Kill Switch (CSI: Miami episode)

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“Kill Switch”
CSI: Miami episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 23
Written by	Mark Dube & Corey D. Miller
Directed by	Scott Lautanen
Production no.	523
Original airdate	May 7, 2007
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"Kill Switch" is the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of the America crime drama CSI: Miami.

[edit] Plot

Former C.S.I. Ryan Wolfe (Jonathan Togo) explains to a television audience the process that C.S.I.s went through to identify a young woman's carjacker and shows a video of the woman being attacked. Wolfe, fired in the previous episode, is now working for a television station as a crime reporter. Shortly after his piece airs, the man seen in the video attacking the woman is found dead on a beach, and the C.S.I.s begin to investigate his death. C.S.I. Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter) visits Wolfe at the television station, where they argue over his behavior. Wolfe gives Duquesne the phone records of two threats called into the station after his piece aired, and the C.S.I.s match a number to the name of someone whose DNA was found on the victim.

The man, Derek Hewitt (Michael Filipowich) confesses to having seen the television piece and then recognizing the attacker. He kicked him in the chest and urinated on him. He confesses to murdering the man as he's led to jail. As he walks by, a man who says he's the victim's brother identifies himself to C.S.I. Natalia Boa Vista. He identifies his brother as Jason Billings (Tanc Sade).

Further examination reveals that Hewitt's kicks did not kill Billings and that the DNA on the body is a match to a young man who does maintenance on Billings's boat. The team sweeps the beach where the body was found for evidence; when Wolfe and his cameraman follow them, Wolfe's cameraman is caught in a gated trap that nearly kills him, and Wolfe begins to rethink his priorities.

The C.S.I.s find out that Billings was involved with drug trafficking. A deal gone wrong between Billings, his brother, and a known Miami drug lord led to Billings's brother dumping him over the side of a yacht, after which the drug lord rescued him from the ocean and broke his neck. He confesses this to Horatio Caine (David Caruso) in a final interview.

Wolfe, on air, tells a reporter from the station that he values police work and the police too much to abandon them. He and Horatio talk briefly outside the lab, where Wolfe vows "not to abandon this team" and Horatio assures him the team will also not abandon him.

[edit] References

Cast names and summary confirmed through the IMDB page for "Kill Switch."