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The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3

Every episode of Miami Vice Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3!

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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 3 Episode 1 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying
    7.9/10(627 votes)

    #1 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying

    S3:E1

    Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

    Director:Mario DiLeo
    Writer:Dick Wolf

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  2. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 2 - Stone's War
    8.0/10(563 votes)

    #2 - Stone's War

    S3:E2

    Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:David Jackson

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  3. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 3 - Killshot
    7.6/10(517 votes)

    #3 - Killshot

    S3:E3

    Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.

    Director:Leon Ichaso
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 4 - Walk Alone
    8.3/10(582 votes)

    #4 - Walk Alone

    S3:E4

    Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:W.K. Scott Meyer

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  5. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 5 - The Good Collar
    8.2/10(544 votes)

    #5 - The Good Collar

    S3:E5

    A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

    Director:Mario DiLeo
    Writer:Dennis Cooper

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  6. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 6 - Shadow in the Dark
    7.9/10(628 votes)

    #6 - Shadow in the Dark

    S3:E6

    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.

    Director:Christopher Crowe
    Writer:Chuck Adamson

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  7. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 7 - El Viejo
    8.2/10(585 votes)

    #7 - El Viejo

    S3:E7

    Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:Alan Moskowitz

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  8. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 8 - Better Living Through Chemistry
    7.5/10(460 votes)

    #8 - Better Living Through Chemistry

    S3:E8

    Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

    Director:Leon Ichaso
    Writers:Michael Duggan, Dick Wolf

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  9. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 9 - Baby Blues
    7.5/10(462 votes)

    #9 - Baby Blues

    S3:E9

    Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 10 - Street Wise
    7.5/10(483 votes)

    #10 - Street Wise

    S3:E10

    An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

    Director:Fred Walton
    Writer:Dennis Cooper

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  11. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 11 - Forgive Us Our Debts
    8.6/10(569 votes)

    #11 - Forgive Us Our Debts

    S3:E11

    New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writer:Gustave Reininger

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  12. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 12 - Down for the Count (1)
    8.3/10(530 votes)

    #12 - Down for the Count (1)

    S3:E12

    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.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 13 - Down for the Count (2)
    8.2/10(486 votes)

    #13 - Down for the Count (2)

    S3:E13

    Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 14 - Cuba Libre
    7.2/10(418 votes)

    #14 - Cuba Libre

    S3:E14

    Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writers:Eric Estrin, Michael Berlin

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  15. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 15 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
    8.2/10(514 votes)

    #15 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)

    S3:E15

    Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam in the early 70s; the cops get help on the case from a man claiming to be a Vietnamese inspector.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Marvin Kupfer

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  16. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 16 - Theresa
    7.6/10(487 votes)

    #16 - Theresa

    S3:E16

    Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writer:Pamela Norris

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  17. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 17 - The Afternoon Plane
    6.9/10(468 votes)

    #17 - The Afternoon Plane

    S3:E17

    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.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:David Jackson

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  18. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 18 - Lend Me an Ear
    7.9/10(480 votes)

    #18 - Lend Me an Ear

    S3:E18

    The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.

    Director:James Quinn
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 19 - Red Tape
    8.2/10(535 votes)

    #19 - Red Tape

    S3:E19

    Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.

    Director:Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writer:Michael Duggan

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  20. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 20 - By Hooker by Crook
    7.6/10(462 votes)

    #20 - By Hooker by Crook

    S3:E20

    Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman (Melanie Griffith) turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money launderer (George Takei).

    Director:Don Johnson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 21 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
    7.5/10(422 votes)

    #21 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?

    S3:E21

    Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 22 - Viking Bikers from Hell
    6.9/10(476 votes)

    #22 - Viking Bikers from Hell

    S3:E22

    A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.

    Director:James Quinn
    Writers:Michael Duggan, Dick Wolf

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  23. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 23 - Everybody's in Show Biz
    6.6/10(394 votes)

    #23 - Everybody's in Show Biz

    S3:E23

    An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Miami Vice Season 3 Episode 24 - Heroes of the Revolution
    7.6/10(419 votes)

    #24 - Heroes of the Revolution

    S3:E24

    An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.

    Director:Gabrielle Beaumont
    Writer:John Schulian

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"When Irish Eyes Are Crying" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 627 votes. Directed by Mario DiLeo and written by Dick Wolf, it aired on 9/26/1986. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Stone's War".