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19. Red Tape

A series of booby-trap cop killings drives Tubbs over the edge, and he quits the department in fear for his life.

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After undercover rookie Vice cop Eddie Trumbull ( Viggo Mortensen ) is killed by a booby trap while working a case, Internal Affairs begin investigating Tubbs on suspicion of selling information to drug dealers. Tubbs almost turns in his badge in anger, but is eventually convinced that the only way to clear his name is to pretend to be the dirty cop everyone thinks he is in order to expose the real source of the leak. Meanwhile, Eddie's partner Bobby Diaz ( Lou Diamond Phillips ) sets out for revenge.

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