The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3

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

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: John Schulian, Dick Wolf

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: John Schulian, Dick Wolf

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

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

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

Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.

Director: David Jackson

Writer: N/A

Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.

Director: Christopher Crowe

Writer: N/A

The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.

Director: David Jackson

Writer: N/A

Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.

Director: Leon Ichaso

Writer: N/A

Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

Director: N/A

Writer: Pamela Norris

Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman (Melanie Griffith) turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money launderer (George Takei).

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

Director: Dick Wolf

Writer: Michael Duggan

An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: John Schulian

Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

Director: Leon Ichaso

Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan

Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: N/A

Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

Director: N/A

Writer: Eric Estrin

A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.

Director: Tony Wharmby, Dick Wolf

Writer: Michael Duggan, Dick Wolf

Tubbs finds out that his ""raffle prize"" --- a week in the Caribbean --- is set up by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.

Director: David Jackson

Writer: N/A

An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Michael Duggan, Dick Wolf