The Dead Zone

Johnny Smith was leading an idyllic small-town life: working as a high school science teacher, engaged to the love of his life, Sarah, and being a devoted son to his widowed mother, Vera, who lives nearby. But after a near-fatal car accident puts him in a deep coma, Johnny awakens six years later to find everything has changed: Sarah is now married to someone else, local sheriff Walt Bannerman; the child they are raising is actually Johnnys son and knows nothing about his real father; and Johnnys mother Vera has passed away, leaving Johnnys finances under the thumb of Reverend Purdy, an influential religious leader who is also his mothers former lover. But, most importantly, Johnny himself has changed: he now finds himself with the gift (or curse) of second sight.

Johnny returns to his old school as a substitute teacher and as a hockey coach. During practice, Johnny has a vision inside a players heart that indicates he may have a serious heart condition. However, there is no medical evidence to support him. Johnnys vision of Todd, and his previous publicity, cause an outcry by the parents who demand that Johnny be fired.

Johnny is summoned to jury duty on a murder trial. Johnny starts to get visions which lead him to believe the accused is innocent. He is the only not-guilty vote

While helping to track down a runaway, Jill, who is involved with drugs, Johnny is exposed to a drug that causes him to start getting weird (weirder than usual) visions. He insists on trying to find Jill, despite the concerns of Bruce and Sarah. Confusing matters further is that Jills boyfriend is in trouble with his supplier. The boyfriend gets killed and Jill and Johnny go on the run. In the final showdown, Johnny manages to fight past his hallucinations and knock the drug dealer off a high ledge, while Jill is reunited with her mother.

Conrad Hurley, a disgruntled electrician fired by the town council, goes into the bank with a shotgun and a revolver, tries to rob it, and takes everyone present (including Sara) hostage. Waiting outside for Sara, Johnny gets a vision of a future massacre and goes in to try to alter the future he perceives. Guided by his visions and scrambling wildly to adapt to the altering futures he keeps seeing in which he dies, Sara dies, Conrad dies, and/or everyone dies each time he changes something, Johnny soon becomes Conrads unlikely ally. Finally Johnny manages to earn Conrads trust and manage to talk him into releasing the hostages and giving himself up.

A jealous ex-lover stalks Dana as her affair with Johnny heats up.

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 Stilsons 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 Stilsons hand and sees him as the source of catastrophe - Washington D.C. devastated by a nuclear holocaust.

As Walt begins to wonder whats between Johnny and his wife Sara, a group of teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that was owned by Johnnys grandfather. Walt brings Johnny in to help with the rescue and Smith soon begins to get visions not only of the teens but of the miners who died in an incident in 1949 brought on by his grandfathers actions. The ghost miners seem to be striking back at Johnny and Walt is seriously injured. The teens are rescued but Johnny gets a vision of Walts funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance. (To be continued)

Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future.

After learning Stillsons congressional rival, a long-time incumbent is a war veteran with a dark secret. Johnny ponders whether the truth is more important than Stillsons defeat.

Johnny and Rev. Purdy are traveling on a plane 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 air marshal hes 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.

Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.

Johnny goes to the funeral of Bruces father and somehow gives Bruce visions of what Bruces life would have been like if he had never met Johnny.

Johnny is troubled by a disturbing vision of a sudden viral epidemic that cuts a swath through the children of his town.

A Covert Branch of U.S. intelligence recruits Johnny to track down the worlds most wanted terrorist.

Johnny tries to prevent a boxer from dying in the ring.

Johnny attempts to piece together his visions to fill in the large gap of missing time in his memory in order to figure out what happened to one of Stillsons campaign volunteers who mysteriously disappeared while she was with him.

While following a missing persons case of an eleven year old named Katie Mercer, Johnnys visions of the girl intercede with visions of the night of his crash 9 years ago. He struggles with the help of Rebecca to relive and endure the night of his accident so that he could figure out where Katie is located as the intensity of the physical and emotional pain of his visions start to wear him down. As Johnny sorts out this strange intertwining of the past and present, he is led to the mysterious person that saved his life.

Johnny is stalked both by a woman who has killed three other psychics, and a mysterious security organization working for the government.

Lawyer twins use Johnny to help prove his visions can be false and an invasion of privacy but Johnny believes his visions of a murder are real.

While at the school Johnny gets a vision of a student going on a shooting spree and must find out who it is before its too late.

Johnny must unravel a series of future visions of himself killing a man in revenge for the death of someone close to him.

Johnny is forced to try and save Greg Stillson...by stopping Rachel Caldwell from making a fatal mistake, even though it may cause nuclear armageddon.

Johnny runs into an attractive psychic as they both try to find and stop a sniper.

An autistic boy makes his way to Johnny to "ask" him to help clear his father - a cop on death row for the murder of an undercover cop.

When an immigrant woman dies, Johnny is determined to take care of her baby and reunite it with the father.

Johnny has been getting visions of his dead father, who is apparently trying to warn him of some coming disaster.

When Stillsons girlfriend disappears, he must reluctantly turn to Johnny Smith for help in locating her.

Johnny vows to find a way to stop Miranda from marrying Greg Stillson...before she ends up being killed. Meanwhile the mysterious Janus further insinuates himself into Stillsons and Purdys lives.

Johnny is trapped in his house with J.J. and another neighborhood teen by vicious killers, and discovers a family secret while trying to keep one step ahead of the intruders.

Johnny ends up taking the place of the inside man in a museum robbery to stop the crime and prevent several deaths, but soon finds he may have to help them escape to prevent innocent people from being killed.

After Johnny is attacked, he begins to experience visions of his attackers life and the life of one of the attackers victims.

A woman claiming to be Purdys lost-long daughter arrives in Cleaves Mills. Johnny has a vision of the woman causing harm to Purdy, who ignores Johnnys warning. While investigating the woman, Johnny learns of Purdys secret past.

Johnny tries to thwart the assassination of the Vice President and protect the man that Janus secret conspiracy has set up to take the blame, but it soon becomes clear that Janus has his own plans to assure Stillsons ascension to the White House.

Johnny investigates a psychiatrist after a vision shows her being shot, he uncovers several patients who would like her dead.

Johnny visits an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed circus and becomes part of a ten year old murder. Johnny later realizes that J.J. may have inherited a part of his psychic powers.

Johnny is taking a train trip when he has a vision of someone throwing a woman from the train. Johnny goes to help and becomes romantically involved with her, but soon suspects that shes a fraud.

Johnny must turn to a friend of Sarahs for help when he gets a vision of an imminent bus station bombing.

While on a trip to visit Bruce, Johnny views a racehorse being stolen in a vision. He also realizes that he may have lost the chance to reunite with Sarah and J.J. thanks to Stilsons efforts.

While further investigating Walts death, Johnny determines a link between him and his successor, Anna Turner.