4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days 4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days "4 Years, 6 Months, 2 Days" is the first episode of the fifth season of the television series "One Tree Hill", and eighty-ninth episode in total. The episode premiered on The CW on January 8, 2008. It became the first episode that has been ordered for mid-season. The episode aired at 8/7C, with the second episode, "Racing Like a Pro", airing straight after. The season then moved to the regular time of 9/8C. It re-introduced the characters after college, and the characters returned to the fictional town, Tree Hill. "4 Years, 6 Months, 2
Six Months, Three Days for the 2011 Nebula Award and the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award; it won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Rachel Swirsky described the story as a "philosophical contrast" between determinism and free will. Jim C. Hines said Anders' resolution to the fixed vs. multiple futures conflict was "simultaneously tragic and scary and hopeful", but added that it "felt "right" for the story". In 2013, "Deadline Hollywood" announced that a television adaptation was being prepared for NBC, with script written by Eric Garcia. Six Months, Three Days "Six Months, Three Days" is a science fiction novelette by Charlie Jane Anders.