Although there was no previous hint of it in earlier episodes, we find out that David Hart had been keeping company with Victoria Jackson, but they had
broken up.
Still he's got a statue of liberty size torch he carries for her and as a Sparta police officer so he's real upset when Jackson takes up with drug dealer Jeff Potell.
He should have not gone on that drug raid on Potell's premises, but Hart does and Potell winds up dead and Jackson is the only witness.
What Hart does is go to the lawyer he trusts the most Virgil Tibbs. What Howard Rollins lacks in courtroom experience he makes up for with detective instincts in finding out the truth.
Never get involved in a case with so much personal at stake.
Still he's got a statue of liberty size torch he carries for her and as a Sparta police officer so he's real upset when Jackson takes up with drug dealer Jeff Potell.
He should have not gone on that drug raid on Potell's premises, but Hart does and Potell winds up dead and Jackson is the only witness.
What Hart does is go to the lawyer he trusts the most Virgil Tibbs. What Howard Rollins lacks in courtroom experience he makes up for with detective instincts in finding out the truth.
Never get involved in a case with so much personal at stake.