Episode
In the Heat of the Night: Family Secret
Overview
The murder of well respected man turns up a shocking secret about his family.
Details
- Series
- In the Heat of the Night
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1988-12-06
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Family Secret is Episode 3 in Season 2 of In the Heat of the Night. It aired on 1988-12-06. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 2: Don't Look Back (2)
Tibbs,Gillespie and Bubba pursue different leads in a bizarre murder case and the Chief realizes that the killer has plans for him.
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: Don't Look Back (1)
A copycat recreates a shocking unsolved murder from the past.Gillespie feels threatened after Ted Marcus suggests that Virgil should become the Chief.The situation becomes more tense after Virgil criticizes Parker and Bubba's actions.
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 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 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 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 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 10: Tear Down the Walls
A minister who was integrating his church(by inviting Virgil and Althea to attend services)is poisoned.
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.
Episode 12: A.k.a Kelly Kay
The past comes back to haunt JoAnn in the form of an escaped convict.
Episode 13: These Things Take Time