8.3/10802 votes#1 - 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
7.4/10544 votes#2 - The Prodigal Son (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1985
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
8.8/10951 votes#3 - 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
7.1/10514 votes#4 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1985
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
7.6/10522 votes#5 - The Dutch Oven
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1985
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
7.2/10514 votes#6 - Buddies
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1985
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
6.6/10522 votes#7 - Junk Love
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1985
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
8.2/10644 votes#8 - 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
7.9/10511 votes#9 - Bushido
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1985
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
7.7/10507 votes#10 - Bought and Paid For
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1985
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
7.8/10565 votes#11 - Back in the World
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1985
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
8.7/102,097 votes#12 - Phill the Shill
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1985
A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: N/A
7.8/10507 votes#13 - Definitely Miami
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1986
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
7.5/10475 votes#14 - Yankee Dollar
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1986
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
8.3/10631 votes#15 - 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
7.0/10507 votes#16 - Little Miss Dangerous
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1986
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
7.1/10455 votes#17 - Florence, Italy
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1986
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
7.3/10477 votes#18 - French Twist
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1986
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
8.3/10528 votes#19 - 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
6.5/10448 votes#20 - Payback
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1986
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Shel Willens
7.2/10452 votes#21 - Free Verse
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/4/1986
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
8.4/10513 votes#22 - 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
5.5/102 votes#23 - Sons and Lovers
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1986
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
The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 2
Every episode of Miami Vice Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 2!
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
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Prodigal Son (1)" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 802 votes. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Daniel Pyne, it aired on 9/27/1985. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Prodigal Son (2)".