CSI: MIAMI
1X07:  BREATHLESS
ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS:  11/04/2002
TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD

Written by STEVEN MAEDA & GWENDOLYN PARKER
Directed by CHARLIE CORRELL

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SUMMARY:  Horatio, Speedle and Calleigh investigate the death of a male dancer 
found the day after a cupcake party.  Megan and Delko investigate a dead body on 
a boat.
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CSI:  MIAMI
1X07:  BREATHLESS
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COLD OPEN:

[EXT. VARIOUS MIAMI CITY LIGHTS (STOCK) -- NIGHT]  



[EXT. STARR RESIDENCE -- POOLSIDE - NIGHT]

(There's a women's party going on poolside.  Camera moves around the pool, 
around the dancing women and scantily clad men - and heads for the pink-covered 
cabana where a blonde-haired woman sits in the chair getting a lap dance from a 
stripper.)

NIKKI OLSON:  Yeah, baby, that is hot!
NIKKI OLSON:  Oh, yeah!

(The crowd of women standing around her laugh and applaud.  Holding a glass of 
vodka, she looks at the stripper.)  

NIKKI OLSON  All right, I got a little game for you, baby.

(She puts the glass between her legs and pushes her dress up.)

(The stripper kneels down, grabs the glass with his mouth and swallows the vodka 
in one gulp.  The women standing around watching go wild.)

(The stripper removes the glass and looks at the woman.)

NIKKI OLSON:  How'd you like that?

(She caresses his cheek with the palm of her hand.)

CUT TO:



[EXT. STARR RESIDENCE -- POOLSIDE - MORNING]  

(The worker removes the lights from around the tree.  He rolls the line of 
lights only to find that it's caught under the cabana.  He tugs and tugs.  
Finally he gives it one good pull.  The line jars free exposing a man's foot.)  

(The worker takes a step back in surprise.)

CUT TO:



[EXT. STARR RESIDENCE -- POOLSIDE - MORNING - LATER]  

(Det. Adell Sevilla steps out of the house and heads for the cabana.  Horatio 
follows.  Officers litter the back yard.)  

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  We got a looker.  Twenty-two years old.  Name's Noel Peach.  
He's a college student.

HORATIO:  Do we know why he was up here last night?

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  Well, you know, some sort of private party.

HORATIO:  Not private anymore, is it?  Any sign of what killed him?

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  I was hoping you could tell me.

(They reach the dead, naked body strategically covered by the pink cabana cloth.  
Horatio kneels down.)

HORATIO:  Well ... I guess we can't rule out exposure.

FADE TO
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ROLL TITLE CREDITS



FADE IN.

[EXT. VARIOUS MIAMI CITY (STOCK) -- DAY]  



[EXT. STARR RESIDENCE -- POOLSIDE - DAY]

(Alexx looks over the body as Horatio kneels nearby and watches.)  

ALEXX:  According to his liver temp he died sometime between five and seven this 
morning.

HORATIO:  Hmm.  No sign of trauma or obvious injury.

(He sees something, reaches out and takes a tape lift of the white substance on 
the victim's mouth.)  

HORATIO:  Look at this white substance around his mouth.

ALEXX:  Drugs?

HORATIO:  Wouldn't be the first OD at a Coconut Grove Party, would it?

(Behind them, we see Calleigh also working on a different part of the scene.)  

ALEXX:  Substance on his genitals.  Could be semen.

(She finds an open condom wrapper near the body.)  

ALEXX:  Also found this -- condom wrapper.  At least he was careful.

(She hands the wrapper to Horatio who looks at it.)  

HORATIO:  And busy.

(Horatio puts the condom wrapper aside.  He picks up a strand of several hairs 
found on the victim's chest.)  

HORATIO:  I have a number of different hair samples here.  I'm thinking female.

CALLEIGH:  I've got something.

(Quick close-up of:  Several dead mosquitoes.)

CALLEIGH:  Culex quinquefasciatus.

HORATIO:  Mosquitoes.  Mosquitoes are attracted to circulating blood and carbon 
monoxide from breathing, which means our friend here was alive when he got bit, 
doesn't it?

CALLEIGH:  Meaning we might find traces of any drugs that he took.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.  

CALLEIGH:  I'm bagging you guys.

HORATIO:  Speed.

(Speedle appears from just outside the cabana holding up a woman's lacy bra by 
the straps.)

SPEEDLE:  I don't know what the latin name for this is.

CALLEIGH:  (suppresses a smile)  No such luck.  Roman women wore leather straps.

(Calleigh steps out of the cabana.)  

SPEEDLE:  Must have been some hell of a party.

ALEXX:  Speaking of straps ... 

(Horatio leans forward toward the body to look at the bruising around the 
victim's wrist.)  

HORATIO:  Ligature marks.

(Calleigh walks back into the cabana and kneels next to Alexx.)  

SPEEDLE:  You think bondage?

CALLEIGH:  Seems contradictory.  I mean, what kind of stud likes to be tied up?

HORATIO:  Unless we've got it backwards, ladies and gentlemen, and our friend 
Noel here wasn't the predator ... he was the prey.

(Horatio stands up.)

CUT TO:



[INT. STARR RESIDENCE -- DAY]

(The women from the party are milling about the room as Speedle takes samples 
from them.  In the back, Adell Sevilla talks with a woman.  Horatio stands near 
the table with his kit open.  He puts on a pair of gloves.  A woman sits in the 
chair in front of him.)

HORATIO:  Tough way for a night to end, huh?

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  I almost didn't come.  This was my first time.

HORATIO:  Your first time?  For what?

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  A cupcake party.

HORATIO:  Cupcake party?  Care to explain that?

(Horatio walks up the woman to take a sample from her.)

SHORT TIME CUT TO:  



[INT. STARR RESIDENCE -- DAY]

(Nikki Olson sits in the chair in front of Horatio.)

NIKKI OLSON:  Cupcake-- it's, um... well, it's kind of hard to describe.  
Basically an environment where women are in charge.  Get together and celebrate 
our sexuality.

HORATIO:  Would you say that that celebration includes male entertainment like 
Noel Peach?

NIKKI OLSON:  Yes, there were quite a few male dancers here. 

(He notices the color of her hair.)

(Quick flash to:  Close-up of the strands of hair found on the victim's chest 
earlier.  End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Would you describe the entertainment, please?

NIKKI OLSON:  It was harmless, really.

(Quick flashback to:  [THE PARTY - NIGHT]  Noel Peach drops his shirt to the 
floor as he dances for Nikki.  End of flashback.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Harmless.  A little harmless lap dance followed by some harmless sex.

NIKKI OLSON:  Cupcake isn't about having sex.  It's about taking it back.

HORATIO:  Fair enough.

CUT TO:



[INT. STARR RESIDENCE --  NEXT ROOM - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Melissa Starr, owner of the home, picks up the tulip petals from the table.  
Horatio walks into the room and sees her.)  

HORATIO:  I do that, too.  I'm always picking up the things people leave behind.  
This is your home.  It was your party.

MELISSA STARR:  It is.

HORATIO:  I must admit that I find cupcake to be an interesting concept, but I 
don't understand it.  You don't have sex at the end of the evening.  So what do 
you do?

MELISSA STARR:  Don't you think that there's something ... freeing about just 
stimulating your senses and leaving it at that?

HORATIO:  Sure, that's possible.  But when people get stimulated, they get 
territorial.  That's human nature.  And that can be dangerous.  Your party have 
rules?

MELISSA STARR:  That's the great thing about cupcake.  (She picks up the vase 
full of tulips.)  There are no rules.  (She heads out of the room.)  Excuse me.

HORATIO:  Sure.

(Melissa Starr leaves.)

(Speedle walks into the room.)

SPEEDLE:  So, let me get this straight-- everybody gets together for sex and 
then nobody has it.  Everybody knows what goes on at an orgy.  

(Horatio listens to Speedle and notices two women talking with each other.  One 
appears to be comforting the other.)

SPEEDLE:  I mean, you can add all kinds of weird little party favors - 

(He turns and sees Melissa Starr outside putting the discarded tulip leaves into 
the planter where other flowers are growing.)  

SPEEDLE:  ... cupcakes, weird ingredients -- an orgy's an orgy.  But Noel Peach 
was the one that got screwed.

(Adell walks up to Melissa Starr.)

DET. ADELL SEVILLA:  We're going to need you inside.

HORATIO:  In more ways than one.

(Horatio slips his sunglasses on.  He watches as the coroners wheel the gurney 
with the body on out of the cabana.)  

CUT TO:



[EXT. PIER - DAY]

(Megan and Delko walk down the pier.  Det. Martin Puig walks toward them.)  

DELKO:  So, this is our first time.  The two of us on a case.  You know, you 
usually work with Speed.

MEGAN:  Yeah, I guess I do.

DELKO:  Well, he says you taught him a lot.

MEGAN:  Oh, yeah?

(Det. Puig joins them.  Together they head toward the crime scene as he fills 
them in on the case.)  

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  All right, the couple that called it in are Lisa and Mark 
Tupper.  Transplants from Boston.

(In front of them, the couple is talking with an officer.)  

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  They said they were taking a nap about seven miles out.  
Anyway, an unidentified male climbed up their aft ladder, then promptly dropped 
dead.

MEGAN:  A guy comes out of the Atlantic, chooses their boat to die on?

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  That's their story.

SHORT TIME CUT TO:



[EXT. BOAT - DAY - CONTINUOUS]

(Megan looks at the body as the ME gives his preliminary findings.)

M.E.:  Well, single stab wound to the gut.  Pallor indicates he bled out.

MEGAN:  So, uh, where's the rest of the blood?  

(Megan tests the boat wood for blood.  The test comes out positive.  She looks 
around.)

(Quick flash to:  There's a pool of blood under the man on deck.  End of flash.  
Resume to present.)

MEGAN:  There was a lot more blood than what we're seeing.

(Delko nods.)  

MEGAN:  Let's process this boat for any potential weapon.

SERIES OF CUTS:

(Cut to:  Delko checks examines the walls and shelves in the boat's kitchen.  He 
looks around the cabin and sees the flashlight on the counter.  He picks it up 
and looks at it.)  

(At the edge of the flashlight, he sees some blood.)

(Delko sneezes.)

(Enhanced slow-motion close-up of:  Delko's sneeze showers on the flashlight and 
the blood on the flashlight.)

(Resume motion.  Delko rubs his nose with the back of his hand.)

(Megan walks in.)

MEGAN:  Got knives.  You find something?

DELKO:  Yeah. I found traces of blood and hair here on the end of this 
flashlight.

MEGAN:  Good work.  Let's get it to DNA.

DELKO:  Okay, right away.

MEGAN:  Great.

(Megan walks away.  Delko watches her as she leaves, guilt written on his face 
for not mentioning the sneeze.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - FORENSIC LAB - DAY]

(Alexx puts the chest cavity back into the body.  Horatio watches from the 
observation room above.)

ALEXX:  His heart simply stopped beating.

HORATIO:  Now how could that happen to a perfectly healthy young man?

ALEXX:  Tox was negative for the garden variety drugs.  What about the white 
powder you found on his mouth?

HORATIO:  Six percent conchiline, 92% aragonite.  Good, old-fashioned, ground-up 
pearl dust.  Harmless.  Could he have had an allergic reaction to it?

ALEXX:  No rashes, no edema, no airway congestion.  Just the ligature mark you 
found and a tiny oval impression on his chest.  Those certainly didn't kill him.

HORATIO:  So where does that leave us now?

ALEXX:  With an apparent death of natural causes.  I hate to say it, but we 
could be done here.

HORATIO:  Alexx ... does the DNA suggest that there's semen present?

ALEXX:  Yeah. Tails on the sperm indicate sex just before death.  And a vaginal 
contribution that eluded the condom.  (She looks at him.)  But that's not why 
you're here.

HORATIO:  No, it's not.

ALEXX:  You think one of the women did it, don't you?

HORATIO:  I do.

ALEXX:  No such thing as free love.

HORATIO:  Consenting adults have at it ... but I can guarantee you our friend 
Noel here didn't consent to this, did he?

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - DNA LAB - DAY]

(Megan is processing the DNA on the swab.  Delko walks in.)  

MEGAN:  Hey.

DELKO:   Hey.

MEGAN:  These are swabs taken from the knives on the cabin cruiser.  No trace of 
blood.

DELKO:  Detective Puig says that the rest of the Tuppers' story was confirmed.  
The marina owner saw just the two of them go out.

MEGAN:  So they could be telling the truth.

DELKO:  They cleaned up the blood.  Why hide that?

MEGAN:  Well, people hide things.  Half the time without even thinking.  What'd 
you get off the flashlight?

DELKO:  (hesitates)  Um ... hair.  Belonged to our dead swimmer.  And the blood, 
we're still testing.

MEGAN:  The hair is enough.  Let's bring the Tuppers in.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI -- INTERVIEW ROOM -- DAY]  

(Megan interviews Lisa and Mark Tupper as Det. Martin Puig watches.)  

MEGAN:  You know those things we took from your boat, Mark?

MARK TUPPER:  Yeah.

MEGAN:  You want to tell us about the flashlight?

LISA TUPPER:  It wasn't Mark.  He didn't do anything.  He was asleep.

(Quick flash to:  [ON THE BOAT - DAY]  Mark is sleeping on the chair when the 
man staggers on board.  He's bleeding from the wound in his abdomen.  Lisa 
Tupper appears in the cabin doorway and sees the man.  She grabs the flashlight 
and hits him on the back of the head with it.  The man falls to the floor.)  

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)  

LISA TUPPER:  (shakes her head)  I never meant to hurt him.

(Lisa looks over at Det. Puig.  Megan stands up and leaves the room.  Det. Puig 
follows her out into the hallway.)  



[INT. CSI - HALLWAY - DAY -- CONTINUOUS]  

(Megan and Det. Puig confer.)  

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  We could charge her with assault.

MEGAN:  Your call.

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Did the wound to the head play a part in the victim's death?

MEGAN:  I don't know yet.

(Megan walks away.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Side-by-side, Horatio and Calleigh lean back against the trace table as they 
look at the results on the view boards.)  

CALLEIGH:  So I processed the mosquitoes, but they were too dehydrated to 
extract any blood.  So I asked myself:  A bunch of dead, dried-out mosquitoes, 
what's so strange about that?

HORATIO:  People swat and kill them all the time, don't they.

CALLEIGH:  But these were pristine.  Not swatted, not smashed.

HORATIO:  Pristine like the victim.  Alive one moment ... 

CALLEIGH:  Dead the next.

HORATIO:  So, if Noel did die of natural causes, what killed these mosquitoes?

CALLEIGH:  Exactly.  And since mosquitoes drink blood ... 

HORATIO:  Something in the blood must have killed them.  You know what?  Let's 
have Alexx go over the body again.

CALLEIGH:  Looking for?

HORATIO:  Looking for something lethal.

(Horatio steps away.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY]  

(Horatio and Speedle walk into the conference room where the women from the 
party sit and wait.  Speedle is carrying his kit with him.)  

HORATIO:  Ladies.  According to the physical evidence, someone had sex with Noel 
Peach just before he died.  So, we want to get a DNA reference swab from each of 
you, okay?

(Speedle puts his kit on the table and motions to the women in the room.)  

SPEEDLE:  Okay, if you guys could just form a line right here.

(One of the women sitting down at the table speaks up.)

DARK-HAIRED WOMAN:  That's not necessary.  It was me.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - INTERVIEW ROOM - DAY -- LATER]  

(Horatio and Det. Adell Sevilla interview Claire Heitmann.)  

CLAIRE HEITMANN:  I didn't kill Noel.  He was fine when I left him.

(Horatio glances at Adell.)  

HORATIO:  About what, uh ... time was that?

CLAIRE HEITMANN:  Just before two.  I went upstairs to lay down for a minute -- 
before I knew it, it was morning.  Please, you have to believe me.

HORATIO:  One more question ... what did you do with the condom you used?

CLAIRE HEITMANN:  I didn't use one.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Horatio is on the phone when Alexx walks into the lab.)  

HORATIO:  (to phone)  Yes, ma'am.  Yes, ma'am, well, I'm sorry for your loss.  
That's correct.  You have my number.  If you have ... if you have any questions, 
please don't hesitate to call me.  Yes, ma'am.

(Horatio hangs up.)  

ALEXX:  Next of kin?

HORATIO:  That was his mother.  And she said that she'd spoken to him three days 
ago.  He told her that he had declared a college major.

ALEXX:  Did she know what else he was into?

HORATIO:  Well, only that he no longer needed help with his tuition.

ALEXX:  I went back over Noel's body.  Found this.

(Alexx takes the photo out of the envelope.  She shows it to Horatio.  It's a 
picture of a small red dot on skin.)  

ALEXX:  An injection site.  But there was nothing in his medical records.  No 
diabetes, known allergies, nothing.

HORATIO:  Nothing that would require a daily injection.  And it's not track 
marks.

ALEXX:  No. If he was a druggy, it was his first time.

HORATIO:  So we've got dead mosquitoes that are telling us nothing ... 

ALEXX:  And the body telling us everything.  One of the hardest crimes to solve.

(Horatio's already moving.)

HORATIO:  Poison.

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[EXT. VARIOUS MIAMI CITY (STOCK) - DAY]



[INT. CSI - LAB - DAY]

(Horatio, Calleigh and Speedle stare at the monitor with the image of Noel 
Peach's body on the morgue table.

HORATIO:  The three most common poisons are ... ?

SPEEDLE:  Strychnine, but that's obvious.  Leaves the body horribly contorted 
with that gruesome grin.  Arsenic-- causes hair loss, makes the skin jaundiced.

CALLEIGH:  And cyanide has that bitter almond smell.  The tox tests were 
negative for all three.  So that leaves us ... 

HORATIO:  The world.  It leaves us the world because any element can be poison.  
It's all about the dose.

SPEEDLE:  Yeah, water will kill you if you drink enough of it.

CALLEIGH:  Yeah, you'd think it would be easy -- just put his blood in the mass 
spec and get a result.

HORATIO:  But it's not easy ... 

(Quick CGI of:  Hold on image of the body on the morgue table.  As we watch, the 
chest area clears and we see an x-ray image of the organs inside the body.  We 
watch as the heart pumps the poison through the system.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)  ... because poison dissipates in the body.  It disperses.  It 
changes.  It becomes metabolites.  In short, looking for poison is like looking 
for smoke.

(The x-ray image disappears.  End of CGI.  Resume to present.)  

HORATIO:  Here's what we're going to do.  Alexx is going to take a sample from 
the body.  What we're looking for is whatever was given to noel and who had a 
reason to give it to him.  This kid had a family.

(Horatio and Speedle look at each other.)  

HORATIO:  They deserve to know what happened to him.

(Horatio heads for the door.)  

CUT TO:  



[INT. CSI - FORENSIC LAB -- DAY]  

(Alexx is going over the preliminary report with Megan.)  

ALEXX:  Preliminary autopsy report says the flashlight blow was a minor injury.  
Cause of death was from the blow to the liver, causing massive internal 
bleeding.  Any number of stabbing implements could've caused it, but the 
interesting things here are the organs.

(Alexx touches the spleen in the metal pan on the table.)  

ALEXX:  His spleen was contracted -- about a twenty percent decrease in size 
from what you'd normally find in a male his size and age, but his heart and 
lungs were twenty percent larger than normal.

MEGAN:  So, we've got a guy with big lungs and a big heart.  Could be an 
athlete.  (Alexx shrugs.)  But the spleen, is that it?

ALEXX:  Would I do that to you?  (She holds out the swab.)  Swabbed his wound.  
Found some kind of microorganism.

MEGAN:  Really?

(Megan takes the swab.)

CUT TO:  



[INT. STARR RESIDENCE -- KITCHEN -- DAY]  

(Horatio, Speedle and Calleigh walk in the kitchen.)  

HORATIO:  O-kay, folks, let's crash their party.



[INT. VARIOUS CUTS]

(In the kitchen, Horatio opens the cabinet under the kitchen sink.  He picks up 
the various containers and looks at them.)

(In the bathroom, Calleigh puts a prescription pill bottle on her clipboard and 
writes a note on the clipboard.  She puts that prescription pill bottle down on 
the sink counter and picks up another.)

(In the kitchen, Speedle empties the leftover food into a jar.  He caps the 
jar.)

(In the forensics lab, Alexx cuts a sample from the body and puts it inside a 
jar.)

(In the kitchen, Calleigh takes a sample of the yellowish liquid in a container.  
She caps the sample container.)

(In the forensics lab, Alexx takes a liquid sample from the body.)

(Out in the cabana, Speedle re-examines the area. He lifts up the sheet and 
finds some discarded underwear.)

(Outside, Horatio goes through the discarded trash in the trash bag.  He finds a 
discarded epi-needle.)

DISSOLVE TO:

(In the lab, Horatio fumes the needle.  The fumes fill the container with the 
suspended epi-needle inside.  The fumes clear and a CGI Close-up of the holder 
reveals a single fingerprint.)

HORATIO:  Hello.

CUT TO:  



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Delko is looking through the scope.  Megan stands next to him.)  

DELKO:  Microorganisms in our swimmer's wound are spores.  Barrel sponge.

(He rolls his chair back and moves aside.  Megan looks at the scope.)  

DELKO:  Bravo, Alexx.  Hmm ... take a look.

MEGAN:  Aren't those found in deep water?

DELKO:  Mm-hmm, over fifty feet down below the, uh, sun canopy.

MEGAN:  How's that possible?  No excess nitrogen in our swimmer's system.  He 
wasn't using compressed air.

DELKO:  You said he had an enlarged heart and lungs, right?

MEGAN:  And contracted spleen.

DELKO:  I'm thinking he was a free diver.  They're purists.  They dive without 
air tanks.  Uh, record's a hair over seven minutes.  They train like crazy -- 
um, condition their lungs.  They hyperventilate to shut off the breathing 
center.

(Quick flash of:  A diver is in the water, hyperventilating.  His head above 
water.  He sinks under the surface.  End of flash.  Resume to present.)

MEGAN:  For most people, thirty seconds and your brain's screaming, "breathe!"

DELKO:  I heard about this one contest where they had one heart attack and forty 
shallow-water blackouts caused by hypoxia.  It's, uh, oxygen starvation -- makes 
you delusional, tricks the brain.

MEGAN:  Sounds crazy ... but it does explain the size of our swimmer's lungs and 
heart.

DELKO:  And the compressed spleen.  Pressure makes the organs contract.  

(Quick flash of:  The diver's body under water.)

(Quick CGI View of:  The organs in the diver's body.  Camera zooms in to the 
organ contracting.)

(End of flashes.  Resume to present.)  

DELKO:  It allows the body to squeeze the last drop of oxygen out of the blood.

MEGAN:  Hmm.

DELKO:  Someone in homicide told me that there was a contest out of Crandon 
Marina really early this morning.

MEGAN:  Yeah?

DELKO:  Yeah.  

MEGAN:  You got directions?

DELKO:  And a full tank of gas.

(They head out of the lab.)  

CUT TO:  



[EXT. CRANDON MARINA - PIER -- DAY]  

(Megan and Delko meet Det. Martin Puig out at the Marina.)  

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Excuse me, is there someone we could talk to about a diving 
contest out here this morning?

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Yeah. Who are you?

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Detective Puig.

MEGAN:  Donner, Delko, Miami Crime Lab.

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Okay, you're here about Adam?

MEGAN:  Adam?

(Ignacio Paez turns and gets a fellow diver.)  

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Carson ... cops are here.

CARSON CASSIDY:  Have you found him?

MEGAN:  Who?

CARSON CASSIDY:  My brother Adam.  That's why you're here, right?

MEGAN:  Your brother's missing?

CARSON CASSIDY:  Since this morning.  Called the coast guard.  I filed a report.  
Just tell me you found him.

MEGAN:  Um ... we may have bad news.

(Megan takes a couple steps away.  Carson follows.  Megan opens the envelope and 
shows Carson the photo of the deceased.  Carson takes it and looks at it for a 
long moment.  He hands the photo back to Megan.  He walks away to be alone.  He 
looks down, his hands on his hips.)

SHORT TIME CUT TO:



[EXT. CRANDON MARINA - PIER -- DAY]  

(Det. Martin Puig talks with Ignacio Paez.)  

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Uh, there were maybe, uh, fifteen people diving.  We must've lost 
track.

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Yeah, but don't you guys go down with a buddy?

IGNACIO PAEZ:  You don't know what this is, do you?  Free diving ain't no team 
sport.  It's just you and the big blue -- no air, no life vest, no limits.  
You're on the edge, on your own.

(Megan sees the fishing spears in the tub on the side of the pier.  She sees the 
large tuna hanging upside down nearby.)  

MEGAN:  Huge tuna.  Put up a hell of a fight.  That must get the adrenaline 
pumping, huh?

IGNACIO PAEZ:  It can.  Listen ... people were blacking out down there today, 
staying down so long to look for Adam.

MEGAN:  Hypoxia can cause delusions, can't it?

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Not if you know your limits.

DELKO:  That's the point, isn't it -- pushing past limits?

CUT TO:



[EXT. MIAMI CITY (STOCK) - DAY]



[INT. CSI - LAB - DAY]

(Megan and Delko head for the evidence room.  Megan punches in the code to open 
the cage.  Delko's arms are full carrying something.  In the back, we see 
Speedle and Calleigh working at the table on their own case.)

SPEEDLE:  What do you got there, Delko?

DELKO:  Spear guns.

(Megan opens the cage door.)

CALLEIGH:  I'll trade you some stale caviar for some of those nifty spear guns.

DELKO:  I hate fish eggs.

SPEEDLE:  Hey, Megan, did you miss me?

DELKO:  She actually forgot your name.  (Calleigh smiles.)  Two of us working 
together, we swabbed every spear and knife from that competition, and on this 
one here we found traces of human tissue.

MEGAN:  Spear gun belongs to Ignacio Paez, our Cuban diver.

DELKO:  (smugly)  So, we've got a murder weapon and a suspect.  What have you 
got?

(Delko looks up from his clipboard at Speedle.  Speedle picks up the purple see-
through underwear and holds it up.  He clears his throat.)

SPEEDLE:  (deadpans)  I have a murder weapon of a different sort.

(Delko chuckles.)

SPEEDLE:  The DNA results confirm that they're Nikki Olson's.

CALLEIGH:  And inside the intimate part of her intimates, a pubic hair from our 
victim, Noel Peach.

SPEEDLE:  And the impression on his chest matches this bra clasp.

(Speedle holds up the matching purple see-through bra.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - PRINT LAB -- DAY]  

(In the darkened lab, the camera moves slowly across the monitor showing a match 
on the print.  At the other end of the room, Horatio looks at the print out.)  

(Calleigh walks into the lab and takes the printout from Horatio.  She looks at 
it.)  

CALLEIGH:  An epi pen?

HORATIO:  Yeah, a spring-loaded injector designed to treat allergies, and I 
found a print match from one of our suspects on it -- Nikki Olson.

CALLEIGH:  The blonde girl?

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.

CALLEIGH:  They usually only contain a single dose of epinephrine, but someone 
could double- or triple-load it.

HORATIO:  Yes, they could, and give old Noel his last dance, huh?

CALLEIGH:  Mm-hmm.

(Horatio heads out of the lab.)

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[EXT. VARIOUS MIAMI CITY (STOCK) -- NIGHT]  



[INT. CSI - INTERVIEW ROOM -- NIGHT]  

(Horatio, Calleigh and Det. Adell Sevilla interview Nikki Olson.)  

NIKKI OLSON:  It's for bee stings.  I'm allergic. Arrest me.

HORATIO:  We didn't find any bee stings on Noel Peach, but what we did find was 
a puncture mark from that injector pen.  Your pen, your prints.  Feel free to 
jump in anytime.

NIKKI OLSON:  I never would have hurt Noel.  And, frankly, I don't know anyone 
who would.

HORATIO:  Well, the evidence says it's you.

NIKKI OLSON:  I ... I thought he was going to die.

(Quick flash to:  [PARTY]  Noel swallows the pearl shooter in one gulp.)

(Quick CGI POV:  Camera follows the path of the drink down Noel's throat where 
his air passage constricts.)

(End of flashes.  Resume to present.)

NIKKI OLSON:  You see, Noel is allergic to shellfish.  He didn't know those were 
pearl shooters.

CALLEIGH:  Vodka and oyster juice with pearl dust mixed in.  It's supposed to be 
an aphrodisiac.

HORATIO:  Well, that would explain the white crystals around his mouth, but ...

CALLEIGH:  (interrupts)  Okay, he had an allergic reaction and you saved him.  
Was that before or after you had sex?

NIKKI OLSON:  That's not what happened.  

CALLEIGH:  We have a mark on Noel's chest from your bra clasp and trace evidence 
of him inside your underwear.  And that didn't get there all by itself.

NIKKI OLSON:  I paid him, all right?  It was a fantasy of mine.

(Quick flash of:  [CLOSE-UPS]  He puts on her bra.  He slips her feet into her 
high heeled shoes.  Nikki sits back and watches as Noel wears her underwear.  He 
moves toward her.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

NIKKI OLSON:  You ever strap on a pair of four-inch heels?  A pushup bra?  Just 
to look good for a man, right?  I wanted to humiliate him like ... We dated.  We 
had sex, just not that night.  He told me he was dating someone new, that he was 
in love ... I was happy for him.

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[INT. CSI - HALLWAY]

(Calleigh walks through the hallway.  She finds Horatio.)

CALLEIGH:  Horatio?

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm?

CALLEIGH:  I just got off the phone with Alexx and she said there was no more 
than a single dose of epi in Noel's body.  Probably not enough to kill him.

HORATIO:  Maybe he just had a bad reaction to it?

CALLEIGH:  Do you believe her story?

HORATIO:  I don't know.  I guess that depends on whether you like seeing men 
dress up in your underwear or not.

CALLEIGH:  (smiles)  Personally, leather chaps, nothing else.  (beat)  That was 
a joke.

HORATIO:  I know.  You know what we do?  Let's round up the rest of the evidence 
from the party and get it to trace.

CALLEIGH:  Back to square one.

HORATIO:  Back to square one.

(Calleigh leaves.  Horatio turns around and looks over at

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - INTERVIEW ROOM]  

(Megan and Det. Martin Puig interview Ignacio Paez.)  

MEGAN:  Mr. Paez, we found human tissue on your spear gun.  Are you telling me 
you don't know how it got there?

IGNACIO PAEZ:  Yeah, that's what I'm telling you.

MEGAN:  Maybe it was an accident?  A misfire, could have been faulty equipment 
... ?  Mr. Paez ... can I ask you a question?  (He doesn't look at her.)  
(louder)  Mr. Paez!

(Ignacio Paez looks at Megan.)  

IGNACIO PAEZ:  What do you want?

MEGAN:  I'd like to run a test on you.  With your consent, of course.

SHORT TIME CUT TO:


[INT. CSI - TESTING ROOM]

(Delko holds a hand-held ear machine in Ignacio Paez's ear.  It beeps.  He 
removes it and looks at the readout.)  

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  What is that thing?

MEGAN:  Tympanometer. It measures the middle ear's response to waves of sound 
and pressure.

DELKO:  It's a flat graph.

MEGAN:  Barotrauma.

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  In english, please?

MARTIN:  His eardrums are ruptured.  You're losing your hearing, aren't you, Mr. 
Paez?  You've been losing it for a while.

DELKO:  Yeah, it's caused by intense pressure from repeated dives to depth.  
Now, the air pressure in the inner ear has to be equalized via valsalva or 
frenzel maneuvers.

(Quick flash of:  [UNDER WATER]  The Diver is under water.)

(Quick CGI:  Camera enters the ear ... then the eardrum ruptures.)

DELKO:  (v.o.)  The water creates pressure when it tries to push in from the 
outside, and if you don't equalize that pressure on the way down, well ... 

(End of flashes.  Resume to present.)  

DELKO:  ... pop goes the weasel.

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Megan, can I talk to you a minute?

(They step aside 

DET. MARTIN PUIG:  Okay, so he can't hear.  He still could have killed our vic.

MEGAN:  Not under fifty feet of water.  That's the only place he could have 
picked up those sponge spores.

(Quick flash of:  [UNDERWATER]  The Sponge and the sponge spores.  End of flash.  
Resume to present.)  

MEGAN:  At that depth, water pressure would have blown out Paez's inner ear.  
Put him in the hospital.  He didn't do it.

(Det. Puig nods.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB]

(Speedle is in the lab.  The various items which could be the potential source 
of the poison are out on the trace table in front of him.  He goes through the 
various items and notates them down.)

(He takes the opened condom wrapper out from the envelope.  The package reads: 
"Latex Condom Lubricated with spermicide Reservoir Tip".  The package is 
sprinkled with something.  He takes a swab of the condom package.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB]

(Speedle reports his findings to Horatio.)  

SPEEDLE:  Champagne and cocktails came back negative for contaminates.  Our 
poison is still a no-show.  

HORATIO:  But did we find anything?

SPEEDLE:  There were traces of milled calcium sulphate on the condom wrapper.

HORATIO:  Chalk?

SPEEDLE:  It might lead us to somebody else who had sex with Noel.

HORATIO:  So, we are looking for someone who is around chalk all the time.  What 
did the guest book say?

(Speedle hands a file to Horatio.)  

SPEEDLE:  DMV helped me out with this:  Sophia Ananova, 24 years old.  Take a 
guess what she does for a living?

HORATIO:  Myrtle Shores Day School.  Third grade.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - DNA LAB]

(Megan swabs and tests the speargun tip.  She processes the swab.)

(She looks at the print out results and sighs.)

(Delko walks into the lab.)

DELKO:  Hey.

MEGAN:  We've got a problem.  No DNA match to our swimmer.

DELKO:  But there were human skin cells on that spear.

MEGAN:  Not from our victim Adam Cassidy.  I did a full run.  Profiler Plus and 
coFiler.  We don't have the murder weapon.

DELKO:  We ran tests on all of the blades and all of the spear points from that 
boat.

MEGAN:  Well, we're missing one.  Maybe it's at the crime scene.

DELKO:  And fifty feet of water.

MEGAN:  Or somebody's hiding something.

DELKO:  Speaking of which, um, at the marina I hid something.  When I was 
processing the flashlight, I sneezed.

MEGAN:  You contaminated evidence?  Why didn't you tell me?

DELKO:  I wanted to, I just didn't know how.

MEGAN:  Okay, Eric, we all make mistakes.  What's important is we don't make 
them very often, and we never withhold information.

DELKO:  (nods)  I messed up.

MEGAN:  Don't let it happen again.

DELKO:  I won't.

MEGAN:  Good. 'Cause I'd hate to lose the only CSI in Miami who can process a 
crime scene in fifty feet of water.

(Megan smiles and winks at Delko.)

CUT TO:



[UNDER THE SEA -- DAY]  

(Delko swims around in his diving gear holding a Discovery Quantro Sensing 
Underwater Search Magnetometer.)  

CUT TO:



[ABOVE WATER]

(Megan puts her gloves on.  Delko breaks surface holding the knife he found up 
high in the air.)

(Megan reaches out and takes the knife from him.)

MEGAN:  Great.

CUT TO:



[INT. MYRTLE SHORES DAY SCHOOL - CLASSROOM - DAY]

(Horatio looks around the classroom while Adell checks Sophia Ananova's bag.  
She waits on the side sitting on one of the desks.)

HORATIO:  I know we've talked to you once, but we need to follow up.

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  God, I can't believe this.  I'm going to lose my job.

HORATIO:  What you do on your own time is your business.

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  Well, I appreciate that.

HORATIO:  Mmm. But when you commit a crime it becomes our business.

(There's a knock on the door.  The door opens and a girl looks up.  SOPHIA 
ANANOVA waves her away.)

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  Okay.

(The girl backs out of the room and closes the door.)  

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  Can we hurry this up a little?  I'm got later gators in five 
minutes.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Horatio ... look.  

(She finds some condoms in Sophia's bag.  She compares it with the photo.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  It's the same brand.  Looks like a match.

HORATIO:  It is a match.

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  I try to be safe.  Is that a crime?

HORATIO:  No, not a crime.

(The school bell rings.)

HORATIO:  But murder is.

FADE OUT.

(COMMERCIAL SET)



FADE IN.

[EXT. VARIOUS MIAMI CITY (STOCK) - DAY]



[INT. CSI - CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY]  

(Horatio and Det. Adell Sevilla interviews Sophia Ananova.)  

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  I didn't have sex with that man.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Listen, we've all been there.  The morning after you wish you 
hadn't.  Just doesn't make it so.

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  I'm telling you the truth.

(Adell sits down.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  That condom was yours.  It was in your bag.

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  I know.

ADELL SEVILLA:  It was exciting, wasn't it?  To be ... that intimate with 
someone you hardly knew.

(As Adell speaks, Horatio notices Sophia fiddles with her bracelet while her 
left foot nervously taps on the floor.)

ADELL SEVILLA:  You changed your mind.

(Horatio notices Sophia's eyes blinking rapidly.  He sees her nervously fiddling 
with her bracelet and how she scratches at the clear nicotine patch on her arm.)  

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  It wasn't like that.  I mean, I fantasized about it, sure ... 
but I would never actually have sex with a stranger.

HORATIO:  (cuts in)  Do you smoke?

SOPHIA ANANOVA:  Yeah.  Well, I mean, I did.  I've been trying to quit.

(He lifts her blouse sleeve and shows him her clear nicotine patch on her arm.)  

HORATIO:  Good luck with that.

(Horatio leaves.)

CUT TO:



[CLOSE-UP]  

(Close-up of testing in progress.  The water in the flask bubbles over heat.  
The steam rises through the apparatus.)

(End of Close-up.)



[INT. CSI - LAB]

(At the end of the testing, the bugs in glass box are dead.  Speedle and Horatio 
stare at the dead bugs.)  

SPEEDLE:  Nicotine patches?

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.  Nicotine is actually one of the most toxic of all poisons -- 
more lethal than cyanide or cobra venom, believe it or not.

SPEEDLE:  Yeah, but seven to 22 milligrams per nicotine patch is not enough to 
kill someone.

HORATIO:  Mm-mm, but 50 milligrams is.  That's only three or four of those 
patches right there.

(Quick CGI of:  Top view down of Noel Peach.  Clear x-ray into the organs inside 
his chest shows the nicotine traveling through his organs.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)   First you get seizures as the nicotine moves through the 
central nervous system.  Followed by paralysis.  The lungs collapse, the heart 
stops beating.  It can happen in five minutes.

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

(Calleigh enters the lab and joins them.)  

HORATIO:  Did Alexx do a second tox screen?

CALLEIGH:  Alkaloid salts came back positive.  Traces of cotinine metabolites.  
Noel peach died of nicotine poisoning.

HORATIO:  Okay, but then how was the poison introduced?  It wasn't inhaled, the 
dosage would have been too small, and it wasn't ingested, he would have tasted 
it, right?

SPEEDLE:  Trans-dermal absorption.  She stuck a couple of patches on him.

HORATIO:  We found no adhesive residue.

CALLEIGH:  She could have worn gloves ... applied liquid concentrate directly to 
the skin.

(Horatio's already shaking his head and removing his gloves.)

HORATIO:  We're not making this case.  Let's go back to the body.

(He turns and walks out of the lab.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI -- FORENSIC LAB - DAY]

(Alexx is taking swab samples of the parts of Noel Peach's body she has marked 
in a grid-like pattern.  Horatio assists.)  

ALEXX:  H-5.

(Horatio labels the swab and hands it to her.  She takes the sample, puts the 
swab in the box and sets the swab aside.)  

ALEXX:  H-6.

(Horatio labels the swab and hands it to her.)

DISSOLVE TO:



[INT. CSI - FORENSIC LAB - DAY]

(Calleigh walks into the lab carrying a file folder.  She walks up to Horatio 
and Alexx.  She hands the folder to Horatio who reads the results.)  

HORATIO:  Well, here it is.  The exposure site is between K-6 and L-6.

(Alexx lifts up the sheet on the lower part of the victim's body.)

CALLEIGH:  Oh, my.

ALEXX:  Confirmation.  Nicotine was introduced through the penile tissue.  It 
gives a whole new meaning to the term "members only."

HORATIO:  Yes, it does.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB -- DAY]  

(Megan takes a swab from the knife and tests it for blood.  The engraving on the 
knife's edge reads:  1998 Blue Water Meet Champion.  There is no chemical 
reaction.  The test is negative.  She looks at the swab just as Delko walks into 
the lab.)  

DELKO:  Guess who won the 1998 Blue Water Meet.  Carson Cassidy.  Adam's won it 
every year since.

MEGAN:  Huh.  Well, this knife belongs to Carson, but we can't prove it killed 
his brother.

DELKO:  The test for blood was negative?

MEGAN:  Inconclusive, as were the matches to the wound track.

DELKO:  You know, I used to have this summer job scraping boat hulls.  A lot of 
bilge contaminants in the water.  I used to have to clean my knife every night.

(Delko picks up the knife and starts to remove the hilt.)

MEGAN:  Blood might have gotten inside the handle.

(Quick flash of:  [UNDERWATER]  We see a torso under the water.  Suddenly a hand 
with a knife breaks camera frame and stabs the torso in the gut.  He pulls the 
knife out spilling blood into the water.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

(Delko unscrews the bottom of the knife hilt.  He pulls the metal blade out a 
little from the hard rubber.  We see the blood stain.)

(Camera extreme close-up of:  The blood stain.)

MEGAN:  His brother's keeper.

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - LAB - DAY]

(Horatio leans against the table.  Calleigh and Speedle walk into the room and 
join him.)  

CALLEIGH:  Sevilla is ready to file the arrest warrant on the teacher.

HORATIO:  Tell her to hang on a minute, will you?

SPEEDLE:  For what? We got her.

HORATIO:  Do we?

(Horatio turns around.)  

SPEEDLE:  Well, she had the nicotine patches and the condoms.  The problem is, 
is that the box of patches is full.

CALLEIGH:  She bought a new box.

HORATIO:  But distillation takes time.

SPEEDLE:  So where did the nicotine come from?

(Horatio holds up a dead, dried rose.)  

HORATIO:  That flower bed was filled with roses, wasn't it?  And crawling all 
over those roses are what?

(Camera close-up of the rose stems show the little green bugs crawling all over 
them.)

CALLEIGH:  Aphids.

HORATIO:  How do you get rid of a pest like an aphid?

CALLEIGH:  Insecticide. Nicotine is an insecticide.

SPEEDLE:  One of the oldest known to man.  It's been in use since the mid-1800s.

CALLEIGH:  And that would explain our dead mosquitoes.

(Quick flash of:  close-up of a mosquito sucking up blood and the nicotine as 
its belly starts to glow green.  When it's done, it flies away.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Have we processed that garden yet?

CALLEIGH:  We went through the patio and the toolshed.  I don't recall seeing 
any heavy-duty insecticide.

HORATIO:  Have we talked to the gardener?

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[EXT. STARR RESIDENCE -- BACKYARD - DAY]

(Horatio talks with the Gardener as they walk back toward his truck where 
Speedle and Calleigh are.)

GARDENER:  Yeah, I keep the insecticides locked in my truck.  Some of that stuff 
is dangerous.

HORATIO:  Mm-hmm.

(Speedle finds something.)  

SPEEDLE:  Red kill.  Forty percent nicotine sulfide solution.

HORATIO:  Oh, really?

GARDENER:  I could have sworn I locked that.

(Calleigh dusts the bottle and finds a fingerprint.)

CALLEIGH:  Oh, yeah, we got a couple of prints.  Off to the lab they go.

(Horatio nods.)

CUT TO:



[INT. CIS - INTERVIEW ROOM - DAY]

(Megan and Det. Puig interview Carson Cassidy with his lawyer present.)  

LAWYER:  Adam must have borrowed that knife.  We already know he borrowed a 
spear gun.  Look, you've got no witnesses.  You've got no case.

MEGAN:  Would you mind taking off your shirt?

(Carson looks at his lawyer who nods.  Carson stands and removes his shirt.  
Megan leans forward and points to a gash in Carson's right side.)

MEGAN:  There ... are your witnesses, hundreds of them from a deep-water barrel 
sponge.

(Carson sits.)

MEGAN:  You and Adam were down at least fifty feet.  It took about two minutes 
to get there.  You must have already have been entering that hypoxic state.

(Quick flash to:  [UNDERWATER]  A large tuna swims by.  Adam raises his spear.  
Carson swims by.  Adam grabs Carson's foot.  Carson puts up a struggle and kicks 
Adam in the face.  Adam lets go.  He puts his mask back on.  Carson turns around 
and looks back at Adam.  The tuna swims behind Carson.)

(Adam raises his spear gun and fires.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.)

MEGAN:  So Adam shoots you with a spear gun.  I don't think he was aiming for 
you.  You were both oxygen starved, running on adrenaline.

(Quick flash to:  [UNDERWATER]  Adam raises his spear gun and fires.  The spear 
swooshes near Carson and grazes his right side, cutting him.  Carson bleeds.)

(Carson grabs his knife and swims toward Adam.  The two struggle.)

(Carson stabs Adam in the abdomen.  Carson looks at the blood-stained knife and 
drops it.  He swims for the surface as the knife sinks down into the depths.)

(End of flash.  Resume to present.

CARSON CASSIDY:  It was like a dream.  Like ... my hand wasn't my hand.

MEGAN:  That would be the hypoxia talking.  You were delusional.

CARSON CASSIDY:  That's not supposed to happen.  Free diving makes everything 
clear.  It's a trip down to primal instinct.

MEGAN:  Killing your own brother -- doesn't get more primal than that.

(Carson covers his eyes with his hand and cries.)

CUT TO:



[INT. STARR RESIDENCE -- DAY]  

(Horatio and Adell Sevilla are back interviewing Melissa Starr.  Adell is 
looking at a file folder.)  

MELISSA STARR:  I already told you Noel danced for a lot of girls that night.  A 
lot of girls wanted him.

HORATIO:  Enough to kill him?

(Adell hands the file to Horatio.)  

ADELL SEVILLA:  Here we go.

HORATIO:  Hmm.

MELISSA STARR:  What's that?

HORATIO:  These are Noel's phone records for the last month.  He called here 
over 107 times.  And most of those calls ... were less than a minute in length.

MELISSA STARR:  (shrugs)  Why would he do that?

HORATIO:  Well, Nikki mentioned to me that he was seeing someone new, and based 
on those records, I think it's you.

(Quick flashback to:  [PARTY]  Noel dances with Melissa Starr.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)   But you weren't the one who wanted him.  It was the other way 
around.  Noel was obsessed with you.  He pursued you, even tried to make you 
jealous by going off with Nikki.  He wouldn't end it, so you decided to end it 
for him.

(Cut to:  Nikki whispers to Noel and the two go off.)

(Cut to: Melissa Starr opens Sophia's bag and removes a condom.)

(Cut to: Melissa Starr puts insecticide in the condom.)

HORATIO:  (v.o.)   You took the condom out of Sophia's bag.  Added nicotine and 
insecticide.  We found your fingerprints on the bottle in your gardener's truck.  
And after the party, you let noel come to you one last time.  You knew he 
couldn't resist.

(Cut to:  Noel and Melissa Starr have sex.)

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)

HORATIO:  Poisoners are like kids with their homework.  They want to show the 
math.

(She looks past Horatio out the window at Calleigh and Speedle whoa re digging 
in her rose bush pots.)

MELISSA STARR:  What are they doing?

HORATIO:  The other day, while you out there with Detective Sevilla ... 

(Quick flashback to: Melissa Starr puts the tulip petals back into rose beds.)

(End of flashback.  Resume to present.)  

HORATIO:  You inadvertently provided me with the smoking gun.

ADELL SEVILLA:  Horatio. 

(Horatio turns around and we see Speedle holding up the used discarded condom.)

(He turns back to look at Melissa Starr.)  

HORATIO:  See, I'm guessing that inside that thing will be nicotine, and on the 
outside will be your epithelial cells.  You could have poisoned yourself.

MELISSA STARR:  Well, that's why they call it "safe sex."

HORATIO:  Not for Noel.

MELISSA STARR:  He didn't understand.

HORATIO:  He was in love with you.

MELISSA STARR:  So what?  Why is it always about what the man wants?  (cries)  
His decision ... his orgasm ... his rules.

HORATIO:  So, you killed Noel because he wouldn't play by your rules.  Is that 
what you're telling me?

MELISSA STARR:  At least he gave me a new kind of thrill.

HORATIO:  Well ... I hope you enjoyed it ... because it's going to be your last.

(Horatio stands up.)  

CUT TO:



[INT. CSI - FORENSIC LAB -- DAY]  

(Noel Peach's body is on the morgue table in a bag.  Horatio stands nearby and 
looks at it.)  

(Alexx walks into the room.)

HORATIO:  You going to release the body?

ALEXX:  Yeah. His mother's here.

(Alexx finishes wrapping the body up.)  

ALEXX:  Just have to sign the death certificate.

HORATIO:  Not the kind of diploma he was after, though, huh?

ALEXX:  Not the kind you frame.

(She starts tying the plastic.  She stops and turns to look at Horatio.)  

ALEXX:  You okay?  

(Horatio doesn't say anything.  Alexx stops and walks over to Horatio.)  

ALEXX:  You need a couple more minutes?

HORATIO:  No, but he did.

(Alexx leaves the room.  Horatio remains and looks back at the body in the bag.)  

FADE TO BLACK.

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TITLE/OPENING CREDITS 
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CSI: MIAMI
1X07:  BREATHLESS
ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS:  11/04/2002
TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD

Starring:
DAVID CARUSO as Horatio Caine
EMILY PROCTER as Calleigh Duquesne

ADAM RODRIGUEZ as Eric Delko
KHANDI ALEXANDER as Alexx Woods
with
RORY COCHRANE as Tim Speedle
and
KIM DELANEY as Megan Donner

Created by ANTHONY E. ZUIKER, ANN DONAHUE, CAROL MENDELSOHN

Starring 
WANDA DE JESUS as Det. Adell Sevilla

SARAH RAFFERTY as Melissa Starr
JAMIE LUNER as Nikko Olson

ION OVERMAN as Teacher
CHRIS PAYNE GILBERT as Carson Cassidy

Music Composed by:  GRAEME REVELL

Edited by MARK C. BALDWIN
Production Designer:  CAROLS BARBOSA
Director of Photography: MICHAEL D. O'SHEA, A.S.C.

Co-Producer:  FRANK BALLOU
Co-Producer:  BRUCE GOLIN
Co-Producer:  LOIS JOHNSON
Co-Producer:  STEVEN MAEDA

Consulting Producer:  MARK ISRAEL
Consulting Producer:  ELIZABETH DEVINE

Co-Executive Producer:  LAURIE McCARTHY
Co-Executive Producer:  DANNY CANNON
Co-Executive Producer:  SAM STRANGIS

Executive Producer:  JONATHAN LITTMAN
Executive Producer:  NANCY MILLER

Written by STEVEN MAEDA & GWENDOLYN PARKER
Directed by CHARLIE CORRELL

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Executive Producer:  JERRY BRUCKHEIMER

Executive Producer:  ANTHONY E. ZUIKER
Executive Producer:  CAROL MENDELSOHN
Executive Producer:  ANN DONAHUE

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Television
Alliance Atlantis Productions Inc.
CBS Productions, Inc.

Co-Starring 
BARON ROGERS as Noel Peach
MICHSEL IRBY as Iganicio Paez
ALEX PAEZ as Det. Martin Puig
LAURA LEIGH HUGHES as Lisa Tupper
TOM JOURDEN as Mark Tupper

RICHARD GROSS as Gardener
LOU RICHARDS as Lawyer
BOBBY NISH as Brian Fan
LIZA DEL MUNDO as Claire Heitmann
BRIAN WADE as Other Lap Dancer

Line Producer:  JEAN HIGGINS
Associate Producer:  GINA LAMAR

Casting by: RICK MILLIKAN, C.S.A.

Original Casting by: ROBERT ULRICH, C.S.A., ERIC DAWSON, C.S.A., CAROL KRITZER, 
C.S.A.

Unit Production Manager:  JEAN HIGGINS

First Assistant Director:  KEVIN WILLIAMS
Second Assistant Directors: NANCY P. TOWNSEND / PAULA SMITH
Costume Designer:  CYNTHIA BERGSTROM
Forensics Consultant:  JOHN HAYNES

Production Sound Mixers:  DONOVAN DEAR / JOHN COFFEY
Script Supervisor:  CLAUDIA YARMY / CARILINE DAVIS-DYER
Special Make-Up Effects:  MATTHEW W. MUNGLE / CHERI MONTESANTO-MEDCALF

Location Manager:  MAC GORDON
Art Directors:  TIM BEACH
Set Decorator:  DANIELLE BERMAN
Construction Coordinator:  JOHN KERSEY
Stunt Coordinators:  NORMAL HOWELL / TOMMY HUFF

Gaffer:  JACK SCHLOSSER
Camera Operator:  MICHAEL GENNE / DENNY HALL
Transportation Coordinator:  BOB CAWLEY 
2ND Unit:  SCOTT LAUTANEN / MICHAEL PHIRMAN

Special Effects Coordinators:  FRANK CEGLIA 
Property Master:  SCOTT AMBROSE
Key Grip:  RANDY TAMBLING / DALE ALEXANDER
Costume Supervisor:  SUZANNE BANNITT-HAINES / CINDY ROSENTHAL

Key Make-Up Artist:  PEGGY TEAGUE / NEDRA HAINEY
Ms. Delaney's Make-Up:  STEPHANIE FOWLER
Key Hairstylist:  YVONNE DE PATIS-KUPKA / TERESSA HILL

Colorist:  GARETH COOK
Supervising Sound Editor:  MATTHEW SAWELSON
Music Supervisor: JASON ALEXANDER
Assistant Editor:  MICHAEL FRIEDLANDER
Post Production Supervisor:  MICKIE REUSTER
Loop Group:  THE REEL TEAM

Dialogue Editor:  TODD NIESEN
ADR Editor:  RUTH ADELMAN
Sound Effects Editor:  BRAD KATONA
Re-Recording Mixers:  YURI REESE / BILL SMITH
Music Editor:  ASHLEY REVELL

Special Effects Supervisor:  LARRY DETWILER

Digital Effects by STARGATE DIGITAL
Computer Playback and Graphics by E=MC2
High Definition Post Production by ENCORE
Film Laboratories by FOTOKEM
Post Production Sound Provided by TODD STUDIOS
Filmed at EL SEGUNDO STUDIOS

"Won't Get Fooled Again"
by Pete Townshend
Performed by The Who

The persons and events portrayed in this film are fictitious.  Any similarity to 
actual persons, living or dead, or any events is unintentional.

(c) 2002 CBS Worldwide Inc., and Alliance Atlantis Productions, Inc.  All Rights 
Reserved.

CBS Broadcasting Inc, and Alliance Atlantis Productions Inc, are the authors of 
this program for the purposes of copyright and other laws.

Dated:08/26/2004~lky
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