On November 5, 2007,

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ordered 13 new episodes for a fourth season of '' Weeds''. It started on Monday, June 16, 2008 and concluded on Monday, September 15, 2008. The season opener "Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her" was the last episode with "

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" as the theme song until season eight. The opening credits of subsequent episodes, after a recap of previous episodes, begin with a video

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unique to each episode. Each title card also has a prop or part of the setting that refers to a plot element in the episode. Silas and Shane are aged 17 and 13 respectively. However, Silas turns 18 at the end of the season.

Plot

Having lost both her Agrestic grow house and her residence in fires, Nancy relocates her family to the fictional California town of Ren Mar, near the

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border. The Botwin family move in with Andy and Judah's father Lenny (

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) in Ren Mar, and Guillermo hires Nancy to smuggle in illegal drugs from Mexico. Celia is in jail due to being the official lessee of Nancy's grow house, and she bargains to spy on Nancy for the DEA in exchange for her release. Guillermo's men catch Celia spying, but Nancy convinces them to spare Celia's life by claiming she was her partner. Andy enters a

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partnership with Doug, who has recently moved to Ren Mar to evade questions about Agrestic's finances. Doug falls for an undocumented woman he names "Mermex" after witnessing her unsuccessful attempt to enter the United States. Using his coyote enterprise, Doug locates Mermex and gets her into California; however, Mermex is repelled by Doug's nature and falls in love with Andy. Scorned, Doug turns Mermex in to immigration. Isabelle is unenthusiastic about moving in with Dean in Detroit, and she pesters Celia to let her stay in Ren Mar. Silas sets up a grow room in the rear of a gourmet cheese shop owned by a neighbor, Lisa (

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), an attractive woman in her thirties. Despite knowing that Silas is underage, Lisa becomes intimate with him, but reveals to Silas that her interests in him are just financial and physical. Heartbroken, Silas spurns her advances and ends their business relationship. Shane attacks the most popular boy at school without provocation in order to acquire a fearsome reputation. He also attracts the admiring attention of two classmates, Simone and Harmony, with whom he loses his virginity in a

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. Simone and Harmony later help Shane sell weed at the school. Guillermo's boss, whose identity is unknown to Nancy, has her open a maternity store. Nancy believes it is solely for money laundering until she finds a tunnel entrance in the back room. Though she is initially told it is for transporting marijuana, Nancy later learns that the tunnel is also used to transport other things, including guns and women. Unable to accept the human trafficking operation, Nancy becomes an informant for

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Captain Roy Till, even though she has begun a sexual relationship with Guillermo's crime boss, who is revealed as Esteban Reyes (

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), the mayor of

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. The resulting DEA raid and shootout ends with most of the Mexican drug runners, including Guillermo, arrested. While working at Nancy's store, Celia begins abusing the readily-available drugs. Isabelle and Dean stage an intervention, which spurs Celia to enter rehab and make amends to her family. Dean insists that Celia locate and make amends with their oldest daughter, Quinn, who departed during the show's inaugural episode for a Mexican boarding school named Casa Reforma. Newly graduated, Quinn and her boyfriend, Rodolfo, drug Celia and hold her hostage in order to extract a $200,000 ransom. Following the DEA raid, Esteban's lieutenant, Cesar (

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) obtains a report about the raid from a mole in the DEA. As a result, Till's partner/lover, Agent Schlatter, is brutally tortured and mutilated by Esteban's cartel until he gives up Nancy's name. Upon learning that Nancy had alerted the DEA to his tunnel, Esteban captures Nancy and intends to have her killed. In a final attempt to save her life, Nancy hands Esteban an ultrasound and reveals that she is pregnant with his child.

Cast

Main cast

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(13 episodes) *

Elizabeth Perkins Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. Her film roles have included ''About Last Night'' (1986), '' Big'' (1988), ''Avalon'' (1990), and '' He Said, She Said'' (1991), ''The Flintstones'' (1994), ''Miracle on 34th ...

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(13 episodes) *

Hunter Parrish Hunter Parrish Tharp (born May 13, 1987) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing the role of Silas Botwin in the Showtime series '' Weeds'' and for his performances in the Broadway productions of ''Godspell'' in the role of Jesu ...

as Silas Botwin (13 episodes) *

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as Shane Botwin (13 episodes) * Allie Grant as Isabelle Hodes (9 episodes) *

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(13 episodes) *

Kevin Nealon Kevin Nealon (; born November 18, 1953) is an American comedian and actor. He was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1986 to 1995, acted in several of the Happy Madison films, played Doug Wilson on the Showtime series '' Weeds'', and pr ...

as Doug Wilson (13 episodes)

Special guest stars

* Guillermo Díaz as Guillermo García Gómez *

as Esteban Reyes

Departures

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Tonye Patano Tonye T. Patano (born October 16, 1961) is an American actress. She may be best known as Heylia James on the television series '' Weeds''. She has appeared in television shows such as ''Law & Order'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Monk'' and ''Third ...

, and

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do not return, with their characters' whereabouts unknown after the fire in Majestic. Patano returns as Heylia for a four-episode arc in season seven, and Malco returns as Conrad for one episode in season eight.

Recurring cast

as Lenny Botwin *

as Lisa Ferris *

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as Dean Hodes *

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as Simone *

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as Harmony *

Maulik Pancholy Maulik Navin Pancholy (, born January 18, 1974) is an American actor and author who is best known for his roles as Jonathan on '' 30 Rock'', Baljeet Tjinder in ''Phineas and Ferb'', Neal in the first season of ''Whitney'', and as a character nam ...

as Sanjay Patel * Renée Victor as Lupita * Fatso-Fasano as Marvin * Joey Luthman as Rad Ferris *

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as Quinn Hodes *Becky Thyre as Pam Gruber *Julanne Chidi Hill as Clinique *

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as Ignacio Morero, Jr. *

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as Captain Roy Till *Anthony Ledesma as Bodyguard *

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as Dirty Man *Paul Alayo as Chewie *

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as Rudolpho *

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as Reyna *

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as Alphonso *

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as El Coyote *

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as DEA Agent Phil Shlatter *Onahoua Rodriguez as Mermex *Richard Azurdia as Davenport *Lisa Darr as Ann Carilli *

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as Minute-Man Leader *Rigo Sanchez as Mexican Mechanic *Jo Farkas as Bubbie *

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as Cracklynn *John Lafayette as Downtown Rehab Counselor *J. Anthony Pena as Guillermo's Henchman *

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as Billy Boesky *Ivo Nandi as Claudio *Mario Revolori as Dweeb *Manuel Urrego as Luis

Episodes

References

External links

* * {{Weeds 2008 American television seasons