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The Dead Zone Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 2003 - 2003
Episode 1
Valley of the Shadow
43 mins
Still shaken by his visions of apparent nuclear devastation associated with Greg Stillson, Johnny grows increasingly obsessed with Stillson, whom he begins investigating secretly. But another mystery draws him back into the public eye: a test of Johnny's powers by a mysterious adversary who is as obsessed with Johnny as Johnny is with Stillson. When Walt forces Johnny into helping investigate the kidnapping of the young son of a wealthy corporate entrepreneur, Johnny is contacted by the kidnapper in a series of taunting mind games his God-fearing adversary forces on him in order to save the kidnapped boy.
Episode 2
Descent
43 mins
As Walt begins to wonder what's really going between Johnny and his wife Sarah, a group of four teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that was owned by Johnny's grandfather. Walt brings Johnny in to help with the rescue. Soon, Johnny begins to get visions, not only of the teens, but of the miners who died in an incident in 1949 brought on by his grandfather's actions. The ghost miners seem to be striking back at Johnny and Walt is seriously injured by a falling beam. The teens are rescued, but Johnny gets a vision of Walt's funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance...
Episode 3
Ascent
42 mins
Walt ends up in a coma after being injured during the mine rescue. Johnny tries to use his powers to reach Walt in his mind and lead him back to consciousness. But while inside Walt's mind, and reliving how he first met Sarah, among other things, Johnny realizes that he is not the only person inside Walt's memories. There is also a mysterious man, who is Walt's father, trying to make him go into the light...
Episode 4
The Outsider
43 mins
Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream, called Revivatin, based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future. Johnny is forced to team up with Dana to try to fight the greedy bureaucratic company as well as find a reclusive research analyst named Thomas Berke, who may know the way to detect the product defect before it hits the market in the next few days.
Episode 5
Precipitate
42 mins
After getting hit by a car while saving a little boy's life, Johnny gets a blood transfusion of blood from six different donors, in which for the next few weeks he's reluctantly forced to see through the eyes of his donors. When a disturbing future vision shows that one of his donors will die, Johnny and Bruce must try to stop a series of bad events all coinciding at a public square where the death will take place at 3:00 PM.
Episode 6
Scars
43 mins
As Johnny continues investigating the past of the charismatic, but closeted evil sociopath, Greg Stillson, he confides in Bruce about his vision of the future at the end of Stillson's run for power. After he gets an intimidating visit from Stillson to persuade him to stop investigating him, Johnny decides to back up Stillson's congressional rival, Harrison Fisher, a long-time incumbent. However, a vision shows a dark secret that Fisher has involving his service in the Vietnam War, which leads Johnny to debate with himself whether revealing the truth about Fisher is more important than the unscrupulous Stillson's defeat.
Episode 7
Misbegotten
43 mins
Johnny is kidnapped and forced to solve the mystery of a haunted house.
Episode 8
Cabin Pressure
43 mins
Johnny and Reverend Purdy are traveling on a plane to Washington for a seminars conference when Johnny gets a vision of the plane crashing and eventually determines that the pilot will put the plane into a dive as the engine explodes. He manages to convince the though, but closed-minded, air marshal Kelly Park, he's telling the truth. But he sees the same vision of destruction compliments of the co-pilot and realizes both men are trying to save the plane. Using his gift, Johnny determines the wings are covered with ice due to an instrument malfunction. When the co-pilot is injured, Johnny is forced to take his seat and direct the pilot with his visions to take the proper steps to save the plane.
Episode 9
The Man Who Never Was
44 mins
Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions of himself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to an elderly shut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by his delivery man. Johnny briefly visits him and Grissom talks about wondering where his old home was. When Johnny returns the next day with information, Grissom, and any trace of him, have completely disappeared. Johnny is determined to follow up when he gets a vision of people removing Grissom and the new family moving in. Johnny gets visions of people going through his own home as well. Unable to convince, Walt, Bruce, or even Sarah about his suspicions, Johnny strikes out on his own and gets close enough to the people following him to get a vision of Grissom in a new home and visits him there. Grissom reveals he is a retired spy kept buried by the U.S. government due to valuable knowledge in his head. The government agents show up to threaten Johnny and make him "vanish" as well.
Episode 10
Dead Men Tell Tales
44 mins
Johnny inadvertently becomes involved with the local mafia when his visions lead him to help mobster Cathan Donnegal, whom he sees being gunned down by a local hood, Mickey. When Donnegal's thugs threaten Johnny to make him help them investigate, the visions lead Johnny to a mobster's moll, Nina, who has connections to the shady Greg Stillson. Stillson is back in town, seeking to buy up the land of an old Indian gambling casino to pocket more money for his political campaign; and his right-hand man/thug, Sonny Elliman, also shares time with the thrill-seeking Nina.
Episode 11
Playing God
44 mins
A wild and immature old high school friend, Jason Moore, comes to see Johnny, Sarah, and their friends for a high school reunion. Jason however reveals that he's dying from a terminal heart condition and asks for a vision of his future. Johnny sees him receiving a successful heart transplant and gives him the good news, but later gets a vision of Jason's sister, Kate, being killed in a driving accident and becoming the donor. Johnny soon realizes even if he saves Kate and gets Jason a heart through Purdy's connections, someone else who would have received the heart will die. Johnny tracks down the drunk driver, Patrick Hanchin, and confronts him, but sees that even if Johnny stops him from killing Kate, he'll hit a school bus. Trapped in a web of fate where anything he does will make things worse, Johnny decides on a painful choice to allow fate to run its course.
Episode 12
Zion
44 mins
Johnny goes to the funeral of Bruce's father in Indiana and after touching both Bruce and of his dead father at the same time, somehow gives Bruce a long vision of an alternate reality of what Bruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny; Bruce is an church elder at his church with his father Rev. David Lewis, who's alive and in conflict with his son over his choices in life. This leads Bruce to try to find Johnny, who has shut himself off from everyone he knows, and uncover a plot by Johnny to assassinate Greg Stilson before he gets elected president and brings on a nuclear holocaust.
Episode 13
The Storm
42 mins
Four months after Kate Moore's death, Johnny's friends decide to stage an intervention to shake him out of his guilt. As Bruce drives him to Purdy's lakeside resort where he, Sarah, Walt, and Dana are awaiting their arrival, Johnny senses that a major storm is brewing. Johnny and Bruce have a series of misadventures from losing their car, to helping people from a destroyed roadside diner, to hitching a ride with a overbearing tourist family, then having an encounter with the same roadside carnival on the night of his car accident, all of which leads to Johnny being forced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save the people he loves from a inexplicable tornado.
Episode 14
Plague
43 mins
While at a school science fair, Johnny gets a disturbing vision of a group of children getting extremely ill. Johnny persuades Walt to quarantine the building and eventually the children begin to get sick. Johnny realizes that without his help the children will die, including JJ. With the assistance of Rev. Purdy, Johnny must help Walt and the local health inspector, Jim Pratt, try to identify as well as find the source of the mysterious virus before it kills off the entire town.
Episode 15
Deja Voodoo
43 mins
A very strange night for Johnny begins when, during an evening out with Bruce at a local restaurant, Johnny is forced into a series of changing visions to help a young woman he's romantically attracted to, and each vision has both of them being killed by mysterious assailants, making Johnny relive the evening over and over until he finds a way to break the circle of time to a satisfying revelation.
Episode 16
The Hunt
42 mins
Johnny is forcibly recruited by a shadowy agency called the Goverment Remote Viewing Unit who wants his help to identify and find the fugitive Osama Bin Laden in hiding in Pakistan. Using captured items from an aide to Bin Laden, Johnny is able to make progress, until he learns from fellow psychics at the facility that the strike operation may be walking into a trap, and with only a satellite radio con wave, Johnny ends up being the only one with the visions to help the US strike steam escape from a deadly trap.
Episode 17
The Mountain
44 mins
After getting a vision during a weekend camping trip with Sarah, Walt, and JJ, Johnny sets out with them to search for a plane crash site in the deep woods, in which they are taken hostage by a corrupt park ranger and a murderous couple seeing Johnny's help to find the crash site to retrieve a mysterious case that contains $2 million. Johnny must find a way to help stop the evil trio after another vision has them killing them after they find the plane wreck. Also, Johnny has another unsettling vision of a black-clad figure with burn scars on his face.
Episode 18
The Combination
43 mins
Johnny has a vision of a young and rising boxer, named Danny Avila, getting killed in a boxing ring fighting a middleweight champion. When Johnny goes public with the knowledge, he inadvertently makes matters worse when the greedy promoter, Jimmy D., plans to make it a full-stage event of the evening. Johnny and Bruce then try other measures to try to ensue Avila survives, but each vision is the same of the young boxer dying.
Episode 19
Visions
44 mins
As Johnny continues attending family events with Sarah, Walt, and JJ, whom the youngster is still unaware that Johnny is his natural father, Johnny sets out to uncover the mystery of the mysterious man with facial radiation burns on his face, which a tip from the mystery man himself leads Johnny to a house in White Plains, New York with Bruce where Johnny discovers that the man Christopher Wey, a hotshot building contractor, also as the gift/curse of 'the Dead Zone' after he lands in a coma and wakes up years in the future after the nuclear holocaust that destroys the surface of the world. Wey needs Johnny's help to save the life of his wife and young daughter, as well as prevent him from entering a coma so Johnny can find out how and when the upcoming nuclear war starts in the first place.