Miami - Season 5 spoilers/rumours

[soapyclean]

So am I glad to hear no one is going to be killed off, just wouldn't be as nice to watch.

[Jojo]

In the 17th Episode - “A Grizzly Murder” opens with a group of men hunting white tailed deer in the Everglades – Andy Kelso, 28; Rob Harris, 26; and Dennis West, 29. They’re inexperienced hunters. Harris and West carry rifles. Kelso is armed with a long bow. A group of college buddies on a “guycation.” The group is led by a guide, Chuck Greene, 32.

The group encounters a 7 foot tall, 800 pound black bear. Despite their guides instructions to the contrary, the inexperienced outdoorsmen turn and run. The bear chases and one of the men, Dennis West, is mauled to death.

Horatio, Detective Tripp and Alexx arrive at the crime scene to find the bear muzzled, chained and being taken away by a pair of National Park Rangers. Upon examination of West’s body, Alexx discovers that West had a clear substance on the back of his hunting vest. The substance is vanilla gel, a scented glycerin used to attract bears. West had been used as bait.

West’s buddies, Kelso and Harris, tell Horatio they have no idea why anyone would want West killed. They’re just a group of friends from college who have turned into 60-hour-week desk jockeys and needed to sign-up for a “guycation” to feel like men.

Ryan scans Kelso and Harris with a minirae device and determines that they are also sporting moderate levels of glycerin. Horatio advises them not to go far.

Investigation of the crime scene reveals that West didn’t run very far before he was attacked by the bear. Alexx discovers from West’s medical records that he was in perfect health and ran the Boston Marathon last year. Autopsy reveals that West had a broken knee, with bruising consistent with the butt end of a rifle.

Ryan goes to see the owner of the property the group was hunting on. Billy Southwick, a dirty hill-billy sort. He owns 1250 acres of Everglades property, littered with broken appliances and rusty car rims. Ryan finds a bottle of glycerin. Southwick admits he uses the glycerin to make bear bait, which he sells. Southwick’s client roster includes the hunting guide, Chuck Greene.

Meanwhile, a bloody Trax player is found in a hotel room. The owner of the device is identified as Anna Gallo,23, a beautiful olive-skinned stripper. Horatio locates Gallo and has her brought to the interrogation room because he feared she might be in trouble. Perhaps the blood was hers. Gallo is defensive and unwilling to believe Horatio is actually interesting in protecting and serving. Gallo eventually divulges that she wasn’t at the hotel the night before, like she was supposed to be. She had a co-worker, Tess Gowan, cover for her so she could go to a recording studio and work on a demo.

Gowan’s body is found dumped in the Everglades. Turns out the group Gowan was hired to entertain is none other than the group of buddies on their “guycation.”

[Jojo]

A dispo truck carrying weapons assigned for destruction is overturned and Chris Ryder and Matt Cranby, the officers driving it, killed. The CSIs quickly determine it was not an accident--the truck was cornered and an explosive detonated underneath it. DNA on hair found on Ryder's body is traced to Pedro Salvado--a relative of Clavo Cruz, whom Horatio put away for murder several years ago. Suspecting Clavo's involvement in the theft of the weapons, Horatio pays the felon a visit in jail only to witness Clavo stab a guard right in front of him. Clavo sneers that he's entitled to a fair trial. Not far from the dispo truck's crash site, a little boy, Jesse, is found dead in the front yard of his house. Jesse and his siblings are being raised by their older sister Camille, who is working several jobs to support them. The CSIs track down Gilberto Tavez, the children's father, recently released from prison. There's blood in his truck, but he claims he was looking for Camille when the gunshot went off, and fled afterwards.

The CSIs locate the man who detonated the explosive, Richard Williams, and find evidence he handled a military grade weapon. They find a rocket launcher on the list of weapons lost in the theft, and Horatio realizes what Clavo is going to do: escape from the courthouse by hiring someone to fire a rocket into it. Horatio calls Alexx, at court to testify, to warn her, but it's too late: the rocket slams into the building. Alexx is unharmed, but Clavo escapes. The man with the rocket launcher is found dead in his hiding place in a nearby truck. Ryan and Calleigh return to the Tavez house and trace the trajectory of the bullet that killed Jesse. Ryan is chagrined to discover that the shot came from the bedroom of Jesse's older brother, Ben, and the boy sadly confesses that he found the gun abandoned in the trash and took it and played with it, only to have it go off and kill his brother.

Horatio and Dan Cooper review surveillance footage from the courthouse and see that Clavo escaped with a young court stenographer named Kathy Gibson. Horatio gets a call from Clavo, who demands the CSI meet him at the Golden Bank, where Clavo has had a million dollars placed into Horatio's bank account. He demands Horatio withdraw the money, and in exchange gives Horatio Kathy's location: the trunk of a Mercedes in a nearby parking garage. Horatio calls Delko and the two CSIs scour the rooftop level, until they're interrupted by gunfire. Delko is shot in the leg, but Horatio drags him to cover and kills the shooter. But then shots are fired from a different direction, and Delko is hit again, this time in the head....

[hayley]

ooo yay!! this is the one where Eric gets shot! Thankfully he lives, but it sounds like a great episode! full of twists and turns!!

[Jojo]

Its the one we've been waiting for Hayley! And the following week will be pretty tense too, although from what I've seen, two episodes and its all pretty much sorted with Eric, but if he was shot in the head, you'd imagine a longer recovery. We shall see though - I'd hate it if he was out of the show for any period of time, so am glad that he shouldn't be missing from our screens lol

[Jojo]

In the 19th episode, “By the Book” involves the brutal murder of Doug Latham, President of the Holfcroft Communications Syndicate. Latham essentially owned every media outlet in Miami. He is found dead in a suite at the Agramonte Hotel, stabbed in the abdomen and scalped Indian style.

Latham did not spend the evening alone in the hotel room. He was accompanied by a hooker, Anna Savarro. Latham and Savarro ordered food from room service and from there, things become hazy. Latham and Savarro were both drugged.

Eric and Calleigh go to the Agramonte Hotel and question Jesse Stone. Stone is the food serive worker who delivered the room service to Latham and Savarro. When told Latham and Savarro were drugged via dosed food prior to Latham’s murder, Stone points out that the kitchen is busy and he’s not the only one who had access to it. He simply delivered the food to the room.

Horatio speaks with Savarro. She was drugged along with Latham, but was not murdered. However, her apartment was broken into. Horatio points out that the drugging, Latham’s murder and the fact that her apartment was broken into was no coincidence. He offers to protect her.

While investigating Savarro’s apartment, Calleigh is harassed by Steve Stringer. He points video camera at Calleigh, telling her he catches stories live on film and then sells them to the news programs. Calleigh refuses to comment until she learns that Stringer had been in the neighborhood at the time of the break in because he believed Shaq’s Bentley had been seen and wanted to catch him slumming. Coincidentally, Stringer caught the robber on film exiting Navarro’s apartment.

Back at the lab, the thief’s face from the video is matched with Miami Dade’s Arrest Records Database. A match is found -- Louis Santone. The video also reveals what Santone stole from the apartment. A little black book.

Ryan brings Santone in for interrogation. Ryan asks why Santome passed up cash and credit cards, taking only the little black book. Santome says he thought someone was coming and grabbed the first thing he saw. He didn’t realize until later that it was just an address book. Ryan discredits this story, telling Santome the book was kept in a locked drawer. Santome refuses to admit that anyone may have paid him to steal the book and he turns it over to Ryan. Santome ends up telling Ryan that no one can protect him from the guy he stole the book for.

[hayley]

Is this the one straight after Eric gets shot?
He has recovered already! I see what you mean JoJo!!

[Jojo]

Eric is shot in 516, "recovers" in 517 and this is 2 later. Apparently though, he does show signs of confusion etc, so it isn't immediately swept to the side, so there is some continuity there which is good.

[Jojo]

Picking up where "No Man's Land" left off, doctors are able to resuscitate Erik Delko, who barely clings to life after being shot twice, once in the leg and once in the head. Calleigh and Ryan process the scene where Delko was shot, and question a security guard named Keeler who arrived late on the scene. He tells them he recalls passing a man running down the stairs of the parking garage. Horatio uses the GPS tracker in the money he gave Clavo to track him down, but he finds the tracker abandoned on the beach--along with Kathy Gibson. She tells Horatio Clavo kidnapped her, but Natalia identifies a wound on her body as being from a hacksaw used to remove Clavo's cuffs. She admits to helping Clavo escape, and Horatio tells her that she'll be charged with murder if Delko dies.

Tripp tells Horatio that General Cruz is in town, and Horatio suspects Clavo has broken out of jail to exact revenge on the man he thought was his father. His hunch proves right when they go to Cruz's house, but Clavo is already there. He shoots Cruz and escapes, and the general dies in Horatio's arms. Natalia is surprised to discover an uncut diamond in Clavo's wake. Calleigh and Ryan get a DNA match off a jacket in a trashcan at the scene to Tanner Wilcox, the man fleeing the scene of the rooftop shooting, but he proves to be a dead end when they learn he was there stealing from cars, not shooting at the CSIs. The teller from Horatio's bank contacts him to tell him the funds placed in his account were transferred by a man named Joseph Trevi. Horatio confronts the man and accuses him of bankrolling Clavo, suspecting it's about the diamonds. It proves to run deeper than that when the CSIs learn Trevi is Clavo's biological father. Trevi admits Clavo gave him the diamonds and that he sold them for 45 million, which he has no intention of sharing with Clavo. Horatio calls Clavo to tell him Trevi gave him up, but Clavo refuses to surrender.

Natalia is able to determine that the diamond Clavo had is from Sierra Leone. She questions Audrey van der Meer, a buyer for Duncroft Diamonds, but isn't able to get any information out of her. The CSIs learn Audrey sponsored a work visa for a diamond cutter, and when they go to her shop, they find the diamond cutter and his whole family slaving away in a back room. Audrey is arrested. When Calleigh and Ryan realize the gun Delko was shot with is a shotgun, they haul Keeler back in and test his other hand for GSR and learn he's the shooter. Clavo paid him a hundred grand to shoot at the CSIs. Clavo arrives at the department, gun in hand, forcing Horatio to shoot him down. Horatio tells Delko, who is recovering, that they got Clavo, and is forced to tell him why his sister Marisol isn't at his bedside.

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Apologies Hayley - I got my episode numbers mixed up, but as you can see, this one is the one following the actual shooting of Eric

[Jojo]

In the 20th Episode, “Rush” opens on a film shoot. Two men are engaged in a tug-of-war over a gun in an industrial warehouse. During an extended struggle scene, gun shots are fired, the gun is pointed in one man’s face, both end up jumping from the third floor, to the second and ultimately to the ground. One of the men, 28-year old stunt man Rod Vickers, hops into a waiting yellow Corvette and peels out, only to be chased by the other man who runs full tilt while shooting at the vehicle as it speeds off. Vickers loses control of the Corvette and it crashes into a building. The trunk pops open, the driver’s door opens and Vickers slumps out, blood streaming down his face. The Corvette bursts into flames and the director yells, “Cut!”

As crew members tend to Vickers, insuring he emerged from the stunt unharmed, the director questions Vickers as to why he popped the trunk and ruined the shot. Vickers says he didn’t open it. It must have been open before they rolled.

Stunt crew members work to extinguish the flames from the car. One of them drops his fire extinguisher and steps away from the open trunk.

The body of movie star Brody Lassiter, 28, gorgeous even though mostly covered with CO2 from the extinguisher, is stuffed in the trunk.

Horatio and Detective Tripp question Vickers. Vickers was Lassiter’s stunt double. The scene that was being shot was too dangerous for Lassiter to do himself. Horatio complains that investigating will be difficult since the stunt crew sprayed the crime scene with CO2. Vickers responds that the CO2 is standard protocol for fires and his crew wasn’t covering anything. Vickers tells Horatio that he was in charge of the car and that he locked it up the night before, right after the dry run.

Horatio speaks with the film’s director. Lassiter wasn’t expected on the set that morning. His call time wasn’t until noon and he left the set the night before by 6:00 pm, in accordance with the many rules of his contract. The director says many people wanted Lassiter off the movie.

Horatio talks to Eddie Corbett, Lassiter’s assistant/bodyguard. Corbett and Lassiter grew up together. It’s now Corbett’s job to make sure Lassiter makes it to work each day. He had enemies.

After processing the stunt vehicle, Calleigh learns that Vickers was lying about not taking the car off the lot last night.

Delko brings Vickers in for interrogation. Vickers admits that he and Lassiter took the Corvette out partying the night before. Vickers loved going out with Lassiter because Lassiter was in rehab, stone sober, and a movie star who could get into any club in the city -- the perfect designated driver. According to Vickers, Lassiter snuck out of the White Sands rehab center, they went out and Vickers got wasted. At the end of the night, Lassiter drove back to the White Sands. Vickers was too drunk to drive home, so he passed out in the parking lot and Lassiter went inside the rehab center. Vickers woke up an hour before call time and drive straight to the set.