ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) says she was tortured severely but her injuries are 48 hours old. Thus there's a chance Angela may still be alive. Delko (Adam Rodriguez) finds a footprint nearby and takes a cast of it.
Jennifer tells them Nikki and Angela were both prostitutes working out of Liberty City. Whilst in autopsy, Ryan (Jonathan Togo) notices Nikki doesn't have any prints. Her fingers are puffy. ME Tom recalls there's a certain cancer medication that can cause this, capecitabine. So Nikki was a cancer patient at the free clinic and her doctor was Esteban Navarro (Kuno Becker). He also knows Angela as he treated her too for violent injuries. Why wasn't Esteban suspected sooner: he knows them both, is a doctor, so he's adept in knowing what medication to use, how to revive etc and how to keep his captives.
Calleigh (Emily Procter) is upset at how so many women are treated in such a despicable way for $50. Delko uses a friend in Vice to lead him to the street and taking a car from Impound, he drives to Liberty City. Funny how he happened to pick up the very girl who knows both Angela and Nikki. He reveals his badge to her. She says, "what's in a name" when he asks her. She eventually writes down the names of their 'clients.'
Horatio and Natalia (Eva La Rue) head to question Frank Massey (Todd Stashwick) who has complaints against domestic violence. He's another smug SOB and says his wife won't testify against him. He refuses to give them his footprint. Horatio has Tripp (Rex Linn) follow him. Frank picks up the same woman Delko spoke to and drives off in his van. Tripp loses them and when he's eventually stopped, he's behaving violently towards her, which she just shrugs off as the nature of the job. Again she's just put his name down on the list and yet she drives off with him.
Ryan also finds with Travers' (Christopher Redman) help that the glass eyes have hide paste on them, which is associated with taxidermy. The cemetery has a hunting ground behind it and here they find Dennis Kemp (Brad Greenquist) and glass eyes. He didn't kill Nikki but he found her and wanted her spirit to remain intact, he put the glass eyes into her. He didn't call it in but he recalls seeing a man with a van and a woman with tape over her mouth. So if he had dialled it in, maybe they would have found Nikki sooner and Angela also.
Natalia returns to collect Nikki's file from Esteban and she notices his shoes. He says they help him run. Thought for a moment she wouldn't be able to compose herself - oh and once more we find Natalia being almost in trouble, well judging from her past record it could have turned out that way. Let's hope she doesn't find herself in any pitfalls this last season.
When questioned by Tripp and Horatio, he tries to be clever and evasive and replies if he uses the word 'lawyer' it would mean he doesn't have to answer any questions. His footprint is a match but it's not enough. ME Tom recalls certain doctors use instruments to tie their sutures and this was used on Angela's knee injury, which means Esteban was the one who performed this suture on her. ME Tom warns it's not a signature but Natalia thinks it's enough to get them a warrant. However it turns out his assistant tied the suture. Epinephrine was used to revive Nikki from the brink of death so he could torture her again and Calleigh says anyone can get their hands on this. Again it didn't click that this is freely available at the clinic.
When Horatio and Natalia arrive at Esteban's house they are prevented from executing the warrant by Inspector O'Shay (Ed Begley Jr). Oh they had to have him turn up again to cause yet more problems.
Walter traces the steps Esteban took whilst out running on his pedometer, he's training for his third marathon. His heart rate decreased and stopped in one area. Horatio spots an ambulance here and thinks Dennis probably saw an ambulance at the cemetery. A search of a nearby building leads to Angela who is still alive.
Diego Navarro, (Carlos Bernard) daddy, turns up and threatens Horatio after he's unable to bribe him. Funny Horatio vents and loses his temper with suspects but he will never be bought. Thus another father/son nemesis for Horatio and the CSIs. So obvious Esteban would escape justice, for now. Horatio calls Angela's phone and Esteban in his arrogance threatens to kidnap both Angela and Jennifer next time.
Diego is meant to be one powerful man in Miami with connections to the mayor (remind you of CSI). Arent' they all. So were the Cruz brothers who wrecked havoc on Miami in season 2 Blood Brothers and got their comeuppance with Horatio on their trail. O'Shay describes Diego as holding "the purse strings on Miami." Does that include him too. So everyone has to cower in his wake. Lots of posturing and threats on the part of Diego threatening to get Horatio first and Horatio tells him he'll get his son, "one way or another." (I feel a Blondie song coming on...) makes you wonder what he means by that loaded statement; especially seeing the team's action last season and Horatio's treatment of suspects. But hey this is the final season, so Horatio's got nothing to lose. Not that CSI:Miami's fate had been sealed yet.
Delko attempting to to help the woman by getting her into a department programme was a bit insulting and patronizing, thinking he could just tell her what to do. She reveals her name is Elizabeth (Olivia Taylor Dudley) and for a second there, it looked as if she may be Esteban's next Vic.
O'Shay was in the episodes A Grizzly Murder and Bloodline as a supervisor with corruption piled high against him and was involved in money laundering from casinos, but they couldn't put him away. He now returns to be yet another thorn in Horatio's side. Let's hope he gets put away with the Navarro scum. If it's not the Russian mob, it's Memmo, or Julia's husband who become Horatio's enemies.
As for using the name Dr Navarro, this screams of The Closer 6.5 episode Heart Attack, where Dr Luis Navarro (Bruno Campos) was a doctor at a free clinic who also specialized in 'murder'. That of criminals who deserved to meet their end, in his eyes, as their organs were then used for transplants. He was playing god, no he saw himself a god and though his actions were condemned and rightly so. He was killing criminals. This Navarro was ridding women he thought were no better and deserved this end in his sadistic rage.
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