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Aside from some Clothes i own i was recently able to get my hand on a few Miami Dade Badges, Miami Vice Sun Glasses and a Miami Vice Wrist Watch. Here are some Pictures of some of the Badges and the Watch

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I think they are replicas you can order on line. Usually not illegal, not in Florida where I am anyways, as long as you have them on display and/or (you) are not using them with the intent to impersonate LE.

I know the answer but will leave it for others.

Sonny's payoff from Vincent DeMarco in "One Eyed Jack" about 8 grand if I remember correctly.

I don’t exactly dress like DJ but I’ve borrowed some elements and have gotten both compliments and ppl making fun of me! But I don’t care what ppl think I dress how I want when I want! Very few people dress his style anyway so copying him isn’t a big deal anymore. I’ll also add that girls actually like it while some dudes make fun of it I’ll take compliments from girls over other men. Honestly a lot of men hate the idea of wearing a lot of white or light colored anything I get so much crap for white pants from other men because they don’t have the confidence to wear it. Just my two cents and happy to be here!

Ha ha I remember - great scene.

Although we don’t see it in Miami Vice as it was demolished in 1980 - this is the Miami Beach Dog Track aka Kennel Club which was on first and Ocean siting on the site Nikki Beach is on today at 1 Ocean Drive. Here is a good article I found too - http://growingintothemystery.net/then-and-now-the-miami-beach-kennel-club-and-environs-1930-and-todays-south-beach/

This isn't exactly one of my stories...at least not entirely. I've got two I'm working on, but this is a bit of an exercise involving @mjcmmv and me. I'm writing a scene from Rico's POV and she's following up with one from Sonny's POV. Hope you all enjoy it, and you can see how our styes work in a different (and we hope interesting) way. The story's set after Definitely Miami, just so you know when the action's taking place. Ricardo Tubbs turned and looked at his partner's profile as Sonny Crockett guided the black Daytona through the early evening Miami traffic. Each traffic light they passed dyed the stubble on Sonny's chin a light shade of red. Almost like he'd been drinking blood Rico thought with a narrow smile. He felt his mind wandering, and didn't really try to stop it. It wasn't like they were on a big bust. The guy they were meeting was named Tommy Martinez. "Like an extra from Scarface," Sonny had joked during the briefing. They'd found his name in a little black address book Callie had kept taped behind her headboard. Callie. Rico thought back to the slender blonde with the cool eyes and ice-cold heart who'd targeted Sonny through his cover as Sonny Burnett, setting him up to be gunned down by her crazy boyfriend Charlie...or to replace him depending on how things turned out. But Callie had a plan. The crazy ones always did. They'd found Burnett's name in the book, along with close to thirty others neatly crossed off and another four tacked on after Burnett. Tommy was first on the list. And he wasn't hard to find. A couple of calls to CIs and they had a meet arranged. A gentleman's fifteen key deal, with the promise of more to come if everyone was satisfied. But first they had to meet and greet. Dressed in Armani's finest, with his Smith & Wesson snug in its hip holster, Rico let his mind slide into Cooper's space. Down from New York. Flush with other men's money and looking to score. Stylin' and profilin'. Only the best would do. And there it was. He turned back to Sonny and grinned. "Let's get this party started, partner."

Didn’t he tell Candy he was from Wichita?

"Give A Little, Take A Little" Racing off to save Gina.

I look at it this way. As long as you feel good in your Vice clothing the muscle tone does not matter. If you walk around with confidence as you dress like Crockett or Tubbs others will notice in a good way.

The one in the middle supposedly is a real police badge. An old one and no longer valid, the other two on the side are replicas of the Police Badges of the Miami Dade Police back in the 80s, they are a tiny bit smaller in size and the lettering is different, but like i said, they are replicas.

I thought this was going to be a bit tricky, well done!

Great catch. I never recognized him but he is listed in the credits too.

Ha ha yes I know great.

Oh, we're not done yet, Matt5.

Hey guys I’m new to the forum and happy to be here! So not to be a Debbie Downer I would disagree to do those workouts to get traps like Crockett they were defined but not big by any means front raises and side raises are more likely to get you traps like Crockett they add some size but really define your shoulders, delts, and traps. I’ll also add I wish I had as slim a waist as DJ!

“Hanging by a Thread” great song which came out a year before Mike Rutherford, founding member of M and M as well as Genesis, released Invisible Touch with Collins and Genesis. The 1986 Invisible Touch album had many songs that would have worked in Miami Vice as it was quite a So-Peter Gabriel sounding album. No tracks were used in the show till 1989 in the final episode -“Land of Confusion”.

I really enjoyed this. A nice story.

That's one of the things that made Sonny Crockett........ Cool !

I find a bit annoying that Morgan Ritcher is sometimes using her false personal perceptions as an “objective” reasoning for downrating an episode (on the contrary she is of course entitled to her own overall rating). She maintains for example that Lombard faked his death at the end of season one and his resurrection in WOT is therefore hard to believe. In fact, Lombard rejected to testify in court against Librizzi at the end of season 1 before leaving the courthouse and the last scene showed two armed goons in a car making a u-turn to follow him for a hit. Ritcher must have misunderstood the Lombard episode ending to make a wrong claim about a final fake death in that episode. Given the real end it is not so unlikely that he has been fleeing around the world with Librizzi on his heels and risks to resurface to meet his grandson. But I agree with her that there is a character continuity issue with Lombards son who was a complete different character in season 1. That’s a mistake they did several times with long arching storylines eg also with Ma Sek in Heart of Night. that they used Ned Eisenberg again after three episodes is weak but explainable. Cancellation of the series (and the decision to bring Librizzi back for concluding the Lombard arc) was decided after filming Lost Madonna.

I like this one.

I live near Miami now and wear pastel colored polo shirts and pastel shorts all the time with white or gray slip ons and the only time I got a funny look was from 2 young guys while waiting in line at an italian store for some food, but they may not have even been looking at me. Before cutting my hair last month I was *somewhat* rockin' Don's hairstyle too. Sometimes I'll wear an off white blazer during the cooler months (especially at night) but I still haven't done the full white-on-white look (yet). I see plenty of white and pastel colored suits in department stores at the mall so I'm guessing the look didn't completely go out of style here. It is very hot and you wanna wear lighter colors.

Having a little dance party with the wife

I prefer to study caitlin's body.

I’m listening and enjoying Jan Hammer’s new album “Sketches with Jazz”. Out now!

It's the producers flat out. People like to point at writers, but they're only writing what the producers want. If you look at the draft scripts throughout the series' run (not just the last two seasons) you see some real gems cut out and replaced with lesser bits. Vice lost a great deal of context and weight in that process.

About Morgan from her Twitter post.

The Red tape review is based on a misunderstanding IMO. Tubbs‘ behavior is not bad continuity by the writers and yes, they did everything (well) to really make us believe that Tubbs has defected. He even had his new aggressive behavior with Switek alone in the office with nobody else around. He was not forced to maintain this charade at this point but it was safer and more credible within the force and to mislead the viewer. In 30 years of watching this episode I never came onto the same negative conclusion or idea about the character development quality like she did here. But maybe she needs to take an „advocatus diaboli“ position on everything to spice up her reviews?

I think that the degree of Sonny's passionate involvement in getting Hackman released from Death Row was a bit unbelievable (for the reasons cited above)... but on the other hand, I think he wanted Hackman to fry for things he had actually done, rather than for a particular act he hadn't done/may not have done (according to the new eyewitness information). While he didn't think Hackman was 'innocent'--he knew Hackman had committed serious crimes in the past and would likely commit crimes in the future if he was released, he was pulled into the deception of Hackman's prison conversion. After all, Hackman was taking a pretty big chance that Sonny would be willing to intervene, and that he would be able to get the governor to commute the death sentence. If the execution hadn't been coming up in such a time crunch, Sonny would have been able to investigate more thoroughly and determine if the other 'witnesses' were lying, etc. However, he didn't have time to turn over every stone.

I think it's like she says, the brutality was an extreme that Sonny thought was justified due to the constraints of time and the stakes being so high. Also remember that with this being a neo-noir show that Sonny was never perfect in the first place. Sonny is enforcing the law, not morality. It's the same sort of moral relativism that allows Sonny to admire Lombard or lets Vincent Hannah have coffee with Neil McCauley in Heat. They are in their own world and don't react the same as we would or think they should. Hackman may be a murderer but the one he is to be executed for he appears to be (at first) innocent of. Plus Crockett helped put him away which gives Sonny personal investment and responsibility in this case.

You are right. In an interview D. Wolf said something like this: "I left "Law and Order" and did "Miami Vice" because it fit well into my curriculum vitae." That sounded to me a lot like calculated business activity, not like his heart was in.

Wolf did write a few decent teleplays but overall they were poorly done. Why I think he was no good for the show he didn't have his own vision, so he had to get involved in writing. Michael Mann co-wrote one I think but he had a clear vision which was the style and the vibe of the show, the attitude of the characters as well. I honestly don't think Wolf cared for Vice. Reminds me of the time when Richard Donner was sacked half way through making Superman ll and Richard Lester messed it up a bit, he even said in a interview a few years ago that at the time he didn't care for the Superman franchise. I think your heart has to be in the show for it to work, especially if you are in charge.

Totally disagree with her on all scenes after Archie‘s death being unnecessary because overexplaining. Maybe she did not watch the last two minutes properly. There are three key messages contained at the end that must not be dropped: 1) Crockett leaning on the wall, completely shattered by Archie‘s death while Switek and Peppin walking by smiling and whistling like nothing happened. Key message: the others can turn off when going off duty, Crockett cannot. This will be important later in the series. 2) Atkins‘ statement: „It was a good collar Crockett“ and „nobody in my unit wanted Walker more than Ramirez“ underlines that and gives the episode its name. Atkins feels a lot when Ramirez dies but even he accepts the collateral damage number two in this case for „the greater good“. 3) the football given back to Crockett who dumps it. Symbol as he gave it to Archie for a new start and to show himself that his work is not useless. When he dumps it, he is broken for the first time in the series as he dumps not just the ball but his own past. He had kept the ball for a long time. cutting out these scenes would have diluted the message and removed the character build up that let to Crockett’s disenchantment later on. Part of good storytelling in VICE is to show the consequences not just the impact.

Once again she makes good points about Mann and Wolf here. But I think that stopping short of the ending that we got would be robbing us of the full repercussions of this case and yet another contributing factor to Sonny's eventual burnout. Plus it would leave us without the titular line being spoken, which is something this episode seems built to get in. To stop the show right after Archie gets shot would rob us of Sonny's cathartic outburst, and to stop it after the outburst itself I feel would just be awkward. In short, I largely agree with what she says about Mann's presentation but not as it pertains to this episode. It will be interesting, however, to see how she handles Shadow In the Dark.

Love The Rusty Pelican!!