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S4.E1 ∙ The Out-of-Towner

Fri, Sep 24, 1999

Gary gets the paper and initially there a lot of things he has to fix but when he gets there, there's nothing to fix. He thinks the paper is playing games with him so the next time the paper tells him of something he goes there and does nothing and someone gets hurt. Eventually Gary meets a guy from New York who also gets an "Early Edition" of his own.

7.9 /10

S4.E2 ∙ Duck Day Afternoon

Fri, Oct 01, 1999

Gary's parents visit Chicago and want to spend the day with him. Gary runs off to save ducks crossing the streets. When a cameraman snaps a picture, it shows up in the paper and starts a chain of reactions. Gary's parents are held hostage.

7.5 /10

S4.E3 ∙ Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Fri, Oct 08, 1999

Chuck comes for a visit and offers to take Gary to a Cubs game wherein a promising rookie Pedro Mendoza is going to play. But Gary finds himself trying to help the owner of a restaurant who borrowed money from a loan shark who is demanding ownership in the restaurant as payment. And it seems that the owner of the restaurant and Mendoza are linked.

7.4 /10

S4.E4 ∙ The Iceman Taketh

Fri, Oct 15, 1999

To stop something that's in the paper Gary assumes someone else's identity but it turns out that the identity he assumed was that of an undercover cop who's working with Brigatti. Gary has to continue being that person. Brigatti is searching for a jewel thief known as the Iceman, and she thinks it's a guy named Paul Kettler.

7.8 /10

S4.E5 ∙ Camera Shy

Fri, Oct 22, 1999

Feeling bad that he helped get a photo journalist fired from two jobs, Gary tries to find him another job and prevent him from being murdered.

7.4 /10

S4.E6 ∙ Wild Card

Fri, Oct 29, 1999

Gary's day seems easy with only one significant article in the newspaper, but it turns into a series of incidents as Patrick tries to talk to him. Patrick is leaving the restaurant.

7.5 /10

S4.E7 ∙ Fatal Edition: Part 1

Fri, Nov 05, 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 his propensity to show up at crime scenes.

8.4 /10

S4.E8 ∙ Fatal Edition: Part 2

Fri, Nov 12, 1999

Now a fugitive from justice, Gary appeals to Detective Brigatti to help get him off the hook for murder and find the real killer.

8.3 /10

S4.E9 ∙ Weather Girl

Fri, Nov 19, 1999

A pretty television weather girl seems to always forecast wrong, so Gary steps in to help. After days of helping, the newspaper stops giving the weather forecast, and the reporter gets fired just as a major storm is about it hit.

7.9 /10

S4.E10 ∙ Run Gary Run

Fri, Dec 17, 1999

Things get hectic at McGinty's, and Marissa tells Gary he needs to start helping out at the restaurant. Gary tries to find a compromise between the restaurant and the newspaper. He is unable to help Marissa when she is hit by a car.

8 /10

S4.E11 ∙ Rose

Fri, Feb 18, 2000

Gary helps a woman who has amnesia. She cannot remember anything, but knows someone is trying to kill her.

7.3 /10

S4.E12 ∙ Snow Angels

Fri, Feb 25, 2000

Gary is unable to help people when a blizzard hits Chicago.

8.2 /10

S4.E13 ∙ Gifted

Fri, Mar 03, 2000

Gary meets a young girl who has real powers of knowing what is going to happen to someone she touches. The girl is a foster child who pushes her foster parents away because she thinks her power is a curse. Gary helps her accept her skills.

8.1 /10

S4.E14 ∙ Performance Anxiety

Fri, Mar 10, 2000

A man in New York gets tomorrow's paper today. When his paper stops getting delivered, he flies to Chicago to talk to Gary. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger asks Gary about his special paper delivery.

7.8 /10

S4.E15 ∙ False Witness

Fri, Mar 24, 2000

Gary witnesses two men trying to steal a car. And he learns one of them is Miguel Diaz's brother, who convinces Gary not to finger him which he does. But the paper tells him that he's headed down a bad road and tries to help him but his partner gets in his way.

7.4 /10

S4.E16 ∙ The Play's the Thing

Fri, Apr 07, 2000

Gary saves an actress during dress rehearsal from a falling light and encounters Crumb who is part of the amateur acting group. Gary later finds out the building is going to be burned down by an arsonist.

7.5 /10

S4.E17 ∙ Blind Faith

Fri, Apr 21, 2000

Teenagers are playing in an underground tunnel and find a live cannonball. While Gary saves them from an explosion, it blows up in front of Gary and he temporarily loses his eyesight. How can Gary save a young child when he cannot see?

7.8 /10

S4.E18 ∙ Occasionally Amber

Fri, Apr 28, 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 Amber, the jewel thief he encountered a while ago and allowed to escape. 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.

7.3 /10

S4.E19 ∙ Mel Schwartz, Bounty Hunter

Fri, May 05, 2000

Gary's clothes are stolen by a robber as he tries to save someone. Gary takes a costume from someone and continues on his task, however he is later sent to court for stealing. The next day, he sees the robber and tries to stop him.

7.4 /10

S4.E20 ∙ Time

Fri, May 12, 2000

Gary learns that Lucious Snow, the previous recipient of the paper, saved his life when he was a boy. And that that act has significance to something in the present.

9 /10

S4.E21 ∙ Everybody Goes to Rick's

Fri, May 19, 2000

Gary wakes up to get the paper and finds himself living in the past. It is 1929 and he is in an early business in the location of McGinty's. Gary tries to prevent the St Valentine's Day Massacre.

7.7 /10

S4.E22 ∙ Luck o' the Irish

Fri, May 26, 2000

Gary decides to cut off one of the bar's regulars who is a moocher until he settles his tab, and the man warns him that it's not good to do that. And when he helps someone the paper tells him to, he ruins a woman's chances of winning the lottery. That's when she comes to him, telling him that he owes her. So she lets him stay with him and claims that they're engaged. She's Irish and her family is extremely traditional and they don't like her being alone in the U.S. Her brother shows up and drives Gary nuts. And when Gary's mother shows up and likes the girl. She eventually tells Gary she wants to him to help her find the guy she really likes. The problem is, he doesn't know her.

7.5 /10