Breaking NewsŘada 1
The story of the news team at I24, a 24-hour cable news network. Bill Dunne is the anchor of the network's flagship news hour. He joined by Janet LeClaire, an attractive blonde who assumes the co-anchor position when her predecessor dies, despite her lack of a serious news background. The anchors and in-studio, off-camera personalities are joined by the stories of several "man-on-the-scene" reporters and camerapeople.
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- Rachel Glass and the No Good, Very Bad Day
D3Rachel Glass and the No Good, Very Bad DayRachel and Peter hold blind ads for a new field producer and, against Rachel's judgement, hire Ethan Barnes, Jack's son. Mel nearly gets killed trying to follow up on a story concerning a gang of young Asians called The Kong Boys. Their lieutenant, Ricky Tran, did a long interview with I24 prior to testifying against gang leader Dennis Chung -- an unaired, unedited interview which a crooked judge demands to see, even though that violates the first amendment. Mel sticks to his principals and refuses to hand the tape over, and ends up threatened by the Kong Boys and arrested for his trouble. Quentin and Janet both come to Rachel with their problems; the former because he feels underappreciated, the latter because she's been sent back to doing puff pieces. Jamie and Julian come to blows while doing a story on wilderness survival techniques, and inadvertently make the rest of the newsroom think something happened to them when they don't answer their pagers. Meanwhile, Janet hires a publicist, Lori Stark, to help boost her profile; and after Mel's situation and a visit to her cousin's, Rachel wishes she had a family. - Wall-to-Wall Plane CrashD5
Wall-to-Wall Plane CrashNew partners Julian and Mel witness a commuter jet crash in Washington, and become rescuers first, reporters later. I24 brings in retired NTSB investigator Donald Simms to explain what might have gone wrong. Ethan is made Jamie's new producer. Bill has a fit when Peter devotes nonstop coverage to the crash, at the expense of his interview with a congresswoman. Julian and Mel discover a home video amongst the wreckage, and uplink it to the newsroom. Jamie isn't truthful with Julian about the new pairings. Peter makes Jamie interview Mel the hero, while Julian goes to the hospital to play the tape to the survivor, Robert Jenkins (who happens to be the man they saved), whose family seen on it were killed. Janet's conscience is torn when, in hopes of a good scoop, she misleads a woman who may have lost a loved one on the crash into believing she might have too. The congresswoman throws a tantrum during her interview, because the airline I24 is pointing the finger at is in her district. With the team's help, the NTSB confirms that the crash was caused by banned pressurized air canisters that exploded upon takeoff. Robert Jenkins repays Julian by suing him for having the tape aired. Meanwhile, I24 has problems with their phone lines. - Dunne's ChoiceD6
Dunne's ChoiceWhen the USS Gadsden submarine ends up stranded, Bill's friend, the hotshot Admiral Mack Riles, persuades him to sit on the story for a while. A nervous Janet, who overhears their conversation, gets the co-anchor job. Quentin is excited when a prison grants him and Jamie (who vehemently opposes the death penalty) an exclusive interview with convicted serial killer Raymond Paul Briner, who's being executed this week, and who might spill the beans on where he buried a female victim -- which would allow her parents to give her a proper burial. After CNN breaks the sub story and Riles sells Bill a bogus excuse as to what went wrong, Janet puts on her Sherlock Holmes' cap to get to the bottom of the mystery: Riles pushed up its launch date before kinks were worked out, sent it off to Korea, and is pulling the wool over his friend's eyes. Bill helps his wife, Allison -- who quit a job at ABC -- find work at I24, while Mel tries to convince Peter to give him less work so he can have more time for Russell. Thanks to Janet, Bill opts to expose Riles even before learning that all 140 sailors died on board. - VictimsD7
VictimsAfter Ethan's date informs him that she knows the name of an accused rapist's unidentified victim, he hands the story over to Quentin, as he's more interested in toxic waste being illegally burned off near Vancouver. Together with Jamie, Ethan heads off to Canada to get proof that the PVC being burned is causing physical harm to people, but their would-be star witness, worker Ted Flynn, is afraid of the consequences of ratting out his bosses -- even with his son choking from the fumes. Quentin helps track down the rape victim, Mary Corsette, although it's not until after Rachel strikes out with her that she lets Quentin have his first crack at producing. Meanwhile, when Bill struggles to find his new co-anchorwoman, Peter suggests Janet try out for the position. Janet tries to do an interview with Mary -- who has a history of filing frivolous sexual harrassment suits -- but Mary storms out of I24 over not getting the control Quentin promised her, and the man she's accusing, Nobel Prize-winning professor Dr. Richard Leonard, goes on TV and accuses her of being a settlement-happy liar. Just who is the real victim? - Bad WaterD11
Bad WaterRay Stevens, leader of the militia group the Montana Regulars, drives an undercover Ethan and a teenage kid, Daryl, to a federal courthouse for a surprise: it blows up. Ethan, who caught the explosion on tape, ends up arrested as an accomplice in the bombing, which killed four people. The arrest leads to a stalemate between the FBI, who want a tape of the compound in I24's possession, and I24, who want a tape of the explosion in the FBI's possession -- leaving Ethan caught in the middle. After he's let out of custody and blows the whistle on Ray, Ethan has to contend with the tenacious media, while trying to convince the innocent Daryl to go to the police. But after Daryl does, Ethan's life winds up in danger. Meanwhile, Allison is scheduled to do an interview on sexual harrassment of women dropouts in the military, but she isn't even interested in doing the interview... until she finds out Peter and Rachel want to push it back in lieu of the bombing. And Mel smells gray market when a Russian neighbor moves in with an array of expensive cars -- the kind of cars no one on the block can afford.
