Trivia For The 4400

• Because of it being the first major science-fiction miniseries since Steven Spielberg's "Taken" (2002), and because of its nearly opposite premise, it is jokingly renamed by sci-fans as "Put Back".
• The opening scene played at the beginning of each episode, which explains the premise of the series, is 44 seconds long.
• When the producers were conceiving of the series, the secret of who had abducted the 4400 was supposed to be revealed in the fifth season. USA had picked the show up as a miniseries and wanted it to have some resolution, so the secret was revealed in the fifth episode.
• The address of The 4400 Center, 6265 Crescent Road, is the same as The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
• Music included in this episode:
"Cheek to Cheek" by Billie Holiday
"Worry About You" by Ivy
"A Place In Time" by Amanda Abizaid )
• Theme Song

The show's theme song, A Place In Time was written by Robert Phillips & Tim Paruskewitz, and performed by Amanda Abizaid.

• 4400 featured

Maia Rutledge disappeared March 3, 1946 from Crescent City, California. She has the second sight ability of precognition.

Richard Tyler, an Air Force pilot, disappeared May 11, 1951 during the Korean War. Ability yet unknown.


Orson Bailey disappeared June 11th, 1979 from Tacoma, Washington. He has the ability to exert extreme telekinesis, usually resulting in minor earthquakes.

Shawn Farrell disappeared April 22, 2001 from Highland Beach near Seattle, Washington. He has the ability to heal people.
• Titan II missles are in fact no longer used by the US authorities, having been replaced by the Titan IIIs and Atlas class missles. Even if there were still used, it is debatable whether they could actually be used in the capacity refered to in the episode, regardless of how far away the target was from the earth.
• If we are to believe the comet is that far away, then the people standing on the streets should witness the explosion of the rockets about 1.3 seconds later than the calculations predict, because the light needs that time to travel from the moon to the earth. And, more importantly, there should not be any sound of the impacting rockets audible on earth
• Diana Skouris gives the projected location of the "comet" as "47 north longitude, 122, maybe 123 west latitude." This is impossible: latitude coordinates are north or south and longitude coordinates are east or west. The proper location would be 47 north latitude, 122 west longitude.
• As the comet streaks toward earth, the Chinese and US launch missiles at it, and we are presented with a near real time countdown. This would mean intercepting the object in the upper atmosphere, as the missiles were designed, but when we find the missiles failed to destroy it, we see it now passing by the moon, which even if the missiles were designed for outer space, would have taken much, much longer to intercept.
• The blood that comes out of Orson's nose onto the paper towel is too far from his nose to actually come from his nose.
• Look closely, the coffee pots that crack are digital, not real.
• This is the final episode to feature Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Brooke Nevin, and Peter Coyote, as Series regulars. They would later reprise their roles in future episodes as guest stars.

• When Tom is talking to Kyle in the white light, we can still seem them breathing in the light from the cold weather.
• Whose powers were working when Jordan touched Lily's baby? His or the child's? He seemed pretty confident that he would find them, yet he was a little groggy.
• Jung Pak disappeared September 30th 1956. He has gills on the upper portion of his back which likely will allow him to breathe underwater.

Tyler Downing disappeared January 9th, 1972. He has the ability to control electricity.

Philippa Bynes disappeared May 11th, 1994. She has the ability to generate a glowing light in the palm of her hands.

Daniel Armand disappeared July 20th, 1990. He has the ability to induce mental illness.
• Jeffrey Combs, who plays Dr. Burkoff in The 4400 played several characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Among them are the Vorta character Weyoun, Brunt (a not so beloved Ferengi), Tiron, Krem (another Ferengi), Kevin Mulkahey (a NYPD cop in the NY of the 50's when Ben Sisko lives a memory from the past in "Far Beyond the Stars"), and even played a holosuite guest in "What You Leave Behind". He also played the role of Penk (a Norcadian) on the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsukatse". And later on he played Thy'lek Shran, the Andorian Commander in Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Ian Tracey (Daniel Armand) appeared in both Taken and The 4400.

(He played Bill Walker in Taken ).
• Marco learns how he is going to die from Maia's diary.
• 4400's featured

Ryan Freel disappeared July 14th, 1982. Ability unknown.

Amy Paspalis disappeared July 23rd, 1999. Ability unknown

Duncan and Olivia Jermaine have the ability to move and control water.

Lindsey Hammond disappeared November 23rd, 1979. Ability unknown.
• Tom's address:

240 Parkside Avenue
Seattle
Washington
U.S.A
• 4400 featured:

Naomi Bondermann disappeared on Febuary 9th, 1992. She secretes a special oil from her hands; that causes people to have hallucinations of people from their past.
• We learn that Tom's dad has been dead for over nine years.
• This is the first episode where we see Kyle's ability. He creates Cassie, a figment of his imagination, to use for advice and guidance.
• Music featured:

Wolf Like Me by TV on The Radio
• Promicin positive featured:

Graham Holt, after taking a promicin shot, develops the ability of mind control. He uses his ability to make others worship him.
• Jordan can neutralize promicin only on those who have taken the promicin shot.
• The episode shows Jordan Collier's ability for the first time.
• The first appearance of Meghan Doyle, as the new head of NTAC.
• When Tom and the new director of NTAC drive away from the police who are under Graham's control, Tom backs into a parking garage security gate, but as he drives down the street away from the garage, there are no scratches of paint on the backside of his car.
• Promicin-positive characters appearing in this episode:

Unidentified adult male can produce fire from his hands.

Unidentified adult female either has telekinetic abilities or can manipulate gravity. Tom saw her using her ability to get apples from a tree.

Billy, a young boy, can produce a deafening shriek with his voice.

Unidentified adult African-American male can superheat metal, including weapons, making them too hot to handle.

Dalton, has sophisticated mechanical skills that enable him to make advanced technology, including a special tracking bracelet that was worn on Tom's wrist, as well as a machine that specifically extracts promicin from 4400s or those who've taken the shot.

Unidentified Caucasian male can induce intense headaches that can incapacitate a person or worse. He uses this ability if someone becomes violent or tries to attack him or others.

Shannon, a young adult female, is able to relieve others' anxieties simply by engaging them in conversation. After a session, a small green object or figurine appears that may seem to reprsent the subject's fears and anxieties.

Unknown resident of Evanston produces a special ingredient that can be placed in food, which enables those who eat it, to share one collective mind, telepathically communicating with each other, and seeing each others' memories in the process. Among the memories seen were those of Paul and Kathy, likely an elderly couple who became engaged 3 weeks after they met in their younger days.

• Unidentified adult male can mimic specific people's voices, whether male or female.

Warren Trask, an elderly male who took the promicin shot before suffering an anuerysm. A few months afterward, he exhibited the ability to infect and corrupt the Ubient software systems of Drew Imroth, who had stolen his ideas to make himself rich and ruin Trask in the process. He was eventually killed when Tom, being influenced by the Marked, caused a power outage that shut down Trask's life support systems.

Unseen resident of Promise City has the ability to modify DNA to recreate extinct species. So far he can only recreate insect species like the Xerces blue butterfly which had been extinct since 1941, but may eventually be able to move up to mammalian species as well.