Talk:CSI: Miami/Trivia

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[edit] Trivia

  • Introduced as an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's second season (CSI Episode 222: Cross Jurisdictions) when investigators Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown, played by Marg Helgenberger and Gary Dourdan respectively, went to Miami because a murder victim's daughter was found there after the killer took her and her mother while fleeing Las Vegas.
  • Sofia Milos is the only cast member whose name appeared in the opening titles without mathematical equations (although she was only credited for season three she had guested in seasons one and two). Jonathan Togo's name didn't get an equation until the first episode of season 4. In season 5, Rex Linn and Eva LaRue are also credited in the opening titles without equations.
  • The series is primarily shot in a former warehouse in El Segundo, California (just south of LAX); location shooting in Miami is limited to a few days each season.
  • Often "Starke" is mentioned. Starke is the city in Florida that is home of Florida State Prison and, next door, Union Correctional Institution, Florida's two major prisons.
  • Aisha Tyler played the role of District Attorney Janet Medrano on CSI: Miami in 2003, where her character is killed off in the episode "Body Count". She went on to play the role of Mia Dickerson on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2004-2005. Since the two tv shows exist in the same reality (The pilot episode for CSI: Miami was a CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode titled "Cross Jurisdictions"), this implies the two characters were doppelgangers or twins.
  • The second season crossover episode "MIA/NYC Nonstop" is a bonus episode on the Season 1 DVD set of CSI: NY.
  • Another crossover (between NY and Miami) was featured again on November 7, 2005 (CSI: Miami) and November 9, 2005 (CSI: NY), which involves a crashed plane and an escaped serial killer, and includes members of both casts. A new track by Madonna ("Hung Up") was heard once in each episode at the start of both CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
  • The fourth season crossover episode "Felony Flight" was solved on the CSI: NY episode "Manhattan Manhunt." This was the first time that a case was introduced on one "CSI" series and solved on another. This is also the first time that a CSI show has had crossover episodes that were not intended to introduce a spin-off. It was also the first television appearance of James Badge Dale since 2003, when he played Chase Edmunds on 24.
  • The (probable) origin of the 'Horatio' character name is explained by the character 'Belle King' in Dead Woman Walking (season 1) as being tied to Horatio (from Shakespeare's Hamlet), whom she calls 'the first CSI'. The actual origin of Horatio's name is given by Horatio himself in the pilot episode Cross Jurisdictions. His mother named him after American author Horatio Alger. (Interestingly, "Horatio Caine" was also the name of a criminal department store owner who had plans to blackmail London with nuclear destruction in "Death at Bargain Prices," an episode of The Avengers TV series).
  • In "Rap Sheet" (Season 2), the rapper Xzibit (Alvin Nathaniel Joyner) guest stars as a character called '10-Large', a rapper whose bodyguard is shot and killed.
  • Episode 318 features skateboarding star Tony Hawk as the murder victim.
  • In episode 406, Wolfe runs a fiber through a manufacturer's database which is accessed through http://hotdig.info/ which in reality re-directs to CBS's broken link page
  • An outdoor filming scene became a real life police investigation scene when a body was found floating in Bicentennial Park. See the Wikinews article for more information. WFOR-TV Video
  • Episode 422 (Open Water) features Irish magician Keith Barry as a magician who robs people aboard a cruise ship. In this episode his name is "Barry Keith".
  • The episode "Darkroom" is based on the William Richard Bradford case, in which a photo of Eva LaRue's sister Nika was included among the evidence. Nika appears in the episode as a reporter who asks, "Where are these girls?" at a press conference. She had been offered the role of Natalia's sister Anya, but turned it down because it would have been "too surreal."
  • The show uses Nikon cameras exclusively. This includes the CSI teams, reporters and others. Same applies to other CSI shows.

[edit] Goofs

  • As in other CSI series, Crime scene investigators in the show (especially Horatio) are shown accomplishing tasks that are not related to their functions such as resolving crimes, arresting suspects & interrogating them. Many of these tasks are accomplished by police officers & detectives. This is not strictly a 'goof'; instead, it's most likely a scripting decision intended to prevent the 'boredom factor' of depicting often-tedious laboratory work on television
  • Wet Foot/Dry Foot (Season 1, Episode 3): When a disembodied arm and half of a torso are pulled from a gutted tiger shark, Delko comments that the tiger shark "will eat anything as long as it's alive". However, tiger sharks are also known to feed on slaughterhouse offal and other carrion.[1]. The shark featured in this episode was a Grey Nurse shark (Odontaspis taurus), but the footage aired of the shark attacking prey in open water was actually of a Mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus).
  • Breathless (Season 1, Episode 7): Horatio states that mosquitoes are attracted to humans by the carbon monoxide they exhale. This should have been carbon dioxide; carbon monoxide is a lethal poison to both humans and mosquitoes.
  • A Horrible Mind (Season 1, Episode 10): In the case about the professor, an erroneous parallel was made to the 'Stanford Experiment' (correct name: 'Stanford Prison Experiment'); they should have referred to the Milgram experiment instead. The parallel concerned the professor using his students in a manner similar to the Milgram experiment, 'teachers' and 'learners', as taught to him by the Colombian torturer (although the Colombian called them students, not learners).
  • Dead Woman Walking (Season 1, Episode 15): When the lawyer was poisoned, the CSI team checked her house, and later the orange juice, with sulfur to detect traces of iodine. Horatio claimed that the presence of iodine would indicate decayed iodine-131. However, “iodine-131 has a half-life of eight days. At the end of eight days, half of the Iodine-131 becomes stable xenon-131.” (emphasis added)[2] Therefore, the team was looking for the wrong chemical. Also, the use of sulfur as a detector appears to come from scriptwriters picking up information from the completely unrelated sulfur-iodine cycle.
  • The cast have had several dealings with federal authorities and government employees in various episodes during their investigations, but there are some inaccuracies regarding government security clearances. In one episode, for instance, a suspect is brought in after a fingerprint match, and has a GS-14 level security clearance with the government. According to the website for the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal employment, GS refers to General Schedule, one of the civilian salary brackets, and has nothing to do with security clearances, with a person's job description and what department they work for determining their security clearance. For example, a GS-7 computer technician in the FBI would have a higher security clearance than a GS-13 supervisor in the Department of Agriculture. One item that was at least somewhat accurate was the suspect had stated he was a manager for a Census Bureau field office, and higher pay grades are usually held by supervisors and department managers. [3] [4]
  • The writers generally have little knowledge of South Florida. They refer to the courts as Superior Courts but trial courts in Florida are Circuit Courts (Los Angeles has Superior Courts, not Florida); writers had a suspect identified from a photo of the license plate on the front of a car, but Florida only uses rear license plates; writers often have the CSIs check the "state registry" of handguns but Florida does not register handguns.
  • In the episode Nothing to Lose (Season 3, Episode 16), after Dr. Alexx Woods has stitched Todd Kendrick's wound and is driving away from where they had stopped, the shadow of production equipment is briefly visible on the hood of the van.
  • In the episode Money Plane (Season 3, Episode 17), during the analysis of the crash, Delko states that the aircraft took off from Runway 9 Right, yet the animation of the flight, as well as the trajectory Southeast over Coral Gables shows the aircraft taking off from Runway 12.
  • In the episode Come as You Are (Season 5, Episode 10), the team investigates the murder of a Marine recruiter. Therefore, NCIS, a federal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction on crimes involving persons and property associated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps, would have been ordered to investigate, and local CSIs would not be authorized to conduct the investigation. On another note, it is incorrectly thought of as a mistake in writing that two brothers can not be placed in the same military unit. This is a misconception as there are instances to prove this does occur. [5][6]
  • Also in the episode Come as You Are, when Calleigh is reading off the service record of Kevin Kirby she obviously says "was stationed on the ground in Fallujah", but the audio says "Fallah".
  • Another Goof in the episode Come as You Are is found with the plot point that JAG was looking to charge the living brother with the murder of his dead brother. It is mentioned the military corpsmen had removed the bullet that killed the dead brother but left a tiny metal fragment from the truck door behind. However any corpsmen would have been able to recognize the difference between a 9mm slug (from the M-9 handgun) and the 5.56 round (from the M-16), noting this in his report and thus clearing the brother of any wrong-doing.
  • In the episode Throwing Heat, it is said that AMV Theatre has a cell phone jammer in place. However, the use of cell phone jammers is illegal in the USA.
  • Sometimes with occasional recurring characters in the series, the characters come in with different but similar names, even though technically they are same characters.
  • In the Episode No Man's Land A revolver that was being shipped to be melted down was loaded, firearms in storage are typically unloaded for various reasons.