
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 Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.






Crockett and Tubbs are skeptical of rumors that an undercover FBI agent has betrayed an operation. Switek and Zito setup a burglary sting operation.
Crockett and Tubbs must rely on a big-talking small-time hustler to help them solve a series of drug-related murders.
A hired killer's hastily abandoned briefcase contains an eight-name list: the first six are dead drug dealers; the eighth is Sonny Crockett.
The detectives trace drug kingpin Calderone to a Caribbean island, where the vengeful Tubbs gets caught up in a dangerous romance.
Crockett gets set up to receive a "payoff" from a racketeer while trying to settle the gambling debt of an old friend.
Crockett and Tubbs form an uneasy alliance with Federal agents in the pursuit of an arms dealer looking to move ground-to-air missiles.
Crockett's entry fee---$25,000 provided by the department---is on the line in a speedboat competition that may be a cover for a drug pickup.
Crockett and Tubbs wade through the Everglades after a witness who bolted from custody and must testify in 48 hours.
In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he's trying to bust. Meanwhile, Gina tries to nail a ruthless crime kingpin.
Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.
Two naive New Yorkers hope for one big score running coke from Colombia to Miami.
A series of busts leads Crockett and Tubbs to a drug-related hit that reveals a side of Castillo they've never seen before.
A drug kingpin brings Castillo's wife---who was thought to be dead---to Miami as insurance against police interference.
Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug smugglers to smoke out whoever has been killing drug dealers and their families.
Tubbs is reunited with an old flame, an NYPD detective looking for her missing sister, while he and Crockett search for a call girl's killer.
Tubbs is taken hostage by a gang in an abandoned hotel, thanks to the would-be heroics of a cop trying to avenge his partner's murder.
By day, Switek and Zito supervise a pair of jive-talking master informants; by night, they're sharing quarters with Switek's girl friend---who's also Zito's ex.
Castillo clashes with Crockett's former mentor, who's heading an investigation into a series of burglaries.
When three drug-crazed teens go on a murderous rampage, Tubbs feels as if he's working alone---Crockett's mind is on his new love.
An undercover Fed poses complications for a weapon sting and for Crockett, who bears a grudge for the man.
Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect a crime boss subpoenaed to testify against a rival.
Crockett and Tubbs pose as big dealers in the Big Apple to smoke out Colombian drug lords responsible for the deaths of Federal agents.
The ritual killings of two cops on the take lead to the priestess of a cult that deals in drugs.
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer long thought dead.
Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.
Crockett learns that an old friend is connected to organized crime---a tie that may block the cops' attempt to prevent the murder of a young mother and her baby.
Crockett and Tubbs' connection to a major smuggler is a young woman who acts like his girl though she claims to hate him, and whose drug habit may blow the bust.
Tubbs infiltrates a criminal voodoo cult whose leader has returned from Haiti---and apparently the grave---to collect an old debt.
Castillo is contacted by a former associate who's on the run from both the CIA and the KGB.
Gina is out to nail the man who raped her friend, but is frustrated by the suspect's wealth and connections---and by the victim's sudden recantation.
A journalist that Crockett knew in Vietnam is ready to break a story about "The Sergeant," a shadowy legend thought to have shipped heroin stateside in body bags.
Switek has to cool his vendetta against a shady game-show host who could lead the vice cops to an elusive coke dealer.
Crockett falls for the wife of a murderous drug dealer; and the Feds want the vice cops to give up a protected witness to help bust a major distributor.
Crockett and Tubbs engage a drug dealer in a game of wits, double-crosses and "let's make a deal" to snare bigger game.
Efforts to convict a drug dealer who murdered a deputy DA are hampered by a lack of evidence and by a defense attorney Crockett doesn't get along with.
A psychotic earns the sobriquet "crayon killer" for leaving behind childlike drawings at murder scenes.
A Grand Prix driver has a lot on his mind: first-time fatherhood, a race against his legendary dad---and the fact that he's suspected of killing a teen prostitute.
An Interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest---and Tubbs' suspicion.
A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son (Bernard King) to throw a game.
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
Crockett and Tubbs have trouble keeping a rein on their charge, a recently freed Central American political prisoner who likes to party.
Crockett and Tubbs prevail upon a pilot to stall his retirement from the contraband business long enough to connect them with a band of 20th-century pirates.
The Calderones are back: Angelina reveals that Tubbs fathered her son; and her half-brother has put up a $1 million bounty to revenge her father's death.
Gina's smitten with an Irish revolutionary she thinks has renounced violence, but the authorities believe he's an IRA gunrunner.
Crockett's journalist buddy Stone claims to have film of U.S. mercenaries fighting in Nicaragua---and leading them is Stone's nemesis Maynard.
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.
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
Crockett tries to preserve the career of a high-school athlete who stumbled into a heroin ring, but the prosecution needs the kid to help nail a 15-year-old kingpin.
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.
Willie Nelson plays a former lawman who has a coke-filled briefcase that's crucial to Crockett and Tubbs' pursuit of a major Bolivian dealer.
Tubbs' former partner---who has a grudge against Tubbs over his dismissal from the force---is involved with bikers dealing crack.
Unexpected contraband---babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her---puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.
A pharmaceutical grade of coke makes its way to a hooker involved with a married undercover cop.
New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.
An uncomfortable Zito uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking.
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
When a drug dealer and cop are killed by men dressed as commandos, Crockett and Tubbs are stymied by an agent claiming they may imperil an international operation.
Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam years ago.
Crockett's case on a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
Tubbs finds out that his "raffle prize"---a week in the Caribbean---is a setup by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.
Crockett and Tubbs suspect that their difficulty in nailing a suspected smuggler is connected to an electronic-surveillance wizard they hired.
A series of booby-trap cop killings drives Tubbs over the edge, and he quits the department in fear for his life.
Crockett finds his personal life mixing with his professional life when his socialite girl friend figures into two drug-related murders.
A covert DEA operation brings Crockett and Tubbs under Internal Affairs scrutiny after the Feds' intrusion on a bust results in the loss of $250,000.
A biker returns from prison to revenge the death of a drug-dealer friend by targeting the last eight persons to do business with him, including Crockett.
Crockett and Tubbs try to retrieve a crack dealer's attache case from a thief---a celebrated playwright turned petty criminal.
The cops aren't the only ones following a Cuban drug dealer, and Gina finds that he has ties to her mother, who was killed when Gina was a baby.
The vice cops and the Feds prepare for a mob boss's attempts to orchestrate a mistrial, and Crockett goes to jail for refusing to name the informant whose revelations are the basis for the prosecution's case.
After the squad traps a TV-evangelist's wife in a drug sting, Tubbs is set up for rape, pulling the vice cops into a rivalry between TV ministries.
Crockett becomes obsessed with determining whether a famous director actually "snuffed" an actress in a film.
Crockett and Tubbs stumble onto a cryogenically frozen Rastafarian and have to uncover who's entitled to the body---a mad scientist's assistant, his estranged wife, or Izzy.
Crockett is devastated when he shoots a young boy during an investigation, and it spurs him to reconcile with his own son, whom he hasn't seen for years.
Castillo wants to bring down a crime family, but complicating the probe is a mobster's son, a Wall Street whiz who's back in town.
Trudy has a weird encounter with an R&B singer (James Brown), and has Vice checking out mysterious happenings, missing bodies and UFOs.
A fading rock star begins to make beautiful music with Crockett, who's protecting her in a music-payola case.
Castillo and the squad investigate a Japanese mob now in Miami, and the enigmatic private eye who followed the gang there.
Crockett becomes bait for a killer who mutilates victims picked from a video-dating service.
Caitlin and Crockett find that rock and roll on the road spins discord in a marriage as record execs plot to sic the media on Crockett's undercover drug-dealing.
Izzy horns in on negotiations between an incensed Cuban, an off-the-farm agriculture agent and an enterprising rancher who are haggling over bull semen.
Crockett and Tubbs catch a gubernatorial candidate with his pants down, exposing them to political dirty-dealing, blackmail and murder.
A double murder has Crockett and Tubbs breathing down the neck of a Chilean police chief, who's in town to complete a weapons deal.
Tubbs comes to admire a dedicated but violent Indian out to stop the corruption of his tribe by a coke dealer, who's being sought by an undercover Castillo.
Drug kingpins go after the Doll Killer, a psychopath who injects his victims with cocaine before killing them.
Trudy protects a frightened rape victim whose allegedly rehabilitated attacker wants to apologize to her in front of a media circus.
Tubbs uncovers a cop with a big heart and bad judgment when the Vice squad tracks a group of renegade cops on a killing spree.
Mosca is back and Gina's got him in her sights---and her heart---on an undercover assignment.
Felled by a bullet, Crockett clings to life, triggering memories for his colleagues as they frantically track the shooter.
Crockett dogs his former partner's killer, who's on a robbery-and-murder spree, while Caitlin's waiting to spring some important news.
A blow to the head turns an emotionally wasted Crockett into his drug-dealing, murderous alter ego "Burnett," who hurtles toward a deadly showdown with Tubbs.
An amnesiac Crockett, believing he's the felonious Burnett, delights in playing the contentious members of a crime family against one another.
As Crockett begins to remember fragments of his past, Burnett continues to build his drug-dealing empire.
Castillo's former wife comes back looking for help and rekindles old passions as she and her husband are hunted down by killers.
A vacationing Crockett, getting over his Burnett ordeal, runs afoul of escaped convicts on a rampage.
Castillo and Tubbs battle a Latin counterrevolutionary group out to sell a shipload of drugs, but an agent with questionable government ties interferes with the setup.
Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect a heavy-metal rocker who's set to testify against a drug kingpin.
Trudy is used as bait for a killer who mutilates his victims, all prostitutes.
As his gambling debts mount, Switek is "encouraged" by thugs to persuade a star quarterback to throw a big game.
Crockett and Tubbs, out to nail a drug kingpin, find a case against his slick down-home lawyer, who looks to be as dirty as his client.
Tubbs romances a drug lord's widow, while Crockett is away helping his son adjust to his mother's pregnancy.
Crockett recruits a young cop to aid in the investigation of a British drug dealer and his mule---the son of an antidrug legislator.
Crockett's cousin Jack, up to his neck in debt and knee-deep in trouble, involves Crockett in his shady dealings.
Tubbs accepts a dinner invitation from a purportedly recovered sociopath and winds up as a prisoner in the man's private version of hell.
Crockett and Tubbs team with a New York cop to nail a mob family dabbling in the highly profitable illegal art trade.
Crockett and Tubbs walk a tightrope when they infiltrate a band of rogue cops who've fallen into vigilantism.
Crockett and Switek infiltrate a white-supremacist group that may be linked to murders of concentration-camp survivors set to testify against a Nazi fugitive.
Crockett and Tubbs embark on what could be a suicide mission: escorting a corrupt Latin American dictator out of his country.
Pegged for dead by Vice, a retired gangster returns from the netherworld to find his son involved in the theft of a high-tech weapon.
Miracle Man, a self-proclaimed superhero, trips over Switek and Tubbs on his way to rescuing Miami from the clutches of its evil drug dealers.
Crockett persuades his protégé, Joey Hardin, to join a unit of hotshot cops formed to bring down a professor suspected of killing his students.
Tubbs considers marrying a former love who is in Miami to help a drug-addicted friend, but then learns that she may be covering up a murder.