From the second season of Miami Vice, a show I watched very infrequently. Closing scene of the episode Out Where The Buses Don't Run. The show often featured popular music, but not just short clips which was the usual TV approach, instead playing long excerpts of mood-making music with very little dialogue. Here it is one of my all-time favorites, Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits when Crockett and Tubbs investigate an abandoned warehouse.
Everyone in this scene is a Miami cop. At the beginning is Edward James Olmos, Crockett and Tubbs' supervisor. Next up is Bruce McGill, also known for playing D Day in Animal House and Secretary of War Edward Stanton in Lincoln, and finally David Strathairn, Eddie Cicotte in Eight Men Out, the Jason Bourne movies, Secretary of State William Seward in Lincoln, while appearing in about a million other films.
Miami Vice featured an innovative color and style palette imposed by director Michael Mann, who also employed a lot of shots not seen on TV before that are now standard in movies and cable. See, for instance, the close up of the moving wheel on Crockett's car and the shot where the car accelerates away from the camera.
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