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CSI:Miami
Season 1:
Part 1,
episodes
1-12 |
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Executive Producers
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Jerry Bruckheimer
Ann Donahue
Carol Mendelsohn
Anthony E. Zuiker
Jonathan Littman Danny Cannon |
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Season One of CSI: Miami
Introduced as part of a regular season episode of the top-rated drama
series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI:
Led by Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso), the Miami-Dade Crime
Scene Investigators work amid the steamy, tropical surroundings and
cultural crossroads of
The Miami-Dade CSI team also includes Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter),
a bilingual Southern beauty with a specialty in ballistics; Tim Speedle
(Rory Cochrane), a cocky-yet- disarming investigator who is well
connected on the street, and Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez), an underwater
recovery expert who knows all the twists and turns of the
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In the premiere episode, Megan Donner (Kim Delaney) returns to the CSI unit in time to work a jet crash in the Everglades. While searching for survivors, they inexplicably discover a female victim found five miles from the crash site. When the only survivor says that the woman opened the plane's hatch in order to commit suicide, Horatio Caine (David Caruso) is suspicious. The team must now recreate what happened on that fatal flight, especially when the pieces don't quite fit together.
After Horatio's mentor is killed while defusing a bomb, Horatio goes on a personal mission to find the culprit. Megan begins to wonder if Horatio is too emotionally close to the case, but he is determined to catch his mentor's killer. After meticulously combing the blast area, the team is still left with too many questions. However, when Horatio and Megan are called to another bomb scene and learn that this bomb is a hoax, they are shocked to discover who the actual targets of the bombings are.
A shark attack turns suspicious when Horatio and Megan find a bullet slug in a partial human torso found inside the shark. When the CSI team then discovers an abandoned boat with a matching bullet slug, a false wall for drug smuggling, and the body of a Cuban refugee, the trail leads Horatio and the team to uncover a secret mission for freedom that went terribly awry.
When a rape and a murder takes place on a Miami beach, Horatio and the team are sent to investigate. After questioning the boyfriend of rape victim, Megan and Horatio discover that the couple attended a lavish party at the mansion of a wealthy, old money political family. When evidence starts to mount against the family, the powerful Hamilton’s take measures into their own hands in order to save themselves.
A priest is shot and a lip print on a dring frrinking glass puts a 12-year-old altar boy, Cameron Medina, at the scene as a prime suspect. When evidence of physical abuse is found at Cameron's house, the CSIs look to question Cameron's father, who is found bludgeoned to death, leaving the team with more answers than questions. Meanwhile, Horatio and Delko investigate the charred remains of a pregnant female victim and recover a diamond on her stomach. Now Horatio must find the physical evidence to convict the person who he instinctively senses is the killer.
A 5-year-old girl is discovered dead in the washroom of a restaurant/play land, and the CSIs find evidence that the killer was trying to smuggle her out. Calleigh, Delko and Speedle find a registered sex offender among the patrons there, however, surveillance video provides him with an alibi. As the team searches for new leads, a mangled fingerprint exposes the gruesome techniques someone will go to in order to avoid the law.
Horatio and the team investigate the murder of Noel, a young male stripper found dead after a female sex party. Horatio suspects that Noel may have been poisoned, which matches the injection mark in Noel’s thigh. However, new motives are revealed when Horatio discovers the stripper’s obsession with one of the women at the party. Meanwhile, Megan and Delko investigate the death of a deepwater diver mortally stabbed at sea.
When a family is slaughtered in their home, Horatio and the team try to find the killer with the evidence left at the scene. A mother, infant and two sons are all dead and only the father and a toddler survive. Using the blood on the toddler's clothes, as well as the blood found throughout the house, the CSIs must follow the evidence to establish a timeline and sequence of events in order to catch the killer.
Three people are shot and killed in downtown Miami during rush hour and Horatio and the team must catch the killer. Horatio notices that all three victims were shot in or around their eye area, which leads him to believe that it was the work of a sniper. When a fourth victim is found, the evidence puzzles the team because it does not match to the previous three. As Horatio and Calleigh track the bullets' trajectories, they discover the sniper's nest atop a building downtown. Now, the CSIs must try to get inside the mind of the killer before he strikes again.
A professor from a local university is found hanged in a tree after being tortured. The professor, who had been teaching "The Evil of Mankind: Violence Through the Ages," had been tortured for at least four hours before the hanging. As they piece together the professor's shredded documents and look closer at his unusual teaching methods, the CSIs learn that perhaps one of his students may have learned the lessons too well. Meanwhile, Delko investigates a victim found drowned in the trunk of an abandoned car.
When an unidentified girl is found dead near a very strict rehabilitation camp, Horatio and the team investigate. Tire tracks from the crime scene trace back to the camp, however, the girl was not one of the cadets. The CSIs think that one of the cadets there may be hiding vital information about the case. After identifying the girl and contacting her overbearing mother, Horatio and the team must follow the evidence to a cause of death none of them expected. Meanwhile, Speedle and Delko investigate the death of a swindler whose face and throat have been torched by fire.
Horatio and the team investigate when a prostitute is found stabbed to death and stuffed under a bed in a local hotel. A sweep of the room reveals that the killer wiped down the crime scene and washed the victim's body in the bathtub, but while a bloody fingerprint leads to an arrest, Horatio believes that the real killer may have manipulated the crime scene to ensure his own freedom. Meanwhile, Calleigh and Delko investigate a German tourist who is murdered in what appears to be an attempted car jacking.
When an innocent man dies after entering a chemically toxic house, Horatio and Speedle discover that the property is just one of many being used as movable drug labs. However, it seems the drugs they are creating may be deadly, so the CSI's must use their evidence to put away the perpetrators before another victim dies. Meanwhile, Calleigh and Delko investigate what appears to be a brutal murder of an elderly woman at a senior citizen home.
Horatio and Speedle investigate when a burglar and rapist is found to have been sexually assaulted after being suffocated to death. Horatio questions the deceased man's rape victims, and tracks the stolen goods found in his house to turn up a suspect. Calleigh and Delko look into the murder of a crematorium owner, which turns up a missing girl and hundred of illegally disposed bodies.
The CSI unit is temporarily shut down when it’s discovered that the decomposing body of a junkie has been exposed to high levels of radiation. Horatio tracks the evidence to an environmental lawyer who is dying of radiation poisoning, but she refuses to cooperate with the investigation in order to protect her own lawsuit against a drug company.
When an eastern European immigrant is stabbed to death in a peep show booth, the only witness is the stripper who was performing for the victim at the time of his death. After she is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Horatio questions her pimp/husband about her off-the-clock private shows. But the husband is the next victim, and the team finds a mysterious DNA sample in their bedroom, bringing the CSIs closer to finding the true killer.
A Miami councilwoman's husband is indicted for the murder of their housekeeper, with whom he was having an affair. But when there is a similar murder while the man is in custody, Horatio questions whether they have the right man on trial.
A routine undercover trip to the city incinerator to dispose of drug evidence turns into an ambush, and a gun battle ensues. When the smoke clears, Speedle has been shot, two police officers are killed and Horatio finds that the perpetrators have only stolen the cocaine, leaving behind the other valuable drugs. The CSIs come under suspicion as Internal Affairs investigates who leaked the information regarding the disposal, and things take a turn for the worse when one of the CSIs tests positive for drugs. It's up to the team to get to the bottom of the incident and protect the reputation of their department.
A woman is found murdered next to the pool of an exclusive Miami hotel. While identifying the victim, Gloria Tyson, the CSIs trigger a red flag in the federal database, and the FBI descends on the case. It's revealed that that Gloria is actually Gina Cusack, a member of the witness protection program, along with her boyfriend, who is due to testify in a drug-related trial. In order to find the killer, Horatio needs to question the boyfriend, but the Feds refuse to divulge his location. Meanwhile, Calleigh's father pays her an unexpected visit, reopening some old wounds from the past.
Horatio is surprised when a man he sent to prison asks for help to find his missing teenage son. While the initial investigation uncovers typical signs of troubled youth, Calleigh makes a disturbing discovery of hundreds of round of ammo fired into a tree in the backyard. Horatio and the team are on a race against time to find the missing boy and prevent another school tragedy. Also, Speedle investigates the case of a man who died of apparent asphyxiation, and finds himself attracted to the man's girlfriend, who is the prime suspect. When she tries to play on his feelings, he is caught between temptation and finding the truth.
Spring break comes to Miami, but the wild party comes to a screeching halt when the CSI's are called in on two deadly cases. Horatio and Speedle investigate the case of a girl found murdered on the beach – it could be the work of a serial killer who bites his victims, leading Horatio to suspect the ever-present producer of the "Babes on Break" videos. Meanwhile, Calleigh and Delko look into the case of a college student on vacation with his friends who ends up drowned in a motel pool. The friends insist it was an accident, but further investigation leads the CSIs to think there may be more to the story.
A DJ's pyrotechnics trigger a fire that engulfs a popular Miami nightclub, killing 16 patrons and wounding 58 others – Speedle and Delko, enjoying the nightlife, barely escape with their lives. They join the rest of the team in uncovering that the fire was no accident after finding the body of a bartender who had been stabbed to death before the blaze began. Now, Horatio and the CSIs must examine all of the evidence of what exactly happened that fateful night in order to find the perpetrator.
Horatio, Speedle and Delko find their lives in danger when a rigged bomb explodes during their investigation of a meth addict's brutal murder. Much of the evidence is destroyed, so they must explore the twisted world of methamphetamine addicts, or "tweakers," in order to solve the crime. Meanwhile, Calleigh is called to the scene of a murder, where she is stunned to discover the victim is one of Alexx's closest friends. As Alexx comforts the grieving widow, Calleigh gets to the bottom of this seemingly random event.
Horatio is called to the Miami West Detention Center to investigate a murder, where he witnesses three inmates escaping the prison via helicopter. Realizing the murder was merely a decoy for the prison break, Horatio is on a manhunt for the escapees. The case hits close to home as the CSIs track the missing inmates, two of whom have an intimate history with the CSI team.