Episode

Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son

Name: Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son
Released: 1985-09-27
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Michael Talbott

Miami ViceSeason 21985-09-27

Overview

Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

Details

Series: Miami Vice
Season: Season 2
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1985-09-27
Runtime: 96 min

Episode context

The Prodigal Son is Episode 1 in Season 2 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1985-09-27. The runtime is 96 min.

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Episode 2: Whatever Works 1985-10-04 | 48 min Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to help find the link between ritualistic killings of officers and a group of drug traffickers. Crockett and Izzy try to get the Ferrari back after a city accountant re-possesses it.

More episodes from this season

Episode 3: Out Where the Buses Don't Run 1985-10-18 | 48 min Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.

Episode 4: The Dutch Oven 1985-10-25 | 48 min Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.

Episode 5: Buddies 1985-11-01 | 48 min Crockett is forced to realize that an old Army buddy may be involved with a contract on a young mother's life.

Episode 6: Junk Love 1985-11-08 | 48 min When Crockett and Tubbs bust the owner of a bordello (Miles Davis), they discover that one of his drug-addicted prostitutes is the object of a powerful drug dealer's twisted obsession.

Episode 7: Tale of the Goat 1985-11-15 | 48 min Crockett and Tubbs escort a coffin containing a criminal to his final Miami resting place ... until its learned that he has risen from the dead and has a similar zombie fate scheduled for Tubbs.

Episode 8: Bushido 1985-11-22 | 48 min Castillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.

Episode 9: Bought and Paid For 1985-11-29 | 48 min Gina's cleaning woman gets raped in Gina's home by the spoiled son of a wealthy man, who thinks he's above the law. Despite evidence being circumstantial, Gina wants to have the man arrested. Izzy steals Switek and Zito's bug van.

Episode 10: Back in the World 1985-12-06 | 48 min Crockett flashes to his role during the Saigon evacuation as he and a war correspondent uncover heroin smuggled in body bags. Ten years later in Miami the H resurfaces and so does the reporter looking for the CIA connection.

Episode 11: Phil the Shill 1985-12-13 | 48 min A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.

Episode 12: Definitely Miami 1986-01-10 | 48 min Crockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.