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"The Ballad of Kevin and Tess"

Episode No.	Season 3 Episode 9
Writer(s)	Craig Sweeny, Ira Steven Behr
Story by
Director	Scott Peters
Special guest(s)
Production No.	309
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	July 30, 2006
DVD release
Episode Chronology
Previous Episode:	Blink
Next Episode:	The Starzl Mutation

The episode name The Ballad of Kevin and Tess refers to Kevin Burkhoff and Tess Doerner as Kevin goes through the transformation after his promicin injections and tries to force Diana to take promicin against her will. This episode saw Kevin become the first non-4400 to fully develop an ability.

1 Key Points
2 Synopsis
3 Podcast
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[edit] Key Points

Kevin is shot by Haspel Corp but escapes
Diana reveals that she's been helping Kevin
Tom and Diana search for Kevin and ask Tess Doerner whether she had seen him
While preparing for an interview, a rock legend collapses from a drug overdose. Shawn goes out and helps him.
Kevin and Tess run away together

[edit] Synopsis

A monstrous Kevin Burkhoff runs through a park being pursued by agents from Haspelcorp. Kevin's face and body are withered from his Promicin experiments.

The agents catch Kevin and take him to a warehouse to be interrogated. They question him about his research but are primarily concerned with whether or not he's been injecting anyone else with Promicin. Kevin swears that he's been working alone and only injected himself.

Satisfied that he is telling the truth, one of the agents pulls out a gun and shoots Kevin. But Kevin is able to use his regenerative abilities to heal himself and escape.

Back at NTAC, Diana's concerned because Kevin's missing. In order to find him, Diana is forced to reveal to Tom and NTAC that she's been helping Kevin with his Promicin experiment. Tom and Diana go to see Tess Doerner, a 4400 who was a patient with Kevin at Abendson Psychiatric Hospital.

Tess has made a nice life for herself since she was discharged from the hospital. But she claims she has not seen Kevin.

That night, Diana is in bed when she suddenly wakes up and goes to the front door. Tess is there. We learn that for some time Tess has been using her ability to bring Diana to Kevin so that he could give her injections of Promicin.

Kevin regrets doing all this without Diana's consent, but feels it's necessary for the sake of his experiment. Tom and NTAC eventually discover what Kevin is doing and are able to extract the Promicin from Diana's system before it's too late. However Kevin and Tess escape. And Kevin is able to shed his monstrous skin and come out looking like new.

Meanwhile, Shawn befriends a rock legend, Nick Crowley, after saving the musician from an overdose. Shawn, a long time Crowley fan, is excited to be invited into Nick's world. But when Nick uses Shawn's ability as an excuse to keep living a hard lifestyle, Shawn is forced to turn his back on the rock legend.

At the 4400 Center, Richard goes to Heather Tobey for help honing his telekinetic ability. He becomes uncomfortable during the session when Heather holds his hands to try and draw his ability out of him. And Isabelle, unbeknownst to anyone else, is revealed to be supplying Haspelcorp with a stock pile of Promicin.

[edit] Podcast

A podcast for this episode is free to download on the official website. It features Ira Steven Behr and Craig Sweeny.

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Episodes
Season One
Pilot \| The New and Improved Carl Morrissey \| Becoming \| Trial By Fire \| White Light
Season Two
Wake Up Call \| Voices Carry \| Weight of the World \| Suffer the Children \| As Fate Would Have It \| Life Interrupted \| Carrier \| Rebirth \| Hidden \| Lockdown \| The Fifth Page \| Mommy's Bosses
Season Three
The New World \| Being Tom Baldwin \| Gone \| Graduation Day \| The Home Front \| Blink \| The Ballad of Kevin and Tess \| The Starzl Mutation \| The Gospel According To Collier \| Terrible Swift Sword \| Fifty-Fifty
Season Four
The Wrath of Graham \| Fear Itself \| Audrey Parker's Come And Gone \| The Truth and Nothing But the Truth \| Try the Pie \| The Marked \| Till We Have Built Jerusalem \| No Exit \| Daddy's Little Girl \| One of Us \| Ghost in the Machine \| Tiny Machines \| The Great Leap Forward