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Miami Vice

Season 5 1988 - 1989
TV-14

  • 1988-11-05T03:00:00Z on NBC
  • 42m
  • 16h 43m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Crime
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1988-11-05T03:00:00Z

5x01 Hostile Takeover (3)

Season Premiere

5x01 Hostile Takeover (3)

  • 1988-11-05T03:00:00Z48m

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

1988-11-12T03:00:00Z

5x02 Redemption in Blood (4)

5x02 Redemption in Blood (4)

  • 1988-11-12T03:00:00Z48m

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

1988-11-19T03:00:00Z

5x03 Heart of Night

5x03 Heart of Night

  • 1988-11-19T03:00:00Z48m

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

1988-12-03T03:00:00Z

5x04 Bad Timing

5x04 Bad Timing

  • 1988-12-03T03:00:00Z48m

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

1988-12-10T03:00:00Z

5x05 Borrasca

5x05 Borrasca

  • 1988-12-10T03:00:00Z48m

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

1988-12-17T03:00:00Z

5x06 Line of Fire

5x06 Line of Fire

  • 1988-12-17T03:00:00Z48m

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

1989-01-14T03:00:00Z

5x07 Asian Cut

5x07 Asian Cut

  • 1989-01-14T03:00:00Z48m

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

1989-01-21T03:00:00Z

5x08 Hard Knocks

5x08 Hard Knocks

  • 1989-01-21T03:00:00Z48m

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

1989-02-04T03:00:00Z

5x09 Fruit of the Poison Tree

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

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.

1989-02-18T03:00:00Z

5x11 Miami Squeeze

5x11 Miami Squeeze

  • 1989-02-18T03:00:00Z48m

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.

1989-03-04T03:00:00Z

5x12 Jack of All Trades

5x12 Jack of All Trades

  • 1989-03-04T03:00:00Z48m

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

1989-03-11T03:00:00Z

5x13 The Cell Within

5x13 The Cell Within

  • 1989-03-11T03:00:00Z48m

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.

1989-03-18T03:00:00Z

5x14 The Lost Madonna

5x14 The Lost Madonna

  • 1989-03-18T03:00:00Z48m

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

1989-04-29T02:00:00Z

5x15 Over the Line

5x15 Over the Line

  • 1989-04-29T02:00:00Z48m

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.

1989-05-06T02:00:00Z

5x16 Victims of Circumstance

5x16 Victims of Circumstance

  • 1989-05-06T02:00:00Z48m

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

1989-05-22T02:00:00Z

5x17 Freefall

5x17 Freefall

  • 1989-05-22T02:00:00Z1h 31m

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.

1989-06-15T02:00:00Z

5x18 World of Trouble

5x18 World of Trouble

  • 1989-06-15T02:00:00Z48m

1989-06-22T02:00:00Z

5x19 Miracle Man

5x19 Miracle Man

  • 1989-06-22T02:00:00Z48m

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

Season Finale

1989-06-29T02:00:00Z

5x20 Leap of Faith

Season Finale

5x20 Leap of Faith

  • 1989-06-29T02:00:00Z48m

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.

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