Score  ( also known as Golden Triangle: [Part 1)

Crockett & Tubbs are saddled with a particularly embarrassing assignment-posing as hotel security! After a bad scuffle with a PCP addict, they all but beg Castillo to reassign them. He refuses, because there is more going on at this hotel than meets the eye. Outlaw cops are shaking down the call girls, and Castillo wants them destroyed. Needing a contact, Sonny sits by the pool looking like a tourist new in Miami, or some might say the consummate bumbling computer nerd. His waiting pays off, in the form of Candy James, who asks for a little help applying her suntan oil. She smoothly propositions Sonny, who just as smoothly pulls out his badge. Down at the station, Candy grows impatient in the station, with little information to give on the suspected cops, Ross and Garcia, but she's willing to play along. Returning to the hotel, Crockett & Tubbs set up the sting. While guarding the vault to maintain cover, a guy comes in to “tour” the facilities (checking out its security before he entrusts them with anything. Later on it turns out the same guy is watching the vice proceedings and assumes the “call girls” are emplyed by hotel security. After dark, Candy is accosted by the crooked cops who drag her down the alley and attempt to extort money from her. Crockett and Tubbs listen over the wire getting angry because it sounds like they’re going to work her over if she refuses. Charging in once enough is recorded, they find Candy’s been roughed up. Her file is clear, but she’s not happy with them.

The next morning on Sonny’s boat, both are exasperated to find out both cops have made bail. The touring guy appears, hoping to talk with “hotel security” and cut a deal. ID’d later as Albert Zarbo at the station, something seems a little off. Zarbo’s done everything but burglary. Castillo tells them to follow him down.

Back at the hotel, Sonny gets a shock when he sees Candy out picking up guys again! He drags her aside at just the wrong moment, because Zarbo strolls in, but looking for some entertainment, not his business with Sonny. Sonny accidentally tips his hand and reveals he knows Zarbo’s name, but covers it by saying he checked him out. “It pays when you’re in hotel security.” Zarbo heads upstairs with Candy on his arm.

Crockett’s ranting to Tubbs in the vault when Candy sashes in with Zarbo’s car keys. Perhaps there’s a clue in there? What they find goes well beyond a clue--enough plastic explosive to level the hotel! Then the glove box yields a receipt for a room at a dive hotel, but what’s it for? Running into Zarbo and his assistant on the way back in, he reveals that he’s checked them out--but through Ross! He’s about to expose them for ratting them out when Candy cops to turning him in. An angry Ross makes a huge mistake by slapping Candy. Crockett & Tubbs beat him senseless. The deal with Zarbo is grudgingly made, and he reveals the plan--not knowing what vault the goods are in, he’s blowing them all! Castillo allows the plan to go forward, but it does... without them. One trip in was all they needed to punch the vault, so what was in there? Zarbo wouldn’t be telling them, since Switek and Zito found him and his assistant in the dive’s room, murdered. By chance Switek lets it slip that the assistant was Thai, and Castillo dashes to the morgue. He recognizes the marks of a ritual killing on the assistant, and reveals where he’s seen it before. Castillo was a DEA operative in the Golden Triangle years ago, and now the heroin operation of his old adversary, General Lao Li, is coming to Miami. A search is launched of every Thai restaurant in the city, and once he’s found, Castillo faces off with the assassin hand-to-hand. He wins a hard-fought battle, but it’s no use. The assassin kills himself by swallowing his own tounge. The killer’s personal effects show that the vault yielded immigration visas for operatives in Lao Li’s network, including one Thai woman in a photo taken outside Miami International Airport. Castillo shocks everyone by identifying the girl.....

“It’s my wife.”  Part 2

Thanks to the fellow Miami Vice Fan that wrote this synopsis