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.
The best episode of "Miami Vice" season 2 is "The Prodigal Son (1)", rated 8.3/10 from 793 user votes. It was directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Daniel Pyne. "The Prodigal Son (1)" aired on 9/27/1985 and is rated 0.9 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Prodigal Son (2)".
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
Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
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
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.
Director: Harry Mastrogeorge
Writer: N/A
Crockett is forced to realize that an old Army buddy may be involved with a contract on a young mother's life.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
When Crockett and Tubbs bust the owner of a bordello (Miles Davis), they discover that one of his drug-addicted prostitutes is the object of a powerful drug dealer's twisted obsession.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
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
Castillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
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.
Director: Don Johnson
Writer: N/A
Crockett flashes to his role during the Saigon evacuation as he and a war correspondent uncover heroin smuggled in body bags. Ten years later in Miami the H resurfaces and so does the reporter looking for the CIA connection.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: N/A
Crockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne
When Crockett sees his stewardess girlfriend die from smuggling balloons of cocaine into the country, he and Tubbs go undercover to expose the ring.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt, Craig Bolotin
Writer: John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne, Craig Bolotin
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
Crocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
A Grand Prix driver has a lot on his mind: first-time fatherhood, a race against his legendary dad --- and the fact that he is suspected of killing a teenage prostitute.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: Michael B. Hoggan
An interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest --- and Tubbs' suspicion as they search for an international drug dealing assassin.
Director: Dick Miller
Writer: Chuck Adamson
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
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Shel Willens
The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Daniel Pyne
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
The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs is the father of her child.
Director: John Nicolella, Jim Johnston
Writer: N/A