Miami Vice: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Hostile Takeover (3)
Nov 4, 1988
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
Redemption in Blood (4)
Nov 11, 1988
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
Heart of Night
Nov 18, 1988
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
Bad Timing
Dec 2, 1988
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
Borrasca
Dec 9, 1988
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
Line of Fire
Dec 16, 1988
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
Asian Cut
Jan 13, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
Hard Knocks
Jan 20, 1989
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
Fruit of the Poison Tree
Feb 3, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
Feb 10, 1989
While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.
Miami Squeeze
Feb 17, 1989
The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment
Jack of All Trades
Mar 3, 1989
Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.
The Cell Within
Mar 10, 1989
A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric
The Lost Madonna
Mar 17, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
Over the Line
Apr 28, 1989
In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department.
Victims of Circumstance
May 5, 1989
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
Freefall
May 21, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs embark on what they see as a suicide mission. They are recruited by a Special Drug Taskforce to escort the corrupt dictator of Costa Morada, a fictional Revolution
World of Trouble
Jun 14, 1989
Al Lombard, thought to be dead, returns to Miami to see his son and the grandson he never knew, while eluding his rival Librizzi's hitmen.
Miracle Man
Jun 21, 1989
A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
Leap of Faith
Jun 28, 1989
Agent Joey Harden returns to assist Crockett as part of a new division, Youth Crime Unit, that was formed by a previous partner. The YCU investigates a college professor that has c