Season 4
The fourth and final season contains a total of 22 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from September 25, 1999 to May 27, 2000.
Ep. | No. | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original air date |
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69 | 1 | "The Out-of-Towner" | Gary Nelson | Alex Taub | September 25, 1999 |
Gary meets a man from New York, Sam Cooper, who receives tomorrow's edition of the New York Daily News. However, unlike Gary, Sam hires other people to complete the rescues and uses the paper's knowledge to make money. Guest Star: Willie Garson |
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70 | 2 | "Duck Day Afternoon" | Randy Roberts | Carla Kettner | October 2, 1999 |
In an effort to avoid spending time with his parents, who've decided to move in with him because their town was ravaged by a storm, Gary races off to save a group of ducks and draws the attention of inquisitive Chicago Sun-Times photojournalist, Miguel Diaz. When Gary pleads with Miguel not to run the photo he took of him – so his parents won't find out that he's intentionally ducking them – the photographer becomes more curious. He realizes that Gary's name keeps popping up in connection with many rescues. Guest Stars: William Devane, Tess Harper |
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71 | 3 | "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" | Reza Badiyi | Sean Clark | October 9, 1999 |
Chuck comes for a visit and offers to take Gary to a Cubs game where a promising rookie, Pedro Mendoza, is going to play. Gary finds himself trying to help the owner of a restaurant who borrowed money from a loan shark, who is now demanding ownership in the restaurant as payment. Meanwhile, Chuck inadvertently changes the course of the day's events by taking a cab from Mendoza. Guest Star: Amaury Nolasco |
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72 | 4 | "The Iceman Taketh" | Scott Paulin | James Stanley, Dianne Messina Stanley |
October 16, 1999 |
Gary and Detective Toni Brigatti have to pretend they are a couple for an extended amount of time in effort to catch a jewel thief, while also searching for the gas leak that will cause a ship to explode on Lake Michigan. Guest Stars: Kimberley Davies, Constance Marie, Paul Satterfield |
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73 | 5 | "Camera Shy" | Reza Badiyi | Eric Tuchman | October 23, 1999 |
Feeling bad that he helped get Miguel Diaz fired from two jobs, Gary tries to find him another job. When Miguel photographs a criminal thought to be dead, he believes that he has a chance at getting his job back at the Chicago Sun-Times. However, things don't go as planned and Gary must save Miguel from being killed. Guest Star: Gregory Itzin |
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74 | 6 | "Wild Card" | Kevin Dowling | Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec |
October 30, 1999 |
Gary tries to relax with his obligation to the Paper, but Patrick keeps causing problems when he keeps following Gary around, trying to find a way to tell Gary that he is leaving. When Patrick's actions lead to an explosion at a Halloween rave party, Gary instructs him not to move a muscle – a directive that backfires when Patrick attempts to help and winds up in a life-threatening situation. | |||||
75 | 7 | "Fatal Edition, Part 1" | Gary Nelson | Jeff Pinkner | November 6, 1999 |
Gary is arrested and charged with murder after he is found standing right next to the slain body of a man who had earlier threatened to investigate him after the Paper mis-publishes the time of a reporter's murder. Later, Gary becomes a fugitive. Guest Stars: Michael Whaley, Constance Marie |
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76 | 8 | "Fatal Edition, Part 2" | Gary Nelson | Doris Egan | November 13, 1999 |
Gary is on the run from the police after the murder of Frank Scanlon. Gary learns that at the time of Scanlon's death, he was about to break a story on a murder-for-hire ring. With the help of Chicago Sun-Times photographer Miguel Diaz, Gary attempts to clear his name. Meanwhile, Detective Brigatti uncovers some evidence of her own, which proves Gary's innocence and implicates someone with whom she works closely in the department, which puts her life in danger. Guest Stars: Constance Marie, Michael Whaley |
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77 | 9 | "Weather Girl" | Mel Damski | Alex Taub | November 20, 1999 |
Gary provides precise weather forecasts to an attractive TV weather personality, Rebecca, who becomes renowned for her accurate forecasts, until the paper shows up at his doorstep one morning without a trace of the next day's weather and the weathergirl quits and is unable to warn of a coming disaster. Meanwhile, Uncle Phil keeps getting fired from one job after another. Guest Star: Fyvush Finkel |
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78 | 10 | "Run, Gary, Run" | Scott Paulin | Carla Kettner | December 18, 1999 |
When Gary ignores Marissa's repeated requests to help her manage the workload at McGinty's, the Paper plays a dangerous trick on him: he reads that his friend will be struck and killed by a car. | |||||
79 | 11 | "Rose" | Julia Rask | Lorin Wertheimer | February 19, 2000 |
Crumb tries to caution Gary that a woman, Rose, who has amnesia, may appear sweet and innocent, but is probably trouble. Gary ignores his warning, even when evidence surfaces that she has a criminal record. When he believes her explanation that an old boyfriend is after her, Gary agrees to loan Rose $25,000 to get rid of him and is stunned when she suddenly runs off with his money. Guest Star: Ron Dean |
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80 | 12 | "Snow Angels" | Sander Stern | Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec |
February 26, 2000 |
As a blizzard sweeps across Chicago, Gary encounters two men, Earl Camby, a reformed criminal who now devotes his life to helping those less fortunate than himself, and Cliff Mourning, a sleazy motel operator. As Gary tries to save Earl's life when a building collapses on him, he reads that Cliff is going to succumb to a heart attack. Torn between leaving Earl alone to die while he saves an ungrateful human being, Gary contemplates a decision that could ultimately tie the two men's lives together. | |||||
81 | 13 | "Gifted" | Kevin Dowling | Dianne Messina Stanley, James Stanley |
March 4, 2000 |
After preventing Nikki from being injured in a school bus accident, Gary meets the tough-talking 13-year-old and learns that she is clairvoyant and also knew about the accident before it almost happened. Gary has to try to help her realize her abilities are a gift. Guest Star: Daniel Roebuck |
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82 | 14 | "Performance Anxiety" | Gary Nelson | Doris Egan | March 11, 2000 |
Gary's Paper is stolen by Clams, the former recipient of tomorrow's New York paper whose paper stops coming. Guest Star: T.J. Thyne |
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83 | 15 | "False Witness" | Ian Barry | Eric Tuchman | March 25, 2000 |
Gary is placed in a difficult situation when Miguel's brother, Joey, steals a car. However, Gary's decision to deny knowing Joey ultimately leads to a life-threatening situation. Guest Star: Michael Whaley |
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84 | 16 | "The Play's the Thing" | Deborah Reinisch | Michael Katz | April 8, 2000 |
Gary joins an amateur acting troupe where he finds former detective Crumb participating and later learns that the theatre will be burned down by an arsonist. Guest Stars: Ron Dean, Timothy Omundson |
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85 | 17 | "Blind Faith" | Jim Quinn | Jeff Pinkner | April 22, 2000 |
Gary temporarily loses his sight while trying to prevent three teens from being blown up by an old cannonball. While at the hospital, Gary meets a young kid named Nate Calvin, whose mother is ill. The next day, without being able to see, Gary must save Nate Calvin, who is trapped in an abandoned building by bullies. | |||||
86 | 18 | "Occasionally Amber" | Kyle Chandler | Lawrence Meyers | April 29, 2000 |
Chuck comes back to Chicago and announces he's engaged to a girl named Jade. When Gary meets her, he's shocked because Jade is really Amber, the jewel thief he encountered a few months back and allowed to escape. Gary confides in Marissa who tells him that he must inform Chuck. Gary's not sure what to do, especially when Detective Brigatti, whose career was nearly ruined by her, learns she's back and wants to take her down. Gary confronts Jade, who tells him that she truly loves Chuck and that she is really Jade. He decides not to tell Chuck what he knows. However, the next morning's paper says that a large diamond will be stolen from an auction. Guest Stars: Kimberley Davies, Constance Marie |
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87 | 19 | "Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter" | Todd Pfeiffer | Alex Taub | May 6, 2000 |
Gary runs into a robber who strips him of everything. The next day, Gary recognizes him and starts to pursue him, but so does a man named Mel Schwartz, an accountant that is trying to become a bounty hunter, whom Gary has to rescue after he gets in over his head. Guest Stars: Jerome "New Jack" Young, Tom "Tommy Dreamer" Laughlin |
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88 | 20 | "Time" | Mel Damski | Carla Kettner | May 13, 2000 |
Gary learns that Lucius Snow, the previous recipient of the Paper, saved his life when he was eleven years old and during the encounter Gary unknowingly became Snow's heir to the Paper. Guest Stars: Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Michael Whaley, Janelle Ginestra |
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89 | 21 | "Everybody Goes to Rick's" | Gary Nelson | James Stanley, Dianne Messina Stanley, Lorin Wertheimer |
May 20, 2000 |
Gary travels back in time to 1929 to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in order to try to save someone. Eventually after returning to his own time and saving Crumb, Gary learns that the man he saved was Crumb's father. Guest Star: Ron Dean |
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90 | 22 | "Luck o' the Irish" | Gary Nelson | Sean Clark | May 27, 2000 |
When Gary meets an Irish man, bad luck begins to center around him, including making a young Irish woman lose her chance at the million dollar lottery when Gary swipes her dollar with which she was going to buy the winning ticket. Gary ends up pretending to be engaged to her while she dodges an INS agent and looks for the man she loves, Nigel, while her brother plans their wedding. Ultimately the woman, Karen, learns that she was just deluding herself about Nigel and he's actually married and she and Gary reveal the truth to her family before Gary has to chase after a dump truck to stop the agent from being killed by accident. There, he learns that the agent, a man named Frank, was actually tracking down Karen because he was a childhood friend of hers and is in love with her and due to her brother's intervention, lost touch with her. In the end, Frank and Karen get married and Gary sends them a winning lottery ticket to make up for the one he cost her, while Nigel gets bitten by a mutant fish and Gary restores the Irish man's tab, ending his streak of bad luck. Guest Stars: Henry Gibson, Tess Harper |
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