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Miami Vice Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Fri, Sep 26, 198648 mins
Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.
Episode 2
Stone's War
Fri, Oct 3, 198648 mins
Old buddy Ira Stone (Bob Balaban) calls Sonny collect from Managua, Nicaragua, claiming he has a reel of film of US forces mixing with Sandinistas, and killing locals and a priest. Sonny is more interested in his new set of wheels: one white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa. Stone is stalked, Sonny is pistol whipped and Captain William Maynard (G. Gordon Liddy) emerges to kidnap Stone to ransom him for the film, and the guys realize Stone finally got his story straight. Ira believes he goes out a hero.
Episode 3
Killshot
Fri, Oct 10, 198647 mins
Crockett and Tubbs are working with Customs Agent Frank Arriola to get major drug dealer Morales, whom Frank once arrested but Morales still ended up walking because of Frank's bribed colleague. Frank's brother Tico, a jai alai player, goes to a brothel after a match but the girl he's with provokes him into getting rough with her. He thinks he killed her but it's only a ruse by the madame who's connected to Morales. She calls Frank and shows him the tape of Tico "killing" the girl. That's when she and Morales tell Frank that he must inform them about any operation against Morales to buy their silence, so he reveals in desperation that Crockett and Tubbs are cops. However, the two criminals press him further. We'll he completely break or snap and push back?
Episode 4
Walk-Alone
Fri, Oct 17, 198647 mins
Switek goes into a Ladies Only venue flashing "Master Badge," but he should have said "Don't leave home without it." Tubbs' flavor of the month is murdered and he volunteers to go undercover at Bolton State Prison to catch everyone connected to her killing. Prison is no fun, even in FLA, so Tubbs is happy the corrupt guards get a jury of their peers.
Episode 5
The Good Collar
Fri, Oct 24, 198647 mins
There's a drug overdose epidemic among the youth in a poor neighborhood, so Crockett and Tubbs are staking out the street where the local youth gangs like to make their drug deals. As a result, Crockett busts a scared young man called Archie Ellis who was sent there by "The Regular Fellas", the biggest local drug dealing youth gang, to deliver a package of black tar heroin to a buyer. Meanwhile, Tubbs busts a kid from the enemy gang called "The Apostles", who turns out to be Officer Ramirez, an undercover cop from the anti-gang unit. As for Archie, he turns out to be a good kid and a high-school football talent who's about to receive a college scholarship and move out of his bad neighborhood. He admits that he only agreed to do the drug deal to get enough money to buy a ball and a pair of new sports shoes for his football training. Since he shows clear signs of remorse for what he has done, has no serious priors and respectable, concerned community organizer Ed McCain is vouching for him, Sonny considers dropping the charges and using Ramirez instead to take on "Count", the cynical and overconfident fifteen-year-old leader of Fellas, who's real name is Curtis Walker but likes to call himself Count. Ramirez and his boss Lt. Lee Atkins have no problems with this plan either but disgruntled, crusading Assistant State Attorney William Pepin warns them that if their plan fails, he will prosecute Archie in order to get to Curtis. Sonny takes a liking to Archie and they start to bond.
Episode 6
Shadow in the Dark
Fri, Oct 31, 198647 mins
Crockett and Tubbs are working with robbery to try and find a man who breaks into homes. So far no one's been harmed but signs show that he's leaning towards that. The robbery detective whom they are working with, thinks he knows how the man thinks but unfortunately it caused him to have a breakdown. Crockett starts to do the same thing and Tubbs is worried.
Episode 7
El Viejo
Fri, Nov 7, 198647 mins
Crockett and Tubbs are working on nailing a Bolivian drug dealer. When something goes wrong at the meeting, the Bolivian loses something very important to him and he won't deal until it's returned to him. They discover that an old man who was at the meeting has it. He tries to sell it back but the Bolivian won't agree to that. One of his people tries to get it back but the old man proves to be tough. Crockett and Tubbs offers to act his intermediary but the old man insists on being involved. They later learn that the old man is a Texas Ranger.
Episode 8
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fri, Nov 14, 198647 mins
When Crockett and Tubbs go undercover to get a drug dealer, a man who works for the dealer, blows Tubbs cover. They discover that the man is Tubbs' former partner from New York. Years ago both of them were involved in a shoot out, and Tubbs' partner shot someone whom he claimed was armed but Tubbs couldn't corroborate his claim which would lead to his dismissal.
Episode 9
Baby Blues
Fri, Nov 21, 198647 mins
The team learns of a baby selling ring when one of the children's mother comes to Miami looking for her child. The trail leads them to a sleazy lawyer. When the lawyer manages to tie up any loose ends, they decide to use the mother to trap him.
Episode 10
Streetwise
Fri, Dec 5, 198647 mins
A prostitution bust at a motel snares an officer from another precinct. Castillo wants to take his badge, but Crockett haves him hold off and uses the officer to find the source of pure cocaine found on one of the prostitutes, a girl the wayward cop is in love with.
Episode 11
Forgive Us Our Debts
Fri, Dec 12, 198648 mins
When a man who was suspected of killing Crockett's partner, who was eventually convicted and sentenced to death, whose about to be executed. A priest calls saying that someone claims that the man is innocent. When the priest refuses to say who it was. Crockett and Tubbs keep an eye on the church. They discover that the person was the key witness at the man's trial who claims he wanted to get back at him for something he did. When they bring to the D.A. who prosecuted the man, he is hesitant to help because, he is planning to run for public office.
Episode 12
Down for the Count
Fri, Jan 9, 198747 mins
When they are trying to take down a crooked boxing promoter, they ask Zito to ask his friend who's training an aspiring boxer to help. His friend agrees to help and takes it a little further by taking something from the promoter that is incriminating. So Zito's friend is killed and Zito becomes the boxer's new manager and the promoter wants the boxer but Zito refuses and the promoter doesn't take no for an answer.
Episode 13
Down for the Count: Part II
Fri, Jan 16, 198747 mins
Moon's death morphs into Larry Zito's death. The same crew that killed Moon kills Zito... but without leaving any physical evidence his death was murder. IAD rules Zito's death an OD, so the Vice crew wants to hit Guzman hard. Bobby goes voluntarily to Sordoni, Guzman's lawyer. As Switek mourns his BFF, Sonny, Rico and the girls go off the rails and do some business with Guillini, Guzman's biggest competition, to lure a snake, avenge Larry Zito and insure justice.
Episode 14
Cuba Libre
Fri, Jan 23, 198747 mins
Rocking to Bob Seger and "Miami," the guys attend a party, looking to turn into a routine drug bust at Casa de Rojas. Crazy Eyes runs into Jerry Pedroza, a Vice cop he once taught Rules of Evidence. (You have to know the rules before you break them, right?) Before the buy can go down masked men infiltrate, kill Pedroza, and execute special ops that look more Quantico than Colombian. Sonny and Rico know some of the bad guys; the worse guys are Cuban paramilitary. The crew investigates and Castillo even puts his badge on the line to bring this case home.
Episode 15
Duty and Honor
Fri, Feb 6, 198747 mins
Castillo was in country in 1972 with the US Provost Marshal in Saigon. He assisted a Saigon Police inspector during a rash of 6 prostitute murders in 9 days. The team learns the same pattern was repeated on an annual basis in 11 countries, including Nicaragua, Paris, Thailand, Brussels and Laos. When similar murders start to occur in Miami. Castillo is not the only one who recognizes the pattern; Inspector Trahn, appears in Miami and offers additional information ... and his help.
Episode 16
Theresa
Fri, Feb 13, 198748 mins
Evidence against a criminal is destroyed, during an investigation. It is evident that the man somehow found out where it was being kept and destroyed it, and that he could only have gotten that information from someone on the inside. Crockett learns that the one who gave the man the information is his girlfriend and that she's an addict and the criminal is her supplier.
Episode 17
The Afternoon Plane
Fri, Feb 20, 198747 mins
Tubbs wins a free vacation and he brings his girlfriend with him. But when he arrives, he discovers a man he arrested. He eventually learns that he's been set up by Calderone, who is arriving on the next plane. Tubbs is trapped and with no weapon and no one is willing to help him. He also eventually discovers another woman he knew who is now with Calderone.
Episode 18
Lend Me an Ear
Fri, Feb 27, 198747 mins
Sonny, Rico and Stan unwittingly play the "Battle of the (Surveillance) Bugs" with a suspected drug dealer, Alexander Dykstra, and an ex-cop turned audio and visual surveillance superstar, Steve Duddy. A rival 'exterminator' nearly causes Duddy's murder but not before Sonny surmises Dykstra's true commodity.
Episode 19
Red Tape
Fri, Mar 13, 198748 mins
Crockett and Tubbs along with a couple of other cops were about to make a bust but instead are ambushed and one of the cops is killed. It seems that this was not the first time this happened. It's evident that someone on the inside is giving dealers info on busts. Tubbs then loses it. Later he is approached by a cop who wants him to work with him. The partner of the cop who was killed is determined to find out what happened. And when he sees Tubbs with the cop, he follows him.
Episode 20
By Hooker by Crook
Fri, Mar 20, 198747 mins
Crockett and Tubbs are at a high class party tracking a suspected money launderer called Symington. They lose him but Crockett meets a charming, attractive and mysterious businesswoman called Christine Von Marburg there. As for Symington, he visits his favorite elite prostitute Ali Ferrand only to be jumped by two hulking goons who throw him to his death. Ali witnesses this, so they go after her as well but she manages to escape and goes into hiding. The man behind Symington's death turns out to be one of his shady clients, a ruthless, no-nonsense businessman called Kenneth Togaru. Crockett and Tubbs must now find Ali before the goons do and their only hope for that is none other than Izzy, since she did some nude photo shoots in his makeshift studio. Meanwhile, Crockett contacts Christine and asks her out. They turn out to have great chemistry, which leads to a steamy, passionate romance. Unfortunately, he soon finds out that not only Christine is the owner of the elite Caprice Escort Service, but she's also tied directly to the case and Togaru himself.
Episode 21
Knock, Knock... Who's There?
Fri, Mar 27, 198747 mins
While Crockett and Tubbs are meeting undercover with a dealer, DEA agents raid the buy and take the cash and drugs. The DEA admits to nothing, setting in motion an Internal Affairs investigation into Crockett himself. Crockett decides to talk to someone he knows in the DEA, who, unbeknownst to him, is the one responsible for stealing the money.
Episode 22
Viking Bikers from Hell
Fri, Apr 3, 198747 mins
A member of a violent biker gang is accidentally killed during a drug sting by Crockett. The other members of his biker gang avenge his death by killing everybody that may have been a part of it until they find the wire.
Episode 23
Everybody's in Show Biz
Fri, May 1, 198749 mins
While under cover, Tubbs and a powerful drug lord are robbed and taken in the process is a brief case. Now the two brothers are marked for death by the drug lord.
Episode 24
Heroes of the Revolution
Fri, May 8, 198747 mins
The team is working on a Cuban named Pedroza. They discover another man keeping tabs on him. They learn that he's a Communist agent. He goes to see Gina and tells her that he knew her mother when she was still in Cuba and that she was murdered by a jealous ex-lover, Pedroza.
