When Irish Eyes Are Crying:

There’s barely a dry eye in the church as the tragic images of war-torn Northern Ireland flash onscreen. Gina is certainly moved, but Stan and Larry realize this not the arms deal Izzy told them about. Inside, former IRA gun-runner Sean Carume is preaching a message of peace while chastising the U.S. government for ignoring his country’s abuse by the British. All seems to go smoothly until the hat is passed around. A black-clad figure storms in, taking aim at Sean, but Gina fires first and the kid doesn’t even live long enough to be unmasked.

At the station, Sonny and Castillo smell a vendetta hit, since Sean has turned himself into “The Mahatma Ghandi of Ireland ” and may know things about his former terrorist friends that they want kept quiet. Professional Irishman Bunny Barrigan confirms their suspicions while Sonny and Rico haggle the name of arms dealer Max Kleiser out of Izzy. The squad gets on it, except for Gina. Castillo orders her on the beach.

But she’s not alone. A walk and later dinner with Sean finds them trading stories about their Catholic families and how they both ended up as peace officers, of different sorts. They slowly grow closer and Gina doesn’t end up leaving until morning. There’s a visitor back at the station. Richard Cross is head of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorism branch, and warns the squad that Sean is planning something not even the IRA wants to get near. By getting close to him, Gina’s life may be in danger.

Sonny meets with Kleiser, bringing along Rico posing as a South African freedom fighter with a shopping list. They’re referred to Eddie K but Sonny must meet him alone, so Rico goes to inform Gina what Cross told them. Gina refuses to believe it, considering the source, and when Rico mentions Sonny, she scoffs even more. Cross is meeting with Castillo but being refused carte-blanche to deal with Sean without any evidence. Cross has one more warning for Castillo: Sooner or later, the IRA or a group like it will commit an atrocity so shocking that he will have the authority to execute men like Sean Carume on sight. Later, Cross is imploring the squad not to tell Gina anything for fear that Sean will pump her for information, but Sonny shuts him down since so far he’s been spouting nothing but anti-Irish propaganda. He’s not ready to drop his guard, but what if Carume really has changed? Can that possibility be ignored? Meanwhile, Stan and Larry are tailing Barrigan, finding out that he’s talking to his travel agent, and meeting with Sean in Biscayne Park . Eddie K calls Sonny saying the deal is on, but when he arrives, Eddie K is a few stingers short, and the ones he has have spent six years in a warehouse. When Sonny asks if they work, Eddie K demonstrates the explosive power of one—on Sonny’s Daytona! Furious, Sonny goes to shake down Kleiser and finds out that he was outbid on the stingers by Bunny Barrigan! Cross sneers at them that he was right all along, Sean Carume is planning to strike at the British empire without leaving Miami . Delivery of the missiles will take place tomorrow morning, and the squad realizes that they’ll be firing them from Biscayne Park at a target whose schedule they got from the travel agency. . . The Concorde! Gina must keep her date with Sean for that night, but she’s distracted, telling Sean she has an ailing family member. She leaves early, taking her position at the radio in the station in the morning.

Stan and Larry tail Barrigan to Sean’s hotel, then Sonny and Rico follow them to a parking garage within sight of the airport. Moments later, Eddie K’s van pulls out, with Sonny and Rico shadowing. Stan and Larry enter the garage. At the beach, Castillo and Cross arrive by chopper and order Barrigan and Eddie K out of the van. They fire at the chopper, but Sonny and Rico pull up and open fire, killing them both. But Sean Carume isn’t there, and one Stinger is missing. Stan and Larry are not answering the radio, but Trudy calls Castillo, informing him that Sean took a phone call last night from Cross. Castillo cuffs the Scotland Yard traitor, who tipped off Sean. He wanted the attack to be pulled off, so he’d be given carte-blanche to hunt down the IRA. Sean is still in the garage, planning to use the Stinger to blow up the Concorde on the runway! When Sonny and Rico arrive, Stan and Larry are tied up in the van, but on the roof, Gina already has Sean in her gunsights. She pleads with him to give up quietly, wanting desperately not to have to kill him. He tries to reason with her, but eventually puts the stinger down. He starts to draw his gun when Sonny shouts at him. When Sean aims at Sonny, Gina fires, knocking Sean over the edge. As Sonny and Gina watch, he falls five stories to the street.

No Irish eyes are crying now, only Gina’s.

Incidentally, while executive producer Michael Mann went on to direct movies, this episode was written by a producer who still works for NBC. Dick Wolf has spent more than a decade creating and producing three different versions of Law & Order.

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

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