Christmas coincides with Geraldine's tenth year as vicar and David suggests she apply to be a bishop. A coincidental visit by Rachel Hunter leads Alice to believe that Geraldine is gay but plans go ahead for her to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss her promotion. At her party she dives into a chocolate fountain, emerging to meet the Archbishop. Sensing she has blown the promotion she gets drunk and delivers a bizarre midnight mass, whilst Jim's winning entry in a carol contest is similarly unusual.

Episode 401 : Sidney Chambers attends a talk by the Reverend Nathaniel Todd, a key part of the Civil Rights movement in America. During the event, protestors disrupt Todd's speech and release fireworks, causing the audience to panic and leading to a crush as dozens of people try to escape through a locked door. In the chaos, a man is stabbed and killed by an unseen assailant. The murder sees racial tensions spike and Geordie is called in to investigate.

A boisterous female minister comes to serve in an eccentricly conservative small town's church.

Geraldine turns down Owen's final pleas to marry him and the villagers' suggestion that she should have a sky-diving wedding,to get married to Harry. Alice is charged with being the wedding planner and she chooses a Doctor Who theme.After the Reverend Jeremy Ogilvy has conducted the ceremony and a montage of scenes from Geraldine's life has been shown Alice finally understands the vicar's closing joke,thanks to Harry.

Alice and Hugo return from honeymoon, having been imprisoned for accidentally helping a drug smuggler. Alice is pregnant. Simon Horton has come to see Geraldine and they have great difficulty in spending time alone at the vicarage as different council members keep dropping by. Eventually Simon appears in a dressing gown and the villagers know he is sleeping with the vicar. However he does not commit and finishes with her. She considers resigning but everybody talks her out of it.

Geraldine is at a loss for an interesting front page story for the parish newsletter. Alice and Hugo are a couple but Alice complains that Hugo has yet to kiss her so Geraldine urges her to take the initiative. As a result the couple are found,lying on a path having a kiss which lasts four hours. They can't stop kissing. Finally Hugo stands up to his hectoring father and announces that he and Alice are engaged to be married,giving the vicar her front page story. She herself,though,manages to talk her way out of Owen's proposal to her.

第四季将视野拓展到教育系统，其它主要情节还有第三季中引入的市长竞选，并深入描写了Marlo Stanfield领导的贩毒团伙在西巴尔的摩的不断壮大。

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