The Job: 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 The Job 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
Sacrilege
Jan 16, 2002
McNeil and Pip are assigned to take the District Attorney's twelve-year-old daughter on a ride-along for her school paper. McNeil is less than thrilled about their assignment, espe
Soup
Jan 23, 2002
When McNeil, Pip and Jan are assigned to find a missing ballerina, they discover that the mystery of her whereabouts may be linked to Frank's favorite new soup. Meanwhile, Ruben is
Telescope
Jan 30, 2002
Tommy purloins a telescope from a crime scene, prompting hours of fun for the guys in the precinct, especially when they spy a topless, beautiful yoga practitioner nearby. Jan trie
Gina
Feb 6, 2002
When Ruben moonlights as a security guard for actress Gina Gershon, McNeil scams his way into taking over his assignment — with disastrous and hilarious results. Frank and the rest
Boss
Feb 13, 2002
McNeil suspects Toni is cheating on him with her boss. Meanwhile, Frank heads to the track with Tommy to place bets using police department money, and Jan and Ruben both vie for a
Quitter
Feb 27, 2002
McNeil promises his wife that he'll quit drinking, just to prove he really doesn't have a problem. But he has trouble finding a substitute vice until he discovers the joys of abusi
Parents
Mar 6, 2002
McNeil's mistress, Toni, blackmails him into meeting her parents over dinner. Meanwhile, Jan dates a cop with a secret and Tommy courts a rage-aholic.
Barbecue
Mar 13, 2002
Pip and Adinah celebrate their 25th anniversary with a no-smoking, no-drinking barbecue attended by church friends, the squad, McNeil and his wife — and McNeil's mistress. Soon the
Betrayal
Mar 20, 2002
McNeil's mistress, Toni, announces that she is going to tell his wife about his ongoing infidelity. Meanwhile the department rallies around Frank, who is hospitalized with chest pa
Neighbor
Apr 10, 2002
When McNeil suspects that Karen's male friend, Ron, is trying to put the moves on his wife, he assigns Ruben and Al to do some surveillance. Meanwhile, Tommy and Frank search for R
Gay
Apr 17, 2002
McNeil suspects that Frank is gay and soon the whole precinct is trying to get Frank — and each other — "out of the closet." Meanwhile, Jan and Pip's shopping trip to an electronic
Vacation
Apr 17, 2002
After getting into trouble for posing as a firefighter in an unorthodox drug bust, McNeil is forced to take a vacation to Miami. However, he can't relax when he suspects one of his
Dad
Apr 24, 2002
Frank thinks he has a stalker, and so he does, but the guy turns out to be his long-lost son. Meanwhile, Pip's squad car is stolen, and McNeil leaks Jan's secret to the other detec