At the 2003 Free Trade of the Americas Summit, a rag-tag bunch of drug-dealing neo-socialists gather at Ft Lauderdale in Florida. While on their way to the famous Torch of Friendship landmark, the neo-socialists begin to espouse their preferred rhetoric of class warfare. Out on the streets of Miami, things are soon heating up. The leftist rebels are desperately intent on confronting any Summit participants they come across. These political extremists are driven by a shared goal to shut down all speech, or other lyrical verse, they don't agree with.

With the 80s fashion revival hitting top gear, Miami police detective Sonny Crockett and his partner, the New York bred Ricardo Tubbs, hit the streets one more time. While undercover, Tubbs stumbles on a lead that the brains behind the operation is none other than the Latin American king-pin, neo-socialist and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a man whose grip on power in his home country is slipping, as surely as balance on all affiliated radio stations of NPR.

Packed with action, drugs, murder, public broadcasting, politics and high levels of intrigue, Free Verse II is the 112th episode in the Miami Vice series and definitely one not to be missed.

[All characters appearing in Free Verse II are fictional, with the exception of Hugo Chavez, who really is the Venezuelan president - at least for time being. The plot line of Free Verse II is also fictional; any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental.]






Free Verse II was posted to this site by John Cavanagh on 15 November 2003.