The Best Episodes of Jake and the Fatman Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(47 votes)

   #1 - Wish You Were Here (1)

   S2:E13/15/1989

   Jake goes to Hawaii to visit a longtime friend, John Graney, but finds him dead when he arrives. Meanwhile McCabe resigns his position as district attorney and decides to move to Hawaii.

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   7.6/10(40 votes)

   #2 - Wish You Were Here (2)

   S2:E23/15/1989

   Jake continues trying to find Graney's murderer, now while under suspicion of John's partner's murder.

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   7.4/10(33 votes)

   #3 - I'll Never Smile Again

   S2:E33/22/1989

   A tourist tries to stop a mugging, but he is grabbed from behind and the mugger stabs him. When the police arrive, the tourist is still alive, but the mugger is dead from a bullet wound and on the ground lies a gun used to kill several muggers. The third man is nowhere to be seen.

   Director:Don Medford

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   Director:Don Medford

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   8.1/10(34 votes)

   #4 - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

   S2:E44/5/1989

   Jake investigates a robbery of a transportation company, and gets involved with its owner.

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   7.7/10(39 votes)

   #5 - Why Can't You Behave?

   S2:E54/12/1989

   A friend of McCabe, senator Brandauer, is killed in a plane crash, and investigation reveals it was no accident. The plane had substandard parts bought in a deal brokered by McCabe's son, Daniel.

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   7.6/10(35 votes)

   #6 - Poor Butterfly

   S2:E64/19/1989

   Jake goes after a pimp, who killed a prostitute who was to testify against him.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Unknown

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7. 

   8.4/10(36 votes)

   #7 - It Ain't Necessarily So

   S2:E74/26/1989

   A burglar surprises Wallace Cogan, a publisher of adult magazines, and his wife Marina when they are returning home from a holiday. He kills Marina, but is wounded by Cogan before he gets away.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

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   7.2/10(34 votes)

   #8 - Someone to Watch Over Me

   S2:E85/3/1989

   A young woman is found dead on the beach from a drug overdose. The immediate suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Sonny, so Jake goes pick him up for questioning. But a mysterious gunman is also interested in Sonny, and tries to kill him before Jake can get to him.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

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   8.3/10(34 votes)

   #9 - They Can't Take That Away from Me

   S2:E95/10/1989

   Jake and two friends participate in a drug bust that goes sour. The next day those friends are found dead - killed by a shotgun blast while they were in their car at the docks.

   Director:Don Medford

   Writer:Catherine Clinch

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    7.1/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Side by Side

    S2:E105/17/1989

    McCabe and the son of a friend go fishing, and discover a bomb on the their boat. Unable to disarm it they jump in the sea and swim to a nearby island. Meanwhile Jake and Derek presume they're dead, and go looking for the bomber.

    Director:Jackie Cooper

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Snowfall

    S2:E115/24/1989

    The Secret Service gets help from Jake in catching a money counterfeiter, who trades his product for cocaine. It becomes personal for Jake when a friend is killed during a failed raid.

    Director:Jackie Cooper

    Writer:Unknown

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