A Warning to Anyone Who Sees It Not to Make the Same Mistake

Sonny Crockett:

[looking at a mutilated corpse of a man of Thai heritage in the morgue.]

This mutilation: it looks too calculated not to mean something….

Martin Castillo:

It does mean something. It says the killer was a Thai assassin; this is his signature. It says its victim defied a very, very important man…. It’s a warning to anyone who sees it not to make the same mistake….

— “Golden Triangle” – Miami Vice, Season 1 (1985)