They proposition him, and for $25,000 up front he agrees to take them to Cartagena. He sends them to Jimmy Cole, who they find playing his guitar at a dilapidated hangar. The two Vice cops first go and see one of their contacts, the hard-partying Tucker Smith, for the name of a pilot. Despite the dangers, Crockett and Tubbs agree, handing their badges to Castillo before they leave. The catch is that they will be completely on their own - no backup, no support, no pass through customs, and no transport provided. The two Vice cops will be supported by Morales, who has agreed to ID Tubbs as his cousin, while the DEA will also furnish them with fake backgrounds and $1 million in cash. Waters will circulate a false inter-agency memo about Crockett and Tubbs' activities, while Trudy will pose as Tubbs' "wife" (the "family bait") in the hopes whoever is responsible will go after her.
Hoping to flush out the leak, Waters offers Crockett and Tubbs a strictly voluntary assignment - they are to travel to Cartagena posing as smugglers, where they will make a cocaine buy and bring the product back to Miami. Waters informs everyone that there have been five similar incidents involving other smugglers, and that each of the victims was currently under investigation by law enforcement, suggesting someone on their side of the law is involved. The Vice cops arrive at an abandoned building, where they find Castillo, Trudy and DEA Special Agent Ed Waters waiting for them. The Lieutenant is then distracted by a phone call, after which he hands Crockett and Tubbs an address and tells them to meet him there. After Jones leaves, Castillo suggests Morales may be inclined to talk. Jones chalks it up to "the politics of contraband", although Crockett is concerned the smuggler's family was somehow involved. The woman, revealed to be Morales' wife, was killed in the blast Morales somehow survived, but has been left paralyzed from the waist down. However, they notice the silhouette of a woman tied up inside, and after Morales enters, the boat explodes.Īt OCB, Castillo and his team discuss the incident with Homicide Lieutenant Charles Jones.
They then follow Morales to a houseboat, assuming he is going to collect his payment. After the man leaves, Morales drops a bag into a cigarette boat that passes beneath the bridge, leading Crockett and Tubbs to wonder why a smuggler would give up the goods so easily. Crockett and Tubbs flush out a DEA leak with the help of a guitar-playing, free-thinking pilot.Ĭrockett, Tubbs, Switek and Zito are running surveillance on a known smuggler named Roberto Morales, who meets with another man on a bridge over one of Miami's many waterways.
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