After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
The best episode of "Moonlighting" season 2 is "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?", rated 7.5/10 from 349 user votes. It was directed by Peter Werner and written by Glenn Gordon Caron. "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" aired on 9/24/1985 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Lady in the Iron Mask".
Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money back.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Writer: Roger Director
Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin
Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter
Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Bruce Franklin Singer
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno
Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.
Director: Peter Crane
Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Ali Marie Matheson, Kerry Ehrin
Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Roger Director
Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a "Santa hot line."
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
Director: Will Mackenzie, Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno
A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter
Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Scott S. Gorden
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Debra Frank, Bruce Franklin Singer
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
Director: Christopher Hibler
Writer: Debra Frank, Carl Sautter
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
Director: Allan Arkush
Writer: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Charles H. Eglee, Jonathan Lemkin
Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determined crooked cop.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Roger Director