Happily living in the rural New England community of Cleaves Mills, Maine, Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall) once led an idyllic life. Employed as a high school science teacher, a job in which he took great pleasure, he was also engaged to a loving fiancée named Sarah (Nicole deBoer), a fellow teacher he'd known since childhood, and was an attentive son to his widowed mother, who lived nearby. Johnny's life was nearly perfect... until the day his life was interrupted by a near-fatal car crash that left him in a deep coma.

Now, more than six years later, Johnny has awakened to a world in which he has lost everything that mattered to him most. His mother has passed away, his teaching position at the high school has long ago been filled, and Sarah has moved on and married County Sheriff Walt Bannerman (Chris Bruno). Sarah also now has a son named Johnny (Spencer Achtymichuk) - a son who was actually conceived with Johnny on the eve of his accident.

But Johnny himself is also not the same person he once was: he is now in possession of amazing extrasensory powers, powers which allow him to see into both the past and the future through startlingly vivid visions triggered by a simple touch. His new abilities stem from a part of his brain known as "the dead zone," a normally dormant area of the human brain that has now become active in Johnny's head as a result of his trauma. Johnny finds himself trying to come to terms with his unique gift. Unable to ignore his frequent visions of others at risk, he has already found that his new talent comes with enormous responsibilities - and enormous public attention.

As Johnny's new life takes shape, it has already become clear that his destiny is intertwined with those of Sarah and Walt in ways other than just their connection through little Johnny. Johnny and Sarah continue to struggle with the fact that they are still in love with one another, even as Sarah remains a devoted wife and Johnny develops an uneasy alliance with Walt through their work together in solving cases. Also a part of Johnny's new world are Bruce Lewis (John L. Adams), Johnny's physical therapist and now one of Johnny's closest friends; Reverend Gene Purdy (David Ogden Stiers), an ambitious televangelist who inherited a small fortune from Johnny's late mother and still controls Johnny's trust; and Dana Bright (Kristen Dalton), a local reporter for the Bangor Daily News who follows Johnny's every move and has developed more than just a professional interest in him.

A new figure has also recently entered Johnny's life: Greg Stillson (Sean Patrick Flanery), a polished but ruthless young congressional candidate backed by Reverend Purdy. Johnny's encounters with Stillson have already allowed him to see glimpses of Stillson's unsavory past - and, much more disturbingly, have triggered visions of a future disaster that destroys the nation's capital. Shaken by his visions of Armageddon, and convinced that Stillson must somehow be responsible, Johnny has secretly begun his own personal investigation into the young candidate's background.

Also see:
-> The Complete 1st Season
-> The Complete 2nd Season
-> The Complete 3rd Season
-> The Complete 4th Season
-> The Complete 5th Season
-> The Final Season