This was on my watch list, although I kind of gave up on it after Grace Zabriski got iced. Add it to the long list of shows with potential, strangled in their cribs by the idiots that are FOX.
“John” was near death. At that time, he was granted all the knowledge there ever was. Somehow, he escaped death. The Phoenix Organization wants him for some reason.
I’d read that not long after the show was cancelled. Sorry, no cite, but I’ll look for it.
It follows the old belief that when you die, you are imparted with all the knowledge in the world. You’re not supposed to go back to the living, though.