In the Heat of the Night - Season 2

In the Heat of the Night - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes22
DatesDec 4, 1988 - May 16, 1989
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Episodes

Don't Look Back (1)
Season 2Episode 160 min

Don't Look Back (1)

A copycat recreates a shocking unsolved murder from the past.Gillespie feels threatened after Ted Marcus suggests that Virgil should become the Chief.The situation becomes more tense after Virgil criticizes Parker and Bubba's actions.
Dec 4, 1988
Don't Look Back (2)
Season 2Episode 260 min

Don't Look Back (2)

Tibbs,Gillespie and Bubba pursue different leads in a bizarre murder case and the Chief realizes that the killer has plans for him.
Dec 4, 1988
Family Secret
Season 2Episode 360 min

Family Secret

The murder of well respected man turns up a shocking secret about his family.
Dec 6, 1988
The Hammer and the Glove
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Hammer and the Glove

Virgil is delighted when Matthew his former partner from Philidelphia comes to visit.But he soon learns his friend has another purpose for coming to Sparta.Althea is uncomfortable because she and Matthew were romantically involved before she met Virgil and she realizes that he is unwilling to accept the fact that she chose Virgil over him.Meanwhile the F.B.I. enlist Sparta P.D.'s aid in hiding a witness.
Dec 13, 1988
Prisoners
Season 2Episode 560 min

Prisoners

Sweet risks his life to prove that the Sheriff of a neighboring county is guilty of the racially motivated murder of a young man that Sweet was friends with in high school.
Dec 20, 1988
Hot Nights
Season 2Episode 660 min

Hot Nights

Bubba is seduced by an alluring writer who has more on her mind than romance.Bill and Virgil worry that he is in over his head.Bubba tries to protect her from her estranged husband, but things get complicated after she shoots someone.
Dec 27, 1988
Gunshots
Season 2Episode 760 min

Gunshots

Virgil is forced to shoot a suspect in an armed robbery.He has trouble dealing with the consequences of his actions, after he realizes the person he shot was a teenaged girl - and no one can locate the gun he believed she was pointing at him.
Jan 3, 1989
Country Mouse, City Mouse
Season 2Episode 860 min

Country Mouse, City Mouse

Tibbs' niece and Bubba's nephew witness a crime and try to prove a dangerous parolee is not dead, as believed.

Jan 10, 1989
Stranger in Town
Season 2Episode 960 min

Stranger in Town

The murder of a young prostitute leads Gillespie and Tibbs (Carroll O'Connor, Howard Rollins) to different suspects. Guest stars: Eric Pierpoint, Renee Jones.

Jan 17, 1989
Tear Down the Walls
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Tear Down the Walls

A minister who was integrating his church(by inviting Virgil and Althea to attend services)is poisoned.
Jan 31, 1989
A Trip Upstate
Season 2Episode 1160 min

A Trip Upstate

In this thought provoking episode.Gillespie is surprised when a man he arrested asks to see him on the eve of his execution.He must confront his feelings about the death penalty when the prisoner asks him to witness his death.
Feb 7, 1989
A.k.a. Kelly Kay
Season 2Episode 1260 min

A.k.a. Kelly Kay

The past comes back to haunt JoAnn in the form of an escaped convict.
Feb 14, 1989
These Things Take Time
Season 2Episode 1360 min

These Things Take Time

Feb 21, 1989
Intruders
Season 2Episode 1460 min

Intruders

The police search for a burglar who preys on elderly women.And the prime suspect is the son of a city councilwoman.
Mar 7, 1989
The Creek
Season 2Episode 1560 min

The Creek

The investigation of a possible assault brings back nightmarish and confusing childhood memories for Virgil.
Mar 14, 1989
Sister, Sister
Season 2Episode 1660 min

Sister, Sister

A vivacious socialites return to Sparta delights her ailing father and childhood friend Virgil, but her sister is less than thrilled at her homecoming.After their father is poisoned the jealous siblings become suspects in his murder.
Mar 21, 1989
Walkout
Season 2Episode 1760 min

Walkout

A bitter strike leads to a murder investigation on a snowy day in Sparta.
Mar 28, 1989
Accused
Season 2Episode 1860 min

Accused

Bubba tries to rescue a woman from a rapist, but she mistakes him for her attacker.Gillespie tangles with an ambitious district attorney who plans to use the case to further his career.
Apr 4, 1989
Fifteen, Forever
Season 2Episode 1960 min

Fifteen, Forever

Sparta grieves after a drunk driver causes a fatal crash with high school cheerleaders on their way home from a game.While the officers try to find other driver, Althea tries to help the victim's families deal with their loss. The accident brings back painful memories for retired officer Tom Dugan.Meanwhile, district attorney Dutton accuses the department of being inadequate.
Apr 25, 1989
Ladybug, Ladybug
Season 2Episode 2060 min

Ladybug, Ladybug

With the Chief in Quantico Bubba and Virgil try to catch a serial arsonist.Things get complicated after a man dies in one of the fires.And Councilwoman White stirs things up by appointing Tom Dugan acting chief of police in Gillespie's absence.
May 2, 1989
The Pig Woman of Sparta
Season 2Episode 2160 min

The Pig Woman of Sparta

It seems that a serial killer has been burying his victims in a wooded area owned by a wealthy hermit that Virgil refers to as ""Sparta's Howard Hughes"". Suspicion immediately falls on an eccentric woman who lives in the woods with her pigs and chases away trespassers with a shotgun.The officers ask the landowner's disturbed son for help and Bubba is surprised to find that a woman he attended high school with is working as the man's ""nurse"".Also Parker and Sweet compete with one another to solve the case.
May 9, 1989
Missing
Season 2Episode 2260 min

Missing

When Chief Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) is kidnapped, Virgil (Howard Rollins) suspects Capt. Dugan (Joe Don Baker) has inside information.

May 16, 1989

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