Gangsta Jake

The Birth and Death of the American Dream told through the perspective of a Brazilian Filmmaker living in Los Angeles.

After ABC renewed Grey's Anatomy for a fourth season, consisting of seventeen episodes. This was a reduced number of episodes, due to the 2007/08 Writers Guild of America strike, which caused production to cease from February to April, leaving the show with no writing staff during that time. Therefore, at the beginning of the fourth season, the show aired its 5th and final in dependant special entitled "Come Rain or Shine". It was created to transition viewers from Grey's Anatomy to (the new spin-off) Private Practice. Narration was provided by the editors of People magazine.

Zheng Ligun, a death row inmate who was to be executed, was suddenly hit by an earthquake while being escorted. He and the serious criminals who escaped from death seemed to gain "freedom", but in fact they fell into another purgatory.

Yuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.

Tom Casey reports to the police some youngsters stealing from cars. He becomes the target of the 3 teenagers, who start to terrorise him and his family.

Fifteen-year-old Sarah is at a crisis point in her life - she has to cope with deafness, her mother's boyfriend, peer group acceptance and an increasing sexual awakening.