Spenser: For Hire - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Promised Land
Spenser is hired by a real estate developer to find his runaway wife, who is mixed up in bank robbery and murder.
No Room at the Inn
Mobsters plan to escape justice by killing bodyguard Spenser and his charge, a grand-jury witness.
The Choice
Spenser rescues a Senator's kidnapped daughter and becomes a celebrity, and the target of two men who kill for the thrill of it.
Children of a Tempest Storm
Susan agonizes over revealing her pregnancy to Spenser, who has taken in the children of the hit man he killed in self-defense.
Original Sin
Spenser suspects foul play in the apparent suicide of a novice who left the convent to help the poor in the ghetto fight evictions.
Discord in A Minor
After a symphony conductor's daughter is kidnapped, bodyguard Spenser is fired, but he finds later that her disappearance wasn't what it seemed.
The Killer Within
Spenser is hired to protect a woman's identical twin sister from assassins.
Autumn Thieves
Spenser is framed for theft after being hired to follow a man who stole a religious museum piece and promised it to two rival buyers.
Blood Money
A ransom delivery snafu leads Spenser to doubt the existence of a radical group claiming responsibility for kidnapping a corporate executive.
Resurrection
Spenser tries to save the parole of an ex-prostitute charged with weapons possession.
Internal Affairs
Quirk is suspended over allegations that he tipped off an illegal-gambling ring about a planned raid, and he refuses to speak in his own defense.
Death by Design
Spenser thinks his client, who is researching designer drugs, is worried about more than missing earrings and the whereabouts of her gigolo boyfriend.
A Day's Wages
Bodyguards Spenser and Hawk accept blame when security methods fail, but they vow to make a racketeer pay.
A Madness Most Discreet
A former Bolshoi ballerina hires Spenser to recover a tape stolen from her murdered cosmonaut husband.
Brother to Dragons
Spenser goes undercover at a private high school to investigate heroin use on campus, but discovers something far more serious.
When Silence Speaks
A deaf woman hires Spenser to find a man she had been corresponding with who had gone missing.
In a Safe Place
Spenser hunts for an illegal alien whose son is being held as bait by an immigration official.
Angel of Desolation
Complications arise after an ex-model hires Spenser to protect her, and her Boston patrician husband is shot.
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Spenser investigates old friend Sgt. Belson, whose partner, now dead, may have been taking bribes.
At the River's Edge
A 12-year-old girl hires Spenser to find out who killed her sister, whose murder is jeopardizing prospects for an evangelist with political aspirations.
Rage
Susan and Spenser get involved in a hostage situation when a killer abducts a teenager who witnessed his crime.
Hell Hath No Fury
A man whose son was killed in a building collapse claims that a political coverup sent an innocent building inspector to prison.
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