Here are some photos taken of her at the recent Historic Health Summit kick-off luncheon. She looks terrific!

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Episode 7.10 – The DeLuca Motel
Air Date: December 8, 2008

NOTE: This was origally called “No-Tell Motel”

This episode delves into Delko’s past. Now I can’t wait to find out what they disocover about him that they didn’t know before…

(click on “Read More” for the scoop)

Press Release:
WHEN A SHOOTER TARGETS THE MOTEL WHERE DELKO IS STAYING, HORATIO MUST LOOK INTO DELKO’S PAST TO FIND THE KILLER, ON “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, DEC. 8

“The DeLuca Motel” – When a shooter targets the motel where Delko is staying, Horatio must look into Delko’s past to find the killer, on CSI: MIAMI, Monday, Dec. 8 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Horatio Caine……………………….. David Caruso
Calleigh Duquesne………………….. Emily Procter
Eric Delko……………………….. Adam Rodriguez
Ryan Wolfe…………………………. Jonathan Togo
Det. Frank Tripp………………………….. Rex Linn
Natalia Boa Vista……………………… Eva La Rue
Dr. Tara Price…………… Megalyn Echikunwoke

GUEST CAST:
Linda Bowen……………….. Kayla Mae Maloney
Neil Scofield……………………………. Matt Funke
Seth Copeland…………………………….. J.R. May
Carl Reston……………………………. Corin Nemic
Molly Reston………………………….. Nicki Aycox
Enrico Moldano……………………. Jordi Vilasuso
Kate Hawkes………………………. Raya Meddine
Carmen Delko…………………… Adriana Barraza
Dorothy Frost………………….. Isabella Hofmann
Bartender………………………. Anthony Nacarato
Sheila………………………………………… Katie Gill
Man……………………………….. Ryan Caltagirone

WRITTEN BY: Sunil Nayar, one of the series’ Executive Producers
DIRECTED BY: Gina Lamar[Source: CBS]

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Episode 7.04 – Raging Cannibal
Air Date: October 13, 2008

A couple “exploring” in the Everglades are interrupted by what sounds like a panther. Suddenly, a man, bleeding fron his mouth, comes out of the brush. The woman calls 911.

As the man, lies dead, Horatio and Frank question the man who discovered the victim. The man says he is authorized to be in that restricted area, but his lady friend is not, “technically.” He appears to have brought her to the ‘Glades to “get technical.”

They identify the victim as Vincent Koslov. Price and Ryan inspect the Koslov’s bloodied abdomen. Price tells him that he must have been stabbed through to the stomach, leading to his spitting up blood. In autopsy, though, she finds his stomach and lungs were not pierced. A tattooed piece of flesh in the his stomach indicates he had another man’s blood on his face…he ate another man’s flesh. Horatio recognizes the stag design as a Russian mob tattoo, one that indicates he was “marked for death.” Who was the other victim, though.
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Calleigh and Eric search the surrounding area, and find the other victim, Andrew Brodsky. Brodsky is also tattoed. Eric, who is half Russian and uncomfortably familiar with the Russian mob, tells her that they tattoo the story of their exploits. The cat on the victim’s chest indicates that he was a thief. Brodsky has a large bite mark on his neck, exposing the severed carotid artery. There is a bloodied diving knife at the scene. The other victim’s blood wasn’t on the knife handle, though. They now need to find a third man. At the lab, Eric finds prints on the knife handle, belonging to Greg Donner, who works at Diver Tech Supply.

[NOTE: Was I the only person who enjoyed the subtle irony of a character named "Donner" in an episode entitled Raging Cannibal...?]

Horatio questions Donner. He claims to have sold the knife to a blonde woman that morning. He had her number and name; Cassandra Gray. When Horatio and Eric confront Ms. Gray, she confesses…far too quickly.

When Horatio and Eric question her, they notice lacerations on Gray’s hands. Eric swabs the wounds for the lab.

The swabs from Gray’s hands yield bits of glass from the cuts. In fact, there are three different kinds of glass, including tempered window glass. This leads them to the idea that she must have fallen onto a city street while she was running from someone. Tempered glass is commonly recycled in asphalt, and may accound for the cuts. They believe Gray isn’t covering for anyone, but running from someone…someone scary enough to make it worth taking a murder rap.

Wounds on both bodies indicate that the men fought in ultimate fighting competitions, the all-out, no rules street fighting sport. Horatio and Ryan head to the one Russian-owned fight club, that of Ivan Sarnoff. In Sarnoff’s club, Ryan finds a large pool of dried blood hidden beneath a new mat.

In the lab Price identifies the blood as Nathan Madden’s. Madden’s blood was in the system, because his wife turned in a reference sample, after filing a missing person report two days earlier. She doesn’t know why Nathan would have been at the fight club. She says that a man visited the other day, and Nathan called him Weller. He took off after saying that he wasn’t going to let anyone take their home from them. She tells Horatio and Eric that she can’t say anymore.

Calleigh and Natalia find that the yachts in the area been sold recently to a single corporation, except for the Maddens’ boat. They all sold for $10,000. They figure that the mob was extorting the owners to sell, only to lease the boats back to them. Madden must have refused.

Searchers find Madden’s sport boat. Ryan and Eric find arterial spray high on the hull, consistent with the arterial wound on Brodsky’s neck. The rest of the boat seems to have been wiped of prints. Eric says no shoe prints showed up since the gray color of the carpet makes it impossible to find dirt. Ryan, though, shows him a crafty as usual technique, shining a flashlight from one direction, and using a mirror to look at the carpet from the opposite direction. One set of prints looks like the victim’s shoes. Another shoe, though, matches that of Greg Donner’s.

Donner claims “it was business.” Apparently Andrew just didn’t follow orders. He says he stabbed Vince because he had become a liability. Why do these mobsters talk so much? When they ask about the depth of his involvement with the Russian mob, Donner asks how “Russian” his name sounds. Eric replies that they know his real name is Bratva. Asked about Madden, Donner says he heard the naive man was fighting for his boat slip. He thanks Eric and Calleigh for flushing out Gray, a “loose end that needed tying.”

Horatio tells Gray that they have the real killer. Afraid of being set free, she tells how she and Andrew were outside the gym, when a man carried out a body. Andrew and the other man shared a look, then Andrew pulled a gun on her, and said he had to kill her for seeing the body. Down on the ground, he whispers to her to run and hide. Someone saw her go back to her apartment, so they had to kill Andrew. A U.S. Marshall shows up to enroll Gray into witness protection.

Calleigh and Eric go to the pier behind the fight club. The dumpster is empty, but they hear a garbage truck around the corner. They stop the truck and find a body inside, that of Nathan Madden.

Eric convinces Price to let him look for prints on Madden’s body. He tells her that the nature of fight club beatings should yield the prints of the murderer. Sarnoff’s prints are all over the body. Sarnoff is dismissive about Gray’s testimony, given the trouble she’s had in the past. When they humor his denial of guilt, and ask who did it, Sarnoff says he’ll talk to Jason Weller, and he’ll turn himself in. He smugly taunts Horatio with the fact that, no matter what, Weller’s testimony will exonerate him.

Outside, Horatio says goodbye to Gray, telling her to call him if she needs anything. Sarnoff says it’s a shame. Weller was one of his best fighters. “You trained him well,” retorts Horatio. Then, Horatio tells Sarnoff that his goal is to take him down.

So, we have a new season arc.

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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.03 – And How Does That Make You Kill?
Air Date: October 06, 2008

A man is talking to his psychiatrist, Dr. Marsh, telling her about his recurring dream. His words turn into a fantasy of sneaking into the doctor’s office, and killing her.

Horatio shows up at the scene where Dr. Marsh’s daughter Chelsea lies dead on the floor of Marsh’s office.

Horatio Opening Smart Aleck Comeback:

Dr. Marsh: You have to understand, Lieutenant. People tell me secrets all day. They have to know that I will keep them. I took an oath.
Horatio: So did I.

Delko struggles a bit upon entering the Marsh house, telling Calleigh that he saw Marsh professionally. He began seeing her…the department has a contract with her…after discovering that the staff psychiatrist office had been bugged.

Dr. Tara (the new M.E.) determines that she died of a single puncture wound, and had hit her head on the desk in the struggle. Liver temp indicates time of death between 1 AM and 4 AM. Delko finds blood on Marsh’s office sofa, nowhere near the body. Signs of a struggle include a broken decorative clock.
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Wolf shows Horatio a piece of Dr. Marsh’s calendar, torn off by Chelsea, when she fell. It indicates that Dr. Marsh’s last patient was Nick Burnham.

Burnham tells Horatio and Frank about his dream. He claims to have merely thrown a paperweight, breaking her clock. He seems nervous, but not obviously guilty. He has no alibi, but insists his dream was only a dream.

Tara finds that the weapon was long enough that it chipped the back of one of Chelsea’s front teeth. She also shows no signs of a struggle. Someone, though, used a long, thin blade to punch through the back of her head.

Finally looking in the juvenile database, they match the blood from the couch to seventeen year old Allison O’Conner. Allison sees Dr. Marsh and attends Chelsea’s school. She acts surprised, and mildly defensive upon hearing that Chelsea has died. Allison denies killing Chelsea, and reveals cut wounds on her legs. She’s a cutter…a self-mutilator.

A tox screen shows that Chelsea was full of prescription anti-psychotics and anti-depressants. Dr. Marsh tells Delko and Horatio that Chelsea must have been in her office to write out prescriptions. Horatio asks about Marsh’s son. She says that he always took care of Chelsea.

Justin, Dr. Marsh’s son, tells Calleigh and Frank that Chelsea suffered from anxiety. He says that she had a boyfriend, and was going to break up with him. He says that he saw a woman drive up and look around their yard, and remembers her vanity plates. Pam Daschle…the plate owner…says that she followed her ex-husband Eddie to Dr. Marsh’s house to find negative information about Eddie to use in a custody case. She realized he was getting help, not cheating, so she left.

Natalia tells Ryan that a sex kit she ran on Chelsea found DNA for Shane Huntington, a Miami heir with a record for posession with intent to sell. Huntington tells Natalia and Wolf that he met Chelsea after one of his sessions with Dr. Marsh. He said she dumped him the night of her death. About his lack of grief over Chelsea’s death, he says that he’s in therapy because he can’t access his feelings.

Delko goes to Dr. Marsh’s office. She says her files are missing, thinking that the police took them. Delko, though, says they didn’t take them, and finds the lock was jimmied, and is covered in prints. She’s concerned about her notes full of patients’ secrets. They wonder if Chelsea stumbled across a burglar.

Horatio tells Eddie Daschle that they found his prints on the file cabinet. Horatio thinks Chelsea caught him stealing the files, so he killed her. Daschle says he looked at the files one day in the office, to see what she wrote about him, but he didn’t steal them. He claims his son as his alibi for the night of Chelsea’s death.

Horatio finds the son Cory at the salon where Pam Daschle cuts hair. Cory says his dad has changed. He says he went swordfishing with his dad. Cory’s mom tells him not to cover for him. She claims that Eddie leaves Cory alone and goes out drinking. Horatio notices Pam Daschle’s scissors.

Eric finds that Pam Daschle’s scissors match the depth of the wound, and finds a bit of Chelsea’s brain matter on them. She finally admits that she got angry when she saw Eddie in therapy. She isn’t willing to let Eddie regain shared custody, just because a shrink says he’s okay. She killed Chelsea by accident, intending to kill Dr. Marsh.

The team responds to a gunfire call at Dr. Marsh’s house. They find her bleeding in the driveway. Horatio finds Justin Marsh frantically rinsing his hands in the pool. After Dr. Marsh dies, Tara tells Wolf that it was a close range gunshot that probably passed through her aorta and lodged in her back. She gives the bullet to Wolf. Delko questions how Justin would have had time to stash a weapon, when Horatio found him with fresh blood on his hands.

Justin says he was inside the house and heard the shot. He ran out to find his mom lying on the ground. He pulls out a wad of cash that a patient…Shane Huntington…had paid him to steal the files. Shane tells Calleigh merely wanted the files to hide all the bad stuff he’d done from his father. He claims he torched his file, and threw the rest in the trash.

Calleigh finds Delko looking through Dr. Marsh’s files, and questions the wisdom of breaking the confidentiality to find inadmissable evidence. He convinces her to help him look through them to find any lead they can use. They can substantiate what they find in some other way. Calleigh sees Delko’s file, which reveals Delko’s feelings for her.

Delko, though, finds Nick Burnham’s file, which says that he actually broke the clock with a handgun. They match Burnham’s gun to the bullet from Dr. Marsh’s back.

Nick tells Horatio and Delko that he got angry when she canceled his upcoming appointments.

Calleigh and Delko talk about the files. He apologizes for talking her into compromising her ethics, and asks if she saw his file. She effectively evades the point, telling him they make a good team.

Horatio unites Eddie Daschle with his son.

I really enjoyed the twists and turns of this episode, without all the gang or mob confusion. Just an old-school, interesting case…my favorite! How did you like this episode?

So what do you make of the romantic tension between Calleigh and Delko in this episode? Do you think they will get together romantically?

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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.02 Won’t Get Fueled Again
Original Air Date: September 29, 2008

The episode’s primary crime takes off at a beach party, where the well-dressed scene is disrupted by a screaming man in flames. No one helps, but all manage to clear out of the flaming man’s way. [Wouldn't want to get cinders on those white linen jackets. Plus, it's 2008! Sure the man is freaking out, but no one else has heard "stop, drop, and roll" millions of times in any given week?!?]

The man was not a guest at the party, and no one recognizes the man. Dr. Tara Price, the new Medical Examiner, works on the poor man, as Horatio comes over to introduce himself. She explains the man’s status. Besides being badly burned, he is covered with an accelerant.

Cue, pointless one-liner setup…

Horatio: What does the position tell you?
Tara: Pugilistic pose… body contorts to after being badly burnt. From the Latin pugil, meaning “fights with fists”.
Horatio: A fight… to the death.

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The party’s host, Paul Sanders, meets Horatio on the beach. The man is a bit cavalier, and very annoyed. H informs Mr. Sanders that his guests are all.

Calleigh and Eric follow the trail in hopes of finding the man’s starting point. At the point of origin, in the nearby parking lot, Eric spots a piece of melted garment. They don’t, however, find any signs of the accelerant.

Ryan finds a melted name tag, melted together with a piece of clothing. He and Horatio decide to use a liquid and a CT scanner to uncover any remnants of the engraving in the badge. The badge reveals the name “Sam” and the name of a valet service.

Calleigh and Ryan show up at the valet service. The first man they meet claims to be Sam, and that the badge must have been stolen. He gets a bit defensive about their assertion that he would have been near the murder scene. Sam says he’s the only valet, and works as an independent for private parties.

Eric meets Dr. Price, and is obviously smitten. She found high octane gasoline. He also had severe burns in his throat, indicating that he had swallowed gasoline. They deduce that he probably was forced to swallow it, rather than it being an indication of suicide. When Eric asks about the ID, she roughly yanks out a tooth, and tells him to take it up to DNA for the “old Nicholas II treatment.” Eric takes it to Natalia who tells him it’s a reference to cryogenic grinding, the technique used to ID the Russian Tsar’s family remains. She also tells Eric that she may have said that to impress him.

[So, the game is on between Eric and the new ME!]

The extreme cold preserves the sample, then it’s magnetically pulverized into a very fine powder. The man is Dan Granger, a Dade University student, with a record –trespassing and petty theft.

At Dade U., Horatio and Frank find Granger’s roommate, Johnny Young…selling gas cans from a pickup bed. Johnny and Dan were siphoning fuel from upscale cars at the beach, then selling it at a discount rate to students. This explains how he swallowed gasoline. He claims he saw Dan running, in flames. Dan had been siphoning from a black Escalade, when it happened. The SUV took off, at the same time that Dan caught on fire. Johnny gives them the can of fuel from the Escalade, but Frank and Horatio take him in for questioning.

Eric tests the fuel from the can, finding it’s high octane. It also has added toluene. This narrows it down to one particular station, Arago Fuel. Calleigh and Ryan talk to Mr. Nelson at Arago. He tells them that a black Escalade had been in…towing an Airstream trailer…the day before, but the driver hadn’t purchased any fuel. He was just looking under the hood, and hadn’t asked for any help.

Ryan asks the man about marks on the fuel tank filler covers. He says it looks like someone forced it open with a crowbar. He than finds that he is missing about 1,500 gallons. So, the Airstream owner must have pumped the fuel out through an opening beneath the trailer.

The man says he had a pretty customer that offered him “anything” for a tank of gas. She was the distraction for the fuel thieves, probably organized crime. Nelson tells them that the condom from the “payment” was in the ladies’ room.

DNA from the condom belongs to Andrea Rinell, who, of course, has a record…solicitation. When Horatio and Natalia question Rinell, she seems surprised about the fuel theft.

The surveillance cameras were out at the Arago Fuel, but Ryan shows Horatio video from the bank next door. The images reveal the hose extending from beneath the trailer, as well as the rear plate on the Escalade. The plate is bogus…a “cold” plate. Calleigh spots the Escalade at an intersection. She pursues, and calls for backup, but loses the vehicle. She catches up to it, though, as it’s sitting in the street on fire.

Ryan shows up at the torched Escalade scene. Calleigh has found a used flare, but no accelerant in the vehicle. Other evidence seems to have been wiped down, leaving little to work on, except a fingernail in the glovebox. It turns out to be Johnny Young’s fingernail.

Johnny admits to Frank and Ryan that he dug in the glovebox of the SUV, looking for cash. Instead, he found a plastic bag full of passports. He thought he could make money with them.

Frank finds all the passports belong to Central and South American women in their 20s. All of the women are in the country legally, having applied for student visas. All of them, though, have used the same address for their applications, leading Frank and Horatio to wonder if they’re being held. Police find Andrea Rinell. She tells Horatio that her captor had told them not to tell anyone, or they and their families would be killed. So, the team has uncovered a human trafficking ring.

Eric checks for hydrocarbons on the contents of the Escalade. After getting a hit on a cellphone, he finds that it has also been rigged as a stun gun. Prints on the cellphone/stun gun point to Sam Laughlin, the parking valet.

Calleigh tells Laughlin that they found the Airstream at his house, and are searching it. He admits to the fuel theft, but not the murder. When she tells him they know about the stun gun, he admits that he caught Dan stealing gasoline from him. He said he didn’t know the guy would ignite.

She then tells Laughlin that they know about his trafficking ring. He denies it. When Calleigh tells him that they have Andrea Rinell, he denies knowing her, and that he was only told there would be a distraction. He claims he was hired, and that the Escalade and trailer belong to someone else. He refuses to identify the ringleaders.

Ryan finds a hidden plate, belonging to Paul Sanders, the host at the party. Sanders owns a shipping business…one that transports women. Horatio leads the police to Sanders, and makes the bust in his usual, cool way. Sanders claims that he offers them a piece of the American dream…as he’s being handcuffed, and escorted out of the building.

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