8.8/10958 votesLoading...#1 - Whatever Works
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1985
Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to help find the link between ritualistic killings of officers and a group of drug traffickers. Crockett and Izzy try to get the Ferrari back after a city accountant re-possesses it.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: N/A
8.6/10761 votesLoading...#3 - Evan
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1985
Crockett and Tubbs join forces with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ... including Crockett's old partner Evan Freed. Tubbs tries to understand their troubled relationship.
Director: Jim Johnston, Rob Cohen
Writer: Edward di Lorenzo
8.5/10972 votesLoading...#4 - Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1984
The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.
Director: Richard A. Colla
Writer: Joel Surnow
8.5/10514 votesLoading...#5 - Forgive Us Our Debts
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1986
New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Gustave Reininger
8.4/10819 votesLoading...#6 - Smuggler's Blues
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1985
Someone in law enforcement is murdering drug dealers and their families in cold blood. To find the culprit, Crockett and Tubbs go undercover and travel to Colombia with a laid-back pilot to pose as dealers.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Miguel Piñero
8.4/10514 votesLoading...#7 - Trust Fund Pirates
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/1986
A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Dennis Cooper
8.3/102,467 votesLoading...#8 - Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1984
Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their partners.
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: Anthony Yerkovich
8.3/10806 votesLoading...#9 - The Prodigal Son (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1985
Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Daniel Pyne
8.3/10635 votesLoading...#10 - One Way Ticket
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1986
A district attorney is killed at a wedding for getting too close to a French-Canadian drug lord that's operating in Miami. Since the victim was a close friend of the criminal's lawyer, Sonny tries to make the lawyer do something about it.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: Frank Military
8.3/10528 votesLoading...#11 - The Fix
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/7/1986
A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son to throw a game. Crockett suspects the judge let a drug dealer go free because of his money troubles.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Robert Crais
8.3/10476 votesLoading...#12 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987
Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Dick Wolf, John Schulian
8.2/10928 votesLoading...#13 - Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1984
While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Joel Surnow, Alfonse Ruggiero
8.2/10645 votesLoading...#14 - Lombard
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1985
Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
8.2/10648 votesLoading...#15 - Tale of the Goat
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1985
Crockett and Tubbs escort a coffin containing a criminal to his final Miami resting place ... until its learned that he has risen from the dead and has a similar zombie fate scheduled for Tubbs.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
8.2/10522 votesLoading...#16 - Walk Alone
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: W.K. Scott Meyer
8.2/10440 votesLoading...#17 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Dick Wolf, John Schulian
8.2/10473 votesLoading...#18 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1987
Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam in the early 70s; the cops get help on the case from a man claiming to be a Vietnamese inspector.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
8.2/10395 votesLoading...#19 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1988
A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.
Director: Dick Wolf, George Mendeluk
Writer: Michael Duggan, David Black
8.2/10426 votesLoading...#20 - Mirror Image (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1988
A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
8.2/10411 votesLoading...#21 - Hostile Takeover (3)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1988
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
Director: Don Johnson
Writer: N/A
8.1/10884 votesLoading...#22 - No Exit
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984
Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.
Director: David Soul
Writer: Maurice Hurley
8.1/10715 votesLoading...#23 - Golden Triangle - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1985
Crockett and Tubbs work undercover in a hotel. They uncover criminals that are an old enemies of Lt. Castillo and have also kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: Joseph Gunn
8.1/10695 votesLoading...#24 - Golden Triangle - Part 2
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1985
Lt. Castillo must bring down his old enemy, who has passed his organization to his grandsons. They have kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife to ensure their escape from prosecution.
Director: David Anspaugh
Writer: Maurice Hurley, Michael Mann
8.1/10699 votesLoading...#25 - The Home Invaders
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1985
The squad is assigned to assist Robbery with a string of brutal home invasions. Castillo is concerned the officer in charge - who was Crockett's mentor - is mishandling the investigation and the two clash, leaving Crockett torn between loyalty and a resolved case.
Director: Abel Ferrara, Joel Surnow, Rob Cohen
Writer: Chuck Adamson
The Best Episodes of Miami Vice
Every episode of Miami Vice ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Miami Vice!
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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Whatever Works" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice". It scored 8.8/10 based on 958 votes. Directed by Jim Johnston and written by N/A, it aired on 10/4/1985. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Phill the Shill".
