#Tubbs is a cop bc he idolized his cop brother

[doesnotloveyou]

Facts about this scene :

as an ending, it parallels the scene at the beginning where a tortured man begs for water and is killed immediately after drinking

it proves that Rico and Sonny are both penniless and powerless to change a system that profits off violence and suffering, including their own

Beck, holding that symbolic glass of water, was literally dying of cancer irl. this episode aired two weeks after his death. thus the "i'm patient" line means little. the man is a smug corpse going to a gold-lined grave

Miami Vice - Prodigal Son

Julian Beck, the evil preacher from Poltergheist II, as an evil banker dropping some facts that probably are a bit more chilling.