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Maia Rutledge General Info



Disappeared in 1946. Maia has been living with Diana for the past year, and has recently been adopted as her daughter. Although the young girl claims that she can no longer predict the future, Maia secretly keeps a journal filled with precognitive visions.

Timeline



SEASON 1 and 2

-While on a picnic with her parents, 8-year-old Maia becomes the first known abductee of The 4400.

-Maia returns with the power to see the future but no one to take care of her. Fortunately NTAC agent Diana Skouris officially adopts her.

-In an effort to appear normal, Maia claims she has stopped seeing visions of the future. The truth is she is recording them in a stash of secret diaries.

-In one of her many visions, Maia predicts Jordan Collier's assassination. Collier is informed of the vision and when he confronts Maia, she stands by her prediction. When Isabelle "shows" Collier a different version of his future he mistakenly believes her. As is always the case, Maia's vision is accurate and Collier is assassinated.

-Diana begins to notice a mysterious rash on Maia's body and Maia soon falls ill. Searching for answers they visit the NTAC medical center. Maia's condition continues to worsen and soon other 4400s begin showing similar symptoms and are eventually all placed in quarantine.

-Deathly ill, Maia is healed at the last minute by a now healthy Shawn. But although she is healed her visions become more intense than ever and Maia tells a concerned Diana and Marco that "the war is only starting."

SEASON 3

Maia continues to be overwhelmed by her visions of the future.

A hesitant Diana brings Maia to The 4400 Center School where Maia is excited by the prospect of attending school with people just like herself.

Maia is elated when a woman arrives at her house claiming to be Sara Rutledge, her sister. Although Diana tells Maia to stay away from Sara until they can confirm her identity, Maia disobeys her mother and plays with Sara anyway. Sara is not, however, who she claims to be. Instead she is from the future, sent back to kidnap Maia and use her as a tool in the future's plans. Maia realizes she will never see her mother again.

All memories of Maia have been obliterated by the future. Her image, however, begins showing up in Tom and Alana's alternate realities, almost daring them to remember her. Marco thinks that Maia lived in 1847, but Diana realizes that she's actually her daughter – taken by the future and placed in another point in time. Although Diana tries live with Maia in an alternate reality, Tom eventually strikes a deal with the future for Maia's safe return to the present.

While trying to heal Maia's skinned knee, Shawn inadvertently begins to hurt her. Fortunately he is pulled away before Maia is truly harmed.

Maia has a nightmare in which her mother turns into a monster, one that begins to come true when Diana learns she's being injected with the promicin serum.

Maia is angry with her mother for not letting her attend Shawn and Isabelle's wedding.

Maia is thrilled when Diana's sister, April, arrives with her new boyfriend Ben. Later Maia grows even more excited when she tells her mother that she had a vision of Diana is going to get married, but not just to anyone, to Ben.

Maia becomes increasingly frustrated with April who is having a difficult time dealing with her breakup. In an effort to help her aunt understand why Ben left, Maia tells April about her vision of Diana and Ben.

Maia is furious when Diana, worried about her daughter's safety, forbids Maia to continue to attend school at The 4400 Center. But Maia defies her mother and sneaks back. When Isabelle later arrives at the Center, ready to bring it down in order to get to Collier, Maia tells her that her plan won't work and fortunately Tom, Diana and Richard arrive in time. With the current crisis behind them, Maia and Diana leave Seattle to live with Ben in Spain.