Rockabye Baby
Spenser: For Hire - S2 - E4
A mobster's pregnant teenage girlfriend tries to keep her unborn son from his father.
Spenser: For Hire: Season 2 - 22 Episode s
2x1 - An Eye for an Eye
September 27, 1986
New District Attorney Rita Fiori tries to prosecute Spenser for blackmail.
2x2 - Widow's Walk
October 4, 1986
A small fishing family hires Spenser to investigate the death of their father. Spenser suspects a rival fishing family, the Almeidas.
2x3 - White Knight
October 18, 1986
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.
2x4 - Rockabye Baby
October 25, 1986
A mobster's pregnant teenage girlfriend tries to keep her unborn son from his father.
2x5 - And Give Up Show Biz?
November 1, 1986
Spenser protects a man suffering from amnesia.
2x6 - The Long Hunt
November 8, 1986
A young criminal's father attacks a bus transporting convicts to the state prison.
2x7 - Home is the Hero
November 22, 1986
Rita hires Spenser to investigate a troubled teenager, yet another 'Spenser helps a misguided youth' episode.
2x8 - One if by Land, Two if by Sea
November 29, 1986
A friend of Spenser's is shot and killed while portraying Paul Revere during a Revolutionary War re-enactment.
2x9 - Shadowsight
December 13, 1986
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.
2x10 - The Hopes and Fears
December 20, 1986
With the help of Hawk, a disgusted Spenser is determined to get rid of thugs who are terrorizing his Boston neighborhood.
2x11 - Among Friends
January 10, 1987
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.
2x12 - I Confess
January 17, 1987
A wealthy man is murdererd and, surprise, an innocent man is arrested. If you've seen one Spenser, you've seen them all.
2x13 - Murder and Acquisitions
January 24, 1987
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.
2x14 - Personal Demons
February 7, 1987
Spenser and Rita go after a corrupt African.
2x15 - Mary Hamilton
February 14, 1987
A girl comes to Boston looking for her estranged father. Spenser decides to help her.
2x16 - Trial and Error
February 21, 1987
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.
2x17 - One For My Daughter
March 7, 1987
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.
2x18 - My Brother's Keeper
March 14, 1987
Spenser becomes embroiled in the seamy Vietnamese organized crime racket after a Vietnamese crime boss uses Spenser to track down a former soldier.
2x19 - The Road Back
March 21, 1987
Spenser loses all feeling in his right arm after he's shot while guarding a politician.
2x20 - If You Knew Sammy
April 4, 1987
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.
2x21 - The Man Who Wasn't There
May 2, 1987
Rita and her old college friends are reunited when a fictional person they created 20 years ago is found dead in his apartment.
2x22 - Song of Orpheus
May 9, 1987
A prison inmate with a grudge against Hawk hires outside muscle to rub him out.