Horatio decides to fake his own death in order to get the gangs with the bullets to come out of hiding. He involves Julia, Kyle, and Ryan.
Based on recent spoilers, I think he may have involved Jake as well (cause Frank would be too obvious). I don't think he involved Kyle anymore than maybe just letting him know that he's faking his death. I don't think he'd get Kyle to play the shooter. I think that job could possibly go to Julia out of all of them. We pretty much know Ryan wasn't there, so it can't be him. And I highly doubt it would be Kyle... so that leaves Julia and Jake. So the "shooter" has to be one of the two of them unless Horatio actually involved Stetler (which I somehow doubt, but it would be cool).
Here's what I'm thinking, Jake is going back undercover with the Crypt-something gang ... whatever they are called (according to spoilers). The gang has an initiation that the new member has to kill a cop... Jake, being the new member. Horatio knows this and tells Jake to shoot him (with a blank of course), which would help Horatio in his mission and help Jake with his undercover work in the gang. Horatio tells Julia what he's planning so she can later tell Kyle that Horatio isn't really dead. Then Horatio tells Ryan cause he wants one of his team members to know. This would cause all kinds of drama. I can see Calleigh being upset with Horatio, Ryan and Jake for not telling her that H wasn't dead. :lol: