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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 ].		'''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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Template:In the Heat of the Night episode Missing is an episode of the television series In the Heat of the Night. Aired on May 16, 1989, Missing was the final episode of the second season, and was the first part of a season ending cliffhanger.

Plot Summary

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.

Virgil Tibbs and Bubba Skinner soon begin to suspect that acting chief Tom Dugan may have played a role in the kidnapping. They go to confront Dugan, but are stopped by the FBI agent, who reveals to the pair that Dugan is in fact part of an undercover investigation into the white supremacists who kidnapped Gillespie. Dugan 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.

Dugan 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.

Trivia

This is the final appearance of Joe Don Baker as Tom Dugan. Baker had stood in for Carroll O'Connor during the final four episodes of the second season, while O'Connor was absent as he was recovering from open heart surgery.
The second part of the cliffhanger, Anniversary 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 rape 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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