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Leap Years - S1 - E9
1993: Beth is torn between her feelings for Joe and Josh's marriage proposal. Joe discovers that Josh's father is being sued. Gregory prepares for sex scenes in his play. 2001: Joe's carrer starts to pick up. Athena threatens to sue Gregory. Beth deals with pressure over Joe's success. 2008: A Tragedy strikes while a romance is rekindling.
Leap Years: Season 1 - 20 Episode s
1x1 - Pilot (1)
July 29, 2001
1993: Athena Barnes, an actress/singer that's hoping to become famous, is throwing a party in the East Village. Her friend, Gregory Paget, is attending. Gregory has hopes of becoming a filmmaker in the future. Along with Gregory is Josh Adler and Joe Rivera, with whom he shares an apartment with. Josh's dad is a very wealthy real estate dealer and Joe is working on becoming a lawyer. One of Athena's friends from yoga class, Beth Greenway, also attends the paty. Beth is a teacher. Josh and Joe both go after Beth and try to win a date with her. Their plans are interrupted when a man with a gun decides he'd like to join the party, too. 2001: Joe and Beth are now married and live in a lavish apartment in New York. They also have a three year old son named Tyler. Joe has become a lawyer and is in the middle of a big case, defending a very powerful man on the charge of murder. Beth is no longer a teacher, but is now a full time homemaker. Josh has become a real estate developer,
1x2 - Pilot (2)
July 29, 2001
1993: Athena Barnes, an actress/singer that's hoping to become famous, is throwing a party in the East Village. Her friend, Gregory Paget, is attending. Gregory has hopes of becoming a filmmaker in the future. Along with Gregory is Josh Adler and Joe Rivera, with whom he shares an apartment with. Josh's dad is a very wealthy real estate dealer and Joe is working on becoming a lawyer. One of Athena's friends from yoga class, Beth Greenway, also attends the paty. Beth is a teacher. Josh and Joe both go after Beth and try to win a date with her. Their plans are interrupted when a man with a gun decides he'd like to join the party, too. 2001: Joe and Beth are now married and live in a lavish apartment in New York. They also have a three year old son named Tyler. Joe has become a lawyer and is in the middle of a big case, defending a very powerful man on the charge of murder. Beth is no longer a teacher, but is now a full time homemaker. Josh has become a real estate developer,
1x3 - Episode 3
August 5, 2001
1993: Josh and Beth begin dating. Josh tries to impress Beth with the fact that he works on real estate projects that help out people with low incomes. While having lunch with Beth in one of the complexes that is being renovated, Josh is schocked to find out that a Union representative is now working with his father, Russ Adler. Russ has now had all of the locals that were working on the project fired. After Beth visits Josh at his shared apartment, she and Joe wait outside to get a cab. They decide to put their first meeting in the past and start over. It's pretty clear that there's a little something more going on between them. 2001: Joe is still very busy with the Brackett trial. Meanwhile, Beth is up for house-hunting and has finally convinced Joe to look at some houses out in the country in Millbrook. Joe doesn't like the idea of living in Millbrook until he finds out that the senior partners of his law firm have weekend houses there. Beth is happy when Joe agrees that th
1x4 - Episode 4
August 12, 2001
1993: Athena is getting ready for an audition. However, she feels pretty insecure about her acting. Gregory tries to coach her and make her more confident about her acting. After they rehearse and Gregory talks to her, she feels like she would be perfect playing Cora in ""The Iceman Cometh."" When Athena gets to the audition, she realizes that she's not auditioning for the role of Cora, but for the role of Maggie. She is not prepared for the new role at all. The director, Randy Gendel, leaves Athena feeling worthless. Gregory talks to Athena yet again and makes her feel like she should ask for a second chance. When she does get a second chance, it's not clear how far she'll have to go in order to win the role. Meanwhile, Carlito Rivera, Joe's brother, is trying to get a job working in the mailroom at Joe's firm. Joe is reluctant to help his brother out, figuring that Carlito would make him look bad. Teresa, the Office Manager, ends up hiring Carlito without talking to Joe abou
1x5 - Episode 5
August 19, 2001
1993: Joe Rivera solves an environmental lawsuit and one of his superiors, Andersen takes credit for it. When hanging out with Josh, Beth, Gregory, and Athena, he runs into his brother, Carlito. Joe discovers that Carlito weighs in on Joe's situation with Andersen. Josh continues to try and have sex with Beth but ends up partying instead. 2001: Joe ends up staying at the office (even after promising Beth they would both go to Millbrook to look at new houses) because of new developments in the Edgar Brackett murder case. When Joe comes home, he discovered that Beth has bought a home in Millbrook without him. 2008: Frannie Batista, Joe's campaign manager, talks Josh into letting Joe hold a fund raiser at the Josh's restaurant. (Even though Joe and Josh's friendship is rocky). Josh's attention isn't focused on Frannie, however, because he's got another problem that needs attention. Josh confronts Janine, his pastry chef, about her flirting with him.
1x6 - Episode 6
August 26, 2001
1993: Beth's runs into her ex-fiance, Booth Danforth. When Booth tries his old ways with Beth, she runs to Joe explaining the relationship. Joe confesses to her that he doesn't feel like he's on the same team with his law firm. When they are about to explain why they have been avoiding eachother, Gregory interupts and notices their vibe towards one another. Beth stands up to Booth and sleeps with Josh. 2001: Beth, Joe, and their son Tyler, take a weekend trip at their country home. Tyler has an asthma attack and Joe realizes he forgot to check Tyler's inhaler before they left. Tyler comes out of it fine and Joe realizes he hasn't been a good father lately. This brings Beth and Joe closer together. When Josh dates Gregory's friend, he suspects her of being a transvestite. 2008: When Athena is rehearsing for a Gay Alliance fund raiser Josh is hosting, Gregory discovers her using a drug called ""slag"". When Athena looks for more ""slag"" after Gregory flushes it down the toilet, G
1x7 - Episode 7
September 2, 2001
1993: Athena gets a lead in an off-off-off Broadway play but is upset because she knows the show is crap and feels no one would come to see it. Gregory calls on a college friend, Stokely Mullins, to get an audience and a critic from a local paper to catch Athena's performance. Stokely tells Gregory that she wants to produce his film with help from German investors. An unsure Gregory has doubts because he hasn't finished the script. Athena gives gregory support and assures him everything will work out. 2001: When Beth runs into to Chloe (The women who Beth caught her ex-husband Booth having an affair with), she invites her and Booth to dinner. When Beth has doubts, Josh encourages her to go through with it so she can have closure. At dinner, Beth sees that Booth is a sad and bitter drunk because of the fact that he hasn't found work since his teaching job at a university. Beth realizes she has no pity for him. Meanwhile, Joe file a defamation of character suit against the detect
1x8 - Episode 8
September 9, 2001
1993: Beth and Joe have a close encounter. Josh announces that he is going to ask Beth to marry him. 2001: Gregory gets offered a job at a newspaper and has to do a story on Beth. Joe discovers there is more to his case then he thinks. 2008: Althena tells Gregory that in order to have closure with Gregory and their past together, they have to have sex one last time.
1x9 - Episode 9
September 16, 2001
1993: Beth is torn between her feelings for Joe and Josh's marriage proposal. Joe discovers that Josh's father is being sued. Gregory prepares for sex scenes in his play. 2001: Joe's carrer starts to pick up. Athena threatens to sue Gregory. Beth deals with pressure over Joe's success. 2008: A Tragedy strikes while a romance is rekindling.
1x10 - Episode 10
September 23, 2001
In 1993, Gregory has started pre-production on his movie, and the loft is in chaos. Athena wants to go over the script, the crew is blowing fuses, and Gregory can't get an actress to do a nude scene. He gets lucky and finds a girl hanging around the set named Valerie, and she agrees to help him out. Athena, meanwhile, gets a call from Randy Gendel, a theater director who didn't give her a part in ""The Iceman Cometh,"" even after she slept with him (Episode #104). Athena is apprehensive to talk to him, but he's got a role for her in an off Broadway play and it could be a huge break. Athena meets with Gendel, and realizes that in order to do the play she'll have to drop out of Gregory's movie. When Athena tells Gregory this, he loses it. He can't believe Athena would bail out on him especially since she knows how much the movie means to him. Stricken with guilt, Athena volunteers to drop out of the play, but Gregory makes a compromise and says he'll rewrite the script to accommodate her s
1x11 - Episode 11
September 30, 2001
In 1993, Joe has a lot on his plate. Russ Adler has a couple of tidbits he wants Joe to tell Josh: first, that he's shutting down Josh's townhouse rehab project, and second, Beth has to sign a pre-nuptual agreement before she can marry Josh. Joe draws the line at the pre-nup, and tells Russ that he is going to have to talk to Josh himself. Russ concedes. Feeling good about his relationship with Russ Adler, Joe decides to take a major career risk and goes to Paul Fishelson, senior partner at the law firm, to leverage his relationship with Russ into a partnership at the firm. Fishelson tells him that he has to take such a proposal to the partners' council and will have to get back to him. In the midst of all this, Joe discovers Carlito drunk at the office. He's already nervous because he's got so much on the line, he doesn't need Carlito around to mess things up any further. Joe sends Carlito home. When Joe goes home to check up on Carlito later that day, he finds him in the shed of his
1x12 - Episode 12
October 7, 2001
In 1993, Gregory struggles to hold his film together. Everything that can go wrong does; his leading lady isn't there, the Germans want to add a ridiculous hot tub scene, and Valerie refuses to do nudity. Then the sound guy walks off…but luckily, Josh is home and agrees to substitute. Unfortunately, Josh's impromptu job ruins Beth's plan to tell him that she can't marry him - so she leaves the loft/set to hunt down Joe and commiserate about the difficulty of their situation. Athena finally shows up at the set in full diva mode, provoking a catfight with Valeria and forcing Gregory to explode at the entire crew and call it a day. After everyone clears out, Athena apologizes for being late and gives him a pep talk, while Gregory reminds her that this film is his only shot at being a director. At the office, Joe's happiness at being made partner is seriously marred by his fear that Carlito is responsible for the stolen computers - and by his failure to find his little brother. He struggle
1x13 - Episode 13
October 14, 2001
In 1993, Beth and Joe continue to see each other secretly, regardless of the repercussions among their friends and Josh's depression from the cancelled wedding. Josh however manages to lift Gregory's funk - if not his own - by offering to finance Gregory's film. Once on the set, Josh enjoys playing the role of producer, particularly when one of the actresses seems interested in him. Ignoring Athena's suggestion that he's on the rebound, Josh winds up taking Valerie home and getting stoned with her. He finds himself happier than he's been since the breakup with Beth, and he wants to sleep with Valerie, but she seems more interested in his money and stories about going to parties with the likes of Donald Trump. Athena meanwhile tells Gendel that she won't have sex with him again, because of Gregory. And Joe continues to worry about Carlito's involvement with the stolen computers, even while he flexes his new muscle at the firm by giving both Anderson and Teresa the brush-off. In 2001, Gr
1x14 - Episode 14
October 21, 2001
In 1993, Josh abandons a frustrated Gregory and the film crew at his father's apartment to whisk Valerie off to Vermont, where they shack up, get high and elope. Meanwhile, working to motivate Peter during his love scene with Athena, Gregory discovers that his lead actor is gay as he tries to ignore their mutual attraction. And Joe finds Carlito measuring cocaine in their parents' shed. When the two tussle, Carlito pulls a gun on him. Bruised and worried, Joe shows up at Beth's, but is disappointed when she immediately assumes that he had a fight with Josh. Claiming he doesn't want to be her ""rebound"" boyfriend, Joe storms out of Beth's apartment moments after the two of them decide to call it quits. In 2001, Gregory furtively collects dirt on Athena for his article, while Amanda convinces Joe to host a celebrity dinner party at his house to drum up some publicity. Beth is reluctant, but agrees to meet with Amanda when Joe cancels an important meeting to help make sandwiches for the ho
1x15 - Episode 15
October 28, 2001
In 1993, Carlito dodges through the N.Y. Marathon spectators, and manages to give the hoodlum chasing him a slip. He races to the loft apartment, where Gregory has banished the other roommates to finish shooting his film. Seeing Carlito's disappointment, Gregory tells him to stop by Athena's later if he wants to see his brother - he'll even make him an extra in the party scene. Meanwhile, Josh and Valerie are enjoying their honeymoon at Russ' penthouse when Russ walks in to find them naked, stoned, and - surprise - married. Russ berates Josh for getting married without a pre-nup, investing his own money in a movie, and for being the schmuck who let Beth get away. That evening at Athena's, as Beth watches them filming the re-enactment of Athena's party/holdup, Josh introduces her to his new wife, and Athena confesses to her that she might be pregnant. Joe shows up and heads straight for Beth - at least until he spots Carlito posing as one of the party guests. He turns to have a word wit
1x16 - Episode 16
November 4, 2001
In 1993 Gregory's in bed with Athena when he wakes up in a sweat - he's been dreaming about having sex with Peter. Athena, already awake and nervous about her upcoming performance, turns to him for comfort and pleasure, but Greg rejects her. Again. The next day, when Peter comes to the studio for looping, Beth sees him with Gregory and overhears the two men confessing their mutual attraction. She tries to talk to Gregory about it, but he slips away gratefully the minute Josh appears, leaving the two former lovers together in awkward silence. But then Josh admits that his marriage to Valerie has gotten off track, and Beth reaches out to him - which is unfortunate, because at that moment Valerie storms in and sees them together. She immediately pitches a screaming fit, and Josh gives as good as he gets -- ultimately demanding a divorce. But Valerie only laughs, and suggests that he consult his attorney. In 2001, Joe and Amanda's big party is a big nightmare for Beth - who's thrown out of
1x17 - Episode 17
January 10, 2002
1993: After his film goes up in flames, Gregory sleeps with Peter. Joe searches for Carlito and the missing computers. 2001: Josh videotapes himself with a prostitute and Tammy. Spencer suggests that Beth publish her journal. 2008: Athena tells Gregory that she's having his baby.
1x18 - Episode 18
January 17, 2002
1993: Greogry continues to have an affair with Peter. Athena wants to move in with Gregory. Joe hires a detective to help find Carlito. 2001: Josh's father gets ahold of Josh's videotape of himself with a prostitute and Tammy. Beth decides to publish her journal. 2008: Gregory wants Athena to have an abortion.
1x19 - Episode 19
January 24, 2002
1993: Athena finds Gregory in bed with Peter. Carlito gets a trail date. 2001: Beth's book comes out. 2008: Athena confesses to Beth that she lied to Gregory about having abortion.
1x20 - Episode 20
January 31, 2002
1993: Gregory asks for Athena's forgiveness. Carlito is sentenced. 2001: Beth's decides to leave Joe. 2008: Athena decides to move away from New York without telling Gregory she is having his baby.