Night Heat Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Night Heat: Season 4 (1988 - 1989)

• Season 4 Episode 24: Blues in a Bottle

  Hogan announces the station will be closed and the personnel reassigned.

• Season 4 Episode 23: Elaine

  Elaine reluctantly participates in the manhunt for a serial killer who targets city women.

• Season 4 Episode 22: No Regrets

  Marie's mother falls victim to brutal skinheads who prey on senior citizens.

• Season 4 Episode 21: The Wrong Woman

  Giambone is implicated in the murder of a former police-training classmate.

• Season 4 Episode 20: The Professional

  O'Brien and Giambone must prevent the assassination of a prosecutor in a mob investigation.

• Season 4 Episode 19: Jumper

  O'Brien seeks the reason for a girl's suicide after being unable to prevent it.

• Season 4 Episode 18: Ice

  The prime suspect of a failed jewel heist brings charges against Giambone; O'Brien nurses an injury.

• Season 4 Episode 17: Goodbodies

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate the murder of a health club co-owner and confront a powerful loan shark.

• Season 4 Episode 16: Archie's Riff

  Giambone and O'Brien help a jazz musician whose contemporaries are being killed one by one.

• Season 4 Episode 15: False Witness

  The husband of a murder witness jeopardizes them both when he goes to police as the witness.

• Season 4 Episode 14: The Mercenary

  Real-estate partners are at the mercy of a homicidal maniac when a gentrification scam swindles many.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Bless Me Father

  Investigating the hit-and-run death of a young woman, O'Brien and Giambone find an unexpected ally in a priest (Huntz Hall).

• Season 4 Episode 12: Bogota Blues

  A Colombian detective with unorthodox methods helps Mid South bust a cocaine ring.

• Season 4 Episode 11: Set for Life

  When three sisters cannot accept a fourth's death, O'Brien and Giambone feel a substantial inheritance may be the reason.

• Season 4 Episode 10: The Privilege of Freedom

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate a possible link between an illegal immigration and the murder of a refugee aide.

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Better Part of Valor

  When a robbery investigation results in Colby's shooting, Carson holds himself responsible.

• Season 4 Episode 8: Forgive Me Father

  A girl confesses to witnessing her brother's crime and jeopardizes the life of her priest (Tony DeSantis).

• Season 4 Episode 7: None Shall Sleep

  When Hogan is shot, O'Brien and Giambone must rally behind the unfamiliar lead of a beautiful temporary commander to catch the assailants.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Blowing Bubbles

  O'Brien wrestles personal demons through a tough extortion case and Nicole's pregnancy.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Whitey's Run

  A teenage couple must stay one step ahead of the mob after witnessing a night watchman's murder.

• Season 4 Episode 4: Woof

  Vociferous animal-rights activists raid a research laboratory and steal monkeys to use in a propaganda campaign.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Ain't No Cure for Love

  When a suitor goes berserk and kills Nicole's barroom attacker, she hides the details from O'Brien.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Chinatown

  Giambone and O'Brien are assigned to investigate several murders after Kirkwood's friend gets involved with the Chinese underworld.

• Season 4 Episode 1: Silk

  Giambone and O'Brien trace a rumor that a mobster has contracted the murder of the deputy mayor.

Night Heat: Season 3 (1987 - 1988)

• Season 3 Episode 24: Vengeance

  O'Brien and Giambone enter a small drug war when a dealer posing as an ice cream vendor is murdered.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Freedom Dead

  Kirkwood's old friend, a presumed-dead rebel leader in South America, wants everyone to know he is alive.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Wise Guy

  When a mobster decides to testify against his boss, O'Brien and Giambone grudgingly agree to protect the informant.

• Season 3 Episode 21: These Happy Golden Years

  O'Brien and Giambone uncover drug smuggling while investigating murder at a senior citizens' home.

• Season 3 Episode 20: The Cost of Doing Business

  A young astronomer sees a homicide through her telescope, but her frightened mother will not let her testify.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Victim

  A young victim connects a series of rape/murders and her attacker's recent release from prison.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Simon Says

  O'Brien and Giambone enter the world of child pornography while seeking a runaway whose father was killed searching for her.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Tonight's News

  Overzealousness endangers a TV reporter's life when she covers the activities of a crime family.

• Season 3 Episode 16: Mean Business

  Sympathy for the man's family makes Giambone reject suicide as the cause of a failing industrialist's death.

• Season 3 Episode 15: Limo

  Whitey's cousin becomes a suspect after his limousine is connected with a string of murders.

• Season 3 Episode 14: The Pimp

  The detectives investigate the slaying of a pimp, apparently by a prostitute's father.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Comeback

  O'Brien and Giambone seek the cooperation of a frightened singer (Danny Aiello) blackmailed by the mob.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Tell Me a Story

  O'Brien and Giambone must cut through neighbors' lack of cooperation to solve a girl's murder.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Flashback

  The reappearance of his first partner's killer rekindles O'Brien's memories and renews his determination to capture the man.

• Season 3 Episode 10: The Kid

  A member of Giambone's youth-basketball team is implicated in a gang murder; guest Hector Elizondo.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Grace

  An abused wife (Carol Lynley) comes to Kirkwood for help; O'Brien and Giambone search for a pimp's killer.

• Season 3 Episode 8: All the King's Horses

  O'Brien suspects a fellow detective of helping drug dealers after a major stakeout is ruined.

• Season 3 Episode 7: And Baby Makes Grief

  A woman's mysterious death sends O'Brien and Giambone to investigate her adopted child's birth mother.

• Season 3 Episode 6: You're on the Air

  While Lt. Hogan is being interviewed on a radio call-in show, a murderer calls in a challenge.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Beauty Is as Beauty Does

  The death of a young model leads O'Brien, Giambone and Kirkwood to a top model embroiled in blackmail.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Punk

  An unbalanced woman from O'Brien's past makes an attempt on his life and injures Nicole in the process.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Play the Game

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate the death of a star college hockey player who had ties to a gambling ring.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Vantage Point

  O'Brien and Giambone attempt to clear two fellow officers framed in several murders.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Love You to Death

  O'Brien, Giambone and Kirkwood investigate the murders of the trainer and jockey of a prize racehorse.

Night Heat: Season 2 (1986 - 1987)

• Season 2 Episode 24: The Beaumont Line

  O'Brien risks his career and his relationship with Nicole when he becomes entangled with a murder suspect.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Masquerade

  Investigation of an illegal alien's death propels O'Brien and Giambone into the politics of a Caribbean nation.

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Switch

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate the disappearance of a former co-worker.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Body Conscious

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate the slaying of a fashion designer's assistant.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Movement

  O'Brien and Giambone are torn between duty and justice while investigating the stabbing death of a fascist group's leader.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Bad Timing

  O'Brien and Giambone set out to find the motive behind the bombing death of a young wife.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Fighting Back

  The police and a vigilante group clash while investigating the slaying of an elderly man.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Every Picture Tells a Story

  A pretty museum curator helps investigate an art theft that occurs when a mystery man causes a disturbance.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Another Country

  Kirkwood poses as a derelict at a homeless shelter where a strangler selects victims.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Pride and Prejudice

  Sexually abused in prison, a young ex-convict targets homosexuals.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Children of the Night

  A runaway girl witnesses a deal between a crooked union boss and a special prosecutor.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Trapped

  O'Brien takes mugging victim Nicole to his apartment, unaware that her assailants have found his address in her purse.

• Season 2 Episode 12: The Hit

  The killing of an innocent bar patron instead of an undercover narcotics agent exposes a web of double dealing.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Wages of Sin

  Giambone and O'Brien follow a cat burglar whose theft of a call girl's diary worries several city officials.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Friends

  O'Brien and Giambone investigate the shooting of teenagers who took a joy ride in a terrorist's car filled with weapons.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Showdown

  O'Brien regrets surrendering a psychopath to the justice system when several more murders occur.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Fighter

  Giambone joins professional boxing to expose drug dealers who caused a fighter's death.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Moonlight

  Stevie's involvement with a married, mob-linked restaurateur interferes with her police duties.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Passenger

  The investigation of a sailor's death leads to a stowaway, who may be an escaped felon.

• Season 2 Episode 5: The Legendary Eddie Shore

  Giambone believes someone with a score to settle shot a veteran officer during a routine domestic-violence call.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Payday

  Former partners Hogan and O'Brien investigate a murder and a map connected to a 7-year-old robbery.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Neighbors

  A halfway-house resident with a violent past appears to have murdered a young mother.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Dead Ringer

  An unfaithful wife and a seedy detective lead Giambone and O'Brien to the killer of a suspected embezzler.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Hero

  A citizen requests a heroic act be kept secret in order to hide a violent past.

Night Heat: Season 1 (1985 - 1986)

• Season 1 Episode 24: Brotherhood

  The longtime president of the cargo-handlers' union emerges as the prime suspect in his challenger's murder.

• Season 1 Episode 23: Fire and Ice

  Colby concludes his brother was the sole survivor of the massacre of five people during a diamond heist.

• Season 1 Episode 22: Innocents

  Officials pressure Giambone and O'Brien to prove a troubled man caused the disappearance of two children.

• Season 1 Episode 21: The Source

  Kirkwood resorts to drinking when a young reporter's widow blames him for her husband's murder.

• Season 1 Episode 20: Songbird

  An insurance investigator helps O'Brien search for a stolen songbird statue worth more than $1 million.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Secrets

  An unscrupulous photographer complicates an assignment to protect an actress making a comeback.

• Season 1 Episode 18: Snow White

  A real murder results when a group of teenage boys stockpiles arms for war games in the park.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Poison

  A clever plot unfolds after Kirkwood witnesses the murder of a shipping-plant guard.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Mother's Day

  Giambone's grandmother refuses to budge from the station house until police look for her friend.

• Season 1 Episode 15: The Game

  When a poor loser kills other high-stakes poker players, a victim's gangster father wants revenge.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Power Play

  The detectives investigate a building owner who has been accused of arson even though he had no insurance and his son was a victim.

• Season 1 Episode 13: The Quest

  O'Brien searches for the drug-dealer who stole his gun and killed a patrolman with it.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Dead to Rights

  Giambone and O'Brien question overwhelming evidence against a man arrested for killing his father and sister.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Jane the Ripper

  O'Brien and Giambone search for a prostitute who plans grisly deaths for her clients.

• Season 1 Episode 10: The Fifth Man

  Giambone and O'Brien's investigation of a suicide leads to a top-secret intelligence operation.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Velvet

  Giambone rekindles a romance with his high-school sweetheart, then learns of her involvement in a drug ring.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Ancient Madness

  O'Brien does not believe a man who confesses to murdering the key witness in a gun-smuggling case.

• Season 1 Episode 7: Deadlock

  The Midtown South Police Station goes on alert when two killers threaten to blow up the precinct.

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Witness

  A photographer (Matsu Anderson) refuses to deliver photographs of two homicides unless O'Brien and Giambone can guarantee her safety.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Obie's Law

  The detectives track a weapons dealer who sold machine guns used in a liquor store holdup.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Stranger

  A panicked city awaits the arrest of a serial murderer, while a prime suspect's cooperation puzzles O'Brien and Giambone.

• Season 1 Episode 3: Deadline

  O'Brien and Giambone try to convince a politician's assistant to testify in order to prevent the release of a suspected rapist.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Necessary Force

  Giambone must appear before a grand jury after Internal Affairs investigates the shooting of a young thug.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Crossfire

  A journalist records the activities of two night-shift detectives as they search for the killers of four fellow police officers.