Early Edition: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Early Edition Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
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 orphanag
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.
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
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 colu
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.
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
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
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 conv
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
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.
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
Romancing the Throne
Jan 17, 1998 · 45 min
Gary must deal with a stowaway princess who hid in his trunk.
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.
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.
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 Egyp
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
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 tr
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
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.
Don't Walk Away, Renee
May 9, 1998 · 45 min
Gary helps Renee, a woman who is being targeted by thieves.
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 kno
Second Sight
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.