Top-rated
Sat, Mar 21, 1987
When Spenser is protecting someone, he gets shot. He then learns that there a chance that he might lose the use of his injured arm. So he has therapy while waiting for the surgery that could fix it. And at the same time, the man he was protecting, not wanting to let anyone else get hurt is willing to give to the people who were trying to kill him.
Sun, Sep 27, 1987
Spenser is hired to protect ex-undercover cop, Nick Cavanaugh. As Judge Emmett Cavanaugh tries to make a deal with Crime Boss Gus Harley to safeguard his son and get Cavanaugh's son, Kevin, released from prison, Cavanaugh's other son, Georgie, tries to work his own angle. Along the way, Spenser's ex-girlfriend, Susan, returns from San Francisco. Double dealing and family intrigue lead to a terminal shootout.
Sun, Nov 1, 1987
An alcoholic priest who works with drug addicts and runaways in Boston's Combat Zone is accused of murder and he asks Spenser to find out what really happened. Spenser suspects that the crime bosses who have had confrontations with the priest in the past may be behind the murder. Spenser works to clear the priest of the crime and must also try to redeem the priest in the process.
Sun, Nov 8, 1987
Coming off a long stakeout and 36 hours without any sleep, Spenser witnesses a young woman jump from a rooftop in a suicide attempt. While the woman recovers in the ICU, Spenser investigates and has run-ins with a disreputable private investigator and the young woman's family. Even though he is exhausted, Spenser can't sleep until he finds out what would cause a young, talented woman to try to kill herself.
Top-rated
Sun, Nov 15, 1987
Spenser breaks up a domestic dispute, and gets charged with assault. Meanwhile, Susan is sexually harassed by her thesis adviser and turns to Hawk. Shortly thereafter an attempt is made on Susan's life. As Spenser deals with the assault charge, he and Hawk also track down Susan's assailant, while Susan must defend her program of study before the same board looking into the harassment charges she filed against her adviser.
Sun, Nov 29, 1987
Spenser takes Susan to Plymouth for Thanksgiving and runs into an old Army buddy whose down on his luck. When his friend, Mike Kaminsky, is accused of murdering the young wife of an elderly philanthropist, Spenser tries to prove him innocent. As Susan looks after the Kaminsky family, Spenser and Hawk search out the shifty background of the murder victim, and deal with the controversy conscious step-son. Attempts on Spenser's life ultimately lead he and Hawk to the those responsible.
Sun, Dec 6, 1987
Spenser is in the middle of a streak of bad luck and is planning a fishing trip with Susan to get away from it all. As Spenser is loading his car, a prep school student approaches him and asks for protection from people who are trying to kill the young man. Spenser doubts his story and is giving him Hawk's phone number when two men in a car shoot at them with a shotgun. The young man runs away before Spenser can stop him. Spenser and Susan head off on their trip and Spenser's bad luck and the prep school student's troubles follow them into the Berkshires.
Sun, Dec 20, 1987
A hit man kills one of Spenser's friends in a shoot out on the street. Spenser must defend himself after he shoots a kid while attempting to follow the hit man and is accused by a witness of being reckless. While Spenser struggles with the consequences of his actions, and figures out what the real situation was with the kid he shot, he and Hawk track down the hit man for a final showdown.