The Best Episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street Season 2

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.9/10(477 votes)

   #1 - Bop Gun

   S2:E11/6/1994

   All the detectives scramble to solve the case, when the mother, in a family on vacation, is murdered during a holdup. The husband has a hard time dealing with the reality of him not doing anything during the situation and Felton's indifference. When the suspects are found Howard is convinced that the youth who confesses to the murder didn't do it.

   Director:Stephen Gyllenhaal

   Writers:Tom Fontana, David Simon, David Mills

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   Director:Stephen Gyllenhaal

   Writers:Tom Fontana, David Simon, David Mills
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   8.0/10(317 votes)

   #2 - See No Evil

   S2:E21/13/1994

   Gee informs the detectives that they must meet with a sensitivity consultant. Felton protects a friend who's going to help his terminally ill father commit suicide. Pembleton investigates a routine murder that escalates into a case of possible police brutality. Bolander has no intention of meeting with the consultant to the point where he takes a suspension without pay. Lewis investigates the death of the father of Felton's friend and discovers the truth and confronts Beau.

   Director:Christopher Menaul

   Writer:Paul Attanasio

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   Director:Christopher Menaul

   Writer:Paul Attanasio
3. 

   9.1/10(403 votes)

   #3 - Black and Blue

   S2:E31/20/1994

   Things begin to heat up between Pembleton and Gee over the alleged police brutality case and one of the suspects is an ex-lover of Kay's. Bolander meets a waitress who encourages him to resume his cello playing. Munch's girlfriend is less than enthusiastic when he surprises her with a new fish for her tank. Frank, in the box, gets the confession that Gee is looking for. Unfortunately, the suspect is anything but guilty of that crime.

   Director:Christopher Menaul

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Christopher Menaul

   Writer:Unknown
4. 

   8.1/10(321 votes)

   #4 - A Many Splendored Thing

   S2:E41/27/1994

   Bolander asks Kay if she would double date with him and Linda, to try to take the pressure off his first real date. A slain phone-sex operator is found clutching a note naming her boss as the perpetrator, Bayliss and Pembleton investigate. Munch has trouble dealing with Bolander's happiness, so he crashes the double date and makes everyone miserable. A man is shot to death over a pen at the library, Lewis and Crosetti investigate and find a man with a pen fetish. As Bayliss looks into the murder he begins to get involved.

   Director:John McNaughton

   Writer:Noel Behn

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   Director:John McNaughton

   Writer:Noel Behn