EPISODE

1. Pilot

fter being kicked out of his house by his wife, Gary Hobson is forced to move into a hotel room. It was a regular Monday morning, except for a mysterious paper that was delivered by an even more mysterious yellow cat at his door. At first Gary didn't pay much attention to the paper, but after a while he realized that wasn't a regular paper, it was tomorrow's paper. The first thing Gary does is get himself fired at his stockbroking job by messing around with stocks without his boss's permission. Then he devotes his free time to earn some money on bets, and eventually gives it to Marissa, the receptionist at his old job, who's blind and needs a dog. After Gary's regular news trader suffers an accident, Gary realizes that he could have saved him. The paper came for a reason after all. And so Gary decides to stop a shooting at a bank, which causes a lot of confusion. But that doesn't keep the paper from coming every morning, at 6:30 am sharp.

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After being kicked out of his house by his wife, Marcia, stockbroker Gary Hobson is forced to move into a hotel room. There, he starts to receive a mysterious newspaper that is delivered to his door with a yellow cat. At first Gary does not think anything of it, but after a while, he realizes that it is tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. This gives Gary the opportunity to use the Paper for his own gain or to use it to help people. The first case of helping someone was winning $15,000 by betting on horse races, knowing the outcome, then giving it to his blind friend Marissa so she can buy a guide dog. Then Gary knew that a bank robbery would occur, but when he tried to warn the police, they scoffed. Then Marissa went to the bank to try to foil the robbery, and Gary noticed that the paper's headlined of the robbery death toll had changed from 9 to 10. Fearing that Marissa was the new casualty, Gary rushes to the bank. Ultimately he stops the robbery by talking to the robber and after accepting his destiny, plans to send him a winning lottery ticket to help his financial troubles. Guest Stars: Felicity Huffman, Ron Dean, Neil Flynn, and Marc Vann.

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