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CSI: Miami

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Backstabbers

 

Written by Bary O'Brien
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irected by Gina Lamar

Horatio closely watches suspected terrorist Sonya Barak and her defense attorney Russell Tanninger as they approach the courthouse.  BANG!  A bullet hits Tanninger and a yellow Corvette speeds away.  Horatio draws his weapon and rushes to Tanninger, as he chokes to death on his own blood.  Sonya takes off in Tanninger’s Mercedes.  Horatio gives Delko the last three numbers on the Corvette’s license plates ... 1-0-6. 

The Corvette owner, Craig Edwards, tests positive for gun residue.  Horatio asks Craig if he is affiliated with Al-Qadr.   His young attorney, Larry Fremont, tells his client not to answer the question.  Calleigh and Wolfe question Los Craneos gang member Hector Rivera when he is found to be driving Tanninger’s Mercedes.  The body of Gabriel Cervantes is found in the car’s trunk.  Hector says he carjacked Sonya and he’s not commenting on Cervantes’ murder.  Calleigh listens as eight year-old Emma Cervantes describes the man who stabbed her father, Gabriel, while she hid in their bodega (market).

Natalia and Horatio determine that Tanninger’s bullet was meant for Sonya and Edwards did not fire the gun that killed Tanninger.  Calleigh persuades inmate and Los Craneos gang boss Rulon Domingo to admit to ordering Rivera to kill ex-gang member Cervantes.  Horatio, Tripp and several uniformed officers follow Sonya and Tanninger’s cell phone signal to a warehouse.  Horatio orders Sonya to come out when gunfire erupts.  Armed insurgents led by Abu Nafi exchange fire with Horatio, Tripp and the uniforms.  Abu Nafi is hit in the arm.  The uniforms arrest him and the remaining insurgents. 

 Rivera confesses to working for Sonya and Al-Qadr.  Abu Nafi’s gun is Tanninger’s murder weapon and Larry Fremont’s bloody prints are on it.  Al-Qadr member Fremont is arrested for killing Tanninger.  Sonya tells a doubtful Horatio she will be alright.

 

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