Miami Vice Season 3

Season 3

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.

Air date: 1986-09-26

Episodes: 24

Episodes

E1: When Irish Eyes Are Crying

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

Air date: 1986-09-26 • ★ 7.5

E2: Stone's War

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.

Air date: 1986-10-03 • ★ 7.8

E3: Killshot

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.

Air date: 1986-10-10 • ★ 5.1

E4: Walk Alone

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

Air date: 1986-10-17 • ★ 6.2

E5: The Good Collar

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

Air date: 1986-10-24 • ★ 7.2

E6: Shadow in the Dark

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.

Air date: 1986-10-31 • ★ 8.6

E7: El Viejo

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

Air date: 1986-11-07 • ★ 7.8

E8: Better Living Through Chemistry

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

Air date: 1986-11-14 • ★ 7.3

E9: Baby Blues

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

Air date: 1986-11-21 • ★ 7

E10: Street Wise

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

Air date: 1986-12-05 • ★ 7

E11: Forgive Us Our Debts

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

Air date: 1986-12-12 • ★ 7.7

E12: Down for the Count (1)

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.

Air date: 1987-01-09 • ★ 7.5

E13: Down for the Count (2)

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

Air date: 1987-01-16 • ★ 9

E14: Cuba Libre

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

Air date: 1987-01-23 • ★ 7.5

E15: Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)

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.

Air date: 1987-02-06 • ★ 3

E16: Theresa

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

Air date: 1987-02-13 • ★ 3.2

E17: The Afternoon Plane

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.

Air date: 1987-02-20 • ★ 4.6

E18: Lend Me an Ear

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

Air date: 1987-02-27 • ★ 4.5

E19: Red Tape

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

Air date: 1987-03-13 • ★ 4.8

E20: By Hooker by Crook

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).

Air date: 1987-03-20 • ★ 3.2

E21: Knock, Knock, Who's There?

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

Air date: 1987-03-27 • ★ 4.5

E22: Viking Bikers from Hell

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

Air date: 1987-04-03 • ★ 6

E23: Everybody's in Show Biz

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

Air date: 1987-05-01 • ★ 7

E24: Heroes of the Revolution

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.

Air date: 1987-05-08 • ★ 5