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Murder in a Flash

Episode Number: 52    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday October 11, 2004    Prod Code: 303
E-mails and text messages trigger a mass gathering of students to perform a random task on a golf course. However, as the crowd disperses, the body of a high school student is found. The original message triggering the "flash mob" is traced to a high school senior whose father is a high-powered defense attorney. The case changes direction when Horatio and the team learn that the schoolmaster's daughter may have had something to do with the murder and evidence reveals that the victim was having an affair with his chemistry teacher.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Anne McGrail, Sunil Nayar
Director: Fred Keller
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)
Recurring Role: Boti Bliss (Valera),  Cristian de la Fuente (Sam Belmontes),  Brian Poth (Tyler Jenson)
Guest Star: Sam Huntington (Justin Gillespie),  Kate Mara (Stephanie Brooks),  Jack Coleman (Martin Gillespie),  Lorena York (Madonna Arias),  Amanda Detmer (Marie Mancini),  Douglas Spain (Raul Arias),  Francesco Quinn (Fidel Barroso),  Tim Abell (Donny Slater),  Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe),  Tim Kelleher (Security Guard Burns),  David Marshall Grant (Headmaster Phillip Brooks),  Finn Wittrock (Chad Van Horn),  Teal Redmann (Sarah Mitchell),  Don Fischer (Golfer #1),  Andrew St. John (Daniel Kleiner),  Orlando Ortega (Crime Scene Investigator)

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International air dates
This episode aired in Greece, on Saturday, 22nd March 2008 (SKAI TV). (edit)

Quotes

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Alexx: What are the odds huh? 100 People throw golf balls at the site of the death.
Horatio: Those odds are very slim, so question becomes, was the mob sent to draw us to the crime scene or to destroy it? (edit)
Horatio: You have an ID on him Alexx?
Alexx: No, not yet, I know he died with an empty stomach and a full bladder, strong smell of alcohol.
Horatio: Respiratory failure.
Alexx: Wouldn’t be the first one to drink himself to death. (edit)
Det. Salas: I ran those credit cards, looks like Madonna Arias charged $500 dollars worth of gas since yesterday.
Horatio: That’s an interesting ability for a dead woman. (edit)
(Eric questions a suspect)
Suspect: “You’re a dead man” is just an expression.
Eric: No, legally it’s a threat. (edit)
Calleigh: Do you think the parents have any idea that they’re paying for their kids to have sex with teachers and buy their grades?
Ryan: I don’t know, but it makes me realize what an angel I was.
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Trivia

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Goof: The threatening e-mail has two different days of the week in its date header. It reads "Date: Tue, Sun, Oct 3 14:36:14 PST." (edit)

Allusions

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The concept of a flash mob was pioneered in a 1973 short story, Flash Crowd written by science fiction author Larry Niven and included in his 1973 anthology The Flight of the Horse. He further explored the concept in a second, unrelated short story, The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club, published in the 1974 anthology A Hole in Space.

Niven's flash crowds differed from the mob depicted in this episode in that they were supported by teleportation technology. However, the concept is much the same - a random group of individuals converging on a spontaneously chosen time and place. (edit)
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8.5
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Murder in a Flash
"Above average"
Flashing balls... nice
Continue » Posted Dec 7, 2006 7:39 am PST
8.4
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Murder in a Flash
"Average"
Murder In A Flash
Continue » Posted Oct 20, 2006 1:53 pm PST
9.1
Superb
Murder in a Flash
"Fine example"
Well put episode again
Continue » Posted Apr 3, 2006 8:09 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
Murder in a Flash
"Exactly why I watch this series"
A body is found on hole 18 righ after a flah mob has come and gone. As the Miami CSIs search to find out who murdered the young boy on the golf course, they find a missing person and they track down her killer.
Continue » Posted Nov 14, 2005 5:34 pm PST
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