Episode 4.16: The End is Not Near, It’s Here (Series Finale)
Airdate: February 22, 2007
**Note about series finale spoilers: For the past 3 season finales, producers have made sure that spoilers/tv gossip sources were given foilers about the finales instead of spoilers. Is the series finale any different? So take all spoilers below with a grain of salt, as they may be feeding the press with foilers again for this finale**
The series concludes six months after an earthquake rocked Newport.
There will be a wedding, but it appears tha Taylor and Summer are being fitted for the SAME dress. So it looks like Summer and Taylor will be bridesmaids and not brides. Who is the bride? That will probably be Julie.
Kirsten has a baby girl.
The fate of “The Valley”, Summer’s favorite show, is revealed.
Taylor and her mother are in San Diego looking to buy a house that looks exactly as their old house. Taylor will go to Paris to attend a funeral.
Julie and Kaitlin are not seeing eye to eye, which may cause the latter to run away.
Ryan visits his brother and tells him about a safety deposit box their father kept for them.
Summer and Seth go to a rabbit ranch.
The Cohens are trying to get their house back in shape. They have moved to Berkeley.
Ryan will appear in the final scene.
“I’m not forgetting the support we got, and continue to get, from The O.C. at Boalt fans,” says Schwartz, referring to UC Berkeley’s law students, who even started a scholarship in the name of the series’ attorney dad, Sandy Cohen. “I’m going to do a very special homage to them in the final episode.”
Josh Schwartz reveals: The finale is going to deliver real closure to these characters. It’s going to be the finale we had always planned to do. It’s going to be a really satisfying ending for people who have been with the show for four years, and really watched Ryan grow and search for happiness.
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