Miami Vice: Season 5

1988 · 20 episodes · ★ 5.9

What Season 5 of Miami Vice

The fifth season opens with Sonny Crockett fully immersed in his role as Sonny Burnett. To climb the ranks of the criminal organization he works for, he doesn't hesitate to kill or manipulate whoever he needs to, and the danger of losing himself grows with every step. Ricardo Tubbs stays by his side, with his score to settle with Calderone always in the background. Around them, Castillo, Switek and Trudy keep watch over every operation. The episodes move between undercover work in the drug, prostitution and smuggling trade and cases that test everyone's loyalty.

20episodes

Nov 4, 1988Aired

Jun 28, 1989latest episode

16.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Hostile Takeover (3)
Nov 4, 1988 · 45 min
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
Directing: Don Johnson · Writer: Ken Solarz · Starring: Victor Argo, Debra Feuer, Joe Santos, Jon Polito
5x02 Redemption in Blood (4)
Nov 11, 1988 · 44 min · ★ 5.0
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
Directed by: Paul Krasny · Written by: Scott Shepherd, Ken Solarz · Starring: Victor Argo, Steven Tyler, Debra Feuer, Jon Polito
5x03 Heart of Night
Nov 18, 1988 · 46 min
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
Directed by: Paul Krasny · Written by: James Becket · Starring: James Saito, Rosalind Chao, Bob Gunton, Michael Lombard
5x04 Bad Timing
Dec 2, 1988 · 46 min · ★ 6.4
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
Directed by: Virgil W. Vogel · Written by: Scott Shepherd · Starring: Melissa Leo, Gary Farmer, Jermaine Stewart, Pruitt Taylor Vince
5x05 Borrasca
Dec 9, 1988 · 44 min
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writers: Robert Crais, Vladislavo Stepankutza · Starring: Brion James, Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Juan Fernández, Gabriela Roel
5x06 Line of Fire
Dec 16, 1988 · 45 min · ★ 4.3
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
Directed by: Richard Compton · Written by: Raymond Hartung · Starring: Barry Primus, Justin Lazard, Avery Sommers, Aharon Ipalé
5x07 Asian Cut
Jan 13, 1989 · 45 min · ★ 5.6
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
Directing: James A. Contner · Writer: Peter McCabe · Starring: David Schramm, Steve Ryan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Russell Horton
5x08 Hard Knocks
Jan 20, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 4.5
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writer: Ken Solarz · Starring: Ismael 'East' Carlo, Jordan Clarke, Victor Slezak, Carrell Myers
5x09 Fruit of the Poison Tree
Feb 3, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 6.6
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
Directed by: Michelle Manning · Written by: Rob Bragin · Starring: Jeffrey Meek, Jordan Clarke, Amanda Plummer, Stephen McHattie
5x10 To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
Feb 10, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Eugene Corr · Writer: William T. Conway · Starring: Belinda Montgomery, Elpidia Carrillo, Clayton Barclay Jones, Rafael Ferrer
5x11 Miami Squeeze
Feb 17, 1989 · 46 min
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.
Directing: Michelle Manning · Writers: Peter McCabe, Ted Mann · Starring: Sherrie Rose, Rita Moreno, Justin Lazard, Mario Ernesto Sánchez
5x12 Jack of All Trades
Mar 3, 1989 · 46 min
Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writer: Ken Solarz · Starring: David Andrews, Jesse Borrego, John Santucci, Robert Miranda
5x13 The Cell Within
Mar 10, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 3.7
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.
Directing: Michael B. Hoggan · Writer: Jack Richardson · Starring: John P. Ryan, Robin Bartlett, Maria Pitillo, Richard Gant
5x14 The Lost Madonna
Mar 17, 1989 · 47 min
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
Directing: Chip Chalmers · Writer: Robert Goethals · Starring: Peter Dobson, Elizabeth Berridge, Michael Chiklis, Ned Eisenberg
5x15 Over the Line
Apr 28, 1989 · 47 min
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.
Directed by: Russ Mayberry · Written by: Terry McDonell · Starring: Robert Fields, Martin Ferrero, Kevin Corrigan, Tomas Arana
5x16 Victims of Circumstance
May 5, 1989 · 46 min · ★ 6.8
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
Directing: Colin Bucksey · Writer: Richard Lourie · Starring: William Hickey, Stefan Gierasch, Karen Black, Xander Berkeley
5x17 Freefall
May 21, 1989 · 91 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directed by: Russ Mayberry · Written by: Ken Solarz, William T. Conway · Starring: Greg Germann, Sherman Howard, Robert Fields, Robert Beltran
5x18 World of Trouble
Jun 14, 1989 · 48 min
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.
Directing: Alan Myerson · Writer: Raymond Hartung · Starring: Vincent Schiavelli, Luca Bercovici, Dennis Farina, Ned Eisenberg
5x19 Miracle Man
Jun 21, 1989 · 48 min
A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
Directing: Alan Myerson · Writer: Rob Bragin · Starring: Zach Grenier, John Castellanos, Martin Ferrero, Patricia Mario
5x20 Leap of Faith Season Finale
Jun 28, 1989 · 48 min · ★ 4.8
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.
Directed by: Robert Iscove · Written by: Robert Ward · Starring: Jennifer Rubin, Justin Lazard, Cameron Dye, Kiel Martin