CSI: Miami

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Throwing Heat

Written by Kyrstal Houghton
Directed by Joe Chappelle

Horatio and Alexx stand on Miami Beach looking down at the body parts of Cuban baseball player Ario Pastano.  Alexx examines Ario’s plastic explosive-filled torso.  Horatio orders Tripp to freeze.  Tripp’s foot is on a live land mine.  Wolfe and Natalia find Porche tire tracks and a binocular eyepiece in the sand while a bomb tech frees a nervous Detective Tripp. 

 Delko questions bartender and suspected Cuban refugee aide Roberto Chavez.  Delko  breaks up a bar fight between married couple Carmen and Vince Henney.  Vince hits Delko on the head with a beer bottle.  Delko knocks Vince down with one punch.  Vince threatens to sue Delko.   Horatio questions Walter Dunley, whose binocular eyepiece the team found in the sand, about the land mines.  Walter admits to watching Ario’s death but denies planting the mines.  Walter tells Horatio he saw high-powered sports agent Barry Ellis’ Porche speed away after the blast.  orHohHHHBarry explains to Horatio that he helped Cuban baseball players Ario Pastano and Jorge Zamareno escape from Cuba to Miami.  Horatio visits the baseball field and speaks to rookie Jorge Zamareno and veteran all-American pitcher Lou Pennington.  Jorge thinks Cuban hit man and Castro loyalist Guillermo had something to do with Ario’s death.  Vince Henney is found dead next to a lead pipe.

 Calleigh and Wolfe arrest Lou Pennington after discovering a mixture of mineral oil, turpentine and rosin, which pitchers often use on their gloves, on the land mine fragments.  Lou admits to planting the mines ... because he was afraid of losing his position to the Cuban baseball players. 

 Delko and Natalia find paranchia (a.k.a. bar rot) on the lead pipe.  They arrest bartender Roberto Chavez after he admits to hitting and killing Vince Henney, because Henney had refused to share the lawsuit money he planned to get from Delko.