Going Ballistic
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| “Going Ballistic” | |||||||
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| CSI: Miami episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 21 |
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| Written by | Corey Miller | ||||||
| Directed by | Sam Hill | ||||||
| Guest stars | Elizabeth Berkley Evan Ellingson Kim Coates Alison McAtee Jay Tavare |
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| Production no. | 621 | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 19, 2008 | ||||||
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Going Ballistic is the twenty-first and final episode in the sixth season of the popular American crime drama CSI: Miami.
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[edit] Plot
In the sixth-season finale, a case that seems to be an apparent suicide becomes a murder, and the CSIs must search for a sniper. The new medical examiner, who is investigating an apparent suicide, becomes the first victim of the sniper attack at the crime scene.
Calliegh recovers three unspent bullets from among the casings left behind. While answering a phone call at the lab from Frank Tripp, one of the bullets rolls off the table and discharges in the Ballistics Lab, flying up into the light fixture and starting a fire. Eric, after making sure Calleigh's all right, helps Calleigh find the one remaining bullet. It turns out that the bullets are illegal, as they come from an Eastern-European country (former Soviet Union).
Calleigh also finds out from a list (given to her by an ATF agent) that an old nemesis of Horatio's has an interest in the illegal bullets.
One more person is shot and killed after confessing to selling old (and possibly illegal) bullets. As the suspect is being led away, he is shot in a drive-by shooting. The shooter is caught after Calleigh and Ryan check the navigation unit in the vehicle. As Calleigh and Ryan question this suspect, Ryan gets a sudden page and leaves.
Horatio, in the meantime, finds out that Ron Saris has married Julia (Kyle's mother). Horatio wants Julia and Kyle to leave the country until things are settled. Julia seemingly agrees, but has a sudden errand to run an hour before she and Kyle are due at the airstrip.
Horatio puts his life in jeopardy to save his team from being taken down, and he may not survive--or will he?
Near the end of the episode, Horatio Caine is shot and presumed dead. Ryan receives a text message saying, "It is done," leading us to believe he was involved. All indications (including the sudden page to Ryan while he's interviewing a suspect) point towards Caine and Wolfe staging Horatio's death so that he may more easily pursue one of his greatest rivals.
This is confirmed in CBS's behind the scenes video where David Caruso says "Horatio designed a staging of an event that will free him up to go after this man with a different license."
[edit] Trivia
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About 1/2 way through the episode, Calleigh discovers the rounds used earlier were made in 1969, from a former Soviet Bloc country, and used black powder. She claims that it is illegal to sell old ammunition from those countries. In truth, no modern firearm ammunition (post-1900) would ever have been made with black powder, because it will not cycle modern automatic guns reliably, as well as being so dirty that it would foul up any semi-auto or full auto very quickly, rendering it useless. Also, it is quite legal to import old (or new) ammunition from former Soviet Bloc countries, and can be purchased currently in many places.
It should also be noted that no Soviet weapons made during the 1960's were ever designed to use the 9 x 19 mm Parabellum round, and it is very unlikely it would have been manufactured. The closest round would be the 9 x 18 mm Makarov round, designed to be used in the Makarov PM pistol, which could not be fired in a Glock 18 without jamming on the first shot.
Also, after the munitions dealer was shot, Calleigh tells Tripp that the bullet used was a "fused alloy" which will separate into multiple pieces when it penetrates a "heat source", but will retain cohesion when passing through something "cold", such as body armor. However, this fails to take into account the heat from the gunpowder as it expands, as well as friction heat from entering anything cold, such as armor or a car door, any of which are many times more hot than a human body.
Finally, an agent of the ATF plays a significant role in this episode. At one point, we even see his ATF credentials. However, the ATF changed their name to the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) after 9/11/2001. Any identification an agent carried would reflect this.
There are two flashbacks of the ATF Agent with his informant. The second is the same as the first with a little more before it, yet several lines of diaglogue differ in the exchange even though they depict the same events.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Going Ballistic at IMDb.com
- CBS Episode Guide
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