CSI: Miami--'One Of Our Own'

[CSI Files]

Synopsis:

Five Mala Noches are gunned down at a Miami mansion, but the situation gets much worse when Officer Aaron Jessop opens a cabinet and discovers booby trap with an armed grenade, which explodes, killing him. The pressure is on the lab on another front when FBI agents enter the lab, intent on finding the person who lifted $12,000 collected from the raid of the Mala Noche safe house from an evidence envelope. Everyone in the lab is under scrutiny, starting with Valera. The CSIs trace the bomb to a man named Carlos Santigo, whose last job was for Antonio Riaz, the Mala Noche boss responsible for the murder of Horatio's wife and Delko's sister, Marisol. Santigo admits to setting the bomb as his last job for Riaz, and Horatio sends him along with a threatening message for the Noche boss. Calleigh identifies the bullets used in the shooting as being Russian made, and Horatio gets Memmo Fierro, the man who shot Marisol on Riaz's orders, to admit that Riaz had been dealing with Rafik Ohmad, an Arab arms dealer.

The CSIs relate their handling of the Noche money to the FBI agents. Each CSI made his or her own opening into the envelope and sealed it with his or her own initials. Ryan is shocked when the FBI agents ask him about his eye problems, inquiring if he has keratitis. Ryan confronts Dan Cooper, suspecting the lab tech of being the mole, but Dan said it was a one time accident, a piece of information that slipped out over beers at a local bar. Tension mounts in the lab, and Delko warns Natalia Boa Vista that the Feds will soon be talking to her, but she quietly assures him they won't. He's shocked as the realization hits him: Natalia is the mole. Though she insists she only shared good information about the lab with the feds, the rest of the team shuns her.

Horatio confronts Ohmad, who supplied the Russian weaponry to Riaz. He admits to meeting with Riaz in the financial district, and surveillance tapes offer a shocking revelation: Riaz was in the area a few with a woman who turns out to be Marisol Delko. Riaz would occasionally sell drugs himself under the name Diego, and Marisol, ignorant of his true identity, apparently bought from him. Horatio is enraged, and calls the number Marisol had for Diego. Riaz boasts about killing Marisol, and vows more destruction. Horatio and Delko examine plastic wrap from Rafik's warehouse and find evidence it once housed a surface to air missile. Realizing Riaz has it, the CSIs track him to an airfield where he taking aim with the missile at an incoming plane. The CSIs stop him just in time and take him into custody.

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[Guest]

i so totaly hope they take Eva LaRue of out the series.She had no right to that to the lab.

 

[Top41]

I do wonder about Natalia's future with the lab. How can Horatio keep someone who basically snitched on the lab around? Even if she did spill only "good" information, she still did share lab secrets that she probably shouldn't have. But, if they do keep her around, the potential for conflict is pretty high, and that is always entertaining to watch.

 

[pizzapie]

^ However, especially in real life, they might not have an option. She's probably not getting paid by the Miami PD/crime lab, but by the federal grant, and if that's where the feds want it, they won't have an option.

 

[Top41]

^I figured the grant would come into play. If they try to boot Natalia, they might end up losing the grant too, and I'm sure they can't afford that. So it might be that they're in a situation where they have to work with her, which could make for some interesting drama.

 

[Sticks]

The writers are inconsistant on Natalia's role as being the mole. Earlier in the series when the lab is aware of a mole being present and Natalia is aware of this talk, why did she not report this back that the feds had a mole? If she is only reporting good things because she sees no malfesance, why not confide in Horatio, as in a previous season it was established he was above suspicion when a shipment of drugs for incineration was ambushed.

Also in this case, it was not Natalia who tipped of the feds about missing money as the summary of this episode here seems to indicate. Would she still be confident they were not going to question her? Anyway it was clear they were only going after those involved in the chain of custody of the money, so why think she would be grilled.

Also a minor point, the feds were inconsistant in the treatment of "suspects" I was surprised they did not put Valera in handcuffs the way they manhandled her. (The fact she did not count the cash I would have thought would have lead to her immediate suspension following with disciplinary action) The other CSI's like Calleigh were allowed to walk to the interview without being strong armed.