Miami Vice (1984–1989): Season 1, Episode 7 - No Exit - full transcript
Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.
Hey, everybody, Stanley Switek, uh,
comin' at ya from beautiful
downtown Miami Beach...
where the temperature is
a hundred and two degrees...
at 7:00 of the a.m.
So, why don't you all just kind of...
sit back, relax...
and let old Stan here
do the drivin'.
Yeah!
Off, Swi.
What's our E.T.A.
on these huckleberries?
Five more minutes.
Where can we get some
café cubano around here?
Who ya kidding?
Let's work those arms.
Work that body.
Work that body. Work that body.
Let's move it. Let's do it.
Those people keep up
that kind of pace,
none of 'em are gonna make lunch.
Sorry.
Listen, uh, I'm starting to get
a convention here.
What time is this supposed to go down?
Are we gonna pop this guy or what?
Everybody, stay loose.
There's too many people around.
Tell me about it.
The girls can't last too much longer.
I hope you're right.
Let's move it
One, two, three, four.
Should have seen him
in the '50s.
He was the best.
I did see him in the '50s.
Did ya? Oh.
This is wrong, all wrong.
Pack it in.
I'll pick up Tubbs and Zito.
Everybody, hold.
Zito, no time for dessert.
Get them out of here.
Okay, guys, let's get up.
Let's act naturally.
We're gonna take a walk, okay? We're
gonna go inside, okay? Come on. Let's go.
That's him. It's a go.
- Hey, take the chairs with 'em, man.
Zito.
We got the grenades.
You got the cash?
Well, I ran into a little snag.
I'm gonna need a couple more days.
Hey, no snag, no more days.
The money's in the bag.
Open it, please.
Okay.
Hold it! Police!
You all right?
Hell, no, I'm not all right.
You all right, lady?
I hate machine guns.
What's the problem?
I hate machine guns!
What are you yelling about?
When I get shot at by a 30 caliber
M-60 machine gun, I get scared!
And when I get scared,
I get angry!
You!
Hey. Hey... Hey, hey, hey, hey!
I want to know who's selling
you punks machine guns!
Hey, calm down, Tubbs! Calm down!
- I will not calm down!
Machine guns affect my ability to perform,
and I don't like that!
Nobody got hurt, right?
So, that's good, right?
Yeah, perfect,
but one thing, farm boy!
Just using that kind of artillery is
what's gonna get you a hotter seat, pal.
Front row for
the full 10-year run!
The guys in the van... one was
called Gentle, the other was Ramone.
They're from Ohio, I think.
That's all I know about 'em.
Look, we don't care about the errand
boys. Who do they work for, huh?
A hell of a way to start the day, huh?
You're tellin' me.
Breakfast with
an M-60 machine gun.
Yeah?
Lieutenant,
we've got that information
we've been looking for.
The runner's name is Tony Amato.
We need court orders for a
tap on the phone, the house,
the boat, the office, the car,
everything... the whole enchilada.
Amato's an international
gun merchant,
sometime smuggler.
Why the street? That's
what we want to find out.
I doubt this hillbilly is
throwing us a fake.
No.
Amato's not a name
you pull out of a hat.
Let's get into his laundry.
It's probably dirty.
Lester, come on.
I got a job for you.
That's our boy.
Are we sure no one's here?
Uh, no.
Good.
We'll have 30 seconds to shut off
the alarm once the circuit is broken.
Where's the switch located?
That's the million-dollar question.
Thirty seconds.
Eight-to-five it's in the closet.
We got 20 seconds.
Voilà.
Thirteen seconds.
James Bond, my man.
Nino Cerruti.
Fioravanti. Adolfo.
Huh. I checked this dude's wardrobe,
man. Some wardrobe.
I'm not talkin' about the kind
that has tags on it,
that read "machine washable" either.
You know, I hate goin' through
people's dirty laundry.
Yeah? Well, if you want to get a line
on someone, that's what you gotta do.
This guy's a real swinger.
Check this out.
"The Arsenal of Democracy."
Your perfect catalog for any
last-minute Christmas shopping.
You want to put in an order?
Do they gift wrap?
Look at that, man.
Prices, specifications,
everything.
Just like a Sears-Roebuck catalog.
Hey, I think you better put this
back where you got it from, buddy.
Yeah. I think we'll put the eye
on this guy from the bay.
Sounds like a winner.
How's it goin', Lester?
Take a look, Tubbs.
So, what's this doohickey
here? That changes the power.
You got times 10 now.
That's times 20. All right.
It's nice.
It goes to times 200.
Oh, man, that's great!
I've put each bug on
a separate channel.
There are two tape recorders,
voice-activated.
So, if you're monitoring one bug,
you can record another
and listen to it later.
This is a sonic-integrated
digital reader for the phone.
Oh, yeah, right. The "satta-fortis" and
the "ratta-bum" and the "hantoun rantoun."
Come on, Lester,
you want to give me that in English now?
Someone punches a telephone number,
this records the tones.
When you play it back,
the numbers appear here.
That's in case you want to know
the number they dialed.
Amazing.
- Not really.
The telephone is a
digit-to-tone-to-digit system...
Hey, not that, man. This.
Check this out, man. Ooh,
this chick is some kind of limber.
Hey, Crockett, come check
this thing out, man.
Oops.
Uh-oh.
What is it?
- I see some turkey over there
watchin' me watchin' him.
What?
Take a look.
Let me see.
Hey, we got company.
Federal agents.
Everybody stay right where you are.
Back it down, slim.
Miami Vice.
Miami Vice. Ech.
Uh, listen, I wouldn't go
pokin' around back there, bub.
Right.
What are you doing here?
- Stakeout.
What are you doin' here?
- Who are you staking out?
Tony Amato.
Hey!
There's a damn alligator back there! He's as big
as a house! Honest, Nick, he's as big as a house.
He's really back there.
Honest, Nick.
- We're here to take over your operation.
We're in place. You're not.
That's easily changed. We can have your bugs
cleaned out and ours installed by tomorrow.
Look, you guys are
out of your league on this.
What we are is "here."
What we're not is "leaving."
Be with that and we can all get
what we want, namely, Tony Amato.
Or you can start playing games
and you'll flush him.
And then we'll all get exactly what you little
boys in Washington generally shoot at, nothin'.
All right,
we'll piggyback your bugs,
but our mission
takes precedence.
Maybe, maybe not.
Just what is your mission,
Mr. Phelps?
A national armory was busted into.
Big score.
Tony Amato is about
to deal the weapons.
M-60 machine guns?
- That's not our major concern.
Well, it would be if you had one of 'em
trying to tattoo "Mother" on your chest.
What is?
- A crate of stingers.
You talkin' about ground-to-air stingers?
You got it.
Missiles? Guided missiles?
What did these guys do,
back up a semi? Oh, no, no, no.
These are small, hand-held,
about...about this big.
Weigh about thirty pounds. Put one on your
shoulder, aim, press the trigger and bingo.
They have a range of what?
Three and a half miles.
A guidance system sophisticated
enough to knock out an F-15.
This is what we're really scared of...
A commercial jetliner.
You want Tony Amato?
You want him?
All right, we'll dance.
We want the missiles.
Mclntyre stays here with you.
Um, with the alligator, Nick?
Looks like Tony and his lady
are goin' to a party.
So, where in the hell do you
think you're going in this?
All your taste is in your mouth.
You are so stupid, you can't
even dress yourself! It said formal!
Formal!
This guy's a real sweetheart.
This is a formal.
You get in there! Change!
What do you want me
to wear? What do I care?
Whatever you wear,
you're gonna button it wrong!
Why don't you just go without me?
Hey, you want somethin' to wear?
- Wear this!
Now, you're goin'!
Now, you get dressed!
Sounds like he's killin' her.
What's he doin'?
He pushed her into the pool.
This guy's scum.
Let me take a look.
You will get dried off.
You'll get dressed.
And you will go with me.
I am sick and tired of waiting for you.
Divorce me or... Will not happen.
Send me...I can't...
That will never, ever happen!
I didn't become a cop to spectate.
Let's nail this pig.
I want you to go to the airport
tomorrow morning.
Got a guy comin' in from Jamaica.
"Toussan," "Toussant," "DuPass"...
Something like that.
Do you know what he looks like?
No, I never met him.
He's gonna look for
the Maserati at the baggage area.
Come on, let's get out of here.
What about Mrs. Amato?
Hell with her.
All that,
then he leaves her anyway.
What a joke.
Hello?
Rita?
Rita.
Oh, God.
Rita, what is it?
I can't take it anymore.
He never stops.
It's...
Do you want me
to arrange the meeting?
Rita.
Oh, he'll know.
He won't.
He will.
He always knows everything.
Rita, there's no other way.
You've tried them all.
Rita... I'm scared.
I don't know how
you've lasted this long.
I better go.
Do you want me
to set up a meeting?
Rita?
Yes.
Okay. I'll set it up.
What was that all about?
Offhand,
I'd say Rita just made a decision
to have her husband killed.
I better go.
Do you want me to set up a meeting?
Gentlemen, gentlemen,
listen to the tape again.
She's going to ice him.
I don't make that correlation.
And we don't have any more time
for your passion plays, Detective.
Our priority is to get
those missiles back.
We're not gonna just stand around
and let some citizen get shot,
even if he is lower than dirt.
Look, if she takes him out,
it blows us all out of the water.
I'm willing to take the chance
that that is not going to happen.
You've got Tony Amato
under a lot of eyes.
He's safer now
than he's ever been.
DuPass is arriving today.
Amato has never seen him.
We're in an ideal position
to move to the next step.
We're gonna pick up DuPass at
the airport and replace him with Paul.
Paul, how long you been
doing undercover?
I've done some assignments
along the way.
Yeah,
and I'll bet you took drama in high school.
No offense, Paul,
but I think we'll handle this.
You the man or the driver?
Just a little domestic help, pal.
Jump in.
Yeah?
- Is this Jimmy Yureka?
Who wants to know? I was given
your name by a mutual friend.
She said I might be able
to meet you somewhere.
There's a park on Fulton Street.
I know the one.
Be at the southeast corner
in an hour.
Beat it.
You lookin' for me?
I don't think I can
go through with this.
Your choice.
My choice?
My choice.
If only I had a choice,
but I don't.
He does.
You can leave him.
Don't you think I've tried?
Lady, I only know what you tell me.
Well, I tried.
I ran away.
He found me and brought me back.
I went to the police.
They said to get a lawyer.
Last month I got a lawyer.
I told him I didn't want Tony's
money. I just wanted out.
Tony tried to buy the lawyer off,
but he couldn't.
The lawyer said I had a
right to leave if I wanted to,
and I had a right
to hire a lawyer.
Tony says, "Is that so?"
Then he hires these two animals,
and they follow the lawyer's wife
until she's alone.
Then they get her.
When they were through with her,
they told her to tell her husband...
that if he didn't
mind his own business,
their daughter would be next.
Their daughter.
And he would.
Tony could do that.
I should never have gone
to that lawyer.
What happened to his wife
was my fault.
Your fault?
- He didn't know what Tony was like.
But I did.
I have no place to turn,
and I can't take it anymore.
I can't.
So you want me to kill him?
I thought I did.
But now you don't?
I wish him dead every day,
every minute for what he's done.
But not his way.
I can't do it this way.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
I'm not who you think I am.
I'm a cop.
I want you to listen to me
very carefully, Rita.
We have your house bugged.
There's a listening device
in every room,
and taps on the phone.
You know, Tony's in big trouble.
The federal government wants him.
We want him. And we're gonna get him.
You don't know him.
Oh, yes, we do.
He's killed people.
I know that.
He's smart. He's so smart.
We know he's smart,
and we know he's tough.
But he's not smart enough
for all of us.
We can put him away, Rita,
but we need your help.
We need you to go back home.
If you don't,
Tony will get suspicious.
He might discover
the house is bugged.
He'll know we're on to him.
And we'll lose him.
A couple of days. That's all.
And then we'll put him away
where he can't bother you anymore.
We'll be right there every minute.
Can you do that, Rita?
Can you buy us some time?
Okay.
We haven't heard from everyone
on this one.
There's got to be someone else
waiting in the wings in Washington.
This little demonstration you wanted
is costing me a lot of money.
Hey, Tony.
Hey, you're pretty smart
to check this out, man.
I mean, they have had a bad rep,
but that's all been worked out, man.
They got a new
guidance system now.
Better to be safe than sorry. So,
you're an expert on this weapon, man?
Hey, man, I mean to tell ya.
Good old Uncle Sam spent
every bit of six months...
teachin' me
all there was to know, man.
You talkin' army?
- No, man.
National Guard.
You're killin' us.
Say, Tony, how about us
lettin' one of these birds fly, man?
Mmm.
Okay, the number at the top
is the target distance.
The readout at the bottom
is the firing sequence.
That's very complicated, man.
Oh, no, man.
Any knucklehead with a G.E.D.
can light one up.
Okay, now, to turn on the tracking system,
all you have to do is flip this here.
Wait a minute, man. This thing not gonna go
off, is it? No, man, not until we tell it to.
Okay, now hold it steady.
See this switch here?
Yeah, man. Okay,
push that forward with your thumb.
Okay, hold that there.
Okay, now that specific image is
locked into the computer tracking system.
The missile will seek out
that target and that target only.
And as it gets within
striking range,
the heat seeker automatically integrates with
the base system, and the missile homes in.
Hmm.
- Now, here's another little twist that
a lot of people don't know nothin' about.
What's that? Armin'
the warhead is optional.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I don't understand.
Let's say your target
is a commercial plane,
and you want to make it look
like it crashed accidentally. Yeah.
Well, you just flip
this little switch,
and the missile
goes right up the wing,
probably ripping the wing off the airplane,
and down she goes.
But no explosion. Makes it look like it just
crashed accidentally, man, like engine failure.
Just that pure and simple.
Let me get this straight now.
I take this, and I shoot the airplane.
Uh-huh.
And either it explodes or not,
but it still knocks the plane down.
Right!
Yeah, it'll hit like a great big bullet.
But, hey, talk's cheap, right? That's what
we're here for, to pop the cap on this baby.
Gentle, here she comes.
All right. Okay.
Come here.
How many missiles
we talkin' about? Ten.
Nine now.
Can you get more?
No, man.
Gettin' them was just a fluke.
The sarge had left me and Ramone here to guard
the armory while he went out to get pizza.
So, I called my boys over,
and we picked up a few of them,
and a couple of M-60s,
and then they booked up.
Gentle, Gentle,
easy with the details, all right?
Oh, yeah, man. I'm sorry.
The price is $75,000 each,
as we discussed.
Yeah, man.
Are we just talking here or what?
We're talkin'.
But I'll take all the inventory.
Hey, man,
that's what we want to hear. Right, Ramone?
After I inspect the merchandise,
then we'll talk about delivery.
I don't deliver.
Well, then the 75 ain't 75.
Sixty-five if I have to handle transport.
We're talkin' about port of entry, man.
Sixty-seven, five,
and you got a deal.
Cool.
Hey.
Good. What do you say
we get some chow?
No, thanks.
I have other commitments.
When do we finish our business?
When do I see the inventory?
Tomorrow.
That's when we finish
our business. Good.
Good night.
That one's dead, man.
Rita?
♪ Stay with me ♪
Rita!
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just
one more day with me ♪
♪ Maybe you can
rearrange your plans ♪
♪ I know there's
a whole new world you found ♪
- Easy does it, Rita.
♪ And it's to that world you’re bound ♪
Hold your mud.
Here. Look what I got ya.
♪ Please, don't leave me standin' here ♪
Go ahead. Put 'em on.
♪ Just stranded on the ground ♪
♪ So, won’t you stay with me ♪
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just one more day with me ♪
You like 'em?
They're beautiful, Tony.
♪ I can't bear ♪
♪ To see you there this way ♪
What's the matter?
Your nose still out of joint about that Bal
Harbour lawyer and his junior league wife?
Honey, I only did that
because I love you.
Don't, Tony.
You have to understand that.
Come here.
♪ All the nights I've held you ♪
I said come here!
♪ Tonight's the night ♪
♪ That means the most ♪
♪ So, stay with me ♪
♪ Tonight I'll show you ♪
♪ That our love
is something beautiful ♪
♪ I'm gonna give you all
the lovin' you need ♪ Don't!
Come on...
♪ Tonight I'll show you ♪
♪ That our love
is something beautiful ♪
♪ For the rest of your life ♪
♪ You'll never want to leave ♪
♪ Won't you stay with me ♪
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just one more day
with me♪♪ I'm sorry, Rita.
Are you out of your mind?
Damn it, we can't pick him up! Oh,
yes, we can.
We've got a hook on the van with the
M-60 and the spent stinger tube in it.
Off the threat of
a 10-year fall for that,
we can lever the location of the other
nine missiles out of them right now.
We're this close. This close. We
can have Amato. We can have it all.
Getting those missiles off the streets...
is what this operation has been about
from the start.
We cannot risk
losing this opportunity.
Have you people
ever heard of a tail?
Don't you see it, Pappas?
We can have it all.
I mean, we got Amato covered
like a rug, man.
He goes out for an ice cream cone,
it looks like a damn parade.
You'll get yours. Just let us get a chance
to get Tony Amato, not just the missiles.
Is there something about this deal that
you haven't told us? Another element maybe?
No. Why?
Your eyes.
I want the stingers off the street.
What kind of chance
to get Amato?
Give us till tomorrow.
When tomorrow?
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
Morning? Afternoon? When?
They're gonna call me
tomorrow at noon.
I'm inspecting the inventory.
Amato, Gentle,
Ramone and your missiles...
Everything in one place at one time.
That's when we'll bust 'em.
All nice and easy.
All right.
Don't tell me, you play poker too.
- Yeah.
You got a buck?
A what?
Yeah. Tony,
the guy's not here. He checked out.
What? Where'd he go?
Don't know.
Just like that? No message? Nothin'?
Nope, nothin'. What do you want me to do?
Get back here.
He spotted the bug.
What are you gonna do?
I'm trying to save this thing, man.
Come on, answer it!
Yeah.
- This is DuPass.
Don't talk.
- I'm not talkin'. I'm not walkin', man. I'm flyin' right out of here.
What is this kind of trick bag you
got me backed up into anyway? What?
They got surveillance all over me. You
can consider me and my money gone.
No, no, no, no.
The deal can go down right now.
What are you talkin' about?
I can't talk!
Listen, meet me where we
picked you up... in one hour.
In an hour.
Good.
Pappas, forget tomorrow.
It's goin' down right now.
Zito!
Crockett.
They're moving.
Look, stay with the van. When you
get an idea where it's going, sing out.
Hey... Hey, what you doin', man?
Just checkin'.
Just checkin'.
We lost whoever was on us.
You sure about that?
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Look, we can close
this deal right now.
I'm thinkin' about gettin' on an airplane,
man, and gettin' out of here, you know?
I don't feel too secure. What are
you tryin' to do, grind me on the price?
No, man.
Then what? What is it? Look...
All right, look,
you check the inventory out.
Then, you don't feel secure,
you get on a plane.
Boom, you're out of here, and we can
close the deal long distance. Capisce?
Cool.
♪♪ Come on.
Bingo. Hold it.
There's the van.
We got the van, Crockett. It's in a
parking lot next to the power station.
Where are you guys?
We're on the, uh,
drawbridge on Second Ave.
♪ Well, you can tell everyone I'm a
down disgrace ♪ Here comes Tubbs.
♪ Drag my name all over the place ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You can tell everybody
about the state I'm in ♪
♪ You won't catch me cryin'
'cause I just can't win ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ What you say ♪
♪ I don't play the same games ♪
♪ You play ♪
♪ 'Cause I've been talkin' to the people
that you call your friends ♪
♪ And it seems to me
there's a means to an end ♪
♪ They don't care anymore ♪
♪ And as for me I can sit here and
bide my time ♪ It's goin' down on the boat.
♪ I got nothin' to lose
if I speak my mind ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care no more ♪
♪ I don't care what you do ♪
Stan, you come with me.
Zito, you wait for the backup.
♪ We never played
by the same rules ♪
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ I won't be there anymore ♪
♪ Get out of my way ♪
♪ Let me by ♪
♪ I got better things
to do with my time ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ Well, I don't care now
what you say ♪
♪ 'Cause every day ♪
♪ I'm feeling fine with myself ♪
♪ And I don't care now what you say ♪
♪ Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey ♪
♪ I'll do all right by myself ♪
♪ 'Cause I know ♪
♪ 'Cause I remember
all the times I tried so hard ♪
♪ And you laughed in my face
'cause you held the cards ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ And I really ain't bothered
what you think of me ♪
♪ 'Cause all I want of you
is just to let me be ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You hear? I don't care no more ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ What you say ♪
Merchandise.
♪ I never did believe you much ♪
Money.
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ I won't be there no more ♪
♪ So get out of my way ♪
♪ Let me by ♪
♪ I got better things to do
with my time ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You hear? I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care no more ♪
♪ You listenin'? I don't care no more ♪
♪ No more ♪
Federal agents.
Put up your hands.
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, Jesus ♪
Damn it!
♪ You know I don't care no more ♪ Put down
your guns. There's no way off that ship.
You're surrounded.
♪ Don't care no more ♪
♪ No more, no more, no more ♪
Freeze!
♪ No more, no more ♪
♪ No more, no more ♪
♪ No more, no more ♪
Miami Vice.
♪ No more ♪
You're a cop?
♪ No more, no more♪♪
Rita, we got him.
Is he dead?
No.
We're takin' him in now. He's
gonna be away for a long, long time.
Ah, you know what I feel, fellas?
Relief. Things have been
very tough lately.
I've been under a lot of pressure. This
is gonna be like a nice little vacation.
Not today, buddy.
You think not, huh?
I have a court order
for the release of Tony Amato.
Release? He hasn't
even been charged.
And he won't be.
Amato is useful to us.
No outside intervention, huh? We were
about to arraign Amato when they showed up.
I don't like this
any more than you do.
Who are you? F. B. I.? C. I.A.?
What difference does it make?
What is this scum to you?
Amato leads us to certain factions.
Look, we're not here to play 20 questions.
We're here for Amato. Release him.
He's their end of a conduit. Through him,
certain factions in Central and South America...
are supplied
without embarrassing us.
"Supplied"? Guys like DuPass?
Yeah.
Give me the key.
- Lieutenant...
The lieutenant's been here before.
He knows how it goes.
I tried to tell you, fellas.
I got the juice.
Rita.
- You're letting him go.
Rita?
No!
comin' at ya from beautiful
downtown Miami Beach...
where the temperature is
a hundred and two degrees...
at 7:00 of the a.m.
So, why don't you all just kind of...
sit back, relax...
and let old Stan here
do the drivin'.
Yeah!
Off, Swi.
What's our E.T.A.
on these huckleberries?
Five more minutes.
Where can we get some
café cubano around here?
Who ya kidding?
Let's work those arms.
Work that body.
Work that body. Work that body.
Let's move it. Let's do it.
Those people keep up
that kind of pace,
none of 'em are gonna make lunch.
Sorry.
Listen, uh, I'm starting to get
a convention here.
What time is this supposed to go down?
Are we gonna pop this guy or what?
Everybody, stay loose.
There's too many people around.
Tell me about it.
The girls can't last too much longer.
I hope you're right.
Let's move it
One, two, three, four.
Should have seen him
in the '50s.
He was the best.
I did see him in the '50s.
Did ya? Oh.
This is wrong, all wrong.
Pack it in.
I'll pick up Tubbs and Zito.
Everybody, hold.
Zito, no time for dessert.
Get them out of here.
Okay, guys, let's get up.
Let's act naturally.
We're gonna take a walk, okay? We're
gonna go inside, okay? Come on. Let's go.
That's him. It's a go.
- Hey, take the chairs with 'em, man.
Zito.
We got the grenades.
You got the cash?
Well, I ran into a little snag.
I'm gonna need a couple more days.
Hey, no snag, no more days.
The money's in the bag.
Open it, please.
Okay.
Hold it! Police!
You all right?
Hell, no, I'm not all right.
You all right, lady?
I hate machine guns.
What's the problem?
I hate machine guns!
What are you yelling about?
When I get shot at by a 30 caliber
M-60 machine gun, I get scared!
And when I get scared,
I get angry!
You!
Hey. Hey... Hey, hey, hey, hey!
I want to know who's selling
you punks machine guns!
Hey, calm down, Tubbs! Calm down!
- I will not calm down!
Machine guns affect my ability to perform,
and I don't like that!
Nobody got hurt, right?
So, that's good, right?
Yeah, perfect,
but one thing, farm boy!
Just using that kind of artillery is
what's gonna get you a hotter seat, pal.
Front row for
the full 10-year run!
The guys in the van... one was
called Gentle, the other was Ramone.
They're from Ohio, I think.
That's all I know about 'em.
Look, we don't care about the errand
boys. Who do they work for, huh?
A hell of a way to start the day, huh?
You're tellin' me.
Breakfast with
an M-60 machine gun.
Yeah?
Lieutenant,
we've got that information
we've been looking for.
The runner's name is Tony Amato.
We need court orders for a
tap on the phone, the house,
the boat, the office, the car,
everything... the whole enchilada.
Amato's an international
gun merchant,
sometime smuggler.
Why the street? That's
what we want to find out.
I doubt this hillbilly is
throwing us a fake.
No.
Amato's not a name
you pull out of a hat.
Let's get into his laundry.
It's probably dirty.
Lester, come on.
I got a job for you.
That's our boy.
Are we sure no one's here?
Uh, no.
Good.
We'll have 30 seconds to shut off
the alarm once the circuit is broken.
Where's the switch located?
That's the million-dollar question.
Thirty seconds.
Eight-to-five it's in the closet.
We got 20 seconds.
Voilà.
Thirteen seconds.
James Bond, my man.
Nino Cerruti.
Fioravanti. Adolfo.
Huh. I checked this dude's wardrobe,
man. Some wardrobe.
I'm not talkin' about the kind
that has tags on it,
that read "machine washable" either.
You know, I hate goin' through
people's dirty laundry.
Yeah? Well, if you want to get a line
on someone, that's what you gotta do.
This guy's a real swinger.
Check this out.
"The Arsenal of Democracy."
Your perfect catalog for any
last-minute Christmas shopping.
You want to put in an order?
Do they gift wrap?
Look at that, man.
Prices, specifications,
everything.
Just like a Sears-Roebuck catalog.
Hey, I think you better put this
back where you got it from, buddy.
Yeah. I think we'll put the eye
on this guy from the bay.
Sounds like a winner.
How's it goin', Lester?
Take a look, Tubbs.
So, what's this doohickey
here? That changes the power.
You got times 10 now.
That's times 20. All right.
It's nice.
It goes to times 200.
Oh, man, that's great!
I've put each bug on
a separate channel.
There are two tape recorders,
voice-activated.
So, if you're monitoring one bug,
you can record another
and listen to it later.
This is a sonic-integrated
digital reader for the phone.
Oh, yeah, right. The "satta-fortis" and
the "ratta-bum" and the "hantoun rantoun."
Come on, Lester,
you want to give me that in English now?
Someone punches a telephone number,
this records the tones.
When you play it back,
the numbers appear here.
That's in case you want to know
the number they dialed.
Amazing.
- Not really.
The telephone is a
digit-to-tone-to-digit system...
Hey, not that, man. This.
Check this out, man. Ooh,
this chick is some kind of limber.
Hey, Crockett, come check
this thing out, man.
Oops.
Uh-oh.
What is it?
- I see some turkey over there
watchin' me watchin' him.
What?
Take a look.
Let me see.
Hey, we got company.
Federal agents.
Everybody stay right where you are.
Back it down, slim.
Miami Vice.
Miami Vice. Ech.
Uh, listen, I wouldn't go
pokin' around back there, bub.
Right.
What are you doing here?
- Stakeout.
What are you doin' here?
- Who are you staking out?
Tony Amato.
Hey!
There's a damn alligator back there! He's as big
as a house! Honest, Nick, he's as big as a house.
He's really back there.
Honest, Nick.
- We're here to take over your operation.
We're in place. You're not.
That's easily changed. We can have your bugs
cleaned out and ours installed by tomorrow.
Look, you guys are
out of your league on this.
What we are is "here."
What we're not is "leaving."
Be with that and we can all get
what we want, namely, Tony Amato.
Or you can start playing games
and you'll flush him.
And then we'll all get exactly what you little
boys in Washington generally shoot at, nothin'.
All right,
we'll piggyback your bugs,
but our mission
takes precedence.
Maybe, maybe not.
Just what is your mission,
Mr. Phelps?
A national armory was busted into.
Big score.
Tony Amato is about
to deal the weapons.
M-60 machine guns?
- That's not our major concern.
Well, it would be if you had one of 'em
trying to tattoo "Mother" on your chest.
What is?
- A crate of stingers.
You talkin' about ground-to-air stingers?
You got it.
Missiles? Guided missiles?
What did these guys do,
back up a semi? Oh, no, no, no.
These are small, hand-held,
about...about this big.
Weigh about thirty pounds. Put one on your
shoulder, aim, press the trigger and bingo.
They have a range of what?
Three and a half miles.
A guidance system sophisticated
enough to knock out an F-15.
This is what we're really scared of...
A commercial jetliner.
You want Tony Amato?
You want him?
All right, we'll dance.
We want the missiles.
Mclntyre stays here with you.
Um, with the alligator, Nick?
Looks like Tony and his lady
are goin' to a party.
So, where in the hell do you
think you're going in this?
All your taste is in your mouth.
You are so stupid, you can't
even dress yourself! It said formal!
Formal!
This guy's a real sweetheart.
This is a formal.
You get in there! Change!
What do you want me
to wear? What do I care?
Whatever you wear,
you're gonna button it wrong!
Why don't you just go without me?
Hey, you want somethin' to wear?
- Wear this!
Now, you're goin'!
Now, you get dressed!
Sounds like he's killin' her.
What's he doin'?
He pushed her into the pool.
This guy's scum.
Let me take a look.
You will get dried off.
You'll get dressed.
And you will go with me.
I am sick and tired of waiting for you.
Divorce me or... Will not happen.
Send me...I can't...
That will never, ever happen!
I didn't become a cop to spectate.
Let's nail this pig.
I want you to go to the airport
tomorrow morning.
Got a guy comin' in from Jamaica.
"Toussan," "Toussant," "DuPass"...
Something like that.
Do you know what he looks like?
No, I never met him.
He's gonna look for
the Maserati at the baggage area.
Come on, let's get out of here.
What about Mrs. Amato?
Hell with her.
All that,
then he leaves her anyway.
What a joke.
Hello?
Rita?
Rita.
Oh, God.
Rita, what is it?
I can't take it anymore.
He never stops.
It's...
Do you want me
to arrange the meeting?
Rita.
Oh, he'll know.
He won't.
He will.
He always knows everything.
Rita, there's no other way.
You've tried them all.
Rita... I'm scared.
I don't know how
you've lasted this long.
I better go.
Do you want me
to set up a meeting?
Rita?
Yes.
Okay. I'll set it up.
What was that all about?
Offhand,
I'd say Rita just made a decision
to have her husband killed.
I better go.
Do you want me to set up a meeting?
Gentlemen, gentlemen,
listen to the tape again.
She's going to ice him.
I don't make that correlation.
And we don't have any more time
for your passion plays, Detective.
Our priority is to get
those missiles back.
We're not gonna just stand around
and let some citizen get shot,
even if he is lower than dirt.
Look, if she takes him out,
it blows us all out of the water.
I'm willing to take the chance
that that is not going to happen.
You've got Tony Amato
under a lot of eyes.
He's safer now
than he's ever been.
DuPass is arriving today.
Amato has never seen him.
We're in an ideal position
to move to the next step.
We're gonna pick up DuPass at
the airport and replace him with Paul.
Paul, how long you been
doing undercover?
I've done some assignments
along the way.
Yeah,
and I'll bet you took drama in high school.
No offense, Paul,
but I think we'll handle this.
You the man or the driver?
Just a little domestic help, pal.
Jump in.
Yeah?
- Is this Jimmy Yureka?
Who wants to know? I was given
your name by a mutual friend.
She said I might be able
to meet you somewhere.
There's a park on Fulton Street.
I know the one.
Be at the southeast corner
in an hour.
Beat it.
You lookin' for me?
I don't think I can
go through with this.
Your choice.
My choice?
My choice.
If only I had a choice,
but I don't.
He does.
You can leave him.
Don't you think I've tried?
Lady, I only know what you tell me.
Well, I tried.
I ran away.
He found me and brought me back.
I went to the police.
They said to get a lawyer.
Last month I got a lawyer.
I told him I didn't want Tony's
money. I just wanted out.
Tony tried to buy the lawyer off,
but he couldn't.
The lawyer said I had a
right to leave if I wanted to,
and I had a right
to hire a lawyer.
Tony says, "Is that so?"
Then he hires these two animals,
and they follow the lawyer's wife
until she's alone.
Then they get her.
When they were through with her,
they told her to tell her husband...
that if he didn't
mind his own business,
their daughter would be next.
Their daughter.
And he would.
Tony could do that.
I should never have gone
to that lawyer.
What happened to his wife
was my fault.
Your fault?
- He didn't know what Tony was like.
But I did.
I have no place to turn,
and I can't take it anymore.
I can't.
So you want me to kill him?
I thought I did.
But now you don't?
I wish him dead every day,
every minute for what he's done.
But not his way.
I can't do it this way.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
I'm not who you think I am.
I'm a cop.
I want you to listen to me
very carefully, Rita.
We have your house bugged.
There's a listening device
in every room,
and taps on the phone.
You know, Tony's in big trouble.
The federal government wants him.
We want him. And we're gonna get him.
You don't know him.
Oh, yes, we do.
He's killed people.
I know that.
He's smart. He's so smart.
We know he's smart,
and we know he's tough.
But he's not smart enough
for all of us.
We can put him away, Rita,
but we need your help.
We need you to go back home.
If you don't,
Tony will get suspicious.
He might discover
the house is bugged.
He'll know we're on to him.
And we'll lose him.
A couple of days. That's all.
And then we'll put him away
where he can't bother you anymore.
We'll be right there every minute.
Can you do that, Rita?
Can you buy us some time?
Okay.
We haven't heard from everyone
on this one.
There's got to be someone else
waiting in the wings in Washington.
This little demonstration you wanted
is costing me a lot of money.
Hey, Tony.
Hey, you're pretty smart
to check this out, man.
I mean, they have had a bad rep,
but that's all been worked out, man.
They got a new
guidance system now.
Better to be safe than sorry. So,
you're an expert on this weapon, man?
Hey, man, I mean to tell ya.
Good old Uncle Sam spent
every bit of six months...
teachin' me
all there was to know, man.
You talkin' army?
- No, man.
National Guard.
You're killin' us.
Say, Tony, how about us
lettin' one of these birds fly, man?
Mmm.
Okay, the number at the top
is the target distance.
The readout at the bottom
is the firing sequence.
That's very complicated, man.
Oh, no, man.
Any knucklehead with a G.E.D.
can light one up.
Okay, now, to turn on the tracking system,
all you have to do is flip this here.
Wait a minute, man. This thing not gonna go
off, is it? No, man, not until we tell it to.
Okay, now hold it steady.
See this switch here?
Yeah, man. Okay,
push that forward with your thumb.
Okay, hold that there.
Okay, now that specific image is
locked into the computer tracking system.
The missile will seek out
that target and that target only.
And as it gets within
striking range,
the heat seeker automatically integrates with
the base system, and the missile homes in.
Hmm.
- Now, here's another little twist that
a lot of people don't know nothin' about.
What's that? Armin'
the warhead is optional.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I don't understand.
Let's say your target
is a commercial plane,
and you want to make it look
like it crashed accidentally. Yeah.
Well, you just flip
this little switch,
and the missile
goes right up the wing,
probably ripping the wing off the airplane,
and down she goes.
But no explosion. Makes it look like it just
crashed accidentally, man, like engine failure.
Just that pure and simple.
Let me get this straight now.
I take this, and I shoot the airplane.
Uh-huh.
And either it explodes or not,
but it still knocks the plane down.
Right!
Yeah, it'll hit like a great big bullet.
But, hey, talk's cheap, right? That's what
we're here for, to pop the cap on this baby.
Gentle, here she comes.
All right. Okay.
Come here.
How many missiles
we talkin' about? Ten.
Nine now.
Can you get more?
No, man.
Gettin' them was just a fluke.
The sarge had left me and Ramone here to guard
the armory while he went out to get pizza.
So, I called my boys over,
and we picked up a few of them,
and a couple of M-60s,
and then they booked up.
Gentle, Gentle,
easy with the details, all right?
Oh, yeah, man. I'm sorry.
The price is $75,000 each,
as we discussed.
Yeah, man.
Are we just talking here or what?
We're talkin'.
But I'll take all the inventory.
Hey, man,
that's what we want to hear. Right, Ramone?
After I inspect the merchandise,
then we'll talk about delivery.
I don't deliver.
Well, then the 75 ain't 75.
Sixty-five if I have to handle transport.
We're talkin' about port of entry, man.
Sixty-seven, five,
and you got a deal.
Cool.
Hey.
Good. What do you say
we get some chow?
No, thanks.
I have other commitments.
When do we finish our business?
When do I see the inventory?
Tomorrow.
That's when we finish
our business. Good.
Good night.
That one's dead, man.
Rita?
♪ Stay with me ♪
Rita!
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just
one more day with me ♪
♪ Maybe you can
rearrange your plans ♪
♪ I know there's
a whole new world you found ♪
- Easy does it, Rita.
♪ And it's to that world you’re bound ♪
Hold your mud.
Here. Look what I got ya.
♪ Please, don't leave me standin' here ♪
Go ahead. Put 'em on.
♪ Just stranded on the ground ♪
♪ So, won’t you stay with me ♪
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just one more day with me ♪
You like 'em?
They're beautiful, Tony.
♪ I can't bear ♪
♪ To see you there this way ♪
What's the matter?
Your nose still out of joint about that Bal
Harbour lawyer and his junior league wife?
Honey, I only did that
because I love you.
Don't, Tony.
You have to understand that.
Come here.
♪ All the nights I've held you ♪
I said come here!
♪ Tonight's the night ♪
♪ That means the most ♪
♪ So, stay with me ♪
♪ Tonight I'll show you ♪
♪ That our love
is something beautiful ♪
♪ I'm gonna give you all
the lovin' you need ♪ Don't!
Come on...
♪ Tonight I'll show you ♪
♪ That our love
is something beautiful ♪
♪ For the rest of your life ♪
♪ You'll never want to leave ♪
♪ Won't you stay with me ♪
♪ Stay with me ♪
♪ Spend just one more day
with me♪♪ I'm sorry, Rita.
Are you out of your mind?
Damn it, we can't pick him up! Oh,
yes, we can.
We've got a hook on the van with the
M-60 and the spent stinger tube in it.
Off the threat of
a 10-year fall for that,
we can lever the location of the other
nine missiles out of them right now.
We're this close. This close. We
can have Amato. We can have it all.
Getting those missiles off the streets...
is what this operation has been about
from the start.
We cannot risk
losing this opportunity.
Have you people
ever heard of a tail?
Don't you see it, Pappas?
We can have it all.
I mean, we got Amato covered
like a rug, man.
He goes out for an ice cream cone,
it looks like a damn parade.
You'll get yours. Just let us get a chance
to get Tony Amato, not just the missiles.
Is there something about this deal that
you haven't told us? Another element maybe?
No. Why?
Your eyes.
I want the stingers off the street.
What kind of chance
to get Amato?
Give us till tomorrow.
When tomorrow?
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
Morning? Afternoon? When?
They're gonna call me
tomorrow at noon.
I'm inspecting the inventory.
Amato, Gentle,
Ramone and your missiles...
Everything in one place at one time.
That's when we'll bust 'em.
All nice and easy.
All right.
Don't tell me, you play poker too.
- Yeah.
You got a buck?
A what?
Yeah. Tony,
the guy's not here. He checked out.
What? Where'd he go?
Don't know.
Just like that? No message? Nothin'?
Nope, nothin'. What do you want me to do?
Get back here.
He spotted the bug.
What are you gonna do?
I'm trying to save this thing, man.
Come on, answer it!
Yeah.
- This is DuPass.
Don't talk.
- I'm not talkin'. I'm not walkin', man. I'm flyin' right out of here.
What is this kind of trick bag you
got me backed up into anyway? What?
They got surveillance all over me. You
can consider me and my money gone.
No, no, no, no.
The deal can go down right now.
What are you talkin' about?
I can't talk!
Listen, meet me where we
picked you up... in one hour.
In an hour.
Good.
Pappas, forget tomorrow.
It's goin' down right now.
Zito!
Crockett.
They're moving.
Look, stay with the van. When you
get an idea where it's going, sing out.
Hey... Hey, what you doin', man?
Just checkin'.
Just checkin'.
We lost whoever was on us.
You sure about that?
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Look, we can close
this deal right now.
I'm thinkin' about gettin' on an airplane,
man, and gettin' out of here, you know?
I don't feel too secure. What are
you tryin' to do, grind me on the price?
No, man.
Then what? What is it? Look...
All right, look,
you check the inventory out.
Then, you don't feel secure,
you get on a plane.
Boom, you're out of here, and we can
close the deal long distance. Capisce?
Cool.
♪♪ Come on.
Bingo. Hold it.
There's the van.
We got the van, Crockett. It's in a
parking lot next to the power station.
Where are you guys?
We're on the, uh,
drawbridge on Second Ave.
♪ Well, you can tell everyone I'm a
down disgrace ♪ Here comes Tubbs.
♪ Drag my name all over the place ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You can tell everybody
about the state I'm in ♪
♪ You won't catch me cryin'
'cause I just can't win ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ What you say ♪
♪ I don't play the same games ♪
♪ You play ♪
♪ 'Cause I've been talkin' to the people
that you call your friends ♪
♪ And it seems to me
there's a means to an end ♪
♪ They don't care anymore ♪
♪ And as for me I can sit here and
bide my time ♪ It's goin' down on the boat.
♪ I got nothin' to lose
if I speak my mind ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care no more ♪
♪ I don't care what you do ♪
Stan, you come with me.
Zito, you wait for the backup.
♪ We never played
by the same rules ♪
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ I won't be there anymore ♪
♪ Get out of my way ♪
♪ Let me by ♪
♪ I got better things
to do with my time ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ Well, I don't care now
what you say ♪
♪ 'Cause every day ♪
♪ I'm feeling fine with myself ♪
♪ And I don't care now what you say ♪
♪ Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey ♪
♪ I'll do all right by myself ♪
♪ 'Cause I know ♪
♪ 'Cause I remember
all the times I tried so hard ♪
♪ And you laughed in my face
'cause you held the cards ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ And I really ain't bothered
what you think of me ♪
♪ 'Cause all I want of you
is just to let me be ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You hear? I don't care no more ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ What you say ♪
Merchandise.
♪ I never did believe you much ♪
Money.
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ I won't be there no more ♪
♪ So get out of my way ♪
♪ Let me by ♪
♪ I got better things to do
with my time ♪
♪ I don't care anymore ♪
♪ You hear? I don't care anymore ♪
♪ I don't care no more ♪
♪ You listenin'? I don't care no more ♪
♪ No more ♪
Federal agents.
Put up your hands.
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, Jesus ♪
Damn it!
♪ You know I don't care no more ♪ Put down
your guns. There's no way off that ship.
You're surrounded.
♪ Don't care no more ♪
♪ No more, no more, no more ♪
Freeze!
♪ No more, no more ♪
♪ No more, no more ♪
♪ No more, no more ♪
Miami Vice.
♪ No more ♪
You're a cop?
♪ No more, no more♪♪
Rita, we got him.
Is he dead?
No.
We're takin' him in now. He's
gonna be away for a long, long time.
Ah, you know what I feel, fellas?
Relief. Things have been
very tough lately.
I've been under a lot of pressure. This
is gonna be like a nice little vacation.
Not today, buddy.
You think not, huh?
I have a court order
for the release of Tony Amato.
Release? He hasn't
even been charged.
And he won't be.
Amato is useful to us.
No outside intervention, huh? We were
about to arraign Amato when they showed up.
I don't like this
any more than you do.
Who are you? F. B. I.? C. I.A.?
What difference does it make?
What is this scum to you?
Amato leads us to certain factions.
Look, we're not here to play 20 questions.
We're here for Amato. Release him.
He's their end of a conduit. Through him,
certain factions in Central and South America...
are supplied
without embarrassing us.
"Supplied"? Guys like DuPass?
Yeah.
Give me the key.
- Lieutenant...
The lieutenant's been here before.
He knows how it goes.
I tried to tell you, fellas.
I got the juice.
Rita.
- You're letting him go.
Rita?
No!