“Life Interrupted” is episode seven of season two of The 4400.
Tom comes downstairs and Kyle wishes him luck. He’ll be thinking about him and will call to see how it goes. Which seems a bit over the top. Though the applause that Tom gets when he arrives at NTAC is even more so. Jarvis welcomes him back and Diana is glad to see him. They’re going to take Doherty down. Diana asks if Doherty has something to do with Jordan Collier’s murder in the previous episode, “As Fate Would Have It”. Diana says that Governor Collier isn’t dead. Nor does she seem to know what the 4400 are and says he sounds delusional. He thinks she’s joking. She doesn’t look to be.
A convoy is heading out from NTAC and Tom asks Diana what, according to her, he’s been doing for the last year. Dirty bombs; Tom’s cased. Tom infiltrated a terror cell but was compromised and tortured for three weeks. He would have been killed if he hadn’t escaped. The courier, Doherty, sold him out. Tom has been on medical leave for two months recovering. Which Diana thinks should have been three.
They arrive at The 4400 Centre, but it’s the Collier Museum of Contemporary Art. Inside, they’re looking for Doherty and Tom sees him head into a room. One with a strange black door and a window, allowing him to see what looks like some sort of operating theatre. When Diana joins him, the door is normal. Doherty is arrested.
Back at NTAC, Tom can’t find his files on the 4400 or any mention of them. Because it never happened, according to Diana. Tom decides to check on the people who were taken. Except they weren’t. He finds an address for Maia in Seattle and heads there. Maia answers the door. Except it isn’t Maia; Maia is her grandmother.
Returning home, it turns out Kyle was never in a coma. Danny, Shawn and Nikki are there; Danny and Nikki are getting married and Shawn is in a band. Tom decides this can’t be a joke. His sister arrives; she was speaking to Tom’s wife. No, not Linda, his ex. Alana. Who Tom doesn’t recognise. They’ve been married three years.
Tom returns to the museum to the store room which had a strange door. The door is still normal. Diana finds him there. He wonders if he’s insane; she says he just needs rest. She’ll help him. And sedates him.
Tom is on a bed being spoken to by a shrink when Diana enters and says Tom’s wife wants to speak to him. Alana tells Tom he has to play along. She needs him out of there so they can figure out what’s going on. Yesterday was the first time she met him. She does know about the 4400; she is one.
72 hours later and tom is released from his psych hold, with medical leave extended for six weeks. He meets Alana outside and they head home to try and work out what’s going on. There, Tom wonders if it’s an alternate dimension. He knows that sounds insane. Alana says impossible. Tom says that impossible isn’t what he used to be. He wonders if she’s doing this. Alana asks why she’d put herself in his life if she was. Her own has been erased. Tom questions that.
Alana shows him the art gallery she bought a few months before being abducted. Someone else has owned it for years. She takes him to see a bench in a park, one that’s dedicated to a dog. It was dedicated to her son and husband. They died in a car accident shortly before her abduction. Tom reassures her they’ll find a way back home.
Until then, they need to at least act as if they’re married. Tom suggests taking out adverts to see if anyone else knows about the 4400. That fails miserably. Tom still sees the strange door and chamber behind it. But as they years pass – because this life takes up years – it stops appearing. There is clearly something 4400-related going on, but what and why?