Crime Story: 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 Crime Story 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
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The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob
Sep 22, 1987
An overzealous senator outrages crime bosses by subpoenaing them to appear before an organized crime commission. An actress with a shady past falls for Torello.
Blast from the Past
Sep 29, 1987
Torello confronts his feelings for Julie when she asks him to rescue her kidnapped husband, who is a doctor forced to tend to one of his injured kidnappers.
Always a Blonde
Oct 20, 1987
The Senterros, a family of Mexican cattle ranchers, controls the marijuana trade, so Torello's unit sets up a sting operation, but detective Joey Indelli leaves to try to save a ca
Atomic Fallout
Oct 27, 1987
Torello follows a crazed killer into Mexico, unaware his quarry will lead him to an arms-for-drugs operation run by an alive-and-well Luca.
Shockwaves
Nov 3, 1987
Luca returns to Vegas with immunity to work for the US Government, causing revenge-minded Abrams to resign in frustration and Torello unable to get near Luca.
Robbery, Armed
Nov 10, 1987
A Chicago thug, preparing for the heist of a Las Vegas casino, shoots Krychek on the eve of Torello's birthday.
Little Girl Lost
Nov 24, 1987
An investigator searching for a man's girlfriend, who happens to be Weisbord's granddaughter, is murdered before he gives information to Torello. Luca offers a drug-addicted Abrams
Love Hurts
Dec 8, 1987
Luca falls for an actress in a movie he is financing and discovers she is more than even he can handle.
MIG-21
Dec 15, 1987
A defecting Soviet pilot becomes custody of the Strike Force, which learns of plans to use him in a spy swap.
Moulin Rouge
Jan 5, 1988
The Justice Department tries to deal with troubles at a new nightclub - including bombings, extortion, and racial threats - owned by a beautiful black woman.
Seize the Time
Jan 12, 1988
Torello cannot identify the source of a money-laundering operation. Clemmons reveals his suspicions about Iris's new casino partner.
Femme Fatale
Jan 19, 1988
A Chinese agent dupes Torello into looking for her father while she smuggles plutonium out of the country.
Protected Witness
Feb 2, 1988
In return for the man's testimony, Torello offers government protection to a Chicago mobster with a contract on his life.
Last Rites
Feb 9, 1988
After Manny is stricken by a heart attack, Luca demands that he be the first heart-transplant recipient. Max convinces Steve to put a hit on Luca.
Pauli Taglia's Dream
Mar 8, 1988
In a dream Paulie recounts his and Luca's survival of the atomic bomb. After nearly perishing in the blast, Luca and Paulie are taken into federal custody. Delirious from his gun
Roadrunner
Mar 15, 1988
While escorting a prisoner and his girlfriend, Torello is trapped in the desert and stalked by corrupt lawmen who want the prisoner.
Desert Justice
Mar 22, 1988
The Justice Department must deal with crooked cops and feuding brothel owners when Pauli's prostitute-girlfriend is murdered.
Byline
Mar 29, 1988
Torello's writer-friend plans to take down Luca by exposing him in an article.
The Hearings
Apr 5, 1988
Luca is finally brought to court on racketerring charges but the trial is postponed when a military emergency happens in Vietnam.
Pursuit (1)
Apr 26, 1988
Torello and his men chase Luca to Mexico where they will get no help from the US Government.
Escape (2)
May 3, 1988
Torello and his men save Danny from certain death while Luca is told by a top military commander that he is nothing in Mexico.
Going Home (3)
May 10, 1988
Torello and his men catch up to Luca in Mexico and force him to escape but they all get trapped inside a pilotless airborne plane.