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CSI: Miami Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Lost Son
Mon, Sep 20, 200443 mins
When a man is found dead, they learn from his wife that his son was kidnapped and he was delivering the ransom; jewels. Horatio learns that the woman is not the boy's birth mother and that she's a grifter. She admits that it's true and that her husband was her mark but she claims that she fell in love with him and his son. When the jewels are found, they discover that they're not the genuine article but copies. So Horation and Speedle go to the place where they are cleaned and when they get there, someone pulls a gun and shoots Speedle killing him. Stetler is trying to find out what happened cause this isn't the first time Speedle choked when he was in a similar situation. But Horatio is too busy trying to find the boy.
Episode 2
Pro Per
Mon, Sep 27, 200445 mins
Dennis de Labeque is a highly successful party planner, who wants to celebrate the launching of a new business venture. He organizes his own party at his seaside mansion. Speed boats approach the mansion during the party, and there are shots fired from one of them in drive-by-shooting style. The only victim of the attack is the young mother Jennifer Valdez. Her son Stevie briefly noticed his mother's killer, though he can not provide a detailed description. Dennis believes that the shooter was his former business associate Byron Middlebrook, who has become his worst enemy. The CSI team finds evidence against Byron, and a trial is quickly arranged. Byron has had legal training, and acts as his own defense attorney. He uses his position to intimidate and manipulate the forensic team working in this case. But there are indications that Byron has a plan to eliminate every witness in this legal case, including Stevie. The team has to find a way to prevent additional murders, while investigating Byron's other crimes.
Episode 3
Under the Influence
Mon, Oct 4, 200460 mins
Katrina Hannigan steps out of an elevator while carrying shopping bags full of clothes. She seems distressed, and several people notice that she is crying. She approaches a bus stop, but she somehow falls in front of the approaching bus. She is killed by the bus. Alexx notices bruises on Katrina's back which indicate that someone pushed her in front of the bus. There are older bruises on the body which may indicate that Katrina was a victim of domestic abuse. The CSI team questions Katrina's yuppie boyfriend Jay Seaver, who claims that Katrina was simply clumsy. Jay's friend and co-worker Patrick Wakefield is soon found murdered as well. The two men were competing for promotion. Jay blames his long-term stalker Claudia Sanders for the murders, and claims to feat for his own life. But the team increasingly notices that Jay is the one who benefits from the deaths, and they start investigating his own past. Meanwhile, Kenwall "Duke" Duquesne (Calleigh's father) claims to have killed a stranger with his car while drunk driving. His memory of the event is hazy. Calleigh covertly investigates the case, and locates the body of the supposed victim. But the cause of death was a blow to the head, not a hit and run. Duke seems to have accidentally drove his car through the scene of a previous crime. Now Calleigh has to find out what actually happened and who is the killer.
Episode 4
Murder in a Flash
Mon, Oct 11, 200444 mins
A group of teenagers gather at a golf course at a specified time. After the flash mob disperses, a body is found near the site. The CSIs follow the mob to a very prestigious prep school. They manage to trace the origin of the text messages telling the receivers to meet at the golf course to the son of one of Florida's most famous defense attorneys. At the same time, Horatio and Yelina are working to find the killer of a woman found in a dumpster.
Episode 5
Legal
Mon, Oct 18, 200445 mins
A young girl is stabbed to death in a trendy night club. Jenny was an undercover investigative aide working for the Alcoholic Beverage Control. Her target was the club owner. As Horatio is questioning him, a loud noise draws him outside where a car speeds up and crashes into the door. The body at the back of the car leads the detectives to a spa where they suspect that there is something illegal going on.
Episode 6
Hell Night
Mon, Oct 25, 200445 mins
The jury in the trial of a celebrity who's being charged with killing his wife, is brought to the man's home. When one of the jurors has a seizure, everyone is distracted and afterward, they find the defendant killed, with a sheet of paper with "guilty" written on it. While investigating the man's murder, Calleigh suspects that the man didn't kill his wife so she sets out to find out who did. Horatio's nephew, Ray, gets in trouble when he and some other boys who were playing paint ball accidentally kill someone. And the boys say that it was Ray who was responsible.
Episode 7
Crime Wave
Mon, Nov 8, 200460 mins
An impending tsunami is the backdrop for a heist gone wrong and bodies keep stacking up as Horatio and his team struggle to pin down the man behind everything.
Episode 8
Speed Kills
Mon, Nov 15, 200442 mins
After speed-dating 15 women, each 5 minutes, in a South Beach club, Richard Laken is found murdered in his vandalized car. The stylist date who poured the acetone -accessible in her trade- over it admits so, but did so well before the murder, so her story that Laken left early is believed. Indeed, the club's dates record shows Richard left after talking to Rebecca Briggs, who claims he was systematically using their information to commit robberies, but that proves to be the club manager's scam. However at least someone else in the club had a murder motive...
Episode 9
Pirated
Mon, Nov 22, 200445 mins
Five corpses are found tied to a stolen yacht's anchor, the crew. Three passengers are found in raft, two survivors claiming the third was killed by a shark, but the bite marks are human. The owner's excuse for not reporting the theft is soon seen through. The precious cargo comprised illegal rocket launchers, one of which was used for blowing up a Cuban former boat refugee's shop.
Episode 10
After the Fall
Mon, Nov 29, 200444 mins
A man is seen falling from an apartment building, yet the corpse found there is not his but Michael Johnson, a resident, who was deeply wounded by an unidentified round object. First subject is junkie Doug Ramsey, who is arrested by Horatio for probably abseiling to break in and steal the $100,000 heirloom ring of the condo owner, Edward Mathis, who is however found taking it back after its sale, insurance fraud. The wounding object is found, a CD recording kinky sex scenes of missing Donna Scott and reputedly strict criminal judge Isaac Greenhill, whose former court clerk is Mathis, who apparently blackmails him. Ramsay claims police abuse, IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler investigates Horatio, but Ramsay's X-rays... Speculating on a link with the judge's major cases, the team finds Donna's corpse in a strangler's peat swamp dumping ground, with vomit which allows a DNA trace to Mathis, but Horatio now considers him a mere pawn.
Episode 11
Addiction
Mon, Dec 13, 200445 mins
Wealthy family entrepreneur Morgan Coleman says he was wounded when a carjacker intruded on him and his wife Kaye after an anniversary dinner, but after her fatally shot corpse is found on the beach, evidence soon suggests his story is largely fake, yet he has no gun powder traces. DNA identifies a carjacker, Victor Tinoco with a record as such, who is found shot dead in his home, while Morgan was being interrogated. Company heading on a list there leads to identify the office printer of brother Freddy Coleman, who has a smaller share then Morgan and Sal Coleman, and had sort of an affair with Kaye, who played him for money while selling her eggs for research, the shutter firm was being sued for a fatal accident, they actually used inferior metal. Meanwhile Dr. Alexx Woods insists on a full internal investigation for a stiff's flask which one of her staff took a sip from...
Episode 12
Shootout
Mon, Jan 3, 200545 mins
A presumed retaliation shooting in an ER turns out to be a bit more complicated, and Ryan begins to suspect a mother of abusing her baby.
Episode 13
Cop Killer
Mon, Jan 17, 200545 mins
During a routine traffic stop, Miami PD Officer Insko is brutally shot twice, then his 17 year-old 'observer' patrol car passenger Patrick Brookner abducted in a stolen car traced despite false number plates to the 16 year-old school girl Missy Marshall, part of whose drivers license was left on the cop's corps. She says the shooting was done by the seductive John 'Jojo' Johnson she met only recently. Insko's police gun is found on petty thief Jake Mann, who is identified by Missy as Jojo, but is wasn't even drawn till after the murder. In fact Missy and the real John 'Jojo' Johnson, not Jake, regularly stayed since two months in a hotel room, where things point to mini-mart robberies she now confesses. When Patrick is found tape-tied but unhurt after another robbery where the clerk was badly shot, Horatio suspects him too, but the gruesome truth is even more twisted and its discovery followed by a second murder...
Episode 14
One Night Stand
Mon, Feb 7, 200545 mins
The team investigates the murder of a bellman at a hotel. A man asks Calleigh to look for his wife who is missing.
Episode 15
Identity
Mon, Feb 14, 200545 mins
At a beach party, uniformed cops chasing a purse snatcher stumble over the slime dripping from a woman's corps- it's gastric acid from a boa constrictor, which ate her and is found nearby, dead- it was used as a drug courier, imported abusing the customs exemption of reptiles expert Rod Merrick and escaped from a hotel room rented by Bahaman holding Low Dawg productions, controlled by Clavo Cruz, whose South American father, general Antonio Cruz, refuses to wave diplomatic immunity- however DNA analysis of his blood proves surprisingly revealing... The owner of the recovered purse Karla Jane Gardner waves a Trade Board affidavit she's the victim of identity theft to explain the fraud flag on her drivers license, but next another woman shows papers it's the other way around, as medical evidence confirms; then Karla's ex Philip, who was awarded alimony, is found stabbed to death, with hair from Karla on the site...
Episode 16
Nothing to Lose
Mon, Feb 21, 200590 mins
A fire in the glades complicates the search for the perpetrators of three murders, and puts a team member in the sights of an escaped killer.
Episode 17
Money Plane
Mon, Mar 7, 200544 mins
After a private cargo jet crashes, the hidden corpse is found, violently killed a few hours before, of Caitlyn Townsend, heiress of a citrus dynasty and driving force of a charitable foundation for astray girls, the finances of which were controlled by Nick Marshall, who however also had a covert intimate relationship with Heidi Dillon, one of the girls the foundation saved. Horatio's team reconstructs the corpse's whole story, including the part of Caitlyn's mother Sophie Townsend, who needed at least the $500,000 on board from foundation funds after a bad winter wiped out the citrus harvest...
Episode 18
Game Over
Mon, Mar 21, 200560 mins
Sara Piper asks for the late cop Tim Speedle, who arrested the murderer of her former Vince Fisher porn colleague Ashley Anders when she was Cookie Devine, but gets Horatio's help to retrieve the missing home porn made by her boyfriend Matthew Wilton; on purpose wrongly placed French doors in his home allow identifying the thieving contractor, Connor Meade, who tells on the copier... Furthermore the body of a man with wounds inflicted hours before his staged 'death' in a car is identified as Jake Sullivan, a tester in the video studio of hugely popular popular skateboard champion Dave Strong, where he was killed with a studio board, only that tape is used as a snuff video, further traced trough paperwork and further...
Episode 19
Sex & Taxes
Mon, Apr 11, 200560 mins
The death of two IRS agents sends the team on the hunt of three killers, meanwhile Wolfe keeps stepping on people's toes.
Episode 20
Killer Date
Mon, Apr 18, 200560 mins
A woman is murdered at a bar that serves more than just drinks. After a night out, Delko's badge is missing. Horatio's life is changed forever when he learns important information about his deceased dead brother.
Episode 21
Recoil
Mon, May 2, 200560 mins
A shooting at the courthouse gets more and more complicated as new suspects are identified.
Episode 22
Vengeance
Mon, May 9, 200560 mins
At the Wavecrest High, 1990 class reunion, gorgeous former quarterback, prom king and student president Patrick Hale's skull is smashed with a champagne bottle. He carried an old paper 'I know about the curve, you're a dead man' in Kevin Banks's hand-writing on printer-paper. The truth comes from a brand-new insurance policy sold by Dan Winslet and the class time capsule... Horatio however is more interested in the corps of Bob Keaton, the undercover agent who killed his brother. He was wired, and there's one fingerprint on him, a federal GS-14 who won't talk, and cocaine traceable to Colombian Julio Pena, who gets sniper-shot before Horatio and Eric's eyes just after mentioning his drug-accomplice Luis Rivera. Keaton was exposed to major Rontgen-radiation, traced to Richard Thomason, but...
Episode 23
Whacked
Mon, May 16, 200545 mins
The Florida High Court gives serial killer Ken 'Axe-man' Kramer a stay of execution because his conviction rests on DNA evidence, like the one more recently messed up by Valera; the investigation is reopened, only DNA goes to an external bureau. CSI soon realizes other evidence was overlooked or ignored, which clearly indicates Ken must have had an accomplice, but he refuses to cooperate. Caine guesses right the cahoot isn't done yet; DNA indicates it should be a male relative, but how can he be found? Calleigh and Ryan discover the paper-clippings in his cell, or rather the backsides, report his 'work' with various weapons and MO. Eric, who emotionally resents the questioning of his dead friend's work (the "Axe-Man" was Speedle's case), cleverly finds a link between all victims' crime scenes which leads to a logical suspect's arrest, and a dramatical reaction from Ken...
Episode 24
10-7
Mon, May 23, 200544 mins
An explosion at a "Break-In Party" leads to the discovery of a bomb, and a search ensues for the person who ordered it, before it's too late. Meanwhile, Caine and Calleigh each have personal matters to deal with.
