An arm in a shark's gullet and a girl who was shot at sea lead the team to a smuggler who was running Cuban refugees and cocaine in a foundering ship.
Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) break up a powerful pornography operation while dealing with an over-the-edge FBI operative (Ed O'Neill).
Guzman, hiding out in El Salvador, contacts his trusted "son" Michael Santana to bring him funds.
When Flipper warns of a coming tidal wave, and it fails to materialize, local residents turn against Porter Ricks for spreading false rumors that have caused the entire coast to prepare for disaster.
Flipper rescues a lady oceanographer from a barracuda and finds a permanent new friend as Ulla Norstand joins the adventures of the Ricks family.