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CSI: Miami Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Rio
Mon, Sep 18, 200645 mins
Drug lord Antonio Riaz is released in Rio after the evidence about his murder on Eric's sister Marisol during her wedding with Horatio is dismissed because the witnesses are in a US protection program. Horatio's brother Ray Caine is involved in drugs again, precisely in Riaz's 'favella' (slum) gang, but found left bleeding to death, just able to urge saving his son, Raymond Jr., who becomes a courier back to Miami. Meanwhile the 'headless' home front must handle the case of Carl Silvers, who found and/or killed his wife drowning in her own blood, and is believed guilty by his stepson Scott Satlin.
Episode 2
Going Under
Mon, Sep 25, 200645 mins
Billy Gault falls from his apartment building on 38th St. to his death unto a marquis, but was shot. Calleigh Duquesne's car is brutally run into the Everglades by a mysterious black car, presumably to prevent her bringing in the evidence, but a surviving note in his wallet shows he belonged to the Crypt Kings, a secretive macho Harley bikers gang, which points to the rival Iron Reepers. They were infiltrated since two years by ATF agent Jake Berkeley, 'Billy Gault' was his colleague Ken McCarthy's undercover alias. Gang leader Hawk Reed's intimidated girlfriend Angela Downey drove the black assault car. The shooter must have been hiding in the adjacent park and used military top-tech 'corner shots', but left a half-eaten apple, with a printer from Ken's jealous widow, who has a record. Jake and Ken were rivaling within the ATF. The Crypt Kings were involved in the trade in stolen Israeli tactical arms. The murder weapon was a registered Glock, but...
Episode 3
Death Pool 100
Mon, Oct 2, 200660 mins
At a fancy pool party, Miami socialite Ethan Parker is shot during a hold-up while starlet Dakota Hudson's diamonds are stolen, she was also shot in the pool. Another plausible motive is to cash in on the 'death pool' bet organized by Hover Gambling on its cruiser, Fortune maker. Furthermore the diamonds prove to be fake and there is a particularly immoral case of extortion going on.
Episode 4
If Looks Could Kill
Mon, Oct 9, 200645 mins
A husband who finds his wife in bed with a young hunk pulls his revolver and chases him to the marina; when he starts the yacht's motor, the water colors red from a floating corps. The victim was killed earlier in a car hit with a black Mercedes, which is leased by the agency J.A. Models for its rising client Jason Hollings, who recognizes the mutilated victim's picture as his colleague Steve Dixon, says Steve used steroids and was loaned the car to date agency employee Abby Biggs, against the firm's rule not to date clients; her panties were in the car, but she claims Steve was allergic to steroids. After examining an incident with a tiger, his murderer confesses. Then Latino model Cody Lane is found dead, probably pushed from a balcony; he slept with the agency's senior partner Janet Sterling. There are striking links with the first murder investigation. They weren't the first dead J.A. models, none other by the hand of the arrested killer, and it's not the latest victim of the plot... Meanwhile Nick Townsend is back, having started a company, hired by Miami for crime scene clean-up, and turns the restraining order tables on his ex Natalia.
Episode 5
Death Eminent
Mon, Oct 16, 200645 mins
When a city councilman is found murdered in his home, Horatio & the CSI team find themselves in the middle of an eminent domain case - involving the city appropriating peoples' homes so a developer can build a hotel on the property. Ryan Wolfe finds himself the subject of a complaint by a sheriff's deputy after he tries to stop the deputy from taking a family's property, and when Horatio checks further he discovers that his old enemy - Judge Joseph Ratner is the judge hearing the eminent domain case. Even more chilling is a young girl's body that turns up in a neighbor's yard, and the owner apparently was given full market value for it while other neighbors' values were reduced by half. Natalia Boa Vista comes under harassment by her ex-husband, and she discovers a chilling truth - the dead girl is Judge Ratner's biological daughter! Another link to the fiendish trial judge is discovered when the owner admits he was paid by the judge to kill the girl. Horatio arrests the smug judge in his chambers, and the young woman is given a proper funeral.
Episode 6
Curse of the Coffin
Mon, Oct 23, 200643 mins
Alissa Valone, an advertising agency's rich workaholic president, was murdered with a golf club, not hers given the size, in her home, where devout Latino Catholic Eric Delko tells Ryan to do the scene because he respects the Christian elements in the Santeria form of voodoo she practices, there's even a real goat's head. DNA from skin under her fingernails points to Ed Smith, whose trial for a gold robbery starts the next day. Using blowfish poison tetrodotoxine, used as zombie power in Santeria, Ed faked his death and was carried into the morgue, where Ryan now fears to go mad as he saw him rise from the slab and the poison on the stretcher numbs his hands. Alissa's boyfriend Jeremy Fordham lies about buying the poison with her -he was seen with her- or placing the small coffin near her, but claims to believe it must be burned or it causes another death. Alissa's ex, Dr. Trevor Valone, admits he signed Smith's fake death certificate to help stage his friend's death but denies a deal to have Alissa killed. Her PC was treated to combust when touched, but Dan Cooper reconstructs it well enough to find fake threatening e-mails from Alissa's friend and discontent employee Danielle Madison, who also was driving her car and felt passed over for promotion but claims she found Alisa already dead. When Eric realizes Ed's interest in the communal graveyard plot with Alissa was to hide the stolen gold, he and Ryan find the crook next to it, murdered with a pickax which carries identifiable finger prints, and there was a camera next to it, indicating an accomplice...
Episode 7
High Octane
Mon, Nov 6, 200643 mins
In an illegal 'sideshow' teenage stunt driver Dex is decapitated by a street party lights cable. The show was staged to launch heiress Brynn Roberts' website on the 'new macho sport'. Her helper Evan Dunlar nearly dies when his car explodes, rigged with kerosene stolen from a public pipeline from his dad, contractor Steve's construction site. Dex's 'friendly rival' Luke Baylor stole his car, and was probably part of a car theft epidemic, and maybe more. The 'accident' resulted from a radio wave-triggered hydraulics system. Meanwhile only Ryan agrees to collaborate on the TV documentary the city wants Mike Doyle to produce to restore CSI's image.
Episode 8
Darkroom
Mon, Nov 13, 200660 mins
Toll booth girls report a bloody bill with the message "he's going to kill me" handed from a sports-car, unidentifiable on video because of a photo-shield. At a beach jetty down that motorway, Leslie Anderson's corpse is found with traces of handcuffs and struggle fitting the girl in the car, but Leslie was asphyxiated two days earlier and has clay tile mortar traces as used in old buildings, like the abandoned one next to the restaurant mentioned on a valet parking ticket recorded on the sports-car's toll video. There are struggle signs, but the only man present, Mercedes-driver Tommy Boyer, was just looking for his fiancée Jill Gerard, missing since two days. The safe contains serial killer trophies, including pictures of Leslie and Natalia's sister Anya Boa Vista, not seen for two days by her roommate since a photo-shoot with a man fitting the profile who promised her a magazine cover. The press is shown all other pictures, apparently taken willingly, immoral TV reporter Erica Sykes makes Anya's public. Ryan traces the photos to model photographer John Stockman, whose DNA proves he had sex with a victim model. Anya phones in panic too short to trace, to her answering machine with the voice Ryan recognizes as Gavin LaPorte, a photography assistant working on the same set as Stockman, once acquitted of a rape charge. Boyer gets an out of character break-up letter from Jill; Ryan traces the logo to Bill Starr's car dealership, where he finds the killer's sports car, with Anya's blood; Starr has the owner's address: a yacht, where Jill is tied-up alive, but killer and Anya are gone. Then Alexx proves someone lied big time.
Episode 9
Going, Going, Gone
Mon, Nov 20, 200660 mins
George Kornspan pays $100,00 at Peter Kinkella's children charity date auction for the company of two young women. While he gets Viagra, blindfold Rebecca Roth(19) is stabbed to death with a letter-opener, her ring stolen. Katie Watson claims she left to avoid a threesome. The ring was bought and sold by her recently heart-broken would be-fiancé Carl Thornton. He saw her flirting with detective Jake Berkeley. He investigates Kinkella's heroin dealing. Peter's charity is bogus, his place was bugged by a Homeland Security undercover. This leads to bigger fish.
Episode 10
Come as You Are
Mon, Nov 27, 200660 mins
The death of a Marine recruiter ultimately leads Horatio to open an investigation into the death of another Marine in Iraq. The brother of the Marine who was killed in Iraq claims responsibility for the death of his brother, but Horatio suspects a cover-up.
Episode 11
Backstabbers
Mon, Dec 11, 200645 mins
After Sonya Barak's hearing, attorney Russell Tanninger who got her bail until the Al Quadir terrorist bombing trial in four weeks, is shot with anti-patriot Craig Edwards's gun. His confession proves false, the real target was Sonya. Street thug Hector Rivera is arrested with her car, which he confesses having jacked. In the trunk is the corpse of his gang Craneos's deserter Gabriel Cervantes. That proves no coincidence, in several ways.
Episode 12
Internal Affairs
Mon, Jan 8, 200743 mins
Benjamin Rhodes drowns in his own blood at home with a mystery wound. Fingerprints were left by contractor, Jeff Murdock, who could have left them when making a HiFi installment quote. Found on the body is his therapist Lauren Sloan's blood. Natalia warns Maxine in vain against dating her own ex, crime scene cleaner Nick Townsend. When Nick is found killed, skull crushed, a possible conflict of interest hands the case to the night shift led by MPD detective Jake Berkeley. However Horatio's team manages to keep an eye out and steer forensics. Both cases may link together, and Nick has a fight with his colleague Phillip Craven.
Episode 13
Throwing Heat
Mon, Jan 22, 200745 mins
Cuban baseball promise Ario Pastano is killed by a landmine on a Miami beach. He was shipped in, illegally, by sports agent Walter Dunley, like surviving compatriot Jorge Zamareno. During the forensic investigation at Roberto Chavez's bar, Eric gallantly defends Carmen Henney, only to be slapped with malicious charges.
Episode 14
No Man's Land
Mon, Feb 5, 200742 mins
County's armored transport carrying arms to be destroyed is successfully ambushed, exploded, robbed, both cops killed. A hair found at the crime scene points to Brazilian Pedro Salavado, incarcerated Baracas drug prince Clavo Cruz's cousin. One of recently released murderer Gilberto Tavez's minor sons, Jesse, is shot in the garden, his footprint is in the blood.
Episode 15
Man Down
Mon, Feb 12, 200745 mins
Having been shot badly in the head while seeking escaped Clavo's gang's court staff hostage Cathy Gibson in an ambush with Horatio, Eric is rushed to hospital in critical condition but pulls trough, possibly brain-impaired. Clavo escaped with the $1,000,000, removed the GPS-tracer and left Cathy behind, but her minor wounds contradict her abuse claim, she confession having turned his accomplice. General Antonio Cruz, who rejected Clavo when told not to be his biological pa, is in the Brazilian Miami consulate, when Horatio arrives held at gunpoint by the vindictive Clavo, who shoots him fatally and flees trough a secret passage, picking up uncut Sierra Leone blood diamonds. The shooter parking lot guard Keeler saw vaguely dumped his cloths, enough DNA to identify Tanner Wilcox, no proof he shot. The bank traces the money to Joseph Trevi, Clavo's real dad. CSI traces the diamond smuggle and the bullet.
Episode 16
Broken Home
Mon, Feb 19, 200745 mins
Absent Dave and Renée Montavo's son Justin(12)'s neighbor and babysitter Heather Crowley believes she heard a prowler and finds her dying father at the door, skull smashed; her mother lies by their own pool, throat slashed. The Montavo's were drugged by having their drinks spiked at a Miami party. Neighbor Dr. Mike Lasker's fingerprints lead to a weird set of suspects, motives and confessions to other crimes, but how do they relate to the double murder? Erik is back on the job, but his memory-trouble proves a serious problem.
Episode 17
A Grizzly Murder
Mon, Feb 26, 200742 mins
During a college friends weekend trip, Dennis West from the guide Chuck Greene's rabbit hunt party in the Glades, is killed by an escaped grizzly. Someone smeared vanilla gel on a tree to lure the bear. It is traces to local loner Billy Chadwick, who sold it to Greene. Dennis' knee was fractured with mate Rob Harris' rifle stump to pin him down. Their luxury hotel contains blood traces from another man's murder that they failed to clean up and MP3 downloads trace to would be-singer Anna Sivarro, who lies that it was stolen from her car. Third hunting mate Andy Kelso says he and Rob told West's family about his infidelity. Pole dancer Tess Gowan, from Joey Mazzaro's club where Anna works, is found bear-baited, but crushed by a human. County supervisor Scott O'Shay also seems to be involved.
Episode 18
Triple Threat
Mon, Mar 19, 200744 mins
Miami top real estate project developer Dominic Whitford is killed during a fund-raiser chaired by his wife, with playboy Neil Massey's abandoned .38. As CSI investigates, it turns out neither were actually there. This produces an atypical set of suspects, including his executive assistant Josh Brockner, and possible motives- for this murder and another, accidentally unearthed. Eric still wrestles with his '2nd learning curve'.
Episode 19
Bloodline
Mon, Apr 9, 200744 mins
Anna Sivarro calls Horatio, claiming she woke up after blacking out in the hotel-suite where Doug Lansing was murdered and scalped. Facing fingerprints, bellhop Jesse Stark admits solely to stealing from the mini-bar which he restocked. Louis Sullivan is accidentally filmed while breaking in to Annie's, where her colleague Tess' black book is stolen, embarrassing for many, including Reggie Veston. He's the manager of the Kipaya tribal casino, which has its profits scammed by reputedly corrupt city supervisor Scott O'Shay, making all Indians potential suspects. Then Reggie is murdered at home.
Episode 20
Rush
Mon, Apr 16, 200744 mins
Movie star Brody Lassiter's corps is found in the trunk of a stunt car on a Miami film set. Stuntman Rod Vickers has secretly been clubbing with Brody as designated driver before returning him to his rehab clinic, White Sands, where he was hung, no suicide. So there is no shortage of suspects and possible stories. It soon is found the clinic's director, Peter Ashford, has cameras in every room, to make shots for informal publicity purposes; one of the patients is fake, a journalist... Then there's Lassiter's movie connections, even a youth neighborhood friend, Eddie Corbett, who was Brody's personal minder...
Episode 21
Just Murdered
Mon, Apr 23, 200745 mins
The mother and father of all nasty divorce cases where the couple's house is divided by lasers and the wife cuts the pleasure boat in half with a chainsaw in the very first scene (while screaming hubby blasts warning shots with a shotgun from his end) leads to a murder investigation when the husband's girlfriend-on-the-side is found killed inside the house. But wait, there's more ... the guy who bought the husband's Lamborghini for 200 bucks (from the wife) is found murdered with his neck slammed in the door, and both divorce lawyers display incredibly greedy streaks which cause them to plumb the depths of unethical behavior.
Episode 22
Burned
Mon, Apr 30, 200745 mins
A man dies in a fire following an explosion in the luxury home. His fiancée Claire Gibbs can only save her own life by jumping into the pool. She suspects her ex Anthony Bryant as arsonist. Trailing him, Horatio finds Yelina Salas is back in Miami, now as P.I. The late Brett Morrison has taken a bite of flesh out of Michael Lipton, who only wants to talk to Ryan Wolfe because he owes Lipton a fat poker debt; he had a sister-motive but makes bail, so Horatio has Yelina tail him, who videotapes him getting money from Wolfe. A lighter in the sister's home points to Brett's business partner Jeff Zader...
Episode 23
Kill Switch
Mon, May 7, 200745 mins
Shortly after Ryan Wolfe, who has turned professional TV reporter, explained on air the clever CSI analysis of mirror reflections in a video recording of the carjacking of student Sherry Williamson, the corpse of her aggressor, Jason Billings, is found on the beach, the murderer even urinated on him. Derek Hewitt confesses to the vigilante killing after his DNA was found nearby, but his DNA doesn't match. Wolfe's cameraman is badly wounded by a spiked trap on the beach. Mechanical engineering student Cole Telford, who takes care of Billings' speedboat, does match and discloses a Cuban connection. Meanwhile Wolfe reconsiders his career move and his blemished CSI record...
Episode 24
Born to Kill
Mon, May 14, 200745 mins
Shelly Seaver is stabbed to death after a violent struggle and marked with a carved bloody Y, the MO of a Boston serial killer. A similar knife belongs to motor-rider Travis Peck, but it's the wrong size. Traces under Shelly's fingernails of a fish species common in Boston and scratches allow Horatio to find fisherman Lucas Wade, who even has the alleged 'criminal gen', an XYY chromosome. While Lucas is in custody, a new Y-carved victim is discovered by her brave young son Arthur, but soon found not quit identical, and traced to Lucas' logical accomplices. Meanwhile Ryan has a hard time with another part of his past, and Eric with jealousy when Calleigh dates a handsome lawyer. The Wade story proves more complicated...
