Baywatch

10 Best Episodes of Baywatch - Season 2

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.

Written by Sophie and last updated on jan 12, 2023.

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Baywatch - S2E5

#15 - The Fabulous Buchannon Boys (Season 2 - Episode 5)

Mitch convinces Kaye to write a piece about the San Dimas Pier in her new paper The Venice Voice. The structure is condemned and foolish surfers lie to challenge each other to ""shoot the pier"". However, no one wants to pay for the pier's demolition. But Kaye is persuaded by her father Ellis Morgan to hold off on the story. Her father's law firm is representing the owners of the pier. Meanwhile, Mitch and Hobie attend an annual ceremony that strives to invoke good waves of surfing. At the ceremony, they are reunited with Mitch's brother Buzz and his unknown son Kyle. Buzz has just found out about Kyle. Kyle lost his mother in a car-crash. She was driving her motorcycle when it happened and Kyle was right behind her. Kyle encourages Hobie to join him for some surfing at the San Dimas Pier. By doing so, Hobie doesn't show up for Junior Lifeguards. However, they can't surf there because a scarab on patrol in the area telling the crowd to stay away from the pier. One night when Buzz calls f

The episode was rated 7.41 from 27 votes.

Baywatch - S2E4

#14 - Money, Honey (Season 2 - Episode 4)

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Mitch is having financial problems, so he and Eddie moonlight, life-guarding at a private party for movie-people. After a daring rescue, the star Larry Brooks is injured. And impressed by Mitch's heroic skills during the rescue, Dita, the producer offers Mitch a part in her new movie. During the filming on the beach, Mitch can't remember his lines and the filming is not going very well. But that is only until a drug-crazed man starts attacking people on the nearby bike path. While Mitch is fighting with the man, the cameras are rolling and everything turns out into a perfect action scene for the movie. Harvey pretends to be Mitch's agent. He manages to get a ""pay or play"" clausule into Mitch's contract. When Dita comes onto Mitch and wants to sleep with him, he rejects the offer. This means that his short-lived acting career is over before it has really started. Meanwhile, Shauni finds an injured sea lion on the beach. Harvey and Eddie help her catch the sea lion. Shauni brings the sea

The episode was rated 7.48 from 29 votes.

Baywatch - S2E2

#13 - Nightmare Bay (Part 2) (Season 2 - Episode 2)

Harvey is feeding off the local panic, making a small fortune selling ""Creature in the bay"" T-shirts. Just when things start to calm down, the situation escalates when a fishing boat catches something huge in its net, and is pulled underwater by the mysterious entity below the surface. When Baywatch finally receives a new rescue boat called a scarab, Mitch, Thorpe and Devon head out looking for the sea-monster. When they have located it, Mitch and Devon dive down and they are surprised to find a little submarine down there. The submarine catches Devon. But Mitch rescues her and attaches the anchor of the scarab to the little submarine. When they have transported the little submarine to shore, they find out that a ruthless independent oil speculator named Van Alden, who works for Petrovision, is behind the whole thing. Petrovision was trying to get a jump on the competition for offshore oil drilling tracts by trying to discover which tracts contained the riches oil deposits. Walt found

The episode was rated 7.50 from 16 votes.

Baywatch - S2E14

#12 - Big Monday (Season 2 - Episode 14)

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When a deaf girl named Lili, gets separated from her family on the beach, her mom freaks out. Kaye helps her finding her. When they find Lili, she has been pulled out by an undercurrent and can't get back to shore. Mitch heads for the rescue, but a mysterious Hawaiian guy gets to her first. Lili is brought back to safety by Mitch. Mitch is determined to find this mysterious Hawaiian guy. He goes to visit an old Hawaiian friend of his. He tells him that it was Sonny Paalua, son of the recently drowned surfing great Duke Paalua. Meanwhile, Kaye offers to teach Lili sign language. Her mother Sharon doesn't want anyone to treat her child differently. But Kaye tells her that Lili is different. Sharon agrees to give it a try. At the sign language school, Lili ends up in a fight with another kid and Sharon take her away from there. Later Kaye convinces her to let her take Lili to an amusement park. It's a magical journey for Lili as Kaye introduces her to the world of communication throu

The episode was rated 7.56 from 18 votes.

Baywatch - S2E8

#11 - Thin or Die (Season 2 - Episode 8)

After helping the firemen put out a fire, Mitch, Harvey and Brooke find a little dog in the water. Mitch rescues the dog and after that, the dog doesn't want to leave Mitch. He brings the dog home and Hobie gets all excited and names the dog Sandy. When Hobie goes to stay at a friend's house for the night, Mitch plans to have a romantic dinner with his girlfriend Kelly. But Sandy keeps disturbing them and Kelly ends up leaving. When Kelly has left the house, Mitch can't get any sleep so he goes down-stairs to the laundry room and asks Sandy what's wrong. Then before Mitch knows it, Sandy runs out of the room and knocks down a surfboard in front of the laundry room. Mitch is trapped and he is forced to spend the night in the laundry room while Sandy sleeps in his bed. The next day, Mitch doesn't want to take care of Sandy anymore, so he gives him to Garner. When Sandy runs away, Garner is forced to follow him. He then finds out that Sandy has spotted two wanted criminals named Jake and

The episode was rated 7.57 from 23 votes.

Baywatch - S2E18

#10 - Shark's Cove (Season 2 - Episode 18)

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Debbie Kent, Shauni's swim partner, has a very demanding father. She has excellent times but according to her father, they aren't good enough. Therefore he grounds her and forbids her to see her boyfriend Zach. Without her father knowing it, she and Zach have a beach party at the beach. When they decide to go for a swim, a shark attacks Debbie and she disappears. Mitch and Ben recover Debbie's shredded bathing suit. The cove where Debbie disappeared is called Shark's Cove. The cove got that name ten years earlier when a bunch of shark attacks took place there. When Shauni and Harvey find a weight belt under a buoy near the place where Debbie disappeared, Shauni starts wondering if Debbie is dead after all. Later when Mr. Kent has cleared out Debbie's locker, he leaves a book behind. When Shauni take a look in it, she discovers that $ 8 000 disappeared from Debbie's bank account the same day she died. She decides to pay Zach a visit. He refuses to let her into the trailer, and then sud

The episode was rated 7.59 from 17 votes.

Baywatch - S2E9

#9 - The Trophy (Part 1) (Season 2 - Episode 9)

Eric Turner has returned to Baywatch. Turner used to be a lifeguard, but during the 1989 lifeguard competition, he got paralyzed from the waist down. During a dangerous rescue, a dory hit him in the back. Unable to deal with his newfound condition, Turner shut everyone out, including his girlfriend Megan. Now, Turner returns to L.A. to maybe accept an offer to work as a swim coach in San Diego. Turner still wants to prove that he has guts and goes boogie boarding with Hobie near some dangerous rocks. Mitch drags him out of the water and makes him furious. He wants to stand on his own two feet. He doesn't need anyone's help. Meanwhile, Eddie works at Gidget Gulch. All the teenage girls there admire him. But Eddie acts professionally and ignores them. He is in love with Shauni. When a new girl named Caroline arrives to the beach for the first time, she tries to befriend the most popular girls, Joanie, Kris and Jenna. They just ignore her. By seducing Eddie, she thinks the girls will pay

The episode was rated 7.60 from 20 votes.

Baywatch - S2E7

#8 - Sandcastles (Season 2 - Episode 7)

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When Eddie arrives to his tower one morning, he is surprised to find a homeless man there. When Eddie tries to get rid of him, the homeless man attacks Eddie with a shard of glass and steals a picture of Shauni. Mitch tells him that the homeless man is named Hector Clay, also known as Hector ""The Collector"". He was released from the mental hospital because of funding cuts. Meanwhile, Hobie meets a homeless girl named Charlie. When she loses her harmonica, Hobie gives it back to her. That night when Charlie is asleep in an abandoned power plant, Hector steals her journal. The journal is Charlie's most precious thing. She and her mom shares it. When Charlie's mom doesn't show up when she is supposed to, Charlie gets worried. Later, Mitch arrives and he brings Charlie home. Mitch finds Charlie's mom at the police station. She was wrongfully imprisoned and Mitch manages to get her out of prison. When Charlie finds out that her mom is coming, she sneaks out to retrieve the journal. She find

The episode was rated 7.60 from 25 votes.

Baywatch - S2E12

#7 - Reunion (Season 2 - Episode 12)

A calm day on the beach turns into chaos, when a two-ton bull starts chasing the people on the beach. Mitch is able to capture the bull with a lasso. When he returns the bull to its rightful owner, he finds out that the bull is the West Palisades High School mascot. The bull has been brought to the beach for the 20-year reunion of the class of 1972. Mitch is also invited to this party, but he doesn't want to go. He doesn't want to tell everyone about his and Gayle's divorce. But Gayle who has traveled to L.A. from Ohio convinces him to go to the reunion with her. At the reunion, they meet some old friends again, including Larry Veron, a bully who makes a move on Gayle. Mitch saves her and Veron leaves for the beach. When Mitch is singing ""Do You Love Me"", two nerds, Max and Howie, bury Veron up to his neck in sand. But they can't take him out of there, when the tide starts coming in. Mitch and Gayle who are walking down the beach, hear Max and Howie's cries for help and help them to re

The episode was rated 7.70 from 20 votes.

Baywatch - S2E13

#6 - War of Nerves (Season 2 - Episode 13)

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The episode start with Mitch, Newmie and Heinz rescuing a man that is trapped under a big rock with his leg. Mitch is being terrorised by a drug lord named Mason Sato, whom he helped imprison five years ago. Sato is now a free man and follows Mitch around everywhere he goes. At first, Mitch endures the intimidation, but when Sato goes surfing with Hobie, Mitch punches Sato and finds himself up on assault charges. Sato uses the opportunity to kidnap Kaye and Hobie. He takes them to an abandoned warehouse down in the marina. When Mitch comes home and finds Sato's note, he goes to the warehouse. When Mitch shows up, Sato launches an attack using a dangerous Samurai sword. But when the fight moves into the water, Mitch gets the upper hand and knocks out Sato. When Garner arrives, he escorts Sato to prison for the second time. Meanwhile, Shauni who has started spending more and more time together with Eddie, asks Ben to teach her how to surf. He agrees to do that and gets flashbacks back to

The episode was rated 7.71 from 21 votes.

Baywatch - S2E10

#5 - The Trophy (Part 2) (Season 2 - Episode 10)

Mitch is forced to suspend Eddie until the matter is resolved. Eddie feels abandoned and when Frank and Caroline arrive to headquarters, Eddie hits Frank in the stomach, after a confrontation between the two of them. Shauni wants Eddie back and is determined to clear his name. She confronts Caroline on the pier. Caroline tells Shauni how miserable her life is and that she doesn't want to live anymore. Caroline jumps from the pier and Shauni is forced to jump in after her and rescue her. Eddie sees this from the beach and help them ashore. At the beach, Eddie starts performing CPR. When Frank arrives, he fears the worst and throws Eddie off of her. Shauni screams that Eddie is trying to save her life. When Caroline comes to, she confesses the whole truth and asks for Eddie's forgiveness. Meanwhile, Turner tries to reconcile with Megan, when her marine biologist boyfriend Rob arrives. Turner leaves angry and heads towards the hang-gliding cliffs. It is a windy day and no hang-glider shou

The episode was rated 7.75 from 24 votes.

Baywatch - S2E20

#4 - The Big Spill (Season 2 - Episode 20)

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Lane Brody, an environmentalist and former lifeguard has returned to Baywatch to investigate illegal chemical dumping. He suspects a company named Transicon Industries may be responsible and he wants Mitch's help breaking into the plant. Mitch refuses although he agrees with Lane. But Mitch doesn't want to break the law. When Hobie and his friend Brenda are out on their bikes, Brenda loses control over her bike and falls into a lagoon. Hobie has to rescue her. Later. when Hobie and Lane are driving go-carts, Hobie crashes. Mitch finds out that he has a very high temperature, and so does Brenda. Lane tells Mitch to bring Hobie to the hospital, because he has been poisoned by some chemicals. Meanwhile, Lane springs to action and meets with his contact Jeff, from Transicon. But Jeff is a bad guy himself, and he knocks Lane unconscious and he places Lane next to a bomb that is about to explode. Lane wakes up just in time to get away from there. After the explosion, a lot of toxic chemicals

The episode was rated 7.87 from 15 votes.

Baywatch - S2E21

#3 - Game of Chance (Season 2 - Episode 21)

During a McClain gathering, Eddie is insulted by Shauni's father Robert. He doesn't approve of his daughter's choice of a boyfriend. Eddie ends up leaving upset. When Eddie returns for Shauni's sister Kim's engagement party, he guns down a man named Brown Goodman who bothers Shauni. Robert gets upset and asks Eddie to leave and take his present with him. When Eddie goes to the pool to get it, he spots Kim in the pool with her hand trapped in the pump. Her engagement ring is lying there. Eddie rescues her but Robert still doesn't want Shauni to have Eddie as her boyfriend. Shauni decides to move out of the house and onto the houseboat with Eddie. Meanwhile, Harvey is playing poker on a yacht far out at sea. When Mitch arrives to bring him back to Baywatch for his shift, Harvey convinces Mitch to lend him his Rolex. Mitch hesitates but gives in. When Harvey has won $ 32 000, a man in a mask comes in and robs the place. He disappears in an amphibious vehicle. Ben discovers that a man name

The episode was rated 7.89 from 18 votes.

Baywatch - S2E19

#2 - The Lost Treasure of Tower 12 (Season 2 - Episode 19)

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Two burglars named Beggs and Clark steal some jewelry. When they are going to escape on their motorcycles, Clark falls and is forced to leave the jewelry under tower 12. The next day, they return, only to find out that the jewellery is missing. After a walk down the beach, they find out that the towers are being moved sometimes. Meanwhile, a poet named Ian has a crush on Shauni. He writes her poems. He always carry around a metal detector, and one day he finds the stolen jewelry. He buys Shauni 137 roses with some of the money. When Beggs and Clark can't find the jewelry, they start fighting and Newmie has to break up the fight. Later, Newmie and Eddie find Clark in the water. He is dead and they see that he has been strangled. When Shauni finds out about the jewelry, she goes to Ian and finds out that he has them. Beggs has also figured out that Ian has the jewelry. Beggs forces Ian to give him the jewelry. When Garner and another police officer arrive, a big chase take place. Garner

The episode was rated 8.07 from 14 votes.

Baywatch - S2E15

#1 - Sea of Flames (Season 2 - Episode 15)

Mitch is trying to convince Captain Thorpe that wave runners would be an invaluable lifesaving aid for Baywatch. Despite a demonstration by Mitch, Newmie and Barnett, the county bureaucrats think they're too expensive. Meanwhile, a man that is high on a drug called Spice is lose on the beach playing with fire. He torches Eddie's tower and then keeps saying Sumo all the time. When Lyle Connors finds out about the incident, he tells Eddie about the drug and that they have been trying to arrest the dealers for a long time without any luck. The drug manufacturers have set up a floating drug laboratory offshore as an attempt to evade the police. The name of the boat is Sumo. Eddie and Connors along with the Coast Guard set out to investigate, but two speedboats try to escape. After a call for back-up, Mitch, Newmie and Barnett mount the wave runners and prove their worth by catching the villains. When Mitch has dived into the water to capture one of the bad guys, the other one almost runs o

The episode was rated 8.19 from 16 votes.

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