Dead Zone
(16 episodes)
Series Regular
Dana Bright
Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town life. Employed as a science teacher, Johnny takes great pleasure in showing his young students the wonders of the natural world. He is also newly-engaged to a loving fiancée named Sarah, a fellow teacher he's known since childhood, and is a good son to his widowed mother, who lives nearby.
Johnny's life is nearly perfect - until the day his life is interrupted by a near-fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma. Six years later, Johnny finally regains consciousness and discovers that life as he once knew it has completely changed. His mother has passed away, and Sarah has gone on to marry someone else - and now has a son. But Johnny himself is also not the same person he once was: he now finds himself in possession of amazing psychic powers which allow him to see into the lives of anyone he touches. Now, as Johnny attempts to reacquaint himself with a life he has been away from for six long years, he must also begin a quest to come to terms with his new abilities - abilities that may turn out to be both a blessing and a curse. Helping Johnny make a fresh start are his physical trainer Bruce, who also becomes a close friend; his mother's priest, Gene Purdy, who sets up a trust fund for Johnny but may not be looking out for Johnny's best interests; and Sarah, who must find a way to make Johnny a part of her life again without risking her relationship with her husband and son.
What It Seems
Season 1, Episode 2
Johnny continues to assist the skeptical Sheriff Walt Bannerman (Sarah's husband) with his investigation into the mysterious killings. Johnny soon realizes that in saving a potential victim, a new victim has taken the previous victim's place. In discovering that the killer may be closer than anyone thinks, Johnny is torn between wanting Sarah to be in his life again, and not meddling in her marriage and her relationship with her son, who is Johnny's biological son as well.
Quality of Life
Season 1, Episode 3
After returning to his old high school teaching job, Johnny begins to trust his powers after they allow him to save a high school all-star athlete from a possibly fatal heart condition. But with each vision, it makes Johnny physically weaker since the visions take a drain on his life energy.
The House
Season 1, Episode 6
Johnny learns details of his mother's death that have been a secret kept by Purdy.
The Siege
Season 1, Episode 9
When a disgruntled security worker, named Conrad Hurley, robs a bank and takes hostages, including Sarah, Johnny must try to change an ever-changing future where either Sarah or himself is killed.
Here There Be Monsters
Season 1, Episode 10
Johnny and Bruce drive into the small town of Hobb's Landing where Johnny gets a vision of himself being burned at the stake. He goes to the police and has a vision of the murder of a local girl. The police hold him on charges of witchcraft on which he sent to trial. Bruce calls Dana who comes to help out. While testifying to his abilities Johnny gains a vision of the girl still alive and on a boat. Johnny is cleared of the charges but the townspeople form a mob to burn him. Dana and the town sheriff find the girl, who killed her crazy mother when she was doing some kind of satanic ritual and whose father hid her away. Johnny is rescued just in time.
Dinner with Dana
Season 1, Episode 11
Johnny's relationship with reporter Dana Bright heats up when he invites over at his house for dinner for the evening so she can get an up-close and personal interview with him, and his sexual hormones put a damper on their impending intimacy forcing him to see his friends 'talk' to him, about their distaste for the ambitious but cynical woman. Johnny also has a vision of one of Dana's abusive boyfriends stalking her and coming to realize that her life may be in danger.
Destiny
Season 1, Episode 13
In the past Johnny Smith as a child and Greg Stilson, the son of a Bible salesman, briefly meet and Johnny has a future vision of danger. In the present Johnny has a vision of a restaurant graduation party tragedy and warns his employer, the father of a student. Stilson, now a Senatorial candidate being backed by Rev. Purdy, comes to town after the tragedy and Johnny gets visions of catastrophe in Stilson's wake. Johnny and Sara get together while in flashback we see how Stilson has been a total bastard all of his life, and that Johnny came out of his coma just as Stilson was sworn in as state representative. When they meet at a rally Johnny shakes Stilson's hand and sees him as the source of catastrophe - Washington D.C. devastated by a nuclear holocaust.
Valley of the Shadow
Season 2, Episode 1
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.
Descent
Season 2, Episode 2
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.
Ascent
Season 2, Episode 3
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.
The Outsider
Season 2, Episode 4
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.
Misbegotten
Season 2, Episode 7
While on his way to meet with Reverend Purdy, Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a remote farmhouse reputed to be haunted. Each of them have their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed with Johnny and wants to have his baby. Maddy is a documentary film maker who plans on making a "Blair Witch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy. Anita is Maddy's lover who is seemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there over 20 years ago. Elsewhere, Dana and Sarah reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" that Johnny receives to look for clues to his disappearance. While Walt and Bruce try to find him, Johnny himself unravels the mystery through his visions, and discovers that the young son Nicholas who survived is responsible... and that Anita is that boy, dressed as a woman... and still has homicidal tendencies.
The Man Who Never Was
Season 2, Episode 9
A terrifying vision leads to Johnny's involvement with a man who suddenly disappears.
The Storm
Season 2, Episode 13
When Johnny is caught in a deadly storm, he is forced to come to terms with his own destiny in order to save those he loves.
Deja Voodoo
Season 2, Episode 15
Johnny meets a beautiful woman in danger and is reminded again of the potentially dire consequences of even the smallest of choices.
Articles of Faith
Season 5, Episode 4
William Cotton, a new Faith Heritage minister with political ambitions who preaches of tolerance, and his son Darryl are new residents of Cleaves Mills. Darryl is a former member of the Seattle Korps, a white supremacist youth organization with online connections. When a young Muslim boy is killed in an apparent hate crime, Johnny picks up visions of Darryl committing an assault with a baseball bat, which is consistent with the victim's wounds. While the sheriff's office follows the lead, a visiting former love interest of Johnny's, reporter Dana Bright, and Josh Blake, editor of the Faith Heritage student paper, reveal that Reverend Cotton was formerly the leader of a neo-nazi organization. While Cotton tries to spin his past, Darryl confesses to the murder in exchange for a racially charged television appearance. Johnny begins to have doubts, and discovers that the murder of the Muslim boy was the result of a whole different kind of intolerance.