"Miami" Steve Duddy is a former Metro-Dade Policeman, who left the force after he was under review for a conduct charge and went into a private electronics and surveillance business, providing both offensive (bugs/mics) and defensive (sweeping, bug detection) surveillance for a price. In 1987 Duddy was hired by money launderer Alexander Dykstra to check his home for bugs. Duddy (who uses a walkman to hide the beeps and save his sanity) finds both of the bugs placed by Metro-Dade Vice and fries them with a sudden high-frequency burst, then sells Dykstra several other items. Duddy is then brought in by James "Sonny" Crockett to help them against Dykstra, and sells them gigahertz-range bugs designed to be sweeper-proof. But Duddy found them working for Dykstra and replaced them with his own b