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The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 2

Every episode of Miami Vice Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 2!

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The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 1 - The Prodigal Son
    8.3/10(911 votes)

    #1 - The Prodigal Son

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Daniel Pyne

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  2. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 2 - Whatever Works
    7.5/10(613 votes)

    #2 - Whatever Works

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  3. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 3 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run
    8.9/10(1064 votes)

    #3 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run

    S2:E3

    Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  4. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 4 - The Dutch Oven
    7.1/10(580 votes)

    #4 - The Dutch Oven

    S2:E4

    Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.

    Director:Abel Ferrara
    Writer:Maurice Hurley

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  5. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 5 - Buddies
    7.6/10(587 votes)

    #5 - Buddies

    S2:E5

    Crockett is forced to realize that an old Army buddy may be involved with a contract on a young mother's life.

    Director:Harry Mastrogeorge
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 6 - Junk Love
    7.2/10(573 votes)

    #6 - Junk Love

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Julia Cameron

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  7. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 7 - Tale of the Goat
    6.6/10(578 votes)

    #7 - Tale of the Goat

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Jim Trombetta

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  8. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 8 - Bushido
    8.2/10(722 votes)

    #8 - Bushido

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Edward James Olmos
    Writer:John Leekley

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  9. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 9 - Bought and Paid For
    7.9/10(575 votes)

    #9 - Bought and Paid For

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 10 - Back in the World
    7.7/10(572 votes)

    #10 - Back in the World

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Don Johnson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 11 - Phil the Shill
    7.8/10(630 votes)

    #11 - Phil the Shill

    S2:E11

    A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Paul Diamond

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  12. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 12 - Definitely Miami
    8.7/10(2173 votes)

    #12 - Definitely Miami

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Rob Cohen
    Writers:John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne

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  13. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 13 - Yankee Dollar
    7.8/10(564 votes)

    #13 - Yankee Dollar

    S2:E13

    When Crockett sees his stewardess girlfriend die from smuggling balloons of cocaine into the country, he and Tubbs go undercover to expose the ring.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writers:John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne, Craig Bolotin

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  14. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 14 - One Way Ticket
    7.6/10(526 votes)

    #14 - One Way Ticket

    S2:E14

    A district attorney is killed at a wedding for getting too close to a French-Canadian drug lord that's operating in Miami. Since the victim was a close friend of the criminal's lawyer, Sonny tries to make the lawyer do something about it.

    Director:Craig Bolotin
    Writer:Craig Bolotin

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  15. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 15 - Little Miss Dangerous
    8.3/10(706 votes)

    #15 - Little Miss Dangerous

    S2:E15

    Crocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?

    Director:Leon Ichaso
    Writer:Frank Military

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  16. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 16 - Florence, Italy
    7.1/10(559 votes)

    #16 - Florence, Italy

    S2:E16

    A Grand Prix driver has a lot on his mind: first-time fatherhood, a race against his legendary dad --- and the fact that he is suspected of killing a teenage prostitute.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Michael B. Hoggan

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  17. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 17 - French Twist
    7.2/10(512 votes)

    #17 - French Twist

    S2:E17

    An interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest --- and Tubbs' suspicion as they search for an international drug dealing assassin.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Chuck Adamson

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  18. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 18 - The Fix
    7.3/10(524 votes)

    #18 - The Fix

    S2:E18

    A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son to throw a game. Crockett suspects the judge let a drug dealer go free because of his money troubles.

    Director:Dick Miller
    Writer:Chuck Adamson

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  19. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 19 - Payback
    8.3/10(583 votes)

    #19 - Payback

    S2:E19

    A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:Shel Willens

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  20. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 20 - Free Verse
    6.5/10(498 votes)

    #20 - Free Verse

    S2:E20

    The team is assigned to protect a renowned poet who has come to the US seeking political asylum. With sexy Carmen in the mix, things get complicated.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 21 - Trust Fund Pirates
    7.3/10(504 votes)

    #21 - Trust Fund Pirates

    S2:E21

    A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Dennis Cooper

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  22. Miami Vice Season 2 Episode 22 - Sons and Lovers
    8.5/10(571 votes)

    #22 - Sons and Lovers

    S2:E22

    The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs is the father of her child.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Dennis Cooper

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Prodigal Son" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 2. It scored 8.3/10 based on 911 votes. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Daniel Pyne, it aired on 9/27/1985. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Whatever Works".