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.
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#1 – 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.
The episode was rated from 37 votes.
#2 – Fruit of the Poison Tree
Season 5 – Episode 9
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
The episode was rated from 41 votes.
#3 – 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.
The episode was rated from 43 votes.
#4 – 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.
The episode was rated from 28 votes.
#5 – Line of Fire
Season 5 – Episode 6
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord’s trial.
The episode was rated from 44 votes.
#6 – 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.
The episode was rated from 39 votes.
#7 – Victims 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.
The episode was rated from 38 votes.
#8 – The Lost Madonna
Season 5 – Episode 14
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
The episode was rated from 41 votes.
#9 – 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.
The episode was rated from 39 votes.
#10 – World of Trouble
Season 5 – Episode 18
Former mob boss Al Lombard, who was believed to be dead, returns with a different perspective on his life, to try to convince his beloved son to stay out of the mafia family business.
The episode was rated from 30 votes.