CSI: Miami Episode 7.11 Tipping Point
Air Date: December 15, 2008

We see the blurry vision of a man lying in the back of a car. He seems to be suffering shock. There’s blood on the window.

As an large auger digs into ground, and we see the man lying, buried alive in a box. He cries out, when he sees the earth dug away, and the auger coming at him. The operator probably cannot hear him, though. The auger rises and lowers back into the box holding the man.

Horatio stands over the dead man. The auger operator tells him that they just broke ground that morning to begin an 18 month construction project. He says that his foreman thought he heard a scream, but it was too late by the time he could stop the machine. The man says that they began work on the site around 9:30 AM. He tells Horatio that he had picked the area with the loose dirt, thinking it would be an easy place to start, never imagining what was there.
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Episode 7.10 - The DeLuca Motel
Air Date: December 8, 2008

As others in the Deluca Motel buzz around, going about their business, Delko walks out of his room. He goes to his car, makes some suspicious actions before opening the door and getting quarters from the console. As a pregnant woman gets ice, he passes her to get a coffee from a coin-op machine.

He goes back to his room, looks out the window, almost expectantly. As he sits to open an envelope, he hears a shot. As he goes to the window, the glass shatters, cutting his arm. He goes into the courtyard with his gun in hand. A body is floating in the pool, as he looks around the upper level for the shooter.

The team arrives, and tests all the people in the motel for gunshot residue. Delko and Horatio discuss the body…single shot to the chest, blindfolded, and no blood drops on the pool deck. Delko wonders how he ended up at the motel pool, especially since he hadn’t seen him around there. He tells Horatio he’s staying there while his condo is remodelled. Horatio doesn’t seem convinced that this is simply a construction getaway for Delko.

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Episode 7.09 - Power Trip
Air Date: November 24, 2008

A woman looks for her car keys, and hears something behind her. She looks. We see her body placed into a trunk, then her scared face. She appears to be tortured with electrocution.

Eric’s shower, Calleigh’s run, and Ryan’s dropping off his son at school are interrupted by seemingly simultaneous phone calls. They, along with Tara, arrive at a murder scene. For the second week in a row, Horatio’s trademark one-line opening-ender is replaced by a simpler, more apt, “Let’s go to work.” Where’s the cheesy pathos? Where’s the non sequitur? Where’s the attempt at one-upping Frank, that’s just a re-wording or distillation.

Eric tells Horatio that it appears to be a secondary crime scene. There are no tire tracks or other evidence, except for the body. Tara finds multiple burns on her body, and left hand, consistent with strong electrical shock. Tara guesses it would take around 10 amps to cause such burns. It appears that jumper cables were applied to the burnt skin.

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CSI: Miami - Episode 7.07 Cheating Death
Air Date: November 10, 2008

A couple in a hotel room are disturbed, and kept awake by the seemingly amorous headboard banging sounds from the next room. The man bangs on the wall and yells for them to knock it off. The banging stops, but seconds later, the radio starts blaring. He calls the front desk to complain. When hotel management get no answer at the door of the noisy room, they open the door. They find a woman, who wakes disoriented. Next to her is a dead man, handcuffed to the bedpost and very bloody.

Horatio questions the woman. She tells him that she met the man at the hotel bar and went to his room. The next thing she remembers is waking next to his dead body. She figures she must have been drugged.

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CSI: Miami - Episode 7.06 Wrecking Crew
Air Date: November 3, 2008

As Calleigh and Delko go over testimony with William Campbell, the only witness to a murder in the Spiral Bar, a crane arm comes at the windows of the high rise. Campbell’s testimony would have tied Joey Salucci to the murder. Delko screams to get down, and they all run for cover.

The crane arm crashes through the windows, destroying the side of the building. Delko is trapped. Calleigh gets up and runs over to where Campbell is holding tight with his fingers, dangling from the ripped edge of the concrete floor. Calleigh tries to help him up, but he loses his grip, and falls to his death on the exposed rebar below. Calleigh drops back and weeps.
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CSI: Miami - Episode 7.05 Bombshell
Air Date: October 20, 2008

Short, creepy, ominous sequences of a man sewing a dress punctuate the scene at an upscale clothing boutique. Two teenage girls are trying on clothes. In an interactive dressing room, one of the girls, Kim Waldeman is zipping up a dress, when an explosion sends her flying out into the center of the store. Her friend, Amy in the next dressing room has just minor cuts, but Kim is dead.

Horatio notes that the explosion was confined to the dressing room, but can’t determine the source. Tara tells Horatio that she can’t determine the extent of the girl’s trauma because the fabric has fused to her body.

Tara: Why target a fashion boutique? It seems so random.
Horatio: On the contrary, this was by design.

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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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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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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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This is a funny, cartoon parody of CSI: Miami. I don’t know about you, but the uncanny likeness between Weebl and Horatio is a bit frightening.

So, what are YOU doing with your summer vacation, with no new episodes of CSI?

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