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Fruit of the Poison Tree
Miami Vice - S5 - E9
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
Miami Vice: Season 5 - 20 Episode s
5x1 - Hostile Takeover (3)
November 4, 1988
Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.
5x2 - Redemption in Blood (4)
November 11, 1988
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
5x3 - Heart of Night
November 18, 1988
Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.
5x4 - Bad Timing
December 2, 1988
Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.
5x5 - Borrasca
December 9, 1988
Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.
5x6 - Line of Fire
December 16, 1988
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
5x7 - Asian Cut
January 13, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
5x8 - Hard Knocks
January 20, 1989
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
5x9 - Fruit of the Poison Tree
February 3, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.
5x10 - To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
February 10, 1989
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.
5x11 - Miami Squeeze
February 17, 1989
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.
5x12 - Jack of All Trades
March 3, 1989
Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a ,000 debt.
5x13 - The Cell Within
March 10, 1989
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.
5x14 - The Lost Madonna
March 17, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
5x15 - Over the Line
April 28, 1989
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.
5x16 - Victims of Circumstance
May 5, 1989
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
5x17 - Freefall
May 21, 1989
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.
5x18 - World of Trouble
June 14, 1989
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.
5x19 - Miracle Man
June 21, 1989
A vigilante believes he is a superhero, Miracle Man. His efforts to rid Miami of ""drug dealing slim"" intefers with Tubbs & Switek's operations.
5x20 - Leap of Faith
June 28, 1989
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.