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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs assist rookie cops (Guest Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips and Viggo Mortensen) to execute a search warrant, which turns out to be a trap and it's becoming a pattern in South Florida. Tubbs is irate that no one seems to take the leak of private information and its deadly consequences seriously, and partners up with a Special Investigations Agent, with a girlfriend working the Dept of Justice (Annette Bening in her second role ever!) who has a plan for him to get his retirement money way quicker, after he gets arrested trying to get his money from the Credit Union. The surviving rookie cop, Bobby, is following Tubbs closely after the botched search warrant that killed his partner as Tubbs seems to alienate the rest of the Vice team that tries to help, like Switek and Crockett. Lou Diamond Phillips and Edward James Olmos on screen before they were getting into it over math in Highland Park.

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• Who Is Julie Cypher? 5 Things To Know About Beckett Cypher’s Mom – Hollywood Life
• A Pop Singer's Search for Domestic Harmony - Los Angeles Times
• Lou Diamond Phillips Appears for Domestic Battery Case
• 33 Gorgeous Photos of Warren Beatty in the 1950s and 1960s ~ Vintage Everyday
• Jan Hammer - Lend Me an Ear II - YouTube

This week on Miami Vice: This week on Miami Vice: Crockett brings in a former cop and surveillance whiz named Duddy to assist in an investigation of a mysterious and rightfully paranoid dealer, as they try and figure out what exactly he's dealing. Add the dealer's extreme paranoid and vengeance to the mix and you've got a lot of bodies in the way, will Duddy - who tries to play both sides - be next? Other questions include: What would Duddy do and feel about the age we live in now? How ahead of the times was Miami Vice on issues of personal surveillance and technology working against us? Why I shouldn't have coffee and my adventure in American Credit Scores!

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs wins an all-expense paid trip that turns into a nightmare once he realize the island was practically bought and funded with the late Esteban Calderone's drug money, which died along with him, and Orlando Calderone (John Leguizamo) is on his way to seek revenge on Tubbs yet again. Vincent D'Onofrio guest stars as a criminal who Tubbs helped lock up on a Murder One charge that magically got out, wonder who's side he's on? Michael Mann casting strikes hot with the gorgeous Alicia who was out favourite seductive wife in Season One's "The Great McCarthy", who stars as Alicia and who works together with one of Tubbs' exes from New York (not Valerie). Thank you for listening and I will see you all in September after taking August off :)

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett's one-scene girlfriend from last week Theresa (Helena Bonham Carter) is hiding a drug habit from him that ends up with a decision to pass information along that destroys the evidence against a drug kingpin Wyatt (Brad Dourit, the voice of Chucky) and kills multiple people in the process. Crockett does all he can to help her, but she is facing the prospect of losing her medical license as a result of the arrest and treatment. Crockett has to do what's best for her while also clearing his name and reputation with Internal Affairs. Other topics include: it's time to be European and I'm taking August off (see video link below for inspiration lol), why Helena Bonham Carter sounds too posh to make this believable, but not too posh to wreck multiple homes in her real life, how doing what's best for someone else hurts you and more!

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• TBT: Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh
• (23) Kroll Show - Spotted Ox Hostel - YouTube
• Lisa Marie (actress) - Wikipedia

This week on Miami Vice: Oscar Winner Haing S. Ngor guest stars as a investigator named Trahn who worked with Castillo in Vietnam to try and catch a serial killer targeting sex workers, and when similar murders start occurring in Miami, he comes to town to investigate. Crockett and Tubbs try and question fellow Vietnam veterans to get more info on who this serial killer could be and battle with the ethics at play while Castillo and Trahn dig deeper into a possible "company" connection. Crockett is dating the palest (naturally British) woman in Miami, be careful of who you trust, did Miami Vice start the leather duster to serial killer or vampire slayer trend? and more!

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs get caught up in a paramilitary plot to assassinate a Cuban dignitary when a drug deal goes bust and the dealer and a fellow cop get shot. The feds get involved when Vice starts digging into Victor Vasquez, who did work for them after he defected from Cuba and throw a wrench in their plans. Things get hairier when a meet between Vasquez and Zamora with Tubbs posing undercover as Cooper escalate from just a rip-off to an off...period and Crockett is taken hostage in the thick, jungle-like forest. The paramilitary group known as the La Segunda Brigada are planning to assassinate the Cuban Deputy Commissioner of Prisons who is in town in Miami, who is definitely not keeping a low profile by riding a limo with a Cuban flag (and in a goof an American flag). Marina got a visit from the hat man earlier this week so forgive any mistakes or mispronounced words!

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This week on Miami Vice: A short little drink of Viced Tea to get you through the long weekend! How old is Sonny Crockett really? When was he in Vietnam and when did he start in Vice? The man has lived many lives, so let's break it down!

Edit: I know some online sources say Crockett did two tours, but, I've only found audio of him saying two years, which I understood to be subsequent, could both be true and maybe he's older than the show would have it? Or were there goofs in the continuity?

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This week on Miami Vice: The conclusion of Down For the Count. Switek is still reeling from Zito's death which everybody knows is a murder, except IAD and they want more conclusive evidence before they can change their minds. Guzman's gator skin book gets decoded by one of Crockett's old war buddies (Chris Elliot in a great cameo) and it turns out Guzman has been milking a Vegas hot shot in his little book cooking scheme. He comes to Miami and Vice takes this time as a way to pit these two against each other. The FBI warns Crockett that Giulinni, the Vegas mafioso who was also in One Eyed Jack (Michael Mann casting!) - is not pleased with them or their affiliation with Guzman but, Crockett brushes it off. This all culminates when both sides put hits out on each other in Miami, will Vice be there in time? This depends on Switek, who is out for revenge after what happened to Larry. Other topics include: wait, how old is Crockett? (editor's note: this will be it's own episode)

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• The Pointer Sisters - Dare Me - YouTube - — Mark Breland boxing in the background!

This week on Miami Vice: Zito is back in action...for a while when Vice infiltrates the Miami boxing circuit to get closer to a promoter named Guzman, who was a major importer not even three years ago but has supposedly "changed" his tune. Even Don Cash, naturally played by Don King knows this and warns Crockett and Tubbs. Zito apparently has experience, since this is maybe the second or third episode we really learn anything about him, and a friend involved named Moon (Randall "Tex" Cobb) who's training a hot shot named Sykes, and Vice wants to use Sykes as bait to catch Guzman, since they know he's not truly clean. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to get caught in the middle, including our dear Larry Zito.

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• Golden Globes: Pia Zadora Defends Controversial Win, Insists Ex-Husband “Did Not Buy” Award – The Hollywood Reporter
• Butterfly (1982 film) - Wikipedia
• Don King - Wikipedia

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett gets information that could exonerate a man he put on Death Row for killing his partner back in 1980. He brings this to the State Attorney who is in the middle of an election campaign that is decidedly pro-capital punishment and he won't move it further unless Crockett can get corroborating witnesses. Crockett embarks on a mission to get statements as the clocks tick to free a supposedly innocent man who is facing the electric chair.

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• Donna Rice Hughes on Life After '80s Sex Scandal
• Hart Stopper - People Magazine 1987 Cover
• Matt Bai’s ‘All the Truth Is Out,’ About Gary Hart - The New York Times
• Donna Rice with Hart
• The Politician and the Aspiring Actress: The First Encounter - Los Angeles Times