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Lost Son

Episode Number: 49    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday September 20, 2004    Prod Code: 301
After a large yacht slams into a major Miami bridge, the team finds that the man steering the boat was shot and killed before the accident. The victim's wife reveals that their son had been kidnapped and her husband was handing over the ransom – three million dollars worth of jewels. But when the team learns that the jewels were fake, the investigation leads them into a dangerous situation at a jewelry shop that may contain crucial evidence, where Horatio must face the unimaginable when one of the team is killed in the line of duty.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine
Director: Duane Clark
Star: David Caruso (Lieutenant Horatio Caine),  Khandi Alexander (Chief Medical Examiner Alexx Woods),  Sofia Milos (Detective Yelina Salas (Episodes 49+, Recurring Previously)),  Adam Rodriguez (Eric "Delko" Delektorsky),  Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne),  Rory Cochrane (Tim Speedle (Episodes 1-49))
Recurring Role: Boti Bliss (Valera),  Leslie Odom Jr. (Joseph Kayle),  Brooke Bloom (Cynthia Wells),  David Lee Smith (IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler),  Cristian de la Fuente (Sam Belmontes)
Guest Star: Pepper Sweeney (D.O.I. Supervisor),  Samuel Ball (Ken Timmons),  Missy Crider (Tawny Williams),  John Sanderford (Reed Williams),  Sean Cw Johnson (Justin),  Dexter Fletcher (Swat Leader),  Lauren Storm (Cameron),  William Mapother (Pete Keller),  Rudolf Martin (Rudolph "Rudy" Koehler),  Colton Shires (Joey Williams)

Notes

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International air dates
Greece: Saturday, March 1st 2008 on SKAI (edit)
According to the DVD commentary on this episode, Khandi Alexander was convinced that she needed to speak to the corpse of Tim Speedle, as this was the character's way of dealing with things and as she was a friend of Tim's she'd have to speak to him. They filmed it both ways and it was decided that the version of her not speaking with just the song soundtrack was more effective. (edit)
This episode received a Golden Reel nomination for "Sound Effects and Foley for the Short Form". (edit)
This episode received the 2005 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series. (edit)
Music:
Get Low - Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz
Where's My Boy - Coldplay featuring Faultline (Played during Speedle's autopsy)
Numb - Cinephile (Played while Calleigh washes the car) (edit)

Quotes

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DOI Guy: Two months before this bridge is retrofitted, this happens.
Eric: Yeah, well, you've got your problems and I've got mine. We haven't released the crime scene yet.
DOI Guy: Your crime scene is part of a bridge failure.
Eric: Well murder trumps the bridge, okay? So you're going to have to relinquish the boat.
DOI Guy: You CSI guys have been dusting and tape-lifting for five hours. What else are you planning on doing to the thing?
(Something catches Eric's attention. He shines his flashlight on the boat.)
Eric: Have a look at that. You see that?
(A bracelet is caught on the boat.)
Eric: Must've been jarred loose when the boat was being towed. I'm going to have to search the exterior of this vessel.
(The DOI Guy nods and walks away.)
(edit)
Horatio: Fraud, theft, embezzlement...
Det. Salas: Look at the victims, rich men in their 50's and 60's.
Horatio: Broke their hearts... then broke their bank accounts (edit)
Calleigh: (To Speedle & Delko) Alright, which one of you stole my crime light?
Speedle: Uh, stole, is, is very negative. I, I had borrowed it and uh, I re... I re... I placed it, I put it back.
Calleigh: Well, it would be nice if you charged it first, I was at the scene and it flat lined.
Delko: Sounds like she's mad at you.
Speedle: Calleigh, I sincerely apologize.
Calleigh: Apology accepted. Give me yours.
Speedle: Go ahead, it's in my kit.
Calleigh walks out
Speedle: (Mutters to Delko) I hope she doesn't need any sodium rhodisinate. (edit)
Speedle: This car is just a bad investment, just happy I have my bike.
Horatio: Someday you may need something with doors.
Speedle: Well, I got plenty of time for that. (edit)

Trivia

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Goof: While the couple are sitting on the back of the rescue truck, you can see them switch positions under the blanket 2 or 3 times. (edit)
Goof: In the beginning, when Horatio calls in and says that they have a missing 6-year old boy, they say they are on the case. Then, near the ending, they mention something about the boy, and they say he is eight years old. That's two years off. (edit)
Goof: The reference to a vehicle wheelbase of 60 inches is way off. There is no car whose centerline distance between the front and rear wheels is only five feet. Most automotive wheelbases are between 90-100 inches and the biggest cars get over 120 inches. The S-Type Mercedes referred to by Horatio has a 121.5 wheelbase. The writers should have referred to track or track width, the spacing between front wheels (or rear wheels), where 60 inches is fairly common (and the S-Type is 62 inches). Track width would also be a lot easier to use as evidence since calculating wheelbase from tire tracks would at the least require measuring the arcs from all four tires. (edit)

Allusions

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Speed: Well Nemo there is 8 inches long.

This allusion is directed at the computer animated film Finding Nemo (2003), about a clown fish who travels the oceans in search of his missing son, called Nemo http://www.filmspot.com/movie/294557/finding-nemo/index.html?q=finding+nemo (edit)
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Community Reviews (20)

 
9.9
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Lost Son
"Tearjerker"
End of an era.... well Speed's era
Continue » Posted May 25, 2008 3:57 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Lost Son
"Tearjerker"
Cry Cry Cry...tearjerker...crap.
Continue » Posted Feb 26, 2008 8:41 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Lost Son
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Boat crashed into a bridge with a dead man inside. He brought jewelery for exchange of his son. Lead to the fake jewelary changed by a diamond shop, H and Speedle went, where Speedle got shot. Boy's life at stake!
Continue » Posted Oct 24, 2007 12:18 am PST

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9.0
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Lost Son
"Cleverly plotted"
A shooting on a boat turns out to be the result of a kidnapping, turns nasty when the unthinkable happens when one of their own is killed during the investigation.
Continue » Posted Apr 21, 2007 6:53 am PST

supercin721
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7.1
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Lost Son
"Tearjerker"
As CSI says goodbye to Speedle, the viewers undoubtedly cried. Though stoic and sarcastic, Speed was great for the show's dynamics. With the loss of this character, CSI will lose something. And yet, that loss wasn't felt with the character's reactions.
Continue » Posted Feb 24, 2007 4:45 pm PST
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