Episode
Miami Vice: Rites of Passage
Overview
Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.
Details
- Series
- Miami Vice
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1985-02-08
- Runtime
- 49 min
Episode context
Rites of Passage is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1985-02-08. The runtime is 49 min.
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Episode 15: Smuggler's Blues
Someone in law enforcement is murdering drug dealers and their families in cold blood. To find the culprit, Crockett and Tubbs go undercover and travel to Colombia with a laid-back pilot to pose as dealers.
Episode 17: The Maze
A group of young punks kill a cop and then take hostages - including an undercover Tubbs - while negotiators try to end the situation without more bloodshed and a SWAT team closes in.
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Episode 19: The Home Invaders
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Episode 12: Milk Run
Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.
Episode 20: Nobody Lives Forever
A passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.
Episode 11: Little Prince
Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.
Episode 21: Evan
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Episode 10: Give a Little, Take a Little
In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he is trying to bust. Gina and Trudy infiltrate a prostitution ring. Gina is placed in a compromising position when they are suspicious that she is not a hooker.
Episode 22: Lombard
Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.