Boston Public: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Boston Public Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Chapter Twenty-Three
Oct 29, 2001
New teachers join the faculty; Lipschultz gets into trouble after giving a student the wrong name; Marla sponsors a club of female students.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Nov 5, 2001
Ronnie begins her teaching career at Winslow High; Lauren tries to help a pregnant, straight-A student gain admission to Princeton.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Nov 12, 2001
Senate is outraged when he learns that a prized student purchased a college-application essay over the Internet. Hanson's class decides to sue Lipschultz in court for defamation of
Chapter Twenty-Six
Nov 19, 2001
Harper's headstrong daughter Brooke enrolls at Winslow High after she is kicked out of private school. Meanwhile, when Ronnie is disappointed that her class is not learning Shakesp
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Nov 26, 2001
Hanson is arrested after a domestic dispute, causing Harper to seriously consider firing him. Lauren is skeptical when a student decides to drop out because a record company wants
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Dec 3, 2001
A statutory-rape case entangles Ronnie with the enraged parents of the 15-year-old victim; an illicit-drug situation embroils Harper with his unsettled daughter
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Dec 10, 2001
Harper reunites with his ex-wife at a holiday benefit; students ask Louisa, Marilyn and Marla to perform at the pageant; Senate stays mum about a student's tragic secret so that th
Chapter Thirty
Jan 7, 2002
A revelation concerning Jeremy fractures the relationship between his mother and Guber; a plea from a death-row inmate troubles Harper; a student's ADD affliction disquiets Ronnie.
Chapter Thirty-One
Jan 14, 2002
Tensions escalate among Meredith, Jeremy and Guber, who seek family counseling; controversy swirls around a student's class-project photo and a speech by Lipschultz.
Chapter Thirty-Two
Jan 21, 2002
Guber accepts Lauren's offer of a platonic date; Ronnie confronts a student about her pregnancy; Hanson helps his students cope with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
Chapter Thirty-Three
Jan 28, 2002
Harper gets steamed when he finds out his daughter is dating a 27-year-old man; Guber and Senate's students get ready to rumble in a debate.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Feb 4, 2002
The faculty decide to have a staff talent show to lighten the mood at Winslow. Lipschultz asks Ronnie to sing a duet with him at the talent show but she convinces him that Marylin
Chapter Thirty-Five
Feb 11, 2002
A student's illness rattles Senate, who's haunted by feelings of futility; a teen's eating disorder upsets Lauren, who's also unnerved by an web site advocating anorexia.
Chapter Thirty-Six
Feb 18, 2002
The students and teachers at Winslow High School deal with the tragedy of a car accident caused by a drunken driver; Senate tries to convince a man to keep his son in school; Marla
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Feb 25, 2002
Controversy strikes Hanson's classroom over a reviled racial epithet; Ronnie draws ire for a class assignment to experience life as a homeless person.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Mar 11, 2002
Ronnie tries to persuade an 18-year-old student not to pose for a racy magazine; Guber and Meredith disagree about a classroom incident; Lauren and Marylin are questioned about the
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Mar 18, 2002
Ronnie catches a student performing a crime; two female students tell Marylin about their sexual conversations online with an older man.
Chapter Forty
Apr 22, 2002
Former student Dana Poole returns to Winslow, hoping to spend time with Senate for a class project; Lipschultz is confronted by a man who claims to be his son.
Chapter Forty-One
Apr 29, 2002
Ronnie invites high-school staffers to a surprise birthday party for Senate at her apartment, but he shocks everybody by showing up with a former student.
Chapter Forty-Two
May 6, 2002
As the prom approaches, female students outrage the faculty when they auction themselves as dates, while Harper deals with angry students who oppose his allowing a gay student to c
Chapter Forty-Three
May 13, 2002
One of Senate's most promising students and his brother become entangled in criminal acts with fatal results; Hanson draws criticism for sending a letter to a girl's parents becaus
Chapter Forty-Four
May 20, 2002
Staff and students at Winslow High struggle to get on with their lives after a number of tragic events.