The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes aired
- 110
- Latest aired
- S05E20
- Total runtime
- 3d 18h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1984 – May 1985 22 episodes
- Season 2 September 1985 – May 1986 22 episodes
- Season 3 September 1986 – May 1987 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1987 – May 1988 22 episodes
- Season 5 November 1988 – June 1989 20 episodes
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S05E01 Hostile Takeover (3)
November 4 · 48min find the promo
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Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
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S05E02 Redemption in Blood (4)
November 11 · 48min find the promo
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As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
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S05E03 Heart of Night
November 18 · 48min find the promo
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Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
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S05E04 Bad Timing
December 2 · 48min find the promo
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Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
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S05E05 Borrasca
December 9 · 48min find the promo
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Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
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S05E06 Line of Fire
December 16 · 48min find the promo
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Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
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S05E07 Asian Cut
January 13 · 48min find the promo
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Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
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S05E08 Hard Knocks
January 20 · 48min find the promo
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Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
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S05E09 Fruit of the Poison Tree
February 3 · 48min find the promo
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Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
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S05E10 To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
February 10 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S05E11 Miami Squeeze
February 17 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S05E12 Jack of All Trades
March 3 · 48min find the promo
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Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.
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S05E13 The Cell Within
March 10 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S05E14 The Lost Madonna
March 17 · 48min find the promo
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Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
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S05E15 Over the Line
April 28 · 48min find the promo
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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.
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S05E16 Victims of Circumstance
May 5 · 48min find the promo
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Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
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S05E17 Freefall
May 21 · 91min find the promo
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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.
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S05E18 World of Trouble
June 14 · 48min find the promo
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Al Lombard, thought to be dead, returns to Miami to see his son and the grandson he never knew, while eluding his rival Librizzi's hitmen.
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S05E19 Miracle Man
June 21 · 48min find the promo
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A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
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S05E20 Leap of Faith
June 28 · 48min find the promo
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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.