A man buying a ring is killed when the jewellery store is raided. One of the robbers take the ring from his hand, which is unusual. They pass Horatio (David Caruso) on the bikes when he's in pursuit, but they didn't just disappear. Tread marks on the road reveal they drove into a truck. They did a u-turn and doubled back, Ryan (Jonathan Togo) suggests they rode onto something. Calleigh (Emily Procter) can't find anything wrong with the SUV. Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) says it was used to block the road and it's been stripped of the VIN number. Jesse asks if Calleigh's okay after she sees Jake (Johnny Whitworth) in the crowd. Jesse notices the VIN plate on the ground. Calleigh wasn't looking for it. No she was too busy wondering what Jake was doing there. Well he could only have been undercover, yet he appeared to be a suspect the way he vanished.
Inside the store, Tripp (Rex Linn) wonders how they managed to open the display cases as the manager, Leonard (Tim Russ) has the only key. They left behind the expensive pieces. Tripp thinks it could be an inside job. Natalia's (Eva La Rue) hearing aid attracts her to a device hidden in the plants. ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds trace under the Vic's fingernails. He's clearly upset at his life being taken like that and the ring being stolen too. "Snatched from his dying hand." Tripp identifies the device as a signal jammer, it blocked the feed to the wireless surveillance cameras. A woman outside looks for her boyfriend, Ben (Christian Campbell) and ME Tom scraped his nails for trace, outside the store in public.
Walter (Omar Miller) identifies the trace under the Vic's nails as latex. Tripp follows up on the VIN number which leads to an address and to a truck, stepping on the diamonds, which have been discarded outside on the ground. Shots are fired and inside the building they find Jake has shot one of the robbers, Joe (Celestin Cornielle). Jake was recruited for the heist and they found out he was a cop. He claims self-defence. Jake drove the truck and they threw the diamonds away as the serial numbers could be traced back to them. Jake left the VIN number for the CSIs. Horatio says the trail hasn't gone cold yet as they still have the diamonds to follow through on.
Ryan discovers the seal on the evidence box containing the diamonds is broken and one of the envelopes is missing. Walter looks at the chain of custody. They were logged in by Calleigh and checked out by Ryan, who says he put them back. Orlansky, (Rashawn Underdue) the officer on duty, confirms Ryan did put them back. Ryan: "Somebody stole the stolen diamonds." Question being couldn't that somebody have waited for the investigation to be completed before they charged in. The fingers would point to Ryan after he's been in so much strife since he got here.
Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) (never far behind) wants the cameras fixed as the signal was jammed by the device, which Walter turned off. Walter is adamant he didn't do it. Now it's his turn to be fingered as in the next episode too. Rick wants to handle the investigation, but Horatio puts his foot down as he always does with Rick. It's Horatio's lab, his investigation, but he'll share the results.
Ryan and Natalia process Joe's clothes and there's a mark under the blood stain. Natalia finds a memory card which has photos of the store. The robbers could have made a key using the photo. The photos were taken from opposite the store. It's a real estate office owned bu the Vic, Ben Rooney. His girlfriend Kayla Pennington (Kathleen Robertson) says he was there to buyher an engagement ring. They believe Ben was casing the store, but she's the more likely suspect to me - she knew him 3 weeks yet agreed to marry him, that was an obvious clue. Besides now that he's dead she can also say anything. Calleigh wonders what she's not saying.
Horatio says boric acid is used in metal casting, the diamonds were removed from their settings, so they wanted the gold. Jesse mentions Spano (Kevin Weisman) who is a fence and Horatio asks him on info about the gold, which increases in investment. They need to widen the net. Horatio doesn't agree to a deal with him. "Poof, take him." Horatio wants the FBI called. Delko (Adam Rodriguez) arrives for the signal jammer, he's always been on their team. Natalia says Delko is the one who's causing her hearing aid "freaking out when he walked in." He's spying on them. Natalia reminds him she was a mole in the lab for the FBI and he's wearing a wire.
He's been working on the evidence for months. That's news to us, as this was a way for his character to be brought back permanently, worse luck. Small amounts were missing. Horatio knows what he's doing and Delko volunteered for the gig as he could protect the team. That's why he's here, he can go through the recordings from his wire first. He's so caught up in the job that he didn't even tell Calleigh, so I ask would he really suspect her?
Delko questions Jake who accuses him of being jealous. GSR containing mercury was found on the signal jammer. Jake isn't the only one who uses those bullets and asks if Delko's working for IA now. Delko also accuses Jake of stealing the diamonds and Jake replies he nearly got killed for his efforts. Delko thinks he's been undercover too long. Jake gave them the signal jammer so the GSR would have been already on there. HE also adds that until Delko goes undercover he can't tell him what it's like to be on the job.
Jesse accuses the gang of being 60 second men. They took only the gold and escaped on the bikes. Horatio analyzes the photos from the witnesses and notices they were wearing facial prosthetics. One of them is Ben's girlfriend, Kayla, she shot Ben, and all of the robbers were female. Ben was the mark. Jesse believes he was more than that since if he was just a mark then why didn't she melt the ring down with the rest of the gold. She fell for him and went back to the store to see if he was alive. Well he wouldn't still be alive after getting shot like that. She claims she couldn't shoot him. Jesse says Kayla isn't a murderer and gives up her partner, Whitney (Tina Casciani) .
Horatio and Jesse locate her and Horatio finds the gold is being transported as part of the bikes themselves, which Jesse missed when he analyzed one of the bikes in the truck. Horatio tells her if the shipment had already gone then she'd have left the truck behind. He's no fool. Horatio uses a gold pen to check for gold. Jesse says the gold was hidden in plain sight to get through customs.
Calleigh tells Delko he doesn't need to worry about Jake as he was with her. Delko being defensive, says it's not about them but about the lab. Calleigh explains Jake was with her at the hospital to get him checked out, then adds she thought Delko wasn't jealous about their on-again/off again relationship, so guess they're on again. Delko claims to be curious that's all. Yeah, pull the other one. Thus Jake couldn't have stolen the diamonds so much for Delko's accusations. Walter's use of "poof" too, just like Horatio.
Ryan claims to be going home and they decide on drinks. Walter's buying. Natalia changes her mind about going as she has to be in court. That was a quick turnaround, she was acting a bit suspiciously and now Ryan's going for drinks too. Did she not want to go as she'd have to sit around with Delko and his 'lies' to the rest of them, but then she can't be that self-righteous, as she did the same thing too. Then when everyone found out, she wanted them to trust her. Where was Jesse, he wasn't invited for drinks, so it was safe for her to go; and no he wasn't stealing stuff from evidence either.
Apparently evidence had been missing from lockers for a while and they've only just got Delko on the case, surely someone had to have been suspected. Out of the 3 shows, CSI:Miami is where someone or another on the team is always suspected of doing something wrong, and where such bad things actually happen.
In CSI:NY episode 7.18 Identity Crisis, the woman who was a con artist dressed as a man to steal from her marks. You can see where that idea came from. In this episode, the robbers were women and wore prosthetics, in CSI:NY, she wore a mask.
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