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At the end of the episode Freefall we see Crockett and Tubbs resign from the police force, Tubbs planning to head back to New York to be a Private Investigator and Crockett saying that he's going to just keep heading south in Florida and see what happens (it's possible that he's actually rich, his dead wife presumably having left him her earnings from pop stardom). As Crockett drives Tubbs to the airport he asks him has he ever considered a career in southern law enforcement just as he does in the pilot. The series is at an end but there are then four more episodes after that because these are lost episodes not originally aired at the time because they were deemed too inappropriate for TV at the time because they had very strong theme's such as child molestation. (They were aired when NBC played repeats)

His real name is James Crockett which was spoken only by Ricardo Tubbs in one episode. Nobody else on the detective squad ever called him by this name just Sonny. Though many times Lt. Castillo addressed and referred to him as just "Crockett."

Crockett served at least four or perhaps five tours of duty. In the pilot he tells Tubbs that he'd played football at the University of Florida where he'd starred as a halfback and was eligible for the NFL draft of the early 70's though instead was drafted by the federal government where he spent several years in the " southeast asian " conference as a United States Marine and was a direct nod to his military service during the Vietnam War. So therefore after his tours of duty ended Sonny Crockett was discharged and came back home to the states where he joined the Miami-Dade police department. And the rest is television history.

Nobody really knows for certain. Elvis was introduced in the pilot and was seen in many episodes of seasons 1 and 2 and in some season 3 episodes. Though at some point in this season Crockett no longer mentions his pet gator and Elvis was never seen again throughout the rest of the series. In the series finale, Freefall, Sonny leaves the yacht for the last time and Elvis is nowhere to be seen. We can assume that Crockett turned his pet over to the fish and game authorities or possibly to a local zoo or wildlife park to live out the rest of his years.

No, the black convertible driven by Crockett and Tubbs was in actuality a Ferrari "kit car." At the time in 1984 the producers and NBC didn't want to pay the auto maker for legal rights to use a real sports coupe. So they commissioned a genuine looking 1972 Ferrari Daytona Spider kit car using a fiber glass shell built onto an 1980 Corvette chassis and power plant complete with Ferrari hardware and sleek wheels.. After the show became a huge hit in prime time then Ferrari boss Enzo Ferrari did not like that a lookalike kit car was being used for the show so he offered NBC and the producers a real Testarossa for season 3. Therefore the Daytona kit car had to be destroyed on camera early in the season and the new Ferrari was used all the way through the fifth and final season. And the rest is television history and one of the black kit cars used along with the white Testarossa were purchased by a private collector and both cars are sitting in an auto museum in south Florida today.

He worked for the DEA for many years as an undercover agent in southeast Asia. In the season 2, two-part episode, The Golden Triangle, Castillo tells Tubbs how he once was stationed in the mountain range in between Burma (now Myanmar) and Thailand for three years. Tubbs says, "three years, that's a long time." To which his boss replies, "its a lifetime." And in the season 3 episode, The Savage , there's a detailed flashback to Castillo's past as an agent once stationed in southeast Asia during the Vietnam war in the early 1970's. He was investigating the murders of several local prostitutes with the help of a local police investigator name of Tran. Who came to Miami in the present searching for the same serial killer from the past. It seems that Martin Castillo certainly has had a ton of on the job experience as both an investigator and drug enforcement agent. He's an old school by the book cop who's been there, done that.

No, in fact in 1984 prior to casting the pivotal roles of Crockett and Tubbs then NBC entertainment chief Brandon Tartikoff had considered former Chips actor Larry Wilcox for the co lead. One reason was that there was a shortage of leading men in the mid-30's age group and that Wilcox had been a cop on the previous television series. However executive producer Michael Mann and creator/writer Anthony Yerkovich had remembered Don Johnson from four failed pilots and had him audition with Philip Michael Thomas for the lead roles. Therefore Wilcox was out and Johnson and Thomas displayed strong on camera chemistry so were then cast as the leads and the rest became prime time television history.

Not at first, prior to shooting the pilot for Miami Vice, Don Johnson had envisioned the character of Crockett as somewhat of a south Florida cowboy. He wanted to wear blue denims and leather jackets and be a chain smoker. However Michael Mann and the writers wanted for Crockett to be a fashionable police detective who would blend in well as an undercover cop. Plus leather coats and blue jeans did not mix well with the heat and humidity of Miami therefore Johnson relented on his wanting to wear jeans and leather and agreed to dress in designer mens wear provided by Hugo Boss, Gianni Versace & Giorgio Armani and he was also a smoker too.

It was later revealed (In the show) that all of his designer gear was confiscated from drug busts, that's how a cop can wear designer clothing.

During the show's preproduction there were other actors who'd screen tested with Don Johnson and the producers were not impressed, however after PMT's audition he'd made such an impression on Michael Mann and creator Anthony Yerkovich that they called him back and the rest is television history.

Considering that mens fashions were provided by well known designers, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace well the wardrobe budget was huge. In the season one dvd set's extras, there is a feature which answers this question. Costumer supervisor Jody Lynn Tillen was responsible for dressing actors Don Johnson & Philip Michael Thomas in the latest high end fashions of the time, therefore the mens clothing budget was reportedly up to $100,000 dollars for the first season. And most likely around the same budget for the next season.