Crime Wave (CSI episode)

Infobox Television episode| Title= Crime Wave
Series=
Season = 3
Episode = 7


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Airdate = November 22, 2004
Production = 307
Writer = Elizabeth Devine
Director = Karen Gaviola
Episode list =
Season list = Infobox CSI: Miami season 3 episode list

Crime Wave is the seventh episode in the of the popular American crime drama "". The episode was first aired on November 22, 2004.

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The 100-metre high tsunami begins hurtling towards the Florida coastline when part of the Canary Islands' Cumbre Vieja volcano collapses into the sea, precipitating a state of emergency in Miami-Dade county.

The incoming tidal wave causes mass panic and anxious residents converge on banks and supermarkets to secure money and supplies to see them through. In the car park of one home improvement store, beefy 35-year-old Eddie Caldwell is shot dead by a mysterious assailant. A local woman, Regina Cook, who popped into a nearby store to pick up some oranges, witnesses the attack and is prompty killed by the murderer.

The Miami-Dade Crime Lab battens down the hatches as the wave approaches and staff begin to transfer key evidence to trucks. But with two murders to solve, the primary CSIs are still on the job. On the ground near the bodies, Horatio finds several 5.7 x 28 mm rounds (the victims were shot with a 9mm handgun), and notes that that round is mainly used by the firm FN-Herstal for its P90 machine gun, a highly dangerous and illegal weapon. Tech Sam Belmontes finds greyhound hair on Eddie's body, and Horatio and Calleigh head to the dog track to snoop around. They confront one of the track workers, Manny Orantes, with a photo of the dead man. He immediately tries to escape, but Horatio catches him in time and cuffs him. Manny is clearly hiding something and, sure enough, in the maintenance shed, Horatio discovers a specially customised hurricane window. A quick call to Delko at the lab, and the window is confirmed as a match to those installed in the Golden Beach Bank and Trust.

Not all the CSIs can hang around to work the crime. Rookie Ryan Wolfe heads off to check on his elderly uncle, who lives alone. When he arrives at his uncle's apartment, Ryan discovers a woman in her fifties named Mona Daniels. She says she's the "neighbour". They then plan to leave to find Ryan's uncle, but glancing out the window, notice the tidal wave is about to hit.

With the wave's arrival imminent, Horatio and Delko hurry to the Golden Beach Bank, only to find they are too late. Two of the bank robbers are dead, their P90s beside them, and the third has escaped with the money. The bank manager's wife lies wounded on the floor. To make matters worse, the entire crime scene is about to be obliterated by a 100-metre high wall of water. Delko hurriedly shepherds the bank patrons into the vault and Horatio scoops up the injured woman. They dash for the vault as the tsunami hits and chaos ensues.

In the aftermath of the tidal wave, Horatio, Calleigh and Delko have their hands full investigating the two murders at the supermarket and the robbery of the Golden Beach Bank. Meanwhile, a landslide at a cemetery poses a challenge for Alexx and Ryan when it exposes the body of a recently murdered man. On the personal front, Horatio comes to believe that Yelina's boyfriend, IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler, has been physically abusing her and confronts his sister-in-law with the evidence.

Notes

*The episode was aired just 6 weeks before the Asia Tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004

Music

The music played over the end scene is Wicked Games by Chronic Future.

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