( over radio ): Last night's severe thunderstorms caused damage to oceanographic buoys in the Florida straits.
The storms have dissipated, and the weather service...
I'm not working on my tan out here, fellas.
Ho, baby!
That's what I'm talking about!
( all whooping ) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me have it. Fish on!
Come on, baby.
Ain't no use in fighting.
( laughing ) Come on.
Yo!
It was nip and tuck there for a while.
( all laughing ) I think I'm a pretty strong guy but I'm telling ya, that sucker hit that line!
It was all over.
I'm struggling with it...
It's your fish, chief.
( chuckles ) Sure is gonna look pretty on my wall.
Just give it a good jab and enjoy the ride up.
MAN: Oh!
This all there is?
Yep. Rest of him's probably out there.
At least we have a hand.
So let me ask you a question.
You find human body parts in a shark is that murder?
It is when we're looking for lead.
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I think we're going to need a bigger body bag.
If anybody can find one, it's you, Alexx.
( chuckles ) You got that right.
All right, fellas.
You heard the man. Bag him.
My shark now.
I'm off to ruin a captain's day.
DONNER: Everything is nautical, I get it.
What I want to know is, did you mark the catch?
Ten foot tiger shark?
You bet your ass.
The shark is now property of the Miami Dade Crime Lab.
And by the way what kind of a global positioner is that?
I've got precise positioning if that's what you're asking.
"Precise positioning"? How'd you get that?
The government?
I got friends.
I called in a couple of favors.
Lucky for us.
You got Miami, Grand Bahamas, Cuba.
About 170 miles total distance.
We hooked in right here, 14 miles out.
About what time was that?
8:30 this morning.
Mm-hmm.
I shark fish. I used to shark fish all the time.
I've never gone out in the day.
Yeah, well, we got a late start.
There was a squall line pushing through.
We couldn't chum or lay out any lines till sunrise.
I'm gonna take this chart, if you don't mind.
Wait a minute.
First you take my client's shark then you take my chart?
What do I get?
You get a pass on your illegal GPS unit.
( grunts )
28 pounds, seven ounces.
Boy or a girl, Alexx?
Don't rush me.
Hmm. Gynecomastia.
Enlarged breast.
Would signify female, but could also be male.
No armpit hair but pronounced hair on the knuckles.
So what are you saying?
What I'm saying is, I'm not an anthropologist.
Could be a big woman or a small man.
Let's get your DNA.
Stippling and some GSR inside the wound.
The shot was fired at close range.
¿Que Fue?
Lovely. I just got a look at that tiger shark in the cooler.
Liberal eaters, like Speedle.
They'll eat anything as long as it's alive.
Alexx?
I heard.
Dermal ecchymosis around the teeth marks.
Capillaries inside the deltoid muscle are hemorrhagic.
Blood was circulating at the time of the injury.
That was like ringing the dinner bell.
Two thirds of the tiger sharks brain is dedicated to processing scent.
Alexx, how long do you think the victim was in the shark's stomach?
Well, I'll have to test the levels of regurgitative enzymes.
Yeah, sharks regurgitate anything that they can't digest.
Hmm. Like human bones.
And metal.
Would you give me a times eight on this tattoo?
Interesting tatt.
Hmm.
Upside-down flag.
Yes, that is the international symbol for distress, isn't it?
And note the fish.
It is the ancient symbol for Christian resistance.
Catholic leaders in Cuba also used it for the anti-Castro rebellion.
Which would mean that our vic was a political prisoner.
Yup, and it also means that we could have a political mess.
If he was living on U.S. soil he would have been processed at Krome Detention.
And his prints would be on file.
But if he was on his way here we've got nothing.
He was making his way, though.
He probably wasn't swimming.
Boat?
That would be my guess. Speed?
What have you got?
Well... he was from Cuba and he was making a freedom run.
Okay, hang on. You're way ahead of us.
Well, based on where the shark was caught and simple geography it's a straight shot from Matanzas or Villa Clara to Miami.
You know what that means?
Elian.
Our, uh, victim wasn't on the boat alone.
So, Speed, call the Coast Guard make a friend, and take Eric with you.
Aye, aye.
You got something for me?
I got a question.
Shoot.
How old are you?
( chuckles ): Hmm. 45.
Caliber round, right?
See the rifling characteristics?
I do. Now I've got a question for you.
Shoot.
Do you think that's a Colt?
I do.
So do I.
This guy was in a hurry.
Are you kidding? Look at that boat.
How are you doing? Eric Delko Tim Speedle, CSI Miami.
Martin, U.S. Coast Guard.
We got your call.
Got four birds out there doing coastline patrol.
Got a chopper on an insurance job called it in.
What kind of boat are you guys looking for?
The kind that has blood in it.
I got tracks.
Boat's missing it's hull identification number.
Freedom run gone wrong.
This didn't work too good.
Inhaler.
Empty.
Artifacts and abandonment.
What do you think, Tim?
Feel suspicious?
Hey, Speedle.
What do you think you can do with this?
What, here or back at the lab?
This boat's got a filling.
Oh, yeah? What caliber?
Well...
That's for Calleigh.
Hmm.
Hmm. This could be our crime scene.
That could be fish blood.
And that... is for Megan.
Bullet from the torso on the left.
Bullet from the boat on the right.
Two hearts beat as one.
Both .45 caliber classic copper jacketed six lands and groves with a left-hand twist.
I've got a twist for you.
The blood from the boat human.
Matches our torso, who was definitely XY. Male.
But John Doe was on that boat.
Where's the twist?
Flesh tissue on the bullet Speedle recovered from the boat? XX.
We... have another victim out there, ladies.
Let's hope he didn't sand down the impression.
Yeah, if he was a pro, we got nothing.
I'm gonna try a little heat separation-- see if I can't find something under the peel.
Sounds like a good idea.
This boat looks like it went through Hurricane Andrew.
This boat has enough horsepower in it to have outrun Andrew.
Maybe we're running at night.
Never saw the squall coming.
Speed!
Yeah?
What does it say on the stern?
Luna Nueva.
Moon new.
It's "new moon."
Moon cycle, gentlemen.
It goes from first quarter to full, then three-quarters to new.
Which means no moon.
I'm out.
( squeak ) What was that?
What?
CAINE: Do what you just did again.
( squeaking ) Well, that's a sound that doesn't belong on a boat.
Walls like that take a lot of work to build.
There's only one reason to build a hold like that, my friend and that is to stash your stash.
You can run with at least 500 keys in there.
DELKO: It's like Capone's vault-- empty.
Those are your eyes talking.
Look harder.
( Delko chuckling )
We got something.
That's cocaine.
Why fill in the number?
Why not just sand it all the way down?
I don't know.
Maybe it's a guy thing.
What? They'll add on or cover up but they won't mess up the chassis?
You know what? You're scaring me.
Okay, we manipulate the pixels in gray scale and...
The hull was built in 1972.
Do you want to do this?
No.
It's a guy thing.
It's just that Megan wanted it ten minutes ago.
You beep me?
Was it 411?
Yeah.
Was it 411?
Yeah.
Means I've got info.
Your hull ID number...
got us a registration and a name.
Captain Robert Morton.
Talked to the marina manager.
Did he give you anything?
A migraine.
Said as long as the Captain's check clears every month he's the second cousin to Peter Rabbit.
So he knows nothing.
You got it.
Find a seat, get comfortable.
I want you to watch every frame for the last two days.
See if the Captain shows his face.
Did, uh, did you clear this with H?
'Cause I'm supposed to be working on the note.
Don't worry about Horatio.
It's unclear if I'm working for him or I'm working for you.
You work for the victim.
( cell phone rings ) Donner.
Where's Horatio?
Be right there.
Cyrillic lettering.
The Russians have been forever dumping their second-rate surplus on their island friends.
And in this case, we're talking about Cuba.
This girl's been shot in the leg.
Very close to the femoral artery.
Bled out.
Our female bleeder?
Can you see an exit wound?
No.
Interesting tourniquet.
DONNER: Tied tight.
Who tried to save her?
Injury like this, she would've been dead in under 30 minutes.
There's no evidence of sunburn or exposure.
CAINE: She didn't float here all the way, did she?
DONNER: She was on a boat.
Our drug boat?
Could be.
Take a look at that.
You know what that is?
La Caridad del Cobre.
The Virgin of Charity.
And the patron saint of Cuba.
I've seen these before.
Mm-hmm.
Families in Miami send them to their relatives as a good luck piece for the journey.
That's right, and that 90 miles of open ocean will take that good luck away from you in two seconds.
This is made custom, by hand.
Old school...
with a palm push graver.
Tonal variations...
there's only one or two guys in Little Havana who do this Bulino work.
And not one of them is going to help us with this.
Wet foot, dry foot.
All a Cuban immigrant has to do is touch U.S. soil and they're here.
Unless, of course the Coast Guard picks you up out there on the water and sends you back to Fidel.
If she made it to dry land she'd have gone through 72 hours of processing and walked with a green card.
She almost made it.
She didn't count on getting shot.
Ready to play politics?
( chuckling ) MAN: Bueno, ¿quien juega?
¿De que tenemos este honor?
Pero quiero saber...
( chuckling ) Buenos dias, señores.
Señor Caine.
Rolando, por favor.
Gracias.
¿A que le debemos este honor?
Basilio...
bodies are washing up on shore.
They wash up all the time.
The government doesn't care about a balsero.
Balsera...
in this case.
Nice work.
She was wearing it.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Basilio...
the last thing this town needs is to blow up and you know that.
I need your help on this.
What's so special about this girl?
She was shot to death.
This necklace can only get us so far.
All it has to do is get us inside.
Horatio, please.
So, Señor Caine Señorita Donner, are you police officers?
Well, actually, señor...
we're Crime Scene Investigators.
And I'd like to show you something to see if it has any meaning to you.
The price of freedom for Cuban children is high but worth it.
Ramon Grau.
Spent two decades in Fidel's prisons for arranging safe passage for thousands of Cuban kids to the States.
I know who he is.
14,048 children to be exact.
You're one of Ramon's kids.
BOY: Tia.
Who's that?
My nephew Pedro.
Can I speak to him?
We promised you five minutes.
It's been five minutes.
Finito. No mas.
Hemos terminado.
Basilio Hemos terminado.
Basilio I still need somebody to come down to the morgue to identify the body.
I will make all arrangements personally.
Mm.
Give me a second.
Yo perdi a mi esposo recien.
Lo siento.
I'm sorry, too.
Her name was Elena.
She was my niece.
Por favor.
We should go.
So sorry.
Gracias.
( cries )
Horatio.
Yes?
Those are my people in there.
I meant no disrespect, Basilio.
This family is in mourning.
And this is not an interrogation.
We were up front about our intentions.
You cannot go to the well and drink it dry.
We need to speak to that boy.
And we'll get a warrant if we have to.
Us Cubans are a proud people.
¿Que no?
Nos vemos amigo.
Gracias.
Buenas tardes.
Horatio, heard you hit some kind of dead end.
You heard right.
Just finished the post on the girl.
I want to hear about it. Hang on one second.
Calleigh, the bullet?
I'm working on it.
Calleigh, the bullet?
I'm working on it.
Let me know.
Who community beeped?
That was me.
How are we coming along on the note?
Uh, we're not coming.
What do you mean?
I pulled Speedle off the note for the surveillance footage.
My call, not his.
Finish up on that, get back on the note.
Any DNA on that rope?
In the works.
Let me know.
Eric, roam and assist, please.
You got it.
Okay, Alexx, talk to me.
The girl...
Her name is Elena De Soto.
Any GSR or stippling?
Yes, and there was something strange inside the wound track.
Found traces of a synthetic-based material.
Not a match to her clothing.
It's at Trace.
Is that it?
It's at Trace.
Is that it?
She had significant levels of albuteral in her system.
She was asthmatic.
We found an inhaler on the boat.
My guess?
Bronchospasms triggered by some kind of stress.
My guess is she overmedicated.
Her heart went into dysrhythmia-- a condition that doesn't go well with a severed femoral.
The tourniquet didn't buy her a lot of time.
Okay.
Good.
( knocking on door ) Come on in.
You ought to give me the name of your decorator.
Well, it's just a phone and a desk when we're not in the field.
Any word on the Captain?
The detectives still have it, we're waiting.
What do you got?
DNA results from the skin cells we collected off Elena De Soto's rope.
Somebody else tied that tourniquet.
Well, we knew that.
No, we know that now.
There's significant commonality in the markers.
You think it's a family member?
Maybe the guy in the back bedroom.
What about a first cousin?
Closer.
I'm thinking brother.
Hey, Calleigh listen, I was wondering if maybe I could crash at your place tonight.
I'm trying to keep a low profile and H has been stirring up the neighborhood.
You know how he is, he's like a dog with a bone.
Yeah, well, he needs to learn how to let go.
Cause this girl's family doesn't care about solving the crime.
Their niece is already dead.
They're thinking we got to protect the living.
I can't say I blame them.
( typing )
On the couch.
No midnight tiptoe. Deal?
( chuckles ): Deal.
Check this out.
Bullet on the left-- Elena De Soto's leg.
Bullet on the right-- from John Doe torso.
They're twins.
They're triplets.
They also match the bullet you guys pulled out of the Luna Nueva.
It must've been some massacre on that boat.
Did you parents make that journey?
Actually, we all did.
I was in my mother's belly.
Yo.
( monotone ): Yo.
What's this?
Megan.
( laughs ) Still?
Yep.
And you're watching it in real time?
You see that rental truck there next to the Luna Nueva slip?
It's been parked there for six hours and 23 minutes.
You see the driver?
Not a cup of coffee...
doesn't have to take a leak.
Nothing.
What's he waiting around for?
If H is right, that hull can hold 500 kilos of blow.
That's a lot of reasons to wait around.
500 reasons, gentlemen.
Speed, get me in closer.
All right, zoom in on those back tires.
Now does that tire look bald to you or not?
Mm-hmm.
Let's find this truck.
( clears throat ) Yes, I am up on the current software.
I didn't say anything.
Oh, you don't have to.
Interesting... material I found in Elena's wound track is olefin.
Which is a synthetic fiber.
What makes it interesting is that she was wearing a cotton dress.
John Doe was wearing olefin.
Yes, he was.
Which give us...
A possible series of events.
Let's say John Doe was shot first from point blank range.
The bullet penetrated his shirt and some of the material from his shirt was sucked back into the barrel.
That means that the next round fired would carry that material into Elena's thigh, right?
We've already got a match on all three bullets putting John Doe and Elena on that boat.
The epithelials from the tourniquet tell us someone closely related to her...
Someone closely related, like her brother Pedro.
He could've tied that tourniquet.
Close relatives travel together.
A DNA match makes him a material witness.
And that is a warrant we can get.
( yelling )
Hey.
The only place in the country you have to negotiate with the community before you serve the warrant.
( crowd yelling )
( knocking on door ) Hola, Pedro.
Me llamo Adell Sevilla.
Estos señores aqui van a revisar tu cuarto.
Por favor, acompaname.
We can just ask for a swab.
Hold the phone.
Colt .45.
Let's take him in.
¿Que paso?
CAINE: Detectives found the rental truck and the captain at Miami International.
Both are in custody.
Coke wrapping must have picked up some blood when it was being loaded off of the boat.
Locard's theory. Primary transfer.
Kind of like going to the bathroom.
You can never wipe enough.
Horatio...
I like that tone.
That's an affirmative on the .45.
It's the source of all three bullets.
Okay.
Doesn't that mean we have the guy?
Well, you tell me.
You make a run for freedom you shoot your sister along the way and then you try to save her life.
See, this is why I like ballistics.
It's an exact science.
Mm.
( pager beeping )
( pops )
Just takes a sec.
( typing ) The software digitizes the diluted ink pattern.
Extrapolates a reversal probability, estimating an image of the original writing.
( mouse clicking ) SPEEDLE: NM28-30.
But does it crack the code?
Yeah, it just gives you the puzzle; it doesn't solve it.
Got to crack the code.
¿Que pasa?
Why start shooting?
Stay with me for a minute.
Okay.
The shoes, the hairbrushes, the glasses, the clothing...
We've evidence there were at least 12 people on that boat.
Could've been more.
Who we do know about is Captain Bob, Elena, Pedro, John Doe and an unidentified female gunshot victim.
Anybody else would have drowned in the Gulf Stream never to be seen again, right?
Average a 150 pounds per person that's 1,800 pounds, all near the stern.
A thousand pounds of coke in the right hull.
This boat's center of gravity would have been way off.
Seven-foot seas, they were taking on water in the fishhold.
That would panic the captain, wouldn't it?
He had a decision to make.
Save his passengers or save his drugs.
Hey! Get off the boat or we're all going down!
So, if he said jump, would you?
If he had a gun to my head.
Let's go put one to his.
BOB: My boat can't be missing if I know where it is.
Where do you think it is?
I got blindsided by a storm a couple of nights ago.
Had to ditch it south of Matheson Hammock.
We towed it for you.
It's out back.
Evidence in a criminal investigation.
Somebody stole it?
Captain Bob, are you aware that it's a crime in the state of Florida to build a secret compartment in a boat or a car even if the compartment is empty?
What's the fine?
For trafficking?
I don't know the words to that song you want me to sing.
You own a gun?
Yeah.
Where is your gun?
Someone stole it off my boat a couple of months ago.
We have your gun and we now have your truck.
We matched your gun to bullets we found in two dead bodies.
We have evidence of pure cocaine in your boat and your rental truck.
I think you were trafficking cocaine into South Florida, got greedy and picked up some immigrants for extra cash.
The thing that you didn't count on was the storm.
Everybody off!
Everybody get off or we're all going down!
I want a lawyer.
My dime.
Ah, Captain Bob should have Pedro's lawyer.
Might have half a chance.
Marin Diaz? The Cuban Johnnie Cochran.
Mm. How'd he get him on?
Care to venture a guess?
Basilio?
Ha, there's debt in every favor.
Wish me luck.
Mm-hmm.
Gentlemen...
may I?
Now, Pedro...
( paper rustling ) The gun that we found in your room has tied you to two murders.
Possession doesn't make my client a killer.
We also have your skin cells on the tourniquet you used...
Allegedly used.
Allegedly used to save your sister's life.
Now, are you going to rebut everything I'm saying?
Yes.
Excellent.
Pedro...
habla me.
You know what that is, don't you?
Now, it was never door-to-door service.
Pedro...
The way it works is, you get dropped off as soon as you see the lights of Miami but that night there was a storm, wasn't there?
And The Captain's boat was taking on water.
He took out a gun and ordered everybody off.
You refused, and he started shooting.
I'm taking my client out of here until there's a formal investigation in place.
Whatever you want.
Pedro...
I know that you tried to save your sister's life.
Down!
I know you took the rope out of the inner tube and made the tourniquet, but it didn't work and she bled to death before she got ashore isn't that true?
Pedro, that's it.
We're leaving, Pedro.
No!
We are not leaving.
I shot her.
Why?
We were floating in the water for hours.
Then we saw the boat.
( boat engine roaring, then stops ) ( gasps ) ( whispering ) ( gasping ) ( speaking Spanish ) The Coast Guard?
I wanted to get her on that boat.
Your law says... if you need medical attention you have to be taken to a hospital.
You were strong enough to swim ashore, she wasn't.
You shot her in the leg knowing that if she got picked up she could stay in America.
I did what I had to do.
( gasping ) ( speaking Spanish )
( boat engine roaring )
( yelling ) ( gasping ) ( whimpering )
( speaking Spanish )
( panting )
I did what I had to do.
CAINE: The Coast Guard never saw them.
DONNER: Why'd he keep the gun?
CAINE: Sharks.
So what did the State Attorney offer him?
Testimony for citizenship.
Did he take it?
With a heavy heart.
We cracked the code.
NM 28 dash 30.
New Moon.
28th to the 30th.
End of the month.
No light.
Here or Havana.
Perfect for smuggling.
Freedom is right, though, isn't it, under any moon?
Well said.
Mm.
Good night.
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