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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 504
minutes Rating: Nr
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The fourth season may fall a little short of the three that preceded
it, but The Dead Zone remains one of the smartest, most
intriguing series on television. As its adherents well know by now,
the show, based on Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, was
adapted for TV by Michael and Shawn Piller, with actor Anthony
Michael Hall (who's also one of the producers) starring as Johnny
Smith, who recovered from a horrific car accident and resulting
six-year coma to find that his fiancee (Nicole deBoer) is now
married to the town sheriff (Chris Bruno), who's helping raise her
and Johnny's son. What's more, Johnny is now possessed of some
remarkable and unsettling powers: simply by touching another person,
or objects touched by others, Smith experiences visions that
illuminate events that have happened, will happen, or are
simultaneously taking place elsewhere. It must be handy to know
which elevator button to push when you're looking for someone who's
in trouble, or to realize that it's okay to jump off a hundred-foot
bridge because you've seen yourself surviving the fall, but Smith's
visions are rarely comforting and not always reliable, leading to
moments of genuine suspense and intrigue.
With eleven episodes (plus a "bonus episode" from December, 2005)
spread out over three discs, The Dead Zone is at its best
when dealing with the series' one ongoing storyline: i.e., the
machinations of Congressman Greg Stillson (Sean Patrick Flanery),
the dumb, arrogant puppet of sinister forces who aim to put him in
the White House, where, by accident or design, he may preside over
Armageddon, according to Smith's visions. Unfortunately, only three
Season Four episodes address that story, and they fail to advance it
much further; indeed, Episode 11, "Saved," serves mainly as a
cliffhanger for subsequent seasons. The remaining stories, in which
Johnny helps the cops pursue various psychopaths, perverts, missing
persons (including a Lennon-esque rock star presumed dead many years
before), and such, are good but considerably more pedestrian. Still,
while other shows may have cooler special effects, more action, and
larger doses of tension-relieving humor, The Dead Zone stands
out for its overall smarts and classy production values. Bonus
features include deleted scenes, audio commentary on a few episodes,
and a featurette focusing on production design. --Sam Graham
Season 4: 2005
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Title
Original airdate
45
"Broken
Circle (Part 2)"
June 12, 2005
Johnny from the future talks to Johnny through the cane head
and tries to get Johnny to let Rebecca kill Stillson. Johnny
learns that it was Stillson's father who murdered Rebecca's
sister, and needs to stop Rebecca before she kills Greg
Stillson.
46
"The
Collector"
June 19, 2005
A young homeless woman that Sarah works with is kidnapped
and held in a room where the kidnapper tries to realize his
fantasy of the perfect woman. A former abductee helps Johnny
and Walt find the missing woman, but then helps the
kidnapper escape. She wants to be his perfect woman.
47
"Double
Vision"
June 26, 2005
Alex Sinclair, a female psychic, tests, then helps Johnny. A
brain-dead boy leads her to his father, who wants to kill
the doctors and insurance agents involved with his son's
hospitalization. Johnny stops the man and saves the female
psychic when she goes into
anaphylactic shock.
48
"Still Life"
July 10, 2005
Johnny receives a painting in the mail and gets a vision of
the painting's model being killed. The daughter of a
renowned artist is jealous of her father's model, and tries
to kill her.
49
"Heroes &
Demons"
July 17, 2005
An
autistic boy travels across the state to get Johnny's
help in proving the innocence of his father, a former cop,
who is on death row. With the help of the boy's drawings,
Johnny proves that the real criminal is the cop's partner.
50
"The Last
Goodbye"
July 24, 2005
A famous musician thought dead for 20 years is alive. Johnny
and Sarah reunite him with his son, and catch the musician's
friend. The friend had killed the musician's girlfriend,
causing him to fake his own death.
51
"Grains of
Sand"
July 31, 2005
Johnny rescues a baby but is unable to save its' mother. The
baby's parents are illegal immigrants and Johnny must
reunite the baby with its father and save a group of Mexican
immigrants from unscrupulous
coyotes.
52
"Vanguard"
August 7, 2005
One of Johnny's former students is a scientist. Johnny helps
him in the lab and sees that a breakthrough is going to lead
to better
WMDs. The former student is horrified at this and
attempts to destroy his work. He succeeds (mostly), but is
killed by the secret organization that backs Stillson and
Purdy.
53
"Babble On"
August 14, 2005
Renovations at Johnny's home cause him to experience his
father's confinement to a
Psychiatric hospital. As a child, Johnny told his father
of a building collapse in the future, and people thought his
father was insane when he tried to stop it. In the present,
Johnny evacuates the building just in time.
54
"Coming
Home"
August 21, 2005
Sarah's father moves into a retirement home near her. She
and Johnny visit and Johnny gets a vision of dead bodies.
One of the home's workers is selling the bodies of residents
illegally. Also, Sarah reconnects with her father..
55
"Saved"
August 28, 2005
Stillson's girlfriend, Miranda Ellis, goes missing while
sailing with Stillson. Stillson asks Johnny to help find
her, and they work together. It turns out she's running away
from Stillson and Johnny tries to help her flee, but the
secret organization threatens Johnny's life, and she agrees
to marry Stillson.
56
"A Very
Dead Zone Christmas"
December 4, 2005
Alex Sinclair comes to visit Johnny for Christmas, and a
shared vision leads them to an amnesiac man dressed as Santa
being mugged. The muggers are children, and Johnny reunites
them with their father as they, Johnny's friends, and the
Santa celebrate Christmas. The Santa turns out to be a
famous actor.
