CSI Miami Episode # 701 “Ressurection”

Finally the sum­mer break is over, and we get back to the CSI Miami cliff-hanger that left us won­der­ing if Horatio was dead. From the episode title we under­stand that Horatio is appar­ently Christ-like. Something like on the third minute he rose again…

Let’s just say things turned out almost exactly as we expected.

The worst part of the episode was the nec­es­sary break­ing of the usual for­mula. That is no corny Horatio line imme­di­ately before the break to the open­ing theme song.

Now look­ing at the foren­sic aspects:

1) Eric noticed that someone’s reflec­tion was in Horatio’s pool of blood…in a dig­i­tal photo on someone’s cell phone.

Now thank­fully they didn’t do what I feared they were going to try and do, which was some­how dig­i­tally enhance the photo to dis­cover who the shooter was. Although my wife scoffed at the ban­dage being rec­og­niz­able enough to war­rant pulling in an ATF agent for questioning.

They SHOULD have done one of their amaz­ing two minute DNA analysis-es, but it got the plot mov­ing I guess.

2) Horatio was shot on the upper chest with a rifle, and the bul­let proof vest stopped the bullet.

Now the loca­tion of where the shot needed to be made (based on where the blood packet was attached) excluded the pos­si­bil­ity of a trauma plate being present. So we are just look­ing at the pro­tec­tive power of “Kevlar” type fibers. I couldn’t tell what cal­iber the rifle was, so if it was some low pow­ered rifle designed to cham­ber a hand­gun car­tridge, it’s cer­tainly pos­si­ble. But almost any rifle car­tridge would have defeated that vest. Heck, I own a hand­gun that would prob­a­bly defeat that vest in that location.

3) A gen­eral com­ment about CSI shows in gen­eral. Why is it every sin­gle speck of blood in the world results in a CODIS hit within min­utes of the sam­ple bring found? Seriously, they need to throw real­ity a bone every once in a while and get a “no hit” result. They can match it later to a sus­pect, that’s fine. But con­trary to the show’s writ­ers (and the wishes of some police/government offi­cials), not EVERYONE’s DNA pro­file is in CODIS.

Well that’s it for the CSI Miami sea­son pre­mier. We even­tu­ally got our corny Horatio line, but it doesn’t have the same punch unless it’s imme­di­ately fol­lowed by that scream and the theme song. Maybe The Soup’s Joel McHale can explain it to us this weekend.