This week on Miami Vice: Gina is undercover with a big-time dealer, Enriquez, who is a big fan of white stuff whether it be cocaine or fabulous accessories. Vice is after him and their bust (at a metro station party...?) was by the book until Enriquez's lawyer gets him off thanks to Switek's typo in the warrant. The lawyer, Sam Boyle and his protegé, Lisa Madsen (Amanda Pummer) are working for Enriquez as Vice tries to get closer, and it takes a dead child to make Lisa questions her loyalty. Her world comes crashing down as Vice closes in on Enriquez and Boyle - whose world is also closing in around him as he's caught stealing from Frank Romano (Tony Sirico), while Enriquez keeps servings looks.

Your host was a bit over-caffeinated so feel free to skip ahead at parts or listen along and check the show notes for any links - including other shady lawyers stealing from clients like Tom Girardi! Could Sam have been a husband on The Real Housewives of Miami if it was around in the 80s???

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• Sea of Love (2006 Remaster) - YouTube
• The Boys Next Door (1985) - IMDb
• How Tom Girardi and Erika Jayne went from RHOBH to divorce - Los Angeles Times

This week on Miami Vice: Switek's bets and debts catch up to him and he's not alone. A star Hurricanes quarterback named Kevin with an overbearing stage dad (an old friend of Stan's) and shady manager, is also facing gambling debts. Both of them will get caught up as Vice busts the gambling ring run by and then subsequent hit on Chi Chi Vasquez, and both of their debts rack up getting them and those around them into hot water. Switek is not alone as Crockett and Tubbs are there to try and help him through his issues that aren't really about his girlfriend, as he claims.

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• Michael Jordan’s father was murdered because of his gambling debts : r/conspiracytheories

This week on Miami Vice: Trudy goes under as a prostitute to catch a serial killer who is carving his mark into his victims. Could it be the eclectic artist with a penchant for violence and knives (Cory Tagawa is back)? Continuity be damned this episode as Castillo can't decipher whether these markings as Japanese or Thai (despite previously living there, speaking Thai in previous episodes and being married to a Thai woman...?) so Vice enlists the help of a professor of Asian studies to help them catch the killer. Trudy gets closer and closer and ultimately way too close for comfort in the search for the killer.

TW: Sexual abuse, incest, torture

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• Hmong people - Wikipedia

This week on Miami Vice: Vice is put in charge of a key witness in a trial against a drug kingpin named Quintero. The FBI thinks the witness will be safer with Vice, and Vice has their hands full when he tries to sneak out to hit the clubs. Crockett and Keith, the witness, butt heads but, the generation gap narrows as they get to know each other better. This episode might be dated in my 2024 (RIP Expos) but, some things, like bumping heads with your elders, never change.

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice minus Crockett (with a very clearly ADR'd-in excuse of testifying elsewhere) is trying to get in with Borrasca, who is part of a splinter cell group that uses drug money to fight communism in the made up country of Puerto Rubio. As Tubbs and Switek get closer, a very shadowy and overly-tanned figure warns them to back off and he goes way back with Castillo. Reese, may or may not be sanctioned by the government and Castillo is doing his best to see what side of the law he is while Vice tries to get closer to Borrasca through his connections: a retired detective (OOF RIP), a gorgeous nightclub owner and associated goons. Will Vice be able to get Borrasca to trial for his crimes without interference?

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett, per doctor's orders, takes a vacation down to the glades to get his mind off the IAD investigation into his Burnett behaviour. In true Crockett fashion, he doesn't get much rest when the bartender he was flirting with (Melissa Leo) gets taken hostages by a trio of ex-cons in search of their long-ago promised payday. Can this man catch a break? The answer is no.

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• The Streets of San Francisco | Don Johnson Episode - YouTube

This week on Miami Vice: Castillo's ex-wife arrives in town - looking a bit different since it's a different actress (rosalind Chao) - to ask for help regarding her husband and his seemingly legit business dealings. Under the employ of an import/export impresario, a whole bunch of money went missing during a routine deliver to another kingpin named Rivas. May Ying proclaims her husband's innocence as Castillo vows to help her.

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• NEC UltraLite - Wikipedia

This week on Miami Vice: Burnett's Scarface-esque rise to power is facing some more snags: booze, Tubbs (yes, even after being shot), El Gato, and both Cliff and Celeste's betrayal. And also a large cat named Morris. The flashbacks continue as Burnett struggles and is blown up again.....!!!! This guy can't catch a break! Let's see what happens as Burnett's power wanes and Crockett's memories continue to flood back.

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This week on Miami Vice: Sonny Burnett is back as we open Season Five. He's working for a new bigwig, Oscar Carrera, and is helping him with logistical issues until his son, Miguel and his wife, Celeste make things way more complicated. Tubbs goes under as Cooper to try and see if he can jog his memory as Carrera fights with his son and his rival, El Gato - the brother of the recently departed Manolo from Mirror Image. Everything is going to Burnett's plan until he and Cooper meet up and then boom - to be continued!

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This week on Miami Vice: Sonny goes back undercover to get closer to two bigwigs: Manolo and Gutierrez - against Tubb's wishes and ends up in an explosion. He survives (not to Vice's knowledge) but, has amnesia and now believes that he is his alter ego, Sonny Burnett. As he gets deeper into this new world, Tubbs is digging deeper into Manolo and Gutierrez (Antonio Fargas!) to figure out what really happened on that boat with help from the Ft. Lauderdale precinct. The same precinct that's trying to track down an internal leak to Gutierrez! What a season finale. Did I mentioned Julia Roberts?

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• Body Double (1984) - IMDb
• Julia Roberts: The Price of Fame
• KIEFER SUTHERLAND & JASON PATRIC | Inside of You - YouTube
• The Truth About Benjamin Bratt And Julia Roberts' Relationship
• Drama Behind Julia Roberts' Controversial 'A Low Vera' Tee