Trudy's old boyfriend has ties to a drug lord and enlists Crockett's help investigating him.Trudy's old boyfriend has ties to a drug lord and enlists Crockett's help investigating him.Trudy's old boyfriend has ties to a drug lord and enlists Crockett's help investigating him.
Paul Darby
- Pervert Driver
- (as Paul J. Darby)
Anthony Correa
- George
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaThis episode was filmed shortly after the first season finale Lombard (1985), but held back until the second season.
- GoofsAt the car chase at the beginning of the movie, you can see a camera in the sunvisor above Crockett's head.
- Quotes
Detective James Crockett: If you had stopped to think last night, it would be either you or me dead.
Detective Trudy Joplin: And there's nothing you would've done differently?
Detective James Crockett: Nope.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The '80s: The Decade That Made Us: Masters of the Universe (2013)
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An Abel Ferrara gem
Abel Ferrara what can you say? If you haven't seen Bad Lieutenant stop reading this. SERIOUSLY. WATCH IT. Ok. This episode is Abel Ferrara and no one else.
To back up a little, this isn't one of the great "Miami Vice" episodes, but one of the b-stories as the other reviewers said, and a really good one.
The only improvement would've been Martin Scorsese as director, and that would've been a very different feel. This is just grimy, real street drama (as much as TV can get away with in 1985). Slow and the camera focused on the actor. Each shot is held so long, the actors have to deliver-- watch and count the seconds go by and go by-- and under Ferrara's direction the actor's deliver well. The serious tone the actors are going for is a little clumsy to watch, for sure, that's just how Ferrara wants you to see it. It's the "real" feel he likes to utilize to take down the barrier and put you in the drama. The clumsy realism, the long takes, the subtext-heavy dialogue, the ice cold operators stepping into the story, like Giancarlo Esposito in this one, that's Abel Ferrara.
Esposito's part could've been twice as big. This guy is just good.
Only the climax disappoints. Why wasn't Trudy left to resolve her own situation? I guess that's me talking in 2018; it is Sonny's show. Still, ends on a fine, serious note. I don't remember the show enough to say a down-beat ending is a rarity. But this one was good.
To back up a little, this isn't one of the great "Miami Vice" episodes, but one of the b-stories as the other reviewers said, and a really good one.
The only improvement would've been Martin Scorsese as director, and that would've been a very different feel. This is just grimy, real street drama (as much as TV can get away with in 1985). Slow and the camera focused on the actor. Each shot is held so long, the actors have to deliver-- watch and count the seconds go by and go by-- and under Ferrara's direction the actor's deliver well. The serious tone the actors are going for is a little clumsy to watch, for sure, that's just how Ferrara wants you to see it. It's the "real" feel he likes to utilize to take down the barrier and put you in the drama. The clumsy realism, the long takes, the subtext-heavy dialogue, the ice cold operators stepping into the story, like Giancarlo Esposito in this one, that's Abel Ferrara.
Esposito's part could've been twice as big. This guy is just good.
Only the climax disappoints. Why wasn't Trudy left to resolve her own situation? I guess that's me talking in 2018; it is Sonny's show. Still, ends on a fine, serious note. I don't remember the show enough to say a down-beat ending is a rarity. But this one was good.
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- UptownRox
- Apr 26, 2018
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