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CSI: Miami – Episode 7.05 Bombshell
Air Date: October 20, 2008
Short, creepy, ominous sequences of a man sewing a dress punctuate the scene at an upscale clothing boutique. Two teenage girls are trying on clothes. In an interactive dressing room, one of the girls, Kim Waldeman is zipping up a dress, when an explosion sends her flying out into the center of the store. Her friend, Amy in the next dressing room has just minor cuts, but Kim is dead.
Horatio notes that the explosion was confined to the dressing room, but can’t determine the source. Tara tells Horatio that she can’t determine the extent of the girl’s trauma because the fabric has fused to her body.
Tara: Why target a fashion boutique? It seems so random.
Horatio: On the contrary, this was by design.
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Outside, Eric and Horatio find out from the boutique owner that the store has no video surveillance. Then, they hear a disruption outside a neighboring store. Horatio walks over to find a patrolman escorting Julia, Horatio’s ex out of the store to arrest her.
The officer tells Horatio that Julia has repeatedly issued bad checks to the store, and this time they’re prepared to press charges. She’s written $6000 in bad checks. Horatio tells the officer he’ll handle it. He confronts Julia, who blames Leonard McBride, the business manager that Ron hired to tend to their finances.
Horatio finds McBride in a restaurant to confront him. McBride says Julia has squandered millions, and has lost all grasp of reality. She also owed McBride a year’s worth of fees.
Eric and Calleigh examine the dressing room. When she explains the mirror is also a sophisticated LCD touchscreen that remembers every outfit you’ve tried on, Eric wonders if they could retrieve a record of the moments before the explosion.
Tara points out to Ryan that the burns from the explosion are concentrated the front of Kim’s torso. She also shows him wires she found on the dress worn by the victim. Ryan finds a small watch battery. They realize it could have set off a small amount of explosive.
Jane is able to retrieve the last few seconds on the LCD touchscreen. Sarino points out that the dress Kim was wearing wasn’t from the store. All his garments are animal friendly, but that dresss was suede. So, someone walked in and handed her the bomb.
Horatio drives by an altercation between Kyle and one of Julia’s neighbors. He sends the neighbor on, then asks Kyle what’s going on. Kyle tells him that his mom isn’t acting normal.
Frank gives Natalia Kim’s purse. A building inspector found the purse between the first and second store. In the purse, they find tools for removing security tags from clothing, along with five thousand dollars in cash.
When Eric questions Amy, she reluctantly shows the tag on the stolen top she’s wearing. She says she did it just for fun, but she won’t reveal the person who hired them.
Horatio asks Julia how long it’s been since she took her medication. She’s belligerent with him about it.
Though a single bill may be handled by many people, Eric examines the top and bottom bills from the stack in Kim’s purse to see who might have handled the bundle of bills. Of course, Kim’s prints show up, but so do those of Dr. Robert Langley, a plastic surgeon who has previously been accused of sexual misconduct with a patient.
Calleigh questions Dr. Langley. He claims the charges were dropped. Calleigh shows him a photo of Kim. He said that at 17 she was too young to have a breast augmentation, and returned the money she tried to pay him.
Frank tells Horatio that there was a hit and run at Julia’s address. Horatio rushes over to find Tara examining the victim. He identifies the young man as Brice Kerwin from across the street, the same man that Kyle was arguing with earlier. Tara has found Julia’s bi-polar medication in Brice’s pocket. Horatio finds her inside. She tells him that Brice and Kyle fought, earlier, and that Brice was stealing her meds. She asks him who’s going to protect Kyle, now.
Horatio questions Kyle, who says that he didn’t run Brice over. Kyle asks Horatio to let him take the fall, if the hit-and-run comes back on Julia.
Eric helps Horatio examine Julia’s car for clues to exonerate them. Eric finds crabshell on the floorboard, leading Horatio back to Leonard McBride, who was eating crab at lunch. McBride says that he was taking the car as payment for his services over the past year. Brice jumped out in front of the car, and McBride fled the scene.
Ryan reassembled the bomb in the dress, but still had no clues to the maker. Calleigh hints that if the good bomb maker was a bad tailor, he may have left DNA behind. Ryan finds blood in one of the mended seams. It matches Stan Carlyle, a man who spent two years in jail for bomb making incidents.
Eric and Ryan go to Carlyle’s apartment. The man there claims to be his roommate, Barry. Stan’s bedroom is locked. Inside, they find bombmaking tools, and women’s clothing.
Calleigh visits the clothing boutique of Faratelli. She identifies the exploding dress as one of her own. She said some woman with a stroller stole it. She had the stroller behind the store, because the thief fled and left some of the merchandise. Eric and Natalia find an afghan lined with aluminum foil inside the stroller. They figure the thief used it to bypass security.
Calleigh and Eric question Amy about her baby stroller scam. She claims not to know Stan Carlyle. She says it’s not fair, because it was Kim who was doing the real scam, targeting certain designers and certain stores. She claims it’s unwise to reveal who gave them the list of clothes to steal. Calleigh takes Amy’s phone.
Ryan brings in Barry. He tells him that his watch gave him away. Ryan tells him that they know that he’s really Stan, and that he’s the bomber. He tells him that his fingers didn’t leave any prints. He tells Barry that he knows that he’s really Stan. He tells Barry that they know about Stan’s showing up at a hospital with severe burns. They believe that he changed his identity, after having plastic surgery. Stan/Barry apogizes for the dead girl. He says that his plastic surgeon asked him to make the bomb.
Calleigh visits Dr. Langley to tell him that Stan is talking. Langley says that the victim got greedy. She wanted the big money, and threatened to accuse him of sexual misconduct, if he didn’t agree. So, he had to shut her up. He called in a favor from one of his patients. Officers arrest Langley.
Horatio visits Julia. He kisses her head, then sits quietly with her. They share looks, as the episode closes.
