MIAMI VICE - "Brother's Keeper" - Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight"

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Dan Scavino posted the Performance by Phil Collins Aug 2nd.
Juan wants you to see this clip as it is even more relevant because the theme comes around to as Juan has said many times "I'm my brothers brother, not my brothers keeper".
Here is the background on the Episode.
The "In the Air Tonight" scene is arguably the most memorable and famous scene from the Miami Vice television series, and is regularly cited as one of the greatest, if not the most influential moments in the history of television. It occurs in the pilot episode "Brother's Keeper", or, when the episode is split into two parts as it often is for syndication, "Brother's Keeper (Part II)".
Prior to the scene, Crockett and Tubbs have been tailing drug lord Esteban Calderone, who is responsible for the murder of both Tubbs' brother Rafael and Crockett's Metro-Dade partner Eddie Rivera. They set up a meet with Calderone and wait for the call. Tubbs is contacted by Calderone's right hand man, Trini DeSoto and goes to meet with him; little does he know, a departmental leak means DeSoto is aware that he is a cop, and he intends to kill Tubbs on sight. Crockett intervenes at the last minute, saving Tubbs' life and killing DeSoto. The leak is traced to Crockett's ex-partner and best friend Scottie Wheeler, particularly galling as it makes him responsible for the death of Crockett's partner Eddie. The Vice cops confront Wheeler at his house; Crockett attacks him, sickened by what he has done, before Tubbs and Lieutenant Lou Rodriguez pull him off. Wheeler is arrested.
Despite the fairly minimal amount of plot progression it contains, the scene is set to almost the entire length of the song "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, some five and a half minutes, stretched out through the use of flashbacks to Rafael's murder and cinematic shots of the Miami night, particularly highlighting reflections of the city's lights on the polished black bodywork of Crockett's Ferrari Daytona Spyder. During the long drive towards the inevitable confrontation with Calderone and his goons, Crockett pulls over at a desolate phonebooth to call his ex-wife Caroline, asking her if their relationship was "real", knowing this may be his last chance to speak to her. She confirms that it was. As the climactic drum crash of the song kicks in, Crockett and Tubbs pull away, their minds now focused on the impending showdown with their nemesis.

The sequence is notable for having almost all background sounds removed, leaving only selected dialogue, the sound of Tubbs loading his shotgun and the accompanying music audible. In the years since, this technique has been seen often, particularly in the feature films of series executive producer Michael Mann, and it gives the scenes to which it is applied a stark, dramatic, dream-like quality. The original sequence in Miami Vice quickly became a landmark in television history and no doubt led to the heavy integration of popular music throughout the show. The concept has also been copied outside of the series, and today it is common practice to overlay audio tracks over climatic scenes, both in film and on television.

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