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The Vice squad is assigned to protect a hard-partying political prisoner from assassins so that he can testify before Congress. The name was changed to "Zero Solution" for some syndicated broadcasts; however, unlike every other Miami Vice episode that had its title changed (where the new title became the official one), the episode's name has reverted to "Free Verse" for the show's VHS and DVD releases, and online. Also, unlike most other episodes that received name changes (to link two parts of a single story together), the reasons behind this alteration are unknown. The IMDB reviews and ratings for this episode lead it to be one of the ten lowest rated episodes of the series on that website. as of December 2023. Don Johnson appears in the opening, then doesn't appear until about 18 minutes later into the episode, his absence explained by having to appear in court. Michael Bay makes his acting debut as a goon in this episode. Bay would go on to a much bigger career as a producer/director of such movies as Bad Boys and its sequel, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, Transformers, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. This episode refers to the trend of "Banana Politics" in the 1980s, referring to the coups and civil wars that occurred in Central American and Caribbean countries during that time.