Episode
Miami Vice: Fruit of the Poison Tree
Overview
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
Details
- Series
- Miami Vice
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1989-02-03
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Fruit of the Poison Tree is Episode 9 in Season 5 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1989-02-03. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 8: Hard Knocks
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
Episode 10: To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.
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Episode 11: Miami Squeeze
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Episode 6: Line of Fire
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
Episode 12: Jack of All Trades
Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.
Episode 5: Borrasca
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
Episode 13: The Cell Within
A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.
Episode 4: Bad Timing
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
Episode 14: The Lost Madonna
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
Episode 3: Heart of Night
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
Episode 15: Over the Line
In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.