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One Eyed-Jack:
The annual grind has fallen on Crockett and Tubbs.
They have to clock everyone tied to the rackets in Miami just so the
D.A. can say they’re getting closer to nailing Albert Lombard, the
city’s biggest gambling kingpin. Following a few GQ poses with the
camera, they’ve gotta move in when a loan collection turns
violent, but Crockett recognizes the victim. He and Barbara Carroll
used to date. A compulsive gambler, she’s gotten in over her head
with men under Lombard, and now they’ve stolen equipment from her
husband’s business as collateral. She’s too scared to file a
complaint.
Meanwhile, a tall dark, mustachioed stranger
enters the Vice squad room. After a moment he calls for everyone’s
attention and introduces himself. The stranger is Lieutenant Martin
Castillo, the new squad leader. But he needs to find his office.
Sonny meets up with Barbara’s bookie, Vincent
DeMarco, warning him that if he doesn’t return the stolen
property, he’s making him and Lombard his priority case. But the
bookie sets him up, using a dumb cop for his scheme. Sonny meets
with him again, and receives a stack of bills, saying they already
sold the equipment. But as Crockett accepts the reimbursement,
professional idiot Ben Schroeder of Internal Affairs, marches onto
the scene and arrests him. He’s been framed for taking a bribe!
In Castillo’s office, Both Crockett and Tubbs
holler at Schroeder for his stupidity at taking a wanted man’s
word over that of a decorated cop, now painted as a ‘One-Eyed Jack’,
showing only one side. But the so-called evidence is enough to take
Crockett off the street pending investigation. On his own, Crockett
goes to see Barbara’s husband Jerry, who informs him that she’s
gone to meet with her bookie, which was a terrible mistake. While
Crockett goes home and finds solace with Calabrese, Tubbs heads into
one of Lombard’s private poker games, posing as a bookie on the
run from a rap in Philly, and it turns out Lombard may have a
position for him. The next morning, Tubbs stops by Crockett’s boat
and reports to he and Calabrese how well he made out, but the
reverie is cut short by a call from the office. Barbara’s body has
been found in a canal, shot five times in the head. Crockett can’t
console Jerry
Back at the office, the squad watches irritably as
Schroeder paws through Crockett’s case files and tears him up more
about the upcoming hearing. Calabrese and Joplin have nothing from
the murder to implicate DeMarco, but Tubbs is getting in even
closer, enough to help out one of DeMarco’s low-level bookies at
their cockfights. Tubbs and DeMarco meet with Lombard in one of his
nightclubs, where the payment changes hands, but Tubbs observes that
DeMarco skimmed $2,000. After a meeting is set on Lombard’s yacht,
Lombard leaves, and Tubbs reveals what he knows to DeMarco, slipping
him his number. Now he knows he’ll be watched.
The next morning, Schroeder crosses the line right
in the Lieutenant’s office, and Castillo first has at him for
going over his head, then defends Sonny on his record, calling Schroeder
an idiot for buying into Demarco’s entire scam. Just as the IAD
stooge stalks out, Tubbs enters with news that his story’s been
confirmed to Lombard. DeMarco’s on the line, scared and begging
for help. Switek and Zito haul him in, and he’s given a choice,
rescind the charges against Crockett and go to the meeting with
Lombard wearing a wire, or he gets to see whose clutches get him
first: Lombard or the cops. DeMarco signs.
As the yacht casts off, Crockett and the Vice
Squad loosely tail. Confronted with the skimming, DeMarco confesses
that he used the money pay off an accessory to Barbara Carroll’s
murder. Crockett suddenly sights Jerry Carroll on the deck, and
everyone moves in. Meanwhile the bookie is caving in, telling
Lombard the entire setup and tearing off the wire. Just as Tubbs’s
cover is blown, Barbara’s husband enters the salon and opens fire,
killing DeMarco. Now the cops have nothing on Lombard. But his story
has not ended. They’ll have another crack at him.
That night on the boat, Crockett informs Tubbs
that Jerry Carroll will probably not be charged with anything,
citing family hardship as the cause of his actions. With nothing
left to work on, Crockett grabs two fishing rods from the cabin and
hands one to Tubbs. The partners head out into the bay for a little
“sanity maintenance”.
Miami Vice (1984) - TV Poster Print -
27" x 40" - Style C 1984
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Many thanks to C.T. Warren, the fellow Vice fan that wrote
this synopsis.
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