Nash Bridges: 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 Nash Bridges 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
Internal Affairs
Sep 13, 1996
Nash investigates a judge's murder, and unwittingly triggers an Internal Affairs investigation. The Internal Affairs cops go bad, and only Nash Bridges and the SIU can stop them.
Til Death Do Us Part
Sep 20, 1996
Nash has to deal with the fact that Joe may have 72 hours to live after being exposed to a deadly virus while Nash & Joe investigate a drug theft from a research lab.
The Great Escape
Sep 26, 1996
A busload of San Quentin prisoners on their way to court is hi-jacked in downtown San Francisco. Nash has to track down two dangerous escapees, including a paramilitary activist wh
Wrecking Crew
Oct 4, 1996
A first-rate professional robber and his crew hit San Fran in a string of strong-arm jobs. Joe convinces Nash to moonlight as a private eye, searching for the SF Giant's short stop
Trackdown
Oct 11, 1996
A world renowned hit-man has been hired to kill the chief witness in a far reaching drug prosecution. Nash Bridges must stop him. Only problem is, the hit-man turns out to be one o
The Brothers McMillan
Oct 18, 1996
Nash and Joe trail two brothers who are heirs to a Mafia family. Nash becomes suspicious when he discovers Kelly once had a relationship with the younger brother.
Night Train
Oct 25, 1996
While coming home from a late night bachelor party, Nash and some of his fellow cops become embroiled in a train heist gone bad on a BART train.
Zodiac
Nov 1, 1996
After a nearly 20-year absence, the notorious San Francisco serial killer, ""Zodiac,"" returns to taunt Nash as well as haunt Nash's mentor (who has since retired). But is it the a
Leo's Big Score
Nov 8, 1996
Nash is stuck with an eleven year old delinquent who's the link to busting a drug kingpin. Joe is reunited with his grown son J.J. and Nick wreaks havoc with Nash's attempt to find
Hit Parade
Nov 22, 1996
Nash and Joe cut a deal with Carlos Casas, a gangland money launderer, offering him a new identity in exchange for his testimony.
Promised Land
Nov 22, 1996
A people-smuggling ring brings Nash and Joe to the aid of a young man searching for his parents.
25 Hours of Christmas
Dec 13, 1996
It's Christmas Eve, and Nash and his fellow cops are trapped at the SIU as they wrap up a murder investigation and a prostitution case. Joe borrows Nash's 'Cuda to get it detailed
Road Work
Jan 3, 1997
Nash and Joe have a task of escorting a secret key witness from the Witness Protection Program to San Francisco to testify in an important SIU-related case. They fall under gunfire
Inside Out
Jan 10, 1997
Joe goes undercover inside State Prison to bring down a ruthless Mexican gang leader who put out a hit (from behind bars) on a SFPD undercover cop who had infiltrated the Mexican M
The Counterfeiters
Jan 24, 1997
Nash and the SIU uncover a counterfeitering group where the money is top-of-the-line Supernote quality. Moving in to bust the group, they discover a fake SIU gang impersonating the
The Web
Jan 31, 1997
Nash busts computer hacker/robber, Andy, and discovers Andy's committed the crime because his wife has been kidnapped. The crew of crooks want Andy's hacker skills as their ransom.
Knockout
Feb 7, 1997
Nash's sister, Stacy, is robbed, forcing her to come out of the closet as a lesbian. Nash deals with his own secret romance with Nick's nurse Whitney. The fallout from these family
Gun Play
Feb 14, 1997
After Cassidy is hit in the behind by a stray bullet at school, Nash and Joe go on the hunt for the shooter and the dealer who's putting guns into kid's hands. Due to earthquake re
Rampage
Feb 21, 1997
Nash follows the trail of James and Lorraine, a thrill-seeking couple on a wild crime spree in San Francisco. Nash feels personally responsible for the fate of Lorraine when he dis
Out of Chicago
Mar 28, 1997
Hot on the trail of a murderous criminal from Chicago, Nash teams up with a KAREN DECKER, a cop from the Windy City who's in every way his equal: smart, competent-and yes, sexy. Sp
Moving Target
Apr 11, 1997
Nash's old nemesis from the SIU, Rick Bettina, now a bounty hunter, is back and in competition with Nash as they both try to track down mobster Ray Goetz, who Bettina wants on assa
Wild Card
Apr 25, 1997
Nash solves murders in Chinatown and helps out an old friend, Cedrick Hawks, a professional gambler who is in San Francisco to clear up a bad debt.
Deliverance
May 2, 1997
Nash and Joe butt heads with the leader of a team of Urban Commandos who has been hired to protect an inner-city community. While awaiting the birth of the new baby, Joe searches f