CSI: Miami

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Urban Hellraisers

Written by Dean Widenmann & Marc Guggenheim
Directed by Matt Earl Beesley

Inside the bank to apply for a loan after learning he is overdrawn, Delko witnesses three masked gunmen – Demon, Heely and Scream –burst into the bank and commit a robbery.  Delko tries to remain incognito throughout the robbery, but when one of the robbers, Demon, approaches a beautiful teenage bank customer and starts to accost her, Delko reaches for his gun and fires two shots, killing Scream.  Heely, and Demon grab Welch, the bank manager, and take him hostage.   Demon shoots one of the tellers.  Delko calls for assistance and an ambulance for the wounded teller, but it’s too late; she dies before his eyes.

 Alexx discovers the victim – Scream – is a young male eighteen or nineteen years old.   The victim also had a “clicker,” a device bouncers use to keep count of people entering their club.   Horatio is suspicious about the expensive TECH-9 automatic weapons the young gunmen used.   When Wolfe arrives he’s approached by Erika Sikes.  She says she has some important information for him, but he dismisses her.  Monica Rodriguez, one of the tellers, says she activated the dye pack when she handed over the money.  Wolfe ascertains from the AMT camera footage that the getaway car had a Miami University sticker on the windshield.  The University campus police report an exploded dye pack on Kim Mills, a student on campus.  Calleigh questions Kim, who denies knowing anything about the money; Calleigh doesn’t believe her. 

 Horatio tells Wolfe that Erica called and spoke with him.   Delko and Wolfe head out to Miami U’s ice rink where they find Welch bound and gagged, but still alive.  Welch tells them he had no choice but to tell the gunmen the details about the reserve bank’s next big money drop.  Horatio, Delko and Wolfe stop Heely just as he’s about to make his getaway.   In questioning Heely, Wolfe realizes they are staging these bank heists based on a video game called Urban Hellraisers, recreating the game in real life and keeping score.  They acquire points with every person they kill or rape and if there is a cop involved it garners extra points.  Special agent Peter Elliot of the Treasury Department is called in to determine if Kim’s story checks out.   Horatio and Tripp question Heely, aka Gabe Hammond.   Hammond empties his pockets and out comes a clicker; he assures them they’ll never figure out why he has it.  Horatio and Tripp question Chris Allen, the creator of the video game, but he stonewalls them, so Horatio books him on obstruction of justice.  Horatio tells Wolfe to play the game so they can find out what the killers’ next moves will be. 

Delko and Wolfe find the mask Demon wore in the robbery.  Calleigh checks it for DNA.  Wolfe finally makes it to a new level of the game and is shocked at what he sees.  Before the team can act upon Wolfe’s discovery, two gunmen, Ski Cap and Glasses, burst into the lobby of the MDPD and demand that Natalia hand over the DNA evidence she uncovered from the mask.  A shooting frenzy begins and Elliott and Glasses aka Michael Page, are hit.  Page reveals the gang’s meeting place is the University’s research library where a guy named “the Wizard,” aka Evan Walsh, keeps track of everything.  They find Walsh in the library … dead.  He’d died after playing the game non-stop for seventy hours.

 Horatio discovers the guns are being furnished to the kids by the parent company of Urban Hellraisers.  Elliot is going to be ok, but Calleigh is surprised to find out he’s engaged.   The DNA from the mask checks out to be female.  Kim admits she was trying to compete with the boys, hoping to prove she was a much better player.   Allen is arrested on several counts, and Horatio is certain he created this whole frenzy to hype his video game.  Wolfe talks with Erica, who reveals there is a mole inside the department – someone the entire CSI team loves and trusts.