Season 5

October 29, 1991

A game of high stakes poker ends in murder.

November 5, 1991

Virgil's Aunt Ruda is the only witness to a struggle between Bubba and a young robbery suspect that ends in the young mans death.But her prejudice against the police -- and Virgil clouds her memory of the incident.

November 12, 1991

Bubba returns to Los Angeles to testify at a murder trial and is reunited with Pat Day as they try to protect Mike from killers sent to prevent him from testifying.

November 19, 1991

A man murders his business partner and frames the man's illegitimate daughter for the crime in an attempt to gain the man's business and his wife.

November 26, 1991

The lyrics to a blues song recall a murder that happened 50 years earlier.The victim - Sweet's grandfather.And the only people left with the answers are the bluesman who wrote the song and a retired sheriff.

December 3, 1991

A deputy provides protection for a cotton grower who is running a pot growing operation.But the deputy makes a big mistake when he wounds Bubba's girlfriend.

December 10, 1991

The father of a man Gerard prosecuted kidnaps the DA's daughter.

December 17, 1991

Lonnie makes a heartbreaking discovery about a woman he dated in high school.

January 7, 1992

A drug dealing slumlord is murdered by his accomplices.

January 14, 1992

A doctor plots to eliminate his wife -- and his mistress.

February 4, 1992

Parkers investigation into a purse snatching reveals an abused woman.

February 11, 1992

Racists target a ceremony honoring a civil rights pioneer.

February 18, 1992

Althea fears for one of her students after her mother's boyfriend is linked to a criminal operation that has resulted in the deaths of several truckers.

February 25, 1992

A restaurateur and her mechanic boyfriend plot to eliminate her husband, but their scheme backfires.Gillespie takes heat over a string of mailbox bashings.And Virgil soon regrets ignoring Parker's theory regarding where the vandals would strike next.

March 3, 1992

V.J. Trundel's widow takes Harriet to court to gain custody of Eric.But Harriet is determined that her nephew will not be raised in the home of the man who ordered the murder of her sister.

March 31, 1992

Gillespie learns that the son of an old friend is a compulsive gambler.The young man wants his father to pay off his losses.But when two gangsters show up from New Orleans to collect, his jealous sibling sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his troubled brother.

April 7, 1992

An ex-convict attempts to retrieve his loot from his wife and her new husband in this tongue-in-cheek episode.

May 12, 1992

A political prisoner who entered the country illegally,seeks sanctuary in a monastary.Gillespie and Tibbs find themselves at odds with Sheriff McComb when they try to help the man.

May 19, 1992

Gillespie,Tibbs and Father DiMarco must stand trial for harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.