CSI: Miami

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Under Suspicion

Written by Sunil Nayar & Barry O’Brien
Directed by Sam Hill

While driving home from a party, two friends hear their car’s tire “pop” just before the car plunges into the waterway.  During their rescue, the body of another woman is discovered.  Alexx surveys the victim’s body.  Horatio comes over to check on the victim and is stunned to see it’s Rachel Turner, a woman he’s been dating. 

 Now the crime scene, Rachel’s apartment is plastered with Horatio’s prints, and even some of his blood.  Alexx determines Rachel was stabbed to death.  Stetler takes Horatio, the only suspect, in for questioning.  Calleigh and Wolfe bag the evidence in Rachel’s apartment, including a single wine glass and blood samples.  Wolfe confronts Delko about a bounced check.   Calleigh deduces Horatio’s blood was planted at the crime scene.  Horatio knows who is trying to frame him -- Walter Dresden, the suspect in the unsolved murder of Jennifer Wilson’s parents in New York.  

Alexx is concerned about Delko’s financial situation and offers to write him a check.  Delko insists he needs cash, not a check.  

 Horatio follows Calleigh’s lead to a construction site where Dresden awaits him.  Horatio confronts Dresden and they scuffle; as the police sirens grow near, Dresden makes his escape.   Horatio is left standing in Dresden’s trap -- a pool of blood with Rachel’s missing blouse sleeve lying on top.

 Stetler approaches Horatio and takes him into custody, and Tripp is confounded by Horatio’s presence at the scene.   Delko finds a knife with a print.  Calleigh processes Dresden’s blood from Horatio’s hands.  Delko buys 27 grams of pot, one gram under a felony.   The trace on the knife reveals glycerin, used to forge a print.   Apparently, Dresden transferred Horatio’s print from the wine glass to the knife which was used to murder Rachel.   Horatio asks Natalia to check into unsolved murders around the country that match Dresden’s pattern.   Delko tries to get Horatio out of holding but Stetler won’t budge without more solid evidence.

 Dresden confronts Calleigh in the parking garage, but she escapes unharmed.  Delko gets Horatio freed.  Calleigh deduces when Dresden stabbed Horatio in 1995 he must have obtained a sample of Horatio’s blood, which he planted in Rachel’s apartment.  

Horatio figures out how Dresden gets into his victims’ homes -- by installing security systems.  The team closes in as Dresden prepares for his next victim. 

 The judge in charge of the case lets Dresden go free, citing insufficient evidence.  Horatio knows that with Dresden free, Jennifer remains in danger.  She refuses protection, and tells Horatio she’s better off with no one knowing where she’s hiding … including him.