The Best Episodes of Miami Vice
Last Updated: Jun 15, 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.
8.88 
#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.
8.67 
#3 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 - Episode 13
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
8.61 
#4 - 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.
8.52 
#5 - 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.
8.50 
#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.
8.50 
#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.
8.44 
#8 - Lend Me an Ear
Season 3 - Episode 18
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
8.38 
#9 - The Good Collar
Season 3 - Episode 5
A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.
8.37 
#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.
8.35 
#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.
8.35 
#12 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Season 3 - Episode 21
Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.
8.32 
#13 - Theresa
Season 3 - Episode 16
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
8.31 
#14 - 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.
8.31 
#15 - 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.
8.26 
#16 - 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.
8.24 
#17 - 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.
8.21 
#18 - 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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#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.
8.19 
#20 - 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.
8.18 
#21 - 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.
8.17 
#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.
8.17 
#23 - Child's Play
Season 4 - Episode 5
Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.
8.12 
#24 - Shadow in the Dark
Season 3 - Episode 6
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.
8.10 
#25 - Red Tape
Season 3 - Episode 19
Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.
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