Miami Vice — Season 5
There's no stopping them.
About this season
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.
Episodes (20)
1. Hostile Takeover (3)
6.8Aired 4 November 1988 • 48 min
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
2. Redemption in Blood (4)
5.0Aired 11 November 1988 • 48 min
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
3. Heart of Night
7.0Aired 18 November 1988 • 48 min
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
4. Bad Timing
6.4Aired 2 December 1988 • 48 min
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
5. Borrasca
6.0Aired 9 December 1988 • 48 min
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
6. Line of Fire
4.3Aired 16 December 1988 • 48 min
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
7. Asian Cut
5.6Aired 13 January 1989 • 48 min
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
8. Hard Knocks
4.5Aired 20 January 1989 • 48 min
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
9. Fruit of the Poison Tree
6.6Aired 3 February 1989 • 48 min
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
10. To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
6.0Aired 10 February 1989 • 48 min
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.
11. Miami Squeeze
6.8Aired 17 February 1989 • 48 min
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.
12. Jack of All Trades
6.2Aired 3 March 1989 • 48 min
Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.
13. The Cell Within
3.7Aired 10 March 1989 • 48 min
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.
14. The Lost Madonna
6.5Aired 17 March 1989 • 48 min
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
15. Over the Line
6.2Aired 28 April 1989 • 48 min
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.
16. Victims of Circumstance
6.8Aired 5 May 1989 • 48 min
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
17. Freefall
6.8Aired 21 May 1989 • 91 min
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.
18. World of Trouble
5.2Aired 14 June 1989 • 48 min
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.
19. Miracle Man
6.5Aired 21 June 1989 • 48 min
A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
20. Leap of Faith
4.8Aired 28 June 1989 • 48 min
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.