(1/2) When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie. (2/2) After Nan and, subsequently, Willie Jones' murders, racial tensions are especially high in Sparta.
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Amos Haber, a close friend of Chief Gillespie's, is devastated over the death of his wife and angrily blames her doctor, vowing revenge. When the doctor is found shot to death, the bullets match a gun belonging to Amos, but is Amos the killer?
Ex-prizefighter, King Baylor, tries to blackmail his old boss, John Caminetto, a mafia kingpin in Detroit, who is wanted by the FBI. The FBI offers Baylor a deal, but he's desperate for cash and thinks he can force Caminetto to pay a bigger sum.
While hitchhiking his way to Sparta to visit Chief Gillespie, a Vietnamese teenager, Hank, witnesses a store robbery that turns into a murder. Hank was hoping that Gillespie would help him acquire citizenship, but now he's being framed for murder.
Two men are determined to avenge their brother's death after he is killed in a thwarted armed robbery by an off-duty Lieutenant Bubba Skinner. Chief Gillespie must prepare to do all he can to keep Bubba safe. Now, he just needs Bubba to cooperate.
Officer Parker Williams must face his feelings when his neighbor, a dance instructor he's fallen for, is accused of killing a private investigator who was hot on her trail regarding the alleged abduction of the child she's raising as her daughter.
Gillespie is let go after being abducted by white supremacists right before the upcoming visit of a civil rights leader, Rev. John Carter, and the anniversary of a historic march. Tibbs is excited to meet Carter, but Gillespie anticipates trouble.
As the arrests grow, Gillespie, Tibbs and the Sparta police force are desperate to halt the spread of crack cocaine among the young people of their town, and no one is more motivated than Officer Willson Sweet, whose cousin died from using the drug.
When a couple walking their dog in the forest discover a human leg bone, the Sparta police immediately question an eccentric old lady named Adah Boone, known as the Pig Lady, who lives nearby and who everyone believes is a witch.
While Chief Bill Gillespie is out of town, a series of mysterious fires break out in town. Virgil (Howard Rollins) and the rest of the Sparta police department struggle to find out who is setting these arson fires that soon turn deadly.
Sparta is celebrating their high school's victory at the regional basketball tournament, but the shock of a deadly hit-and-run accident after the game turns their happiness into a nightmare. Detective Tibbs struggles to find the driver responsible.
Tensions run high in the police department and in Sparta when Bubba is accused of attacking a black woman. And when a second woman comes forward from Bubba's past with similar claims, Virgil steps in to try and help clear his name.
Virgil (Howard Rollins) and Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) are faced with a violent labor strike at the local Sparta river plant. And tension runs even higher when a local city councilman is murdered when he tries to intervene between the two sides.
Detective Virgil Tibbs and Chief Bill Gillespie investigate a murder of a father of two very different daughters who are caught up in a case of intense sibling rivalry...one that may have led one or both of them to murder.
Tibbs and Sweet investigate a woman who has been beaten and left for dead on the banks of a local creek. Tibbs, in particular, takes an interest in this possible wife-beating case and, in the process, unlocks part of his difficult and painful past.
Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor) suspects a newly arrived short-order cook in town may be involved in the recent murder of a young prostitute. Virgil (Howard Rollins) thinks otherwise and is out to prove that a local criminal is to blame.
Virgil Tibbs's niece and Bubba Skinner's nephew, teenagers from different worlds, find common ground -- and trouble -- in Sparta. Soon the two are swept up with an ex-con recently paroled from prison, and Gillespie is none too happy about it.
Virgil believes he acted in self-defense when he shoots a robbery suspect. But when the teenage girl's gun cannot be found, suspicions arise, even he begins to doubt his own actions. Chief Bill Gillespie does all he can to clear his detective.
Officer Bubba Skinner is seduced by a beautiful lady who has taken residence in Sparta in order to write a novel. But when her estranged ex-husband shows up, things become much more complicated, and Bubba is faced with a life-changing decision.
Chief Bill Gillespie discovers that a longtime friend and sheriff of neighboring Butler County, Ed Thompson, is a racist. In good conscience, he must investigate the deaths of black prisoners as racial tensions boil over between the two counties.
An unexpected visit from Virgil's best friend and former partner in Philadelphia, Matthew Pogue, happens to coincide with the murder of two federal agents and an organized crime witness. Could the two events be connected?
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