Miami Vice S01 E19 :: The Home Invaders

Directed by Abel Ferrara.
This is easily one of the best scenes in the entire 5 seasons of Miami Vice.
I call this one "The Ballad of Big Data."
It's a dramatization of Detective Castillo piecing together disparate bits of information in order to come up with a Big Data picture of a crime scene. It highlights the beauty of the information age & individual human creativity, by literally ending with the word, "beautiful."

[@JohnDoe-iv8of]

That Jan Hammer suspenseful music is gold. The game is afoot as Holmes would say. Hammer's music was absolutely integral to the show's overall feel.

[@davej.meister5421]

The piece playing during this scene is titled "Clues." Would return in "Out Where The Buses Don't Run" (S-2, 1985.)

[@djc4080]

Love this scene... It really showed how brilliant Castillo was as an investigator.

[@anonuser1]

plus i love how brilliant Elvis was an alligator!

[@Wenchework]

Could just imagine Castillo meting Elvis lol Elvis growling at him Castillo:Want to become a handbag? lol

[@xiongmu1]

One of the most underrated and underappreciated scenes - shows the behind-the-scenes work that officers had to do to help solve crimes.

[@aliciasaracino1233]

xiongmu1 brilliant. My respect for Castillo grew after this scene

[@davidrichter9164]

Castillo, the ultimate cool cop.

[@theshield44]

You got that right. Old fashioned detective work. I love this scene

[@rickredmond9847]

Castillo's detective genius.

[@c.r.chandler5905]

The last person I want coming after me is Lt. Martin Castillo.......

[@sitdowndogbreath]

The homeboy is a CIA Ninja

[@larrypowell8900]

A great scene of diagnosis!

[@russelljudkins5828]

Love how they completely match the start of where the criminals shows their victims

[@QuantumOfSolace1]

Great scene!!! Great episode!!

[@TheRobbo007]

Ferrara touch to this episode is gold!

[@NordeastMarie]

Similar to the Manhunter scene with Dennis Farina and William Peterson.

[@clintleffingwell8129]

That's Michael Mann for you. :-)

[@desertrose1226]

Don Johnson was gorgeous and so was Philip Michael Thomas.

[@aaronjensen8455]

Fuck that AI shit, this is good old fashion analysis that gets the job done!

[@stopcheatingconsumers9779]

I've gotta leave YT to watch this. It's too good to stick around here.

[@QuantumOfSolace1]

First words. “Who’s in the house”

[@annhowcroft9493]

I love this scene

[@Nixter1974007]

Yeah brilliant scene. Castillo amazing.

[@79CARTEL]

Why can’t we have more shows like this again

[@Wolfmen77]

You cannot match it with a new one.

[@asiaceccarelli6251]

Crockett was fine as hell!!

[@desertrose1226]

lol wasn’t he just! Gorgeous eyes!!

[@donaldallen5748]

He was definitely gorgeous

[@MrDark21knight]

great classic police work...my fave

[@kellyreiser4737]

Mann has eye..light and shadow.

[@chagadiel]

best episode ever and diracted by the man who did Driller killer

[@Nixter1974007]

Marvellous scene this. Love it. "I thought you did better work in your own office?" Fantastic episode this 👌👌👌

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Competition like this is dangerous

[@murchuan8782]

"back to weinstein".....classic... pre IT...piecing it together.....

[@anonuser1]

yes, yes, yes. love the one-man procedural orchestration that unfolds here! one of the absolute gold standard MV scenes and episodes in the series, along with "evan," "dfntly miami," "out where the buses don't run," "prodigal son," and "smuggler's blues." just think back to what most police drama lieutenant characters were like B.C. (before Castillo.) MV, as usual, broke the mold in many paramount ways for which it never nearly gets enough deserved acknowledgement for. when you put it in the context of its time, imo the impact and phenomena of the 1st two seasons of MV were borderline akin to what sopranos was for its time (strictly in terms of how they separated themselves from their respective television peers up to that point.)

[@jojo-xu4iz]

If I ever had the chance to look like someone else it would be Sonny Crockett.

[@119Agent]

OMG! I go to the Hair Emporium! I'd better get a guard dog. But seriously, you don't have a Lieutenant and inspectors doing this work. There are analysts that do this and provide any commonality between cases.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

Things were so bad the lieutenant had to get involved these guys were hurting killing people including children

[@mickjenner6697]

It would have been cool if he made a small origami figure

[@DanielSanchez-yr3pf]

Lopez please u have the episode venezuelan actor Carlos Olivier

[@DanielSanchez-yr3pf]

Saludos desde Venezuela

[@DanielSanchez-yr3pf]

LOpez u are A! where u from?

[@hduncan1048]

👍

[@DanielSanchez-yr3pf]

Lopez El mejor mi pana

[@gloriam.bordenoak6282]

Look very closely be hind don

[@ObltKG4]

what are we looking for?

[@TheKt75]

@@ObltKG4 Hair Emporium

[@anonuser1]

"..back to weinstein..."