Episode
In the Heat of the Night: Tear Down the Walls
Overview
A minister who was integrating his church(by inviting Virgil and Althea to attend services)is poisoned.
Details
- Series
- In the Heat of the Night
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1989-01-31
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Tear Down the Walls is Episode 10 in Season 2 of In the Heat of the Night. It aired on 1989-01-31. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 9: Stranger in Town
Gillespie suspects that JoAnn's new cook is connected to the murder of a young prostitute.But Virgil suspects the culprit maybe a local pimp who has been intimidating the women.
Episode 11: 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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 8: Country Mouse, City Mouse
Virgil's visiting niece and Bubba's nephew team up in an effort to escape the boredom of small town life.But they get more excitement than they bargained for when they cross paths with a dangerous parolee.
Episode 12: A.k.a Kelly Kay
The past comes back to haunt JoAnn in the form of an escaped convict.
Episode 7: 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.
Episode 13: These Things Take Time
Episode 6: 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.
Episode 14: Intruders
The police search for a burglar who preys on elderly women.And the prime suspect is the son of a city councilwoman.
Episode 5: 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.
Episode 15: The Creek
The investigation of a possible assault brings back nightmarish and confusing childhood memories for Virgil.
Episode 4: 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.
Episode 16: 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.