Miami Vice Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Miami Vice: Season 5 (1988 - 1990)

• Season 5 Episode 21: Too Much, Too Late

  Tubbs renews a relationship with an ex-girlfriend and learns she may be withholding information regarding a friend's murder. Sharp-suited detective drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 5 Episode 20: Leap of Faith

  A drugged student plummets from a rooftop, and Crockett places key team players undercover to flush out those responsible

• Season 5 Episode 19: Miracle Man

  A man who masquerades as a superhero ruins Tubbs and Switek's drug bust and makes himself the target of hustlers, reporters and hitmen. Stylish cop drama, starring Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 5 Episode 18: World of Trouble

  A mob boss (Dennis Farina), believed dead, reappears and must avoid a drug kingpin who vows to kill him.

• Season 5 Episode 17: Freefall

  Part two of two. Crockett and Tubbs protect a dictator, considered to hold the key to breaking a major drug cartel. Drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 5 Episode 16: Victims of Circumstances

  Officers investigate two gangland murders, but when concentration camp survivors are killed in similar circumstances, Crockett and Tubbs are forced to consider other possibilities. Stylish cop drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 5 Episode 15: Over the Line

  Tubbs and Crockett infiltrate a vigilante police group that risks innocent lives to dispense justice.

• Season 5 Episode 14: The Lost Madonna

  Crockett and Tubbs pose as shady dealers to recover an art treasure, but their investigation is hampered by a New York detective. Eighties crime drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 5 Episode 13: The Cell Within

  Tubbs accepts a dinner invitation from a supposedly recovered sociopath who serves up a helping of terror to the beleaguered cop

• Season 5 Episode 12: Jack of All Trades

  Crockett's (Don Johnson) scheming cousin (David Andrews) shows up in Miami with a daring new racket. Guest stars: John Santucci and Jesse Borrego.

• Season 5 Episode 11: Miami Squeeze

  Crockett dabbles in psychotherapy while enlisting the help of a young officer to find those responsible for stealing a shipment of drugs. Crime drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 5 Episode 10: To Have and to Hold

  Crockett takes time off to visit his son, leaving the squad to wrestle Tubbs away from a woman working for a Colombian assassination team

• Season 5 Episode 9: Fruit of the Poison Tree

  Tubbs and Crockett investigate an attorney who defends large-scale drug dealers, then steals and resells their merchandise.

• Season 5 Episode 8: Hard Knocks

  Switek sinks into gambling and drunkenness when thugs force him to talk his quarterback buddy into throwing a game.

• Season 5 Episode 7: Asian Cut

  Trudy goes undercover as a prostitute to hunt down a killer who leaves distinctive knife-cuts on his victims' bodies. Stylish cop drama, with Don Johnson, Saundra Santiago and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 5 Episode 6: Line of Fire

  Crockett protects a key trial witness and ends up being followed by the FBI. Sharp-suited cop drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 5 Episode 5: Borrasca

  An extreme political group hijack a ship loaded with cocaine, but their efforts come up against an intelligence operative

• Season 5 Episode 4: Bad Timing

  Crockett's vacation turns into a busman's holiday as he ends up facing a gang of escaped convicts. Stylish cop drama, with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 5 Episode 3: Heart of the Night

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

• Season 5 Episode 2: Redemption in Blood

  Crockett takes over Carrera's drug cartel - convincing the rest of his squad that he has lost touch with reality

• Season 5 Episode 1: Hostile Take-Over

  Crockett suffers from amnesia and enters the crime world as a drugs baron, and it's up to his undercover partner to bring him back to reality

Miami Vice: Season 4 (1987 - 1988)

• Season 4 Episode 22: Mirror Image

  Head-injured Crockett thinks he is his drug-dealing cover, Sonny Burnett, and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.

• Season 4 Episode 21: Deliver Us from Evil

  A murder case reunites Crockett with a killer (Guy Boyd) who tricked the detective into freeing him from death row.

• Season 4 Episode 20: A Bullet for Crockett

  A drug dealer's girlfriend shoots Crockett, and the detective relives previous victories and events while undergoing surgery. Crime drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 4 Episode 19: Blood and Roses

  Crockett's nemesis arrives back on the scene, and develops a romantic interest in Gina - who uses the situation to her best advantage

• Season 4 Episode 18: Badge of Dishonour

  Tubbs narrowly avoids death when his cover is blown in a bungled police job - leading him to suspect a leak on the inside

• Season 4 Episode 17: Hell Hath No Fury

  A rapist, determined to make a public apology, invites his victim on a televised talk show, but the duo refuse to believe his motives can be trusted

• Season 4 Episode 16: Honour Among Thieves?

  Crockett and Tubbs are repulsed at having to help a killer go free for fear their current undercover investigation might be blown.

• Season 4 Episode 15: Indian Wars

  When a drugs shipment is apparently ambushed by a group of men of American Indian descent, Tubbs visits a reservation in search of help

• Season 4 Episode 14: Baseballs of Death

  Tubbs and Crockett investigate the double murder of a prostitute and her pimp which alerts them to an illegal munitions deal. Sharp-suited detective drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 4 Episode 13: Vote of Confidence

  Crockett and Tubbs bust a travelling whorehouse but are surprised to find one of its customers is a candidate for election as governor

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Cows of October

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

• Season 4 Episode 11: Rock and a Hard Place

  When Crockett decides the rock world isn't for him and returns to Miami to work he finds his professional life conflicting with Caitlin's work. Sharp-suited detective drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 4 Episode 10: Love at First Sight

  Crockett signs up for a dating agency to investigate a series of murders. Sharp-suited detective drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 4 Episode 9: The Rising Sun of Death

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

• Season 4 Episode 8: Like a Hurricane

  Crockett's assignment to protect a key witness (Sheena Easton) in a payola scandal evolves into an unexpected relationship.

• Season 4 Episode 7: Missing Hours

  Switek and Trudy investigate the death of a pornography dealer which leads them to an ex-rock singer and tales of alien abductions. Detective drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 4 Episode 6: God's Work

  A crime lord's son returns to the underworld, sparking huge controversy in the gangland paradise. Starring Don Johnson

• Season 4 Episode 5: Child's Play

  Crockett is devastated when he shoots a 13-year-old boy but an investigation reveals that the child is an assassin

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Big Thaw

  Tubbs and Crockett mediate between two parties who want to acquire the cryogenically preserved body of a reggae singer.

• Season 4 Episode 3: Death and the Lady

  An actress's on-screen murder propels Tubbs and Crockett to investigate the film's flaky director (Paul Guilfoyle).

• Season 4 Episode 2: Amen : Send Money

  Tubbs arrests a TV evangelist's wife for purchasing narcotics but finds himself accused of rape. Crime drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 4 Episode 1: Contempt of Court

  The squad are assigned to protect the jury when the head of an organised crime family is on trial. Detective drama, starring Don Johnson

Miami Vice: Season 3 (1986 - 1987)

• Season 3 Episode 24: Heroes of the Revolution

  An East German spy (Jeroen Krabbé) seeks revenge for the 26-year-old murder of Gina's Cuban mother; guest Shawn Elliott.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Everybody's In Showbiz

  The detectives race against time to catch a talented writer, actor and ex-con who has stolen a major crack manufacturer's briefcase

• Season 3 Episode 22: Viking Bikers From Hell

  When a dead drug dealer's customers are systematically murdered, Crockett becomes worried - he is also on the death list

• Season 3 Episode 21: Knock Knock, Who's There?

  Tubbs and Crockett come under suspicion when drugs go missing during a DEA raid. Drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 20: By Hooker By Crook

  When a financial expert is murdered, Crockett and Tubbs race to locate his eye-witness girlfriend - but the duo aren't the only ones interested in finding her

• Season 3 Episode 19: Red Tape

  Tubbs searches desperately for the source of leaks about future drug busts; guest Lou Diamond Phillips.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Lend Me An Ear

  Crockett and Tubbs attempt to set up surveillance equipment at the home of a drugs dealer, but are foiled by the villain's own electronics expert

• Season 3 Episode 17: The Afternoon Plane

  Tubbs wins a Caribbean holiday, but soon learns the truth behind his good fortune when an old adversary appears. Drama, starring Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 16: Theresa

  Helena Bonham Carter guests as a doctor who wins Crockett's affections, but she worries that the skeletons in her closet might scare him off

• Season 3 Episode 15: Duty and Honour

  Crockett and Tubbs investigate a series of murders which were followed by assassinations. Drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 14: Cuba Libre

  While interrogating a drugs dealer, the duo are incapacitated by four commandos demanding money. When Crockett and Tubbs begin to track the gang down, they are warned off by the Feds. Detective drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 13: Down for the Count : Part Two

  Part two. Crockett discovers Guzman's gambling book has been sent to Zito, and the FBI warn that a mobster is out for revenge. Drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 12: Down for the Count : Part One

  Part one of two. Crockett sets a trap for a drugs dealer, and agrees to use an unknown man to entice the villain. Drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 3 Episode 11: Forgive Us Our Debts

  The duo review the case of a man put on death row for murdering Crockett's partner in front of his wife and children

• Season 3 Episode 10: Streetwise

  An undercover officer (Bill Paxton) and his prostitute lover help the detectives find the source of some pure pharmaceutical cocaine.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Baby Blues

  A heartbroken young mother helps Tubbs and Crockett trap a black-marketeer selling Colombian infants in the United States.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Better Living Through Chemistry

  Tubb's former partner (Victor Love) abducts a chemist for drug-dealing motorcyclists, then frames Rico for the crime.

• Season 3 Episode 7: El Viejo

  Crockett and Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty lawman (Willie Nelson) who plans to sell 50 kilos of cocaine to a murderous Bolivian dealer.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Shadows in the Dark

  Both Castillo and Tubbs worry about Crockett's obsession with a cat burglar who leaves bizarre clues in his victims' homes.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Good Collar

  A high-school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug overlord.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Walk Alone

  Posing as a convict, Tubbs infiltrates a prison where inmates with cocaine connections are blackmailed, then killed, by guards.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Kill Shot

  Drug dealers blackmail a U.S. Customs agent (Carlos Cestero) with a videotape of his brother, a jai-alai star, committing murder.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Stone's War

  A journalist (Bob Balaban) returns to Miami with videotapes of Col. Maynard's (G. Gordon Liddy) paramilitary unit in Nicaragua.

• Season 3 Episode 1: When Irish Eyes Are Crying

  A zealous Scotland Yard inspector labels Gina's new love (Liam Neeson) a soldier of the Irish Republican Army.

  Next on: Thursday 30th May 10:00am EDT - Centric

Miami Vice: Season 2 (1985 - 1986)

• Season 2 Episode 22: Sons and Lovers

  Angelyne warns former lover Tubbs of a bounty put on his head by the son of dead drug-kingpin Calderone; guest Lee Iacocca.

  Next on: Wednesday 29th May 10:00am EDT - Centric
• Season 2 Episode 21: Trust Fund Pirates

  A smuggler (Gary Cole) helps Crockett and Tubbs find pirates who commandeer contraband-laden vessels.

  Next on: Tuesday 28th May 10:00am EDT - Centric
• Season 2 Episode 20: Free Verse

  When assassins kidnap a Latin American activist's daughter, Crockett and Tubbs face a dilemma; guest Bianca Jagger.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Payback

  When Marotto commits suicide, Crockett and Tubbs arrange a drug exchange with Reydolfo. Frank Zappa guests in a rare TV appearance

• Season 2 Episode 18: The Fix

  Crockett vows to expose a debt-ridden judge (Bill Russell) who asked his basketball-star son to throw a game.

• Season 2 Episode 17: French Twist

  A smitten Crockett places both of the detectives' lives in danger when he teams with a beautiful French Interpol agent in a search for a murderous international criminal.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Florence Italy

  Crockett and Tubbs chase a speeding sports car and witness a woman's body being dumped from the vehicle. The duo's Investigations lead them to a Grand Prix driver

• Season 2 Episode 15: Little Miss Dangerous

  Crockett and Tubbs examine the crayon scrawls at murder sites, unaware they are the work of a psychotic teenager (Fiona Flanagan).

• Season 2 Episode 14: One Way Ticket

  Finding an assistant District Attorney murdered, crimefighting cops Crockett and Tubbs leap into action to nab the killer

• Season 2 Episode 13: Yankee Dollar

  When Crockett learns drug smuggling led to a former lover's death, he and Tubbs take confiscated cocaine to lure the men responsible.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Definitely Miami

  Castillo attempts to organize the surrender of a crime boss; a mysterious woman (Arielle Dombasle) eyes Crockett; guest Ted Nugent.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Phil the Shill

  A clever con artist (Phil Collins) plays a deadly game with cocaine dealers Crockett and Tubbs are shadowing.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Back in the World

  A former Vietnam correspondent (Bob Balaban) shows up raving about an officer (G. Gordon Liddy) who returned with a fortune in heroin.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Bought and Paid For

  Gina seeks Crockett's help in finding a victim willing to press assault charges against a Bolivian banker's son; guest El DeBarge.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Bushido

  Hide-and-seek turns deadly when Tubbs and Crockett attempt to protect a renegade CIA agent's (Dean Stockwell) Soviet wife and child.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Tale of the Goat

  Voodoo comes into play when a Haitian mobster (Clarence Williams III) presumed dead returns to settle a score with a former associate.

• Season 2 Episode 6: Junk Love

  A drug dealer's passion for an addict who despises him gives Crockett and Tubbs a risky edge in a deadly game; guest Miles Davis.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Buddies

  A stripper helps Crockett and Tubbs search for a young mother who can incriminate a mobster; guest Frankie Valli.

• Season 2 Episode 4: The Dutch Oven

  Trudy finds comfort with an old lover (Cleavant Derricks) until she learns of his friend's business with a cocaine dealer.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Out Where the Buses Don't Run

  Crockett and Tubbs learn the key to finding a mobster lies in a deranged ex-detective's home computer; guest Little Richard.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Whatever Works

  Crockett and Tubbs contact a Santerian (Eartha Kitt) to find a link between ritual killings of officers and traffickers.

• Season 2 Episode 1: Prodigal Son

  Part two of two. The duo use their connections to infiltrate the drug dealers, but are stunned to discover the identity of the man in charge of the operation

Miami Vice: Season 1 (1984 - 1985)

• Season 1 Episode 22: Lombard

  Crockett and Tubbs are assigned by Lieutenant Castillo to protect a criminal subpoenaed to testify at a rival's trial. Drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 1 Episode 21: Evan

  Crockett and Tubbs go on surveillance at a weapons sale, but huge complications arise when they discover that a federal agent is one of the arms dealers

• Season 1 Episode 20: Nobody Lives Forever

  Crockett meets a beautiful architect and puts his partner in jeopardy by not concentrating on work. Classic police drama, starring Don Johnson

• Season 1 Episode 19: The Home Invaders

  The cops investigate a string of robberies in a wealthy neighbourhood. Classic crime drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 18: Made for Each Other

  Zito's house is destroyed by fire, forcing him to move in with fellow officer Switek, which causes problems for his girlfriend

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Maze

  Gangs trap Tubbs during his undercover assignment in their heavily guarded, besieged apartment house; guest Joe Morton.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Rites of Passage

  Tubbs' old flame searches for her younger sister, whom she believes to be heavily involved with a drugs baron. Starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, with a guest appearance from Pam Grier

• Season 1 Episode 15: Smuggler's Blues

  A bush pilot (Glenn Frey) agrees to fly Crockett and Tubbs to Colombia where they search for someone robbing drug smugglers.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Golden Triangle : Part Two

  Part two of two. Lt Castillo ponders how to gather enough evidence against General Lao Li, without jeopardising the life of a hostage

• Season 1 Episode 13: Golden Triangle : Part One

  Part one of two. Crockett and Tubbs go undercover as hotel staff to expose corrupt detectives. When two criminals are found dead, Lt Castillo's greatest fears are realised

• Season 1 Episode 12: Milk Run

  Crockett and Tubbs investigate a Columbian drugs cartel intent on smuggling cocaine, but with two amateurs as their only lead, the prospect of cracking the case seems slim

• Season 1 Episode 11: Little Prince

  Crockett and Tubbs investigate when Trudy and Gina go undercover as junkies, blowing a multi-million-dollar smuggling operation wide open. Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas star

• Season 1 Episode 10: Give a Little, Take a Little

  Sonny is jailed for refusing to reveal his informant, and Gina, working undercover as a hooker, finds her life in danger. Starring Don Johnson and Saundra Santiago

• Season 1 Episode 9: Glades

  The detectives enter the Florida marshes to find a drug dealer who decides against testifying when his daughter is abducted.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Great McCarthy

  Designer-dressed detectives Crockett and Tubbs pose as speed-boat racers to catch an infamous drug dealer with a passion for watersports. Starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 7: No Exit

  Crockett and Tubbs target an international arms merchant. Bruce Willis guests, with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 6: One Eyed Jack

  An old classmate with a gambling problem asks Crockett for help to resolve his considerable debt, and the detective is charged with accepting a bribe from a racketeer

• Season 1 Episode 5: Calderone's Return : Part Two

  Part two of two. The cop duo travel to the Bahamas in pursuit of Calderone, but Tubbs soon falls for the charms of the drug baron's innocent daughter

• Season 1 Episode 4: Calderone's Return: The Hit List

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

• Season 1 Episode 3: Cool Runnin'

  A police officer is murdered and another seriously injured by members of a Miami drugs cartel. Crockett and Tubbs pull out all the stops to bring those responsible to justice. Drama, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 2: Heart of Darkness

  Crockett and Tubbs work with an undercover FBI agent in an attempt to trap porn baron Al Margolis. Stylish cop drama, with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas

• Season 1 Episode 1: Brother's Keeper - Part One

  A chalk-and-cheese pair of cops track drug smugglers in the pilot episode of the popular series. Starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Crockett and Tubbs

Miami Vice: Other Episodes

• Redemption in Blood

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