Moonlighting: 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 Moonlighting 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
Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?
Sep 24, 1985 · 48 min
Dave's older brother shows up unexpectedly, flashing a big roll of money and determined to impress a bemused Maddie, unaware that he's pursued by a drug dealer who wants his money
The Lady in the Iron Mask
Oct 1, 1985 · 45 min
A mysterious veiled woman asks Dave and Maddie to find the man who disfigured her twenty years ago on her wedding day-so she can marry him.
Money Talks, Maddie Walks
Oct 8, 1985 · 47 min
Maddie learns through the near-suicide of a friend where her embezzling accountant has fled to and immediately flies after him, determined to get her money back.
The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Oct 15, 1985 · 49 min
Dave and Maddie each dream their own solutions to an unsolved 1946 murder case after hearing the story while finishing an investigation.
My Fair David
Oct 29, 1985 · 50 min
Maddie bets David that he can't act like a mature responsible professional for one full week while they deliver ransom money for the mother of a kidnapped concert pianist.
Knowing Her
Nov 12, 1985 · 49 min
Maddie fears David's old flame is using him when she returns and asks him for help with a bad marriage.
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
Nov 19, 1985 · 47 min
Dave and Maddie argue over whether to help a young woman who claims to be a leprechaun find the pot of gold she insists her father has hidden for her in Los Angeles.
Portrait of Maddie
Nov 26, 1985 · 47 min
Maddie becomes obsessed by the portrait done of her by an artist she never knew and who killed himself upon completing it.
Atlas Belched
Dec 10, 1985 · 48 min
Dave busies himself finding an important phone index for a hapless young executive while Maddie mulls over an offer to sell the agency to a competitor.
Twas the Episode Before Christmas
Dec 17, 1985 · 40 min
Ms. Dipesto finds a baby left in her apartment by a woman named Mary fleeing from the hit men who killed her husband, and Dave and Maddie quarrel over using the agency phones as a
The Bride of Tupperman
Jan 14, 1986 · 49 min
Dave and Maddie compete to fulfill their client's unusual request: find him a possible mate fitting his very specific requirements.
North by North Dipesto
Jan 21, 1986 · 48 min
A restless Ms. Dipesto gets a chance for danger and excitement when she gets a piece of paper from a mysterious man while attending a ball in Dave and Maddie's place.
In God We Strongly Suspect
Feb 11, 1986 · 45 min
Dave and Maddie agree to "corpse-sit" for an escape artist's widow, who believes her dead husband's threats to come back and get even with her.
Every Daughter's Father Is a Virgin
Feb 18, 1986 · 43 min
Maddie worries about her parents' strange behavior, so Dave tails her father to see if he's having an affair.
Witness for the Execution
Mar 11, 1986 · 49 min
A sick old man asks Dave and Maddie to be the "expert" witnesses at his murder.
Sleep Talkin' Guy
Apr 1, 1986 · 49 min
Dave uses information passed on to him from a prostitute with an important client who talks in his sleep to solve several big cases.
Funeral for a Door Nail
Apr 29, 1986 · 46 min
A depressed man hires a hit man to kill him after his wife dies, then desperately seeks Dave and Maddie's help to call him off when he sees his supposedly dead wife alive.
Camille
May 13, 1986 · 48 min
Dave hires an unlucky con woman who accidentally became a heroine when she stopped an assassination attempt against a United States senator, but who is still pursued by a determine