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'''''{{smallcaps|[[Memetic Mutation|Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh!]]}}'''''

 

 

The show uses its Miami setting to tell different stories to its Vegas counterpart; due to its coastal setting, the show features more water-based mysteries (e.g., stories involving dead people on boats and people fleeing Cuba), as well as dropping the 'pure science' angle of its parent series for a more direct 'police procedural' concept (meaning that Horatio Caine is primarily a police officer, rather than a scientist). One of its oddities is Alexx, [[The Coroner]], who liked to say, "Oh, poor baby" or words to that effect over the corpse of the week (it's established early in the series that she does it to give the deceased a sense of 'reassurance'). Other characters include Calleigh Duquesne, known as the "bullet girl"; Ryan Wolfe (always referred to by Horatio as "Mr. Wolfe"); and Eric Delko, whose intensely drippy sister was briefly married to Mr. Caine before getting introduced to the business end of a firearm.

The series ended its run in 2012 after 10 seasons.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: When [[Leverage|Aldis Hodge]] guest-starred all the poker players got ''Leverage''-style titles (he was "Rap Mogul"; others were "Movie Star" and "Housewife").

* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Marisol Delko - the healthiest looking dying woman on TV. She's had six months of chemotherapy for a tumor that, according to her brother, is bad enough that she apparently only has months to live, and yet, no makeup or clothing effects were used to hide the fact that her actress is perfectly healthy.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Abusing women may earn you some abuse from Horatio.

** Child abusers might be {{spoiler|allowed to die while Horatio watches. Yes, the guy was a pedophile kidnapper, but he was begging for help and implied to be an abuse victim himself.}}

* [[Big Yes]]: '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''

* [[Birth Death Juxtaposition]]: A pregnant woman who's beaten and left for dead gives birth on the day Horatio planned to visit Marisol's grave, which happens to be her birthday.

* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Calleigh, Sam, and Boa Vista (auburn).

* [[Bolivian Army Cliffhanger]]: Season 8's. {{spoiler|Everyone lived, save Jesse.}}

{{quote| '''Sniper Suspect:''' Don't you want to know why?<br />

'''Horatio:''' You just killed four innocent people, you're evil, you enjoy death, I hope you enjoy your own. }}

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Speed's death which comes out of practically nowhere and is in no way relevant to the case. The people who kill him aren't even connected to the episode's main perp.}}

* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: {{spoiler|Horatio's son is now working in the coroner's office (don't ask me how or why) and Horatio suspects he's stealing drugs. It turns out that Dr. Price (the current coroner) is an Oxycontin addict - when a grenade went off in the lab, Wolfe noticed her grabbing her spilled drugs: "Your pills are more important then your safety?"}}

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: {{spoiler|The "Miami Taunter's" grandmother killed her husband and had her then-14-year old son bury his body and was a "Well done son" mom ever since, and when her husband's body was found along with her grandson's victims she killed her son, exposed her grandson, and fled to a tropical island with no extradition.}}

* [[Expy]]:

** Super H : Horatio, especially during his dramatic escapes without injury.

* [[Fan Service]]: What else do you call the regular shots in the pre-titles sequence of scantily-clad women? Or every outfit in Calleigh or Natalia's wardrobes? And, occasionally, Alex.

* [[Flanderization]]: Caine used to have moments when [[Dull Surprise|he woruld actually emote]].

** Caine used to have moments where he worked in the lab, like, you know, a CSI.

** Ill Guy: One of 103 donor children tracks down his biological father because he (the son) suffers from a rare disease and needs a compatible liver. Unfortunately the soon-to-be-late bio dad isn't interested in helping {{spoiler|fortunately his long-lost identical twin is a lot nicer.}}

* [[Initialism Title]]: The first half, at least...

* [[The Lab Rat]]: Originally Natalia, now shared by Maxine and Travers, who is very... [[I Am Very British|British]].

** Speedle was mostly refered to by his last name, or his nickname "Speed".

** Because his name is MR. WOLFE. If people could call me [[Pulp Fiction|Mr. Wolfe]] I'd beg people to call me by my last name.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: it certainly seems like it, but probably just due to [[Narm]].

* [[Locards Theory]]: Mentioned by name at least twice.

* [[MacGyvering]]: When Calleigh gets kidnapped, she uses her l33t forensic skillz to give the team the identities of her kidnappers and her location, which [[CSI|Catherine]] had also done, [[Recycled Script|years before]].

* [[Made of Iron]]: {{spoiler|At the end of an episode Ryan is kidnapped by a group of Russians and tortured brutally all night long, including multiple blows to the head and chest}}. The next morning he goes home, cleans up, and proceeds to climb ''thirty flights of stairs to get to a crime scene, without even breaking a sweat''.

* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]: The parcel delivery driver in "Special Delivery" was having affairs with many of the housewives along his route. It was thought this might have been the reason he was murdered. {{spoiler|It wasn't.}}

* [[Police Brutality Gambit]]: Oh the problems they could save themselves if they invested in a camera for the interrogation room.

* [[Power Walk]]: At one point, Horatio opens the episode in a confessional. There's some commotion in the cemetery right outside, which happens to be gunmen disrupting a funeral. After an exchange of gunfire, Caine, Alex, and Frank are all standing around while the other three CSIs, each in their own car, all arrive. They walk towards the crime scene in slow motion while Alex, H, and Frank talk about the murder. All told, they cut back to the Power Walk ''[[Narm|five times]]'' before they actually arrive.

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Horatio's son enlisted in the army at some point; naturally his shore leave consisted of his Arab-American buddy possibly being dead, then accused of murder {{spoiler|he's innocent, but his girlfriend's parents are rather messed-up}}. At the end of the episode, he is literally put on a bus. He has yet to be seen again, over a season later.

** Alexx leaves the morgue in Season 6 to become an ER doctor. [[The Bus Came Back|She's occasionally appeared since then]], usually when one of the team have been injured in the line of duty.

* [[Quip to Black]]. Subverted on one occasion when the episode starts with Horatio's old friend on the bomb squad being killed in an explosion while he's outside. Caine, stunned, actually takes ''off'' his shades and says absolutely nothing.

** Horatio is known so well for this, CBS did a "Horatio Caine Impression Contest" at one point.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Won't Get Fooled Again" by [[The Who]], beginning right at the '''''[[Running Gag|YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!]]'''''

** One episode, "Miami, we have a problem", was literally in space. The murder, at least.

* [[Refuge in Cool]]: Everything Horatio thinks, says, and does.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: The entire end of Season 4 brings the wrath of Horatio down on the Mala Noches when {{spoiler|they carry out a hit on his wife of only one day, Marisol, ultimately killing her}}. This then leads to a perfectly pitched [[Tear Jerker]].

** Combined with [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: {{spoiler|a chubby girl gets revenge on the three douche-bags who humiliated her by first slimming down and then killing them over spring break.}}

* [[Too Soon]]: Wolf teasing Walter about going skydiving while examining a victim who died when his parachute was tampered with. Walter's response is "Hey, let's ask him how it was -- what, too soon?"

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d54Ok6Uz_A Horatio doesn't look at explosions.]

* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: The [[Happily Married]] couple who [[spoiler:kidnapped women (with the wife posing as a fellow victim in order to relish the sight of hope dying in the victims' eyes) in order to strengthen their marriage. If I recall correctly that episode was titled [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_<!-- C3A0_deux "Folie A Deux"]] and the wife was the crazy one who "infected" the husband.]] -->

* [[Verbal Tic]]:

* [[Vigilante Execution]]: A common hazard, and not just at the end of the episode, either - sometimes it happens halfway through and they discover some additional twist in the case.

* [[We Are Everywhere]]: Subverted on at least one occasion when Horatio answers back that he'll be using the evidence they found out of the Perp Of the Week's stuff to hunt down every last member of this "we".

* [[The Who]]: So...'''''[[Overly Long Gag|YEAHHHH]]--''''' *is shot*

** So that troper just became...the [[Dead Horse Trope]]. '''''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]]'''''

** The episode "[[Punny Name|CSI: My Nanny]]".

* [[Wham Episode]]: {{spoiler|As of the Season 9 finale, Horatio's been shot (for real this time), and Natalia's been locked in the trunk of a car which has just been shoved off the pier. The episode ends with her screaming and pleading for someone, anyone to answer their phone as she frantically calls for help (but gets nothing but busy signals).}}

** Another episode featured a guy who {{spoiler|very nearly loses his mind to ''[[The Game (Film)|The Game]]''.}}

* [[Yakuza]]: Featured in an episode, but only called "Sakiru" for some reason. This is the ''least'' of the episode's [[Did Not Do the Research]].

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