Rites Of Passage: A hooker is fished out of the Miami River. With no sign of trauma, was it suicide or murder? Stan and Larry are assigned to crash the private party of her pimp, David Traynor, under the guise of exterminators, just to see if anything come up. Rico razzes them about their cover, but entering the station he gets quite the surprise. His old girlfriend, Valerie Gordon of the NYPD, is in Castillo's office asking for assistance. He soon learns that eight months ago her sister Diana disappeared on a road trip. Valerie's tracked her to Miami, but now she's hit a blank wall. Rico bristles a little when he hears she's been dodging him for two weeks (apparently it wasn't the best of breakups). That night Stan and Larry go through their bug spraying routine with a camera hidden in their equipment, while Rico and Valerie try to discuss the search, but wind up rekindling the flame. 
A few famous faces turn up at the party, but nothing seems very interesting until Valerie watches the playback and sights her sister on the arm of one Roberto Marquez, playboy ambassador. Sonny and Rico don't hesitate to grab some stills and confront Marquez with them. Despite his diplomatic immunity, to keep his nights out a secret, he gets Sonny and Rico invited to Traynor's next party. Arriving there, Rico locates Diana, but with all the money and drugs she's gotten into, she doesn't want to stop hooking. Rico all but drags her kicking and screaming from the house. Traynor moves to intervene, but Sonny's gun in his back keeps him out of it. Diana continues to make a scene until they're in the van when Valerie has to literally slap some sense into her. Sticking her in rehab, Valerie convinces her sister to come home with her, and later makes it clear that she's not testifying against Traynor. She's been through enough. Diana doesn't realize it, but she seals her fate with a farewell call to David Traynor. As Rico and Valerie spend the night together, someone slips into Diana's room and gives her a lethal overdose. Sonny must disrupt the romantic evening by calling with the news, then must listen to Valerie falling apart over the phone.

 Traynor is arrested, but there's no way that they can connect him to the murder. Rico nearly loses it with him. Valerie despondently goes to the airport to take Diana home. Only Diana arrives. When the airline calls Rico, he and Sonny race to Traynor's house only to find Valerie has strong-armed her way in, and shot it out Traynor's thugs. One survives long enough to take aim at Valerie from behind, and Sonny and Rico gun him down. The last round of gunfire erupts between David and Valerie, ending with David on the floor, fatally wounded. Valerie surrenders, but this isn't the last we'll see of her.

Thanks to the fellow Miami Vice Fan that wrote this synopsis
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