Season 5

Miami ViceSeason 5

1988
20 Episodes

The last action-packed adventures of Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs. Join them as they infiltrate the deadly powers behind the Miami drug empire and take down every bad guy from conniving schemers to ruthless criminals.

Episodes

Hostile Takeover (3)
S05E01
6.8

Hostile Takeover (3)

Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.

04 Nov 198848m
Redemption in Blood (4)
S05E02
5.0

Redemption in Blood (4)

As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.

11 Nov 198848m
Heart of Night
S05E03
7.0

Heart of Night

Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.

18 Nov 198848m
Bad Timing
S05E04
6.4

Bad Timing

Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

02 Dec 198848m
Borrasca
S05E05
6.0

Borrasca

Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

09 Dec 198848m
Line of Fire
S05E06
4.3

Line of Fire

Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.

16 Dec 198848m
Asian Cut
S05E07
5.6

Asian Cut

Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.

13 Jan 198948m
Hard Knocks
S05E08
4.5

Hard Knocks

Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

20 Jan 198948m
Fruit of the Poison Tree
S05E09
6.6

Fruit of the Poison Tree

Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.

03 Feb 198948m
To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
S05E10
6.0

To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)

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.

10 Feb 198948m
Miami Squeeze
S05E11
6.8

Miami Squeeze

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 of drugs.

17 Feb 198948m
Jack of All Trades
S05E12
6.2

Jack of All Trades

Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.

03 Mar 198948m
The Cell Within
S05E13
3.7

The Cell Within

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 chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.

10 Mar 198948m
The Lost Madonna
S05E14
6.5

The Lost Madonna

Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.

17 Mar 198948m
Over the Line
S05E15
6.2

Over the Line

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. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.

28 Apr 198948m
Victims of Circumstance
S05E16
6.8

Victims of Circumstance

Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.

05 May 198948m
Freefall
S05E17
6.8

Freefall

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 ravaged Latin American country. Gen. Manuel Borbon has promised to reveal the members of the most powerful South American drug cartel. Crockett & Tubbs are faced with what might be their final showdown.

21 May 198991m
World of Trouble
S05E18
5.2

World of Trouble

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.

14 Jun 198948m
Miracle Man
S05E19
6.5

Miracle Man

A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.

21 Jun 198948m
Leap of Faith
S05E20
4.8

Leap of Faith

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 created a new designer drug, Bliss.

28 Jun 198948m