Jordan Collier (The 4400)
Jordan Collier is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction television series The 4400.
Character History
Season One
Jordan Collier, a real estate mogul, disappeared April 10, 2002, from the Seattle, Washington area. After Barbera Yates begins demonising the returnees, he publicly outs himself as a 4400 and begins to speak on their behalf. Meeting many of the returnees at their gatherings on Highland Beach, he announces his plans to build a complex where they can live in safety.
Collier shows keen interest in Lily Tyler and her unborn child, Isabelle Tyler. He gives Lily and Richard Tyler a house on the estate and employs Richard as a member of his security force. It soon becomes evident, however, that his main focus is on Lily's child; after Richard discovers that Collier wants to destroy his and Lily's relationship, he and Lily prepare to leave. Collier attempts to stop them, claiming that the baby represents the future and he is the best man to raise her. Lily and Richard escape, leaving Collier severely injured by a pyschic attack from the unborn Isabelle.
Season Two
Collier starts the 4400 Center and mentors Shawn Farrell. He is still determined to track down Lily and her family; he claims that his former arrogance and greed have been destroyed by Isabelle's attack . He eventually locates Richard, held in police custody, and offers him and Lily sanctuary in the 4400 Centre. He appears to become accepted by Isabelle; however, the baby senses how dangerous he could be. When Collier's life is predicted to end by Maia Skouris, Collier asks the infant Isabelle if he is safe. She offers him a vision of what he really wants- power and recognition. Reassured, he goes through with plans for a 4400 reunion. He is shot and killed at the event, his last words being "She lied to me..." After being assassinated by Kyle Baldwin, his body disappears, but he reappears alive in a dazed condition at Highland Beach, at the conclusion of the second season finale.
Season Three
Jordan, in a state of amnesia, visits Kyle in prison. Questioned by NTAC, Collier claims to have wandered the Earth forever. With Alana's help, he regains his memories, and after helping to effect Kyle's release from prison, he returns to and resumes control of the 4400 Center, casting Isabelle out.
It transpires that Collier has been much affected by his post-death experiences. He appears to have either visited or witnessed the future of mankind, in which a powerful, brutal elite rule in the last city, with the rest of the world a ruined wasteland. Whilst amnesiac, he had been spreading news of it as a gospel in homeless people's camps across the country. Once his full memory returns, he becomes determined at almost any cost to prevent that future from coming to pass.
After regaining his leadership of the 4400 Center, Collier revives the Nova Group and steals Haspel Corporation's stores of promicin, with the intent of distributing it to the people. He succeeds in having his followers spread around the world and distribute promicin to all those who are willing to take the risks to gain an ability. He hides out in a cabin in the country to elude law enforcement in the season three finale, "Fifty-Fifty".
Season Four
Collier feels the guilt of the deaths suffered by the people whose bodies could not tolerate promicin. When a Graham Holt begins to convert Seattle into his own private city using his newfound ability, Collier neutralizes the threat and informs the world that although there will be scares, the end result is worth it.
Jordan is later joined by Kyle Baldwin and Isabelle Tyler. Kyle had taken promicin and gained the ability to see a "guide" who calls herself Cassie. Cassie guided Kyle to Isabelle Tyler when she escaped from custody, and to a book that appears to be prophecies about Jordan Collier and his movement. Although Kyle is convinced that Jordan is a messiah, Jordan flatly denies being a messiah and cautions Kyle about the danger of taking the book literally. Collier also agrees to give Isabelle Tyler a chance to prove herself, but warns her not to make him "nervous".
Collier and his movement settle a small deserted town as a model for a better future. After being forced to leave due to NTAC locating the town, the movement returns to Seattle. Collier attempts to convince Shawn to rejoin him, but Shawn refuses; Shawn's resolve to oppose Collier is strengthened by the mysterious stroke suffered by the anti-4400 Gabriel Hewitt, which Collier may have been responsible for ordering.
Collier's next step is to annexe part of Seattle, calling it "Promise City", with a perimeter that causes pain to any who approach. Using terrorist tactics, he threatens reprisal if attacked, and demonstrates the power of his movement by causing earthquakes and tsunamis (initially destroying property). The government send in a squad of its enhanced soldiers to assassinate him, but due to Maia Skouris, they are discovered and disarmed. Warned by Maia that killing in retaliation will lead to a full-scale war, Collier moves the perimeter of "Promise City" to double its size.
Abilities
Jordan Collier's ability to neutralize promicin is discovered in The Wrath of Graham when he strips Graham Holt of his ability. It is theorized that this ability only works on promicin-positive non-4400s.
As Collier was shown to strip the enhanced soldiers of their abilities in Till We have Built Jerusalem, it is possible that he can also induce a fatal intolerance to further attempted promicin use, the same as the syringe that stripped Isabelle Tyler of her powers. However this is currently pure conjecture.
Departure and return
Billy Campbell, the actor who plays Collier, took most of season three off to sail around the world.[1] Billy returned in season four as a series regular, differing from being a guest star in previous seasons.[2]