8.8/10377 votes#1 - Bop Gun
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/1994
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
Writer: Tom Fontana, David Simon, David Mills
8.0/10248 votes#2 - See No Evil
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1994
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
9.1/10322 votes#3 - Black and Blue
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1994
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: N/A
8.1/10256 votes#4 - A Many Splendored Thing
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1994
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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An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
Genres:MysteryDramaCrime
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Bop Gun" is the best rated episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street" season 2. It scored 8.8/10 based on 377 votes. Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Tom Fontana, David Simon, David Mills, it aired on 1/6/1994. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "See No Evil".