The Best Episodes of Miami Vice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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

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

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

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

Director: David Soul

Writer: Maurice Hurley

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

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

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

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

Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

Writer: N/A

Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.

Director: Dick Wolf, Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: Michael Duggan

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

Director: N/A

Writer: Scott Shepherd

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.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Paul Michael Glaser

Writer: Daniel Pyne

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!

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: Daniel Pyne

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

Director: John Nicolella

Writer: Allison Hock

Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

Director: N/A

Writer: Dick Wolf