Little Miss Dangerous:

Multiple stab wounds inflicted on a sailor’s back, his clothing burned in the garbage can, and several cartoonish drawings left in his hotel room. This is the latest in a string of murders in Miami ’s red-light district, possibly by a lady-of-the-night taking out her customers. Castillo briefs the Vice Squad about the coming crackdown, and no one rests until the so-called ‘Crayon Killer’ is nailed.

That night, Crockett washes out with his street sources but Tubbs may have a lead with a particularly young stripper, Jackie McSydon. She claims to want to become an actress, which is why she works at one of the strip joints, but isn’t very receptive to Tubbs’s offer of assistance. Once she leaves, he admits his misgivings to Crockett, but his partner sees it differently.

“They just get younger every year.”

“Pal o’mine, we just get older every year.”

Later in the evening, Crockett and Calabrese are questioning Georgine, a homeless lady who noticed someone waiting outside the hotel the night of the murder. Georgine describes him as tall and young, with someone with him when he left, but she never saw his escort. However, he dropped one of the drawings just like the ones at the scene. Meanwhile, Tubbs walks away from the interview when he sees Jackie with a client, following them to her apartment and interrupting their liaison. He doesn’t arrest her, but she still knows he’s a cop.

Back with Georgine, she points out a young punk going into the apartments across the street, ID’ing him as the artist. Crockett follows him, far enough to see him starting a fight with Tubbs while he’s talking to Jackie. ID’d only as ‘Kat’, he’s hauled downtown for assault, and possibly more.

Kat stonewalls in the interrogation room, giving an alibi about performing at the strip joint, then accusing the cops of unlawful detainment so Tubbs can move in on Jackie. Tubbs almost loses it with him, and has to leave the room. Kat admits to Crockett that he got Jackie out of a snuff film, and he’s tried to keep get her out of the business ever since.

Tubbs and Joplin run a check on Jackie. Orphaned and in state facilities for years, she ran away a year ago. Meanwhile, an expert’s analysis has just been delivered, the bag lady’s drawing matches those at the scene. But she couldn’t pick Kat out of a lineup, so he’s going to walk. Even worse, as he’s being released, Jackie comes in to see Tubbs, and the fighting almost starts again. Castillo approves their going to the strip joint and keeping tabs on Kat. While watching his show, Tubbs tells Crockett that he gave Jackie the key to one of their safehouses. Switek and Zito are headed there when they spot a car on fire beside the road. They never have a chance to try and save anyone before the car explodes. It doesn’t matter, the driver is found to have been stabbed to death before the car was torched, not even an hour ago. What’s worse, more drawings are found. Kat’s alibi just checked out, he can’t be the Crayon Killer.

The next day Crockett & Tubbs are stuck going over all the files from the murders. By nightfall they’re near exhaustion, and a package arrives for Tubbs. He reads the card and rushes off to meet with the sender—Jackie, at the safehouse. It’s getting too obvious that Jackie’s not just grateful to Tubbs, she’s fallen for him. She nearly goes to pieces when he resists her advances, but he tries to calm her by saying they’re only friends. He agrees to stay with her at the safehouse that night. He accepts taking the bed, but she slipped a tranquilizer in his drink.

Back at the office, Crockett gets a call from Kat offering to give up the Crayon Killer in exchange for Jackie. But when they meet, Kat sticks a gun in Crockett’s back, demanding to know where his girl is. But seconds later the alley’s lit up by the lights of squad cars. Crockett heads upstairs to their apartment, stunned by the collection of drawings he finds. Kat isn’t the Crayon Killer, Jackie is.

Crockett speeds to the safehouse with Kat on his tail. He tries to call Tubbs, to no avail, then calls for backup.

At the safehouse, Jackie has taken the phone off the hook. Tubbs stirs to find himself secured to the bed with his own handcuffs. Jackie stands undressed at the foot of the bed, admitting she loves him. Her clothes are already aflame along with her drawings. Crockett pounds on the locked door, desperate to get to his partner. Kat revs up behind him on his motorcycle and rams the door down, but it’s too late. Trapped between her past and a love she could never have, Jackie has used Tubbs’s gun to commit suicide. The more passionate love is, the more dangerous it becomes.

Thanks to the fellow Miami Vice Fan C.T. that wrote this synopsis 

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