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Miami Vice Season 5

Miami Vice

Season 5

November 4, 1988 20 episodes

The last action-packed adventures of Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs. Join them as they infiltrate the deadly powers behind the Miami drug empire and take down every bad guy from conniving schemers to ruthless criminals.

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Hostile Takeover (3)
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E1. Hostile Takeover (3)

48m Nov 4, 1988

Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.

Redemption in Blood (4)
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E2. Redemption in Blood (4)

48m Nov 11, 1988

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

Heart of Night
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E3. Heart of Night

48m Nov 18, 1988

Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.

Bad Timing
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E4. Bad Timing

48m Dec 2, 1988

Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

Borrasca
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E5. Borrasca

48m Dec 9, 1988

Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

Line of Fire
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E6. Line of Fire

48m Dec 16, 1988

Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.

Asian Cut
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E7. Asian Cut

48m Jan 13, 1989

Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.

Hard Knocks
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E8. Hard Knocks

48m Jan 20, 1989

Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

Fruit of the Poison Tree
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E9. Fruit of the Poison Tree

48m Feb 3, 1989

Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.

To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
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E10. To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)

48m Feb 10, 1989

While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.

Miami Squeeze
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E11. Miami Squeeze

48m Feb 17, 1989

The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.

Jack of All Trades
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E12. Jack of All Trades

48m Mar 3, 1989

Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.

The Cell Within
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E13. The Cell Within

48m Mar 10, 1989

A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.

The Lost Madonna
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E14. The Lost Madonna

48m Mar 17, 1989

Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.

Over the Line
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E15. Over the Line

48m Apr 28, 1989

In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.

Victims of Circumstance
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E16. Victims of Circumstance

48m May 5, 1989

Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.

Freefall
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E17. Freefall

91m May 21, 1989

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.

World of Trouble
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E18. World of Trouble

48m Jun 14, 1989

Al Lombard, thought to be dead, returns to Miami to see his son and the grandson he never knew, while eluding his rival Librizzi's hitmen.

Miracle Man
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E19. Miracle Man

48m Jun 21, 1989

A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.

Leap of Faith
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E20. Leap of Faith

48m Jun 28, 1989

Agent Joey Harden returns to assist Crockett as part of a new division, Youth Crime Unit, that was formed by a previous partner. The YCU investigates a college professor that has created a new designer drug, Bliss.

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