21 Jump Street: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of 21 Jump Street Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Draw the Line
Sep 18, 1989
Booker resigns from the police force after solving a case that gets Hanson out of prison.
Say It Ain't So, Pete
Sep 25, 1989
Penhall gets caught up in the excitement as he and Hanson go undercover to bust a college gambling operation.
Eternal Flame
Oct 2, 1989
Hanson meets an old flame now married to the owner of a 80's nightclub suspected of providing LSD to high school students.
Come from the Shadows
Oct 9, 1989
Penhall finds himself falling for an illegal immigrant from El Salvador when the Jump Street unit is sent in to investigate a priest suspected of selling babies.
God is a Bullet
Oct 16, 1989
The Jump Street team intervenes when a tough new principal goes too far in his attempts to clean up a drug and crime infested inner city school.
Old Haunts in a New Age
Oct 30, 1989
During a Halloween string of high school fires, Hanson becomes a bit skeptical of a teen age psychic claiming to be able to predict where the next fire will occur.
Out of Control
Nov 6, 1989
Penhall and Ioki become rent a cops while Hanson becomes a member of a clique of thrill seeking kids who break into houses to annoy the rent a cops.
Stand by Your Man
Nov 13, 1989
While trying to expose a drug ring at a prestigious medical school, Hoffs is raped while on a date with one of the suspects who later claims that she seduced him.
Mike's P.O.V.
Nov 20, 1989
Hanson and Penhall investigate the murder of a high school teacher's wife and discover that the teacher hired one of his students to kill her.
Wheels and Deals (II)
Nov 27, 1989
Working on a tip from Booker, the Jump Street cops join a motorcycle caravan in order to bring Raymond Crane to justice. The crossover starts on Booker S01E08 Deals and Wheels (I)
Parental Guidance Suggested
Dec 4, 1989
While observing a family suspected of operating a burglary ring, Hoffs begins to suspect that a boy is being abused.
Things We Said Today
Dec 18, 1989
Ioki is confronted by a teenage boy with a gun, who three years earlier Ioki had talked into turning in his drug abusing family.
Research and Destroy
Jan 8, 1990
The Jump Street Cops are sent to investigate a college chemistry lab where it is suspected that new designer drugs are being manufactured.
A Change of Heart
Jan 15, 1990
A lesbian student makes a pass at Hoffs when she and Capt. Fuller go undercover at a high school to learn the identity of a student who was a witness to a teacher's murder.
Back from the Future
Jan 29, 1990
In the 21st century a young cop hoping to revive the Jump Street program interviews the retired officers who were there when it all started.
2245
Feb 5, 1990
Hanson tries to convince a juvenile inmate on death row to appear in a film intended to keep his peers out of prison.
Hi Mom
Feb 12, 1990
Hanson and Penhall expose a point shaving scheme when they go undercover to investigate the drug related death of a college basketball star.
Awomp-Bomp-Aloobomb, Aloop Bamboom
Feb 19, 1990
Hanson and Penhall find a way to get out of the cold while remaining on the job as they trail a suspected bomber to Florida during spring break.
La Bizca
Feb 26, 1990
Penhall ends up taking his nephew back to America after he and Hanson travel to El Salvador in order to find Penhall's wife, whom they learn was killed in the fighting.
Last Chance High
Mar 19, 1990
Donning their McQuaid brother aliases for one last time Hanson and Penhall discover a teenage girl who has kidnapped her baby sister to get her away from their abusive parents; whi
Unfinished Business
Apr 9, 1990
A handicapped policewoman asks Fuller to send her undercover to investigate a series of attacks on handicapped women; however, Fuller also send in Hoffs in a wheelchair.
Shirts and Skins
Apr 30, 1990
When the leader of a neo-Nazi group is murdered, Hoffs & Ioki go undercover in the liberal group suspected of the killing. While Penhall joins the Nazis to learn if they plan a vio
How I Saved the Senator
May 7, 1990
The Jump Street cops each relate a different version (with the teller as the hero of a film from their favorite genre), to a reporter investigating the foiled attempt to kill a sen
Rounding Third
May 14, 1990
After volunteering to become a Little League coach Penhall learns that one of the players was kidnapped by his father, from his mother and step-father.
Everyday is Christmas
May 21, 1990
After botching an assignment, Penhall is transferred to a different precinct where he learns the cops routinely accept bribes and finds himself the subject of a Jump Street investi
Blackout
Jun 18, 1990
Hoffs, Hanson and Penhall find themselves at the mercy of a defiant gang when all of them become trapped inside a school with out power.