In The Heat Of The Night

When Althea Tibbs is raped by a fellow teacher, the Sparta police find it difficult to get a conviction because the man's loyal wife has given him an alibi. Virgil desperately wants to avenge Althea's assault and is forced to a near breaking point.

As the arrests grow, Gillespie, Tibbs and the Sparta police force are desperate to halt the spread of crack cocaine among the young people of their town, and no one is more motivated than Officer Willson Sweet, whose cousin died from using the drug.

Someone mysteriously leaves a baby on Lieutenant Bubba Skinner's doorstep. When the Sparta police search for the mother, they uncover a car submerged in a lake and the dead body of the baby's mother inside, but who and where is the baby's father?