CSI: Miami Recap – 7.01 Resurrection Recap

CSI: Miami – Episode 7.01: Resurrection
Air Date: September 22, 2008

This episode answers the question in everyone’s mind with a resounding YES! Horatio Caine DOES, in fact, have an endless supply of those Silhouette Titanium Model 8568 sunglasses!

The show begins with Ryan at the scene of Horatio’s shooting, helping load the body into a vehicle. Calleigh and Eric arrive. They are upset, especially since Ryan said that he’d already released the body. Eric is suspicious of Ryan, but Calleigh quickly turns the focus to the list of Horatio’s obvious enemies.
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Eric goes to the morgue, but doesn’t find Horatio. The tech enters and says that he released Horatio’s body to a federal agent. Upset, Eric questions why he would do that, but the tech says the man was credentialed.

Frank tells Calleigh that a private jet, bound for Puerto Rico, took off about the time of the shooting, and there were no witnesses. He also tells her that Julia and Kyle were on board the jet. Puerto Rican authorities, though, said there was no sign of them.

Eric returns to the airfield, where Boa Vista is processing the scene, and tells her that it was Ryan. Boa Vista, however, points out a footprint and a fleck of coagulated blood in the blood pool. This could be their first good break, assuming it belongs to the shooter.

In the lab, Boa Vista DNA got a match on the coagulated blood in the Codis. It’s Brett Hanson’s blood, but he was killed in jail, the day before. They decide the murderer must have stepped in Hanson’s blood before going to the scene of Horatio’s murder.

They bring in Miguel Diaz, the only inmate released from Miami-Dade detention within the past day, and an associate of Ortega. Diaz claims he took a cellphone photo of Horatio’s body to take credit for the hit.

In Diaz’ photo, Calleigh notices the reflection of a man standing on the roof of a nearby maintenance hangar. At the hangar, Calleigh finds a bandage identical to the one FBI Agent Caldwell was wearing when she talked him that morning.

Calleigh and Eric interview Evan Caldwell. He claims to have no involvement, but they insist that he might have had something to gain, if he could take sole credit for taking Ortega down. They show him that the handwriting of the FBI Agent that took Horatio’s body matches Caldwell’s.

They seize Caldwell’s phone, and find a text –”IT’S DONE”– from the same time as Horatio’s murder. They call the number of the recipient of the text. Ryan, standing right outside the lab, answers his phone.

When Calleigh and Eric confront Ryan, he says he was following orders…from Horatio. He tells them that Horatio is alive, and that he staged his own murder, when Ortega had ordered someone to kill him. Knowing this was the only way to survive, and he planned this ruse with Ryan and Caldwell. Horatio picked Caldwell as the shooter, and had Ryan take care of setting up the blood. Horatio told him to tell no one, until the plan was over.

Horatio tells Julia to go to a safe place to go hide, because he needs a few more hours.

Horatio meets with Miguel, a Cuban-American community leader. Miguel arrives with $10M to help Horatio get the fused alloy rounds off the streets, and out of the neighborhoods.

Caldwell and Eric talk to Ortega to get customer names. Ortega won’t talk, so Eric takes him “for a ride”, in the front of the car, the “informant’s seat.”

Horatio meets with Elena. He asks her to offer the $10M from to Saris, telling him that she works with foreign interests.

The car Eric is driving, with Ortega in the passenger seat, and Frank in back, gets stopped at a light, where an armored truck is gunned down by robbers armed with fused alloy ammo. Frank runs to assist the truck, while Eric jumps out to help a woman trapped in her burning car. Of course, Ortega manages to flee.

The only survivor from the armored car tells Eric about the shooting. He says they were stuck at the light for a long time, and that one man came up to the truck. They didn’t expect bullets to penetrate the vehicle. Eric meets Horatio, and tells him that they lost Ortega.

Calleigh finds epithelial sells on the glass of the armored truck. The robber must have left it, while reaching in for the keys. Boa Vista matches it to Todd Keener, affiliated with a local gang, but not one of Ortega’s. So, the rounds are on the streets. Eric interrogates Keener, but he refuses to talk.

Elena meets with Saris. She offers him the money for a large amount of fused alloy rounds…all of Ortega’s supply. Saris pulls his gun on her, and asks who she works for. She convinces him, though, that she works for a global military consortium. He agrees to buy back all the ammo, and sell it to her for twice the price.

Ryan and Eric check out the armored car scene, following Ortega’s trail of blood. It ends at a space in a nearby parking facility. He must have stolen a car.

Ryan determines that someone used the intelligent traffic light to stall the armored truck. They trace the override emitter to ATF agent (and Calleigh’s old flame), Jake Berkeley. Calleigh interviews Berkeley, who claims to have lost his emitter to the Crip Kings, while undercover. He agrees to find out what he can.

Saris meets with the Crip Kings, and buys their unused fused alloy rounds at $8 each, twice what they paid Ortega the month before.

Ryan and Eric check Diaz’ cellphone to see if Ortega called him, after his escape. He had called the phone from an airstrip at the edge of the Everglades.

The team descends on Ortega. For some reason, which seems unwise to me, Horatio nabs Ortega.

Berkeley shows up with all the firearms from the armored car job. He tells Calleigh that he was seen taking them, and she’s impressed that he made that sacrifice for this case. He tells her he’s going on another assignment, and wants her to wait for him. She says she can’t wait around.

Saris tells Julia about the bullets, and his plan to sell them to a South American buyer. After he lays out his plan to her, she says she wants a divorce, then walks off, as Horatio reveals himself, gun in hand. After a very quick exchange of only a couple of bullets, Horatio’s shot hits a propane canister, blowing up Saris’ yacht, and presumably all of the contraband ammo, and Saris himself. After the rest of the police arrive, and scour the scene, though, Eric tells Horatio that they found no body.

Eric: This never ends, does it?
Horatio: And it never will.

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