Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: 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 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer 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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Baubles, Bangles and Blood
Jan 2, 1959 · 30 min
Mike is hired by an ex-con who now runs an amusement park in New Jersey. The former con-artist has received blackmail notes demanding $25,000 or else he reveal that the old man lie
Accentuate the Negative
Jan 9, 1959 · 30 min
When an innocent man is accused of murder, Mike is hired to find the real killer of a photographer who ran a phony modelling school and dabbled in blackmail on the side.
I Ain't Talkin'
Jan 16, 1959 · 30 min
An old friend asks Mike to reason with a young man who refuses to identify the murderers of a drugstore owner in his old neighborhood. Mike is no more successful than his sister or
The Big Drop
Jan 23, 1959 · 30 min
A woman hires Mike to find the man who murdered who father, an experienced steeplejack and window-washer who fell 20 floors to his death. Mike's investigation shows that the murder
Aces and Eights
Jan 30, 1959 · 30 min
Hammer is providing security for a jewelry store and catches a woman stealing a piece. Her husband is a gambler deeply in debt and Hammer takes pity and decides to help her. Hammer
Requiem for a Sucker
Feb 6, 1959 · 30 min
Mike helps out an old friend when her husband is accused of murdering a loan shark. His investigation revealed that a number of people were interested in taking over the mobster's
Husbands Are Bad Luck
Feb 13, 1959 · 30 min
Sonya Miles, a pretty secretary, engaged to marry her wealthy boss's son, is threatened with blackmail by her sleazy ex-husband, a rodeo performer. She hires Mike to keep her forme
Jury of One
Feb 20, 1959 · 30 min
Mike's old friend Patricia Tyler calls him for help when neighborhood hoodlums vandalize her father's grocery store. Mike sides with the hoodlums since her father was the vote that
Another Man's Poisson
Feb 27, 1959 · 30 min
Vic Fontainee, a blind fish monger, hires Mike to find out if the man claiming to be his long-lost brother is really on the level. Mike discovers that not only is the man an impost
According to Luke
Mar 6, 1959 · 30 min
Luke Lund is being blackmailed. He is a racketeer now posing as a legitimate land developer in Shale City. He lures Mike Hammer from New York and with the help of a crooked cop fra
Coney Island Baby
Mar 13, 1959 · 30 min
Mike has thirty minutes to solve a murder when his lost gun is used to kill a jealous husband who had beaten him senseless the day before.
Save Me in San Salvador
Mar 20, 1959 · 30 min
Hammer gets involved in political intrigue with a Colonel and two gorgeous women.
Park the Body
Apr 2, 1959 · 30 min
Mike receives an anonymous letter with a $300 retainer hiring him to investigate the disappearance of a parking lot attendant. Mike learns that the man was defrauding the owner by
Tattoo Bruté
Apr 9, 1959 · 30 min
A beautiful Chinese woman asks Mike to find the man who robbed an illegal poker game held in the back of a Chinese restaurant. One of them who lost heavily has threatened her fathe
When I Am Dead, My Darling...
Apr 16, 1959 · 30 min
Mike, vacationing in France, is asked to help a pretty American widow who is traveling on the ocean liner "Isle de France". The woman claims to see her dead husband everywhere, but
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
Apr 23, 1959 · 30 min
Mike is hired to dissuade a pretty blonde from blackmailing his client with a tape recording of his extra-marital indiscretions. Mike finds the woman hanging from the ceiling in he
The Last Aloha
Apr 30, 1959 · 30 min
Mike is in Hawaii on a business trip and winds up searching for gold instead.
Shoot Before You Look
May 1, 1959 · 30 min
Mike investigates a $50,000 jewelry heist and double-murder for the insurance company. He gets a tip that the thief and murderer is hiding in a nearby hotel and kills the crook in
Evidence on the Record
May 8, 1959 · 30 min
When several of Johnny Sixty's juke box machines and his ace mechanic murdered, the police focus on Sixty's business rival, Wallets Mack. Mack insists he's innocent and hires Mike
The Commodore
May 15, 1959 · 30 min
A homeless man tells Mike that he's the victim of a double cross and a nice old man confesses to a murder.
Curtains for an Angel
May 22, 1959 · 30 min
Mike investigates a murder and confidence game involving a New York theater group.
A Haze on the Lake
May 29, 1959 · 30 min
Mike is hired to discretely investigate a series of attempts on the life of Carl Kunard, a successful building contractor, the most recent of which took place at the man's vacation
See No Evil
Jun 4, 1959 · 30 min
Hammer is hired by a gypsy to clear her boyfriend Carl as an accomplice in robbery. Carl's brother Van is a monkey grinder and after Hammer questions him is murdered. The monkey (B
Dixie Is Dead
Jun 11, 1959 · 30 min
Mike's hired by a nightclub owner when thugs bust up his Dixieland joint. He's sure they were sent by the club across the street because he stole their headliner, Dixie Dee. Dixie'
Bride and Doom
Jun 18, 1959 · 30 min
Showgirl Ruby Duvall is roughed up by her future sister-in-law, arrogant society snob Joyce Conroy, and offered $5000 not to marry Philip and soil the family name. It seems an open
M Is for Mother
Jun 25, 1959 · 30 min
A college girl comes to Mike saying her mother, an attractive widow, is involved with a man trying to con her out of money. Hammer confirms there are a couple of scams going on. On
Pen Pals
Jul 10, 1959 · 30 min
A young man suddenly turns into a coward at the unexpected appearance of two strangers. Distraught, his wife turns to Mike Hammer for aid.
Now Die in It
Jul 17, 1959 · 30 min
Mikes hired by a husband and wife to investigate the murder of a family member.
Slay Upon Delivery
Jul 17, 1959 · 30 min
After getting in debt to a couple running an upscale dice game, Paul Redmond is roughed up by their collections thug Murphy before disappearing. Murphy's a renegade private eye who
Groomed To Kill
Jul 17, 1959 · 30 min
A blackmailing showgirl is found murdered and one of Hammer's friends is the number one suspect.
Doll Trouble
Jul 31, 1959 · 30 min
Mike's vacation at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels is interrupted by a case. Wealthy Wilma Puttnam asks Hammer to investigate the people claiming to have the daughter of her late
Stocks and Blondes
Aug 7, 1959 · 30 min
Tom O'Rough is severely beaten en route to Mike's office. He's concern that Si Loomis, a small-time crook, has won the heart of his employer, Edie Sanford, and she's about to lose
Wedding Mourning
Aug 13, 1959 · 30 min
Mike finally meets the love of his life and proposes to attractive Kathy Dean. They never make it down the aisle; he and Pat Chambers find her shot to death just before the wedding
Merchant of Menace
Aug 20, 1959 · 30 min
Am ex-con he'd help send to prison makes a death threat against Mike. Believing its just a sick joke, Hammer decides to meet with the man.
I Remember Sally
Aug 27, 1959 · 30 min
A dying man comes to New York and hires Mike to find the attractive young woman he remembers from 15 years earlier. Mike tracks down Sally Bryant to the fleabag Central Hotel and d
A Mugging Evening
Sep 3, 1959 · 30 min
A married out-of-towner is set up for a mugging in Central Park by a sexy young woman he'd only met that day. Wanting his stolen briefcase back and his name out of the newspapers,
Slab Happy
Sep 11, 1959 · 30 min
Punch-drunk former boxer Kid Dakota still carries a torch for gold-digging his ex-wife Julie. The Kid got into a fight with Julie's current husband at their restaurant (which used
Siamese Twinge
Sep 18, 1959 · 30 min
An Asian nightclub singer is offered $5000 by her boyfriend's snooty society mother to just disappear. She turns it down until her husband, a Merchant Marine she escaped from long
Goodbye, Al
Sep 25, 1959 · 30 min
Mike's slippery friend Al Sparks skips town because of a gambling debt. He turns up in Forge River charged with murdering the female owner of the diner where he worked. Hammer disc