Air Date: 8 Feb 1985 (NBC)
Director: David Anspaugh
Writer: Daniel Pyne
Trudy, Gina, and Castillo, having much less fun, are at a crime scene. A body has just been fished out of the water. There are no marks on her body, and it's not clear how she died, since she's been in the water about eight hours. Interestingly, though unknown to the vice cops, Rico's old flame, Valerie, is among the spectators on hand.
The next morning, we see Valerie in Castillo's office at the OCB, a fact instantly noticed by Rico when he walks in. Rico shepherds Valerie away from Castillo's office to take a walk with him. Valerie tells him that her sister, Diane, came down to Miami with some friends after graduation. After being there awhile, she and her friends moved on to Chicago. The friends got tired of Chicago and went home to New York. Diane didn't, and now she's nowhere to be found. Valerie had been looking for her again in Miami, but with no success.
On a seemingly unrelated case, Switek and Zito are posing as exterminators to take videos of a party going on at a house that's suspected to be a front for a high-class call-girl operation. Meanwhile, Tubbs and Valerie rekindle their romance.
The next morning, Valerie again comes to the OCB to say goodbye to Rico before returning to New York. Crockett invite her to kill some time by watching the video shot by Larry and Stan the previous evening. Watching the video, Valerie recognizes her sister. She's in the company of a man named Roberto Marquez. This changes everything for Valerie, who now decides to stay in Miami a bit longer.
The next scene juxtaposes shots of Diane being outfitted with a new wardrobe, courtesy of David Trainor, and of Diane doing lines of cocaine on a mirror. [Change your Ways]
Valerie and Rico pay a visit to Marquez. They show him pictures of himself with Diane. At first, he refuses to give them any information, but after Valerie tells him Diane is her baby sister, he relents and agrees to set them up to meet David Trainor. We next see Trainor with Diane. She is now obviously addicted to cocaine and, just as obviously, Trainor is no gentleman.
Sonny and Rico head to a party at David Trainor's house. While Crockett is being hit upon pretty much continuously, Tubbs spots Diane. He follows her to an upstairs room where she's preparing to snort cocaine. He tells her he wants to take her home. She refuses to leave, so Rico drags her out of the place kicking and screaming -- to a car where Valerie awaits. Valerie slaps her to stop her from screaming.
Diane is taken to a drug rehabilitation center to get straight. While she's there, Valerie tries to talk with her, but Diane insists she is contented with her life. Recognizing that arguing is futile, Valerie just tells Diane that she'll be there if Diane ever needs her. Back at the OCB, Sonny argues strenuously that Diane be made to testify against Trainor. Rico and Valerie, on the other hand, insist that she's been used enough. Castillo tells Crockett to find another way.
Valerie's evidently made an impression on her baby sister. Diane calls David Trainor and tells him she's going back to New York. Surprisingly, Trainor doesn't object, but he asks to see her one last time before she leaves Miami. Wisely, Diane refuses. But Trainor realizes Diane could do him damage and orders Lyle to kill her.
Valerie and Rico spend an intimate evening together, discussing Valerie's plans to stay in Miami to be with her sister. At the same time, Lyle breaks into Diane's apartment and injects her with an overdose. Rico and Valerie are still in bed when Sonny calls to inform them that Diane is dead. [I Wanna Know What Love Is]
David Trainor is brought into the OCB for questioning, but it doesn't yield anything. Tubbs nearly comes to blows with Trainor, and would have seriously harmed the man, had Crockett not restrained him. Castillo gives Tubbs a dressing-down, and Valerie also tells Tubbs that he must go by the book. Valerie then tells Rico she's taking her sister back home to New York.
Tubbs and Crockett say their goodbyes to Valerie at the airport. Later, at OCB, Tubbs receives a phone call from Valerie's friend in New York, Billie, saying that Valerie never got on the airplane home. Tubbs and Rico take off to look for Valerie. But they're too late. Valerie has gone to Trainor's house. She first shoots Lyle, after he pulls a gun on her. She then goes after Trainor. Lyle, however, is only injured and not dead, and raises his gun against Valerie one more time. Crockett and Tubbs show up and shoot Lyle before he can shoot Valerie in the back. Seconds later, Valerie shoots and kills Trainor.
-- Daryle Gardner-Bonneau
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Guest Cast Pam Grier David Thornton Tery Ferman John Turturro |
Additional Cast Mario Ernesto Sanchez |
Featured Music Bob Seger, Come To Poppa Rockwell, Change Your Ways Foreigner, I Wanna Know What Love Is |
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Created by Anthony Yerkovich
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Costume Designer Jodie Tillen
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Extras Casting Cheryl A. Louden Colette R. Hailey
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