Shootout | |
Season | 3 |
Number | 12 |
Writer | Corey Miller, Sunil Nayar |
Director | Norberto Barba |
Original Airdate | January 3, 2005 |
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Shootout is the twelfth episode in Season Three of CSI: Miami.
Synopsis[]
When gang-related gunplay goes down in an emergency room, The team must find the gang members responsible. Meanwhile, Ryan questions a mother in the E.R. after her story regarding her child doesn't add up.
Plot[]
A gravely injured woman, Betty Rockman, is brought into the emergency room of Dade Memorial hospital. She's put on a bed next to Calvin Joyner, who is calling for a nurse. Suddenly, another man, Hector del Rio, enters the ER and begins firing at Calvin. Calvin returns fire as people around them scream.
The shootout leaves both men dead. Alexx examines Calvin and determines that he was killed by a shot to the head. Yelina notes a tattoo on Hector's neck, "ESH," which Horatio recognizes as shorthand for the gang East Side Hermanos. When Calleigh arrives at the hospital, Horatio warns her that the scene is already compromised and advises her to work quickly. Across the ER, Ryan notices a woman, Pamela Warren, holding a crying baby. When he approaches her, he notices blood on her sweater, which she claims is from Hector, who was standing next to her. Ryan also spies bruising under the baby's eye and calls for a doctor.
Yelina has IDs on the men and also tells Horatio that Calvin was a member of a rival gang, the Ten-Trays. Alexx finds a cell phone in Hector's pocket, and Horatio decides to dial the last number on it, which is the number of the person who likely alerted Hector that Calvin was at the hospital. When he hits redial, the phone of the orderly, Ramon Morales, begins ringing. Ramone tries to run, but Horatio chases him and cuts off his escape. Back at the police station, Horatio learns that Frank Tripp is familiar with Ramon, who he has arrested on several previous occasions. Ramon alleges that Calvin killed a member of the East Side Hermanos, Palmero, a leader in their gang and that Calvin's murder was revenge for that killing. Back at the hospital, Ryan and the doctor are examining Pamela's baby, Bethany. Ryan notices petechiae in the baby's eyes, indicating someone may have tried to smother her. Ryan asks the doctor to perform a complete physical on the baby.
In the morgue, Alexx discovers a recent gunshot wound that Calvin never sought medical attention for. She gives the bullet to Calleigh, who then heads to the ER to reconstruct the scene with Delko. Using lasers, they determine that the bullet that killed Calvin came not from Hector's gun but from that of another shooter, who escaped. Outside of the hospital, Eric finds a fancy piece of metal from a tire dub from what he believes was the third shooter's getaway car and traces it to an upscale shop run by one Eddie Davids. Under pressure from Delko, he finally gives up the name of one of his clients: Jesse Nevado, who bought a tire augment like the one Eric is looking for. Nevado claims to have been at the hospital the night before dropping off an underaged girl. But Calleigh obtains a videotape from a man who was filming his baby's delivery at the time of the shootout that proves otherwise: the squeal of tires can clearly be heard in the aftermath of the shooting. The CSIs examine the car, and Delko finds sunflower seeds still wet from being spit out under the passenger seat and also a hidden safe, which contains a gun.
Pamela is being detained in a holding cell, and Ryan questions her about fibers found in Bethany's mouth. Pamela claims they were from her sweater—she held the baby to her chest to protect her when the gunfire started. Ryan checks out her story, but the fibers from her sweater don't match those from the baby's mouth. Valera gets the DNA of one Rico Dominguez off of the sunflower seeds from the car. Horatio questions Rico, but it's not long before the man nonchalantly confesses. He's enraged over the lack of police interest in Palmero's death, which was dismissed as a drive-by shooting. Horatio decides to right that wrong. Ryan accuses Pamela of trying to suffocate Bethany with her blanket, but Pamela staunchly denies this and asks to see the baby. Ryan deflects her request and asks to bandage a bleeding wound on her knee from the commotion in the hospital. He takes a small sample of her blood before dressing the wound.
Calleigh traces the bullet from the wound that Calvin neglected to a gun owned by the orderly, Ramon. Horatio confronts Ramon, who shot Calvin thinking that that Calvin had killed Palmero. When Horatio tells Ramon that Calvin was in jail the night Palmero was killed and couldn't have shot the man, Ramon is unconcerned. He believes the gangs are even, but Horatio wants to find the real killer. Tripp fills him in on the details from the case: Palmero's wife, Ana, was beaten in their bedroom, and his young daughter, Carmen, witnessed the shooting of her father. When Horatio and Tripp go to Ana's house, Jesse Nevado answers the door. He's "stepped up" and is now with Ana.
Horatio asks Ana about her husband's gun, and she turns it over. He spots Carmen playing in the backyard and asks about her father's killer—all she remembers is that she saw fire. Back at CSI, Calleigh fires the gun and matches it to the bullet that killed Palmero. But why would Ana give them the murder weapon, especially when no gun was found at the house the night of the shooting? Ana won't talk and neither will Jesse.
Valera has a surprise for Ryan: DNA proves Pamela isn't Bethany's mother. Ryan confronts Pamela, who admits she's Bethany's nanny. She tells Ryan that Bethany's parents, the Seabornes, neglected her, handing her from nanny to nanny, and Pamela wanted to rescue her. She put the blanket over her mouth when sneaking her out of the Seaborne's house. Ryan tells her that she's lucky Bethany is healthy and wasn't harmed in the process.
Looking at pictures of the crime scene at Palmero's house, Horatio focuses on an indentation made in the bedpost. He says Ana was probably hit with an object. Eric takes a mold of the mark and matches it to a unique belt, one worn by none other than Eddie Davids. Horatio pieces it together: Eddie and Ana were fooling around and he fled when Palmero returned home, but left his belt behind. Palmero used it to beat Ana when he realized she'd been unfaithful, but Eddie accosted him on the porch and killed him. And the fire that Carmen saw? Horatio tells Eddie to lift his shirt, revealing a tattoo on his chest of a burning fire.
Outside the labs, Ryan hands Bethany to Mrs. Seaborne, who quickly passes her to a nanny. She's on her cell phone before she even gets behind the wheel of her car. Disturbed, Ryan calls Horatio and together they release Pamela. She wonders why she is being released without any type of punishment, until Ryan mentions that he had child services check up on Bethany more often than not. Pamela thanks Ryan, but he tells her he knows she was trying to help Bethany. Ryan turns to Horatio; he feels bad for Bethany, trapped in an uncaring family.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- David Caruso as Horatio Caine
- Emily Procter as Calleigh Duquesne
- Adam Rodríguez as Eric Delko
- Jonathan Togo as Ryan Wolfe
- Khandi Alexander as Alexx Woods
- Sofia Milos as Yelina Salas
Guest Cast[]
- Rex Linn as Frank Tripp
- Boti Ann Bliss as Maxine Valera
- Brian Poth as Tyler Jenson
- Judy Greer as Pamela Warren
- Demetrius Navarro as Ramon Morales
- Reynaldo Gallegos as Jesse Navedo
- Kathryn Meisle as Mrs Seaborne
- Matt Schulze as Eddie Davids
- Rosa Blasi as Ana Garcia
- Noel Guglielmi as Rico Dominguez
- Shelley Robertson as Nurse Mills
- Rob Moran as Walter Rockingham
- Luis Garcia as Primero/Johnny Garcia
- Jackie Pereida as Carmen Garcia
- Chris Gehrt as Paramedic #1
- Jason Quinn as Calvin Joyner
- Julian as Hector Del Rio
- Tara Erickson as Police Officer
See Also []
CSI:Miami Season 3 | ||
Lost Son • Pro Per • Under the Influence • Murder in a Flash • Legal • Hell Night • Crime Wave • Speed Kills • Pirated • After the Fall • Addiction • Shootout • Cop Killer • One Night Stand • Identity • Nothing to Lose • Money Plane • Game Over • Sex & Taxes • Killer Date • Recoil • Vengeance • Whacked • 10-7 |