User Reviews

The opening features a big car crash between two mega-bucks autos, an Escalade and a Bentley.

From the Cadillac, the accident leaves one dead and two alive but in serious condition. The driver of the Bntley left the scene. It's up the CSI team to piece things together why this happened and find that missing driver. What was he hiding, that he (or she) had to take off? As it turns out, most of the show is dedicated to find out the truth about suspicious things involving the people who were in the Cadillac. There are lots of twists and turns in this episode.

Note: Basketball fans will be surprised to see Los Angeles Lakers star Pao Gasol guest-starring in this episode as "Victor Emparo." It's not hard to miss him: he's seven feet tall!

I usually watch CSI: Miami because the acting is terrible and the plots ridiculously funny. This was a beauty!

SPOILER ALERT!

A Cadillac Escalade (SUV/4WD) is driving along a suburban street when it swerves to avoid an alligator crossing the road - as you do in Florida.

Just as it is swerving, a (stolen) Rolls Royce is entering the same road into the same direction, from a side street. Just to clarify: both vehicles are travelling in the same direction at similar speeds.

The Cadillac has an unknown fault with its power steering and the driver cannot correct the swerve and skids into the rear of the Rolls, causing the death of both drivers.

The cause of the power steering failure?

The son of the (female) driver had hidden a small packet of marijuana near the Cadillac's firewall and as he was poking down the foil packet with a pocket knife, he accidentally slices the power steering hose!

This is an incredible knife because the power steering is located on the FRONT of the engine and the hoses travel directly down to the steering box. They do not go anywhere near the rear of the engine nor the firewall. Also, power steering hoses are robustly-tough, high-pressure hoses and cannot be nicked or sliced accidentally with a pocket knife.

Later, when 'Mr Wolfe" is removing the high-pressure, power steering hose, he goes under the passenger cabin of the Cadillac, yet - as I said before, the hoses are at the front of the engine bay. The only thing under the cabin is the exhaust, propeller shaft, hand-brake cable and fuel line.

And how did they discover the secreted stash of marijuana? The lights suspended in the engine bay created so much heat that they somehow managed to cook the grass leaves inside the foil! The Cadillac had been in a major accident so there would probably be broken fuel lines, spilled oils, etc., so the chance of a fire was exacerbated by these dangerous lights! Any sensible investigator would be using cool lighting like fluorescent or LED lights.

And why was a CSI involved in a traffic collision anyway? This was a job for a team of Serious Crash Unit professionals.

Finally, a Rolls Royce would not be so seriously damaged by a same- direction collision. And its driver would easily walk away from the minor bingle without a scratch - not death.

This showed the CSI team to be a complete bunch of clumsy idiots who had absolutely no idea what they were doing and who could not extrapolate the data, nor search for the correct information in the first place!

All-in-all, one of the silliest CSI: Miami's ever! I loved it!

(Gotta wait for the 'Horatio side-on look' and when he takes of his sunnies - DRINK!)