7.8/10560 votes#1 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1986
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
7.9/10502 votes#2 - Stone's War
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1986
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
7.6/10454 votes#3 - Killshot
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1986
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
8.2/10522 votes#4 - Walk Alone
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
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
8.2/10491 votes#5 - The Good Collar
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1986
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
7.9/10564 votes#6 - Shadow in the Dark
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1986
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
8.1/10528 votes#7 - El Viejo
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986
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
7.4/10414 votes#8 - Better Living Through Chemistry
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1986
Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan
7.5/10413 votes#9 - Baby Blues
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1986
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
7.5/10434 votes#10 - Street Wise
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1986
An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10512 votes#11 - Forgive Us Our Debts
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1986
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
8.3/10475 votes#12 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987
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
8.2/10439 votes#13 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
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
7.2/10379 votes#14 - Cuba Libre
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1987
Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Estrin
8.2/10472 votes#15 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1987
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
7.6/10446 votes#16 - Theresa
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1987
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
Director: N/A
Writer: Pamela Norris
6.8/10427 votes#17 - The Afternoon Plane
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1987
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
7.9/10441 votes#18 - Lend Me an Ear
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1987
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: N/A
8.1/10495 votes#19 - Red Tape
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1987
Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Dick Wolf
Writer: Michael Duggan
7.6/10426 votes#20 - By Hooker by Crook
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1987
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
7.4/10388 votes#21 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1987
Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: N/A
6.9/10438 votes#22 - Viking Bikers from Hell
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1987
A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.
Director: Tony Wharmby, Dick Wolf
Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan
6.6/10357 votes#23 - Everybody's in Show Biz
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/1/1987
An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan
7.5/10378 votes#24 - Heroes of the Revolution
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1987
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
The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3
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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 3 Ratings Summary
"When Irish Eyes Are Crying" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 3. It scored 7.8/10 based on 560 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Dick Wolf, it aired on 9/26/1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Stone's War".