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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself since the CIA overrides the FBI and Metro-Dade.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: PayEvilUntoEvil: Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself since the CIA overrides the FBI and Metro-Dade.
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Crockett and Tubbs are investigating an arms dealer named Tony Amato (Bruce Willis) when they are contacted by the FBI. Tony Amato has managed to acquire ten stinger missles and the government is afraid they'll be used to blow up passenger liners. While surveying Amato, Crockett and Tubbs discover his wife is planning to have him killed. This is because he's an abuser, though, and in self-defense.
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Crockett and Tubbs are investigating an arms dealer named Tony Amato (Bruce Willis) (Creator/BruceWillis) when they are contacted by the FBI. Tony Amato has managed to acquire ten stinger missles and the government is afraid they'll be used to blow up passenger liners. While surveying Amato, Crockett and Tubbs discover his wife is planning to have him killed. This is because he's an abuser, though, and in self-defense.
* BigNo: Crockett shouts this after Rita shoots her husband dead, not for his sake of course, but her own.
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* CIAEvilFBIGood: The CIA attempts to get Amato off in order to have him operate in South America on their behalf.
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* FBIGoodCIABad: The CIA attempts to get Amato off in order to have him operate in South America on their behalf.
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Rita struggles with the fact she doesn't want to kill Amato and backs away from using a hitman. She changes her mind when he's about to become a KarmaHoudini.
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Crockett and Tubbs are investigating an arms dealer named Tony Amato (Bruce Willis) when they are contacted by the FBI. Tony Amato has managed to acquire ten stinger missles and the government is afraid they'll be used to blow up passenger liners. While surveying Amato, Crockett and Tubbs discover his wife is planning to have him killed. This is because he's an abuser, though, and in self-defense.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Amato beats his wife when she defies him and then tries to buy her back.
* AssholeVictim: Amato getting killed will be mourned by no one.
* BittersweetEnding: Crockett and Tubbs end up being useless to the resolution as Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite the show already being a mixture of glamorous and gritty, this proves to be one of the darker ones of season one as our heroes prove unable to help the victim.
* FBIGoodCIABad: The CIA attempts to get Amato off in order to have him operate in South America on their behalf.
* HateSink: Amato is one of the most despicable monsters in Miami Vice and utterly without redeeming qualities.
* KarmaHoudini: Amato almost becomes one when Rita takes matters into her own hands.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself since the CIA overrides the FBI and Metro-Dade.
* PoliceAreUseless: An early example of this in the series where Crockett and Tubbs attempt to help a spouse abuse victim, only to have their efforts prove in vain due to being overriden.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Amato hired thugs to rape his wife's divorce lawyer.
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* AbusiveSpouse: Amato beats his wife when she defies him and then tries to buy her back.
* AssholeVictim: Amato getting killed will be mourned by no one.
* BittersweetEnding: Crockett and Tubbs end up being useless to the resolution as Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Despite the show already being a mixture of glamorous and gritty, this proves to be one of the darker ones of season one as our heroes prove unable to help the victim.
* FBIGoodCIABad: The CIA attempts to get Amato off in order to have him operate in South America on their behalf.
* HateSink: Amato is one of the most despicable monsters in Miami Vice and utterly without redeeming qualities.
* KarmaHoudini: Amato almost becomes one when Rita takes matters into her own hands.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Rita ends up having to kill Amato herself since the CIA overrides the FBI and Metro-Dade.
* PoliceAreUseless: An early example of this in the series where Crockett and Tubbs attempt to help a spouse abuse victim, only to have their efforts prove in vain due to being overriden.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Amato hired thugs to rape his wife's divorce lawyer.
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