The fourth season of
The 4400 premiered Sunday, and fans of the show tuned in as a new director of the National Threat Assessment Command (NTAC) was introduced and a high school student developed an ability after taking promicin.
When the current season of the sci-fi drama series was being filmed in May, executive producer Scott Peters took over the direction of an upcoming episode entitled “Till We Have Built Jerusalem.”
According to Zap2it.com, one of the scenes in the particular episode takes place in the NTAC’s “Theory Room,” where agents Tom Baldwin (
Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (
Jacqueline McKenzie), technical consultant Marco Pacella (Richard Kahan) and Diana’s adopted daughter Maia (
Conchita Campbell) are bound by their common goal to locate Jordan Collier, leader of
The 4400 center and the man responsible for distributing promicin around the world.
Collier, played by Billy Campbell, has been regarded by some of the characters in
The 4400 as a “messiah.” His initials also mirror that of Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, but Peters told Zap2it.com that the “name was a coincidence.”
However, given the title of the episode he has directed, Peters added, “I don't know how much more we could be hitting things on the head. But we may not. We may change it up.”
The serious tone of the show does not always reflect what goes on behind the camera. Gretsch said that he has difficulty keeping a straight face when doing scenes with Campbell.
When asked about Gretsch’s inability to keep from laughing, Campbell replied, “You know, I have no idea what it is. But something I do sets him off. I'm just not sure what it is.”
Gretsch also had something to say about his other co-star,
Chad Faust, who plays Kyle Baldwin on the show.
“When we do scenes together, we're always looking for those moments, where we're talking about people from the future and balls of light and stuff, but we're really saying, 'Where the hell have you been? You're still not listening to me. Why are you not obeying me? I'm worried about you….’ It's all those things that real dads and sons do, problems they have and joys that they have, that we always try to infuse in the scenes.”
In talking about what’s in store for his and Gretsch’s characters this season, Faust said, "the relationship between the characters of Tom and Kyle has gotten very complex this year. Once again, we find ourselves on opposite sides of a war, but now, it's more extreme. The war is heightened…But now, it's not so much about this action or that action, it's that I believe one thing, and he believes something totally else. But we both have somewhat of respect for what the other believes in, even though we get digs in here and there.”
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Zap2it
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