Dishonor

Dishonor
Season	8
Number	18
Writer	Marc Dube
Director	Sam Hill
Original Airdate	March 22, 2010
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Dishonor is the eighteenth episode in Season Eight of CSI: Miami.

Synopsis

Horatio's son, Kyle, seeks his father's help in solving the murder of his best friend.

Plot

Over lunch in a trendy Miami restaurant, Kyle Harmon breaks some news to his father, Horatio Caine: he’s going to be deployed to East Afghanistan the following week. Horatio is concerned about his son doing such a dangerous job, but before he and Kyle can discuss it further, Kyle gets a call alerting him that his friend Brian Nassir is missing. Horatio and Kyle rush to Brian’s garage only to find a fire raging outside of it—with a burning body in the middle of it. Kyle tries to save the man, but Horatio pulls him back, realizing it’s futile. Kyle is distraught, thinking his friend Brian is dead. The situation is further aggravated when a neighbor, Glenn Harper, intimates that Brian was an Islamic extremist and got what he deserved. Disgusted, Horatio tells him he’s talking his way into a murder conviction. Kyle insists that Brian wasn’t an extremist. Dr. Loman has good news for Kyle: the dead man’s dental records don’t match Brian’s. Rather, they match Rahim Farooq, whose car was found outside Brian’s garage. Calleigh pays Rahim’s wife, Salumeh, a visit. Salumeh doesn’t recognize Brian, but Calleigh is surprised to find her prints are a match to those found on a red gasoline can found near Rahim’s body. Salumeh recognizes the can, telling Calleigh it’s one her husband kept in the car—prompting her to frequently remove it from the car. While Horatio is in the morgue recovering a charred piece of paper from Rahim’s body, Kyle gets a call from his friend Brian, asking Kyle to help him—without the knowledge of his father. Kyle goes to meet Brian, who is with Maya Farooq—Rahim and Salumeh’s daughter. Brian gets upset when he sees Horatio and Tripp with Kyle, and Tripp promptly arrests Brian and Maya for murder.

Calleigh finds a ticket to St. Petersburg in Maya's bag, and both Brian and Maya have traces of gas on them. Maya tells Calleigh that her father, who had a violent temper, arranged a marriage for her, but when she fell in love with Brian, Maya decided to call it off. She told her mother about this, and her mother warned her that her father would not be happy. Maya discovered how right her mother was when her father, upon finding her with Brian, attacked her with gasoline in an attempt to kill her.

Brian confirms to Horatio that Rahim had arranged a marriage for Maya to a man named Ahmad. When Rahim attacked Maya, Brian fought him, knocking Rahim unconscious; he further claims that during the course of the fight the gasoline spilled, staining them all and that is why they have gasoline residue on them. The two fled, intending to go to St. Petersburg to sort things out. Brian insists that Rahim was alive when they left him.

At the lab, Horatio and Walter run the charred piece of paper through the infrared filter and see that the words on it are Farsi. Horatio brings it to Kyle, who is able to determine that it is an official document, signed by an "A. Salib." Horatio, assuming it is the marriage contract, has Ryan and Walter interrogate Ahmad Salib.

Salib admits that he had been following Maya because she no longer seemed happy with the marriage, and upon discovering that she had fallen in love with Brian, he went to see Rahim to call off the wedding. Although disappointed, he promises not to have told Rahim anything, in fact claiming that he was scared by his reaction, and lied to him about where they were because he was afraid of what he might do.

After Calleigh and Jesse discover a message from Maya to her father asking him to meet her at Brian's garage, Calleigh interrogates the girl again and asks if she lured her father to the garage to kill him. Maya insists that she didn't do it, that she called her father to tell him the truth about her and Brian, hoping to get his blessing. She tells Calleigh that she would never have called him if she knew she would lose him.

Jesse and Natalia return to the scene to look for additional clues. Natalia notices two holes in the mud near where the body was found, with ash in them—prints from high heels. Ryan and Natalia examine the soil and determine that because there’s ash in the prints, the person in the heels was standing over Rahim as he died. Calleigh and Natalia get Maya’s shoes, but her heel isn’t a match for the thin heel mark. The match proves to be the heels belonging to Maya’s mother, Salumeh. She tells the CSIs she never wanted to put Maya through this. When Rahim came to her about Maya’s relationship with Brian, she tried to reason with him—to no avail. Afraid he would kill their daughter, she chased after him, arriving at Brian’s garage in time to see her daughter fleeing in terror. Finding Rahim unconscious, she drenched him in gas and when he woke up, accused him of coming there to kill their daughter. Then she lit a match—and ran away, horrified, as he burned. Brian tells Kyle he’s not going to Afghanistan yet—he needs to stay and take care of Maya. Maya says a tearful goodbye to her mother. Later, Horatio shares a similarly solemn goodbye with Kyle, who is headed off to Afghanistan. Holding back tears, Horatio tells his son to come back alive—no matter what.

Cast

Main Cast

• David Caruso as Horatio Caine
• Emily Procter as Calleigh Duquesne
• Jonathan Togo as Ryan Wolfe
• Rex Linn as Frank Tripp
• Eva LaRue as Natalia Boa Vista
• Eddie Cibrian as Jesse Cardoza
• Omar Miller as Walter Simmons

Guest Cast

• Evan Ellingson as Kyle Harmon
• Christian Clemenson as Tom Loman
• Ethan Rains as Brian Nassir
• Inbar Lavi as Maya Farooq
• Necar Zadegan as Salumeh Farooq
• Navid Negahban as Rahim Farooq
• Assaf Cohen as Ahmad Salib
• Jeff Kober as Glenn Harper

Major Events

• This marks the last appearance of Kyle Harmon on the show.

Trivia

• Necar Zadegan (Salumeh Farooq) would later go on to portray Special Agent Hannah Khoury in Seasons 5-7 on NCIS: New Orleans alongside Vanessa Ferlito, who played Special Agent Tammy Gregorio.

See Also

• List of CSI: Miami episodes
• CSI:Miami Season 8
• Category:Images from Dishonor