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The O.C. Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
The Avengers
Thu, Nov 2, 200643 mins
During the last days of summer before college, Seth is working at a comic book store in Newport. Ryan has problems dealing with the issues of the past and pushes himself with his new job. Kirsten is preparing Ryan a "care package" but neither she nor Seth can persuade Ryan to come home since he moved out after Marissa's sudden death. At Brown University, Summer settles into her new dorm room with new friend Che, who's an activist who wants to rally the students for a protest. Taylor phones Summer from the Sorbonne in Paris to ask about her current living status.
Episode 2
The Gringos
Wed, Nov 8, 200643 mins
Seth tags along with Ryan who travels to Enseniada, Mexico to look for the fugitive Volchok, and tries to hold off Ryan from doing something drastic. Back in Newport, there is a clothing drive at Harbor High, where Julie persuades Kaitlin to participate in it, until she learns Kaitlin's true agenda. At Brown University, Taylor pays Summer a surprise visit, but does not want to confide in her about her problems of her own back in France.
Episode 3
The Cold Turkey
Thu, Nov 9, 200642 mins
As Thanksgiving approaches, Sandy is approached by the fugitive Kevin Volchock to negotiate a surrender for the car accident that unintentionally killed Marissa. Ryan finds out about Sandy's meeting with him, and tries to take advantage to get his revenge against Volchock. Meanwhile, Seth agrees to let Taylor stay at the Cohen house while Kirsten encourages her to face her mother to reveal the truth about her stay in Paris. Also, bad-girl Kaitlin meddles more in the conflict between Julie and Neil to cause more friction between them, while Summer also arrives back in town for Thanksgiving and is not pleased to see Taylor staying with the Cohens.
Episode 4
The Metamorphosis
Thu, Nov 16, 200643 mins
As Summer tries to return to the celebrity-loving-gossip girl she once was, she realizes that making the trip to Brown may have changed her forever. Fortunately, Seth continues to be supportive of the new Summer through all her endeavors. Similarly, Ryan empathizes with Taylor and surprisingly helps her out of her bind when her French husband's lawyer arrives wanting Taylor to sign annulments papers. Meanwhile, Julie and Kaitlin both make attempts to stay out of trouble, but both bad girls cannot resist the temptation to add a little spice to their lives with their flirtations.
Episode 5
The Sleeping Beauty
Thu, Nov 30, 200644 mins
After Ryan's kind help to get out of her ill-considered French marriage, Taylor makes him her third consecutive 'possible' true love, smitten enough to call the moody mourner 'funny', and enforces 'ex' Seth's help to submit him to her 'sleep therapy', which only gives him a sleepless night with his eerily sharp free 'analyst'. Kaitlin's hunky 25 year-old tennis instructor, Spencer Bullit, is masterly stolen by mother Julie, whose sexy German twenty-something 'personal trainer' she has chased. Summer gets caught breaking into a university lab and confesses an illegal 'liberation' of lab rabbits which made no sense, and regrets covering for Ché when he betrays her to the school board to save his own skin. But Summer does keep one rabbit, a mobility obese white rabbit she named 'Pankakes'. At a fund-raiser for Sandy and Kiki's project, Julie charms Texan magnate Gordon Bullit into joining, then finds out that her jock lover, Spencer, is there as Kaitlin's date... and is Gordon's son. Taylor learns by accident Ryan is not interested in her, but Seth's amazement at her quitting makes her try again and win his friendship.
Episode 6
The Summer Bummer
Thu, Dec 7, 200643 mins
After his kiss with Taylor, Ryan stays aloof because he has sexy fantasies about her seducing him, but she really wants to be good friends till further notice, and even pretends to have a new lover, fellow Asian movie collectibles amateur Roger. Furthermore, for the confident position of 'new Seth', Taylor gets competition from both Kirsten who plays her experience concerning girls and her husband Sandy. Texan tycoon Gordon Bullit is still after Julie Cooper, who tries to defuse him by double-dating with Kiki and (nobody asked him) Sandy, while Gordon's son, Spencer Bullit, turns up at the ladies' firm with a bunch of unexpected male paying clients. Kaitlin uses mother's absence to throw a pool party to outclass an arrogant in-crowd girl's posh party. There Ché, who fled Seth (who also turns up there) turns up, determined to get Summer to forgive him for her suspension from Brown, postponing her whole new life in Rhode Island, even if that takes handcuffing them two together. Kaitlin finds out Connor, her preferred playmate for seven minutes in a closet, is probably 'in the closet' despite his denial to be gay. Ryan knows for sure, finding the hunk enjoying himself butt-naked under the covers with- 'Taylor's' Roger.
Episode 7
The Chrismukk-huh?
Thu, Dec 14, 200644 mins
When Ryan and Taylor have an argument over where they stand with their whatever relationship they have, they both fall off a ladder while Ryan is putting up Christmas lights and both wake up in a alternate reality of what life is like had Ryan never came to Newport: Sandy is the uptight mayor of Newport Beach and married to Julie Cooper; Kirsten is married to Jimmy Cooper; Seth is still a socially awkward geek and Summer is a mindless, narcissistic party animal who is engaged to Chester "Che" Winchester, whom is having a fling with the sex-addict Julie. Ryan also learns from Kaitlin that Marissia in fact died from a drug overdose three years prior during the road trip to Tijuana, and Ryan was not there to save her. Back in the real world, Seth tries to arrange his annual Christmukka party and then tries to move it to the hospital where the comatose Ryan and Taylor are. Also, Julie and Katilin are planning to go to Riverside to visit Julie's parents, but get detoured when they try to stop Taylor's insensitive mother from leaving town for the holidays.
Episode 8
The Earth Girls Are Easy
Thu, Dec 28, 200643 mins
Seth is clueless about what to do for New Year's Eve. Solution? Crash the Ryan-Taylor road trip to Vegas. Now add pregnancy tests, a space alien rave, thefts, misunderstandings, pursuits and a marriage proposal and it's time to welcome 2007!
Episode 9
The My Two Dads
Thu, Jan 4, 200744 mins
After Kaitlin presents a ruffled history to her class, she ends up getting assigned a tutor: a socially awkward school band member named Will Tutt. Meanwhile, Summer and Seth resume with their recent commitment to get married, despite how the two really feel about it. Julie tells Kirsten of the true identity of Frank that he happens to be Ryan's father just out of prison, while Sandy questions Frank's motives in Newport. When Sandy invites Frank over for dinner at their house, things don't go as well as presumed.
Episode 10
The French Connection
Thu, Jan 11, 200744 mins
Ryan and Taylor experience a bump in their blossoming relationship when Taylor's French ex-husband, Henri-Michel, comes to Newport to promote a novel that he has written about his and Taylor's whirlwind romance and brief marriage. Meanwhile, Seth goes to Seattle for Dr. Roberts' blessing to marry Summer, while back in Newport, Summer becomes acquainted with former school mate Holly Fisher, who's now married herself, and shows Summer the style of that it's like to be a "Newpsie" housewife. Kirsten becomes suspicious about Julie's handling of their dating service and finally learns the truth after sealing Julie's mobile phone with her clients names and phone numbers on it. Also, Kaitlin finds an interest in her personal tutor, Will. But she's afraid of what he thinks of her.
Episode 11
The Dream Lover
Wed, Jan 17, 200744 mins
Take her, I want her. Ryan overcomes his indecision and competes with Henri-Michel for Taylor's affections. Che leads Seth on a trek of spiritual renewal. Embrace your inner otter, Seth! Meanwhile, Kirsten and Julie have to do some damage control.
Episode 12
The Groundhog Day
Thu, Jan 25, 200743 mins
Taylor tries to find a cure for her 'stalking' habits, Che struggles to reveal to Seth his 'profound' insight, Kirsten learns that 'life truly starts at 40' and Kaitlin has her choice in stepdads set on Bullet. Meanwhile, Julie has a hot mystery date for Friday night...
Episode 13
The Case of the Franks
Thu, Feb 1, 200744 mins
Seth and Summer come upon a fortune teller whose prediction makes the two question whether they are truly meant for each other. Ryan gets back in touch with his father (with a little help from Taylor). When the two teens discover a love connection between Frank and Julie despite her pending engagement, a Valentine's competition is sparked between "Team Bullit" and "Team Frank". Meanwhile, with a new baby on the way, Kirsten finds herself dwelling on an old secret involving Jimmy Cooper.
Episode 14
The Shake Up
Thu, Feb 8, 200743 mins
On Taylor's 19th birthday she hopes Ryan will say he loves her but is unsure whether she should tell him she got into Berkely as well. Meanwhile, Summer tells Seth that she feels that he should find something in his life that he really cares about, whereas Kirsten is having second thoughts about raising another child in the uptight community of Newport after she meets Holly Fisher and other 'Newpsie' women at a yoga class, all of whom are no older than their 20s. Also, Kaitlin continues to resent Frank Atwood's presence around the house with her mother. But at the end, something unexpected happens even though it's been predicted.
Episode 15
The Night Moves
Thu, Feb 15, 200743 mins
In the immediate aftermath of a violent earthquake that rocks Newport, everyone tries to struggle to stay together and keep their spirits up. Sandy and Kirsten are stranded at the local shopping center where kirsten has an accident. Across town, Julie and Kaitlyn are stranded in a demolished ice cream parlor on the pier with a pitiful worker of the place. Meanwhile, Ryan is seriously wounded with a piece of glass in his side, but keeps the news from Taylor to avoid panicking her. Seth soon learns of Ryan's condition and attempts to drive him to safety while Summer and Taylor search the ruins of the Roberts house for Summer's missing rabbit, leading to Taylor having a confrontation with her mother.
Episode 16
The End's Not Near, It's Here
Thu, Feb 22, 200743 mins
Six months after the trauma of the Newport earthquake, Ryan and the rest of the Cohens struggle with their living arrangements in the aftermath of the destruction of their house. Both Ryan and Taylor struggle with their feelings for each other despite knowing that they have nothing in common. Seth feels he's keeping Summer back from her activist work programs, but does not want to let go of her. Meanwhile, Julie, whom is now three months pregnant herself, is planning her upcoming wedding to Gordon Bullit, but Kaitlin realizes that she is not over Frank Atwood. Seth and Ryan visit the old house that Sandy and Kirsten lived in before their move to Newport Beach. When they pressure Sandy and Kirsten to visit their old house, where a gay couple now resides there, Kirsten happens to go into labor, and soon, Julie's wedding becomes the scene of the place.