The New Detectives: 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 New Detectives 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
Mind Hunters
Apr 22, 1997 · 52 min
Journey into the dark recesses and calculated madness present only in our worst nightmares; and in the minds of serial killers, such as Richard Chase - The Vampire Killer of Sacram
Camera Clues
Apr 29, 1997 · 46 min
Forensic photographers are amongst the first people at a crime scene, capturing vital clues on film. What do the cameras capture that can't be seen first-hand and who are the men a
Double Helix
May 6, 1997 · 52 min
With DNA analysis just a few microscopic cells found at a crime scene can be used to convict a killer. Forensic scientists can analyze droplets of blood, hair fiber, or a piece of
Web of Clues
May 13, 1997 · 52 min
Forensic Entomology: Bug have been around for millions of years. Their habits surrounding death can tell these experts when the victim died.
Faces of Tragedy
May 20, 1997 · 46 min
Forensic Sculpting: These experts can take nothing more than their knowledge, clay, and a skull and bring the victim to life. Once nameless victims can now have a name.
Without a Trace
May 27, 1997 · 53 min
Missing Person: In America nearly 1.8 million people are reported missing each year, factor in the world and that number triples. Using computer databases and other means victims a
Burning Evidence
Jun 3, 1997 · 47 min
Identifying Burned Remains: Murder is hard to prove with no body, when the victim has been burned it is even more difficult. Fire does more than destroy evidence . . . it can keep
Short Fuse
Jun 10, 1997 · 47 min
Explosives Investigations: A woman opens a box which explodes killing her. Soon to follow are five other bombs just as deadly as the first. This soon turns into a massive investiga
Death Grip
Jun 17, 1997 · 46 min
Fingerprinting: The backbone to forensic science, the fingerprint is a very effective way to identify victims and criminals. Not only are fingerprints used but also palm prints and
Signed in Blood
Jun 24, 1997 · 47 min
Handwriting Analysis: Every pass of the pencil leaves a little of ourselves behind. Taking the time to evaluate documents can tell the difference between suicide and murder.
Witness to Terror
Jul 1, 1997 · 48 min
Black Boxes: A plane plunges toward the ground and upon impact little remains. The only possible survivor is the flight data recorder. This little black box could hold the answers
Trial of the Century
Jul 8, 1997 · 48 min
Forensics in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial: The verdict is in Not Guilty of murder. O.J. Simpson emerges a free man. What was the evidence and could it be trusted? These experts br
Deadly Target
Jul 15, 1997 · 47 min
Ballistics: A body with a gunshot wound to the head, the gun is next to the body. Was it suicide or murder? Every part of the gun can be analyzed for the correct answer.