Sci-Fi Sunday?

The USA network has proven it can compete with the Sci-Fi channel on nerd domination for the night. Sunday night is one of the few nights in summer that is crammed full of same-time-shows. I watch Six Feet Under, Family Guy and The 4400 all at 9p.m., then The Dead Zone.

The 4400:
A departure from their standard three plot episode. This episode focused solely on Agent Thomas "Tom" Baldwin of the new federal division agency of Homeland Security called NTAC (National Threat Assessment Command) it's purpose is to keep track of The 4400.

Agent Baldwin wake's up to a happy son and a hug, feeling on top of world he goes to work and receives greetings as if he just came back from a long absence. While talking about The 4400 to his partner Diana she calls him crazy and wonders what he was talking about. After coming home to a surprise party he also finds a surprise new wife. He can't convince anyone that this world is not real even though he sees flashes of a black door and doctors behind them experimenting.
He learns that he's not alone in his delusion his wife Alana also remembers the other world and tries to help him. A month passes and he has found no proof of the old world and grows closer to Alana. His family and friends are doing great and Collier isn't dead(although he's not seen) instead he's governor, Maia is a grandmother, Richard died in WWII and creepy baby Isabelle doesn't exist.
8 years pass and he has accepted his new life and fell in love with his wife. Suddenly he sees the black door again and this time goes through. The other side has his wife on the medical table explain what is going on. The lab is where the future people brought the 4400 to alter them including Alana, she has the power to create alternate realities without her will. She was purposely given this power to fall in love with Tom Baldwin and ground him. She gave him "Something to live for in the trials that you will soon face" is what the future people told him.
Yes, this is just like the Star Trek episode where Picard mentally lived a lifetime on a dying planet and got a free flute.
He tells his ignorant wife of what happened and she wishes away a chair into the corn field. Eventually they tell their fake family that they are going on vacation as she erases their reality. When Tom gets back to the real world he has not even been gone one second. He sees Alana and she remembers everything too and they walk off together into the sunset.

The whole storyline further proved my point that the entire family was chosen for a reason not just the young ones. Shawn is one of them, Tom is one of us and Kyle is something else.

The Dead Zone:
Also slightly different format this episode is narrated like a fairy tale. An autistic boy travels to Johnny Smiths house to save his father. The boys father is a cop convicted of drug theiving and murder and was sentenced to death. When Johnny searches the boys memories he sees the night of the murder and some M&M commercials. It finally gets proven that a bunch of bad cops set him up including one guy named Boris CUJO, c'mon people more subtle Stephen King references. The father is freed from prison and gets a little hand touching action from his son.
This episode is better then last week's and even better then I make it sound.

Sidenote:Those great USA commercials continue with some from Monk I haven't seen before.