CSI Miami Episode # 620 “Down to the Wire”

(3 votes, aver­age: 4.33 out of 5)
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It was great to see Tom Sizemore out of jail and act­ing. He looked great with his dyed hair, and with a lit­tle weight. Hopefully his meth addic­tion will remain under con­trol. I also hope they find a way to make his sleazy PI a reoc­cur­ring char­ac­ter, he was fully enjoy­able as a villain.

There were actu­ally some very accu­rate aspects to this episode:

1) The GSR on the shoot­ers hand would in fact be removed by sim­ply wash­ing his hands. I was sur­prised they pointed that out.

2) The bul­let hole in the wind­shield of the car being far­ther up the wind­shield than one would expect. I’m not sure if it wasn’t over exag­ger­ated, but there is a slight down­ward deflec­tion of pro­jec­tiles when they per­fo­rate lam­i­nated wind­shield glass.

There was one aspect I wasn’t sure about:

1) The GSM (gun shot mist) test uti­liz­ing liq­uid nitro­gen lead­ing to photo lumi­nes­cent anti­mony and bar­ium. Never heard of this, and I’m not the only firearm exam­iner who hasn’t. I’ll have to keep an eye out for a paper on this technique.

The part of the show that even my wife laughed at:

1) When Det. Sgt. Tripp picked up the suspect’s Beretta pis­tol with­out gloves on. My wife said “At least on the Vegas show they are pretty good about wear­ing gloves.”

2) The high-tech see-through com­puter screens now in the crime scene vans, let alone the super crazy multi-touch table top com­put­ers they have in their lab.

The part of the show that dis­ap­pointed me the most was the lack of Lt. Horatio Caine. Him and his patented way of deliv­er­ing cheesy lines is what makes this show stand out from the other CSI fla­vors. See what I mean: