Miami Vice

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The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

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Specials

6 episodes

S0 E1 · Too Much, Too Late

Tubbs' old flame Valerie returns to Miami to assist an old friend and her goddaughter. Tubbs wants to renew his relationship with Valerie, but she is intent on rescuing her friend from the threats of a drug dealer.

S0 E2 · The Vibe of Vice

Miami Vice and its ascetic properties.

S0 E3 · Building the Perfect Vice

Miami Vice Production at various stages of its creation/production.

S0 E4 · The Style of Vice

A special feature focuses on the clothing characters on the show wore.

S0 E5 · The Music of Vice

A special feature covering the music of Miami Vice, includes an interview with Jan Hammer speaking about the scoring of episodes.

S0 E6 · Miami after Vice

A short montage showcasing modern Miami.

Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · Brother's Keeper

Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their partners.

S1 E2 · Heart of Darkness

Investigating a porn baron, Crockett and Tubbs become involved with an undercover FBI agent who may have gone native and become a criminal, and may have murdered an underage porn starlet. Meanwhile, Zito and Switek pose as fences, and Elvis the crocodile feels unloved!

S1 E3 · Cool Runnin'

Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.

S1 E4 · Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1

The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.

S1 E5 · Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2

While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.

S1 E6 · One-Eyed Jack

Crockett attempts to help an old flame free herself from a racketeer, then is framed for taking bribes. Martin Castillo becomes the squad's new lieutenant.

S1 E7 · No Exit

Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.

S1 E8 · The Great McCarthy

Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling.

S1 E9 · Glades

Crockett & Tubbs have to recover a witness in a major drug dealer's trial, who has ran off to the Everglades and must testify in 48 hours.

S1 E10 · Give a Little, Take a Little

In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he is trying to bust. Gina and Trudy infiltrate a prostitution ring. Gina is placed in a compromising position when they are suspicious that she is not a hooker.

S1 E11 · Little Prince

Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.

S1 E12 · Milk Run

Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.

S1 E13 · Golden Triangle - Part 1

Crockett and Tubbs work undercover in a hotel. They uncover criminals that are an old enemies of Lt. Castillo and have also kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife.

S1 E14 · Golden Triangle - Part 2

Lt. Castillo must bring down his old enemy, who has passed his organization to his grandsons. They have kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife to ensure their escape from prosecution.

S1 E15 · Smuggler's Blues

Someone in law enforcement is murdering drug dealers and their families in cold blood. To find the culprit, Crockett and Tubbs go undercover and travel to Colombia with a laid-back pilot to pose as dealers.

S1 E16 · Rites of Passage

Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.

S1 E17 · The Maze

A group of young punks kill a cop and then take hostages - including an undercover Tubbs - while negotiators try to end the situation without more bloodshed and a SWAT team closes in.

S1 E18 · Made for Each Other

Switek and Zito use two of their favorite informants to set up a transaction with a stolen goods dealer.

S1 E19 · The Home Invaders

The squad is assigned to assist Robbery with a string of brutal home invasions. Castillo is concerned the officer in charge - who was Crockett's mentor - is mishandling the investigation and the two clash, leaving Crockett torn between loyalty and a resolved case.

S1 E20 · Nobody Lives Forever

A passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.

S1 E21 · Evan

Crockett and Tubbs join forces with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ... including Crockett's old partner Evan Freed. Tubbs tries to understand their troubled relationship.

S1 E22 · Lombard

Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.

Season 2

23 episodes

S2 E1 · The Prodigal Son (1)

Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

S2 E2 · The Prodigal Son (2)

Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

S2 E3 · Whatever Works

Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to help find the link between ritualistic killings of officers and a group of drug traffickers. Crockett and Izzy try to get the Ferrari back after a city accountant re-possesses it.

S2 E4 · Out Where the Buses Don't Run

Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.

S2 E5 · The Dutch Oven

Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.

S2 E6 · Buddies

Crockett is forced to realize that an old Army buddy may be involved with a contract on a young mother's life.

S2 E7 · Junk Love

When Crockett and Tubbs bust the owner of a bordello (Miles Davis), they discover that one of his drug-addicted prostitutes is the object of a powerful drug dealer's twisted obsession.

S2 E8 · Tale of the Goat

Crockett and Tubbs escort a coffin containing a criminal to his final Miami resting place ... until its learned that he has risen from the dead and has a similar zombie fate scheduled for Tubbs.

S2 E9 · Bushido

Castillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.

S2 E10 · Bought and Paid For

Gina's cleaning woman gets raped in Gina's home by the spoiled son of a wealthy man, who thinks he's above the law. Despite evidence being circumstantial, Gina wants to have the man arrested. Izzy steals Switek and Zito's bug van.

S2 E11 · Back in the World

Crockett flashes to his role during the Saigon evacuation as he and a war correspondent uncover heroin smuggled in body bags. Ten years later in Miami the H resurfaces and so does the reporter looking for the CIA connection.

S2 E12 · Phill the Shill

A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.

S2 E13 · Definitely Miami

Crockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.

S2 E14 · Yankee Dollar

When Crockett sees his stewardess girlfriend die from smuggling balloons of cocaine into the country, he and Tubbs go undercover to expose the ring.

S2 E15 · One Way Ticket

A district attorney is killed at a wedding for getting too close to a French-Canadian drug lord that's operating in Miami. Since the victim was a close friend of the criminal's lawyer, Sonny tries to make the lawyer do something about it.

S2 E16 · Little Miss Dangerous

Crocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?

S2 E17 · Florence, Italy

A Grand Prix driver has a lot on his mind: first-time fatherhood, a race against his legendary dad --- and the fact that he is suspected of killing a teenage prostitute.

S2 E18 · French Twist

An interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest --- and Tubbs' suspicion as they search for an international drug dealing assassin.

S2 E19 · The Fix

A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son to throw a game. Crockett suspects the judge let a drug dealer go free because of his money troubles.

S2 E20 · Payback

A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.

S2 E21 · Free Verse

The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.

S2 E22 · Trust Fund Pirates

A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.

S2 E23 · Sons and Lovers

The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs is the father of her child.

Season 3

24 episodes

S3 E1 · When Irish Eyes Are Crying

Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

S3 E2 · Stone's War

Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.

S3 E3 · Killshot

Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.

S3 E4 · Walk Alone

Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.

S3 E5 · The Good Collar

A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

S3 E6 · Shadow in the Dark

Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.

S3 E7 · El Viejo

Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

S3 E8 · Better Living Through Chemistry

Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

S3 E9 · Baby Blues

Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

S3 E10 · Street Wise

An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

S3 E11 · Forgive Us Our Debts

New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.

S3 E12 · Down for the Count (1)

Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.

S3 E13 · Down for the Count (2)

Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

S3 E14 · Cuba Libre

Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

S3 E15 · Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)

Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam in the early 70s; the cops get help on the case from a man claiming to be a Vietnamese inspector.

S3 E16 · Theresa

Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

S3 E17 · The Afternoon Plane

Tubbs finds out that his ""raffle prize"" --- a week in the Caribbean --- is set up by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.

S3 E18 · Lend Me an Ear

The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.

S3 E19 · Red Tape

Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.

S3 E20 · By Hooker by Crook

Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman (Melanie Griffith) turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money launderer (George Takei).

S3 E21 · Knock, Knock, Who's There?

Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.

S3 E22 · Viking Bikers from Hell

A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.

S3 E23 · Everybody's in Show Biz

An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.

S3 E24 · Heroes of the Revolution

An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.

Season 4

22 episodes

S4 E1 · Contempt of Court

By scaring the jury into a mistrial, a mobster hopes to buy time to find and silence the witness Crockett is protecting.

S4 E2 · Amen... Send Money

The fury of feuding TV evangelists hits Tubbs when he is accused raping a parishoner.

S4 E3 · Death and the Lady

An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate the film's flaky director.

S4 E4 · The Big Thaw

Two factions fight for possession of a dead reggae legend's body.

S4 E5 · Child's Play

Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.

S4 E6 · God's Work

The return of a kingpin's financial wizard son sets off speculations in the Miami underworld.

S4 E7 · Missing Hours

A man's body disappears from the morgue. Trudy has an encounter with UFOs.

S4 E8 · Like a Hurricane

Crockett is assigned to guard a recording star who is a witness in a payola scandal, and ends up falling in love.

S4 E9 · Rising Sun of Death

An executive's murder alerts Castillo to Yakuza presence in Miami, but the arrival of a Japanese investigator is no help.

S4 E10 · Love at First Sight

Newlywed Caitlin fears Crockett's latest undercover assignment as bait for a killer at a dating service will make her a widow.

S4 E11 · A Rock and a Hard Place

Two music executives try to ruin Caitlin's comeback by exposing Crockett as drug kingpin Burnett.

S4 E12 · The Cows of October

A cowboy's larcenous attempt to improve his cattle attracts attention from the US government, Cuban Communists, and Izzy.

S4 E13 · Vote of Confidence

A prominent senatorial candidate is arrested during a raid of a mobile whorehouse.

S4 E14 · Baseballs of Death

Crockett & Tubbs suspect a Chilean police chief in a double murder.

S4 E15 · Indian Wars

Tubbs relates to American Indians trying to save their homeland.

S4 E16 · Honor Among Thieves?

Crockett & Tubbs want to bring in a serial killer, but fear that it may blow their covers to break too soon.

S4 E17 · Hell Hath No Fury...

The highly publicized release of a convicted rapist makes Trudy fear that the man's victim may have revenge on her mind.

S4 E18 · Badge of Dishonor

When a string of murders is linked to another unit, Crockett & Tubbs believe an undercover officer may be the killer.

S4 E19 · Blood and Roses

The mobster who killed Crockett's friend is released from prison.

S4 E20 · A Bullet for Crockett

Sonny and Rico work undercover with a big dealer, Ricque ""Loco"" Mendez. During the police intervention, Sonny shot Loco, and the girlfriend of Loco shot Sonny. Members of the vice squad reminisce while Crockett lies close to death from the gunshot wound. We see why the other policemen love Sonny. At the end, we understand why Sonny is a cop.

S4 E21 · Deliver Us from Evil (1)

A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.

S4 E22 · Mirror Image (2)

A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.

Season 5

20 episodes

S5 E1 · Hostile Takeover (3)

Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.

S5 E2 · Redemption in Blood (4)

As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.

S5 E3 · Heart of Night

Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.

S5 E4 · Bad Timing

Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

S5 E5 · Borrasca

Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

S5 E6 · Line of Fire

Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.

S5 E7 · Asian Cut

Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.

S5 E8 · Hard Knocks

Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

S5 E9 · Fruit of the Poison Tree

Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.

S5 E10 · To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)

While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.

S5 E11 · Miami Squeeze

The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.

S5 E12 · Jack of All Trades

Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.

S5 E13 · The Cell Within

A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.

S5 E14 · The Lost Madonna

Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.

S5 E15 · Over the Line

In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.

S5 E16 · Victims of Circumstance

Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.

S5 E17 · Freefall

Crockett & Tubbs embark on what they see as a suicide mission. They are recruited by a Special Drug Taskforce to escort the corrupt dictator of Costa Morada, a fictional Revolution ravaged Latin American country. Gen. Manuel Borbon has promised to reveal the members of the most powerful South American drug cartel. Crockett & Tubbs are faced with what might be their final showdown.

S5 E18 · World of Trouble

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S5 E19 · Miracle Man

A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.

S5 E20 · Leap of Faith

Agent Joey Harden returns to assist Crockett as part of a new division, Youth Crime Unit, that was formed by a previous partner. The YCU investigates a college professor that has created a new designer drug, Bliss.

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