sentences:  Although Stillson survives and Johnny is killed by his security detail, Stillson's attempt to use a child as a human shield ruins his political career, as the dying Johnny knows by grabbing Stillson's leg.In the television series, Johnny is introduced in the pilot episode, "Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)".Born John Robert Smith in 1967, Johnny taught Biology at Cleaves Mills High School until a horrific car crash, on June 6, 1995, put him into a six-year coma from which he awoke on September 1, 2001.