Minor characters in CSI: Miami
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The following are minor and recurring characters from the television show CSI: Miami.
[edit] Recurring characters
| CSI: Miami character | |
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 Boti Ann Bliss portrays Maxine Valera |
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| Maxine Valera | |
| City | Miami |
| Status | Alive |
| Job | Lab techinician |
| Position | DNA analyst |
| Seasons | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Portrayed by | Boti Ann Bliss |
| First appearance | Hard Time |
- Laboratory Technician Maxine Valera (Boti Ann Bliss, seasons 2-), DNA analyst. She was temporarily suspended from her duties in Season 3 for technical errors, then reinstated by Season 4. She has an unfortunate habit of taking shortcuts with evidence, which caused her suspension and also brought her under suspicion when the lab was investigated by the FBI (episode 425, "One of Our Own").
She goes on a date with Natalia Boa Vista's ex-husband Nick Townsend and thinks she is his killer after he turns up murdered, though this assumption is proved to be untrue. Jake Berkley (who investigated the case) kept insisting that she and Natalia, killed him despite the fact that Townsend was physically beaten to death (and Valera and Boa Vista's lack of physical strength made it impossible) She and Natalia were cleared however when it was revealed that the case among Nick Townsend is related to the case regarding Lauren Sloan and her husband Jeff Murdock. Jeff killed Nick in order to return his wife's earrings. (episode 512, "Internal Affairs").
- Raymond Caine, Jr. (Alex Buck, Hayden Tank, and Carter Jenkins, seasons 1-), son of Yelina and Raymond Caine, Horatio's nephew. Currently lives in Miami with his mother.
- Internal Affairs Bureau Sergeant Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith, season 2-), IAB Sergeant and Horatio's relentless (but nuanced) nemesis. He later starts a relationship with Yelina, but she leaves with her husband in the season 3 finale. His harsh feelings toward Caine stem from a bitter feeling when Horatio was promoted to Lieutenant instead of him, believing Caine may have pulled in some "special favors" for the job. Horatio also suspects that during Stetler's relationship with Yelina, Stetler may have been abusive, which is evident when she comes to work one day with a black eye. (Season 3, episode Crime Wave) Stetler later returns to warn Horatio against going after a corrupt city official, saying that he can't protect him if Caine follows through. "Just like old times," the CSI replies (episode 517, "A Grizzly Murder"). Although Stetler often harasses Horatio, he has also been sympathetic and even helpful when he knows the CSI is being framed by genuine bad guys.
- Laboratory Technician Cynthia Wells (Brooke Bloom, season 2-5), Questioned Documents lab tech.
- Secret Service Special Agent Peter Elliott (Michael B. Silver, seasons 2-5), Working in the Financial Crime Division, Agent Elliott had an obvious infatuation with Calleigh that interested her, but she stopped short when she found out, after taking him to the hospital for a gunshot wound, that he was engaged to the state district attorney. At the end of the season, it was revealed that his fiancée, State District Attorney Monica West, is the one that impugned the CSI lab and stole drug money seized in a raid; she causes the FBI to investigate, hoping that discrediting the lab would help her out politically. Elliot, wearing a wire, gets her to confess, and she is arrested (episode 425, "One of Our Own").
- WFOR-TV Newscaster Erica Sykes (Amy Laughlin, seasons 3-5), an aggressive, ambitious young news reporter for the Miami CBS station, WFOR-TV. Her antics are often described as crazy and are very much annoying to the CSI team. It is Erica who revealed to Ryan that there is a mole in the lab in a special extended scene that was available on www.cbs.com after the episode Urban Hellraisers aired. She also helps Ryan in a case regarding abuse of eminent domain, with the government evicting people from their homes before turning the land over to a private developer (episode 505, "Death Eminent"). In a later episode, however, she puts the life of Natalia's sister at risk by mentioning on the air that she is a victim in a kidnapping (episode 508, "Darkroom").
- FBI Agent Glen Cole (Mark Rolston, seasons 4,5), an FBI Agent, headed the investigation into the lab in season 4, returns in season 5 working on a case involving counterfeiting and the North Korean government (episodes 425, "One of Our Own;" 503, "Death Pool 100"). After appearing less-than-likable in those turns, he was painted in a more positive light during his appearance in "Miami Confidential" (season 6) where he helps the CSIs investigate a junior FBI agent who turns out to be an accessory to murder.
- Susie Barnam Keaton (Azura Skye, seasons 1-3), a meth addict who became involved in Horatio's personal life after revealing she had known his late brother (Raymond). After Susie rehabs in Indiana and returns to Miami, Horatio learns that her daughter (Madison) is Raymond's child (episode 208, "Big Brother"). In a later episode, her daughter becomes terminally ill. Neither Horatio nor Susie are matches for a bone marrow transplant, but he convinces Yelina Salas (who had assumed Madison was Horatio's daughter before Horatio told her about Ray), to have her son tested. Presumably, Ray Jr. is tested and proves to be a match, and Madison is cured.
- Madison Keaton (Caine) (seasons 1-3), Daughter of Raymond Caine and Susie Barnam Keaton (episode 208, "Big Brother"). In a later episode, Madison becomes terminally ill. Neither Horatio nor Susie are matches for a bone marrow transplant. Horatio convinces Yelina Salas (who had assumed Madison was Horatio's daughter before Horatio told her the truth) to have her son tested. Presumably, Ray Jr. is tested and proves to be a match, and Madison is cured.
- MDPD Homicide Detective Jake Berkeley (Johnny Whitworth, seasons 5-), a former undercover officer with the MDPD narcotics unit, as of episode 512 ("Internal Affairs") he has moved to being a homicide detective. He and Calleigh dated while they were in the Academy. At the end of season 5 and in season 6, they had again begun a relationship but new Department regulations involving officer fraternization and pressure from Rick Stetler caused Berkeley to break things off.
- Kyle Harmon (Evan Ellingson, seasons 6-) Long-lost son of Horatio Caine. Kyle was born to Julia Eberly in Pensacola, Florida. After his mother's disappearance, he went into the foster care system. Kyle is still looking for his mother even while in prison. At some point, he became drunk and stole a boat, landing him in juvenile detention for six months. During the premiere of the sixth season, we learn that although Kyle is technically in a foster home, his foster father is completely detached from him, leaving Kyle to take care of himself. Kyle becomes entangled in a murder and is blackmailed into committing a kidnapping. In episode 603, "Inside Out", Kyle is kidnapped in jail and later rescued by Horatio, who admits to him that he is his father. Kyle has sided with his mother, but also shown signs he appreciates the lengths Horatio will go to keep him safe.
| CSI: Miami character | |
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 Elizabeth Berkley portrays Julia Winston |
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| Julia Winston | |
| City | Miami |
| Status | Alive |
| Job | Real Estate |
| Position | Property Developer |
| Seasons | 6- |
| Portrayed by | Elizabeth Berkley |
| First appearance | Raising Caine |
- Julia Winston (nee Julia Eberly) (Elizabeth Berkley, seasons 6-) Horatio's ex-girlfriend and Kyle's mother who reappears during the murder investigation of her current husband. With Clavo Cruz dead, Julia serves as the show's antagonist, but it was also shown she is being forced into some evil actions by a psychotic ex-lover. Ron Saris marries Julia in "Going Ballistic." She is one of the prime suspects in the shooting of Horatio and has proven to be a conflicted and mysterious woman.
- Ron Saris (Kim Coates, seasons 6-) May have been involved in Calliegh's kidnapping ("Ambush" and "All In"). Suspected by Horatio in an illegal-ammunition case. Marries Julia Winston in "Going Ballistic" (season six finale).
- Assistant State Attorney Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang, seasons 3, 6), An Assistant State Attorney who briefly had a relationship with Horatio, but he broke it off when she made a deal with a criminal suspected of killing a cop, committing a series of robberies, and having a relationship with a 16-year-old girl who took part in his crimes. Nevins is not seen again after the breakup until season 6 (episode 603, "Inside Out"), when she is seen as assigned to prosecute Kyle Harmon, driving a further wedge between her and Horatio.
- Det. Yelina Salas (Sofia Milos) (Season 3; Recurring Seasons 1-2, 5- ): a Colombian homicide detective frequently attached to CSI investigations, and the widow of Horatio's brother Raymond. She later starts a relationship with IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler, Horatio's personal nemesis. After her husband Raymond was revealed to still be alive, she left with him and their son for Brazil, where they planned to keep a low profile for Raymond's safety. She reappears in Season 5, starting with "Rio" (the season opener). Caine and Delko are in Rio de Janeiro to hunt down Antonio Riaz, who murdered Caine's wife (and Delko's sister) Marisol at the end of Season 4. Riaz is killed in a fight with Horatio, but not before killing Raymond Caine and enlisting Ray Jr into drug-running in the shantytowns of the area. Yelina and Ray Jr wind up back in Miami, and Yelina goes into business as a private investigator (episode 522, "Burned"). Yelina investigates a suspect for Horatio, and she locates a birth certificate that reveals that the parolee is in fact Horatio's biological son (episode 601, "Dangerous Son").
[edit] Former recurring characters
- Laboratory Technician Tyler Jenson (Brian Poth, seasons 1-3), Audio/Visual and Multimedia lab tech.
- MDPD Detective John Hagen (Holt McCallany, seasons 1–3), a homicide detective who had emotional and psychological problems. Raymond Caine's partner prior to his faked death, he told Calleigh once that he couldn't stand being reminded of being the partner of a dirty cop. He also had a brief relationship with Calleigh in Season 2. While pulling a crucial piece of evidence from a crime scene, he panicked when Calleigh came over to photograph the scene; he then crept up behind her and put his gun behind her head. Although he didn't mean to hurt her, it allowed him time to escape (she didn't know it was him at that time). He later shot himself in the Ballistics Lab right after Calleigh turned around to walk out of the lab during the Season 3 finale.
- MDPD Detective Adelle Sevilla (Wanda de Jesus, season 1), a Latina homicide detective who occasionally accompanies the CSIs, but was fired after interfering with an investigation by tipping off a suspect of their arrival. She appeared in 10 episodes.
- Laboratory Technician Joseph Kayle (Leslie Odom Jr., seasons 2-4), a lab tech who worked in fingerprints.
- MDPD Officer Aaron Jessop (Joel West, season 2, 4) A patrol officer, Jessop joined the force during Season 2 and his first appearance was in The Oath. While he thought like a cop, he also was able to think like a CSI. This was evident in the episode The Oath where he was able to help Calleigh assess the crime scene and upped the charge and penalty. Jessop was killed when he opened a cabinet rigged with a hand grenade boobytrap at the scene of a Mala Noche shootout. (West had previously appeared as Officer Ramirez in the Season 2 episode "Big Brother")
- Laboratory Technician Aaron Peters (Armando Valdes-Kennedy, seasons 3-4), Trace evidence lab tech. He does not like Eric Delko in his lab while working his sister's case being in his lab. He files a report but later regrets in when the lab falls under the investigation of the FBI.
- Marisol Delko Caine (née Delektorsky) (Alana de la Garza, season 4) Eric's younger sister, who had cancer. Because of the painful treatments, Eric occasionally bought marijuana to alleviate her pain and nausea. Afterwards, Eric helped to feed her when she had no appetite. Eric's friends found out when the drug dealer ruined a crime scene by dropping though a skylight and then trying to save himself by mentioning that Eric buys drugs from him. Marisol and Horatio were married between the episodes that aired on May 8 and May 15, 2006. She was shot by a Mala Noche sniper during the May 15 episode and later died from her injury. It was later discovered that the hit was ordered by a Mala Noche boss named Antonio Riaz, who found out about Marisol's family connections through his relationship as her marijuana dealer. Not long after, Horatio and Delko follow Riaz to Brazil, and Horatio kills Riaz.
- Laboratory Technician Sam Belmontes (Cristian de la Fuente, seasons 1–2), Chemical Analysis lab tech.
- Laboratory Technician Carrie Delgado (Nicole DeHuff, season 2), Blood evidence technician. Was a fan of Quincy, M.E. as a child, influencing her to become a criminalist.
- Laboratory Technician Jim Marcum (Joshua Leonard, season 4), Ballistic lab tech. Marcum became the head of the ballistics section when Calleigh left, but was quickly demoted after Calleigh discovered that Marcum took short cuts. He didn't fully process evidence in a case and left skin cells unexamined on a bullet casing.
- Assistant State Attorney Monica West (Bellamy Young, season 4). An Assistant State Attorney who replaced Nevins. She was the one who planted Boa Vista to spy on the CSI Lab, hoping she will come up with evidence of corruption within the lab. However, when Natalia only brought back positive results on the lab, she got frustrated enough that she stole some money that the team seized in a raid on the Mala Noches. When her fiancee, Treasury Agent Peter Elliot, was looking over the money, she tipped off the FBI causing the lab to be investigated. When Ryan Wolfe pointed out that the money wasn't taken from their lab, Calleigh figured it out and had Elliott confess to dereliction of duty. Calleigh made him get Monica to admit that she was the one who took the money. She was then arrested.
- Clavo Cruz (Gonzalo Menendez, seasons 2-3,5). In Season 2, Clavo started out as an arrogant criminal who killed a model with his Lamborghini to protect his brother Ramon, who had accidentally drowned the model's roommate (#201 - Blood Brothers). When the team tried to arrest Clavo, it was revealed that his father was from the Baracas, an area which was under diplomatic immunity from the United States. Therefore, they could neither arrest him nor could they use any of his possessions as evidence. His older brother (Ramon) was able to be arrested, as the woman he drowned was on Canadian soil (the Canadian Embassy), had Canadian blood, and because he flew the Bahamian flag in international waters, leaving him unprotected and arrestable in the Bahamas. Clavo reappears in Season 3 after being traced to the murder of a woman who was found partially inside an anaconda (#315 - Identity). He continues to taunt Caine, using the line "We never close," a line that Caine had spoken after arresting Ramon. A blood test of General Cruz, the alleged father of Ramon and Clavo, it is revealed that Clavo and Ramon had different fathers, making Clavo an adoptive son. This gave General Cruz the power to rescind immunity--which he did, allowing the CSIs to arrest Clavo. In Season 5, however, Clavo escapes custody after a cohort steals a rocket launcher from a crime scene and blows up the courthouse in which he was being arraigned (#514 - No Man's Land). He later lures Caine and Delko into a parking lot to find a hostage, who turns out not to be there. In the ensuing gun battle with his cohorts, Delko is nearly killed when a security guard shoots him in the head (Clavo offered him $100,000 to do so). In the next episode (#515 - Man Down), Clavo seeks revenge, killing his adoptive father in the consulate. Later on, Clavo's real father is revealed, and as it turns out, Clavo had smuggled illegal blood diamonds into Miami--and his escape from jail was intended to help his father sell them to underground dealers. One of the dealers is raided and shut down after the plain sight of illegal child labor by Natalia and Ryan. After being disowned by his biological father and having nothing to live for, Clavo returns to "duel with Caine. Immediately after raising his gun at Caine, he is shot once in the chest by Caine and dies.
- Nick Townsend (Rob Estes, season 5). Ex-husband to Natalia Boa Vista. Upon his release from prison, Nick re-entered Natalia's life as an employee of a crime-scene cleaning company who often worked crime scenes his ex-wife was assigned to process. Nick's treatment of Natalia following his parole consisted primarily of unwanted flirtation, which pushed Natalia into shoving him at a crime scene, an action Nick used as basis for a restraining order against her. Under the order, Natalia was forced to leave any crime scene Nick was sent to clean, which threatened her job. Nick subsequently agreed to drop the restraining order, provided Natalia treated him civilly from then on. Nick became a less-than-desirable presence on the job for both Natalia and Eric Delko, for whom Nick also took delight in causing discomfort due to Eric's prior romantic relationship with Natalia. Nick was murdered following a date with Maxine Valera, who'd shoved him to the floor in response to his unwanted advances and fled, thinking him dead. Though both Maxine and Natalia were suspected for the crime, Nick was in fact killed by a man whose wife had committed a murder Nick had worked that day. The man's name was Jeff Murdock and Lauren Sloan is the name of his wife. Nick had stolen an earring left at the scene by the Lauren and was bludgeoned to death when he taunted Jeff and refused to return it.
- Bob Keaton (Max Martini, seasons 2-3), Susie's abusive, drug-dealing husband. In "Big Brother", Horatio discovers that Bob's methamphetamine is the same batch as that used by Raymond Caine on the night of his alleged death. Despite his denials, Bob is convicted of Caine's murder and jailed. When he is released (episode 320, "Killer Date"), it is revealed that he is an undercover DEA agent and Caine's ex-partner. Bob confirms to Horatio that his brother is still alive. His involvement in the DEA investigation and his knowledge about the Caine case leads to his murder (episode 322, "Vengeance").
- Laboratory Technician Dan Cooper (Brendan Fehr, seasons 4-6), Audio/Visual lab tech. He believes a great deal of information can be discerned by what music a person has on his or her MP3 playlist (episode 517, "A Grizzly Murder"). In the season 6 episode "Bang, Bang, Your Debt," he is discovered to have stolen and used a credit card that belonged to the late Tim Speedle, to the outrage of Delko and Calleigh, who told him to turn himself in or she would issue a warrant for his arrest. Presumably, this instance of identity theft ends Cooper's career at the lab. He holds a personal grudge against Calleigh for this, despite the fact that she doesn't press charges, and steals the flashcard out of her camera at a crime scene to put the pictures on a website which he has created to "take her down a notch." He also changes her cell number and posts it on the site and she is kidnapped from a "lead" (episode 615, "All In"). He later feels remorseful and turns in evidence that helps the team track down Calleigh, free her and arrest her kidnappers.
- Judge Joseph Ratner (seasons 3-5), is an enemy of Caine's. In "After the Fall", he is discovered to have murdered a prostitute, but (thanks to legal manuevering) he is able to get away with the crime. He appears later in season 4, releasing an old enemy of Caine's from prison ("Under Suspicion"). In season 5, he is charged with orchestrating the murder of his own daughter. He is arrested in his own chambers ("Death Eminent").
- Walter Resden (Damian Young, season 4) is a significant enemy of Caine's. Resden drove Caine out of his former career in NYPD. He returns to Miami ten years later, framing Caine for the murder of his (Caine's) girlfriend, Rachael Turner. He gets away with it, however, thanks to the help of Judge Ratner ("Under Suspicion"). He reappears several episodes later, targeting the daughter of two of his former victims, and his former foster home siblings. When he attempts to kill Caine with a shotgun, Caine shoots him in the chest. Though the wound is nonfatal, he is arrested shortly afterwards, charged not only with attempted murder, but murder as well, due to the discovery of new evidence against him ("Skeletons"). Although Horatio learns that Resden targeted his victims because they allowed their shared foster father to brutally abuse him (and spared the life of the only foster child who tried to defend him), he tells Resden he has no sympathy at all for him.
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