Episode
Miami Vice: Down for the Count (1)
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Miami Vice
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1987-01-09
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Down for the Count (1) is Episode 12 in Season 3 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1987-01-09. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 11: 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.
Episode 13: 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.
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Episode 10: Street Wise
An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.
Episode 14: Cuba Libre
Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.
Episode 9: 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.
Episode 15: Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
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Episode 8: Better Living Through Chemistry
Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.
Episode 16: Theresa
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
Episode 7: El Viejo
Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.
Episode 17: 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.
Episode 6: 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.
Episode 18: Lend Me an Ear
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.