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'''Missing''' is an episode of the television series ]. Aired on ], ], ''Missing'' was the final episode of the second season, and was the first part of a season ending ]. |
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==Plot Summary== |
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{{R from television episode|In the Heat of the Night (TV series)}} |
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Bill Gillespie is set to return from the police convention which he had been attending. But when his officers go to his house to greet him, they find the home is in a shambles, with no sign of Gillespie. The officers soon realize that Gillespie had been kidnapped by a group of white supremacists. An FBI agent soon becomes involved in the investigation. |
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Virgil Tibbs and Bubba Skinner soon begin to suspect that acting chief Tom Duggan may have played a role in the kidnapping. They go to confront Duggan, but are stopped by the FBI agent, who reveals to the pair that Duggan is in fact part of an undercover investigation into the white supremacists who kidnapped Gillespie. Duggan is involved in the case because his nephew had recently joined this extremist group, who are using this nephew to incite racial tensions at the local school. |
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Duggan goes to meet with his contacts in the extremist group. But the meeting proves to be a trap, and Duggan is murdered by these extremists. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Gillespie was later released unharmed. |
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==Trivia== |
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* This is the final appearance of ] as Tom Duggan. Baker had stood in for ] during the final four episodes of the second season, while O'Connor was absent as he was recovering from open heart surgery. |
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* The second part of the cliffhanger, ] was not shown until November of 1989, after several episodes of the third season had already been shown. The reason for the delayed airing of ''Anniversary'' was that an episode involving the ] of Althea Tibbs had been made, and Carroll O'Connor wanted that episode to be the first one shown in the third season. |
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