Down for the Count: Part 1 (9 Jan. 1987)

Zito goes undercover as a boxing manager to take down a crooked bookie, but pays the ultimate price for it.

Director:

Richard Compton

Writers:

Anthony Yerkovich (creator), Dick Wolf (teleplay),

Stars:

Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Don Johnson	...	Detective James Crockett
Philip Michael Thomas	...	Detective Ricardo Tubbs
Saundra Santiago	...	Detective Gina Calabrese
Michael Talbott	...	Detective Stan Switek
John Diehl	...	Det. Larry Zito
Olivia Brown	...	Detective Trudy Joplin
Edward James Olmos	...	Lieutenant Martin Castillo
Randall 'Tex' Cobb	...	Moon
Mark Breland	...	Bobby Sykes
Don King	...	Mr. Cash
Pepe Serna	...	Oswaldo Guzman
Harry W. Brennan	...	Referee #1
Antoni Corone	...	George Sordoni
Kenneth Daron	...	Caribe
Hector Echavarria	...	Batista

Storyline

Zito goes undercover as a boxing manager to take down a crooked bookie, but pays the ultimate price for it.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Japanese

Release Date:

9 January 1987 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Michael Mann Productions, Universal TV

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

It was purposely written that Stan finds Zito's body in the shower and had the emotional goodbye drawn out for viewers and Stan.

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Goofs

Moon is visited by Guzman and his thugs. Upon being kicked in the head twice, Moon is bloodied on the left side of his face. When the camera cuts back to Moon after Guzman delivers his line, Moon now has a bloody streak going up the right side of his face.

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Quotes

Det. Larry Zito: [to Crockett and Tubbs. Obviously pissed off at Moon's death] So a robbery gone bad is how it's going to go down. You and I both know who did this.
[pauses and shouts]
Det. Larry Zito: I told you I didn't want to get Moon involved, I told myself that... I didn't listen to myself!

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Connections

Featured in Miami Vice: Down for the Count: Part 2 (1987)

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Soundtracks

"Dance"
(uncredited)
Written by Robbin Crosby, Warren Demartini, Beau Hill and Stephen Pearcy
Performed by Ratt

User Reviews

Correction in the credits

Don King actually plays a character named Don Cash in the episode "Down for the Count". This episode suffers from a malady that was common to episodes of Miami Vice after the first two seasons. It's kind of a victim of its own success. The episode is packed full of people from the boxing world. Tex Cobb is the only halfway decent actor out of the bunch, though Don King is entertaining delivering what is essentially a monologue to Crockett and Tubbs, but not as entertaining as if the words were the spontaneous product of his own mind. A lot of these episodes from the second half of the series are packed full of stars. Anyone and everyone wanted to be part of Miami Vice. This does have one of the better plots of the third season, though.