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While the series had many regulars, it focused primarily on two lead characters. James "Sonny" Crockett, is a former University of Florida college football star (wide receiver), who became a police detective after a shattered knee and 2 tours in the Vietnam War. As the series begins he is a vice officer with the Metro-Dade (now Miami-Dade) Police Department's Organized Crime Bureau using an elaborate cover named "Sonny Burnett." Elements of his cover included a Ferrari Daytona Spyder (the car used on the show was actually a modified Chevrolet Corvette), a "Scarab" offshore power-boat, and a sailboat on which he lives with his pet alligator Elvis. Later on, Crockett's Ferrari Daytona Spyder was replaced by a Ferrari Testarossa. Creator Anthony Yerkovich originally used the name Sonny Crockett for a criminal on the seminal cop series Hill Street Blues. Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, a former New York police detective, travels to Miami on a mission involving a personal vendetta against Calderone, the man who killed his brother, and after teaming up temporarily with Crockett in the pilot episode, follows his advice to transfer to "a career in Southern law enforcement", joining the Miami department and becoming Crockett's permanent partner. Tubbs often poses as "Rico Cooper," a rich out-of-town buyer, with Crockett posing as Sonny Burnett, serving to broker his deals with criminals, thus setting them up for arrest. The series finale saw Crockett and Tubbs throwing down their badges and walking off the job after being setup by a government agent to set free a Latin American drug dealer, whom Crockett and Tubbs had just killed. Crockett and Tubbs say goodbye in an emotional scene in which Tubbs says he'll probably go back up to "the big bad Bronx," while Crockett, when asked what he'll do, says "I don't know, go somewhere further south. Somewhere where the water's warm, the drinks are cold and I don't know the names of the players..." Crockett then offers to drive Tubbs to the airport in his 'stolen' car, the white Testarossa he still has, and he and Tubbs laugh while they drive off together. There is then a voiceover from the end of the pilot episode of Crockett asking Tubbs if he'd ever consider a career in Southern law enforcement, to which Tubbs replies, "Maybe, Maybe." perhaps as means of showing how far the two characters had come in five years, from optimistic and engaged to cynical and burned out, but still sharing a close friendship.

— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)