Vice and Easy

S04 E10: Love at First Sight

February 23rd, 2024  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 40 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: There's a serial killer on the loose that's infiltrated a video dating network and targeting men who look share a similar look with...guess who? Crockett! Crockett is used as bait, which doesn't help his brand new marriage to Caitlin (Sheena Easton) who is worried that he'll end up with his manhood chopped off too. This Don Johnson-directed episode has toys (how scandalous for 1987 prime time), a legit supermodel (Iman), a working girl with her own credit card imprinter and Crockett driving through the red light district (hey, isn't Gold Diggers in LA?!?!)

CONTENT WARNING: Adult themes and subject matter TW: Sexual abuse

Editor's note: Love and Rockets was formed by members of Bauhaus, don't yell too much at me when I forget at the end of the episode.

S04 E09 The Rising Sun of Death

February 17th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  42 mins 27 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tokyo Miami Vice...?...! Vice investigates the Yakuza when a local businessman ends up dead after a sushi dinner, a night at a hostess bar and hot tub but, the Head of Homicide really wants them to back off. This sets of a series of events including the involvement of a mysterious Japanese PI and his sweet Pontiac Firebird (
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) with ties to the Yakuza and a prominent Japanese businessman Tanaka (James Hong). Masked dancers, hot tub murders, a Samurai battle in the rain, assassin outfits, Billy Idol, what constitues a hostess bar and more in this episode of Vice & Easy!

S04 E08: Like A Hurricane

February 9th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  50 mins 51 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett falls in lovvvvvveeeee...again! With guest star Sheena Easton! In less than a week! And he sees Billy twice in one season, wow things are changing. Caitlin Davies (Sheena Easton) is a fading singer who is set to testify against a shady record label agent (Xander Berkeley) who screwed over her friends and worse and Crockett has been chosen to protect her since he'll fit in with the music crowd. They butt heads at first but, surprise, surprise, they end up falling in love...kind of? Or they just have similar hours and trauma bonding?

S04 E07: Missing Hours

January 26th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  50 mins 33 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: So is this really when Miami Vice jumped the shark? Did we not have a poignant and touching epsiode last time that was very progressive in its message? And then... aliens but, not really? And not in an X-Files way, which would have been amazing! Anywhoo, when investigating the freak death of a gentleman who jumps though a window when he sees Noogie and Izzy dressed up like aliens, Trudy sees things no one else believes. Mainly a date with famous singer, now alien-enthusiast talk show host (??) named Lou de Long (guest start the James Brown) until she meets him in person and exclaims that he's old LOL! While everybody thinks Trudy's gone off the deep end, one young buck at OCB (Chris Rock) recognizes her story and how she feels retelling it and , oh yeah, he believes. But, does the rest of Vice?

S04 E06: God's Work

January 12th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 2 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A bigwig named Jorge Cruz' son Felipe has returned from New York City (Esai Morales) and Vice is trying to figure out what the game plan behind his surprise return is. His beloved uncle, also an old friend of Castillo's - a priest who is running an HIV/AIDS clinic, is killed in cold blood which further intensifies Vice's investigation into the Cruz family, as Felipe learns more about the darkness in his family as they learn more about him.

S04 E05: Child's Play

January 5th, 2024  |  Season 4  |  53 mins 34 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett accidentally shoots a child during a domestic violence call gone wrong and tries to reconnect with Billy as a result of his guilt. However, Crockett's been distant since they moved up north, how does Billy and his new stepfather feel about this? As Vice continues investigating the gun runners, led by Holiday (Isaac Hayes), they discover some interesting connections between them, the stepfather of the shot boy (played by a scary Ving Rhames), Belgian guns and Chicago. Guilt, redemption and fatherhood and more this week on Vice and Easy!

TW: Domestic Violence

S04 E04: The Big Thaw

December 15th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  45 mins 50 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice goes to bust a suspected drug lab for it only to turn out to be a cryogenic lab.... with a frozen Reggae superstar...? Drama ensues when his estranged wife, her hot lawyer (Alfred Molina) and these cyrogenic bioloigists (Dr. Frobel and Dr. Poe) all hash it out over who gets to keep the body and what they want to do with it. Cash it in (wife) or bring back to life (cyrogenic biologists and ...Izzy?)
It's a weird and wild episode, and lots of it has aged poorly. This has been said to have been where Miami Vice jumped the shark, do we agree?

S04 E03: Death and the Lady

December 8th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  49 mins 58 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice gets involved in the adult film industry when a well-known artiste premiering his new snuff film, Death and the Lady, is accused of murder, not film magic. As they dig deeper, they wander through peep shows and art schools to get an answer... the beautiful blonde in the film turns up - twice! (Kelly Lynch) but, where is her lookalike? Crockett can tell by the eyes on screen, they're dead eyes, but the artiste, Glantz (CSI's Paul Guilfoyle) is too busy cosplaying as Willem DaFoe in To Live and Die in LA to have left any tracks. The DA (Miguel Ferrer RIP!) doesn't think a jury will convict with mostly circumstantial evidence, and Crockett refuses to ignore his intuition in this highly stylized episode. Happy news? A feline friends joins the Vice team.

S04 E02: Amen... Send Money

November 17th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  46 mins 7 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A big-time televangelist's wife gets busted by Vice which sets off a chain reaction of events: framing Tubbs, a rogue rival televangelist, an Act of God-caused explosion (how fitting!) and lots of crocodile tears and fundraising. This very ripped-from-the-headlines nod to Jim Bakker is rife with zealous acting and wild outfit choices. And the power of satellite in the 1980s vs cable.
Guest star: Brian Dennehy, Ben Stiller

Spicy language warning! Not an episode for the kiddos.

S04 E01: Contempt of Court

November 10th, 2023  |  Season 4  |  51 mins 45 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are tasked with protecting witnesses testifying in a RICO trial against a bigtime New Jersey mafioso named Frank Mosca (Stanley Tucci who came to play!). Despite all the precautions and obtaining an anonymous jury, witnesses still get whacked and they can't directly pin Mosca, and things get hairier when he goes after Crockett's informant. Crockett refuses to name his informant in a cross-examination in court and gets thrown in jail (again!) for not being a snitch, while his snitch ends up in jail on a shady drug charge... uh oh!

Viced Tea Special: Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith's Timeline

October 27th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  23 mins 6 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Viced Tea special! We go through the turbulent romantic history of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and all the supporting players: Marjorie Wallace (feat. a scandal with Tom Jones), Steven Bauer, Antonio Banderas (and his first wife and Madonna), and more!

S03 E24: Heroes of the Revolution

October 20th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  50 mins 59 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: We close out Season 3 with a Gina-centric episode when her late mother's fiancé comes to Miami in the name of vengeance (we love Miami vengeance!) against a Cuban exile with ties to Castro who killed her mother in a fit of jealousy. We get to see Saundra Santiago sing her heart out with a lot of blue light as she learns more about her family's past through this fiancé, Klaus... who is wanted by the cops for his East German ties. Gina can never win!

S03 E23: Everybody's in Show Biz

October 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  42 mins 53 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs is trying to make a deal with a bigwig crack dealer named Gallego when Gallego gets ripped off for cash and a suitcase that he almost gave up his life to protect... questions? What's in the suitcase? And why were the robbers wearing prosthetics and stage makeup? This leads back to a once reformed ex-con who runs a theatre for ex-cons called Mi Vida Loca (no relation to the movie) as a way to give them a safe form of expression. Crockett knows the talent Mikey has and can't understand why he gave up so much and burned so many bridges along the way, and now he's at risk of throwing his whole life away, and of those that love him, for Gallego's suitcase. Guest starring: Benecio Del Toro!

S03 E22: Viking Bikers From Hell

September 29th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  50 mins 55 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett is indirectly responsible for the death of a biker gang member to prevent his cover from being blown, which set off a chain of events as one gang member, Reb (Reb Brown), is freshly out on parole and dedicated to avenging his fallen friend, which means killing as many as it takes. Reb tries doing right by his friend's sister, Victoria, who wants nothing to do with her brother's other life and believes he's doing the right thing on his way to Valhalla as Vice tries to stop him, as Tubbs becomes collateral damage.

S03 E21: Knock, Knock... Who's There?

September 22nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 19 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs get raided by the DEA while making a deal with Esteban Montaya (Ian McShane) and after they take the goods... they realize something's off. As they try to uncover unsavoury DEA involvement, Internal Affairs eye Crockett and Tubbs. They try to use old contacts to get more info, one of which is a DEA agent, a woman who is at the end of her rope with quite possibly the worst luck you can imagine.

S03 E20: By Hooker By Crook

September 16th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 9 mins

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This week on Miami Vice: Guest stars galore! Don Johnson directs his ex-wife - and at this time, future ex-wife again and mother of his child in this episode, as Melanie Griffith plays a secretive businesswoman who has a role to play in the death of a dirty businessman and a beautiful escort (Vanity) and who has a long-standing relationship with an even bigger businessman, played by George Takei. Crockett once again falls for someone out of his world, but this time, it's a lot more surprising when connections are made (and exposed in a live television interview). Was Christine von Marburg the original SHE-E-O/Girlboss? Or the inspiration for Heidi Fleiss? Maybe both?
Other topics include: the first-world problem of jet lag, roulette wheels, messy breakups and interestingly timed pregnancies and more!