CSI: Miami (2002–2012): Season 8, Episode 23 - Time Bomb - full transcript

20 MINUTES EARLIER

(phone line ringing)

DELKO: Hey, Calleigh.

Hey, I thought we were
supposed to meet for coffee.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I-I got pulled away.

Oh, really?

Yeah. Uh, I'm downtown,
about to step into court.

Is everything okay?

Yeah, sure.

Okay.



I'll talk to you in a bit.

Okay.

(car engine starts)

¶ ¶

¶ ¶

(car alarm chirps)

Eric.

Eric!

What are you doing?

Calleigh,
where did you come from?

Why did you lie to me?

I didn't lie to you.

Yes, you did.

Calleigh, look,



can we not do this now?

You drove right past me at PD.

You followed me here?

Of course I did.

You've been acting strange,

and now you're lying to me.

NEVINS: What time can I
get in to see Talbot?

Yeah, I'm not lying.

Nevins.

Are you still working
for the A.S.A.?

I never stopped working for
the state attorney's office

when I came back to the lab.

But you both have offices,

so why are you here? Calleigh.

Does this have something
to do with Walter?

Are you building some sort
of a case against him?

What? No! No.

Well, then are you the
reason why people are getting

dragged into Rebecca's office?

You don't know what
you're talking about.

Then why don't you
tell me the truth?

I'll explain later,
okay? When there's time.

Fine.

Whatever works for you.

Calleigh. Calleigh!

Eric!

Eric!

(distorted): Eric, are you okay?

Please stand.

¶ Yeah! ¶

¶ We don't get fooled again ¶

¶ Don't get fooled again ¶

¶ No, no! ¶

CSI: Miami - 8x23 "Time Bomb"
Aired on May 17, 2010

(indistinct radio chatter,
sirens wailing)

We're live now at the Asher
Business Park in East Miami,

where a suspected car bombing

has rocked the
city and the state

now that word is out that this
may have been an assassination.

Walter, EDRK on the Hummer?

Yeah, but you got
to get it yourself.

I'm looking for
another patrolman.

Eric!

Eric,

you okay?

Yeah.

What happened?

Supposed to meet Nevins here.

I... I found something big, H.

I was going to tell her.

I...

I got into a conversation
with Calleigh.

If that hadn't happened,

I-I would've been standing
right next to her.

What did you find for Nevins?

The theft from the
evidence lockup, it's...

There's more to it than
the missing diamonds.

There's a half a million dollars
in seized heroin that's--

it's missing, it's gone.

You're sure about this? Yeah.

I chased the paper on the
Everson case from 2006.

I-I checked

the evidence inventory...

it doesn't match up.

Eric, the Everson case
of 2006 was Sully's case.

Yeah, he gave me some
information yesterday.

This bomb could've
been meant for you.

Who else knows about this?

No one.

Eric, she was our friend.

Let's not forget it.

CAINE: Sully.

Hey, partner.

Missed a good day out
on the Gulf Stream.

Not your thing, I know.

I understand you spoke
to Eric Delko yesterday.

He came to me, yeah.

Wanted to talk to an old
retired cop about an old case.

Specifically, the Everson case.

Yeah, he said evidence
has gone missing.

It has... Sully.

Well, what do you want from me?

Have you talked to
anybody else about it?

Of course not.

Why?

Somebody tried to
assassinate Eric today.

They what?

Clearly, Sully, he's
getting close to something.

You think a cop did all this.

Has to be somebody inside,
doesn't it?

What do you want me to do?

Need you to keep your
ear to the ground,

and if you hear anything,
you let me know.

You bet.

Okay.

(camera shutter clicking)

Here you go.

Oh, thanks.

Listen, if you, um...

ever need to talk...

Thank you.

You know, Jesse,
I keep finding all of this

thin granular residue on the bomb site,
and it's not dust.

There's more on the door panel;
will you check it out?

Yeah, it's some sort
of white residue.

You notice that smell?

Yeah.

Smells like fuel.

At first, I thought
it was the car,

but I think it's
from the bomb itself.

That means we're
looking at ANFO.

Ammonium nitrate fuel oil.

That would explain

the extent of the damage.

Well, the bomb clearly
originated from that car.

NEVINS: All right, bye.

You know, we need to
find the detonator.

(distant siren blares)

Will you make sure
the separate sectors

go back in different vehicles?

Thanks.

Hey, flatbed's on the way.

We'll clear the scene when
it's ready for transport.

What do you know, Eric?

Nothing more than you do,
Natalia.

Come on, you got
to drop the act.

I mean, really, look at this.

Nevins is dead!

This case has officially
dropped in all of our laps,

so you got to come clean about this,
about everything.

Come clean about what?

She deserves to know.

Everyone deserves to know.

Know what?

DELKO: Nevins--

she had me wearing a wire.

A wire?!

You agreed to that?

Evidence was going
missing from the lab.

So you were spying on us?

Everyone was a suspect

on the stolen diamonds
and the heroin.

Okay? If it wasn't me,
it was going to be

someone that wasn't
going to protect you.

You're a real hero, Delko.

BOA VISTA: Okay, okay, it's not

as simple as it all seems.

And you-- you knew about
this the whole time?

I'm sorry.

Some team.

I was doing it to
protect you guys!

You almost got yourself killed.

How's that protecting anyone?

CARDOZA: Hey, Delko.

When you get a sec.

You know a lot about cars.

Yeah.

So from what I can see,

every VIN on this car was
stripped before the blast.

What do you think?

You know what,
let's start with what's left

of the suspension system.

CARDOZA: Yeah,
what are you thinking?

Pass me that saw, please.

Thanks.

Got a hydraulic pump.

Or what's left of it, anyway.

This car had a
hydraulic suspension.

Well, you know what?
A serial number

can be just as useful as a VIN.

All right, let's start with a
search of local auto shops.

A serial number could get us
the owner of the bomb car.

All right.

All right, the hydraulics were
installed on an '86 Cutlass.

Hmm, that makes sense.

The size and shape
of the wreckage

could belong to a Cutlass.

Well, here's the VIN number.

Any details on the car?

Vehicle records say that
this car was shot up

in a bank robbery in '08.

Bank robbery?

Who owns the car?

We do.

This car is supposed to
be in our impound yard.

What?

(phone ringing) DELKO: Hey,
let the phone ring.

Sorry.

Um, let's see. Sorry.

Yes, I think this is the
car you're looking for.

A 1986 Cutlass.

Uh, was seized by
Major Crimes in 2008.

Um, let's see... impounded
here two weeks later.

Even mentions the...
That's our bomb car.

Who signed it out?

Uh, that would be a Detective,
uh, Steven Carmichael.

Carmichael pulled the vehicle

for Undercover Task
Force in March.

I need to use your computer.
Yeah, of course.

Of course, just...

TRIPP: All right,
let me ask you this.

So you signed it out,
he never brought it back.

And that didn't bother you?

Well, no, I-I have heard
nothing about this.

This is the first time.
Got something.

Carmichael pulled

another car out a month earlier.

Sounds like a pattern to me.

Look, I just got
out of the academy

like two months ago, all right?

This is way before my time.

Pull all requisitions
signed by Carmichael.

Of course.

Carmichael's in Narco.

His file's flagged "restricted""

That'll make it tough
to track him down.

Let's start with his last case.

I need you to make copies of
these for me. Thanks. Yes, sir.

Hey, easy.

Tino Garvez.

Have a seat, Tino.

What is this?

Looking for a known
associate of yours.

Associate?

You mean cop.

Carmichael was
investigating you,

and he just disappeared.

Well, I guess that's too bad,
isn't it?

It's too bad, huh?

Where is he?

Screw you.

Screw us? Yeah.

Does Carmichael
still work for you?!

That undercover pig
never worked for me.

He's responsible for almost $3
million in missing evidence.

You understand me?

Cars, diamonds, narcotics.

That sounds just
like my type of guy.

Tino, where is he?

Dropped him off somewhere
between here and Key West.

When was that?

Summer of '08 sometime.

So you're saying you killed him.

Well, there ain't gonna
be much left to find.

Maybe the anchor
he went down with.

H, that car didn't go
missing till March, 2010.

Tino, you're a liar.

Why would I do that?

I'm sitting here
doing life, chief.

Honesty's my new policy,
all right?

Now, however, I just told
you two that I 86'd a cop,

and you're going on
here about some car?

You guys

are getting played, seems to me.

Yo, C.O.

Let's go, get out of here.

Huh? Huh?

(laughing) You guys
are gettin' played.

What did you get from Garvez?

It turns out that the
car used in the bombing

was checked out of impound by a
police officer named Carmichael.

Used the name of a dead cop-
we got a mess.

What do you want me to do?

I want you to start pulling
files on Carmichael

and I want you to
keep me in the loop.

You don't do
interviews without me.

Got it.

Simmons: I'm just saying,
I've never stolen anything, ever.

I don't even know
Delko all that well.

Come to think of it,
that's probably why

he set his sights on
me in the first place.

I don't think that's true,
Walter.

Hmm.

These metal sprockets that
Natalia recovered from the scene

might actually be helpful.

You don't think they
came from the vehicles?

No.

We collected hundreds of them.

I bet you they were
part of the bomb.

Well, take a look at this.

I think I just found
the ignition device.

What?

What is that?

Some kind of toy rocket engine? Yeah,
it makes sense.

Motor uses a
composite propellant.

The engine cap forces the gas
and flames into the nozzle.

Surefire way to ignite a
hundred pounds of ANFO.

Yeah, but what
ignites that thing?

What ignites that?

A cell phone.

The bomb was detonated remotely.

(phone dialing)

(phone buzzing)

Come to Daddy.

I found eight different kinds
of sprockets in all this debris.

All right, Wolfe, follow me.

Sprockets are gears
used in motors.

If we can match the
sprocket with the motor,

like here...

These sprockets are all
used in golf carts.

Great, golf carts.

There's only a million
of those in Miami.

We found hundreds of
those sprockets, though.

But you know what, Walter?

I don't think we're looking for
someone who owns a golf cart.

I think we're looking

for someone who
repairs golf carts.

Drew Pollack,
let me ask you something.

How is the golf cart
business these days?

Everybody over 50
in Miami has one,

so business is good.

Good. So you recognize these?

'Cause what I think,

is that they're parts
used in golf carts.

Yeah. so?

So, you used them to make bombs.

Like the one you used today
to kill Rebecca Nevins.

What?

What are you talking about?

Don't play dumb, Pollack.
We know you built a bomb

in 1999 that blew up
a restaurant using

the exact some signature
as the one today.

Toy rocket cell phone trigger.

That was a long time ago.

Look, I... I cooperated
with the state attorney.

The state attorney was,
uh, Rebecca Nevins.

She prosecuted the case, right?

Yeah, yeah,
she's the reason I'm out.

That's right.

She made a deal with you.

You copped a plea.

But you still got ten years.

I don't know, that feels
like revenge to me.

DELKO: Listen to me, Pollack,
we know you're a rat.

And I'm going to give you
a chance to help yourself.

How did you get the car out
of the police impound, huh?

Who are you working with?

I want my lawyer.

This is Dr. Tom Loman.

I am continuing the
autopsy of Rebecca Nevins.

X-raying the remains with
a digital fluoroscope.

Victim suffered massive
concussive injuries.

Brain mass was pulverized
and badly misshapen.

Cardiac sac was desiccated.

Heart muscle completely severed
from arterial structure.

Lungs bisected and torn.

Liver shredded.

Victim suffered
dislocation of the spine

at the seventh
cervical juncture.

An appearance of shrapnel is
noted throughout the body.

Good God.

I will attempt to
remove offending items

with rubber tweezers,

so as to preserve
evidentiary value.

Assist, please. Up.

Thank you, sir.

Oh...

¶ ¶

I just pulled a GPS
chip from Nevins' body.

Okay, the GPS in
her car was intact.

So this has to belong
to the bomb car.

If the bomber used Nav,
then a reverse journey

will take us right back to him.

¶ ¶

(trilling, beeps)

FEMALE VOICE: Destination
in one quarter mile.

We got backup. Good.

So, are you still wearing it?

No.

I'm not wearing the wire.

Are you sure?

Calleigh, I stopped wearing it.

Destination in 1,000 feet.

'Cause I don't want
to think about it.

Think about what?

What are you talking about?

Were you wearing it
when we were together?

Destination in 500 feet.

Were you wearing the wire
when we were at home?

You have arrived at
your destination.

Calleigh, listen to me.

I wasn't wearing the wire
when we were home together.

Hey. That's Ryan's.

The car bomb started here?

No one really believes that
Ryan did any of this, do they?

Well, we know it was
someone on the inside,

so we do what we got to do.
(clattering)

Hey! Hey,
careful with his stuff.

He's one of us.
Hey! (clattering)

I just don't feel good
about doing any of this.

Yeah, me, neither.

I guess just look at it

as not searching a suspect,

but a way to exonerate Wolfe.

Yeah, well, Wolfe's here.

Hey, Wolfe's here.

Okay. Don't stop searching.

Search.

DUQUESNE: I'll go talk to him.

The hell is going on here?!

Stop.

You can't go inside.
Oh, I can't go inside?

This is my place.
DUQUESNE: Ryan.

I said stop! It's okay.

He can come in. It's okay.

Those are my clubs. Hey!

What is going on here?
Is this some kind of joke?

What is IA doing here?

Okay, look, the GPS coordinates

from the car bomb
led us back here.

Where were you this morning?

You think I had something
to do with the bomb?

Are you serious? I don't know.

Are you kidding me?
! And what is he doing here?

Hey, I'm just trying to help.

Oh, you're just trying to help?

What's the matter?

Your investigation with Walter

hit a dead end, Eric?

Speaking of which,
make yourself at home,

Walter, please. Don't get up.

All you guys can
take a look around.

Go through whatever you want.

You're going to find anything,
so ha, ha, ha.

Eric, what are you doing?

(rattling)

Those aren't mine.

Of course, they're not.
You stole them.

No, I mean I didn't
put them there!

I did not put them there.

I have no idea how
they got there.

Someone is trying to set me up.

Do you see what's going on here?

You guys got to believe me.
Someone's trying

to set me up here. It's not me.

Take him, please.

Thanks a lot.

What happened? You have some
old gambling debts to pay off,

so you stole the diamonds?

You steal the car,
the heroin, all that?

I haven't gambled
in four years, Rick.

Was Nevins getting too close?

You think I murdered Nevins?

You better come out
and say it, buddy.

Well, the evidence
that you trust so much

is leading us all one way.

That's kind of how somebody
wants it to look, isn't it?

Mr. Wolfe, back off right now.

Mr. Wolfe was the last
person to see the diamonds

before they went missing,
Horatio.

I was in the evidence locker.

I was counting the diamonds.

I put them back in the bin.

Then I signed out
with an officer.

And that is by the book, Rick.

He was the last person
in the chain of custody,

and the diamonds were
found at his house.

I was also the one who
reported them missing.

Oh, and thanks to
two of your CSIs,

we also know the bomb car

originated from Wolfe's house.

He's a prime suspect here.

This is an active
investigation, my friend.

No. You're done.

I let you try it your way,

and A.S.A. Nevins got killed.

So, cuff him now, please.

CAINE: Those are not necessary.

It's by the book, Horatio.

You guys seeing this?

They're dragging
Wolfe away in cuffs.

¶ ¶

This isn't right.

We-we got to do something.

Well, I'm getting nothing here.

Well, whoever framed
Ryan killed Nevins.

Yeah, they also knew how to
make themselves invisible.

I mean, there's no prints,
no usable trace, no DNA.

There's no human DNA.

What are you doing?

Is this a new
identification process?

Brand-new. Just read
about it in a journal.

Well, what is it?

Well, every time we
touch an object--

anything, from, um, a keyboard

to a steering wheel...
To the diamonds?

Exactly. We leave behind a
distinct bacterial signature

that's consistent
for up to two weeks.

So, you're saying we can
tell who handled the diamonds

by the bacteria
they left behind?

Exactly.

We each have a unique
little set of creatures

that are crawling on our skin.

Kind of makes you want
to lose your lunch,

doesn't it?

This bacterial signature

won't match 87%
of the population.

Well, then, we need to
get elimination samples

from everybody in the lab.

Starting with Ryan.

(sighs)

Horatio.

Yeah, look, something
about Nevins' connection

to Pollack was bugging me,

so I looked deeper into
her case against him.

You're not going to
believe what I found.

I didn't blow up
that restaurant.

Sully: Well,
next time, don't use

your own cell phone as
the trigger, genius,

and maybe I'll believe you.

MAN: Sully, better
fix your lunch order

before Parker hits the road.

(Sully grunts)

Sit tight, rocket man.

I'm not done with you.

Sully was the lead Detective.

He's the only one I told
about my investigation.

If he's a dirty cop,

he'd have every reason to
want Nevins and me dead.

How do you want to handle it?

I'll talk to him.

Taking a trip, Sully?

Horatio.

Heading out to Government Cut.

Tarpon are schooling.

Drew Pollack, Sully. Who?

Drew Pollack,
the bomber from '99.

Pollack.

Yeah, I worked that
case ten years ago.

He killed Rebecca
Nevins this morning.

You think I had something
to do with this?

I need you to come
in for questioning.

Why?

So you can run your tests?

Take me in your lab
and prove what?

I... This is your chance, Sully.

I know how it goes.

I walk in that lab...

I'm done.

OFFICERS: Gun!

CAINE: Easy, everybody.

Sully,

put the gun down.

I can't.

It's too late.

I screwed up.

I screwed up bad.

Let's talk about it. Talk?

(laughs)

Talk...

I dug myself

such a hole, you can't
even get me out, Horatio.

Sully,

were you stealing evidence?

No. Then who was?

Nobody was supposed

to get hurt. But they did.

They got killed, Sully,
and that's on you.

Come inside, Sully, please.

Sully, come inside.
It's too late.

I'm sorry.

(clicking)

(gun fires)

(grunts)

DELKO: Sorry, H.

(sighs)

Have they released Wolfe yet?

No. Still waiting for the
bacterial DNA results.

Sully say who Carmichael was?

He did not.

We're looking for another cop,
someone Sully knew and trusted.

We are.

Olansky.

The officer that works here
in the evidence locker.

What about him?

Before he worked the
evidence locker, Frank...

he worked the impound yard.

Where most of the
property was stolen.

Right.

13, 14, 15 times

he signed out for Carmichael.

And he was in the lab when
the diamonds were stolen.

He gets around, Frank.

Yeah, that sounds good.

I like their food.

DELKO: Hey.

Get off of the phone, Olansky.

I'll call you back.

You know, during your
time at the impound,

you signed out multiple cars

to an officer Carmichael-
none of which

were ever returned.

Including the bomb car.

Lot of people come in
and out of impound, sir.

It's hard to keep the names
and the faces straight.

Oh.

That's fair enough.

But, uh, coincidentally,
you were also at

the evidence lockup the day
the diamonds went missing.

And during that very
same shift, Officer,

you claim the security
cameras went down

and that you called
Tech Services.

Yes, sir.

We checked the internal log

and your extension.

You never made that call,
Officer.

I misspoke, sir.

I went to Tech Services.

I thought it'd be faster.
(scoffs)

You thought that'd be
faster than a phone call?

Officer Olansky,

you shut those cameras off,
didn't you?

No, sir.

Okay. You did deal with
Carmichael, though.

Yes, sir. And he did

sign out those cars.

Right, Officer?

Yes, sir.

Including the bomb car.

Here's the problem, Officer.

Carmichael has been dead for

over two years.

Two years.

So I'm gonna ask you again.

Who are you dealing with?

Who signed out the cars?

Stop lying, Olansky, all right?

An assistant state attorney
was killed in that car.

Who was Carmichael?

Somebody

shut those cameras off
to protect that man.

Now, who was it?

Officer, this is
a murder one rap.

You don't give me his name,
you take it yourself.

I want you to think about that.

¶ ¶

¶ ¶

¶ ¶

I got your call, Horatio.

Bacterial DNA was a match.

So we got our man.

As a matter of fact,
we do, Rick.

Why don't you have a seat?

What's going on?

We ran a bacteria
sample from you

against the profile
from the diamonds.

You were a match.

(chuckles): What are
you talking about?

You never swabbed me.

No, but you were
holding that folder

while you were interrogating me.

Okay, so you got a
bacterial DNA match.

You don't have my DNA.

We don't need it.

CAINE: He's right, Rick.
We don't need it.

With Olansky's testimony,
you're going down.

WOLFE: Or should we, uh...

Should we call you Carmichael?

All of these years, Stetler,

you were trying to pin
something on one of us,

you were the dirty one.

Stealing evidence,

the cars, drugs,

diamonds.

And most importantly,

conspiring to kill the
state's attorney, Rick.

Started with one car.

One stupid car.

Carmichael-- he takes a Porsche
out of impound for a case.

Carmichael disappears.

Nobody cares.

Nobody notices.

$100,000 car

gone.

$100,000?

That stuff just sits there
in Asset Forfeiture.

Goes forgotten.

So I made a trip to impound.

Where you taking
the vehicle, sir?

You're Officer Olansky, right?

Yes, sir.

You know, you failed
your last drug test.

I was told I passed.

Oh, did I say your last?

I meant your next drug test.

Yeah, here's the deal.

I make sure that
that doesn't happen,

you get to keep your job,
and all it costs

is a dead banger's ride.

Is that fair enough?

Thank you.

There we go.

That's where you got the car you
used for the bombing, right?

The diamonds...

...they were gonna be it.

You see, I just needed
a couple more weeks,

because I couldn't let
all those years of work

go to waste.

You planted those diamonds
in Wolfe's apartment

to buy time, and that's all.

20 years.

(badge clatters on table)

I gave my life for this.

And what do I got
to show for it?

I got high blood pressure,
I got two ex-wives,

and I got a pension
that ain't worth spit.

We all do.

That's the nature
of the sacrifice.

Cut the self-righteousness,
Horatio.

You know

better than anybody

that this place chews

you up, and what are you gonna
get at the end, Horatio?

You're gonna get
an exit interview,

and you're gonna
get a cheap watch.

So...

I stole from some thieves.

Big deal.

Rebecca Nevins was one of us,
Rick, and you had her killed.

This ain't me, guys.
You know me.

Get up.

Get up.

Yeah.

You tried to pin all this on me?

You're going to prison,
you son of a bitch.

I know.

¶ ¶

¶ ¶

I'm glad you got my back.

(clasping hands)

Thank you.

It's quite a sight.

That view never gets old.

(chuckles)

I wasn't talking about the view.

Flattery will get
you nowhere today.

(chuckles)

I know it's gonna take me a
while to earn back your trust.

You're right about that.