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Recoil

Episode Number: 69    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday May 2, 2005    Prod Code: 321
After a bitter custody battle, shots are fired outside the courthouse. Bullets fly and the target is the little girl's mother. Horatio goes after the father, who he suspects may not be the girl's biological father after all. However, when the mother's shady past is uncovered, the team finds that she has a lot of enemies who would like to take a shot at her. Meanwhile, Calleigh's father returns to the crime lab for her guidance but for an unexpected reason.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Steven Maeda, Marc Dube
Director: Joe Chappelle
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),  Jonathan Togo (Ryan Wolfe (Episodes 54+, Recurring Previously))
Recurring Role: Brian Poth (Tyler Jenson),  Rex Linn (Detective Frank Tripp)
Guest Star: McKinley Freeman (MDPD Uniform),  Michelle Ann Johnson (Valerie Adams),  David Gianopoulos (Vincent Lesca),  Liana Liberato (Amy Manning),  Paul Green (Greg Rondinelli),  Kimiko Gelman (Dr. Nicole Talcott),  Tracey Needham (Cheri Lyle),  Bill Sage (Brad Manning),  Natalia Baldwin Leon (Female Newscaster),  John Heard (Kenwall "Duke" Duquesne),  Brian Tahash (Don Landis)

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Music:

Massive Attack - I Am Home

Massive Attack - Simple Rules

(both songs from "Danny The Dog" soundtrack) (edit)

Quotes

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Alex: I found split ends...
Eric: So, the guy needed conditioner... ??
Alex: Further south.
Eric: This oughta be good. (edit)
Eric: That's a long fall Alex...
Alex: Yeah, you know what they say... The bigger they are, the harder they fall. (edit)
(Det. Tripp interrogates a suspect who car crashed with him earlier)
Det. Tripp: I ran into you this morning, literally... then you show up at our little shoot out with this. (an umbrella)
Suspect: I have a skin condition, sun's harmful.
Det. Tripp: So is video surveillance when you're trying to kill some one. (edit)
(Det. Tripp and Eric are at a scene, where a man fell off an apartment building)
Det. Tripp: What have we got?
Eric: This guy, he took the express way 16 stories down. (edit)
Delko: (noticing the cut Tripp got in a car crash) What happened to you?
Tripp: Traffic. (edit)

Trivia

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Wolfe mentions after the shooting that Horatio's weapon is a "department issue 9mm." Horatio's weapon is a Sig Sauer P229 which are only made in .40 and .357 . (edit)
Goof: Vincent Lesca's driver's license number is listed as L42-940-634. However, this is impossible since New York licenses do not use any letters in identification numbers. (edit)

Allusions

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Frank Tripp: You know what they say, good fences make good neighbors.

"Good fences make good neighbors" is a line from the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. (edit)
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"Tearjerker"
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Continue » Posted Jan 3, 2007 2:24 pm PST
9.1
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"Fine example"
I liked is storyline very much
Continue » Posted Dec 1, 2005 12:57 pm PST

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"Painful to watch"
The previews of this epsiode promised an experimenal episode with the ending first and the being at the end of the epsiode. Boy, I was so wrong with this one, because the second half of the epsiode when back to the normal way of telling a story.
Continue » Posted Jul 4, 2005 7:37 pm PST
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Season Number: 3
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