Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Deep-Chested Aryan Brother: [Holding detonator] Shoot me, she dies. Shoot me, go ahead. Fuck it, we can all go. That's cool.
Det. Gina Calabrese: That's not what happens. What will happen is... what will happen is I will put a round at twenty-seven hundred feet per second into the medulla at the base of your brain. And you will be dead from the neck down before your body knows it. Your finger won't even twitch. Only you get dead. So tell me, sport, do you believe that?
Deep-Chested Aryan Brother: Hey, fu...
[Calabrese shoots him through the head]
Isabella: Once I had a fortune, it said: "Leave now. Life is short. Time is luck".
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: You got assets somewhere? Insurance?
Isabella: Why?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Things go wrong. The odds catch up. Probability is like gravity: you cannot negotiate with gravity. One day... one day you should just cash out, you know? Just cash out and get out.
Isabella: Yeah?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Yeah. As far and as fast as you can.
Isabella: Would you find me?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Yes, I would.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Luck ran out. This was too good to last.
Nicholas: They are vertically intergrated, they're...
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: You mean they walk around with constant erections?
Nicholas: No, they farm, process, produce, export...
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: I know what it means.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Where do you like to go?
Isabella: What do you like to drink?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: I'm a fiend for mojitos.
Isabella: I know a place.
Isabella: [they leave on a power off-shore] I'll take you to the best place for mojitos.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Where is that?
Isabella: Bodeguita del Medio.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: In the Keys?
Isabella: Havana.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Havana? Cubans don't like my business... and they don't like my passport.
Isabella: It's ok, the harbor master is my cousin.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Hola, chica.
Isabella: Hola, chico.
Isabella: Time is luck.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: [while walking through an alley under heavy guard] Why do I get the feeling everyone knows we're here 15 blocks out?
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: 'Cause everyone knows we're here 15 blocks out.
José Yero: Who you run loads for? Cause other than Nicholas, who the fuck knows you?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: My mommy and daddy know me...
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: So what's going on?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: As in?
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: As in there is undercover and then there is "Which way is up?".
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: What? Do you think I'm in so deep I forgot?
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: [Tubbs and Crockett look at each other closely] I will never doubt you.
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: [Crockett is holding a live hand grenade] I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen. People are gonna come in here, and you know what they gonna say? They gonna look around and go 'Ola Hijo. That's some crazy motherfucking wallpaper, what is that? Jackson Pollock?'
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: No, viero. That was José Yero. Got splattered all over his own wall.
Nicholas: Why is this happening to me?
Trudy Joplin: Because you lead a life of crime.
Det. Gina Calabrese: Can't do the time, don't mess with crime.
José Yero: You seem okay. But him, I don't like how he looks.
[shows Det. James Crockett]
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Do you wanna fuck with my partner or do you wanna do business with us? 'Cause I don't give a shit how you think he looks.
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: They've got eyes on us!
José Yero: I'm a disco guy.
[last lines]
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Nurse!
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Let's take it to the limit one more time.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: [on a shore with Isabella] This was too good to last.
Isabella: [showing a picture of her mother to Sonny] See? Lucinda Somebody's wedding. Everybody's with couples, husbands and wives. They all pose. But she is more special.
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: My guy, show him the money.
[Sonny sends Switek over; Yero sends Coleman]
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: I don't want him!
José Yero: Why? What difference does it make, Sonny?
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett: Listen to me, asshole! I do not want that motherfucker near me! You wanna see your dope? You send Isabella. Or it travels.