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CSI: Miami is a spin-off of the popular CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Like the original CSI, CSI: Miami is a police procedural about a team of forensic scientists who serve the Miami-Dade Police Department. It is set in present-day Miami-Dade County (which mainly includes unincorporated Miami-Dade, as well as Miami, Kendall, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Opa-Locka, Key Biscayne, etc.). CSI: Miami was rerun on A&E Network in 2005.
It is filmed primarily in the United States, mostly in the Los Angeles area (due to cheaper production/studio costs) and of course, all around the South Florida/Miami-Dade area. The series has been exported to over a dozen countries worldwide. The show averages 20 million viewers an episode, making it Monday's highest-rated series and one of the most watched shows in North America. In 2006, Reuters reported that the show is "the most-watched U.S. series around the world". The series is distributed internationally by Alliance Atlantis.
The team investigates mysterious and unusual deaths to determine who killed whom and why, and also solves other serious crimes such as rape. The show frequently focuses on a single case in each episode as opposed to the two-cases-per-episode storytelling of its sister shows, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and CSI: NY. Many of its characters have appeared on all three CSI: related shows because of the two part episodes.
Like the other two CSI programs, the theme song is by The Who; this time the song is "Won't Get Fooled Again".
CSI: Miami was renewed for a sixth season on May 16, 2007.
Characters[edit | edit source]
Main characters[edit | edit source]
- Miami Dade CSI Head Investigator Lieutenant Horatio Caine played by David Caruso, is the Head of the Miami-Dade crime lab, a forensic analyst and former bomb squad officer. In season 1 episode 2, Caine revealed that everything he knew had been taught to him by his mentor, Al Humphreys (played by Lou Beatty, Jr.), who is killed by an explosion while trying to defuse a bomb in the episode. Caine was briefly married to Eric Delko's sister Marisol, which ended when she was murdered by a Mala Noche sniper. He often wears polarized sunglasses.
- Miami Dade CSI Level 3 Detective Calleigh Duquesne played by Emily Procter, is a ballistics specialist. Her father is an alcoholic attorney who has tried to rehabilitate himself several times. She has a brief relationship with John Hagen in season 2; in the season 3 finale Hagen shoots himself while she is getting a different gun, after having pulled a gun on her earlier in the episode. In season 4, there were hints at some sort of relationship with Special Agent Peter Elliot. At the beginning of Season 5, she is temporarily in charge of the lab while Horatio and Delko are in Brazil. She appears to be very good friends with fellow CSIs Eric Delko and Ryan Wolfe. And also has a brief relationship with undercover agent Jake Berkeley.
- Miami Dade CSI Level 3 Detective Eric Delko played by Adam Rodriguez is a fingerprint and drug identification expert of Cuban and Russian descent. In episode 410, "Shattered", Delko's job is endangered when he is arrested for drug possession, but it turns out he had been buying the drugs for his sister Marisol, to ease the pain of her leukemia treatments. Delko's sister was murdered by a Mala Noche sniper after she married Delko's boss, Horatio Caine. He is also the team's underwater recovery expert. While trying to rescue a woman kidnapped by escapee Clavo Cruz, Delko was critically wounded by one of Cruz's henchmen. He survived, and is now back on the team.
- Miami Dade Medical Examiner Dr. Alexx Woods played by Khandi Alexander, is a Miami-Dade medical examiner. Alexx began her medical career in New York as a physician and became a medical examiner with the CSI team after moving to Miami for personal reasons. She often talks to the dead bodies as she examines them, usually as a way of giving them comfort in death. She is married with a young son and daughter. Alexx is not the chief medical examiner, as proved in one the episodes when she was offered to transfer to the night shift by the Chief Medical Examiner, but rejected.
- Miami Dade CSI Level 1 Detective Ryan Wolfe played by Jonathan Togo, Ryan was working as a police officer at the time he was hired by Horatio, who noted with approval that Ryan kept his firearm immaculately clean (his predecessor, Speedle, died in the line of duty as a direct result of his poor gun maintenance). He first appeared in the episode "Under the Influence", but did not become a regular cast member until "Hell Night". Ryan appears to believe in curses ("Curse of the Coffin"). Ryan was impaled in the eye with a nailgun in one episode ("Nailed"). Ryan was fired at the end of the episode "Burned" (5x22) for being directly linked to a murder suspect and lying about it. He did appear in the following episode as a crime scene expert and former CSI on TV. In that episode, he apologized to Horatio and will possibly be allowed to return to the team after reviewing all the files from his previous cases (episode 523, "Kill Switch").
- Miami-Dade Police Department Homicide Detective Francis 'Frank' Tripp played by Rex Linn, is a Texan homicide detective who regularly accompanies the team to the crime scenes. He has an appreciation for the capabilities of the CSI's work and their excellent results. He has a good working relationship with all the CSIs, particularly Calleigh. He is divorced, with three kids (episode 118, "Dispo Day"). Made regular in season 5, recurring previously.
- Miami Dade CSI Trainee Natalia Boa Vista played by Eva LaRue, a DNA analyst who upon first arriving, was only allowed to work on cold or unsolved cases due to the restrictions of her federal grant. She and Delko dated briefly. They broke it off after a pregnancy scare. She escaped an abusive marriage before joining the crew, when her association with a society for battered women was key to helping the team solve the murder of a woman (who had been killed by the victim's ex-husband) assuming an alias for protection. It was revealed at the end of the fourth season that she was the mole in the lab, but the negative information soiling the lab's reputation was not leaked by Boa Vista but by Assistant State Attorney Monica West, and Boa Vista had only reported information to the Feds that showed the lab in a positive light. In season 5, she, much to her distress, discovered her abusive ex-husband, Nick Townsend, was out of prison when he served her with a restraining order; he was working for a private company that cleans up crime scenes, which created a difficult situation with forcing her to make terms with him to get the restraining order dropped. The two shared a tense professional relationship until Nick's murder, a crime for which Boa Vista was briefly considered the prime suspect.
Past characters[edit | edit source]
- Miami Dade CSI Level 3 Detective Megan Donner (Kim Delaney, episodes 1-10), Horatio's predecessor who went on indefinite leave from her job following the death of her husband. She briefly returned to work alongside Horatio, who has since been promoted to head investigator of the CSI unit, but later resigned, finding the pressures of the job to now be more than she could handle. The character was reportedly written out due to the lack of chemistry between Delaney and Caruso.
- Miami Dade CSI Level 3 Detective Tim "Speed" Speedle (Rory Cochrane, seasons 1-2), trace evidence and impressions expert; originally from Syracuse, New York, with a degree in biology from Columbia University, Speed was killed in the line of duty in the third season premiere, Lost Son; he had not maintained his firearm diligently, and was shot by a suspect when it misfired during a police shoot-out. The character was written out at the request of Cochrane, who wanted to pursue a career in film and reportedly disliked the long, arduous shooting schedule for CSI: Miami.
Recurring characters[edit | edit source]
- MDPD Detective Yelina Salas (Sofia Milos, seasons 1,2,3,5), a Colombian homicide detective frequently attached to CSI investigations, and the widow of Horatio's brother Raymond. She later starts a relationship with IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler, Horatio's personal nemesis. After her husband Raymond was revealed to still be alive, she left with him and their son for Brazil, where they planned to keep a low profile for Raymond's safety. She reappears in Season 5, starting with "Rio" (the season opener). Caine and Delko are in Rio de Janeiro to hunt down Antonio Riaz, who murdered Caine's wife (and Delko's sister) Marisol at the end of Season 4. Riaz is killed in a fight with Horatio, but not before killing Raymond Caine and enlisting Ray Jr into drug running in the shantytowns of the area. Yelina and Ray Jr wind up back in Miami, and Yelina goes into business as a private investigator (episode 522, "Burned").
- Raymond Caine Jr. (Alex Buck, Hayden Tank and Carter Jenkins, season 5-), son of Yelina and Raymond Caine, Horatio nephew. Currently lives in Miami with his mother.
- Laboratory Technician Maxine Valera (Boti Ann Bliss, seasons 2-), DNA analyst. Temporarily suspended from her duties in Season 3 for technical errors, then reinstated by Season 4. Has an unfortunate habit of taking short-cuts with evidence, which caused her suspension and also brought her under suspicion when the lab was investigated by the FBI (episode 425, "One of Our Own"). She goes on a date with Natalia Boa Vista's ex-husband Nick Townsend and thinks she is his killer after he turns up murdered, though this assumption is proved to be untrue, detective investigated the case kept insisting that she and Natalia killed him despite the fact that Townsend was physically beaten to death (and with Valera and Boa Vista's lack of physical strengh made it impossible) (episode 512, "Internal Affairs").
- Laboratory Technician Joseph Kayle (Leslie Odom Jr., season 2-), a lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Aaron Peters (Armando Valdes-Kennedy, season 3-), Trace evidence lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Cynthia Wells (Brooke Bloom), Questioned Documents lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Tyler Jensen (Brian Poth), Audio/Visual and Multimedia lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Dan Cooper (Brendan Fehr, season 4-), Audio/Visual lab tech. May or may not be related to D.B. Cooper. He believes a great deal of information can be discerned by what music a person has on his or her MP3 playlist (episode 517, "A Grizzly Murder").
- Secret Service Special Agent Peter Elliott (Michael B. Silver, seasons 2-), Working in the Financial Crime Division, Agent Elliott had an obvious infatuation with Calleigh that interested her, but she stopped short when she found out, after taking him to the hospital for a gunshot wound, that he was engaged to the state district attorney. At the end of the season, it was revealed that his fiancée State District Attorney Monica West is the one that impugned the CSI lab and stole drug money seized in a raid; she causes the FBI to investigate, hoping that discrediting the lab would help her out politically. Elliot, wearing a wire, gets her to confess, and she is arrested (episode 425, "One of Our Own").
- Internal Affairs Bureau Agent Sergeant Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith, season 2-), IAB Sergeant and Horatio's personal nemesis. He later starts a relationship with Yelina, but she leaves with her husband on season 3 finale. His harsh feelings toward Caine stem from a bitter feeling when Horatio was promoted to lieutenant instead of him, believing Caine may have pulled in some "special favors" for the job. Horatio also suspects that during Stetler's relationship with Yelina, Stetler may have been abusive, which is evident when she comes to work one day with a black eye. (Season 3, episode Crime Wave) Stetler later returns to warn Horatio against going after a corrupt city official, saying that he can't protect him if Caine follows through. "Just like old times," the CSI replies (episode 517, "A Grizzly Murder").
- WFOR-TV Newscaster Erica Sykes (Amy Laughlin, Season 3-), an aggressive ambitious young news reporter for the Miami CBS station, WFOR-TV. Her antics are often described as crazy and are very much annoying to the CSI team. She may or may not have dated Ryan at some stage, but the two often flirt. It is Erica who revealed to Ryan that there is a mole in the lab in a special extended scene that was available on www.cbs.com after the episode Urban Hellraisers aired. She also helps Ryan in a case regarding abuse of eminent domain, with the government evicting people from their homes before turning the land over to a private developer (episode 505, "Death Eminent"). In a later episode, however, she puts the life of Natalia's sister at risk by mentioning on the air that she is a victim in a kidnapping (episode 508, "Darkroom").
- FBI Agent Glen Cole (Mark Rolston), a FBI Agent, headed the investigation into the lab in season 4, returns in season 5 working on a case involving counterfeitting and the Korean Government (episodes 425, "One of Our Own;" 503, "Death Pool 100").
- Susie Barnam Keaton (Azura Skye, Seasons 1,2,3), a meth addict who became involved in Horatio's personal life after revealing she had known his late brother Raymond. After Susie rehabs in Indiana and returns to Miami, Horatio learns that her daughter is Raymond's child (episode 208, "Big Brother"). In a later episode, her daughter Madison becomes terminally ill. Neither Horatio nor Susie are matches for a bone marrow transplant, but he convinces Yelina Salas (she assumed Madison was Horatio's daughter before Horatio told her about Ray), to have her son Ray Jr. tested. Presumably, he is and Madison is cured.
- MDPD Homicide Detective Jake Berkeley (Johnny Whitworth, Season 5-), a former undercover officer with the MDPD narcotics unit, as of episode 512 ('Internal Affairs') he has moved to being a homicide detective. He and Calleigh dated while they were in the academy. At the end of season 5, it shows them in a relationship again.
Former recurring characters[edit | edit source]
- MDPD Detective Adelle Sevilla (Wanda de Jesus, season 1), a Latina homicide detective who occasionally accompanies the CSIs. She appeared in 10 episodes.
- MDPD Detective John Hagen (Holt McCallany, seasons 1-3), a homicide detective who had emotional and psychological problems. Raymond Caine's partner prior to his faked death, he told Calleigh once that he couldn't stand being reminded of being the partner of a dirty cop. He also had a brief relationship with Calleigh in Season 2. While pulling a crucial piece of evidence from a crime scene, he panicked when Calleigh came over to photograph the scene; he then crept up behind her and put his gun behind her head. Although he didn't mean to hurt her, it allowed him time to escape (she didn't know it was him at that time). He later shot himself in the Ballistics Lab right after Calleigh turned around to walk out of the lab during the Season 3 finale.
- MDPD Officer Aaron Jessop (Joel West season 4) A patrol officer, Jessop joined the force at about the same time Ryan Wolfe was moving over to CSI. While he thought like a cop, he also was able to think like a CSI. This was evident in the episode The Oath where he was able to help Calleigh and assess the crime scene and upped the charge and penalty. Jessop was killed when he opened a cabinet rigged with a hand grenade booby-trap at the scene of a Mala Noche shootout. (West had previously appeared as Officer Ramirez in one episode during Season 2)
- Laboratory Technician Sam Belmontes (Cristian de la Fuente, season 1-2), Chemical Analysis lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Carrie Delgado (Nicole DeHuff, season 2), Blood evidence technician. Was a fan of Quincy, M.E. as a child, influencing her to become a criminalist.
- Laboratory Technician Jim Markham (Joshua Leonard, season 3), Ballistic lab tech. Markham became the head of the ballistics section when Calleigh left, but was quickly demoted after Calleigh discovered that Markham took short cuts.
- Assistant State Attorney Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang), An Assistant State Attorney who briefly had a relationship with Horatio, but he broke it off when she made a deal with a criminal suspected of killing a cop and series of robberies as well as having a relationship with a 16-year-old girl who took part in his crimes. Originally expected to be a more regular character but has not appeared on the show since that episode for reasons unknown.
- Assistant State Attorney Monica West (Bellamy Young, season 4). An Assistant State Attorney who replaced Nevins. She was the one who planted Boa Vista to spy on the CSI Lab, hoping she will come up with evidence of corruption within the lab. However, when Natalia only brought back positive results on the lab, she got frustrated enough that she stole some money that the team seized in a raid on the Mala Noches when her fiancee, Agent Peter Elliot, was looking over the money, and tipped off the FBI causing the lab to be investigated. When Wolfe pointed out that the money wasn't taken from their lab, Calleigh figured it out and had Elliott confess. Calleigh made him get Monica to admit that she was the one who took the money. She was then arrested.
- Clavo Cruz (Gonzalo Menendez, 4 episodes). In Season 2, Clavo started out as an arrogant criminal who killed a model with his Lamborghini to protect his brother Ramon, who had accidentally drowned the model's roommate (#201 - Blood Brothers). When the team tried to arrest Clavo, it was revealed that his father was from the Baracas, an area which was under diplomatic immunity from the United States. Therefore, they could neither arrest him nor could they use any of his possessions as evidence. His brother was able to be arrested as the woman he drowned was on Canadian soil, had Canadian blood, and because he flew the Baracan flag in international waters, leaving him unprotected. Clavo reappears in Season 3 after being traced to the murder of a woman who was found partially inside an anaconda (#315 - Identity). He continues to taunt Caine, using the line "we never close", a line that Caine had spoken after arresting Ramon. A blood test of General Cruz, the alleged father of Ramon and Clavo, it is revealed that Clavo and Ramon had different fathers, making Clavo an adoptive son. This gave General Cruz the power to rescind immunity, and he did, allowing the CSIs to arrest Clavo. In Season 5, however, Clavo escapes custody after a cohort steals a rocket launcher from a crime scene and blows up the courthouse in which he was being arraigned (#514 - No Man's Land). He later lures Caine and Delko into a parking lot to find a hostage, who turns out not to be there. In an ensuing gun battle with his cohorts, Delko is nearly killed when a security guard shoots him in the head (Clavo offered him $100,000 to do so). In the next episode (#515 - Man Down), Clavo seeks revenge, killing his adoptive father in the consulate. Later on, Clavo's real father is revealed, and as it turns out, Clavo had smuggled illegal blood diamonds into Miami, and his escape from jail was intended to help his father sell them to underground dealers. One of the dealers is raided and shut down after the plain sight of illegal child labor by Natalia and Ryan. After being disowned by his biological father, Clavo decides to turn himself in, but is determined to do it "over my dead body" . When he arrives at the MDPD, he is killed in a quickdraw with Horatio Caine, after which Caine remarks "take care, Clavo".
- Marisol Delko Caine (née Delektorsky) (Alana de la Garza, season 4) Eric's older sister, who had breast cancer. Because of the painful treatments, Eric occasionally bought marijuana, to alleviate her pain and nausea. Afterwards, Eric helped to feed her when she had no appetite. Eric's friends found out when the drug dealer ruined a crime scene by dropping though a skylight and then saves himself by mentioning that Eric buys drugs from him. Marisol and Horatio were married between the episodes that aired on May 8 and May 15, 2006. She was shot by a Mala Noche sniper during the May 15 episode and later died from her injury. It was later discovered that the hit was ordered by a Mala Noche boss named Antonio Riaz, who found out about Marisol's family connections through his relationship as her marijuana dealer. Not long after, Horatio and Delko follow Riaz to Brazil, and Horatio kills Riaz.
- Nick Townsend (Rob Estes, season 5). Ex-husband to Natalia Boa Vista. Upon his release from prison, Nick re-entered Natalia's life as an employee of a crime-scene cleaning company who often worked crime scenes his ex-wife was assigned to process. Nick's treatment of Natalia following his parole consisted primarily of unwanted flirtation, which pushed Natalia into shoving him at a crime scene, an action Nick used as basis for a restraining order against her. Under the order, Natalia was forced to leave any crime scene Nick was sent to clean, which threatened her job. Nick subsequently agreed to drop the restraining order, provided Natalia treated him civilly from then on. Nick became a less-than-desirable presence on the job for both Natalia and Eric Delko, for whom Nick also took delight in causing discomfort due to Eric's prior romantic relationship with Natalia. Nick was murdered following a date with Maxine Valera, who'd shoved him to the floor in response to his unwanted advances and fled, thinking him dead. Though both Maxine and Natalia were suspected for the crime, Nick was in fact killed by a man whose wife had committed a murder Nick had worked that day. Nick had stolen an earring left at the scene by the man's wife and was bludgeoned to death when he refused to return it.
- Bob Keaton (Max Martini, Seasons 2,3), Susie's abusive, drug-dealing husband. In "Big Brother," Horatio discovers that Bob's methamphetamine is the same batch as that used by Raymond Caine on the night of his death. Despite his denials, Bob is convicted of Caine's murder and jailed. When he is released (episode 320, "Killer Date") it is revealed that he is an undercover DEA agent and Caine's ex-partner. Bob confirms to Horatio that his brother is still alive. His involvement in the DEA investigation and his knowledge about the Caine case leads to his murder (episode 322, "Vengeance").