| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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"Unaired Pilot" |
Not aired |
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| 1 |
"Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)" |
June 16, 2002 |
| John Smith wakes up after six years in a coma. He then finds that he can sense the past and future of the objects and people that he touches. His ex-fiancee is married to the local sheriff, and he has a six year old son who knows nothing about him. |
| 2 |
"What It Seems (Part 2)" |
June 23, 2002 |
| John has a vision of a man in rubber boots outside a woman's window. He teams up with his ex-fiance's husband, the sheriff, to catch the man in rubber boots, a serial murderer who is also the sheriffs deputy. |
| 3 |
"Quality of Life" |
June 30, 2002 |
| Johny goes back to the school he taught at before his coma, and is hired as a hockey coach. He has a vision about his star players malformed heart, and takes him out of the game and saves his life. The townspeople are unaware of the medical problem, and believe he cost the team their shot at a championship, costing John his job. |
| 4 |
"Enigma" |
July 7, 2002 |
| John helps an old man find a lost love from the WWII era. He relives the man's friend's affair with the woman, before reuniting them. |
| 5 |
"Unreasonable Doubt" |
July 14, 2002 |
| Johnny is called in for jury duty, and uses his abilities to save the man from an unjust conviction. |
| 6 |
"The House" |
July 21, 2002 |
| Johnny sees visions in his house about his mother, making it seem Rev. Purdy has murdered her. It turns out the reverend has covered up John's mother's suicide; she killed herself because John was in a coma. |
| 7 |
"Enemy Mind" |
July 28, 2002 |
| John is exposed to a large dose of ketamine while trying to save a run-away's life. He must deal with drug laced visions as a drug dealing rival of the girl's boyfriend tries to kill her. |
| 8 |
"Netherworld" |
August 4, 2002 |
| Johnny is trapped in a vision where he is married to Sarah and they have two children. It turns out the vision shows him how his life would have been had he hadn't suffered the six-year long coma that activated his abilities, and at the same time, is warning him of an explosion at the local mall. |
| 9 |
"The Siege" |
August 11, 2002 |
| Sarah enters a bank, and the bank's electrician proceeds to rob the bank. Johnny enters and must find the correct resolution, where each action seemingly leads to a bad ending. |
| 10 |
"Here There Be Monsters" |
August 18, 2002 |
| Johnny has a vision of a ritual sacrifice while visiting Hobb's Landing. He is tried as a witch, and the townspeople attempt to burn him at the stake. He is saved when it turns out one of the daughters is still alive and the killer is their mentally disturbed mother. |
| 11 |
"Dinner With Dana" |
August 25, 2002 |
| Dana and Johnny go on a date/interview. This leads to awkward lovemaking where everyone Johnny knows is in the bedroom with them. Meanwhile Dana's abusive ex lover attempts to kill her, and Johnny and Walt must stop him. |
| 12 |
"Shaman" |
September 8, 2002 |
| Johnny investigates a meteor and becomes trapped in a cave overnight. He communicates with a Native American hundreds of years in the past, and helps him save his tribe from the meteor. |
| 13 |
"Destiny" |
September 15, 2002 |
| Greg Stillson is running for the United States Congress, and Johnny realizes his awakening from the coma has something to do with the politician. Johnny meets him through the Faith Heritage Foundation and experiences an apocalyptic vision when he shakes Stillson's hand. |
| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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| 1 |
"Valley of the Shadow" |
January 5, 2003 |
| Johnny continues to investigate Stillson's connection with the coming apocalypse. Meanwhile, he and Walt investigate the kidnapping of the child of a tech executive. The kidnapper is testing Johnny's abilities. |
| 2 |
"Descent (Part 1)" |
January 12, 2003 |
| A group of teenagers become stuck in an abandoned mine. Walt and Johnny rescue them, but Walt is seriously injured and taken away in an ambulance. |
| 3 |
"Ascent (Part 2)" |
January 19, 2003 |
| Walt is in a coma, and when Johnny touches him he is able to join Walt in his mind. He must convince Walt that he wants to live, and keep him away from the light. Walt's love for Sarah is the key. |
| 4 |
"The Outsider" |
February 2, 2003 |
| Johnny is watching a commercial for a beauty aid when he receives a vision of it causing numerous birth defects in the future. He must help two scientists fall in love in order to prove the product's dangerousness. |
| 5 |
"Precipitate" |
February 9, 2003 |
| Johnny receives a blood transfusion and starts experiencing the lives of six blood donors, including a homeless man. Johnny must figure out which one is about to be killed and stop it. |
| 6 |
"Scars" |
February 16, 2003 |
| Johnny shakes the hand of Stillsons's congressional opponent and learns he was involved in atrocities in Vietnam. Johnny wrestles with taking down Stillson and doing the right thing. In the end, Stillson's opponent confesses of his own accord. |
| 7 |
"Misbegotten" |
February 23, 2003 |
| Johnny is kidnapped by three women making a documentary. They are investigating the murder of a family twenty years prior. One of the women turns out to be a man and the lone survivor of the incident. Johnny must stop her before she kills again. |
| 8 |
"Cabin Pressure" |
March 2, 2003 |
| Johnny is on flight with Rev. Purdy when he has a vision of the plane going down. The pilots think he's crazy, and Johnny must convince them to listen to him to save the plane. |
| 9 |
"The Man Who Never Was" |
March 9, 2003 |
| Johnny helps a former spy, whom the government wants to make disappear. |
| 10 |
"Dead Men Tell Tales" |
March 16, 2003 |
| Johnny becomes involved with the mob, when he warns a mob boss of his impending death. He becomes interested in the boss's girl because of her connection to Stillson, and then helps her escape the mob's clutches. |
| 11 |
"Playing God" |
March 30, 2003 |
| An old high school friend of Johnny's visits. He is dying of heart problems and the only way Johnny can save him is if he lets the man's sister die and become a donor. Johnny must choose whom to save. |
| 12 |
"Zion" |
April 6, 2003 |
| Bruce and Johnny go to Bruce's father's funeral. Bruce experiences a vision when Johnny touches him, and experiences what his life would have been like if he'd stayed a preacher in his father's church. |
| 13 |
"The Storm" |
July 6, 2003 |
| Bruce is taking Johnny to an intervention; Johnny's fear of leaving his house and touching people has made him a shut in. On the way, Johnny must save strangers and friends from a tornado that seems to be following him. Johnny confronts the storm, telling it he will again use his abilities to help people, and the storm ends. |
| 14 |
"Plague" |
July 13, 2003 |
| Johnny has a vision of a plague that starts with the children at a science fair. He and Walt must convince a skeptical health inspector and the CDC of his abilities to save everyone. He looks into the future and sees the cure weeks before its discovery. |
| 15 |
"Deja Voodoo" |
July 20, 2003 |
| Johnny meets a woman (Reiko Aylesworth) in a bar and has a vision of them kissing. It turns out men are trying to kill her, and Johnny must repeat their meeting several times in order to save her. In one timeline they make love, but in the end he tells her to marry her fiancee. |
| 16 |
"The Hunt" |
July 27, 2003 |
| Johnny assists the government in an anti terrorist operation. His visions lead a team of soldiers into a trap, and Johnny helps them escape a deadly firefight. |
| 17 |
"The Mountain" |
August 3, 2003 |
| Johnny is hiking with Sarah's family in order to bond with J.J. when he experiences a vision of a plane crash. They go looking for it, along with a park ranger and a local couple. These people have brought guns, and kidnap the protagonists. They are looking for treasure that was aboard the plane, and Johnny must find a future where he and Sarah's family survive. |
| 18 |
"The Combination" |
August 10, 2003 |
| Johnny has a vision of a boxer dying in the ring. His prediction shakes the boxer's confidence, but he won't stop the fight. Johnny must then lie and tell the boxer he'll win so the boxer will have the confidence to change his future. |
| 19 |
"Visions" |
August 17, 2003 |
| Johnny is met in a shared vision by another post comatosed patient who also have visions. The other person being from the post apocalyptical future, wanting Johnny to help save his family. |
| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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| 1 |
"Finding Rachel (Part 1)" |
June 6, 2004 |
| Johnny has a vision of Rachel Caldwell, a Stillson campaign worker, being killed. He goes to meet her, but finds himself two hours later with no memory of the meeting. Walt must arrest him for the murder. |
| 2 |
"Finding Rachel (Part 2)" |
June 13, 2004 |
| Johnny works to find the real killer. He must convince Rebecca Caldwell (Sarah Wynter), the victim's sister that he is innocent. In the end, one of Rev. Purdy's workers seemingly commits suicide and confesses to the murder. |
| 3 |
"Collision" |
June 20, 2004 |
| Johnny has visions of the car accident that put him in a coma, but a present day girl appears in them. She's stowed away in her father's trunk, and Johnny and Rebecca must find the auto accident before the car burns. |
| 4 |
"Cold Hard Truth" |
June 27, 2004 |
| A shock jock (Richard Lewis) makes disparaging comments on the air about Johnny and Sarah. Johnny confronts him, but must then save him from a vision of falling off a building. J.J. is told that Johnny is his father. |
| 5 |
"Total Awareness" |
July 4, 2004 |
| The government agency (Argon) that Johnny worked for in season 2 is after a girl who seeks Johnny's help. Argon attempts to kill both of them to silence their killing of a senator, but Johnny gets the info to the media. |
| 6 |
"No Questions Asked" |
July 18, 2004 |
| Johnny learns about Walt's childhood friends, when one is released from prison. Walt's friend takes Walt's gun, and Johnny and Walt must stop him before he gets hurt or hurts someone. |
| 7 |
"Looking Glass" |
July 25, 2004 |
| A man touches Johnny at the mall and he has vision of men wearing masks killing a young woman. It turns to be a staged hoax by twin brothers at the local law school. They debunk Johnny's abilities, but then one of the twins actually kills the girl, exactly as Johnny predicted it. |
| 8 |
"Speak Now" |
August 1, 2004 |
| Johnny accompanies Sarah to a wedding and has a vision of objecting to the marriage. The bride's dead husband is alive, and Johnny, Sarah and Walt must decide what to do in a situation similar to the one involving Johnny's coma and Sarah's marriage to Walt. |
| 9 |
"Cycle of Violence" |
August 8, 2004 |
| Johnny has a vision of a school shooting. It turns out to be years in the future, and Johnny prevents the molestation that causes it. The principal's draconian measures to prevent it causes a security guard to kill a troubled, but innocent student. |
| 10 |
"Instinct" |
August 15, 2004 |
| All the animals are acting violently, attacking the townspeople. Johnny finds out it's Rev. Purdy's influence that causes a dam to be filled to capacity, and the dam's breaking is what causes it. |
| 11 |
"Shadows" |
August 22, 2004 |
| Johnny has a vision of himself killing a man. Johnny stops the man from killing Bruce and setting Johnny off, but Johnny begins to doubt himself. |
| 12 |
"Tipping Point (Part 1)" |
August 22, 2004 |
| Johnny and Rebecca go to the hospital for tests in order to stop Johnny's headaches and blackouts. Johnny is scheduled for surgery, but he leaves in order to try and stop Rebecca from exacting revenge on Stillson for his apparent murder of Rebecca's sister Rachel. |
| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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| 1 |
"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. |
| 2 |
"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. |
| 3 |
"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. |
| 4 |
"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. |
| 5 |
"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. |
| 6 |
"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. |
| 7 |
"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. |
| 8 |
"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. |
| 9 |
"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. |
| 10 |
"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.. |
| 11 |
"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. |
| 12 |
"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. |
| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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| 1 |
"Forbidden Fruit" |
June 18, 2006 |
| Johnny tries to convince Miranda that she doesn't have to marry Stillson, but she feels it's her only option. Johnny is finally starting to get through to her, but Janus gives her poisoned earrings, and she dies. |
| 2 |
"Independence Day" |
June 25, 2006 |
| Johnny and Bruce are stuck in a traffic jam caused when police look for an escaped prisoner. They must help a pregnant woman, and stop Bruce from dying, with the help of a police officer. The officer turns out to be the escaped criminal, impersonating a cop. |
| 3 |
"Panic" |
July 2, 2006 |
| An injured boy knocks on Johnny's door; he's in the Witness Protection Program and is being chased by two killers. Johnny has visions of a parallel situation involving his grandfather, which helps him, Walt, and J.J. stay alive. |
| 4 |
"Articles of Faith" |
July 9, 2006 |
| Dana is back, and she helps Johnny solve a seemingly hate crime. A white supremacist confesses to the crime, but the man was actually killed by his closeted gay lover. Johnny must save the racist from the gay killer, who wants to kill him before he can recant. |
| 5 |
"The Inside Man" |
July 16, 2006 |
| The Faith Heritage Organization is having a showing or religious artifacts. Robbers attempt to steal the finger bone of John the Baptist, while Johnny tries to stop the bad robbers, and helps a good robber; the real owner of the bone. Purdy asks Johnny to touch the bone and restore his faith, but Johnny demurs. |
| 6 |
"Lotto Fever" |
July 23, 2006 |
| A man who Johnny inadvertently helped win the lottery kidnaps Johnny; winning ruined his life. He forces Johnny to help in a robbery, before showing that his gun is empty. Johnny tries to help him by playing poker, losing the money gained in the robbery. Walt then saves them from a hit man previously hired by the lottery winner. |
| 7 |
"Symmetry" |
July 30, 2006 |
| Johnny experiences a domestic abuse situation repeatedly, from each of the various peoples involved perspectives. It turns out he is in a choke hold, and the lack of oxygen is making his visions go haywire. Johnny stops the situation before anyone is killed. |
| 8 |
"Vortex" |
August 6, 2006 |
| Johnny has a vision of a little girl being killed by a landmine. A cult leader is leading his followers towards a Waco-style disaster, and Johnny must lead the members through a minefield while Walt deals with an uncooperative FBI. |
| 9 |
"Revelations" |
August 13, 2006 |
| A woman claiming to be Rev. Purdy's daughter shows up, and Johnny has a vision of the Rev. in danger. Purdy's faith healing in the 60's inadvertently caused the death of the woman's mother, and she is seeking revenge, along with a former friend of Purdy's. The former friend tries to "drown" Purdy in a grain silo, but Johnny convinces the woman to help him save the Reverend. |
| 10 |
"Into the Heart of Darkness (Part 2)" |
August 20, 2006 |
| The woman from season 4's "The Collector" is back, and she kidnaps Sarah and J.J. She wants to commit suicide by cop, and convinces Walt that she has killed Sarah. Walt almost shoots her, but Johnny stops him, and Sarah and J.J. turn out to be OK. |
| 11 |
"The Hunting Party" |
August 27, 2006 |
| Johnny has a vision of the Vice President being killed. Janus and Stillson frame a radio talk show host for the murder, during a hunting trip with Stillson and the VP. They make it look like Stillson killed the man in an act of heroism, and Stillson is now the front runner to take over as VP of the US. |
| # |
Title |
Original airdate |
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| 1 |
"Heritage" |
June 17, 2007 |
| Johnny views visions of his friends in danger at a festival. He believes he has averted the disaster, but a fire later claims two people — changing Johnny's life and the world's fate. |
| 2 |
"Ego" |
June 24, 2007 |
| Johnny butts heads with the new sheriff of the Penobscot County Police Department while investigating a psychiatrist with several patients who would like to see her dead. |
| 3 |
"Re-Entry" |
July 1, 2007 |
| Johnny gets a vision of disaster on a private space mission and is forced to work with Stilllson to save the crew. |
| 4 |
"Big Top" |
July 8, 2007 |
| Johnny visits an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed circus and becomes part of a ten-year-old murder. J. J. cuts soccer practice to visit a 14-year-old acrobat he's developed a crush on, and Johnny later suspects that his son may have inherited a part of his psychic powers. |
| 5 |
"Interred" |
July 15, 2007 |
| Johnny has a vision of a man who has been buried alive. Johnny, with the help of Turner, rushes to locate the man. |
| 6 |
"Switch" |
July 22, 2007 |
| Johnny takes a train trip, and the psychic has a vision of someone throwing a woman from the train. Johnny tries to help the woman and becomes romantically involved with her, but soon suspects that she is a fraud. |
| 7 |
"Numb" |
July 29, 2007 |
| Johnny slips into a coma after what should have been a simple procedure, prompting Sarah to take unexpected actions to save him. |
| 8 |
"Outcome" |
August 5, 2007 |
| Johnny must turn to a friend of Sarah's for help when he gets a vision of an imminent bus station bombing. |
| 9 |
"Transgression" |
August 12, 2007 |
| Johnny becomes involved in a murder case involving a young woman where everything isn't as it seems. |
| 10 |
"Drift" |
August 19, 2007 |
| A vision involving a racehorse being stolen troubles Johnny on a trip to visit Bruce. Meanwhile, Stillson gets closer to Sarah and J.J., leading Johnny to realize he may have missed his chance to reunite his family. |
| 11 |
"Exile" |
August 26, 2007 |
| Johnny's disturbing vision of his psychic friend Alex sends him to a small town in an attempt to save her, but he needs rescuing himself after he is accused of murder. Meanwhile, Sarah decides to move out of Johnny's house and confides in Stillson, who has important information on the investigation into Walt. |
| 12 |
"Ambush" |
September 9, 2007 |
| Johnny steps up his probe into Walt's case in an effort to salvage his relationship with Sarah, and discovers a link to Turner. |
| 13 |
"Denouement" |
September 16, 2007 |
| Visions of Walt lead Johnny to his father and a shocking revelation. Also, vision of Armageddon reappears to Johnny and JJ too. |
