When an old friend and colleague apparently commits suicide, Virgil Tibbs travels to Philadelphia and uncovers corruption within the police force. Back in Sparta, Althea is close to giving birth, and Bubba is recruited to help with her Lamaze class.
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It's Christmastime and an eager journalist from the local Sparta Herald newspaper begs to interview the police force however, when she twists their stories to fit her negative agenda, the officers learn a hard lesson about the power of the press.
The owner of a local gym in Sparta, Kathleen Wheartly, tries to protect her delinquent brother, Jack, who is falsely accused of murder. She soon finds that her own life is in danger when a ruthless bounty hunter shows up in town, looking for Jack.
Virgil Tibbs is working hard to reunite his family, when he discovers that his aunt's son may be involved in a murder. Virgil is caught between hurting his aunt who loves her son and bringing justice to the town he works to protect every day.
Sweet's friends, the Tibbits, are an older couple that own a bookshop in Sparta. When Mrs. Tibbits is shot and killed during an apparent robbery, Gillespie and Tibbs question the suspicious circumstances around her death. Was her death planned?
Chief Gillespie's personal relationship with Harriet DeLong is tested when her ex-husband Vic Glendon is caught committing an armed robbery, and her son Eugene is suspected of being involved when some of the stolen money is found in his possession.
Having served his time, Prosper Hoag is on parole and back home in Sparta. The folks in town will never forget the accident he caused that resulted in the death of three children and permanent injuries to two others, but will they forgive him?
While fishing on his day off, Bubba Skinner's dog unearths a dead baby. The investigation leads to a mentally-challenged girl and her family who's not interested in talking. Will they get past the family's secrets to learn the truth about the baby?
When an old friend and colleague apparently commits suicide, Virgil Tibbs travels to Philadelphia and uncovers corruption within the police force. Back in Sparta, Althea is close to giving birth, and Bubba is recruited to help with her Lamaze class.
Harriet DeLong is determined to bring her sister Natalie's killer to justice and decides to try handling things on her own. Meanwhile, the murder of Jay Turkus causes Gillespie and Tibbs to concentrate on V.J. Trundel and his devious staff.
Sparta Councilperson Harriet DeLong's sister, Natalie, is found murdered, and Chief Gillespie has a suspect in mind, but it happens to be the most powerful man in town, so he's keeping it quiet as he builds a case, much to the frustration of Tibbs.
Tibbs is convinced that the right man is in custody for the recent murder in the Bottoms of a cab driver. The initial evidence points to his suspect, but Gillespie has his doubts and asks Tibbs to consider that race may be a factor in his choice.
After her involvement in a crime committed in Philadelphia, Regina, an old friend of Althea's runs to Sparta. She stays with Althea and sparks fly with Officer Sweet, but her past catches up when a dead body is found, and it's connected to her.
After an employee of the high school is a no-show for work, it is discovered her car was run off the road by the driver of a semi-truck, resulting in her death. Later, the prime suspect, her ex-husband, is also murdered. Who wanted them both dead?
A conservative minister is murdered while trying to close down a traveling bordello operating near his church, but a surprising side of the man is revealed when the Sparta police investigate his death and, later, his wife's. Diane Ladd guest stars.
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.
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