The essential episodes of Miami Vice
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Miami Vice — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Crockett and Tubbs are skeptical of rumors that an undercover FBI agent has betrayed an operation. Switek and Zito setup a burglary sting operation.
- 02
Crockett and Tubbs form an uneasy alliance with Federal agents in the pursuit of an arms dealer looking to move ground-to-air missiles.
- 03
Two naive New Yorkers hope for one big score running coke from Colombia to Miami.
- 04
An undercover Fed poses complications for a weapon sting and for Crockett, who bears a grudge for the man.
- 05
Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect a crime boss subpoenaed to testify against a rival.
- 06
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer long thought dead.
- 07
Castillo is contacted by a former associate who's on the run from both the CIA and the KGB.
- 08
A psychotic earns the sobriquet "crayon killer" for leaving behind childlike drawings at murder scenes.
- 09
Gina's smitten with an Irish revolutionary she thinks has renounced violence, but the authorities believe he's an IRA gunrunner.
- 10
Crockett's journalist buddy Stone claims to have film of U.S. mercenaries fighting in Nicaragua---and leading them is Stone's nemesis Maynard.
- 11
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.
- 12
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
- 13
The vice cops and the Feds prepare for a mob boss's attempts to orchestrate a mistrial, and Crockett goes to jail for refusing to name the informant whose revelations are the basis for the prosecution's case.
- 14
Castillo's former wife comes back looking for help and rekindles old passions as she and her husband are hunted down by killers.
- 15
Tubbs considers marrying a former love who is in Miami to help a drug-addicted friend, but then learns that she may be covering up a murder.
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