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Definitely
Miami:
“I can
dig tropical, but this is out of bounds.”
Tubbs groans
about the heat, stuck out in the sun waiting for a player named
Clemente to appear. He’s ratting out his cohorts and will soon
require police protection. Meanwhile, Crockett takes definite note
of a bikini-clad blonde stretching out and lathering on lotion.
Tubbs teases that he’s out of her league, but his jibes are
quickly put on ice when the girl approaches them. Crockett laughs.
“No
matter how hot it gets, sooner or later there’s a cool breeze
comin’in”.
“Callie”
as she introduces herself, buys Crockett a drink and makes a play
for him, but he’s all business today. As she stalks off, Tubbs
goes to update the Lieutenant. Then Clemente’s gofer shows
up and delivers an extra demand—he wants Maria Rojas present at
the meeting. The gofer freaks out when Tubbs returns, but drops the
gun he pulls and runs out of the pool area.
Down at the
station, while Switek complains about the broken air conditioning,
Joplin pulls the file on Maria Rojas, accessory to several crimes,
but took the stand against several key players and disappeared into
a new life. Castillo informs the squad that the feds are giving her
to them for Clemente. On the other hand, they have nothing on the
gofer that would help.
Back at the
hotel, they can’t get a witness, but Crockett finds Callie again,
though now she’s much more frigid. Following her down the beach,
he tries to find out what her angle is. Her story is that she’s
being controlled by an abusive husband, but it sounds a little too
thin. Offering to help, he moves Callie to a safehouse where she
heats up again. Crockett tries to convince her to break loose from
her husband, but says she has no prospects to do so, and her only
job is providing her man’s every need, want, whatever.
A fed named
Joe Dalva sweats in Castillo’s office when Tubbs enters. He
informs them that the plan is to offer Rojas to Clemente and he’ll
turn state’s evidence on outfits up and down the East Coast, and
why is he so confident Rojas is in no danger—she’s Clemente’s
sister.
Meanwhile,
Callie has disappeared from the safehouse, and when Crockett and
Tubbs confer, Crockett admits that he’s not buying her story. Bur
Rico believes Dalva, and they go to meet Rojas, only to get her
attorney, saying she’s decided not to play along for safety’s
sake. Crockett and Tubbs play it cool, but Dalva gets mad, yanking
open the attorney’s car door and almost gets ravaged by her guard
dog. That night, Crockett tracks down Callie at her home, and her
story continues, but it’s making less and less sense. She turns
down the lights and tries to seduce Crockett, but he resists. Just
then Callie’s hothead husband Charlie Basset bursts in, and after
he and Crockett momentarily fight, he draws a gun. Callie screams
for Charlie not to shoot and Crockett, giving her new friend a
chance to run. By now Crockett knows he’s being scammed and admits
it to Tubbs, but he must see how it all plays out.
Castillo has
a plan to trick Clemente into coming in, but Dalva is certain it
won’t work. Just as Dalva called it, Clemente doesn’t fall for a
cop posing as Rojas, and flees the scene. The cops only break
pursuit when Castillo orders them. Later at the station Clemente
calls, telling them they have one more chance. Until he knows his
sister’s alive, he’s not coming in. That night Switek goes with
Dalva to confront Rojas, refusing to cooperate for fear that since
Clemente killed her husband and she testified, now he plans to
eliminate her. Dalva doesn’t care about her objections. He
basically informs her that if she doesn’t help them, her
protection disappears.
Later, Sonny
finds Callie back at the safehouse, beaten to a pulp. She tells him
that Basset’s desperate to move 2 kilos of coke and she was
working Crockett into buying it for $50,000. Seeing a chance to find
out the truth, Crockett agrees to meet Basset. He gets wired at the
station and Zito brings in a steel-lined briefcase for the cash.
Crockett apparently won’t be going alone
The same
day, all is arranged to show Rojas to Clemente. As Clemente steps
from his car, Rojas is brought into the open, and the two of them
embrace. But second later, Clemente is on the ground, bleeding from
a lethal stab wound. Rojas is screaming that she had to kill him,
and a second later she’s blown away by a sniper. Rojas falls into
Dalva’s arms, and he looks up into the glaring face of Castillo.
It’s all too evident this fiasco marks the end of his career.
Crockett
drives outside the city limits to a huge sand pit where Basset is
waiting, But no deal will be going down. Basset draws his gun and
fires at Crockett. But his bullets are deflected by the steel case.
Crockett tumbles over the hood of his car while Zito leans over the
top of the sand dunes and aims at Basset. Crockett gets up with his
gun out and Basset goes down in a fatal crossfire. The backup
arrives, but Crockett and Zito have uncovered at least a dozen
bodies of men in the sand, still in their cars. Seems any man with a
stylish car was fair game for Callie’s charms, and then
Charlie’s bullets. Crockett meets Callie on the beach, and she
offers him a chance to run away with her, no Charlie, no fighting.
But there’s a police chopper waiting down the beach, and he turns
her over to the troopers without a word. For Crockett, the con is
over, but the danger isn’t. He still believes the better the cop,
the more dangerous the job.
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this synopsis
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