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.
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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.
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.
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