In the Heat of the Night - Season 2 (1988)

Virgil's ex-partner, who was also Althea's ex-lover, comes to Sparta for a reunion nobody will forget.

When Officer Sweet's first bust, his best friend from childhood, dies in the Newman County Jail under mysterious circumstances, he presses Gillespie to investigate the matter.

Bubba Skinner enters into a whirlwind romance with a seductive author passing through Sparta.

Virgil Tibbs shoots and kills a robbery suspect during a foot pursuit, unaware that it was a girl.

Bubba's nephew and Virgil's visiting niece become friendly and are chased by a dangerous criminal thought to have died in an explosion.

The investigation of a prostitute's murder is complicated when a traveling cook comes to Sparta and starts working at the Magnolia Cafe.

A skeleton in the closet of a local pastor surfaces after he mysteriously drops dead during a church service.

Gillespie is asked by a condemned prisoner to be present at his execution.

Joanne must reveal a painful part of her past to Gillespie after a long lost acquaintance escapes from prison.

Tibbs tries to help a teenage mother who was abandoned by her baby's father.

The son of a city councilwoman is accused of a string of robbery/murders.

Virgil is disturbed by the investigation of a battered woman.

Sibling rivalry between two sisters intensifies when their bedridden father dies.

Sparta becomes a battleground in the midst of a violent union strike.

Bubba and Virgil bond as friends and coworkers is tested when Bubba is accused of rape by two different women.

The town of Sparta grieves when a horrific drunk driving accident claims the lives of the entire Sparta High School cheerleading squad.

A handicapped woman tricks her boyfriend into murdering her husband.

A crabby and reclusive woman shoots and kills anyone who sets foot onto her property.

Chief Gillespie returns from a convention, only to be kidnapped and presumed dead.