I missed CSI: Miami on Monday night.
Someone was supposed to die, who was it? I was thinking it would either be the balck coroner (Khandi Alexander) or Horatio’s dead brothers widow.
Am I right?
MtM
Nope, it was Speed. I’m still upset. 
Of all the characters, he and Alex (the coroner) were the only ones I didn’t want to die.
That sucks, how did Speed go?
MtM
He got shot after his gun jammed (possibly due to poor maintenance.)
One thing about the episode makes no sense to me at all:
The fish that led them to the second crime scene. How was it supposed to end up at the first crime scene? I don’t get the chronology. The only way it begins to make sense is if both kidnappers intended to kill the kid from the start, the two of them waded into the water with the kid and the empty bag, one guy is gator food right away, and the other guy took the water and baitfish-filled bag to meet Dad on the boat – because a soggy, stinky bag is a much better container for the ransom than the one that the father brought it in.Please tell me I missed something obvious here. 
I believe there was another episode where
Speed’s
gun jammed because he or she didn’t maintain it. Think that was the one where the bad guys attacked the convoy carrying the drugs to the incinerator.
I’ve got it Tivo’ed but I don’t mind the spoiler…
You know, Larry, that hadn’t occurred to me. And you’re absolutely right. I guess I didn’t notice it on Monday because I was watching the show with Captain NyQuil and an impressive bout of bronchitis. I think I may have taped it, though, I’ll see if I can go back and check.
And 5que, you’re right, it had happened before. It was alluded to in the episode, but I never saw the first one.
The episode was, in general, hard to follow. The fish has been mentioned. I also was never sure who the gunmen were in the fatal shooting.[spoiler]The gunfight took place at a jeweler’s store. They came there because they’d found the jewelry that had been used to attempt to pay the ransom had fake gems.
Speed saw a guy hiding under something in the back, and drew his weapon. When Horatio joined him, they flushed out the guy and bullets flew. I think Horatio hit a bad guy after Speed was shot, though we never hear about him again. Apparently, he got away.
The jeweler, after the shootout, confessed to trading out the gems when the jewelry had been given to him for cleaning, but said he had nothing to do with the kidnapping. When Horatio asked him who the gunmen in the shop were, he said they were just security guards. If so, why were they hiding, and why did they gun down a cop?
By the way, Speed said that the diamonds were real, except they were laboratory-made rather than natural, making them worth less. But I thought there was no way to tell the difference, except that the lab versions are more often flawless. How was Speed so certain they weren’t natural?[/spoiler]It had the feeling of a 90-minute script being produced as a 60-minute show.
As to the jewelry store …
[spoiler]I think the gunmen were crooks working for a crook, not actual hired security, who might have problems shooting at cops. After it was established that the stepmom had nothing to do with the fake jewelry and the jeweler had nothing to do with the kidnapping, there was no point keeping the plotline alive, I suppose.
But I know nothing about diamonds, real or synthetic, so I can’t help you on the rest.[/spoiler]
And is Captain Vogue also sharkproof? “Don’t go in the water, Mister. My teacher did and then he was shark food.” “That’s ok, son.” {strike a valiant pose} “I’m the star and am top of the food chain.”
This episode had HUGE plot holes - I hope this isn’t a trend. I can handle magical machines that only spit out analysis when a shiny pretty actor is near and the aforementioned Captain {strike a pose} Vogue; as long as I get to see Khandi Alexander talking to corpses. But I only have so much patience.
Rory Cochrane had told the producers when he took the job originally that he could do this forever. :eek:
If only they’d killed off David Caruso’s character. But then, who would have noticed? :rolleyes:
I would’ve. There wouldn’t be the weekly rubber smears on my TV screen after one of his Horatioisms. Cripes, the man thinks he’s Jack Webb!
So, did that person ask for more money or something? And did both Jorja Fox and George Eads finally sign or are the “off the case” for good?
Well, freck.
(spades have been broken already, see post # 10)
[spoiler]No point, except that they killed a CSI! I could see concentrating on saving the kid, since he’s still alive. But the writer seemed to think that Speed’s poor weapon maintenance was the only cause of his death worth talking about. Just ignore the people who actually fired the shot!
They could have just said that the shooters had warrents out on them or something. But they didn’t think it was worth one extra line of dialogue. Or did I miss something?[/spoiler]
I’m bummed; I kept hoping that they’d bring him back after his heart stopped since that’d techincally make the “someone dies” promo true without losing a character. (and, to be honest, I was hoping H’s sister-in-law was the one to buy it since she’s hardly ever on) He’s one of the reasons I gave the show a shot despite loathing the Vegas show. I wonder if he’ll be going back to indy films now…
Re the fish:
The plotline made perfect sense. It’s only confusing if you conflate two different locations.
Here’s how that went down:
[ol]
[li]Kid is kidnapped, put in trunk, taken to location 1. Tries to escape. While capturing him, one of the bad guys has to go in the water. Catches fish in the duffle bag when he gets thrown in water. Boy gets captured and taken to location 2.[/li][li]Bad guy 1 (friend of mother who is in custody at the end) meets father on boat. Kills father, leaves bag with fish in it (the bag was there to carry the jewels). [/li][li]Bad guy 2 puts kid on raft at location 2, gets eaten.[/li][li]Horatio tracks down location 2 due to plant material.[/li][/ol]
As for Horatio surviving to rescue the boy, obviously whatever killed bad guy 2 wasn’t likely to be hungry after just having eaten. Though it would have been smarter to just reassure the boy until someone could come by and pull the raft in or get a boat.
The big flaw for me was the opening crash. That boat was not going to wreck a bridge unless the bridge was about to fall anyway. Fiberglass vs. concrete – fiberglass isn’t going to win.
I HATE this show! I HATE David Caruso. And I’m not real fond of the rest of the gang.
But I can’t take my eyes off of it. It makes me so mad!
Didn’t they do that last season with CSI: Vegas?
Yeah, that’s another one. They obviously had some cash lying around in the effects budget, and decided breaking a bridge would look cool. Then they wrote the rest of the episode and realized that a big freighter wouldn’t work for the story. So they made a medium-sized pleasure boat hit like it weighed 30,000 tonnes.
It would have been just as good of a story if the boat had just bounced off the bridge support, but they were after cool effects.