| Heart Of Darkness: Crockett and Tubbs have
already spent a week undercover, and the only action they've seen on
this illegal skinflick ring is the taping of a girl's encounter.
She's probably underage. Their contact Jimmy promises they'll soon
hear from the #2 man Artie Rollins, and then from Sam Kovics, when
Switek and Zito lead a wave of plainclothes cops in, busting
everyone. That includes Crockett and Tubbs to maintain their cover
as buyers. Kovics bails them all out, but their meeting is derailed
by their car being followed. It turns out Artie was their driver, so
the meet is coming up soon. But who was tailing them? Crockett
quickly figures out it was the FBI, who show up at police
headquarters. They inform them that while Vice wants Kovics, they
want Artie Rollins, and demand that all police files on Kovics's
operation be surrendered. Crockett and Tubbs stonewall until word
comes in that the girl from the movie shoot has been found dead of
an OD. It looks like an accident, but a neighbor remembers she had a
visitor earlier. Trudy comes in after running down Artie Rollins,
but has uncovered that his real name is Artie Lawson-and he's a Fed!
The autopsy shows that she was fed so many pills she had to be
thrown into the pool. Rodriguez gets the Federal runaround, but
Switek has a contact in the local office who owes him a favor. Agent
Clemmons admits Lawson is a deep-cover agent who's broken off
contact with his superiors. Rumors are getting louder that he's
crossed over. When he's gone, the carphone rings. Jimmy has set up
the meet. Artie shakes hands with Crockett and Tubbs, then
introduces them to Sam Kovics. After a few hours of dinner and shop
stories, Artie is called out to the parking lot for a collection.
Artie goes insane and the cops have to stop him from beating the
debtor to death. Once he's calmed down, Artie asks to see their cash
and begin negotiations. Interviewing Artie's wife, she reveals that
he begged the Feds to pull him out several times and always got the
runaround. The agents come to Crockett's boat to shut them down
because Kovic is moving his operation south of the border. Tubbs
refuses because the deal is set to go down with them, so they're
left holding Elvis's chain. Meeting with Artie, he reveals that he
knows they're cops, and almost explodes again. Crockett and Tubbs
warn him that the Feds think he's jumped sides, then asks who killed
the girl. Artie never knew about it, having only driven Kovics's
bodyguard to the house. He does, however, have a massive backlog of
evidence against Kovics, waiting only to be sure when he goes down,
he stays. The deal is set to go down that night. Crockett
understands where Artie's coming from because he's been that deep
undercover. Gina and Trudy have discovered a ticket to Mexico bought
in Artie's name. Despite Rodriguez's misgivings, he allows them to
proceed so Artie can bring Kovics in. Arite calls almost too late,
promising to explain the tickets later, but they're on for tonight.
That night, Crockett and Tubbs enter Kovics's limousine and hand him
the money. Suddenly Tubbs's wire malfunctions, and Artie and the
bodyguard draw their guns. All units go hot on the limo pursuit, but
are lost when they don't make it over a drawbridge. The limo parks
at the docks. Before the bodyguard can shoot, Kovics declares this
to be Artie's job. After an agonizing moment, Artie throws Crockett
the gun, pulls another and shoots at the driver. Kovics dives back
into the limo as Crockett and Tubbs open fire, taking down the
driver and bodyguard. Artie grabs the driver's machine gun and
empties it into the limo, and Kovics. The backup arrives, along with
the Feds. Artie admits to Crockett and Tubbs that he doesn't know if
he can go back to his old life. Tubbs, meanwhile has the wiring guy
to pulverize for the bad bug, if only Sonny wouldn't try to stop
him. Later Crockett admits that he's worried one day he'll go under
so deep that he forgets who he really is. His fear is all too real,
it appears. Rodriguez enters the bar with the news that after much
debriefing, Artie went out for a break, made a good-bye call to his
wife, then committed suicide. Such burnout could be a shadow of
things to come. |
Thanks to the fellow Miami Vice Fan that wrote
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