In The Heat Of The Night

“The Crew,” a drug dealing gang from nearby Jackson bring violence and tragedy with them when they move into Sparta and start eliminating the competition. Harriet DeLong’s son Eugene witnesses the massacre of his childhood friend and a local dealer.

Sparta is sent reeling from a wave of drug overdose cases as Gillespie and Tibbs close in on “The Crew,” a murderous gang of crack dealers. Eugene bravely identifies the gang members that murdered his close friend, but now his own life is in danger.

Old family conflicts resurface when Officer Luann Corbin's brother Tyler is released from prison and moves back home, driving a wedge between Luann, who thinks it’s a bad idea and that Tyler will never change, and her mother, who welcomes him.

Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, a disturbed teenager kills her new boyfriend and pins the murder on her stepfather. Althea sees the teen’s hostility at school and realizes how dangerous he is. Can he be stopped from making one more fatal mistake?

Althea Tibbs struggles with depression after witnessing the shocking suicide of a student, and the dead teen’s ex-girlfriend starts dating a guy with a criminal record, who she’s desperate to flee Sparta with to escape from her abusive stepfather.

Gillespie is reunited with his daughter Lana, when she comes to Sparta to settle her inheritance, but she’s been followed by her mother’s ex-boyfriend, who claims that it all belongs to him, and he’s willing to take drastic measures to collect.

Rose Murphy is sexually assaulted at work by her boss and, fending off another attack, she kills him. When she confesses the shooting to her husband, he makes it look like a failed robbery. A pair of thieves are arrested, but the clues don’t add up.

Morphine tablets have been disappearing from Newton General Hospital, and Tibbs' investigation into the suspicious deaths of terminally ill patients at that facility leads him to believe his Aunt Ruda's own physician, Dr. Lambert, might be involved.

Bubba learns the disappointing truth that Eddie Larran, the country singer he idolizes, might have stolen his biggest hit, leaving his former writing partner, Ace McCabe, with none of the wealth derived from the song. Robert Goulet guest stars.

Serena Grimes, the victim of a violent armed robbery, becomes obsessed with Bubba Skinner when she misinterprets his kindness for romance. Soon, flowers arrive at the station for Bubba, amusing Gillespie and the staff, until the stalking begins.

When the drowned body of Rebecca Lewis is found washed up on a riverbank, her friend and Tibbs’ law school buddy, Mark Meyers is the prime suspect based on an eyewitness account. He’s arrested for murder, but Tibbs doesn’t think that Mark is guilty.

When a judge running for Congress refuses to grant his wife a divorce, she threatens to reveal a secret from his past that would ruin his chances for election. Then, she’s found dead as part of a failed robbery, and the judge claims he has an alibi.

Officer Wilson Sweet is accused of allegedly soliciting a bribe when he arrests Bob Pinkney, a shady car salesman, and his buddy Al Merck after they drunkenly crash an event honoring D.A. Gerard Darnelle and cause a disturbance when asked to leave.

Parker’s stepfather, Roy Eversole, is not a perfect man; he drinks too much, fights too much, and now he’s suspected of murdering his ex-boss, Norbert Clemmons, after losing his job. Parker can’t believe it, and neither can Gillespie. So who did it?

A nasty slumlord threatening to evict a single mother and her daughter is later suspected of murder, but Gillespie’s hands are tied as this is Sheriff McComb’s case. Meanwhile, Parker has a new speed gun and he’s become the most hated man in Sparta.

The shooting of the campaign manager of a white supremacist politician appears to be a botched assassination attempt on the Senate candidate himself, but it soon reveals a web of deceit and betrayal. Was the assassination botched intentionally?

The shooting of Chris Pastore becomes a murder when, no longer able to hold on, he dies. Meanwhile, the question remains, was he the intended target? Gillespie and Tibbs continue their investigation into politician George Deschamps and his cronies.

When an embezzler, Jimmy Ray, returns to Sparta after many years away, it stirs up old resentments as he encounters the families that he stole from years ago, including Virgil Tibbs’ sweet-natured Aunt Etta, who turns to Chief Gillespie for help.

A rich landowner, Horace Sloan, is visited by Candace Sloan, a distant cousin who claims her grandfather was cheated out of a portion of the Sloan family estate. Horace’s readiness to give Candace her legacy, puts him at odds with his son, Lamar.

An impending trial will force Gillespie’s daughter Lana Farren to face her attackers, Carl DeLissa and Jack Smet. Meanwhile, mobster attorney Alvin Epp and his corrupt clients are determined to acquire her property for a large land development.

In this follow-up to “Even Nice People,” Gillespie’s daughter, Lana Farran, continues to defend her home from her mother’s greedy ex-boyfriend Carl DeLissa and the mob who are willing to go to great lengths to acquire and develop it, even murder.

Harriet DeLong’s son Eugene teams up with a prison pastor, Bishop William Prinn, to get his father, Vic Glendon, off death row, but when Prinn is traveling to Sparta, he finds his life is in danger when his car is run off the highway by a stranger.