To tell you the truth, this episode of CSI: Miami is more of an outcry for desperate immigrants (in this case, from Cuba) wanting freedom in America masquerading as a detective story. Or the detective story places a spotlight on how desperate Cubans (immigrants from other countries lacking certain freedoms in America) will about do anything (rough it on turbulent waters at night in a drug-running boat; take a bullet in the leg hoping to earn rescue from the Coast Guard, a tourniquet doing little to keep the voluntary victim from dying) to get across onto Miami beach. A Cuban community stands up in protest as Caruso and Delaney must detain a kid who came across the boat and knows details pertinent to the investigation regarding a girl found in an inner tube who bled out. There's a boat discovered tied to the upper torso/arm of a Cuban man (a specific upside down flag tattoo provides this clue) found in a shark (!) with a secret passage uncovered by Horatio considered against the law (and obviously the place to hide drugs, tested by H, a hit for cocaine), and a bullet hole (later confirmed by H and Caleigh (Emily Proctor) to be from a Colt .45) in said chest of torso. The rest of the episode (finding the brother of the girl found dead by testing the tourniquet, going to a reliable source who can help the detectives identify the girl, testing bullets against each other for a match, looking for the boat, attempting to find the owner of the boat, etc.) is window-dressing for the message regarding the difficulties for passionate immigrants yearning to land on American shores for a new life, with H and Delaney's Megan Donner sympathetic to their cause...there's an especially emotionally potent scene involving H and Megan having to inform the parents of the dead girl that she didn't make it to their home alive.
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The Risk Wasn't Worth Lives
biorngm25 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Realistic story, Cubans fleeing to the U.S. in a boat hauling cocaine, not too exciting but well played. Bad weather interrupts the plans of the smuggler-captain, he picks the drugs to save and begins shooting the passengers. On board were related parties, all of which were trying to save themselves from the selfish captain.
Tragedy occurs within sight of shore, a sister dies of a gunshot wound and her brother arrives not knowing what happened to his sister. One of the other passengers was swallowed by a shark which prompted the investigation when fishermen hooked the same shark.
The CSI traces bullets from the captains gun to the torso found, the unfortunate sister dead in a raft, the gun in possession of the brother. Processing the confiscated boat leads to the cocaine residue in a secret hold; a note coded to travel by way of the next new moon.
The equipment is confiscated, the captain arrested, the brother given citizenship for his testimony, although heavy-hearted for it was his sister shot in the leg thanking the coast guard would pick her up giving her safe passage. Tragically that didn't work out, the coast guard never saw either of them.
Worth a watch but hardly the most entertaining story.
Tragedy occurs within sight of shore, a sister dies of a gunshot wound and her brother arrives not knowing what happened to his sister. One of the other passengers was swallowed by a shark which prompted the investigation when fishermen hooked the same shark.
The CSI traces bullets from the captains gun to the torso found, the unfortunate sister dead in a raft, the gun in possession of the brother. Processing the confiscated boat leads to the cocaine residue in a secret hold; a note coded to travel by way of the next new moon.
The equipment is confiscated, the captain arrested, the brother given citizenship for his testimony, although heavy-hearted for it was his sister shot in the leg thanking the coast guard would pick her up giving her safe passage. Tragically that didn't work out, the coast guard never saw either of them.
Worth a watch but hardly the most entertaining story.
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