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.

At the site, Tara is examining the body. Calleigh asks her if he must have been sedated in order to have gotten him into the box. Tara points out a bullet wound on the man’s abdomen, which, apparently, she’s just now found. This is how he was so easy to get into the box. Frank interrupts to tell them that he’d just found out that someone called in a murder to the Crime Stoppers. The phoned-in description matches the construction site victim, so he was likely shot elsewhere and dumped at the scene.

Tara wonders, out loud, if they can believe a tip from someone who received a reward to give it. Frank points out that, aside from the call, they’re starting out without any leads. Calleigh asks Tara about the old-looking cell phone in the man’s pocket. Tara says it looks like a cardio messenger.

Tara tells Horatio that a cardio messenger sends data from the man’s pacemaker back to health care workers who can trace his arrhythmia. Using the device, she has identified the victim as Michael Olvera. The EKG data shows his heart stopping at 9:21 AM. It also shows that his blood pressure dipped sharply at 8:00 AM. So, that must be the time he was shot. They figure that the murderer had plenty of time in between to get him to the burial site.

At the building where Olvera lived, Delko and Horatio tell a young man of his murder. The man tells them how Olvera…AKA Reverend Mike…was a helpful man who probably was the reason that he wasn’t in prison. Olvera used the home to help teens learn life skills that helped keep them out of gangs. The young man says that Olvera always knew he was a target. The man was always having to clean up graffiti and fix broken windows. Recently, someone had painted the wall outside.

Delko photographs the painted wall, and uses an image filter to reveal the graffiti beneath. It says “Cranios Rifa”…translated “Cranios Control”. According to Delko, Cranios is a hispanic gang that has used kids to do their dirty work. Delko also finds a tag saying, “ZAR”, but doesn’t know what it means.

Frank escorts Wanda Ramoz into the station to see Horatio. He asks about her tip, but she wants to know how much she’ll get. Horatio is dismayed by her appeal for money, when a man has been murdered, but Frank tells her that Crime Stoppers can arrange for anywhere from $50 to $1000. She tells them that, while she was working placing flyers on windshields, she heard a gunshot. She spotted Reverend Mike lying on the ground next to a parked car. She ran, and didn’t see anyone else.

The team works the scene where Wanda saw Olvera. There is blood spattered on the curb, and Calleigh finds a 9mm bullet wedged in a tree. Delko finds a Saint Jude pendant lying in the water in the gutter. He wonders if it’s Olvera’s, since he’s the patron saint of lost causes, like the name he uses for his home.

Calleigh tells Horatio that the blood on the bullet matches Olvera, and finds a IBIS match to a bullet from a ten-year-old drug bust. That case records show an arrest of a Hector Salazar. The gun was never recovered, so they could only put him away for drug charges. He served ten years, and was released a week before.

Horatio asks Salazar about shooting Olvera. Salazar challenges that they couldn’t connect him to the gun ten years ago, and can’t now. Horatio, though, points out that the recent graffiti on Olvera’s house has the last three letter of his name on it –”ZAR”. Pointing out a nasty scar on his left forearm, Salazar claims to have seen the light, proving that the system works.

Frank shows Natalia a list of Crime Stoppers calls. She doubts their usefulness, but Frank points out one from Darryl Broadman, who lives across the street from where Olvera was shot. He called to turn in shouting from his neighbor’s apartment, around 8:00 AM.

Frank and Natalia visit the apartment where the shouting originated. The woman tells them that she was arguing with a funeral home over the cost of her daughter’s burial. Laura, her daughter, was shot three weeks earlier, while walking home from school. The funeral director accepted $1000 for the burial, but called to demand another $1000.

As Natalia tells Frank that she thinks there might be something about he funeral director, and that they should talk to him, Matteo, Laura’s brother catches up to them. He hands Natalia a brochure, and says it’s where his sister is. He asks if they can help his mom.

Valera asks Ryan why they didn’t tell her about Olvera’s necklace. She says that she might still be able to find blood in a crevice. She finds a trace, and matches the DNA to Rafael Vargas, a member of Cranios.

Horatio and Ryan go to arrest Vargas. As Ryan cuffs him, Horatio sees Wanda putting a flyer on the Hummer. He finds a message penned onto it, telling them that the “Craneos” are doing something in the shipping yard.

At the shipping yard, Delko and Horatio find a security guard locked in a container. He tells them that he was attacked by three men, who also took some ANFO…aluminum nitrate/fuel oil, an explosive…from the container. The guard describes one of the men as having a horrible scar on his left forearm: Hector Salazar.

Horatio tells Salazar that he should have covered his scar. Salazar says he wanted to be found. He claims to have wanted to help them find where Olvera was shot, and about the ANFO theft, having fed the information to Wanda Ramoz. He tells Horatio and Frank that Reverend Mike visited him a lot in prison, and convinced him that he had better options. When Olvera was murdered, he resolved to help bring down his own gang, and that it required someone on the inside. He pleads with them to let him help them. He tells Horatio that he remembered him as the cop that helped put away an inmate who had killed another inmate. Horatio was the first authority he’d known who cared about justice for the “animals” in the prison. Horatio agrees to let him help them.

Natalia visits the funeral director, claiming to have little money, and needing to bury her husband. He offers her “The Simple Things” package for $1000. She asks why, then, is he charging Gloria Nuñez twice as much for the same package, and holding her daughter’s body as ransom. Confronted with the facts, the director agrees to upgrade Mrs. Nuñez to the nicer package.

As Natalia tells Mrs. Nuñez about her visit to the funeral home, upstairs, Matteo pulls a handgun from his backpack. Matteo drops the gun and it goes off. Natalia pleads with him to tell her about he weapon, and what he knows about the murder. He won’t talk, so she takes him into custody.

Calleigh matches the ballistics on the weapon to the 9mm that killed Reverend Mike. Delko finds Matteo’s prints all over the gun. The partial print on the trigger, though, doesn’t match. It belongs to Freddie Granada, the kid from Reverend Mike’s home; one of his “lost causes”.

Horatio, Delko, and several uniforms catch up with Granada. With his UV flashlight, Delko finds blood traces in the back of his car. They tell him they found the gun, and ask why he killed Olvera. He says it was the price of admission to get back with “his boys”. He says that Reverend Mike lied. It wasn’t easier to be straight. No one would hire a former gang banger, but now he claims to have “benefits for life”. Delko challenges Granada’s claim to be “stone cold”, saying he would have just dumped the body, and wouldn’t have used a box.

Salazar calls Horatio, and says he knows what the ANFO is for. They plan to use it on Reverend Mike’s house. Horatio and Delko rush to the House of Lost Causes. Delko tosses a tactical camera into a window. He finds the detonator, but not the charges. They also see a woman lying on the floor. Horatio rushes in, though Delko warns him that there’s only thirty seconds left. He runs out with Wanda, just in time.

Wanda tells Horatio that she was attacked for informing the police. She says she liked the money she made by snitching for Hector, and tried to get more info on her own. Horatio promises to keep her in protective custody until they find the bomber.

Ryan and Calleigh examine the video from Delko’s tactical camera. They pan around, until they find the cans that held the explosives. Ryan recognizes them from Vargas’ shop. Horatio and the team arrive in time to find Vargas about to kill Hector Salazar. When Horatio and Delko enter, Vargas uses Salazar as a shield. Salazar, though, surprises him, managing to get away. Horatio fires and hits Vargas, but Vargas’ weapon goes off as he falls. The shot hits Salazar’s chest, and he goes down. Both men die on the shop floor.

As Horatio watches Hector die, he remembers Hector’s promise to bring down the Cranios, and his anger for their murdering Olvera, the man who was keeping kids from turning out like himself. A musical montage reveals that Hector Salazar’s sacrifice led to the capture of loads of munitions, and the gang. Natalia shows up at Laura Nuñez’ funeral. Horatio stands next to Hector’s lifeless body, seemingly sad and proud.

Horatio shows up to find Wanda Ramoz watching workers fix up Reverend Mike’s house. He asks what she plans to do with the money, to which she noticed that Reverend Mike’s place could use some new computers. She thanks Horatio.

Natalia: This is why we do it, isn’t it?
Horatio: Yep. Yep. This is exactly why we do it.

Damn you, CSI: Miami. Where is that box of tissues?!?

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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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Frank and Calleigh check out the victim’s room. There’s blood on the door handle, indicating he had fled before ending up in the pool. Frank says the shooter probably took after the victim and fired hitting Delko’s window. Calleigh is stumped by the buckets and burned matches scattered on the carpet. They look around commenting on how unsanitary such motel rooms are. Frank points out the busted out bathroom window. Calleigh finds a substantial wad of fabric stuck in the broken glass. Frank wonders why Delko would stay in such a hole.

Ryan finds the bullet that grazed Delko’s arm, saying it must have shattered when it hit the glass. Delko wonders what happened to the third shot that he heard, in addition to this and the one in the victim. He sarcastically “compliments” Delko on his residence. Ryan is curious why Delko has an explosives field kit on the table, and why he would have been honing his technical skills rather than going out with the gang the night before. As Ryan follows Delko out of the room, he spots a slip of paper with the name Enrico Moldano, followed by “Cutanas – 11PM Sunday”, and “1K”.

Tara tells Horatio that, before cutting the victim open, fluoroscope shows that he bled out from where a bullet fragment hit his left lung and another lodged in his aorta. Horatio is curious how he managed to get to the pool, and comments on his blood alcohol level being 0.18%. She notes that the alcohol would have slowed his body’s response to trauma. They also comment on burn marks on his palms, apparent whip marks and needle pricks on his chest. Tara wonders if it’s S&M, and notices an intact bullet not far inside the entry wound. Below it, she finds a medallion with Greek fraternity letters. She deduces this was a hazing ritual.

Natalia and Horatio question Neil Scofield, from the victim’s fraternity. Neil responds that Seth Copeland was a pledge, but he doesn’t know about a motel. Natalia tells him he should have changed his jacket, and produces the piece of material from the bathroom window. It appears to match a hole in Neil’s own jacket sleeve. Neil begs them not to bust him for hazing, or else he’ll be expelled. She asks if the gunshots were a new level. Neil says he put him on “bucket brigade”, forcing him to hold pails of water in his outstretched arms. Lowering one of them, or moving his foot from a piece of tape on the floor would require him to drink a beer. While Seth was performing the task, Neil says he went into the bathroom to relieve his bladder. That’s when he heard the shots and Delko identifying himself as police. He broke the window using his jacket and fled. He apologizes for leaving Seth behind.

Ryan tells Calleigh that the bullet from Delko’s room is “compromised”, but she said they still have the one from the victim. She tells him that lines etched into the bullet are consistent with passing through a window screen. This would imply that Neil wasn’t lying about not firing the shot.

Calleigh and Delko go back to the scene with a foam dummy to determine the position of the shooter. She is also curious why Delko didn’t tell anyone that he’d moved into a motel. They follow the laser light from the dummy out into the courtyard. Along the line, they find a broken 40 ounce. Delko remembers seeing his “neighbor” drop the bottle about ten seconds before the shooting.

The man with the bottle…Carl Reston…tells Delko that he’d been out there drinking because they are on vacation. The woman asks why they would hurt the frat kid. Delko offers that maybe they were angry at the noise coming from the kids’ room. When Reston dismisses “shooting the problem” as being silly, Horatio and Delko remind him of his violent police record: possession, disorderly conduct, and assault with a deadly weapon. Molly Reston says Carl isn’t like that anymore. Carl tells them that they didn’t see anything, after that. They had entered their room before the shots fired.

Ryan tells Horatio about the explosives kit and shows him the note he found. Ryan expresses his worry for Delko, recalling his own cover-ups when he was running bets. Horatio tells him to concentrate on the case, and promises to look into it.

Horatio pays a visit to Cutanas, in Little Havana. The bartender says he is Enrico Moldano, and Delko paid him $1,000 to get documents from his contacts in Cuba. Delko told him they couldn’t meet again, face-to-face. He would have to deliver the goods to his motel room, wrapped in the morning paper. Moldano refused to tell him what Eric paid for. Horatio threatens to hold Moldano responsible if anything happens to Delko.

Frank helps Calleigh look for the gun in the Reston’s room. Strangely, for being on vacation, they have no luggage in their room. Calleigh asks Frank to lift her up to a ceiling vent. She crawls in, following a trail in the grime showing that something slid through the duct. When she reaches the next vent, she sees a man lying dead in a tub full of ice.

Linda Bowen, the pregnant woman that was at the ice machine when Delko got his coffee, tells Frank and Calleigh that it “must look bad” that her boyfriend Joel is dead in the tub. Frank responds that it looks like she killed him, and shot her neighbor to cover it up. As Frank searches the room, Linda tells Calleigh that they’d moved to Miami, after Hurricane Ike destroyed their home, and Joel was injured hefting sandbags. The A/C wasn’t working, and extreme heat always hurt Joel’s lungs. He checked and found something blocking the air vent. He told Linda that everything was going to be all right, now, but didn’t tell her what he’d found. Later, he collapsed on the walk. She put him on ice. She didn’t want to report his death to the authorities, because she needed his disability checks to support their baby. She was worried she would stop receiving them, since they weren’t married.

Delko finds Ryan working in his lab. Ryan shos him the bullet fragment from his motel room. He says just the fragment bullet was heavier than an entire .38 bullet, like the one that killed Seth Copeland. There must be a second shooter, so he asks Delko if someone is after him. Delko doesn’t know, but says he was at the motel, because he thought his condo was being watched. He tells Ryan that no one but Enrico knew where he was staying.

Delko goes to Cutanas. He finds Moldano dead behind the dumpster in the alley. He calls for backup.

At the scene, Horatio asks Delko what Enrico had for him. Delko shows him his birth certificate. He says that, since he’s been looking into his family, people have been watching him, looking through his trash, and breaking into his car. Horatio takes Delko off the case. Tara finds lipstick on Enrioco’s cheeks and lips. She asks if Delko’s in danger, and Horatio says he might be. Ryan finds a .38 in the trash.

Prints on the .38 match Carl Reston. Frank and Horatio question Reston, telling him his prints are on the gun that shot Copeland and Moldano. He claims not to know Moldano. He tells them that they came into a lot of money, and stashed it in the air vent. They came back to their room, and he found it gone. He thought Molly had taken the money for herself. He called her out of the room, dropped the bottle, and pulled his gun on her. She smacked his arm to point the gun away from herself, when it went off. That’s when Seth Copeland was hit. He heard Delko announce himself as an officer, panicked, and tossed the gun over the building. It went off, when it hit the ground on the other side.

Ryan and Natalia find the second .38 bullet inside a 55-gallon drum, near where Reston said he’d thrown the revolver. Next to the dumpster, there are fresh tire tracks, but three of them. Natalia guesses that it was an ATV.

Calleigh tells Linda Bowen that the autopsy showed that Joel had died of a heart attack. She promises to make sure he gets a proper burial. She asks Linda where she found Joel, then follows her to the ice machine. Calleigh digs through the ice…with no gloves on…and finds a duffel full of cash. She tells Linda to wait in her room with the officer until she gets back.

Delko’s mom meets him at the lab. He asks her about his birth. He tells her that every time she tells the story, the facts change, including the length of her labor, and the location where her boat from Cuba landed. He shows her his birth certificate, indicating that he was born in Cuba. She admits that his father was her boss at the factory. She tells Eric that Alexander Shiroa was a bad man. She begs him to let it go, but that Shiroa doesn’t know that he exists. She asks if he’s in danger, and apologizes.

Calleigh calls Molly Reston in, and shows her the bag she found. Molly lights up and is ready to claim the money. Calleigh explains that the money was found divided up into uniform units of 20 and 30. This, plus Carl’s priors for possession lead them to believe that the money was earned from selling drugs. Calleigh tells Molly that she’s prepared to check with narcotics, and see if her hunch is right. She offers Molly the chance to reconsider her claim to the cash, and Molly accepts, denying having ever seen it before.

Calleigh visits Linda Bowen at the motel. She tells her she’s not in trouble. She then hands her an envelope full of cash. Calleigh tells her that according to the law, if money is found and turned in to the police, and the rightful owner refuses to claim it, it belongs to the person who found it. She tells Linda to take the money, and make a fresh start. [OMG! I am not crying during CSI: Miami.]

Natalia tells Horatio that the tire tracks from the alley don’t match any known ATVs. When she changes the search to find vehicles with the single wheel in the back, it brings up the Can-Am Spyder. There are 56 registered owners in southern Florida. Horatio tells her to find only female owners, because of the lipstick on Moldano. There are only three, and one is Kate Hawkes, a woman who was talking to Enrico, when Horatio visited the bar.

Ryan finds blood on Hawkes’ bike. They tell her that, if the blood is Moldano’s, that puts her at the scene of his murder, as well as at the motel, during the attempt on Delko’s life. She says she was there, but wasn’t expecting to be interrupted. She questions why they’re talking to her, if they know everything. Ryan asks why she tried to kill Delko. “It was a job”, she says. They ask her about Alexander Shirova, but she doesn’t know where he is.

Back at the station, Horatio tells Delko that it’s not over. For Shirova, this is only the beginning.

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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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In the lab, Tara shows Calleigh that she found no ligature marks or bruising. It appears that she neither defended herself, nor was she restrained. The cause of death is ventricular defibrillation caused by electrocution. Opening her eyes, they notice that they’re dilated. [Tara didn't look at her eyes at the scene or at any time before this?]

Horatio checks up on Reggie, the detective now sitting at a desk. He tells Horatio that Tim Erickson is in with Ryan. He had filed a missing person report on his girlfriend, Kathy Meyers, with a description that matches their victim. Reggie mentions that Erickson has a record, and to check that out. To that Horatio tells Reggie to remember why he’s at the desk…and not investigating homicides.

Tim tells them that they were supposed to go out the night before. The next morning, he called in the report. Horatio asks if Kathy was aware of his sexual battery conviction, and Ryan adds that the person who files a missing person report on a murder victim is often the killer. Scott is outraged by the implication.

Natalia tells Calleigh that there was nothing in Kathy’s tox screen. Calleigh, though, has found high doses of cyclopentolate in the swab of her eye. This would have dilated her eyes, effectively blinding her. This reminds Natalia of a murder victim from a year earlier. Searching computer records for “cyclopentolate” finds the case. Allison Novell, 21, was stabbed and dumped, the year before. The current victim, Natalia notes, was electrocuted. Calleigh says that’s enough to look into. The lead suspect in that case was her ophthalmologist, Dr. Max Paulson, but there wasn’t enough evidence to connect him to the death.

Horatio and Frank question Dr. Paulson. He claims to have been asleep the night before. Frank asks if he got the punch mark and cut lip from the girl in the morgue. Paulson tells them to ask Reggie, since he visited him already, asked him a bunch of questions, and gave him the marks.

Horatio asks Reggie about his visiting, and battering, Dr. Paulson. He says he “put him on notice.” Horatio warns him that he doesn’t need the help. Reggie says he saw the evidence, and knew it was him. Horatio reminds him that he’s on restriced duty because of harassment charges filed in the Allison Novell case. Reggie displays his anger over the charges that took him off homicide. Eric tells Horatio that there is another case involving pupil dilation. Jessica Davis was attacked 9 months earlier, but survived. After Eric leaves, Horatio takes away Reggie’s badge and gun, putting him on leave. He tells Reggie to let him clear this up, and he will reinstate him himself.

Horatio goes to talk to Jessica. Her fiancé, Dennis Chilton, warns Horatio to take it slow, because she was recently diagnosed with metastic breast cancer. Jessica tells Horatio that the department never followed up on her case, leaving her to believed that they had no interest. She said she was attacked while going to class. A man grabbed her from behind, and she must have been knocked unconscious. The next thing she remembers is a blinding light. The man told her to beg for her life, but she wouldn’t “give him the satisfaction.” The next thing she knew she was out on the street. She complains that she’s already told the police this, and no one did anything. Horatio promises that it won’t happen this time.

Natalia shows Horatio all the evidence from Allison Novell’s case, but it has been water damaged. Jessica calls Horatio, telling him that her fiance is gone, and a man is sitting in a car in front of her house. Horatio rushes to go there. Dennis Chilton shows up, and confronts the man in the car. He opens the car door, and sees he has a gun on his ankle. It’s Reggie. He jumps out of the car and grabs Dennis. Jessica comes out, and identifies Reggie as the policeman who took her information, then did nothing about her case. Horatio has already arrived. He calms Dennis, and tells Eric to take him inside. Horatio then tells Reggie to stay away. Reggie indignantly remarks that she’s not safe.

Eric tells Tara that he needs to take photos; infrared photos that should find any deep marks that aren’t visible otherwise. The IR photos reveal marks where the attacker pinched off the carotid and jugular on both sides, cutting off flow to the brain and causing hypoxia. Calleigh notes that they should look for someone with military or other special hand-to-hand training. Eric replies, “Or a vengeful cop.” Eric tells her that Reggie has been all over this case. Calleigh warns Eric to wait until he has more solid evidence before taking this to the rest of the team.

Calleigh gets on the elevator to go down to the garage. A very dejected-looking Reggie is already on the elevator. He wants to know what’s going on with Max Paulson. She tells him that his actions put the department in a defensive position. Reggie stops the elevator and gets in Calleigh’s face, asking her if she wants more innocent girls to die. Calleigh tells him to step away and unlocks her sidearm. Reggie starts the elevator, and gets off in the bottom. Calleigh tells him, though, that she forgot something, and stays on the elevator to go back up.

Ryan tells Natalia that he’s been going over the Allison Novell and Kathy Meyers evidence, and doesn’t find anything leading to the killer. Natalia suggests that they look to Kathy Meyers, herself. They examine what they knew of her personal life, including her three month anniversary with Erickson. Natalia then puts up a close up of Meyers’ face. She points out the signs of “threading”, a treatment she must have done monthly to pluck her eyebrows. She points out that her credit card indicates that she goes to the same place, and had just had the treatment the day before her body was found.

Natalia and Horatio go to the salon. They find Meyers’ car in the parking lot. Her keys and purse are lying below the car door. Shoe scuff marks leave a trail across the lot to another parking space. In the space, Natalia finds drops of industrial grease. Horatio gets a call telling them that there is another victim.

Horatio finds Tara in an alley over another body. She has marks consistent with those on Kathy Meyers. There are visible bruises, though, and hair under one of her nails.

Maxine hands Calleigh a file on the new victim. She’s Rachel Calvado, and has a record for solicitation, possession, and assault.

Maxine notices that Calleigh seems stressed. Calleigh asks if she’s going to run the DNA sample from the hair against the department staff. Maxine wonders why, to which Calleigh replies that Reggie has been all over the case. Suddenly, the computer yields the result. It’s Max Paulson.

Frank and Horatio question Paulson, who says it’s all circumstantial. As his alibi, Paulson produces two movie tickets for back-to-back films.

In the alley where they found Calvado, Frank tells Calleigh and Ryan that an usher corroborates Paulson’s alibi. Ryan says he may have sneaked out the side door and back in. Calleigh, somewhat sheepishly, asks what if Paulson is a scapegoat for Reggie. Ryan wonders if it’s possible. Frank, though, referring to his years on the force with Reggie, says he’s a good cop. He’s only interested in finding the bad guy. Ryan, though, finds a leather strap with a button clasp. It looks like it came from a holster.

Frank and Horatio find Reggie, in his back yard, burning papers on his grill. He congratulates on nailing Paulson, but notices that Frank has his hand on his sidearm. Horatio asks for Reggie’s backup holster and gun. The holster is missing the clasp, and Horatio shows him the evidence bag holding the clasp. Reggie says Calvado was a wothless heroine addict, and he made her life worth something by using her to help save countless other lives. Frank takes Reggie into custody.

Horatio tells Eric that he has pulled Jessica Davis’ case file. Eric says it has been processed, but there are overlapping prints on a button from her blouse. They couldn’t separate them at the time of the investigation, but they have the technology now. Eric separates the prints by isolating them by their distinct chemical composition. One print is methylparaben, which, Calleigh notes, is the primary ingredient in hand lotion. So, it’s likely Jessica’s. The other is lithium grease, the same as found at the scene of Kathy Meyers’ abduction. The grease print matches Dennis Chilton, Jessica Davis’ fianc´.

As police take Chilton into custody, he tells Jessica that he was angry and wanted someone to feel like he did. That’s why he killed Novell, but he couldn’t kill Jessica. He couldn’t do it, because her refusal to give into him showed that she was as in control as he was. After Jessica’s cancer diagnosis, he had to get rid of his anger, so he found Kathy Meyers.

Reggie expresses to Horatio his remorse for killing Rachel Calvado. He’d become “the thing he despised the most.” Obviously dejected, as officers take him out of the room, Reggie tells Horatio that he’ll be fine. In his cell, though, he hangs himself with his bedsheet.

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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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While Delko photographs the scene, Ryan comes in asking where the body is. Dr. Price has had it rushed back to the lab, and texts him the ID: Steven Howell. The woman, Christina Dodd, has tested positive for GHP, the date rape drug. The murder weapon is not at the scene. They figure that the murderer must have drugged Dodd, and had Howell handcuffed. It appears that the man tried to call for help by turning up the radio. Delko notices the hotel logo on the handcuffs.

The concierge tells Delko that he provides whatever the guests want, including, when asked, a “toy box” full of sex toys. Howell didn’t order the toy box, though, Christina Dodd did, and she seemed very appreciative. Delko calls Calleigh to keep Christina in custody.

Calleigh tells Christina that being lucid enough to order the sex toys makes her suspicious. Perhaps she’s using the drug as an alibi. Christina confesses to Calleigh that she was in the bar one night, and ended up going to a room with a man she met. After having sex, the man got dressed and left $500 on the bed for her “services”. Realizing that he thought she was a call girl, and was pleased with her services, she decided to quit her part-time job, and continue “working” this way a couple nights a week for the same money. So Howell was just another trick. She says she handcuffed him to the bed, and that’s the last thing she remembers. They go ahead and hold her on solicitation charges.

Tara is startled by a body’s rising from its table in the morgue. Delko is standing outside, though, holding a remote, and laughing. He tells her that he and Ryan moved Howell’s body and replaced it with a dummy. Tara is upset, though, because she had set the body up in the position it was found, in hopes of determining the murder weapon. Eric apologizes, and asks to help. She gives him a sample from under Howell’s fingernails to take up to DNA, and adds, “And trying doing your job instead of screwing with mine.” [Yikes!]

Natalia tells Horatio that she found the DNA of several women in the sample from Howell’s nails. The largest contributor turns up in Codis as Audrey Yates. They question Yates, who has a record as a “madam”. She claims to have quit after being arrested. She recognizes Howell as the tanning butler, who had put lotion on her. This also explains why he had several women’s DNA under his nails. Yates asks about the prostitute. She seems to know the profile, an amateur, who always picks up at the same bar. An obsessed client sees her with another man and gets angry, maybe angry enough to kill.

Calleigh asks Maxine about the DNA from Christina’s sexual assault kit. She explains that another client may be the killer, if he’d become obsessed with Christina, and saw her with Howell. Some of the DNA matches a Dan Becks an Army reservist with a record for assault with a deadly weapon. Frank and Horatio ask Becks if he has a habit of picking up prostitutes. He denies it, and recognizes the photo of Christina. She’s his wife! He wants to know what they’re getting at, and what kind of trouble she’s in. Becks says he was at his son’s little league practice in the morning.

Ryan figures that Christina must have been drugged in the room, since she ordered the cuffs some time before passing out. Two champagne glasses are negative for GHP, but some broken, blue glass from the floor tested positive. Tara walks in on Ryan and Delko and takes the prints showing Howell’s body on the bed. She says this may be their only hope of determining the murder weapon. Ryan guesses that their prank didn’t go over well. [Ya think?]

Calleigh helps Tara reposition the body back into the position in the photos. Tara explains that putting silicone into the wounds may yield shapes that will reveal enough of the shape of the weapon. That is, if the body hasn’t been moved too much from its original death position.

Delko fumes the glass fragments, attempting to get prints from the vessel that delivered the GHP. One print turns up the name Lisa Radley, a licensed real estate broker. Mrs. Radley tells Horatio and Delko that she was at a department store, that morning, for an appointment with a personal shopper.

When confronted with the vial and her prints, she tells them that she met Howell at the Tremaine bar, a couple nights before. She says that he charmed her, and they went to a room together. He pulled out the bottle, saying it was absinthe. She took a sip. She realized it was GHP, when she awoke to find Howell, her wedding ring, and the contents of her purse, missing. She didn’t report it because she didn’t want her husband to find out what happened. They release her.

Delko remarks to Horatio that Howell could have robbed dozens of married women like this. Horatio responds that any one of them could be his killer.

Calleigh and Natalia consider the new information. Howell was only robbing women who had something to lose by going to the police. So, he hits on older, married women. If they respond, he drugs and robs them. With Christina, he was surprised by the cuffs. He had already given her the GHP, resulting in his being helplessly cuffed while she was passed out.

They search Howell’s home for his stash of stolen goods, thinking it will lead back to the other women he robbed, and maybe the killer. They don’t find any goods, but he had a gallery of photos of his victims. Christina is in different clothes, so his victims weren’t random. They take the photos to try and find the photographer.

Jane finds the photographer in reflections contained in six photos. She grafts the best parts of each of the images together to improve the image of the photographer. It’s clearly Audrey Yates.

Yates tells Horatio that these horny soccer moms were cutting into her profits. So, she was out of retirement. Steve was in it for the cash. She just had to point him at the right targets. Lisa Radley was a mistake. Steve is dead, and Radley won’t press charges. Horatio asks for her ring, because he recognizes it as Radley’s.

Tara shows Horatio and Delko how she attempted to identify the shape of the murder weapon. The wounds show signs of a serated blade, except for one that has a nick in a vertebra on the other side of the wound. This is a problem for her weapon profile, but Horatio points out that it could be serated on part of the back edge of the blade. This leads her to a knife that’s smooth for the first three inches, then serated from there to the hilt. It would be a very uncommon blade, making it easier to find it.

Calleigh searches the North American Knife Registry, finding one possible hit…a combat knife. This leads them back to Dan Becks, the one person involved who was in the military. Becks tells Horatio that he does own that knife, but lost it that morning, at the Tremaine. He says he knows that his wife has been cheating on him. He just didn’t know she was getting paid. He tracked her down to the Tremaine, and found her passed out on the hotel bad, and Howell cuffed. He threatened Howell, and stuck the knife into the bed. He left it in the room, rushing out after hearing a noise in the hallway. Becks says that she even had her friend cover for her, texting him, once, that she was having sushi. His wife, though, is allergic to fish. Becks storms off, when Christina approaches him.

Christina tells Horatio that the concierge would cover for her, and had sent the text message. He charged her $100 each time she needed his help.

Calleigh and Natalia head to the hotel for evidence that the concierge killed Howell. Howell would have been running off his best customers, if he was running an alibi service on the side for these women. Calleigh doesn’t find blood or the knife, but a lot of fake receipts, some even with future dates. Delko notices one of the receipts matches the one that Lisa Radley produced to back up her alibi of being at a department store.

Horatio and Delko catch up with Lisa Radley, who had been stopped by a patrolman. Delko finds the knife in her car. They arrest her. She says she just hunted him down looking to get her ring back. When he insulted her, she lost it, and grabbed the knife.

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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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At the scene, Delko and Horatio go over what they know, which isn’t much. The crane operator was long gone. Horatio knows, though, that they can put the ultimate blame on Joey Salucci.

Calleigh talks to Travis Blake, the project manager. He doesn’t know who was operating the crane. He said that he had stopped construction, a week before, since housing sales are low. Blake tries to act like he doesn’t know Salucci, only very slowly admitting to having little interaction with him.

Horatio finds Salucci placing a lily on his daughter’s headstone. Of course, Salucci balks at Horatio’s claims that he had anything to do with Campbell’s death, or the murder at the Spiral Bar.

Ryan inspects the crane operator’s position, 200 feet atop the crane tower. Obviously very frightened by the altitude, he tells Calleigh about the on-board computer that might keep track of activity of the crane. He also finds some blood on the wall inside the cab. Natalia matches the blood in the cab to Kurt Greenfield, a crane operator.

Horatio and Frank talk to Greenfield. He also denies knowing Salucci, until confronted with the fact that he was once on Salucci’s payroll. He admits to working on the site, but under the table. He said he returned to the site to fetch his pills in the cab.

Calleigh and Delko talk to Beth and Noah Campbell, William’s wife and son. Mrs. Campbell is very upset, and even slaps Calleigh, just for praising William’s courage. She isn’t impressed when Delko tells her that they’ll find the killer.

Ryan meets up with Calleigh at the construction site. They find fresh tire tracks, as well as a piece of glass with a bit of charcoal paint transferred to it. On the Hummer computer, Calleigh matches the tire tread to that used on BMW 645ci convertible. There are only a few of them registered in Miami, and only one registered to a known associate of Salucci, Mick Ragozza.

Horatio and Frank find Ragozza, who claims that falling debris from the site fell on his can.

Jane shows Natalia what she found from the crane recorder…time, arm motion speed, etc. The data shows that the crane controls weren’t being used to control it, at the time of the crash. So, someone was operating it remotely. The controllers have a limited range, but there is a parking garage, down the street, that would have offered a good view of the crash.

Delko and Calleigh check out the top level of the parking garage. They find the remote controller dumped in a trash can. No tissue on the neck strap for the controller match in the Codis. It does match, however, 96@ with William Campbell. This indicates that it could be a familial match, to Noah Campbell.

Calleigh questions Noah. He tells Calleigh, and Beth Campbell, that his father never asked him about testifying. He was resentfull for having to go into witness protection. He only wanted to scare his father, but lost control of the crane, killing him accidentally.

Salucci is jubilant toward Horatio. Though he’s off the hook for William Campbell’s death, Horatio mentions AJ Watkins, the young man who was involved in the 4-wheeler accident that killed Salucci’s daughter. Watkins disappeared a few weeks before, and Horatio assures Salucci that he’ll find the body, and make the connection to the crime boss.

Horatio asks Delko about AJ Watkins. Going over what Campbell told them about the events in the Spiral Bar restroom, Horatio tells Delko to get the 911 recording of Campbell’s call.

Jane is able to isolate the sound of a toilet flushing in the recording. Deducing that it must be the killer flushing something in the stall next to the one where Campbell was hiding, Ryan and Natalia return to the Spiral Bar. Using a scope, they find a 9mm shell casing in the toilet drain. Ryan opens the drain, and retrieves the shell.

Horatio uses a new technique to find a print on the heavily “washed” shell. Applying an electric current to the shell, and then exposing it to conductive powder, this method will reveal the very latent corrosion that occurs when human skin touches metal. They find a thumb print, and match it to Ragozza. Ragozza is very smug.

Calleigh and Ryan search Ragozza’s car. They find blood in the trunk, as well as a small shovel hidden in the spare tire compartment. Ryan tells Horatio that the shovel had traces of silica and quartz: sand. While sand is not uncommon, the sand’s shape indicate that it was melted. Ryan apologetically tells Horatio that this only narrows down the location of Watkins’ burial to a beach, near a bonfire. Horatio’s response indicates that that’s all he needs.

The team finds AJ Watkins below a pier, at the site where Salucci’s daughter Emma died in the accident. Dr. Price points out that there is only one bullet wound, in the knee cap. “Why not shoot to kill?” She tells Calleigh that the real cause of death appears to be strangulation. The marks on his neck have lily pollen.

Horatio realizes that Ragozza started the murder with the gunshot, but Salucci finished it.

Calleigh solemnly visits William Campbell’s body in the morgue. She holds his hand, as she imagines her attempt to pull him up from the scene where he died.

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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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Outside, Eric and Horatio find out from the boutique owner that the store has no video surveillance. Then, they hear a disruption outside a neighboring store. Horatio walks over to find a patrolman escorting Julia, Horatio’s ex out of the store to arrest her.

The officer tells Horatio that Julia has repeatedly issued bad checks to the store, and this time they’re prepared to press charges. She’s written $6000 in bad checks. Horatio tells the officer he’ll handle it. He confronts Julia, who blames Leonard McBride, the business manager that Ron hired to tend to their finances.

Horatio finds McBride in a restaurant to confront him. McBride says Julia has squandered millions, and has lost all grasp of reality. She also owed McBride a year’s worth of fees.

Eric and Calleigh examine the dressing room. When she explains the mirror is also a sophisticated LCD touchscreen that remembers every outfit you’ve tried on, Eric wonders if they could retrieve a record of the moments before the explosion.

Tara points out to Ryan that the burns from the explosion are concentrated the front of Kim’s torso. She also shows him wires she found on the dress worn by the victim. Ryan finds a small watch battery. They realize it could have set off a small amount of explosive.

Jane is able to retrieve the last few seconds on the LCD touchscreen. Sarino points out that the dress Kim was wearing wasn’t from the store. All his garments are animal friendly, but that dresss was suede. So, someone walked in and handed her the bomb.

Horatio drives by an altercation between Kyle and one of Julia’s neighbors. He sends the neighbor on, then asks Kyle what’s going on. Kyle tells him that his mom isn’t acting normal.

Frank gives Natalia Kim’s purse. A building inspector found the purse between the first and second store. In the purse, they find tools for removing security tags from clothing, along with five thousand dollars in cash.

When Eric questions Amy, she reluctantly shows the tag on the stolen top she’s wearing. She says she did it just for fun, but she won’t reveal the person who hired them.

Horatio asks Julia how long it’s been since she took her medication. She’s belligerent with him about it.

Though a single bill may be handled by many people, Eric examines the top and bottom bills from the stack in Kim’s purse to see who might have handled the bundle of bills. Of course, Kim’s prints show up, but so do those of Dr. Robert Langley, a plastic surgeon who has previously been accused of sexual misconduct with a patient.

Calleigh questions Dr. Langley. He claims the charges were dropped. Calleigh shows him a photo of Kim. He said that at 17 she was too young to have a breast augmentation, and returned the money she tried to pay him.

Frank tells Horatio that there was a hit and run at Julia’s address. Horatio rushes over to find Tara examining the victim. He identifies the young man as Brice Kerwin from across the street, the same man that Kyle was arguing with earlier. Tara has found Julia’s bi-polar medication in Brice’s pocket. Horatio finds her inside. She tells him that Brice and Kyle fought, earlier, and that Brice was stealing her meds. She asks him who’s going to protect Kyle, now.

Horatio questions Kyle, who says that he didn’t run Brice over. Kyle asks Horatio to let him take the fall, if the hit-and-run comes back on Julia.

Eric helps Horatio examine Julia’s car for clues to exonerate them. Eric finds crabshell on the floorboard, leading Horatio back to Leonard McBride, who was eating crab at lunch. McBride says that he was taking the car as payment for his services over the past year. Brice jumped out in front of the car, and McBride fled the scene.

Ryan reassembled the bomb in the dress, but still had no clues to the maker. Calleigh hints that if the good bomb maker was a bad tailor, he may have left DNA behind. Ryan finds blood in one of the mended seams. It matches Stan Carlyle, a man who spent two years in jail for bomb making incidents.

Eric and Ryan go to Carlyle’s apartment. The man there claims to be his roommate, Barry. Stan’s bedroom is locked. Inside, they find bombmaking tools, and women’s clothing.

Calleigh visits the clothing boutique of Faratelli. She identifies the exploding dress as one of her own. She said some woman with a stroller stole it. She had the stroller behind the store, because the thief fled and left some of the merchandise. Eric and Natalia find an afghan lined with aluminum foil inside the stroller. They figure the thief used it to bypass security.

Calleigh and Eric question Amy about her baby stroller scam. She claims not to know Stan Carlyle. She says it’s not fair, because it was Kim who was doing the real scam, targeting certain designers and certain stores. She claims it’s unwise to reveal who gave them the list of clothes to steal. Calleigh takes Amy’s phone.

Ryan brings in Barry. He tells him that his watch gave him away. Ryan tells him that they know that he’s really Stan, and that he’s the bomber. He tells him that his fingers didn’t leave any prints. He tells Barry that he knows that he’s really Stan. He tells Barry that they know about Stan’s showing up at a hospital with severe burns. They believe that he changed his identity, after having plastic surgery. Stan/Barry apogizes for the dead girl. He says that his plastic surgeon asked him to make the bomb.

Calleigh visits Dr. Langley to tell him that Stan is talking. Langley says that the victim got greedy. She wanted the big money, and threatened to accuse him of sexual misconduct, if he didn’t agree. So, he had to shut her up. He called in a favor from one of his patients. Officers arrest Langley.

Horatio visits Julia. He kisses her head, then sits quietly with her. They share looks, as the episode closes.

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

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