When Tubbs buys a raffle tickets and wins a holiday for two on a remote Caribbean island he thinks he and his girlfriend Alicia will have a great time. Things start to go wrong as soon as he lands; he sees Leon Wolf, a man he thought was in jail for murder at the airport. He goes to tell the local police chief that he has a killer on his island but he doesn't seem too concerned. Things get much worse very quickly when he spots the boy he bought the raffle ticket from... the whole thing was a trick to get him away from Miami without his gun so his Nemesis Calderone can kill him. Calderone is due on the afternoon flight leaving Tubbs little time to find an ally or at least a way of fighting back. Few of the islanders are sympathetic to his plight as they blame Tubbs for the downturn in the islands economy after he killed Calderone Snr; the man whose drugs operation helped keep the island in employment, one or two want to do the right thing but that could be too dangerous.
This episode felt like a return to the style of the first two seasons; Tubbs may have been in danger but it didn't have the gritty feel of most of the season three episodes to date. The way he is lured to the island did seem rather far fetched; surely it would have been much easier to have had him gunned down in Miami... however if you can suspend your disbelief it is entertaining enough. Once Tubbs has arrived on the island the plot is reminiscent of 'High Noon'; he is a man alone with no obvious friends desperately trying to find away to defeat an enemy who will be heavily armed. It isn't a total rip off of course... for a start he doesn't even have a gun! There was plenty of tension as we waited for the plane to arrive and when it did arrive there is an exciting shootout.
This episode felt like a return to the style of the first two seasons; Tubbs may have been in danger but it didn't have the gritty feel of most of the season three episodes to date. The way he is lured to the island did seem rather far fetched; surely it would have been much easier to have had him gunned down in Miami... however if you can suspend your disbelief it is entertaining enough. Once Tubbs has arrived on the island the plot is reminiscent of 'High Noon'; he is a man alone with no obvious friends desperately trying to find away to defeat an enemy who will be heavily armed. It isn't a total rip off of course... for a start he doesn't even have a gun! There was plenty of tension as we waited for the plane to arrive and when it did arrive there is an exciting shootout.