Virgil Tibbs is an African American police detective who is detained on suspicion of murder solely on the basis of his skin color while passing through the small town of Wells, somewhere in the Carolinas (Sparta, Mississippi in the film).
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In the films, Tibbs also returns to his law enforcement career, in Philadelphia and subsequently in San Francisco.
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