Miami Vice: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Miami Vice Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Sep 26, 1986
Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.
Stone's War
Oct 3, 1986
Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the el
Killshot
Oct 10, 1986
Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.
Walk Alone
Oct 17, 1986
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
The Good Collar
Oct 24, 1986
A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.
Shadow in the Dark
Oct 31, 1986
Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.
El Viejo
Nov 7, 1986
Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Nov 14, 1986
Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.
Baby Blues
Nov 21, 1986
Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.
Street Wise
Dec 5, 1986
An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.
Forgive Us Our Debts
Dec 12, 1986
New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.
Down for the Count (1)
Jan 9, 1987
Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.
Down for the Count (2)
Jan 16, 1987
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
Cuba Libre
Jan 23, 1987
Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.
Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
Feb 6, 1987
Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam in the early 70s; the cops get help on the case from a man claim
Theresa
Feb 13, 1987
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
The Afternoon Plane
Feb 20, 1987
Tubbs finds out that his ""raffle prize"" --- a week in the Caribbean --- is set up by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.
Lend Me an Ear
Feb 27, 1987
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
Red Tape
Mar 13, 1987
Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.
By Hooker by Crook
Mar 20, 1987
Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money laundere
Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Mar 27, 1987
Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.
Viking Bikers from Hell
Apr 3, 1987
A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.
Everybody's in Show Biz
May 1, 1987
An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.
Heroes of the Revolution
May 8, 1987
An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.