Season 5
Episodes
S5 · E1 · 4 Nov 1988 · 45 min
Hostile Takeover (3)
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
S5 · E2 · 11 Nov 1988 · 44 min
Redemption in Blood (4)
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
S5 · E3 · 18 Nov 1988 · 46 min
Heart of Night
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
S5 · E4 · 2 Dec 1988 · 46 min
Bad Timing
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
S5 · E5 · 9 Dec 1988 · 44 min
Borrasca
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
S5 · E6 · 16 Dec 1988 · 45 min
Line of Fire
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
S5 · E7 · 13 Jan 1989 · 45 min
Asian Cut
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
S5 · E8 · 20 Jan 1989 · 46 min
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.
S5 · E9 · 3 Feb 1989 · 46 min
Fruit of the Poison Tree
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
S5 · E10 · 10 Feb 1989 · 46 min
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.
S5 · E11 · 17 Feb 1989 · 46 min
Miami Squeeze
The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.
S5 · E12 · 3 Mar 1989 · 46 min
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.
S5 · E13 · 10 Mar 1989 · 46 min
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.
S5 · E14 · 17 Mar 1989 · 47 min
The Lost Madonna
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
S5 · E15 · 28 Apr 1989 · 47 min
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.
S5 · E16 · 5 May 1989 · 46 min
Victims of Circumstance
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
S5 · E17 · 21 May 1989 · 91 min
Freefall
Crockett & Tubbs embark on what they see as a suicide mission. They are recruited by a Special Drug Taskforce to escort the corrupt dictator of Costa Morada, a fictional Revolution ravaged Latin American country. Gen. Manuel Borbon has promised to reveal the members of the most powerful South American drug cartel. Crockett & Tubbs are faced with what might be their final showdown.
S5 · E18 · 14 Jun 1989 · 48 min
World of Trouble
Al Lombard, thought to be dead, returns to Miami to see his son and the grandson he never knew, while eluding his rival Librizzi's hitmen.
S5 · E19 · 21 Jun 1989 · 48 min
Miracle Man
A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
S5 · E20 · 28 Jun 1989 · 48 min
Leap of Faith
Agent Joey Harden returns to assist Crockett as part of a new division, Youth Crime Unit, that was formed by a previous partner. The YCU investigates a college professor that has created a new designer drug, Bliss.
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