Vice and Easy

S03 E19: Red Tape

September 8th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  55 mins 38 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs assist rookie cops (Guest Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips and Viggo Mortensen) to execute a search warrant, which turns out to be a trap and it's becoming a pattern in South Florida. Tubbs is irate that no one seems to take the leak of private information and its deadly consequences seriously, and partners up with a Special Investigations Agent who has a plan for him to get his retirement money way quicker, after he gets arrested trying to get his money from the Credit Union. The surviving rookie cop, Bobby, is following Tubbs closely after the botched search warrant that killed his partner as Tubbs seems to alienate the rest of the Vice team that tries to help, like Switek and Crockett. Lou Diamond Phillips and Edward James Olmos on screen before they were getting into it over math in HIghlnd Park.

S03 E18: Lend Me An Ear

September 1st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  59 mins 52 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett brings in a former cop and surveillance whiz named Duddy to assist in an investigation of a mysterious and rightfully paranoid dealer, as they try and figure out what exactly he's dealing. Add the dealer's extreme paranoid and vengeance to the mix and you've got a lot of bodies in the way, will Duddy - who tries to play both sides - be next? Other questions include: What would Duddy do and feel about the age we live in now? How ahead of the times was Miami Vice on issues of personal surveillance and technology working against us? Why I shouldn't have coffee and my adventure in American Credit Scores!

S03 E17: The Afternoon Plane

July 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 52 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs wins an all-expense paid trip that turns into a nightmare once he realize the town was practically bought and funded with the late Esteban Calderone's drug money, which died along with him, and Orlando Calderone (John Leguizamo) is on his way to seek revenge. Vincent D'Onofrio guest stars as a criminal who Tubbs helped lock up on a Murder One charge that magically got out, wonder who's side he's on? Michael Mann casting strikes hot with the gorgeous Alicia who was out favourite seductive wife in Season One's "The Great McCarthy", who stars as Alicia and who works together with one of Tubbs' exes from New York (not Valerie). Thank you for listening and I will see you all in September after taking August off :)

S03 E16: Theresa

July 21st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  58 mins 32 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett's one-scene girlfriend from last week Theresa (Helena Bonham Carter) is hiding a drug habit from him that ends up with a decision to pass information along that destroys the evidence against a drug kingpin Wyatt (Brad Dourit, the voice of Chucky) and kills multiple people in the process. Crockett does all he can to help her, but she is facing the prospect of losing her medical license as a result of the arrest and treatment. Crockett has to do what's best for her while also clearing his name and reputation with Internal Affairs. Other topics include: it's time to be European and I'm taking August off (see video link below for inspiration lol), why Helena Bonham Carter sounds too posh to make this believable, but not too posh to wreck multiple homes in her real life, how doing what's best for someone else hurts you and more!

S03 E15: Duty and Honor

July 14th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  59 mins 34 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Oscar Winner Haing S. Ngor guest stars as a investigator named Trahn who worked with Castillo in Vietnam to try and catch a serial killer targeting sex workers, and when similar murders start occurring in Miami, he comes to town to investigate. Crockett and Tubbs try and question fellow Vietnam veterans to get more info on who this serial killer could be and battle with the ethics at play while Castillo and Trahn dig deeper into a possible "company" connection. Crockett is dating the palest (naturally British) woman in Miami, be careful of who you trust, did Miami Vice start the leather duster to serial killer or vampire slayer trend? and more!
Trigger Warning: this episode deals with a lot of heavy themes such as sexual abuse, genocide and murder.

S03 E14: Cuba Libre

July 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  49 mins 10 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs get caught up in a paramilitary plot to assassinate a Cuban dignitary when a drug deal goes bust and the dealer and a fellow cop get shot. The feds get involved when Vice starts digging into Victor Vasquez, who did work for them after he defected from Cuba and throw a wrench in their plans. Things get hairier when a meet between Vasquez and Zamora with Tubbs posing undercover as Cooper escalate from just a rip-off to an off...period and Crockett is taken hostage in the thick, jungle-like forest. The paramilitary group known as the La Segunda Brigada are planning to assassinate the Cuban Deputy Commissioner of Prisons who is in town in Miami, who is definitely not keeping a low profile by riding a limo with a Cuban flag (and in a goof an American flag), especially at a time when the US and Cuba had no diplomatic relations. Come for the plots holes, stay for the party scenes and the rumble in the jungle. Marina got a visit from the hat man earlier this week so forgive any mistakes or mispronounced words!

Viced Tea Special: Sonny Crockett's Timeline

June 30th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  14 mins 42 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: A short little drink of Viced Tea to get you through the long weekend! How old is Sonny Crockett really? When was he in Vietnam and when did he start in Vice? The man has lived many lives, so let's break it down!

Edit: I know some online sources say Crockett did two tours, but, I've only found audio of him saying two years, which I understood to be subsequent, could both be true and maybe he's older than the show would have it? Or were there goofs in the continuity?

S03 E13: Down For The Count: Part Two

June 23rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 53 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: The conclusion of Down For the Count. Switek is still reeling from Zito's death which everybody knows is a murder, except IAD and they want more conclusive evidence before they can change their minds. Guzman's gator skin book gets decoded by one of Crockett's old war buddies (Chris Elliot in a great cameo) and it turns out Guzman has been milking a Vegas hot shot in his little book cooking scheme. He comes to Miami and Vice takes this time as a way to pit these two against each other. The FBI warns Crockett that Giulinni, the Vegas mafioso who was also in One Eyed Jack (Michael Mann casting!) - is not pleased with them or their affiliation with Guzman but, Crockett brushes it off. This all culminates when both sides put hits out on each other in Miami, will Vice be there in time? This depends on Switek, who is out for revenge after what happened to Larry. Other topics include: wait, how old is Crockett?

S03 E12: Down For The Count: Part One

June 16th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 34 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Zito is back in action...for a while when Vice infiltrates the Miami boxing circuit to get closer to a promoter named Guzman, who was a major importer not even three years ago but has supposedly "changed" his tune. Even Don Cash, naturally played by Don King knows this and warns Crockett and Tubbs. Zito apparently has experience, since this is maybe the second or third episode we really learn anything about him, and a friend involved named Moon (Randall "Tex" Cobb) who's training a hot shot named Sykes, and Vice wants to use Sykes as bait to catch Guzman, since they know he's not truly clean. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to get caught in the middle, including our dear Larry Zito.

S03 E11: Forgive Us Our Debts

June 9th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  47 mins 11 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett gets information that could exonerate a man he put on Death Row for killing his partner back in 1980. He brings this to the State Attorney who is in the middle of an election campaign that is decidedly pro-capital punishment and he won't move it further unless Crockett can get corroborating witnesses. Crockett embarks on a mission to get statements as the clocks tick to free a supposedly innocent man who is facing the electric chair.

S03 E10: Streetwise

June 2nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  55 mins 46 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice busts a fellow cop (Bill Paxton) they find along with a working girl holding some pharmaceutical-grade cocaine during a motel bust. They dig deeper to find the source, first looking into the pimp/dealer Silk (Wesley Snipes) and they set Tubbs up as his competition with the alias Butch and a menacing Panama Hat that matches his silver suit. Crockett sympathizes with cop who's too far under that he seems to have not factored his wife into the equation of trying to get his sex worker girlfriend off the streets but, despite Crockett's attempts at helping, this story has played out on Miami Vice before to sad results. Trudy and Gina absolutely SLAY their street outfits as they play along to try and get Carla to play along with their ruse since she's naturally hesitant about working with cops, unless it's her married boyfriend - of course. As the pressure gets put on Silk, his supplier gets angry and starts putting out hits on the competition, the main one being Butch aka Tubbs, oh no!

S03 E09: Baby Blues

May 26th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  49 mins 19 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice intercepts a cargo plane that lands in the Everglades expecting a drug shipment and are horrified when they hear babies crying. Turns out this is part of a bigger smuggling ring and adoption front led by a sleazy lawyer named - wait for it - Famiglia (Tommy Koenig). While Vice tries to help a mother find her long-lost son in Miami, they also get closer to uncovering the big picture, leading Famiglia to be more and more defensive. Guest stars include a young Stanley Tucci!

TW: Infant death, kidnapping

S03 E08: Better Living Through Chemistry

May 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 53 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are undercover trying to stop insanely powerful and deadly hitting the streets from a dealer/interestingly themed-bar owner named, I kid you not, Wango Mack (Rob Nilsson) when Tubbs is outed as a cop by his ex-NYPD partner Clarance Batisse (Victor Love) with an axe to grind. Tubbs tries to get to the bottom of what happened with his ex-partner and unearths details about a shooting that he testified against Clarence for that reveal a lot of secrets about the shooting and his ex-partner's actions. Clarence's girlfriend Melody (Shanti Owen) is a dancer at the club who luckily, like all film and tv tropes, has a heart of gold and can see Tubbs' true colours, but will it be revealed in time? Izzy is hired as a companion for the genius chemist behind the synthetic coke and hijinks, kidnapping and greyhound-related mayhem ensue.

S03 E07: El Viejo

May 5th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  48 mins 59 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are itching to get closer to a flashy, snakeskin-loving Bolivian dealer and guest stars Steve Buscemi and Willie Nelson are making it harder for them than they planned. Despite being just 53 years old at filming, Willie Nelson is El Viejo is question lol - the same age JLo is now. Other topics include: what is a Texas Ranger?, Willie Nelson fun facts

S03 E06: Shadow in the Dark

April 28th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  49 mins 36 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are put onto a burglary case and Crockett goes a little too deep trying to get into the mind of the weird cat burglar with a fondness for...pants? They have to work with Lt. Gilmore (Jack Thibeau) who seems to have already gone over the edge trying to catch this cat burglar and they butt heads until he's taken off the case due to his deteriorating mental health, will Crockett be next? Is this the primetime version of Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter which was released one month after this episode was filmed? Because it sure seems like it!

S03 E05: The Good Collar

April 21st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  53 mins 45 secs

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett books a young kid named Archie caught up in the drug world by accident when he tries to make some money to buy new football cleats to impress scouts and works to help him get the charges tossed and achieve his dream. The Asst. State Attorney, who's looking to nab the 15-year old drug kingpin known as Count Walker, has other plans and wants to use Archie as a pawn to get him charged on Murder One for selling black tar heroin to kids.