Definitely Miami

Ted Nugent guest stars in here and shoots a guy right in the intro, then buries he and his car under a ton of sand as the music blasts 'Angry Young Man." Ah, some of the openings on these Miami Vice shows were great....real eye openers.

Speaking of eye-openers, French actress Arielle Dombasle makes one of the best entrances to any TV show I've ever seen. She's just lying there getting a sun tan and....well, you have to see this woman and this scene to believe it. I had to laugh when I read the other reviewers comments here. Easy, guys!! Hey, I don't blame you. That was an incredible minute as the camera - and Don Johnson with a stupid smile on his face - went up and down this woman's body, admiring it. This actress has done a lot of work but almost all of it in France, so she's a new face to us here in America.

Anyway (it's hard to concentrate on the story after those opening shots of her), Crockett and Tubbs are waiting for a guy named Clemente to turn state's evidence. He wants to see his sister first but she says that's only because he wants to kill her.

What happens when Clemente and his sister do meet is surprising. What happens with the hot French babe and her boyfriend is predictable.

Overall, the story wasn't all that great - a bit convoluted in the first half - but the bad and the beautiful and the wild colors in this episode, all made this "definitely Miami," as the title says.

One of my Top 3 Vice episodes ("out where the buses don't run" and "give a little take a little" are the others. Just a crackling, potboiler of a series appropriately set in a heat wave that is, to my recollection, the only time that the weather of sultry Miami is it's own character. And the hot, humid weather ushers in two forces of nature - grafting wife and husband Callie and Charlie Bassett. Callie is my favorite Vice femme fatale. Her intro Perrier bath is as hot as the city itself. Charlie (played by Ted Nugent) is a gleeful psychopath to whom no crime even registers as remarkable. Strong character work gets us closer to Sonny as he tries to bring some light into the overwhelming darkness of this episode and helps us share Rico's frustration as he is worried that Sonny is losing his ability to judge things correctly. Crackerjack episode. 10/10.

The episode starts out with a drug deal in a gravel pit. One of the dealers is Ted Nugent & he was a very convincing baddie. Callie (Arielle Dombasle) plays his girlfriend/seductress/partner/prostitute & is a total hottie. Arielle Dombasle plays this Machevellian part perfectly. The scene at the pool with the bottles of water, bowl and her shirt was so ahead of its time & so unexpected that it still leaves an impression 20 years later. The cat & mouse game between the vice team & Nugent's character interwoven with Crocket's obligatory "falling in love" with the stunning Callie is masterfully done. The final gravel pit scene left me shocked, anxious & wanting more. The final scene also shows just how disturbed, clever & calculating the Callie character truly is. Great Episode.

"Miami Vice" was, and is, fantastic escapist entertainment. This stylish episode remains one of the series' finest tales and watching it again last night made me more than a little nostalgic for the '80s.

Beginning with the death of a drug dealer at the hands of mad, bad and dangerous-to-know Charlie Basset (Ted Nugent), "Definitely Miami" is gripping television from start to finish. Rob Cohen's direction is as excellent as always and the beginning sequence oozes style, with an accompanying soundtrack from Ted Nugent himself with "Angry Young Man".

Kamala Lopez-Dawson makes her acting debut as the frightened sister of a wanted drugs warlord and the delectable Arielle Dombasle plays the wife of Nugent's psychotic Basset character. Dombasle is probably the most memorable femme fatale to appear in the series. The scene at the pool with Crockett gazing upon her perfect figure is unforgettable.

This is one of the best episodes of "Vice" as it has it all - a gripping script, beautiful visuals and a big budget, fast cars, a great looking cast, a superb soundtrack, and so on. "Definitely Miami" gels perfectly.

10 out of 10. The ending, accompanied by Godley & Creme's "Cry", is glorious stuff. I simply love this episode.

Callie, the babe in the revealing swimsuit by the pool left an indelible impression on me when I recorded the episode on VHS ten years ago off of the FX channel so you can imagine my delight to see her on DVD on season two. She and Don Johnson smoldered with sexuality when they shared ice cubes in the hot Miami sun. Ted Nugent plays a believable baddie and has a thuggish demeanor about him without his shirt and long hair just-out-of-joint look. Now if we can get Season 3 out there for consumption I'd be in heaven, especially since I'm not too enthused about seeing the movie, which I heard is dark (I understand Michael Mann didn't want any red colors in this movie?) and not as cheery as the pastel-flavored television series.