Episodes
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1987
The vice cops and the Feds prepare for a mob boss's attempts to orchestrate a mistrial, and Crockett goes to jail for refusing to name the informant whose revelations are the basis for the prosecution's case.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1987
After the squad traps a TV-evangelist's wife in a drug sting, Tubbs is set up for rape, pulling the vice cops into a rivalry between TV ministries.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1987
Crockett becomes obsessed with determining whether a famous director actually "snuffed" an actress in a film.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1987
Crockett and Tubbs stumble onto a cryogenically frozen Rastafarian and have to uncover who's entitled to the body---a mad scientist's assistant, his estranged wife, or Izzy.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1987
Crockett is devastated when he shoots a young boy during an investigation, and it spurs him to reconcile with his own son, whom he hasn't seen for years.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1987
Castillo wants to bring down a crime family, but complicating the probe is a mobster's son, a Wall Street whiz who's back in town.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1987
Trudy has a weird encounter with an R&B singer (James Brown), and has Vice checking out mysterious happenings, missing bodies and UFOs.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1987
A fading rock star begins to make beautiful music with Crockett, who's protecting her in a music-payola case.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1987
Castillo and the squad investigate a Japanese mob now in Miami, and the enigmatic private eye who followed the gang there.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1988
Crockett becomes bait for a killer who mutilates victims picked from a video-dating service.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1988
Caitlin and Crockett find that rock and roll on the road spins discord in a marriage as record execs plot to sic the media on Crockett's undercover drug-dealing.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1988
Izzy horns in on negotiations between an incensed Cuban, an off-the-farm agriculture agent and an enterprising rancher who are haggling over bull semen.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1988
Crockett and Tubbs catch a gubernatorial candidate with his pants down, exposing them to political dirty-dealing, blackmail and murder.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1988
A double murder has Crockett and Tubbs breathing down the neck of a Chilean police chief, who's in town to complete a weapons deal.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1988
Tubbs comes to admire a dedicated but violent Indian out to stop the corruption of his tribe by a coke dealer, who's being sought by an undercover Castillo.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1988
Drug kingpins go after the Doll Killer, a psychopath who injects his victims with cocaine before killing them.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1988
Trudy protects a frightened rape victim whose allegedly rehabilitated attacker wants to apologize to her in front of a media circus.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1988
Tubbs uncovers a cop with a big heart and bad judgment when the Vice squad tracks a group of renegade cops on a killing spree.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1988
Mosca is back and Gina's got him in her sights---and her heart---on an undercover assignment.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1988
Felled by a bullet, Crockett clings to life, triggering memories for his colleagues as they frantically track the shooter.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1988
Crockett dogs his former partner's killer, who's on a robbery-and-murder spree, while Caitlin's waiting to spring some important news.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: May 6, 1988
A blow to the head turns an emotionally wasted Crockett into his drug-dealing, murderous alter ego "Burnett," who hurtles toward a deadly showdown with Tubbs.