CSI: Miami

At an outdoor concert two people are shot to death, one man and one woman. The man, Jose Sambrano, has a Mala Noche tattoo and the CSI team suspect he was the target and the woman, Claire Trinner, got caught in the crossfire.



Back at headquarters Marisol is waiting, hoping to run into Horatio. The two of them had a date the night before and it's clear that it will not be their last one. However Marisol is worried that it might look bad that Horatio is seeing a woman he helped get out of a drug arrest. Horatio says that won't be a problem and wonders what's really bothering her. She admits that the problem is her brother. She is worried that he might have a problem with his sister dating his Lieutenant. Horatio promises her that he will talk to Delko, and he will see her later.



Horatio goes down to Alexx to see if she has found anything. She shows him some kind of white residue on Claire's arm which Jose might have smeared on her. Jose has a new notch on his Noche tattoo; a tenth one which is in red ink, meaning he got made.



Delko and Tripp pay a visit to Hector Ramirez, the tattoo artist for the Mala Noche. Hector confirms that he gave Jose the tattoo but has nothing more to say. Delko finds a photo of Jose together with another Noche, however only Jose's face is visible. He takes the photo with him.



Calleigh shows Horatio something odd she found with the bullets from the victims. The striations are odd. Something caused another stria on the bullets after they left the barrel, indicating that a silencer was used. Horatio notes that while people might toss firearms they keep the silencers since they are harder to get and more expensive. They need to find the silencer.



Wolfe goes to Aaron to see if he got the results from the residue on Claire's leg. Aaron tells him that the white powder doesn't exist; it's not any compound that they know of. A whole new drug. In order to figure out what it is Aaron needs to break down the chemical components.



Delko pays Cooper a visit to find out who the man on the photo with Jose is. The man's arm has a tattoo; Cooper runs it through the database and finds a match. Carlos Mojena. Delko brings him in and questions him together with Horatio. The CSIs are a bit confused as to why Jose was killed Noche when he had gotten made and should have been safe. Carlos hints that perhaps the tattoo was wrong. Horatio begins to wonder if maybe Claire wasn't the actual target and Jose the one who got caught in the crossfire. The only question is what the connection is between her and the Noche.



Boa Vista is in the Evidence Room when Delko comes in and the two engage in some sexually tensed banter. Wolfe walks in and the two look slightly embarassed. It's obvious to Wolfe that he is interrupting something and he leaves the two and heads back to Aaron, who has mapped out the new drug. It's a derivative of atorvastatin calcium, which is not a street drug but an analgesic used in pain pills. Claire worked for Cantor Pharmaceuticals which explains where the residue came from.



Wolfe heads over to Cantor Pharmaceuticals together with Delko. They talk to Sally, who is the assistant to Alyssa Prince, the CEO. They also talk to Prince, who tells them she was on a teleconference all morning. She identifies the drug they found on Claire as Xorax, a new drug the company is producing. In fact, they are awaiting FDA approval later in the day. However, Claire did not have access to the drug so the question remains of how she got it on her. Delko and Wolfe go to talk to the one person who did have access to it, Paul Burton. He tells them that he was getting dance lessons from Claire to surprise his girlfriend, and he must have smeared the drug powder on her during their practice. Delko points out that Burton uses gloves when he handles the drugs and Burton confesses that he takes Xorax to relieve the muscle pain he gets from the dancing. Wolfe remarks that for a guy who claims he has nothing to hide he appears quite guilty. Burton looks annoyed and says that he is not, no matter what the blog says. He tells them about the company blog which has been saying stuff about him that's not true. Wolfe asks for the link, in case the blogger got something right.



Wolfe and Delko return to headquarters to look at the blog. All the names are in code, making it nearly impossible for them to get much sense out of it. They need to decode it. Wolfe wonders what a blog about their workplace would say and leads the conversation in to what he saw between Delko and Boa Vista. Delko claims they weren't doing anything but Wolfe doesn't believe him. He says he's glad he saw them, since he was planning on asking Boa Vista out. Delko then admits that there is something going on between them, and Wolfe gives him a warning that office relationships tend to end badly. Their attention is turned back to the blog when they find that they are mentioned in it. The blogger calls them the Hardy Boys and reports that one looks like A-Rod and the other like Jake Gyllenhaal. Wolfe and Delko comment on that and throw some joking remarks at each other. The slight tension earlier is gone for the time being.



Meanwhile Calleigh has found a match on the silencer. The same one was used in an armed robbery a few days ago, and there is a suspect in custody. Calleigh goes to talk to him, and the man, Mario Guilar, says he was set-up by the Noches. He is clearly scared, and tells her that he was only having coffee at the botanica when it was robbed; he has coffee there every morning. All he did was pick up the gun. He didn't hear a shot, so he didn't think it had been used in the robbery. Calleigh believes him; if the silencer was used he wouldn't have heard a shot. Calleigh also finds out that Mario does landscaping at some fancy adresses and asks him to write them down for her. She then goes to Horatio and tells him that Mario is terrified of the Noches but he gave her the adresses anyway. They are located in the same areas where the Noches hide weapons. One of the adresses is where Claire Trinner lived.



Horatio takes Tripp with him to Claire's house and finds her husband in the pool, making out with the neighbour. Jim Trinner says he is devastated over losing his wife and the woman was only trying to comfort him. Horatio and Tripp find it disgusting. Tripp suspects Jim let the Mala Noche hide weapons in his pool house in return for killing Claire, so that Jim and his mistress could be together.



Back at headquarters Horatio tells Wolfe that they didn't find any weapons but they still suspect Jim Trinner might be involved. He wants to know what they found in the company blog and is told that Cantor Pharmaceuticals has its own soap opera going on, with people having affairs and doing other inappropriate things. The problem is that all names are in code. Horatio sends Wolfe to Cooper to try and break the code. Cooper tracks down the e-mail adress of the person who started the blog. It's Sally, Alyssa Prince's assistant.



Wolfe and Delko return to Cantor Pharmaceuticals to find out how she is running her blog. They know she's not using the company computor. Delko finds a virtual keyboard linked to her cellphone. They can use it to determine which keys she has pressed. Sally agrees to decode the names for them but they still think she might be hiding something.



Delko goes to Cooper, who shows him which keys she hit the most. One of them is X, even though that letter doesn't appear anywhere in the blog. Bloggers like to hide messages in the text by using a font in the same color as the background. This is what Sally has been doing, and it turns out she has posted information stating that Xorax failed to get FDA approval. She could only have gotten that information from Burton.



Wolfe goes to talk to Burton. He points out that he now has motive to kill Claire since she is the head of PR and would be the one to announce that they failed to get FDA approval. Claire would be announcing this to the public later that day, before Burton would have the chance to sell out his stock.



Horatio talks to Mario and finds out that he kept one adress off the list. He does landscaping for Alyssa Prince. Horatio gets a warrant and they find guns in Alyssa's house. She claims she didn't know they were there; in fact she doesn't know any of the people who work in her house. Sally takes care of hiring them. Claire does know however that one of the people who worked at her house no longer comes by, but his friends do and since the job gets done she doesn't care much. The man is Mario.



Calleigh finds two silencers among the weapons confiscated at Alyssa Prince's house. One of them matches the one that killed Claire. That silencer also has a metallic film on it and Wolfe takes a sample to trace. He shows the findings to Horatio; it is a liquid flux used to fuse needles to the needle arm. Horatio doesn't think it's from Cantor; he suspects the tattoo artist. He takes Delko with him to visit Hector who realises that he is cornered. He tells them that he gave Jose the tattoo without asking any questions since nobody would ask for that tattoo without earning it. Only that's just what Jose did. Hector had to clean up the Noche mess he had created and kill Jose. And while he was at it he was supposed to kill Claire as well. He doesn't know who ordered her death; he was just given a picture of her. The picture has Xorax on it.



Delko doesn't think Burton was the one to order the hit on Claire. Calleigh points out that he was the only one to handle the drug. Delko replies that someone was handling him - he mentioned a girlfriend. Since he practically lives at the lab he must have met his girlfriend there. Calleigh remarks that lovers who work together steal time whenever they can, and Delko wonders if Wolfe has said something to her about Boa Vista.



Using the now decoded blog as their source of information Delko goes to talk to Alyssa, the woman he thinks Burton is dating. He tells her he thinks she ordered the death of Claire because she believed she was sleeping with Burton. She admits that the blog told her they were sneaking off together and she thought it was humiliating. She saw the Mala Noche hiding guns in her shed and she gave them some money and told them to kill Claire. Delko tells her that Burton was not cheating on her. He was getting dance lessons in order to make her happy. He notes that obviously it was a waste of time.



When Delko gets back to headquarters Horatio wants to talk to him. Delko interrupts him and tells him that he knows what he wants to say. Horatio had dinner with Marisol the night before and they are planning on having dinner again. Delko admits he was upset when Marisol told him, but he can tell that she's infatuated and happy and he can't be angry about that. He is not concerned for Marisol, however he needs Horatio to know what he's getting himself into. Marisol might only have months to live. Horatio clearly didn't know how sick she was, and it's hard for him to hear. However he knows he can live with that knowledge and tells Delko that everything will be alright.