The BEST episodes of Miami Vice season 2
Every episode of Miami Vice season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Miami Vice season 2!
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 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1985
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.
#2 - One Way Ticket
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1986
Efforts to convict a drug dealer who murdered a deputy DA are hampered by a lack of evidence and by a defense attorney disliked by Crockett.
#3 - The Prodigal Son (1)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1985
Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.
#4 - Bushido
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1985
Castillo is contacted by a former associate who's on the run from both the CIA and the KGB.
#5 - Payback
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1986
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
#6 - Phil the Shill
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1985
Switek has to cool his vendetta against a shady game-show host who could lead the vice cops to an elusive coke dealer.
#7 - Tale of the Goat
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1985
Tubbs infiltrates a criminal voodoo cult whose leader has returned from Haiti --- and apparently the grave --- to collect an old debt.
#8 - Back in the World
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1985
A journalist that Crockett knew in Vietnam is ready to break a story about "The Sergeant"--a shadowy legend thought to have shipped heroin stateside in body bags.
#9 - The Prodigal Son (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1985
#10 - Junk Love
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1985
Crockett and Tubbs' connection to a major smuggler is a young woman who acts like his girl though she claims to hate him, and whose drug habit may blow the bust.
#11 - Buddies
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1985
Crockett is forced to realize that an old Army buddy may be involved with a contract on a young mother's life.
#12 - Whatever Works
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1985
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.
#13 - French Twist
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1986
An interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest --- and Tubbs' suspicion as they search for an international drug dealing assassin.
#14 - Yankee Dollar
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1986
Crockett and Tubbs engage a drug dealer in a game of wits and double-crosses to snare bigger game.
#15 - Definitely Miami
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1986
Crockett falls for the wife of a murderous drug dealer and the Feds want the vice cops to give up a protected witness to help bust a major distributor.
#16 - Bought and Paid For
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1985
Gina is out to nail the man who raped her friend but is frustrated by the suspect's wealth and connections --- and by the victim's sudden recantation.
#17 - Sons and Lovers
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1986
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.
#18 - The Fix
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1986
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.
#19 - Little Miss Dangerous
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1986
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.
#20 - Florence Italy
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1986
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.
#21 - Trust Fund Pirates
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/1986
Crockett and Tubbs prevail upon a pilot to stall his retirement from the contraband business long enough to connect them with a band of murderous 20th-century pirates.
#22 - The Dutch Oven
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1985
Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.
#23 - Free Verse
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/1986
Crockett and Tubbs have trouble keeping a rein on their charge, a recently freed Central American political prisoner who likes to party.