Miami Vice

Episodes

Season 5 · 21 episodes

• E1 Hostile Takeover
  Nov 4, 1988 45 min

  Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.

• E2 Redemption in Blood
  Nov 11, 1988 45 min

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

• E3 Heart of Night
  Nov 18, 1988 45 min

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

• E4 Bad Timing
  Dec 2, 1988 45 min

  Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

• E5 Borrasca
  Dec 9, 1988 45 min

  Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

• E6 Line of Fire
  Dec 16, 1988 45 min

  Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.

• E7 Asian Cut
  Jan 13, 1989 45 min

  Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.

• E8 Hard Knocks
  Jan 20, 1989 45 min

  Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

• E9 Fruit of the Poison Tree
  Feb 3, 1989 45 min

  Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.

• E10 To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
  Feb 10, 1989 45 min

  While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.

• E11 Miami Squeeze
  Feb 17, 1989 45 min

  The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.

• E12 Jack of All Trades
  Mar 3, 1989 45 min

  Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.

• E13 The Cell Within
  Mar 10, 1989 45 min

  A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.

• E14 The Lost Madonna
  Mar 17, 1989 45 min

  Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.

• E15 Over the Line
  Apr 28, 1989 45 min

  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.

• E16 Victims of Circumstance
  May 5, 1989 45 min

  Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.

• E17 Freefall
  May 21, 1989 91 min

  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.

• E18 World of Trouble
  Jun 14, 1989 45 min

  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.

• E19 Miracle Man
  Jun 21, 1989 45 min

  A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of "drug dealing slim" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.

• E20 Leap of Faith
  Jun 28, 1989 45 min

  Agent Joey Harden returns to assist Crockett as part of a new division, Youth Crime Unit, that was formed by a previous partner. The YCU investigates a college professor that has created a new designer drug, Bliss.

• E21 Too Much, Too Late
  Jan 25, 1990 95 min

  Tubbs' old flame Valerie returns to Miami to assist an old friend and her goddaughter. Tubbs wants to renew his relationship with Valerie, but she is intent on rescuing her friend from the threats of a drug dealer.