How to be Horatio Caine:
1. Purge from your wardrobe any color not appropriate for funerals.
2. Deepen your voice. If unable do naturally, make like Caruso and smoke cigars.
3. When conversing, stand at a 90 angle and avoid eye contact.
4. Remember; you are allowed only 2 real smiles, and you already used 1 on your wedding day.
5. When dating, the litmus test is to make sure your relationship makes others cringe: Brother's wife, Co-worker, Co-worker's sister are all good choices for you. A 2 decade age gap helps.
6. When you are falsely accused, never defend yourself.
7. Silhouette sunglasses must be on your person at all times.
8. Children and marginalized Latin women trust you.
9. Understand that anyone you love will die violently or start to hate you.
10. Actually go to confession after you've left parochial school.
11. Slump when you stand, but stalk with a coolness unequaled by any other mortal.
12. Stand up to your superiors in career-suicide moves.
13. They're just going to fry the murderers anyway, so you might as well just shoot them now.