South Beach

1 9 9 3 (USA)
1 x 120 minute episodes
6 x 60 minute episodes

Kate Patrick (Yancy Butler) is a beautiful and clever con artist and thief who has several rules: “Never take more than you can carry, more than what will be missed, or what you don’t need. My business works because I keep it small.”

Kate’s life changes one day when her brother, Andy (Rob Knepper), a small-time thief, is killed while mixed up in some diamond smuggling scheme involving the Russian government.

A less-than-scrupulous Fed named Roberts (John Glover) enters the picture. He recruits cons to work for the government (who will stay out of jail if they use their skills to help him). Andy was one such recruit.

Roberts approaches Kate and asks her to complete the mission Andy started – not only to help him but to avenge her brother’s death.

Kate pulls off the seemingly impossible and exposes Andy’s killers. She then accepts Roberts’ offer to work for him as a thief.

He sets her up at the Red Sands Hotel on South Beach in Florida. The establishment is run for him by a woman named Roxanne (Patti D’Arbanville), who dresses like the chameleons she collects, with a different disguise for each situation.

Stories followed Kate as she used her unique skills to steal for the government. Eagle-Eye Cherry appeared as Vernon, Kate’s sticky-fingered Jamaican assistant.

The short-lived NBC show had the Florida locations, bold colours and throbbing music of Miami Vice but lacked that show’s hipness, heart, suspense and sympathetic characters.

Kate Patrick
Yancy Butler
Roberts
John Glover
Roxanne
Patti D’Arbanville
Vernon
Eagle-Eye Cherry