"Miami Vice" Calderone's Return: Part 2 - Calderone's Demise (1984)

Director:

Paul Michael Glaser

Writers:

Anthony Yerkovich (creator)
Joel Surnow (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Miami Vice" (1984)

Original Air Date:

26 October 1984 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title | Detective | Police | Undercover | Drugs

Cast

Don Johnson	...	Detective James Crockett (also archive footage)
Philip Michael Thomas	...	Detective Ricardo Tubbs (also archive footage)
Saundra Santiago	...	Detective Gina Calabrese (credit only)
Michael Talbott	...	Detective Stan Switek (credit only)
John Diehl	...	Detective Larry Zito (credit only)
Olivia Brown	...	Detective Trudy Joplin (credit only)
Miguel Pinero	...	Esteban Calderone (also archive footage)
Sam McMurray	...	Jimmy 'Jimbo' Walters
José Angel Santana	...	Guillermo Pino (as Jose Santana)
Tito Goya	...	Carlos Mendez
Phanie Napoli	...	Angelina (as Phane Napoli)
Benjamin R. Rixson	...	Police Chief Albury

Runtime:

60 min | Finland:46 min (DVD)

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Company:

Michael Mann Productions

Goofs:

Errors in geography: When the Bahamian police chief talks to Crockett and Tubbs, the police car he is seen in is not actually a Bahamian police vehicle. It belongs to the U.S. Virgin Island Police Department, as is evidenced by the decal on the door; displaying both U.S. and U.S. Virgin Island flags.

Soundtrack:

What's Love Got To Do With It?

The best episode of 'Miami Vice' this far

After the great first part of double episode 'Calderone's Return' i was wondering what are they gonna pull in this second and last part of that double episode, and they didn't just pull off what they had to...they did much more than that. And that's why this episode is in my opinion the best episode of 'Miami Vice' series so far, it has everything you want in it: love, vengeance, gun fighting and the first vigilante mission of Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs.

This is also the first episode devoted almost completely to detective Rico Tubbs and his personal vengeance pointed towards the drug lord Calderone, but as he has to get to his girlfriend first in order to get to him things get complicated...

10/10 for the best episode of the show this far