Early Edition: Season 2

1997 · 22 episodes · ★ 8.3

What Season 2 of Early Edition

Gary Hobson is a Chicago stockbroker who checks into a hotel after an argument with his wife. Every morning he receives the Chicago Sun-Times one day early, along with an orange tabby cat of unknown origin. The newspaper describes accidents, crimes and disasters that have not yet happened, and Gary sets out to prevent them. His challenge is to decide which tragedies deserve his attention and to justify what he knows without anyone thinking he's crazy. The cases include a threat to McGinty's and an orphanage, a wedding with the risk of violence, and a sick child who refuses treatment. Chuck joins him on much of his missions.

22episodes

Sep 27, 1997premiered

May 23, 1998latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 Home
Sep 27, 1997 · 45 min
Gary's hotel room burns in an electrical fire. While wondering where he is going to live, Gary also finds out that a greedy businessman wants to purchase McGinty's and an orphanage in order to demolish them and build a parking lot. Gary and Chuck must save McGinty's and the orphanage, and Gary must find a new place to live.
Directing: Mel Damski · Starring: Caitlin Wachs, Paul Dooley, Liz Vassey, James Deuter
2x02 The Medal
Oct 4, 1997 · 45 min
Gary must help a Vietnam vet who has the Congressional Medal of Honor when a ceremony in his honor triggers feelings of guilt because of a mistake he made in Vietnam.
Starring: Louis Gossett Jr., Gay Thomas Wilson, Mushond Lee, Elaina Erika Davis
2x03 The Wedding
Oct 11, 1997 · 45 min
McGinty's is asked to cater the wedding of Gary's ex-girlfriend, his high school sweetheart. Her romantic feelings are still somewhat directed at Gary, and what's worse, her father has been under police's witness protection for three weeks and the paper warns of criminal and violent actions at the wedding.
Starring: Brian McNamara, Cari Shayne, Neil Flynn, James Handy
2x04 Jenny Sloane
Oct 18, 1997 · 45 min
Gary must help a young boy who is ill with leukimia, but is refusing treatment. Gary wants him to meet Jenny Sloane, Chicago's sweetheart who is ill with cancer. A Sun-Times columnist writes a column about Jenny Sloane.
Directing: Gary Nelson · Starring: John Spencer, Robyn Lively, Lisa Dodson, Kevin Gudahl
2x05 Downsized
Oct 25, 1997 · 45 min
Gary and Chuck must stop an old friend of theirs from their former job from having fatal plastic surgery to impress his girlfriend and enhance his career.
Directing: Mel Damski · Starring: Richard Gilliland, Amy Farrington, John Lordan, Romy Walthall
2x06
2x06 Angels and Devils
Nov 1, 1997 · 45 min
Sister Mary works with inner-city youths but begins to question her effectiveness and faith after witnessing too many young people ruin their lives through crime and violence. Gary tries to help her keep a young boy named Marcus on the straight and narrow path after his older brother, Kareem, is released from prison. Kareem has plans to tutor Marcus in the ways of crime and he has no patience for Gary's interference.
Starring: Judy Greer, Nia Peeples, Vicellous Shannon, Nigel Thatch
2x07 Redfellas
Nov 8, 1997 · 45 min
The newspaper arrives with an article written in Russian. Gary saves a cab driver in a seemingly unrelated article written in English. The cab driver is able to read the Russian article to Gary. Gary then must save a beautiful Russian violinist from being murdered and brings her together to her long lost father.
Directing: John T. Kretchmer · Starring: Mike Nussbaum, Stephanie Romanov, Robert Breuler, Patrick Clear
2x08 March in Time
Nov 15, 1997 · 45 min
After learning that a leader of a racist movement will be assasinated during a march, Gary begans to debate whether he should save his life or let him die. Marissa manages to convince him to save him, but the dilemma is further compromised when the leader's comrades attack and vandalize McGinty's. Now Gary has to stop the sniper from killing the leader of the movement. The situation is further complicated when the leader's son befriends a young African-American kid.
Directing: Robert Ginty · Starring: Emile Hirsch, Nick Searcy, Kevin Dobson, Benjamin LeVert
2x09 A Regular Joe
Nov 22, 1997 · 45 min
Gary is stressed out and just wants a regular life. He is having recurring dreams about a psychiatrist who encourages him to take Sundays off from the paper. Gary decides to take that advice. However, he finds out that he needs to convince a famous quarterback to stop playing in order to avoid a serious injury.
Directing: Mel Damski · Starring: Pat O'Brien, Scott Adsit, Dick Butkus, Emily Procter
2x10 A Bris is Just a Bris
Dec 20, 1997 · 45 min
Gary comes between his cook and an accident-prone librarian. Chuck turns truthful while dating a Rabbi.
Directing: Scott Paulin · Starring: Jessica Hecht, Stephanie March, Jason Schombing, Karen Fineman
2x11 A Minor Miracle
Jan 10, 1998 · 45 min
Gary's search for a missing child makes him a suspect. When the police won't listen to him, he goes into the flooding underground sewer to try to rescue the little girl before it's too late.
Directing: Jim Charleston · Starring: Taylor Momsen, Tim Kazurinsky, Bill Nunn, John Beasley
2x12 Romancing the Throne
Jan 17, 1998 · 45 min
Gary must deal with a stowaway princess who hid in his trunk.
Directing: Gary Nelson · Starring: Paxton Whitehead, Scott Adsit, Hayley DuMond, Nancy Fish
2x13 Walk, Don't Run
Jan 24, 1998 · 45 min
Gary tries to use his nomination to a public job to get a light put at a dangerous crossroad.
Directing: Richard Heus · Starring: Carl Wright, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, George Murdock, Don Stark
2x14
2x14 The Return of Crumb
Jan 31, 1998 · 45 min
Three weeks before he is due to retire, Detective Crumb comes under investigation by the city's District Attorney under suspicion that he may be corrupt.
Starring: Ron Dean, James Chisem, Michael Mantell, Geoffrey Rivas
2x15 Mum's the Word
Apr 4, 1998 · 45 min
Gary takes Marissa, who poses as an Egyptian princess, to gain admission to an exclusive museum exhibition so that he can save an archeaologist from being killed by an ancient Egyptian stone artifact. Gary pushes the man out of the way only to see that someone wanted the archeaologist killed. The day after, Gary reads in the newspaper that there'll be a fire in the museum, so he checks up on a journalist who was at the museum the night the archeaologist was almost killed. When the eyes are stolen from a cat mummy, a curse is released, causing everyone involved, including Marissa, to fall seriously ill.
Directing: John Patterson · Starring: Héctor Elizondo, Karina Lombard, Shaun Toub, Rocky Carroll
2x16 Where or When
Apr 11, 1998 · 45 min
After Gary is injured in a fall, he becomes housebound while his broken leg heals. In a "Rear Window" style plot, he watches people in the apartment building across the street and is attracted to a new neighbor who seems to have been the victim of a murder almost 50 years ago.
Directing: David Grossman · Starring: George D. Wallace, Ron Dean, Alexondra Lee, Andrew Rothenberg
2x17 The Fourth Carpathian
Apr 18, 1998 · 45 min
Gary's parents receive the paper when Gary is trapped in an absndoned theater trying to save a monkey. Gary's parents and Crumb accidentally bring together a family of Letonian trapeze artists in Chicago.
Directing: Gary Nelson · Starring: Ron Dean, John Kassir, Sharif Atkins, Tess Harper
2x18 The Quality of Mercy
Apr 25, 1998 · 45 min
The paper sends Gary to save a man, John Hernandez, from getting killed in a road accident. After doing that, the paper changes and it states that Hernandez is going to kill Rachel Stone, the prosecutor who sent him to prison. Gary can't help but wonder why the paper sent him on such an errand. Gary then goes to the courthouse to stop Hernandez; Hernandez gets away and Gary is arrested and brought to Ms. Stone. When he tries to warn her about Hernandez; she doesn't believe him because Gary won't reveal the source of his information. Hernandez gets away by knocking Chuck out and taking his car. While Gary waits at the hospital, the paper now says that Hernandez is going to try again this time at her home. Gary goes there and gets him and Ms. Stone taken as hostage.
Directing: Fisher Stevens · Starring: Ron Dean, Luis Guzmán, Ryan Kelley, John Beasley
2x19 Show Me the Monet
May 2, 1998 · 45 min
Gary learns that a British man who assisted him with a mission is actually a forger with many enemies.
Directing: Mel Damski · Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Sherry Miller, Ken Bradley, Ralph P. Martin
2x20 Don't Walk Away, Renee
May 9, 1998 · 45 min
Gary helps Renee, a woman who is being targeted by thieves.
Directing: Gary Nelson · Starring: Lori Heuring, Tess Harper, Frank Miller, William Devane
2x21 Hot Time in Old Town
May 16, 1998 · 45 min
Gary reads in the paper that a pylon at a construction site drops and knocks over a nearby building killing thousands. He goes to try and prevent it from happening only to get knocked out and wakes up 2 days before the Great Chicago Fire. He meets Morris, who looks like Chuck. He also meets Jesse, a young boy who is the brother of a woman, Elanor, who is a singer at a saloon, and looks exactly like Marissa, and is a victim of racism. Gary must help Jessee and Elanor, and try to stop the fire from happening.
Directing: Gary Nelson · Starring: Scott Bryce, Brandon Hammond, Darwin Harris, Molly Glynn
2x22 Second Sight Season Finale
May 23, 1998 · 45 min
Marissa sees a vision and thinks her sight is returning. Chuck witnesses a mob murder, and is in trouble. Gary, Chuck, and Crumb are taken hostage, and Marissa must save them.
Starring: Ron Dean, Jacqueline Williams, James Andelin