The Fosters season 4

The fourth season of The Fosters premiered on June 20, 2016 and ended on April 11, 2017. The season consisted of 20 episodes and stars Teri Polo and Sherri Saum as Stef Foster and Lena Adams, an interracial lesbian couple, who foster a girl, Callie (Maia Mitchell) and her younger brother, Jude (Hayden Byerly) while also trying to juggle raising Latino twin teenagers, Mariana and Jesus  (Cierra Ramirez and Noah Centineo), and Stef's biological son, Brandon (David Lambert).

Premise
In this season, the failout of the tryst between Brandon and Callie continues. After getting suspended from school Callie meets and makes a new friend in Aaron (Eliott Fletcher). They team up to find out what happened to an old foster brother of hers after being convicted of a murder 4 years earlier, and go down a dangerous path that's filled with unwanted surprises. Callie later gets charged with a hit run felony and spends time in juvie. Because of her age the DA is charging her as and adult and she may be sent to prison.

Lena's parents have financial issues and it threatens to force Stef and Lena to sell the house.

Jesus and Emma begin a strictly sexual relationship, and are considering getting back together. Jesus suffers from two BTI, first by a nail gun then later being assaulted. Jesus need full time care and Lena takes time off to care for him.

Jude starts spending more time with Noah (Kalama Epstein), an avid gay churchgoing Christian who has a wild side. Noah introduces Jude to drugs.

Mariana struggles to let go of Nick (Louis Hunter) after the incident at school. Mariana also struggles with the fact that Ana is now sober and is a caring mother to her baby sister.

Avoiding the rath of his mothers Brandon moves in with a single mom but finds parenthood a struggle. He goes to desperate measures in order to secure his place in Juilliard, which eventually backfires on him bigtime.

Stef gets promoted to detective and finds the role challenging. Meanwhile, offering to adopt AJ, Mike struggles with fatherhood while dealing with his girlfriend, Ana.

Main cast

 * Teri Polo as Stef Adams Foster
 * Sherri Saum as Lena Adams Foster
 * Noah Centineo as Jesus Adams Foster
 * Hayden Byerly as Jude Adams Foster
 * David Lambert as Brandon Foster
 * Maia Mitchell as Callie Adams Foster
 * Cierra Ramirez as Mariana Adams Foster
 * Danny Nucci as Mike Foster

Recurring cast

 * Tom Williamson as AJ Hensdale
 * Jordan Rodrigues as Mat Tan
 * Elliot Fletcher as Aaron Baker
 * Amanda Leighton as Emma
 * Kalama Epstein as Noah
 * Izabela Vidovic as Taylor
 * Louis Hunter as Nick Stratos
 * Annika Marks as Monte Porter
 * Denyse Tontz as Cortney Strathmore
 * Brandon Quinn as Gabriel Duncroft
 * Kerr Smith as Robert Quinn
 * Alexandra Barreto as Ana Gutierrez
 * Alex Skuby as Joe Gray
 * Hugh Scott as Doug Harvey
 * Levi Fiehler as Troy Johnson
 * Daffany Clark as Daphne Keene
 * Mark Totty as Craig Stratos
 * Jared Ward as Drew Turner
 * Michael Traynor as Craig
 * Adam Irigoyen as Kyle Snow
 * Meg DeLacy as Grace Mullen
 * Hope Olaidé Wilson as Diamond

Guest cast

 * Annie Potts as Sharon Elkin
 * Rob Morrow as Will
 * Lorraine Toussaint as Dana Adams
 * Bruce Davison as Stuart Adams
 * Suzanne Cryer as Jenna Paul
 * Madisen Beaty as Talya Banks
 * Madison Pettis as Daria
 * Bailee Madison as Sophia Quinn
 * Ashley Argota as Lou Chan
 * April Parker Jones as Captain Roberts
 * Noah Urrea as Todd
 * Chad Todhunter as Patrick Molloy
 * Jay Ali as Timothy