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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...

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  1. Background image for The Prodigal Son (1)
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Prodigal Son (1)

    S2:E1

    Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

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  2. Background image for Out Where the Buses Don't Run
    8.8/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run

    S2:E4

    Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.

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  3. Background image for Evan
    8.6/10(797 votes)

    #3 - Evan

    S1:E21

    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.

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  4. Background image for Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1
    8.5/10(1.0k votes)

    #4 - Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1

    S1:E4

    The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.

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  5. Background image for Smuggler's Blues
    8.4/10(850 votes)

    #5 - Smuggler's Blues

    S1:E15

    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.

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  6. Background image for Brother's Keeper
    8.3/10(2.5k votes)

    #6 - Brother's Keeper

    S1:E1

    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.

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  8. Background image for Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2
    8.2/10(966 votes)

    #7 - Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2

    S1:E5

    While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.

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  9. Background image for Lombard
    8.2/10(680 votes)

    #8 - Lombard

    S1:E22

    Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Deliver Us from Evil (1)
    8.2/10(413 votes)

    #9 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)

    S4:E21

    A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Mirror Image (2)
    8.2/10(445 votes)

    #10 - Mirror Image (2)

    S4:E22

    A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Hostile Takeover (3)
    8.2/10(429 votes)

    #11 - Hostile Takeover (3)

    S5:E1

    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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    Director:Don Johnson
    Writer:Ken Solarz
  13. Background image for No Exit
    8.1/10(920 votes)

    #12 - No Exit

    S1:E7

    Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.

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    Director:David Soul
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Golden Triangle - Part 1
    8.1/10(745 votes)

    #13 - Golden Triangle - Part 1

    S1:E13

    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.

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  15. Background image for Golden Triangle - Part 2
    8.1/10(725 votes)

    #14 - Golden Triangle - Part 2

    S1:E14

    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.

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  16. Background image for The Home Invaders
    8.1/10(735 votes)

    #15 - The Home Invaders

    S1:E19

    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.

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  17. Background image for Redemption in Blood (4)
    8.1/10(422 votes)

    #16 - Redemption in Blood (4)

    S5:E2

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

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    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Freefall
    8.1/10(399 votes)

    #17 - Freefall

    S5:E17

    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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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Rites of Passage
    8.0/10(718 votes)

    #18 - Rites of Passage

    S1:E16

    Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.

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  20. Background image for The Prodigal Son (2)
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - The Prodigal Son (2)

    S2:E2

    Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

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  21. Background image for Heart of Darkness
    7.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #20 - Heart of Darkness

    S1:E2

    Investigating a porn baron, Crockett and Tubbs become involved with an undercover FBI agent who may have gone native and become a criminal, and may have murdered an underage porn starlet. Meanwhile, Zito and Switek pose as fences, and Elvis the crocodile feels unloved!

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  22. Background image for Milk Run
    7.9/10(737 votes)

    #21 - Milk Run

    S1:E12

    Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.

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  23. Background image for Give a Little, Take a Little
    7.8/10(746 votes)

    #22 - Give a Little, Take a Little

    S1:E10

    In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he is trying to bust. Gina and Trudy infiltrate a prostitution ring. Gina is placed in a compromising position when they are suspicious that she is not a hooker.

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    Director:Bobby Roth
  24. Background image for Bought and Paid For
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Bought and Paid For

    S2:E10

    Gina's cleaning woman gets raped in Gina's home by the spoiled son of a wealthy man, who thinks he's above the law. Despite evidence being circumstantial, Gina wants to have the man arrested. Izzy steals Switek and Zito's bug van.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Death and the Lady
    7.8/10(433 votes)

    #24 - Death and the Lady

    S4:E3

    An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate the film's flaky director.

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    Director:Colin Bucksey
  26. Background image for Child's Play
    7.8/10(394 votes)

    #25 - Child's Play

    S4:E5

    Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Prodigal Son (1)" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice". It scored 8.8/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Daniel Pyne, it aired on 9/27/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Out Where the Buses Don't Run".