son is. Shawn and Nikki contemplate revealing their relationship and telling Danny. Lily goes for a check-up and has to have some amniotic fluid taken, discovering that Lily’s baby carries the cell for sickle cell anaemia. Since the carrier gene of the disease is most commonly found in people of African origin, it's likely that one or both of the baby's parents are black. However, Lily concluded that the baby's father is black.

Tom and Linda plan Kyle’s escape and where they will take him. Lytell questions Maia while Richard goes to talk to Collier, requesting he back off. Maia reveals to Tom that Kyle is the answer to everything. Diana and Tom break in and get Kyle who reveals he needs to go to Highland Beach, the place where Shawn disappeared.

Collier reveals something shocking to Lily about Richard's past. Richard reveals the truth about what happened to Lily.

Shawn almost kills Danny when Danny attacks him. Shawn leaves a distraught Nikki, and asks Collier if he can stay at the complex. Richard and Lily try to leave, but Jordan tries to stop them and in the process is put through excruciating pain when he touches Lily's womb.

Kyle returns to Highland Beach and remarks that he belongs there. Ryland and Lytell join Tom, Diana and Kyle at Highland beach, but he arrives there too late: Kyle begins some sort of ritual and light breaks out of his body. Tom jumps in and they are both brought together at the place where the 4400 were returned.

“Kyle” reveals to Tom that Kyle was supposed to be a channel, a way to communicate, to guide in the dealings of the returnees, but something went wrong. Shawn interrupted the process and that was why Kyle was put in a coma. “Kyle” reveals that they are human and that they come from a different time, the future. “Kyle” reveals that in his time humanity is dying out and that only those they took can prevent the catastrophe that will happen. The path to oblivion will begin in the present.

Kyle is then shot by Lytell and Tom's vision ends. Kyle bursts into a flash of light and is healed, returned to normal.

Six months later, Lily is about to give birth.

Significance

In Season 4, Episode 2 a cult that has foreseen prophecies about Jordan Collier, Shawn, and Kyle is revealed as White Light.

Also this episode gives a foreshadowing to Kyle's ability which he gets later on in Season 4, since "Kyle" says that Kyle was suppose to be a guide it means that if he was taken instead of Shawn then Cassie, his ability, would have been around a lot earlier and his influence would have been totally different.

Cast

* Tom Baldwin — Joel Gretsch
* Diana Skouris — Jacqueline McKenzie
* Richard Tyler — Mahershalalhashbaz Ali
* Lily Moore — Laura Allen
* Shawn Farrell — Patrick Flueger
* Kyle Baldwin — Chad Faust
* Danny Farrell — Kaj-Erik Eriksen
* Nikki Hudson - Brooke Nevin
* Dennis Ryland — Peter Coyote; Guest stars
* Marco Pacella — Richard Kahan
* Jordan Collier — Billy Campbell

Featured music

* "It's Been a While" by Staind
* "Talk Shows on Mute" by Incubuscite web| url = http://www.usanetwork.com/series/the4400/theshow/songlist.html| title = Song List from The 4400| last = Lurie| first = Elliot| authorlink = Elliot Lurie| coauthors = "starmcharm013"]

References

External links

* [http://www.usanetwork.com/series/the4400/theshow/episodeguide/episodes/s1_whitelight "White Light"] at the official 4400 website provided by USA Network.
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* [http://www.the4400wiki.org/Episode:White_Light "White Light"] at The 4400 wiki.