List of Early Edition Episodes - Season 4

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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