The worst episodes of Miami Vice
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Crockett persuades his protégé, Joey Hardin, to join a unit of hotshot cops formed to bring down a professor suspected of killing his students.
- 02
Miracle Man, a self-proclaimed superhero, trips over Switek and Tubbs on his way to rescuing Miami from the clutches of its evil drug dealers.
- 03
Pegged for dead by Vice, a retired gangster returns from the netherworld to find his son involved in the theft of a high-tech weapon.
- 04
The cops aren't the only ones following a Cuban drug dealer, and Gina finds that he has ties to her mother, who was killed when Gina was a baby.
- 05
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.
- 06
Felled by a bullet, Crockett clings to life, triggering memories for his colleagues as they frantically track the shooter.
- 07
An amnesiac Crockett, believing he's the felonious Burnett, delights in playing the contentious members of a crime family against one another.
- 08
As Crockett begins to remember fragments of his past, Burnett continues to build his drug-dealing empire.
- 09
Tubbs infiltrates a criminal voodoo cult whose leader has returned from Haiti---and apparently the grave---to collect an old debt.
- 10
The detectives trace drug kingpin Calderone to a Caribbean island, where the vengeful Tubbs gets caught up in a dangerous romance.
- 11
Crockett gets set up to receive a "payoff" from a racketeer while trying to settle the gambling debt of an old friend.
- 12
Crockett's entry fee---$25,000 provided by the department---is on the line in a speedboat competition that may be a cover for a drug pickup.
- 13
Crockett and Tubbs wade through the Everglades after a witness who bolted from custody and must testify in 48 hours.
- 14
In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he's trying to bust. Meanwhile, Gina tries to nail a ruthless crime kingpin.
- 15
A series of busts leads Crockett and Tubbs to a drug-related hit that reveals a side of Castillo they've never seen before.
- 16
A drug kingpin brings Castillo's wife---who was thought to be dead---to Miami as insurance against police interference.
- 17
Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug smugglers to smoke out whoever has been killing drug dealers and their families.
- 18
Tubbs is reunited with an old flame, an NYPD detective looking for her missing sister, while he and Crockett search for a call girl's killer.
- 19
Tubbs is taken hostage by a gang in an abandoned hotel, thanks to the would-be heroics of a cop trying to avenge his partner's murder.
- 20
By day, Switek and Zito supervise a pair of jive-talking master informants; by night, they're sharing quarters with Switek's girl friend---who's also Zito's ex.
- 21
Crockett and Tubbs pose as big dealers in the Big Apple to smoke out Colombian drug lords responsible for the deaths of Federal agents.
- 22
Crockett and Tubbs have trouble keeping a rein on their charge, a recently freed Central American political prisoner who likes to party.
- 23
When a drug dealer and cop are killed by men dressed as commandos, Crockett and Tubbs are stymied by an agent claiming they may imperil an international operation.
- 24
Crockett's case on a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
- 25
Tubbs finds out that his "raffle prize"---a week in the Caribbean---is a setup by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.
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