7.2/10165 votes#1 - Valley of the Shadow
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2003
The season premiere finds Johnny still shaken by his Armageddon visions and growing increasingly obsessed with Stillson, whom he's secretly investigating. But another mystery draws him back into the public eye: a test of Johnny's powers by an adversary who is as obsessed with him as Johnny is with Stillson.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Michael Taylor
7.4/10162 votes#2 - Descent (1)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2003
As Walt begins to wonder what's between Johnny and his wife Sara, a group of teenagers disappear into an abandoned copper mine that was owned by Johnny's 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 grandfather's 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 Walt's funeral as he is taken away in the ambulance. (To be continued)
Director: James Head
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
7.3/10153 votes#3 - Ascent (2)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/2003
Johnny uses his powers to reach into Walt's comatose mind and lead him back to consciousness.
Director: James Head
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
7.3/10151 votes#4 - The Outsider
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2003
Johnny must stop the release of a new anti-wrinkle cream based on his vision of it causing birth defects in the future.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Craig Silverstein
7.8/10185 votes#5 - Precipitate
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2003
Johnny must stop a series of bad future visions based on the blood donations he receives from six different donors.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum
7.4/10146 votes#6 - Scars
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2003
After learning Stillson's congressional rival, a long-time incumbent is a war veteran with a dark secret. Johnny ponders whether the truth is more important than Stillson's defeat.
Director: Armand Mastroianni
Writer: Craig Silverstein
6.9/10164 votes#7 - Misbegotten
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/23/2003
Johnny is kidnapped by three women who take him to a haunted house - each has their own reasons. Penny is romantically obsessed with Johnny and wants to have his baby, Maddy plans on making a "Blair Witch" style Internet event and sell it to Rev. Purdy, and Anita is seemingly obsessed with the mystery of the family who was killed there. While Dana and Sara reluctantly go through the piles of "fan mail" that Johnny receives, 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. With the women's help the police arrive just in time as Anita/Nicholas goes berserk. Johnny manages to restrain her long enough to save his life and Anita is taken away.
Director: Nick Marck
Writer: Andrew Dettmann
8.0/10190 votes#8 - Cabin Pressure
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/2003
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 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.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
7.6/10152 votes#9 - The Man Who Never Was
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/9/2003
Isolating himself from a demanding public, Johnny gets visions of himself disappearing after making contact with something belonging to a shut-in, Jeffrey Grissom, brought in by his delivery man. Johnny briefly visits him and Grissom talks about wondering where his old home was, then Johnny returns the next day with information to find out 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 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.
Director: James Head
Writer: David Benz
6.9/10149 votes#10 - Dead Men Tell Tales
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/2003
Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Daniel Goldin, Michael Piller
8.0/10171 votes#11 - Playing God
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/30/2003
A wild old high school friend, Jason, comes to see Johnny seeking a vision of the future as he will be dying of a heart condition. 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 later gets a vision of the other driver's license plate while Jason takes a turn for the worse, then sees a vision of him and Kate arguing which leads to her going out and getting in the accident. 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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: David Benz, Craig Silverstein
7.4/10157 votes#12 - Zion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/6/2003
Johnny goes to the funeral of Bruce's father and somehow gives Bruce visions of what Bruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Joe Menosky, Michael Piller
7.3/10148 votes#13 - The Storm
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/6/2003
In the aftermath of Kate's death, Johnny's friends stage an intervention to shake him out of his guilt, but as Bruce drives him to Purdy's lakeside resort, he senses a storm is brewing. Now Johnny is forced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save the people he loves.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Michael Piller
7.7/10174 votes#14 - Plague
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/13/2003
Johnny is troubled by a disturbing vision of a sudden viral epidemic that cuts a swath through the children of his town.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel
8.2/10180 votes#15 - Deja Voodoo
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2003
Johnny meets a beautiful woman in danger is reminded again of the potentially dire consequences of even the smallest of choices.
Director: James Head, Mike Rohl
Writer: Jill E. Blotevogel, Karl Schaefer
7.1/10149 votes#16 - The Hunt
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/27/2003
A Covert Branch of U.S. intelligence recruits Johnny to track down the world's most wanted terrorist.
Director: James Head
Writer: Michael Taylor
7.0/10145 votes#17 - The Mountain
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 8/3/2003
Johnny, Walt, Sarah, and JJ get involved in a search for $2 million on a missing plane.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Michael Cassutt
6.3/10141 votes#18 - The Combination
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 8/10/2003
Johnny tries to prevent a boxer from dying in the ring.
Director: James Head
Writer: Michael Taylor
7.7/10140 votes#19 - Visions
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/17/2003
Johnny tries to determine who the mysterious hooded man in his visions are and aid him in the present, while determining more about what the future holds for him personally.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Craig Silverstein
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Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:USA Network
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Valley of the Shadow" is the best rated episode of "The Dead Zone" season 2. It scored 7.2/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Michael Robison and written by Michael Taylor, it aired on 1/5/2003. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Descent (1)".