Episodes
The season premiere was an hour-long television special. CTV broadcast episodes two and three, four and five, and twenty and twenty-one on the same nights, though not as hour-long specials. In the US, The N aired the season in two blocks, the first block began 1 October 2004 and ran until 11 March 2005. The second block, advertised as the "Summer '05" season, was screened between 1 July 2005 and 26 August 2005. The season premiere and episodes thirteen and fourteen aired as hour-long specials.
| No. in season |
No. in series |
Title | Canadian airdate | US airdate | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | 60–61 | "Ghost in the Machine" | 7 September 2004 | 1 October 2004 | 401 & 402 |
| Paige learns that the legal system is not perfect when Dean is acquitted of all rape charges when her case finally goes to trial. When she later confronts Dean at a college frat party and is angered by Dean's arrogant brushoff, Paige seeks a destructive revenge. Meanwhile, Craig celebrates his 16th birthday and receives $10,000 from his dad's will, which he spends on an extravagant guitar. Joey disapproves of Craig's reckless spending when he reveals that his car lot may be going bankrupt. | |||||
| 3 | 62 | "King of Pain" | 21 September 2004 | 8 October 2004 | 403 |
| Marco reveals his sexuality to his mother, but not to his homophobic father. When he runs for School Council President, Alex, his competition, decides to play dirty politics by threatening to reveal his homosexuality at the Election assembly, which his dad will attend. In the end she changes her mind and decides that it isn't right to use homophobia as a way to win the election. Chris wants to get back with Emma, but she's not interested until she notices sparks flying between him and Liberty. | |||||
| 4 | 63 | "Mercy Street" | 21 September 2004 | 15 October 2004 | 404 |
| Rick returns to school, and Emma's popularity increases when she leads Hazel, Jimmy, Paige, and Spinner into running Rick out of Degrassi for good. Meanwhile, after seeing Manny's ex-boyfriend Craig naked in the locker room, J.T. is worried she will start comparing them both, and starts using a penis pump. | |||||
| 5 | 64 | "Anywhere I Lay My Head" | 28 September 2004 | 22 October 2004 | 405 |
| Sean asks Ellie to move in with him, but she is unsure until her mom gets drunk again and burns their kitchen down. With Paige sick, Manny is in charge of the Spirit Squad's car wash fund raiser. She asks Spinner if Downtown Sasquatch will play at the event, and things get steamy between the two. | |||||
| 6 | 65 | "Islands in the Stream" | 28 September 2004 | 26 November 2004 | 406 |
| After being fired from The Dot Grill, Paige gets a job working alongside her nemesis Alex at the movie theatre concession stand to pay off the damages to Spinner's car. But when Spinner starts taking advantage of Paige's debt and humiliates her in public, a fuming and fed-up Paige breaks up with him. Mr. Simpson partners Rick with Toby in Media Immersion class, resulting in a new friendship. They compete to see who can get more kisses from the girls at school. | |||||
| 7 | 66 | "Time Stands Still" | 5 October 2004 | 3 December 2004 | 407 |
| Jimmy becomes a member of the "Whack Your Brain" quiz team, and realizes the anti-Rick campaign has gone too far. He tells Jay, Spinner and Alex to lay off Rick, but they're not convinced, and humiliate him in front of the entire school. They dump paint and feathers on him during the competition. Having financial troubles, Joey decides to sell the house. When his real-estate agent gets nowhere, he asks his ex-girlfriend, realtor Sydney, to help. | |||||
| 8 | 67 | "Time Stands Still" | 12 October 2004 | 10 December 2004 | 408 |
| Rick comes back to school after being humiliated during the "Whack Your Brain" contest. Toby and Mr. Raditch tell him to take the afternoon off, but he chooses to stay. When he's cleaning himself up in the washroom, Spinner and Jay trick him into thinking Jimmy carried out the prank, and he vows revenge. He shoots Jimmy in the back (Jimmy uses a wheelchair from this point on), and when he tries to shoot Emma, Sean steps in and wrestles Rick for the gun, causing Ricky to get fatally shot. Caitlin returns from Africa and saves Joey's home by buying it herself. | |||||
| 9 | 68 | "Back in Black" | 19 October 2004 | 17 December 2004 | 409 |
| In the aftermath of the school shooting, Sean has become the hero. When his mother is interviewed on TV, Sean and his friends take a trip to Wasaga Beach so he can confront his past, but instead he decides to stay and live with his parents. Toby wants to go to Rick's funeral but finds himself shunned by J.T. and Danny. | |||||
| 10 | 69 | "Neutron Dance" | 26 October 2004 | 18 February 2005 | 410 |
| The recording deal Downtown Sasquatch won the year before is about to expire, and the band is nowhere near good enough. Things get worse when Craig asks Ashley to join the band, angering the other members. Paige joins Hazel at yoga class, and develops a crush on Matt Oleander, the teaching assistant. | |||||
| 11 | 70 | "Voices Carry" | 2 November 2004 | 25 February 2005 | 411 |
| It is Ashley's dad's wedding, and Craig and Ashley are back together again. He creates a romantic setting in a motel room, and Ashley loses her virginity to him. At the wedding Craig announces he and Ashley are engaged, which angers her parents and Ashley has to set him straight. J.T. and Liberty are struggling to put together a play to raise school spirits. | |||||
| 12 | 71 | "Voices Carry" | 9 November 2004 | 4 March 2005 | 412 |
| After Ashley's rejection, Craig spirals into a deep depression and bizarre, destructive behaviour. When Liberty and J.T. both get detention after writing an inappropriate song about Mr. Raditch for their play, they share a moment that brings them closer together. | |||||
| 13 | 72 | "Bark at the Moon" | 23 November 2004 | 11 March 2005 | 413 |
| Manny is attracted to a new guy at school, and Spinner can not be bothered to take the night off work to go to the Cupid Dance with her. Afraid Spinner is going to break her heart the way Craig did, Manny realizes that she is actually the one who cannot commit to their relationship. Paige tries to get partnered up with Mr. Orleander, and it seems he's also interested in her. Because of the shooting, Mr. Raditch has to leave Degrassi. | |||||
| 14 | 73 | "Secret" | 30 November 2004 | 1 July 2005 | 414 |
| Emma has not got over witnessing Rick's death, but is reassuring everyone that she is okay. When former enemy Jay shows Emma the risqué things he and other kids do at the ravine, she's torn between walking away and joining in. With the discovery of Craig's bipolar disorder, Ashley tries to get him help from a support group only to find that Ellie attends it, too. | |||||
| 15 | 74 | "Secret" | 7 December 2004 | 1 July 2005 | 415 |
| When Jay's girlfriend and another girl he has been seeing at the ravine are diagnosed with gonorrhea, Emma begins to worry, especially after she finds she has one of the symptoms. Bored of spending his days in the hospital, Jimmy enlists the help of Craig and Marco in a breakout to see his favorite band. | |||||
| 16 | 75 | "Eye of the Tiger" | 14 December 2004 | 8 July 2005 | 416 |
| While Danny has a hard time accepting J.T. and Liberty's relationship, Jimmy returns to Degrassi. When Spinner tells Jimmy it is his fault he is in a wheelchair, every friend he has, as well as his girlfriend Manny, cut Spinner from their lives. The new school principal, Ms. Hatzilakos, has no choice but to expel Spinner and Jay. | |||||
| 17 | 76 | "Queen of Hearts" | 17 January 2005 | 15 July 2005 | 417 |
| Struggling to pay the rent, Ellie discovers she can earn money playing euchre with Dylan's hockey teammates. When Alex wants to play for more money, Ellie has to decide whether or not to trust her and gamble her rent away. Paige and Matt are having a secret affair, but Paige wonders whether he's still seeing his ex-girlfriend behind her back. | |||||
| 18 | 77 | "Modern Love" | 24 January 2005 | 22 July 2005 | 418 |
| Paige and Mr. Orleander's relationship is still a secret, but when Snake spots them together in the park, and Manny lets the cat out of the bag, Paige learns that he might not be as comfortable with their relationship when it can jeopardize his teaching career. | |||||
| 19 | 78 | "Moonlight Desires" | 31 January 2005 | 29 July 2005 | 419 |
| Marco is upset when he discovers he is unable to donate blood at the blood drive because he is gay, and then catches Dylan in bed with another guy. He is unwilling to break up until Dylan insists that they have an open-relationship. After breaking into the school, Spinner decides to burn it down, only to have Jay talk him out of it. After pleading with Ms. Hatzilakos, she gives him another chance to come back to Degrassi. | |||||
| 20 | 79 | "West End Girls" | 31 January 2005 | 12 August 2005 | 420 |
| Paige claims all the glory for the spirit squad's success, even though Manny has been picking up the slack for her. Caitlin interviews film director Kevin Smith who tours Degrassi Community School as a possible location for his latest movie Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh!, and he asks Craig to write the soundtrack, which Craig hopes will keep Ashley from going to England for the summer. | |||||
| 21 | 80 | "Going Down the Road" | 7 February 2005 | 19 August 2005 | 421 |
| Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Alanis Morissette arrive at Degrassi to film the new Jay and Silent Bob movie. Craig decides to go to London with Ashley, but she's not so happy with the idea and promptly relapses. Caitlin gets a lucrative job offer to work at a Los Angeles TV station, but is torn over accepting the offer and leaving Joey. She then drunkenly confesses her dilemma to Kevin at a bar which leads to a kiss. | |||||
| 22 | 81 | "Going Down the Road" | 14 February 2005 | 26 August 2005 | 422 |
| Everyone thinks Craig is in England with Ashley, but following her latest rejection, he is actually living in the school's boiler room and is off his medication. Thanks to Kevin, Caitlin has to make the decision of moving to Los Angeles or staying with Joey. |
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