The Name of the Game: 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 Name of the Game 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
Lady On the Rocks
Sep 19, 1969
A happy marriage might be a front for the wife's fear and guilt as Howard (GB) suspects.
A Hard Case of the Blues
Sep 26, 1969
Blues singer Jesse Boone's business manager has just died under mysterious circumstances. He also swindled Jesse out of $200,000. Thing of it is, Jesse couldn't care less--and Crim
Blind Man's Bluff
Oct 3, 1969
An ex-district attorney gives Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. He was blinded several years earlier, and his wif
The Emissary
Oct 10, 1969
An old-line French Marxist who happens to be an old friend of Crime magazine publisher Dan Howard (GB) would like him to help him pull off a delicate diplomatic mission. The Red Ch
Chains of Command
Oct 17, 1969
Farrell (RS) is investigating charges that the officials of a prison on the Mexican border are shipping out forced labor to local farms. It has been further charged that the offici
Goodbye Harry
Oct 24, 1969
Roving reporter Sam Hardy's boss, Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard (GB), sends Hardy and magazine researcher Peggy Maxwell on a dangerous fact-finding mission. Their quarry is
Give Till It Hurts
Oct 31, 1969
The object of Farrell's (RS) latest investigation is a professional fundraiser. The editor recognizes him as a notorious con man, so it should be no problem to expose his racket. B
The Perfect Image
Nov 7, 1969
Howard (GB) has recently been instrumental in getting the new mayor of Chicago elected. Recently uncovered evidence, however, suggests that he is in bed with the Mob. Howard and Cr
The Prisoner Within
Nov 14, 1969
Dillon (TF) investigates the story of a young man who is challenged by an Army officer to undergo prisoner of war training. He accepts the survival training challenge.
The Civilized Men
Nov 28, 1969
Farrell (RS) heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government livestock. Could the Mob be in
High Card
Dec 5, 1969
A U.S. Senator claims to have photographic proof that Howard (GB)was the man who tipped off the Cubans about the Bay of Pigs.
The Power
Dec 12, 1969
Dan Farrell (RS) sets about to investigate corruption on the waterfront. Farrell finds himself in the middle of a power struggle between two brothers battling for control of the lo
Laurie Marie
Dec 19, 1969
When Laurie Marie gets lost on the vast country estate of millionaire industrialist Robert Coates, he posts a $10,000 reward for anyone who can return the girl unharmed. This resul
The Tradition
Jan 2, 1970
Howard (GB) and a young Greek woman are forced to flee for their lives when they challenge an ancient Greek custom.
The Brass Ring
Jan 9, 1970
A Boxer is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Dan Farrell (RS) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's
Island of Gold and Precious Stones
Jan 16, 1969
A late millionaire's millions have disappeared, and reporter Jeff Dillon (TF) wants to find out why. Together with his crack researcher Peggy Maxwell, Dillon checks out the decease
The Takeover
Jan 23, 1970
As special envoy, Howard (GB) visits a crisis-torn Asian nation whose Chief of state allegedly robbed the treasury and vanished. The ladies reinforce Howard's suspicions of a frame
The Garden
Jan 30, 1970
Dan Farrell (RS) is on the trail of a possible scam. A ""Pop"" psychiatrist who is strong on placebos but short on ethics, treats his wealthy patients at a lavish remote retreat ca
Tarot
Feb 13, 1970
Glenn Howard (GB) tries to prove that a young girl did not really kill herself and finds himself dangerously entangled with a coven of deadly witches.
The King of Denmark
Feb 20, 1970
Dillon (TF) investigates when an ancient and invaluable manuscript is found, and a girl disappears increasing the mystery.
The Skin Game
Feb 27, 1970
Farrell (RS) investigates deaths caused by an illegal dilution of medical supplies in a small African nation.
Man of the People
Mar 6, 1970
Jilted by ""populist"" tycoon Cesar Rodriguez, Hilary thirsts for revenge. She plans to publish a series of articles exposing the popular Rodriguez as a fraud, using his Mexican he
Echo of a Nightmare
Mar 20, 1970
The crime in question occurred some 25 years ago. Now the kidnapper has been mysteriously murdered, compelling Dan Farrell (RS) to investigate. Curiously, the partner of the abduct
Jenny Wilde Is Drowning
Mar 27, 1970
When a young actress becomes suicidal, Jeff Dillon (TF) attempts to prevent her suicide attempts.
One of the Girls in Research
Apr 3, 1970
Howard's research girl has romantic daydreams about him as they try to locate an eccentric conniving industrialist who is trying victimized her.
The Other Kind of Spy
Apr 10, 1970
Dillon (TF) investigates a chemical plant that has blown up only to discover industrial espionage as the motive.