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Miami Vice Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
The Prodigal Son
Fri, Sep 27, 198596 mins
Crockett and Tubbs travel to New York to take down a powerful Colombian cartel.
Episode 2
Whatever Works
Fri, Oct 4, 198549 mins
The murder of two beat cops outside their jurisdiction immerses the team in the Santeria religion, while Crockett tries to recover his repossessed Ferrari.
Episode 3
Out Where the Buses Don't Run
Fri, Oct 18, 198548 mins
Crockett and Tubbs stake out a drug dealer, an investigation that is being helped along by an ex-cop that seems to know a bit too much about the case.
Episode 4
The Dutch Oven
Fri, Oct 25, 198548 mins
Trudy's old boyfriend has ties to a drug lord and enlists Crockett's help investigating him.
Episode 5
Buddies
Fri, Nov 1, 198548 mins
The team is investigating the murder of a comic who works at a club owned by two criminals. And a young single mother is being sought by the police cause they think she killed him and his employers for some reason are also looking for her. While conducting surveillance, they discover a man who went to see them is a friend of Crockett's. When Crockett and Tubbs goes to see him, he claims that they loaned him money to help with his business. While Crockett believes him, Tubbs thinks he's holding something back. Tubbs later does a background check on him and discovers something that Crockett didn't know which upsets him.
Episode 6
Junk Love
Fri, Nov 8, 198548 mins
Jazz legend, Miles Davis, stars as Ivory Jones, a "scumbag" who is cooperating with "the local constabulary." The sire of a stable of high-priced fillies, Ivory has the 411 on dangerous dudes. Ivory shoots the breeze with Crockett and Tubbs, spouting incomprehensible advices in his trademark husky voice. The guys search the city for a psychopathic dealer with a thing for an old filly with a bad habit, Rosella.
Episode 7
Tale of the Goat
Fri, Nov 15, 198548 mins
A Haitian voodoo priest who is also a drug dealer, died and his body arrives. Later the body disappears. They find a breathing tube in the coffin. A doctor thinks the man is alive, he may taken a toxin that makes a person appear to be dead but also has side effects. The man recruits his followers and he sets out to get the ones who betrayed him especially his right hand who took over his business and his girlfriend. Tubbs decides to go undercover at one of his gatherings and they give him something that could a psychedelic.
Episode 8
Bushido
Fri, Nov 22, 198548 mins
Castillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.
Episode 9
Bought and Paid For
Fri, Nov 29, 198548 mins
Attractive but poor Odette, Gina's dear friend from Haiti who makes ends meet as a cleaning lady in Miami, gets raped in Gina's home by a man she knows just moments before Gina and Sonny arrive. After a long chase with the perp's white Lamborghini, Sonny tracks him down and busts him. It turns out the rapist is none other than Roberto 'Nico' Arroyo, the spoiled and cocky son of a wealthy Bolivian general in exile turned respectable banker. Odette used to work for them as a cleaning woman until she heard that their previous maid was raped by Nico. Gina wants the man prosecuted at all costs but the evidence turn out to be circumstantial and Nico's father buys Odette's silence from her mother, who still lives in poverty in Haiti with her two younger daughters. Gina desperately tries to convince Odette not to accept the bribe but the girl feels she has no choice but to sacrifice herself for her poor family. Unfortunately, Odette's decision leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, in a small subplot, Izzy steals Switek and Zito's bug van after a bust goes wrong and they must now track him down before their van ends up in a chop shop.
Episode 10
Back in the World
Fri, Dec 6, 198548 mins
Don Johnson directs this episode where his girlfriend and mother of his son (Patti d'Arbanville) has a small role amongst 80's icons, G. Gordon Liddy (Capt. William 'Mr. Real Estate' Maynard), Bob Balaban (Ira Stone) and the lovely Iman (Dakotah). At the fall of Saigon, Sonny's buddy and war correspondent, Stone, had wild stories of H going home in body bags, conspiracy theories and CIA spooks. Ten years later, Stone is visiting his old pal in Miami, and singing a familiar tune.
Episode 11
Phil the Shill
Fri, Dec 13, 198548 mins
Rock icon Phil Collins guest stars as grifter and masquerading TV personality, Phil "The Shill" Mayhew. Phil takes Stan to the cleaners, over Elvis trivia no less, and gets himself squarely on the guys' radar. Phil the Shill can feel it in the air tonight with pretty uptown girl Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick). The girlfriend of a very elusive and paranoid coke dealer, Sarah's life is one big party, shopping and selling coke to her uptown friends. When semi-regular Izzy Moreno (Martin Ferrero) moves in on Phil and Sarah, Crockett, Tubbs and the crew will have to get creative.
Episode 12
Definitely Miami
Fri, Jan 10, 198648 mins
Hard rock maestro, Ted Nugent, explodes as psychopath, Charlie Basset. Charlie is a thug who uses his stunning wife, Callie (Arielle Dombasle) to lure rich men to their doom. In the midst of an undercover op at a five star hotel, Tubbs watches his friend "Burnett" try not to succumb to Callie's charms. Is Callie serious about escaping from her brutal husband? Or is she still playing her siren's song, trying to lead another rich mark to his destruction?
Episode 13
Yankee Dollar
Fri, Jan 17, 198648 mins
It's a slow night at work, so everyone is making other plans. Zito is taking Switek to a theater to see the rerun of Zito's favorite cartoon One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), again. Gina and Trudy are about to close a case, Tubbs is making plans with a girl and only Crockett has no plans, so he calls up his on-again, off-again stewardess girlfriend Sarah. He picks her up at the airport and takes her home but she's too tired to hang out with him and decides to call it a night. However, just moments after they've said their goodbyes, Sonny hears her screams and runs back to her apartment only to find her violently convulsing on the bathroom floor. He takes her to a hospital but it's too late. To Sonny's absolute surprise, it turns out that she had started working on the side as a drug mule to afford a new pricey car but one of the balloons of pure cocaine in her stomach leaked which killed her. Crockett is disgusted beyond words when he discovers that the person who put her up to this was her own brother Timmy, an incompetent wannabe gangster. Timmy cracks immediately and admits that his sister was muling a special priceless sample of pure cocaine for Charlie Glide, an unscrupulous, sleazy, double-dealing but also very slick, calculated, street smart, careful and influential local businessman and investor who made his money off dope-dealing yet the police never managed to find anything on him that would stick. It turns out that he was only the middleman in a huge drug deal organized through his wormy assistant Max Rogo, where an heiress called Lydia Sugarman would get a top-notch coke from a psychotic, radical, right wing, Peruvian ex-paramilitary commander turned major drug supplier named Zabado. Under their aliases, Crockett and Tubbs approach Glide with whom Sonny had already worked before pretending to be major drug dealer Sonny Burnett but this time Glide realizes that they're undercover cops and sets a deadly trap for them.
Episode 14
One Way Ticket
Fri, Jan 24, 198648 mins
When the State Attorney is killed, Crockett's investigation brings him into contact with the man's friend, an attorney that Crockett hates. They learn that a Canadian the S.A. was investigating could be the man who ordered it. Later Crockett gets an anonymous call telling him that the Canadian and a man who was arrested on a minor charge, whom the lawyer got off, are indeed responsible for the S.A.'s death.
Episode 15
Little Miss Dangerous
Fri, Jan 31, 198648 mins
This episode features another 80's pop star, Fiona (Flanagan) as an underage runaway, Jackie. She and her loyal boyfriend, Cat, perform soft porn meets musical theatre to the song 'Little Miss Dangerous' to pay their bills. Meanwhile, johns are being stabbed and left burning in rooms and cars all over Miami. Tubbs is obsessed with saving young Jackie from herself; Crockett and the rest of the crew are less civic-minded in their pursuit of crime.
Episode 16
Florence Italy
Fri, Feb 14, 198648 mins
Set around the Miami Grand Prix, the episode starts out with a young 17 year old hooker called "Florence Italy", being picked up by one of the racers in the Grand Prix, he then races around Miami attracting the attention of Crockett and Tubbs, a chase ensues where the Porsche 906 Carrera eventually escapes Crockett and Tubbs because the young hooker had been thrown out of the passenger seat at speed and killed. The Vice cops follow up on the car and find it belongs to a Danny Tepper, Crockett and Tubbs track down Danny and question him, they feel he is telling the truth when he says that he didn't do it and hasn't been near his car for days. Castillo sends Crockett and Tubbs undercover as potential sponsors in the race to find out who did murder Florence, after sweeps around they begin to suspect Danny's father Frank, while sweeping the street that Florence got into the car, Rico comes across a diner that has a security CCTV system, Tubbs gets the tapes from the night Florence was last seen alive and it is seen on there, that Frank was the one driving the car and then go to arrest him. After winning the Grand Prix, Frank pulls in his car to see that several police officers are moving in on him, so he drives off and makes another chase, but after several twists and turns, his luck runs out and he crashes the car into a wall.
Episode 17
French Twist
Fri, Feb 21, 198648 mins
Deadly rogue agent turned international criminal Sirat Bandi has arrived in Miami to steal a drug shipment. A woman called Cindy who's taken her injured brother David for a walk accidentally shoots Bandi with her camera as he's killing a delivery driver. She's put under police protection as an eyewitness. Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect her. Unfortunately, Bandi is also a proficient sniper and has no intention of leaving loose ends alive. Meanwhile, one of the heads of French Intelligence, Francois Zolan, sends Interpol agent Danielle Hier to assist Sonny and Tubbs. Sonny falls for her but quickly realizes that there's something fishy both about her and the case itself.
Episode 18
The Fix
Fri, Mar 7, 198648 mins
After Crockett and Tubbs arrest a dealer, at the bail hearing the judge sets a low bail. Crockett is curious if there's something wrong with him. So he investigates. It seems the man has a gambling problem. And now he's being told to tell his son, who's the star player of his school, to throw a game to settle his debts.
Episode 19
Payback
Fri, Mar 14, 198648 mins
-A minor drug conviction, Jesus Moroto, calls Sonny to visit him in prison and then, kills himself in Sonny's presence, which he finds odd. A DEA agent from NOLA offers to assist the Vice team in taking down the elusive Mario Fuente (played by the mean rockin' man, Frank Zappa). Fuente, a drug lord who maintains his residence beyond the 12 mile marker, makes all of his deals through his middleman, Reuben Reydolfo (Dan Hedaya) and never leaves his boat. When IAD gets involved in the case, things take an even stranger twist. It becomes a race against the clock to exact payback.
Episode 20
Free Verse
Fri, Apr 4, 198648 mins
Hector Sandoval is a poet and political dissident with a "direct line to Stockholm" seeking asylum in the US from a warring South American nation. Unfortunately for Tubbs, Crockett is in court testifying; so Tubbs and the remainder of the team must protect the gregarious Sandoval and his headstrong daughter from his enemies. Mick Jagger's former first lady, Bianca Jagger, has a bit part as sexy assassin, Carmen.
Episode 21
Trust Fund Pirates
Fri, May 2, 198648 mins
A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.
Episode 22
Sons and Lovers
Fri, May 9, 198648 mins
The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs he is the father of her child.
