Scarecrow and Mrs. King: 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 Scarecrow and Mrs. King 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
Stemwinder (1)
Sep 19, 1986
The Agency suspects Lee and Amanda of selling out after a vindictive KGB agent traps them in a sting operation.
Stemwinder (2)
Sep 26, 1986
Suspected of selling out to the Soviets, Lee and Amanda go into hiding after learning Lee is the target of an Agency D-1 manhunt.
Unfinished Business
Oct 3, 1986
CIA files indicate that Lee's parents were double agents and link the past with a current plot to assassinate a dignitary.
No Thanks for the Memory
Oct 10, 1986
A frightened Soviet Agent is found hiding in Amanda's yard, claiming that the KGB smuggled him into the U.S. to help knock out America's strategic-command system.
It's in the Water
Oct 17, 1986
The Agency and a terrorist seek a chemist, who once worked with Amanda on ecology issues.
Night Crawler
Oct 31, 1986
Lee's attempt to make long-range plans with Amanda is interrupted when she is taken hostage by an Arab terrorist, who wants to trade her to the Libyans.
Billy's Lost Weekend
Nov 7, 1986
Lee and Amanda help Billy retrace his steps to remember details of a lost weekend during which he may have compromised agents working in Africa.
Photo Finish
Nov 14, 1986
A spy starts a smear campaign against Amanda, who's suspended, after a background check reveals that she was once involved in anti-American demonstrations.
The Man Who Died Twice
Nov 21, 1986
Lee's top Vietnamese contact fakes his own death to protect his family and prevent a terrorist bloodbath. Lee and Amanda have second thoughts about how their marriage would affect
Need to Know
Dec 5, 1986
Lee investigates corruption at a newspaper whose publisher has apparent ties to a Romanian agent and apparent interest in U.S. strategic materials.
Santa's Got a Brand New Bag
Dec 19, 1986
Just before Christmas, a distinguished ex-toy designer gives Lee a tip on a toy factory that's a front for sophisticated weapons development.
Any Number Can Play
Jan 2, 1987
Evidence turns up that Dotty's new sweetheart is posing as a CIA agent caught in a blackmail scheme.
Promises to Keep
Jan 9, 1987
The DEA provides evidence that the man connected to a drug kingpin is Lee's friend T.P. Aquinas.
Rumors of My Death
Jan 23, 1987
A skeleton with Lee's identification is found in a construction site, grounding the Agent when a copy of his high security passport goes up on the black market.
Bad Timing
Feb 6, 1987
The Soviets inject Lee with a virus that leaves him only 72 hours to live.
Do You Take This Spy?
Feb 13, 1987
Before departing for their secret wedding ceremony, Lee and Amanda have to wrap up a case that involved an art theft and murder. They race to wrap up the case in order to be on tim
Mission of Gold
Feb 20, 1987
Amanda is shot while on her honeymoon. Lee tracks down the shooter as he helps a retired marine archaeologist prove that doubloons salvaged from an 18th century Spanish ship are co
One Flew East
Feb 27, 1987
Lee and Amanda trail a retired right-wing agent connected to the kidnapping of an outspoken poet and antinuclear activist.
All That Glitters
May 7, 1987
A security breach may be tied to a jewel collection, so Lee is assigned to "get next to" the jewels' current owner---an old flame.
Suitable for Framing
May 14, 1987
Lee and Francine are stripped of their Agency credentials after passing top-secret documents to a youth, who turns out to be a Soviet spy
A Matter of Choice
May 21, 1987
Lee is consumed with capturing an old nemesis who killed two of Lee's top contacts and now plots to sell Stealth radar plans to Tehran.
The Khrushchev List
May 28, 1987
Lee suspects that retired Agency founder Harry Thornton (Howard Duff) and former Soviet Embassy courier Christina Golitsyn (Barbara Bain) are on an impossible mission: to obtain Kh