Vice and Easy

This week on Miami Vice: Vice busts a fellow cop (Bill Paxton) they find along with a working girl holding some pharmaceutical-grade cocaine during a motel bust. They dig deeper to find the source, first looking into the pimp/dealer Silk (Wesley Snipes) and they set Tubbs up as his competition with the alias Butch and a menacing Panama Hat that matches his silver suit. Crockett sympathizes with cop who's too far under that he seems to have not factored his wife into the equation of trying to get his sex worker girlfriend off the streets but, despite Crockett's attempts at helping, this story has played out on Miami Vice before, and will again, to sad results. Trudy and Gina absolutely SLAY their street outfits as they play along to try and get Carla to play along with their ruse since she's naturally hesitant about working with cops, unless it's her married boyfriend - of course. As the pressure gets put on Silk, his supplier gets angry and starts putting out hits on the competition, the main one being Butch aka Tubbs, oh no!

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This week on Miami Vice: Vice intercepts a cargo plane that lands in the Everglades expecting a drug shipment and are horrified when they hear babies crying. Turns out this is part of a bigger smuggling ring and adoption front led by a sleazy lawyer named - wait for it - Famiglia (Tommy Koenig). While Vice tries to help a mother find her long-lost son in Miami, they also get closer to uncovering the big picture, leading Famiglia to be more and more defensive. Guest stars include a young Stanley Tucci!

TW: Infant death, kidnapping

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are undercover trying to stop insanely powerful and deadly hitting the streets from a dealer/interestingly themed-bar owner named, I kid you not, Wango Mack (Rob Nilsson) when Tubbs is outed as a cop by his ex-NYPD partner Clarance Batisse (Victor Love) with an axe to grind. Tubbs tries to get to the bottom of what happened with his ex-partner and unearths details about a shooting that he testified against Clarence for that reveal a lot of secrets about the shooting and his ex-partner's actions. Clarence's girlfriend Melody (Shanti Owen) is a dancer at the club who luckily, like all film and tv tropes, has a heart of gold and can see Tubbs' true colours, but will it be revealed in time? Izzy is hired as a companion for the genius chemist behind the synthetic coke and hijinks, kidnapping and greyhound-related mayhem ensue.

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are itching to get closer to a flashy, snakeskin-loving Bolivian dealer and guest stars Steve Buscemi and Willie Nelson are making it harder for them than they planned. Despite being just 53 years old at filming, Willie Nelson is El Viejo is question lol - the same age JLo is now. Other topics include: what is a Texas Ranger? and how Willie Nelson is awesome!

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• History of the Texas Rangers | Department of Public Safety
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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are put onto a burglary case and Crockett goes a little too deep trying to get into the mind of the weird cat burglar with a fondness for...pants? They have to work with Lt. Gilmore (Jack Thibeau) who seems to have already gone over the edge trying to catch this cat burglar and they butt heads until he's taken off the case due to his deteriorating mental health, will Crockett be next? Is this the primetime version of Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter which was released one month after this episode was filmed? Because it sure seems like it!

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett books a young kid named Archie caught up in the drug world by accident when he tries to make some money to buy new football cleats to impress scouts and works to help him get the charges tossed and achieve his dream. The Asst. State Attorney, who's looking to nab the 15-year old drug kingpin known as Count Walker, has other plans and wants to use Archie as a pawn to get him charged on Murder One for selling black tar heroin to kids. Other topics include: going undercover at high school, "yutes", wild gang outfits in television history, non-profit charitable organizations and taxes and more!

Editor's note: Oops, sorry, I realized I left out the final convo between Crockett and Lt. Atkins (John Spencer)

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This week on Miami Vice: Recapping! Vice and Easy and the Vice of Miami Podcast got together to chat about the high and lows of Season Two: best epsiodes, quotes, songs and more! Join us for a stroll down memory lane!

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This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs' goes undercover at a notoriously violent prison to get closer to the corrupt warden and guards who are rumoured to extorting prisoners for drugs to sell and silencing the ones that don't cooperate. In a very non-Morpheus role, Laurence Fishburne stars as one the corrupt guards and Ron Perlman stars as the commissioner of prisons in this dark, Tubbs-centric episode. So good, I didn't even remember their characters' names for the whole recording session haha! Forgive my mushbrain!

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This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs discover the exciting and dangerous life of Jai-Alai through a US Customs agent who's old friend of Crockett's. When his brother, a famous Jai-Alai player named Tico (Fernando Allende) is framed for murder, Vice gets involved while they investigate both the murder and try to make a deal with the well-known dealer Morales, who is also involved in the framing of Tico.

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This week on Miami Vice: Ira Stone (Bob Balaban) returns to Miami with a lot of (justified) paranoia and proof of the US involvement in Nicaragua when he sees (and has the tape) Americans posing as Sandinistas, touching on the real and timely issue of the Iran-Contra scandal. With this proof, he wants a Peabody and starts putting the word out that the tape is for sale, which in turn means the government is hot on his tail and Crockett, loyal as always, is worried his friend is back on the hard stuff and stretching the truth. Maynard (G Gordon Liddy) returns to get Stone once again before Stone's work foils his evildoing.

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