Naked City: 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 Naked City 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
A Death of Princes
Oct 12, 1960
Detective walks from icing surrendering shooter Gimpy, so his commander asks Adam to volunteer to spy him. Adam struggles with taking the assignment on gun-happy comrade Bane, whos
The Pedigree Sheet
Oct 19, 1960
The investigation of a car wreck reveals two dead men (one killed by a bullet) and a survivor - a petulant, uncooperative young girl.
A Succession of Heartbeats
Oct 26, 1960
A millionaire playboy is murdered in his luxury apartment-along with a married woman. A "black book" filled with ladies telephone numbers doesn't include all of his conquests, incl
Down the Long Night
Nov 2, 1960
Norman Garry is harassed by former neighbor Max Evar. Evar,an "expert on horror", lost his family due to a fire he holds Garry responsible for. Garry asks the NYPD for help and Det
To Walk In Silence
Nov 9, 1960
A blue blood Wall Street investment manager witnesses a shooting. Afraid for his reputation,he stubbornly refuses to aid the NYPD in their investigation. After other possible witne
Killer with A Kiss
Nov 16, 1960
A young man working at Bellevue Hospital, at the Mental Ward, has a neurosis himself. He harbors a deep seated hatred of his deceased military hero father, whom he blames for his m
Debt of Honor
Nov 23, 1960
Murder during a poker game heist, doesn't faze the second biggest loser at the table. It's just hours before his betrothed arrives from Sicily via arranged marriage, but slick gamb
The Human Trap
Nov 30, 1960
A wealthy playboy is dead from an icepick wound. He died in the upscale apartment of a woman whose ex-husband is a notorious gambling czar. The lady freely admits she killed the pl
The Man Who Bit the Diamond In Half
Dec 14, 1960
Dying crook Wicklow heists a museum's entire diamond exhibit. A gemologist sneers that the rocks are well-known to be plastic duplicates. Why pull an elaborate Rififi and kill a gu
Bullets Cost Too Much
Jan 4, 1961
A series of armed robberies made by four masked men eventually lead to a bar killing and public "second guessing" of Adam's handling of the situation. At the same time a resident d
Murder Is a Face I Know
Jan 11, 1961
Hitman's arrest destroys his double life as a small businessman who earned his new community's respect. Hurting the most is his son, a university basketball ace who worships his fa
Landscape with Dead Figures
Jan 18, 1961
A talented artist who does not know his identity is a prisoner in a sanitarium. His long-term captivity ends due to the mention of an artist's name in the newspaper and a fluke opp
A Hole in the City
Feb 1, 1961
Armored car robbers vanish across from Yankee Stadium, so Lt. Busti dragnets the neighborhood, house-to-house. Brutal gang mastermind Nunda has much more to worry about, because he
The Well-Dressed Termite
Feb 8, 1961
A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has also schemed to reunite his boss and estranged wife. These "f
The Day It Rained Mink
Feb 15, 1961
Four people, involved in the Manhattan fur trade, join together to steal fur coats valued at over $1,000,000 from a fashion show held at the Governor Clinton Hotel. The thieves hav
Button in the Haystack
Feb 22, 1961
Ex-con panics when his own loan shark gets killed at his gas station. He tosses his own gun onto a passing truck, doubting the police will buy his story. Idealistic young Det. Adam
Shoes for Vinnie Winford
Mar 1, 1961
A rich-kid,Mama's boy is ignored by the Board of Directors when made President of his deceased father's corporation. The young "Napoleon" however already has a business where he is
The Deadly Guinea Pig
Mar 8, 1961
An investigation into the shooting deaths of an NYPD uniformed patrolman and a citizen leads to a tangled web of ex-Nazi's and concentration camp survivors.
Vengeance Is a Wheel
Mar 15, 1961
Security guard's murder during a burglary mobilizes his huge, close-knit Sicilian family. One of the watchman's sons wants the 65th Precinct's detectives to track the dockside kill
The Fault in Our Stars
Mar 22, 1961
An actor, down on his luck, resorts to murder in order to raise the cash needed to pay his rent.
Tombstone for a Derelict
Apr 5, 1961
Four young men decide to make known their concern about the problems of the world. They use a unique method to get everyone's attention - they randomly murder derelicts and leave c
A Memory of Crying
Apr 12, 1961
A man bereft of any human emotions goes off the deep end when his young wife dies in childbirth.
New York to L.A.
Apr 19, 1961
Det. Flint and Lt. Busti head to Los Angeles to extradite two sociopath brothers to face robbery and murder charges back in New York.
A Very Cautious Boy
Apr 26, 1961
A gangland syndicate headed by lawyer Roy Baxter has been collecting protection money from Joe and Mama Ganoulian, owners of a local restaurant. The Ganoulians hire protection call
An Economy of Death
May 3, 1961
An old couple are swindled and lied to by a fellow Hungarian refugee who claimed to have contact with their granddaughter behind the Iron Curtain. After being exposed, the man name
C3H5(NO3)3
May 10, 1961
After quarreling with his wife Martha, chemistry professor James Fallon goes out and drowns his troubles in drink.
Make-Believe Man
May 17, 1961
Officer Gode informs the detectives that one of his homeless men, a Frank Manfred, has disappeared and that some of the other Bowery citizens say he was kidnapped. The detectives a
To Dream Without Sleep
May 24, 1961
A lonely woman falls in love with a man she meets through an escort service. Assuming they will marry, she becomes hysterical and accidentally stabs him upon finding out that he is
A Kettle of Precious Fish
May 31, 1961
A well organized team of extortionists kidnap a group of businessmen on a chartered fishing boat. Ransom amounts and instructions are phoned to the victims' wives. The NYPD becomes
Sweet Prince of Delancey Street
Jun 7, 1961
Factory worker Peter Wilkins is fired from his job. In a moment of drunken anger, he threatens reprisal on the company.
The Day the Island Almost Sank
Jun 14, 1961
The NYPD is shorthanded, overworked and sleep deprived due to various conventions being held at the same time in Manhattan. When a visiting conventioneer is found brutally murdered
Take and Put
Jun 21, 1961
A once wealthy family is now penniless. To "keep up appearances" and somewhat live as they became accustomed to,they invent a rather novel solution. They rob their friends,pawn the