Miami Vice - Season 3

First aired: 9/26/1986 24 episodes

Go deep undercover with Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs as they infiltrate drug rings, stop human traffickers, and take their chances behind bars with convicted criminals.

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Episodes

1. When Irish Eyes Are Crying

Aired: 9/26/1986

Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

2. Stone's War

Aired: 10/3/1986

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 elusive Captain Real Estate.

3. Killshot

Aired: 10/10/1986

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.

4. Walk Alone

Aired: 10/17/1986

Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.

5. The Good Collar

Aired: 10/24/1986

A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

6. Shadow in the Dark

Aired: 10/31/1986

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.

7. El Viejo

Aired: 11/7/1986

Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

8. Better Living Through Chemistry

Aired: 11/14/1986

Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

9. Baby Blues

Aired: 11/21/1986

Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

10. Street Wise

Aired: 12/5/1986

An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

11. Forgive Us Our Debts

Aired: 12/12/1986

New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.

12. Down for the Count (1)

Aired: 1/9/1987

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.

13. Down for the Count (2)

Aired: 1/16/1987

Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

14. Cuba Libre

Aired: 1/23/1987

Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

15. Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)

Aired: 2/6/1987

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 claiming to be a Vietnamese inspector.

16. Theresa

Aired: 2/13/1987

Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

17. The Afternoon Plane

Aired: 2/20/1987

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.

18. Lend Me an Ear

Aired: 2/27/1987

The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.

19. Red Tape

Aired: 3/13/1987

Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.

20. By Hooker by Crook

Aired: 3/20/1987

Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman (Melanie Griffith) turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money launderer (George Takei).

21. Knock, Knock, Who's There?

Aired: 3/27/1987

Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.

22. Viking Bikers from Hell

Aired: 4/3/1987

A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.

23. Everybody's in Show Biz

Aired: 5/1/1987

An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.

24. Heroes of the Revolution

Aired: 5/8/1987

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.