In the Heat of the Night/Triangle

Triangle
Season 3, Episode 12
Airdate	January 23, 1990
Production Number	9818
Written by	Rick Kelbaugh
Directed by	Chuck Bowman
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In the Heat of the Night — Season Three

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Triangle is the twelfth episode of the third season of In the Heat of the Night, and the forty-second episode overall.

Starring: Carroll O'Connor (Chief William O. "Bill" Gillespie)

and Howard Rollins (Detective Virgil Tibbs) (credit only)

Also Starring: Alan Autry (Officer V.L. "Bubba" Skinner), Anne-Marie Johnson (Althea Tibbs), David Hart (Officer Parker Williams), Geoffrey Thorne (Officer Wilson Sweet), Hugh O'Connor (Cpl. Lonnie Jamison)

Guest Starring: John Diehl (John Sevrance), Kerri Green (Karen Severance)

Co-Starring: Andrew Winton (Tad), Steve Boles (Dan), Rebecca Wackler (Marta), Jane Berman (Eileen), Crystal Fox (Luann), Dan Biggers (Dr. Robb), Randi Layne] (Marge), Terence Jenkins (Cullon)

Plot Overview

A charismatic community leader catches his wife and her lover together in bed and kills them both, then picks up his daughter from school and, without telling her what he has done, takes her to the family's cabin in the woods, hoping to explain things. Gillespie and the officers learn from the man's son, who is younger and was at school when this happened, that his parents had been fighting and there were hints of the father initiating domestic abuse against their mother. The officers eventually learn the whereabouts of the man and his daughter, whom he hopes to use as a bargaining tool to aid in his escape, but Gillespie and his team have gotten to his son first and hope that he will be the key to him surrendering.