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The Best Episodes of Spenser: For Hire Season 2

Every episode of Spenser: For Hire Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Spenser: For Hire Season 2!

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Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 19 - The Road Back
    8.2/10(58 votes)

    S2:E19

    Spenser loses all feeling in his right arm after he's shot while guarding a politician.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 16 - Trial and Error
    8.1/10(50 votes)

    S2:E16

    A pimp is wrongfully arrested for the murder of one of his girls. Spenser agonizes between pursuing the real murderer or letting the pimp take the rap.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 11 - Among Friends
    8.0/10(56 votes)

    S2:E11

    Hawk is the main suspect when Lt. Quirk is shot, due to a recent fracas between the two. Spenser suspects a new man in town, trying to take Hawk down to make a name for himself.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 14 - Personal Demons
    8.0/10(50 votes)

    S2:E14

    Spenser and Rita go after a corrupt African.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 22 - Song of Orpheus
    8.0/10(47 votes)

    S2:E22

    A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 2 - Widow's Walk
    7.9/10(57 votes)

    S2:E2

    A small fishing family hires Spenser to investigate the death of their father. Spenser suspects a rival fishing family, the Almeidas.

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Juanita Bartlett

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  7. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 21 - The Man Who Wasn't There
    7.9/10(45 votes)

    S2:E21

    Rita and her old college friends are reunited when a fictional person they created 20 years ago is found dead in his apartment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 7 - Home is the Hero
    7.8/10(48 votes)

    S2:E7

    Rita hires Spenser to investigate a troubled teenager, yet another 'Spenser helps a misguided youth' episode.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 17 - One For My Daughter
    7.8/10(47 votes)

    S2:E17

    Spenser and Hawk protect a man who owes money to men of dubious ethics. When their client, Bo Braxton tries to blackmail his creditors, he and his alcoholic teenage daughter go on the run.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 8 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea
    7.7/10(43 votes)

    S2:E8

    A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 3 - White Knight
    7.6/10(51 votes)

    S2:E3

    While Spenser and Hawk are in a small town to view a boxing match, Hawk is arrested, ostensibly for carrying a concealed weapon, but Spenser suspects racism may be involved.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 5 - And Give Up Show Biz?
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    S2:E5

    Spenser protects a man suffering from amnesia.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 1 - An Eye for an Eye
    7.5/10(54 votes)

    S2:E1

    New District Attorney Rita Fiori tries to prosecute Spenser for blackmail.

    Director:William Wiard
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 4 - Rockabye Baby
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    S2:E4

    A mobster's pregnant teenage girlfriend tries to keep her unborn son from his father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 20 - If You Knew Sammy
    7.5/10(49 votes)

    S2:E20

    NRA poster-boy Sammy Backlin breezes into town for a book signing, unwittingly involving Spenser in a shoot out. Spenser agrees to protect Sammy from gangland thugs.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 10 - The Hopes and Fears
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    S2:E10

    With the help of Hawk, a disgusted Spenser is determined to get rid of thugs who are terrorizing his Boston neighborhood.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 12 - I Confess
    7.4/10(48 votes)

    S2:E12

    A wealthy man is murdererd and, surprise, an innocent man is arrested. If you've seen one Spenser, you've seen them all.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 13 - Murder and Acquisitions
    7.4/10(42 votes)

    S2:E13

    Spenser investigates the apparent suicide of a philandering financier about to turn state's evidence to bring down insider trading. Rita has problems of her own when an old boyfriend shows up. Belson hires Spenser to find his missing wallet containing a winning lottery ticket.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 18 - My Brother's Keeper
    7.4/10(49 votes)

    S2:E18

    Spenser becomes embroiled in the seamy Vietnamese organized crime racket after a Vietnamese crime boss uses Spenser to track down a former soldier.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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  20. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 6 - The Long Hunt
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    S2:E6

    Spenser travels to Maine to help hunt down an escaped murderer, but the tables are turned when the man's father stalks Spenser.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 9 - Shadowsight
    7.2/10(48 votes)

    S2:E9

    A girl who apparently has the unique ability to 'see' through both space and time, enlists Spenser's help to solve a rash of arsons.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Spenser: For Hire Season 2 Episode 15 - Mary Hamilton
    7.2/10(51 votes)

    S2:E15

    A girl comes to Boston looking for her estranged father. Spenser decides to help her.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Road Back" is the best rated episode of "Spenser: For Hire" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 58 votes. Directed by Winrich Kolbe and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/21/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Trial and Error".