The Best Episodes of Miami Vice
Last Updated: Feb 10, 2019
Miami Vice centers around the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), two undercover detectives from the Miami Police Department’s vice squad battling against drug trafficking and prostitution in the city’s seamy underworld. Its use of New Wave music and colorful Italian men’s fashion was groundbreaking and the series had a defining influence on the popular culture of the 1980s.
#1 - Mirror Image (2)
Season 4 - Episode 22
A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.
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#2 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)
Season 4 - Episode 21
A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.
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#3 - Stone's War
Season 3 - Episode 2
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.
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#4 - Over the Line
Season 5 - Episode 15
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.
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#5 - Victim of Circumstance
Season 5 - Episode 16
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
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#6 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 - Episode 12
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.
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#7 - Out Where The Buses Don't Run
Season 2 - Episode 4
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.
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#8 - Hostile Takeover (3)
Season 5 - Episode 1
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
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#9 - Lend Me an Ear
Season 3 - Episode 18
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
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#10 - Walk Alone
Season 3 - Episode 4
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
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#11 - Little Miss Dangerous
Season 2 - Episode 16
A psychotic is dubbed the ""Crayon Killer"" for leaving behind childlike drawings at murder scenes. Tubbs tries to help a young woman get off the streets.
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#12 - Killshot
Season 3 - Episode 3
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.
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#13 - Son and Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 23
The Calderones are back: Angelina reveals that Tubbs fathered her son; and her half-brother has put up a $1 million bounty to revenge her father's death.
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#14 - Theresa
Season 3 - Episode 16
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
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#15 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Season 3 - Episode 21
Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.
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#16 - Smuggler's Blues
Season 1 - Episode 16
Crockett & Tubbs are recruited by DEA to pose as drug smugglers in an effort to expose someone in law enforcement who is murdering drug dealers and their families.
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#17 - Golden Triangle (2)
Season 1 - Episode 15
Castillo asks Crockett & Tubbs to help him find an old adversary, a drug smuggler who has kidnapped his former wife.
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#18 - Redemption in Blood (4)
Season 5 - Episode 2
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
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#19 - El Viejo
Season 3 - Episode 7
Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.
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#20 - A Bullet for Crockett
Season 4 - Episode 20
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.
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#21 - Evan
Season 1 - Episode 22
A former Vice member, Evan Freed, is now working undercover with ATF to bring down an arms dealer. Sonny and Evan have a mysterious past that Tubbs is determined to learn. They must reconcile long enough to calibrate efforts in the weapons sting.
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#22 - Miami Squeeze
Season 5 - Episode 11
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.
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#23 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Season 3 - Episode 1
Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.
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#24 - Child's Play
Season 4 - Episode 5
Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.
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#25 - Freefall
Season 5 - Episode 17
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.
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