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Welcome to the
Official CSI Miami interview with -
Elizabeth
Devine -
Writer/
Co-executive producer
On Horatio in season 4-
In season four we are going to get into the history of what
makes Horatio Caine so intense, and what drives him as a cop and as a man. I
think the audience will be surprised to find out what that is. In the last
few seasons, the character has been very serious and motivated, and we’re
going to find out that his childhood was not the one that you would expect.
We’re going to tease that.
We start in a confessional with Horatio, and a family priest that is now
a cardinal, and we go from there. I think it will be very interesting for
our audience to see what makes Horatio the man he is.
On “Nailed” and the mole-
Ryan has a serious injury. He gets a nail in his eye, and it’s a great
episode that brings about a few problems for him. We also have a mole in the
lab; a person who is giving information to a variety of sources. It’s going
to cause our people not to trust each other. There will be a lot of
friction, and that will make it an interesting year.
Where
the ideas come from-
A lot of our ideas have come from reading regular articles.
Sometimes, we’ll get an idea about some new technology, and we’ll want to
implement that. Other times, we’ll hear that some odd thing happened and we
want to make a story out of it.
On
the realism of the show-
Any criminalist that is at a crime scene is at risk. I know
a few situations, that haven’t happened to me personally, but suspects are
in the crime scene when criminalists get there. There was an instance when a
criminalist opened a closet, and the suspect pointed a gun at him, which is
essentially what happens here. We don’t want anything to be completely
impossible so we try to put the verisimilitude of truth into all of our
episodes.
On
the cross-over episode-
When approached to do a cross over we didn’t think it would be a
difficult thing to do, so why not?
New York is a great show with great actors, and to
see David Caruso and Gary Sinise together in scenes was really exciting.
They have a nice chemistry, and they are diametrically opposed in the ways
that they go about things. Where Gary Sinise is reserved, Horatio is much
more active in his pursuit.
On which character will be a daddy-
There is going to be a father on our CSI team, but I can’t tell you who.
I think it will be a very interesting dynamic because it will affect more
than just one person in the lab. It will be a very interesting development.
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