Jake and the Fatman: 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 Jake and the Fatman 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
Wish You Were Here (1)
Mar 15, 1989
Jake goes to Hawaii to visit a longtime friend, John Graney, but finds him dead when he arrives. Meanwhile McCabe resigns his position as district attorney and decides to move to H
Wish You Were Here (2)
Mar 15, 1989
Jake continues trying to find Graney's murderer, now while under suspicion of John's partner's murder.
I'll Never Smile Again
Mar 22, 1989
A tourist tries to stop a mugging, but he is grabbed from behind and the mugger stabs him. When the police arrive, the tourist is still alive, but the mugger is dead from a bullet
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Apr 5, 1989
Jake investigates a robbery of a transportation company, and gets involved with its owner.
Why Can't You Behave?
Apr 12, 1989
A friend of McCabe, senator Brandauer, is killed in a plane crash, and investigation reveals it was no accident. The plane had substandard parts bought in a deal brokered by McCabe
Poor Butterfly
Apr 19, 1989
Jake goes after a pimp, who killed a prostitute who was to testify against him.
It Ain't Necessarily So
Apr 26, 1989
A burglar surprises Wallace Cogan, a publisher of adult magazines, and his wife Marina when they are returning home from a holiday. He kills Marina, but is wounded by Cogan before
Someone to Watch Over Me
May 3, 1989
A young woman is found dead on the beach from a drug overdose. The immediate suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Sonny, so Jake goes pick him up for questioning. But a mysterious gunman i
They Can't Take That Away from Me
May 10, 1989
Jake and two friends participate in a drug bust that goes sour. The next day those friends are found dead - killed by a shotgun blast while they were in their car at the docks.
Side by Side
May 17, 1989
McCabe and the son of a friend go fishing, and discover a bomb on the their boat. Unable to disarm it they jump in the sea and swim to a nearby island. Meanwhile Jake and Derek pre
Snowfall
May 24, 1989
The Secret Service gets help from Jake in catching a money counterfeiter, who trades his product for cocaine. It becomes personal for Jake when a friend is killed during a failed r