In season 2, we were introduced to Agent Jed Garrity, a member of NTAC who thought the 4400 should be hunted down and rounded up like common criminals. If memory serves me correctly (and it may be faulty now that the 4400 doesn't even make regular rounds on USA as repeats---- how many times can you DISS US, USA! HOW MANY TIMES?), we were treated to brief glimpses of him in S3 before the writers decided to give him a fuller storyline in S4.

My point is simply this: by giving Agent Garrity an ability, were the writers trying to get him "to see the light" regarding the 4400s, so to speak, or at the very least, be a bit more sympathetic towards them? And by giving him the ability to clone himself, were they trying to suggest that Garrity is struggling with his attitudes towards the 4400, that he is torn or "of two minds"? Or was he simply needing an extra set of hands to round up them criminals faster?

This would have been an interesting dynamic to see play out in S5, but alas, that will not come to pass.... good television is so hard to find this summer!

Very interesting point PJ. I don't know if they planned on developing his character more, and as you said now we will never know. Unless those hairbrained execs at USA Network come to their senses

However, perhaps they just realized what a great actor he is and decided to use him more.

I don't think anybody knows what the network was *planning*, but here's my personal opinion:

Garrity seemed to have somehow split into two different versions of himself, and each seemed to have the same charcter traits (memories, sense of identity, etc.). however, despite being the same person, the twins (clones, whatever) do different things in the same situation (one goes left, the other right, etc.). What this suggests to me is that Garrity was given the ability to fully characterize the divisions already present in his mind.

what I'm saying is, everybody has issues that they are "divided" on, political ones, ethical ones, etc. how helpful it would be if people were given the opportunity to give both sides of the story your undivided attention!
I could imagine the new Garritys bouncing ideas off each other in the course of their own investigation, Garrity would literally be able to "talk to himself" and come to deeper conclusions then he would alone. and this ability would be an enhancement of his natural ability of being a reasoning cop

Promicin, in my mind, enhances the natural abilities of characters to supernatural porportions, instead of giving them completely *new* abilities. and the NTAC agents recieved abilities that mirror their natural abilities as people. for example, Marco was able to look at a picture of promise city, and suddenly he was there... yet Marco has *always* been the kind of person who puts himself "inside" the scenario.
(the fact that promise city resmbled the photograph and not a post-plague anarchy, and the fact that he only went there after viewing the photo suggests to me that Marco's power is in fact to evision himself inside pictures, instead of actual teleportation)

Good point about Marco....but I don't know. Wish we had the chance to see where his story was going. I still think that he can teleport just by thinking of a place. I think him looking at the picture was to show the viewers what he was thinking (how else would we have known that he was thinking of the place before he went there?)