Episode 4 Hit List

[mjcmmv]

1 hour ago, Matt5 said:

Ha ha yes I know what I meant, that’s the main thing right?! 

Perfect!

[airtommy]

3 hours ago, Matt5 said:

Ok is the front bedroom window still there he went through? The window to the other side of the front door looks bigger in the pictures from Coldwell Banker.

I can see the main large front room window where the sofa was in front is unchanged as well as the front door they all came through.

The bedroom windwos look exactly the same to me.  The main front room window looks much bigger now.

[Matt5]

10 hours ago, airtommy said:

The bedroom windwos look exactly the same to me.  The main front room window looks much bigger now.

I’ll study the photos carefully, the three main things I’m looking for when I go are:

1/ closeup of front porch and door from front of property ( I have the drive and background from a previous visit here).

2/ interior looking to front door and hallway as seen in the episode.

3/ front lawn and bedroom window (hitman gunned down).

[Matt5]

I’m off to view 119 Harbor Drive, Key Biscayne - I have a midday viewing with a friend from Coldwell Banker. 

Thankyou to @airtommy for bringing this sale listing to all our attention as otherwise it would not have been possible to see this piece of Miami Vice history. 

Edited February 8, 2019 by Matt5

[Dadrian]

Hope to see some pics, @Matt5 

[Matt5]

Here you go guys, from Friday’s visit with my friend from Coldwell Banker to 119 Harbor Drive, Key Biscayne. All angles we see interior wise we see in the episode, the bedroom picture is where the hitman ran into and jumped out of but not seen interior wise on camera.

Edited February 13, 2019 by Matt5

[Matt5]

And the exterior of 119 Harbor Drive from Friday.

Edited February 13, 2019 by Matt5

[airtommy]

So what did your friend say when you told him to stand on the lawn and snap a photo as you come crashing through the window?  

[daytona365]

On 2/6/2019 at 6:27 AM, airtommy said:

Good question, I never studied the interior scenes.  We mostly see the room at the entrance and it has certainly changed.

Before, you entered the house by stepping into a quasi-hallway.   That hallway and the closet have been removed, expanding the family room.  Also there was an alcove with a plant.  That has been removed, probably to expand the bedroom on the other side of the wall (which the assassin runs through to get to the window).

And it seems crazy, but I think they moved the back hallway (which Caroline hides in and the assassin runs down and jumps over her).  I think it's more to the right in these pictures, farther away from the house entrance.  It now starts where the closet used to be.

@pahonu what do you think?

I could imagine that the hallway and the closet were added by the FX crew. The closet is the only structural part that gets bullet holes. Also, it extends into the hallway where the wall is now flush with the doors on that side. Maybe they built the closet to hide the cables and electronics for the pyro effects. The diffenences in size of the window could be due to the camera angle, it looks huge on the photos from the Coldwell banker, but much narrower on the ones from Matt5. Also, it is partly covered by the curtains in the scene, making it look narrower.

 

 

Edited February 14, 2019 by daytona365

[airtommy]

On 2/14/2019 at 5:01 AM, daytona365 said:

I could imagine that the hallway and the closet were added by the FX crew. The closet is the only structural part that gets bullet holes. Also, it extends into the hallway where the wall is now flush with the doors on that side. Maybe they built the closet to hide the cables and electronics for the pyro effects.

I think the closet was part of the house.  That explains why they have that indentation (behind Sonny/Caroline/Billy in this pic).  That's so you can get around the closet to the hallway.

[airtommy]

Nepenthe in Fort Lauderdale (the night club in "Hit List"):

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/89720217546746101/

Apparently this was a teen dance club:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-09-10-8502070654-story.html

This building is GONE and has been replaced by apartments.  It is not the current Pet Supermarket, which is a shopping center unchanged from 1980.

• yellow = Nepenthe (3937 N Federal Hwy)
• red P = Pet Supermarket / shopping center (3939 N Federal Hwy)

1980:

2015:

Edited March 17, 2019 by airtommy

[Matt5]

I took this yesterday early evening an overview of the tailing Linus scene on Lincoln Rd Mall at Lennox and where Sonny and Rico walked with Linus and the hitman sat in front of the fountain. The Banana Republic building and theatre were also featured. The building you can see close in my photograph that I’m standing next too is the Suntrust building (which Sonny looked up).

[Dadrian]

I posted my comment in Miami Misc. before I realized you posted this here. Do I still get points?  

[Matt5]

7 minutes ago, Dadrian said:

I posted my comment in Miami Misc. before I realized you posted this here. Do I still get points?  

Bonus points my friend.

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Matt5

[Matt5]

Here’s another taken this early evening by me.

[Matt5]

After the Argentinian hits the businessmen at the Atlantis Condo on Brickell there are 2 cuts of Stan and Larry running out - this was not filmed at 1925 Brickell (surveillance building) or the Atlantis. I noticed they run into a carpark (Flagship Bank Building) which was much further north on Brickell at 631 Brickell Avenue.

[airtommy]

On 10/26/2019 at 6:45 PM, Matt5 said:

After the Argentinian hits the businessmen at the Atlantis Condo on Brickell there are 2 cuts of Stan and Larry running out - this was not filmed at 1925 Brickell (surveillance building) or the Atlantis. I noticed they run into a carpark (Flagship Bank Building) which was much further north on Brickell at 631 Brickell Avenue.

Great eye!  Nobody ever noticed this before.

Flagship Bank is the building we see in the S1 opening montage.  I wrote a post about it here . It's at 777 Brickell on the east side of Brickell.  Their parking lot might have been on the west side of Brickell.  799 Brickell Plaza might be what we see in the top right corner of your second pic.  I'm really not sure, though.

 

[Dadrian]

So you don’t think Stan could’ve ran 12 blocks that fast?? 

[mjcmmv]

48 minutes ago, Dadrian said:

So you don’t think Stan could’ve ran 12 blocks that fast?? 

Stan was awesome!! Let's give him credit! 

[Crockettt]

@airtommy what do you think about this parking lot replaced now by a new condo?

Yellow circle - Eastern National Bank at 799 Brickell Plaza
Green circle - Flagship Bank at 777 Brickell

 

Edited October 28, 2019 by Crockettt

[airtommy]

8 hours ago, Crockettt said:

@airtommy what do you think about this parking lot replaced now by a new condo?

Yellow circle - Eastern National Bank at 799 Brickell Plaza
Green circle - Flagship Bank at 777 Brickell

 

It's the best possibility, but I haven't found any way to really conclusively say that's it.

[Matt5]

23 hours ago, airtommy said:

Great eye!  Nobody ever noticed this before.

Flagship Bank is the building we see in the S1 opening montage.  I wrote a post about it here . It's at 777 Brickell on the east side of Brickell.  Their parking lot might have been on the west side of Brickell.  799 Brickell Plaza might be what we see in the top right corner of your second pic.  I'm really not sure, though.

 

The windows sure match 799 Brickell we see in my second picture.

[airtommy]

When Caroline and Sonny walk away from their lawyers to have a private chat, this location hasn't been precisely identified yet. 

We know it's at the Dade County Courthouse.  Because of the railing, we know it's not on the north or south side.  We can't use details of the courthouse to distinguish between east and west because it's been modified to fit wheelchair ramps.

West side:

East side:

The east side is wrong because of the background buildings.  Some of them are new, but some were there in 1984 and yet we see nothing in the screencap.  So, I believe it's the west side.  This makes sense because as they leave the lawyers, they head towards the west side.  Also, I think I hear the Metrorail, and the Metrorail runs by the west side of the courthouse. 

 

Edited March 11, 2020 by airtommy

[Matt5]

11 hours ago, airtommy said:

When Caroline and Sonny walk away from their lawyers to have a private chat, this location hasn't been precisely identified yet. 

We know it's at the Dade County Courthouse.  Because of the railing, we know it's not on the north or south side.  We can't use details of the courthouse to distinguish between east and west because it's been modified to fit wheelchair ramps.

West side:

East side:

The east side is wrong because of the background buildings.  Some of them are new, but some were there in 1984 and yet we see nothing in the screencap.  So, I believe it's the west side.  This makes sense because as they leave the lawyers, they head towards the west side.  Also, I think I hear the Metrorail, and the Metrorail runs by the west side of the courthouse. 

 

Love visiting there.

[Bren10]