Weight Of The World (The 4400 episode)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

09 – Weight Of The World
Writer	Scott Peters
Director	Oz Scott
Season	2
Transmission date	June 19, 2005
Preceded by	Voices Carry
Followed by	Suffer The Children
4400 of the week	Trent Appelbaum

"Weight Of The World" is an episode of the science fiction television series The 4400.

1 Plot synopsis
2 Plot
3 Significance
4 Cast
5 Featured music
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Plot synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

"Trent Appelbaum, a 4400, produces the ultimate fat burner in his liver, Tom and Diana discover that it is more than just a fat burner."

[edit] Plot

Trent, in intensive care.

Trent Appelbaum is a depressed salesman, struggling to compete in his job; his daughter comforts him until several men come into the café where his daughter works who Trent owes money to. Lily thinks she may be pregnant again when her period is late.

Two days later Trent has managed to get together $3,400 by selling his daughters car and television, when his “debt-collector” arrives he is different since Trent last saw him, he has lost a lot of weight, 75 pounds in two days. He now also wants his wife to loose weight and so he allows Appelbaum to keep his money, he has to however drink from a bottle so that the loan-sharks wife can drink from it to take his saliva into her body.

Chloe Granger cuts her tour short so as to attend the 4400 Center and achieves first key, she promises if she is lucky enough to tap into an ability to ensure the world a brighter future. The loanshark's wife looses 23 pounds practically over night; Tom and Diana go to see Trent. Richard, Lily and Isabelle arrive at Eric’s, Kyle achieves an A- on his paper, his teacher Wendy remarks that it was a good paper.

Richard and Lily get comfortable and Eric’s brother doesn’t make them very at home. April tries to get Diana to let Maia go to a tattoo shop with her. Devon questions Shawn about Chloe’s diet and Shawn remarks that he is sure Jordan will treat Chloe like any other student, Jordan has sex with Chloe.

The loan shark and his wife begin eating a lot of food. Shawn goes to Jordan’s and sees Chloe there and remarks Jordan can be very manipulative

Richard and Eric have a talk. Trent signs a contract, Chloe begins her “treatment” and Lily is sure she is not pregnant and wants to get back on the road and go to Salem, Diana receives a phone call offering $3,000 a year to hold Maia into a contract for her ability. Diana is proud of April for her talent which upsets April; Maia talks to a man and warns him to wear his helmet on his motorbike if he wants to make it to Monica’s.

Kyle attends a party and is then on the street with an alarm ringing in the background, a police car pulls up. Dmitri pulls up near Trent and slopes out of the car and tells Trent that his wife has starved to death and he is next and that Trent killed them both, Dimitri then collapses next to Trent.

Tom brings Kyle home and Tom is angry at him and wants to set ground rules and lay down the law, but something more important comes up when Tom receives a phone call.

Richard is picked up by Tara and they talk, until Tara’s husband interrupts and begins asking Richard questions rudely about how he was able to fly an aeroplane back in the 50s. Over a hundred people have had Trent’s tissue tested on them; Devon over-doses but survives when her stomach is successfully pumped. Richard is attacked by Tara’s husband, Elise drinks from one of Trent’s glasses taking in his saliva, hoping to loose 10 pounds. Richard and Lily talk during sun down. Trent’s liver will be harvested in hopes of developing a vaccine to counteract the weight loss, much like a smallpox vaccine; in return for his liver his daughter will receive a trust fund to fund her education.

Chloe leaves after she is threatened to be sued if she doesn’t return to her job, Shawn mouths off to Collier. Richard and Lily have to leave when David discovers that they where reported missing and he reports them to the government. Jordan reveals that Shawn will be the leader of the 4400 Center should he disappear.

Trent earns his “golden parachute” when the chemical he produced proves it may have more than one purpose. Tom gets around to talking to Kyle who withholds information from Tom.