Vice and Easy

S05 E06: Line of Fire

December 20th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  41 mins

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice is put in charge of a key witness in a trial against a drug kingpin named Quintero. The FBI thinks the witness will be safer with Vice, and Vice has their hands full when he tries to sneak out to hit the clubs. Crockett and Keith, the witness, butt heads but, the generation gap narrows as they get to know each other better. This episode might be dated in my 2024 (RIP Expos) but, some things, like bumping heads with your elders, never change.

S05 E05: Borrasca

December 6th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  46 mins 48 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice minus Crockett (with a very clearly ADR'd-in excuse of testifying elsewhere) is trying to get in with Borrasca, who is part of a splinter cell group that uses drug money to fight communism in the made up country of Puerto Rubio. As Tubbs and Switek get closer, a very shadowy and overly-tanned figure warns them to back off and he goes way back with Castillo. Reese, may or may not be sanctioned by the government and Castillo is doing his best to see what side of the law he is while Vice tries to get closer to Borrasca through his connections: a retired detective (OOF RIP), a gorgeous nightclub owner and associated goons. Will Vice be able to get Borrasca to trial for his crimes without interference?

S05 E04: Bad Timing

November 15th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  43 mins 3 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett, per doctor's orders, takes a vacation down to the glades to get his mind off the IAD investigation into his Burnett behaviour. In true Crockett fashion, he doesn't get much rest when the bartender he was flirting with (Melissa Leo) gets taken hostages by a trio of ex-cons in search of their long-ago promised payday. Can this man catch a break? The answer is no.

S05 E03: Heart of Night

November 1st, 2024  |  Season 5  |  41 mins 6 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Castillo's ex-wife arrives in town - looking a bit different since it's a different actress (rosalind Chao) - to ask for help regarding her husband and his seemingly legit business dealings. Under the employ of an import/export impresario, a whole bunch of money went missing during a routine deliver to another kingpin named Rivas. May Ying proclaims her husband's innocence as Castillo vows to help her.

S05 E02: Redemption in Blood

October 4th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  47 mins 34 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Burnett's Scarface-esque rise to power is facing some more snags: booze, Tubbs (yes, even after being shot), El Gato, and both Cliff and Celeste's betrayal. And also a large cat named Morris. The flashbacks continue as Burnett struggles and is blown up again.....!!!! This guy can't catch a break! Let's see what happens as Burnett's power wanes and Crockett's memories continue to flood back.

S05 E01: Hostile Takeover

September 6th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  47 mins 5 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Sonny Burnett is back as we open Season Five. He's working for a new bigwig, Oscar Carrera, and is helping him with logistical issues until his son, Miguel and his wife, Celeste make things way more complicated. Tubbs goes under as Cooper to try and see if he can jog his memory as Carrera fights with his son and his rival, El Gato - the brother of the recently departed Manolo from Mirror Image. Everything is going to Burnett's plan until he and Cooper meet up and then boom - to be continued!

S04 E22: Mirror Image

August 16th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  59 mins 14 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Sonny goes back undercover to get closer to two bigwigs: Manolo and Gutierrez - against Tubb's wishes and ends up in an explosion. He survives (not to Vice's knowledge) but, has amnesia and now believes that he is his alter ego, Sonny Burnett. As he gets deeper into this new world, Tubbs is digging deeper into Manolo and Gutierrez (Antonio Fargas!) to figure out what really happened on that boat with help from the Ft. Lauderdale precinct. The same precinct that's trying to track down an internal leak to Gutierrez! What a season finale. Did I mentioned Julia Roberts?
Also guest starring: Chris Cooper

S04 E21: Deliver Us From Evil

August 2nd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  49 mins 10 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Evil is the theme of this week as Vice hears about home invasions gone wrong when a 15-year old girl is killed, and the style matches that of Frank Hackman... remember him? From "Forgive Us Our Debts"? He shot and killed Crockett's former partner, was on death row until Crockett helped get him out, believing he was innocent. Nope! And now Crockett is about to cross paths with Hackman again right as Caitlin comes home from tour with a secret in tow.
And I finish the episode off with some Sheena Easton Viced Tea!

S04 E20: A Bullet for Crockett

July 13th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  36 mins 39 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: It's come to this - a clip show! Crockett is shot in a chase gone awry and we see flashbacks of his life through Sonny and the Vice team.

S04 E19: Blood & Roses

June 28th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  49 mins 25 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Frank Mosca (Stanley Tucci) returns to Miami to check in on his legitimate businesses, including a pasta factory that double as a laundering front LOL. Gina and Mosca get chatting at a party, and she gets closer to him to help get more info pertaining to his businesses to help Vice and the Feds, who are still trying to nail him. Crockett appears concern (or is it jealousy? Bro, go focus on your wife!) as she gets deeper undercover with Mosca, who has taken a shine to her. But, Gina gets closer, and like Frank Stallone in this episode, a little too close to fire.

S04 E18: Badge of Dishonor

June 7th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  45 mins 55 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs almost gets killed in a deal gone bad when a group of men in police jackets blow most of them away, steal their drugs, money and jewelry. Something is already amiss when Tubbs spots a woman keeping watch at the deal and then at a related crime scene - she's also undercover, with Special Ops - and things get complicated from there as more coincidences pop up. Along with coincidences, this episode's them is déjà vu and the colour blue as we deal with another insider leak case, returning guest stars (Lester with plastics aka Julio Oscar Mechoso, Nick Cori, Michele Shay) and a snakeskin tanktop we have seen before.

S04 E17: Hell Hath No Fury

May 31st, 2024  |  Season 4  |  51 mins 19 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Trudy is protecting a woman who she helped through a rape and subsequent trial and conviction of her rapist - who is now claiming he is reformed after 20 months - as he embarks on a media tour for her forgiveness. Ellen (Carla Brothers) is at her wit's end from the constant media attention and his harassment at her home and work until she sees an answer in the form of "American Mercenaries" magazine and its classified section. Trudy and Vice try to help and keep an eye on her, but get themselves in hot water with Castillo. They see the cracks in the system and they how much it has failed her and how she could feel compelled to take justice into her own hands.

TW: Rape, stalking, harassment

S04 E16: Honor Among Thieves?

May 3rd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 47 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: In a very creepy episode, Vice gets involved in an investigator over a serial killer and rapist of teenage girls once it's discovered the girls had 100% pure cocaine injected into their bloodstream, narrowing their circle of suspects to local drug kingpins. Crockett and Tubbs are undercover at another kingpin's house by the name of Palmo when this all goes down, which complicates matters, but also helps them use their expertise to get the serial killer in their midst.

!!! TW: Sexual abuse, murder, pedophilia, drugging !!!

Be warned, this episode is a rough one!

S04 E15: Indian Wars

April 19th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  43 mins 19 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett is left in charge of OCB while Castillo is going undercover to get closer to a kingpin named Acosta, who works for a bigger wig named Levec. When their shipment gets intercepted right in front of them, they're able to track one of the perps back to the Miccosukee Reservation. Tubbs then goes undercover at the Reservation to get more intel and find out what is the connection between the tribe and who is interrupting the coke shipments.

S04 E14: Baseballs of Death

April 5th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  43 mins 51 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs along with Vice get wrapped into an arms deal that is exposed when a visiting Chilean police commander (Tony Plana) kills a working girl and her pimp when they attempt to blackmail him. Then it turns out the DEA's Agent Brody (Mark Metcalf) is protecting him because they claim he's helping them with the Andean cartel. Vice digs deeper and deeper to find out the why and the what behind this arms purchase from totally believable lol arms dealer Stiles (Oliver Platt), which includes CBUs - Compact Bombing Units - essentially landmines, and try and stop the shipment from leaving Miami.

S04 E13: Vote of Confidence

March 29th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  48 mins 47 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs bust a...hooker train...(??) and recognize one of the johns as a gubernatorial candidate they saw earlier that night on TV, Tom Pierce. Crockett cracks up until it becomes no joke when a few people involved are killed. How dirty are these politics?
Other topics include: those funny white hats are definitely only an American thing, the most unrealistic gambling addiction portrayal I've ever seen, political wives and more!