A masked raider flies in through the window with a gun and bullets rage. The security outside the door, the way he just casually opened and closed the door again when he saw what was happening, surprised he didn't get shot. Did he not call for help? The woman tries to reach into her bag but fails. After he exits through the window with the takings, everyone gets up except for the movie producer. It's assumed the chandelier fell on his head, but this wasn't COD.
Walter (Omar Miller)notices the glass is in his wound so he was shot first. ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds the bullet left through his neck and is an exit wound. The entrance wound can't be found and Calleigh (Emily Procter) notices he has blood on the side of his DB. The entrance wound is through his hip and Calleigh can't find the bullet in the room, come on she's meant to be a gun expert and couldn't figure out where the bullet was lodged. The DB was Benjamin Paxton (Kip Gilman). Outside, Tripp (Rex Linn) tries to keep back the crowd and has words with a so-called photographer (he looked suspicious) he shouts out Isiah Stiles (Aldis Hodge) when he sees him. Isiah's arm is bleeding and he pulls the bullet out of his arm even before ME Tom has a chance to examine him.
Upstairs Horatio (David Caruso) searches the others and the woman's bag reveals a gun Evelyn Bowers (Drea De Matteo) was hoping the robber would turn up as she wanted to avenge her son's assault. Kevin is a gambler and was struck by the gun at another game as he tried to stop him from stealing the money. He suffers from memory problems as a result. She took out a second mortgage and paid off Joey Ranzone (Terry Maratos) to let her sit in on the game.
Ryan (Jonathan Togo) examines the shattered glass from the CS, it was tempered glass so it shouldn't have shattered. The glass was weakened as there are marks on it, indicating it was tampered with. Thus the thief had an accomplice who helped him inside the room. Diamond can cut glass and so can ceramic. They think of Jason Huntsman, (Ben Hollingsworth) the actor and his glasses were ceramic. His glasses don't match. Though he was guilty of being obnoxious.
Calleigh and Ryan head back to string the bullets trajectory and one string leads to the air vent, here Ryan finds some sort of markings inside. The ventilation grate is also dented so the gun was pointed through it. The playing cards are analyzed which shows they've been marked. There's no match to the glasses since special lenses would be needed to read the cards. Walter finds Evelyn's driving licence photo shows her with brown eyes, not blue. She's made to remove her contacts. Evelyn becomes another helpless and hapless Vic for Horatio to help and especially since her son turns up to post bail for her. Horatio drives him home and sees how he struggles to remember and uses sticky notes. The house is devoid of furniture.
The red mark found in the vent isn't blood but ink and the two triangle shapes could be a tattoo. Calleigh seeks Delko's (Adam Rodriguez) help and he finds the tattoo belongs to the Haileah King's gang. Trip tells Delko the man he's looking for is Carl Raines, (Neto DePaula Pimenta) he's involved in high end crimes. Delko and Natalia (Eva La Rue) seek him out and see him leave yet they never think about how the suspect will try to evade capture, as he shoots at a policeman. Delko opens fire and shoots him down, his dying words are that he was hired to kill Paxton. A search of his truck reveals Delko finding a memory stick between the seat. This stick contains raw instrumentals of Isiah's new album. Carl was Isiah's bodyguard and tried to blackmail him, but Isiah released the album on the Net the next day.
Joey turns up for more money from Kevin as Horatio arrives to make him return the money and he also gets Joey to talk. Isiah wanted Paxton at the game and tried to pay him with one of his diamond rings. Joey only deals in cash. Horatio wants him to give back everything he took from Kevin, or he'll have to deal with Horatio. More threats on Horatio's part, that was missing thus far this season. Isiah is questioned again and Natalia checks out his rings. One of the diamond ones still has some traces of glass. He was the inside man.
Isiah admits he wanted to get even with Paxton as he turned him down for a movie role, after he sunk his money into making the soundtrack. "Reputation is everything" in this business. Isaiah didn't know about Carl but he set up the robber to rake the fall for Paxton. This being the man with the camera at the beginning, Alonzo (Jack Guzman). It was unbelievable he still kept all the items he used for the robbery in his car. See another case of the criminal remaining at the CS in order to blend in as an innocent bystander.
Kevin finds all the money at home and Horatio watches outside. When Evelyn sees Alonzo she can only slap him and hopes he pays for what he did. Look another new lab tech, Samantha (Taylor Cole) from the nightshift and is pretty pally with Walter,where he's known as "Teddy Bear." Don't let the other CSIs hear that, he'll never live that down. A shame Walter resorted to using Horatio's tactics in threatening Isiah if he doesn't give up Alonzo. "Horatio mode" does not suit and Walter is much better at his job than that.
This episode of CSI:Miami was like you've seen it all before. Not just in the guest stars, with Drea De Matteo from The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives, who wasn't that remarkable; playing a mother who once again Horatio must instinctively help. Also Taylor Cole, Sam's (Jared Padalecki) first love, after losing Jess in Supernatural, in season 1's Provenance. Yet another Supernatural guest Aldis Hodge who stabbed and killed Sammy in the season 2 eps All Hell Breaks Loose! As well as being in Leverage. He must have fit right in at the poker table.
This ep also reminded me of an earlier CSI:Miami episode dating back to season 4.7 Felony Flight, where Delko finds a CD in the CD player in a car (again!) made by Brian (David Anders) which is dismissed as being awful. When his music is rejected, he hired a man to scare the producer and that's all he was meant to do.
Finn (Elisabeth Shue) in CSI 12.17 Trends With Benefits also mentions the suspect coming back to the CS and standing in the crowd and so she takes photos of the crowd gathered there. CSI:NY 7.5 Out of the Sky, involved a robbery at an apartment and thieves open fire. An inside man was also involved.
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