CSI: Miami

Speed Kills

Season 3, Episode 7, Aired 11/15/04

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A murder investigation takes Horatio and the team into the world of speed dating. Richard Laken is found killed by a tire iron outside a lounge following an evening of speed-dating. The team discovers his car is covered with acetone, which traces back to one of the female guests. She reveals that she dated Laken and he dumped her, so she doused his car with nail polish remover for revenge, but she didn't kill him. Now, when Horatio and the team learn that Laken recently witnessed a serious assault at a Miami Heat basketball game, they are on the hunt for two perps instead of one.moreless

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David Caruso

Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Khandi Alexander

Chief Medical Examiner Alexx Woods
Sofia Milos

Detective Yelina Salas (Episodes 49+, Recurring Previously)

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Richard Laken is found dead outside a club known for "speed dating". Later it is revealed that Laken also witnessed a violent murder of a young teen while he was trying to protect his mother after a Miami Heat game.moreless

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By jmhop23, May 31, 2008 Report Abuse

This is, again, another testament to Horatio's character. Although he is focused on solving the crime, he is also genuinely concerned about a teen boy who was assaulted after a Miami Heat game while trying to protect his mother. Well, "H" is also a role model by trying to help the boy's mother to keep her hopes up for the healing of her son. He finds out who did it and solves the case (as usual) but takes it a step further by staying at the hospital as much as he can to make sure that the boy survives and that the mother has hope. I think we all find out that "H" has faith in God when we see, in the last scene, that he notices that the boy has a necklace with a cross on it in his hands. He tells the mother to go and get something to eat at the hospital cafeteria while he stays at his bedside to watch over him while she finally goes and gets something to eat. Just another fine example of how Horatio has sympathy (or even empathy because he lost his brother)for someone who is a stranger in a bad circumstance.moreless

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Horatio does not save a child or a woman this time. His mission of the day is to find who seriously injuried a man who took him mom to a basketball game. It is a little out of the typical story line.moreless

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By CottonButtons, Mar 09, 2007 Report Abuse

The story line about speed dating is quite a web. One woman is angry because a man that she thinks is her boy friend and wants a future with her is actually speed dating for easy sex.

This same woman has an ex-husband who is jealous of her dating. He left her after having three children together. She still looks great, but he seeks other woman.

Low and behold, one of the other guys at the speed dating event is linked to the seriously injured man from the basketball game. It is a very tangled web, but Horatio still has a chance to have a tender moment with the worried mother and the injured son.

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By bankscountybabe, Dec 26, 2006 Report Abuse

A night of speed dating gone bad. his car was vandalized which shows personal murder. She admits to pouring acetone on his car to prove her point b/c he dumped her to get back with his ex. He also stole from his past date and they got into a fight. A speed dater (male) was the one who broke into her appartment and stole her sterio. She told everyone everything. Robert was a witness to an assualt and sent in his statement to the police. He died trying to call the cops. The first woman's ex killed him. . .moreless

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- Horatio claimed he could feel the smell of Acetone when he was standing near the car. Acetone is far, far too volatile to be still on the car's hood. If there were Acetone left, it would have been quite large pool to let H feel it. Edit
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- Sofia Milos is credited but didn't appear on this episode. Edit
- International Episode Titles: Germany: Ein tödliches Date (A Deadly Date) Brazil: Velocidade Fatal (Deadly Speed) Czech Republic: Rychlost zabíjí (Speed Kills) Edit
- Original International Air Dates: Czech Republic: October 2, 2007 on TV Nova Greece: April 19, 2008 on SKAI Edit
Quotes
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- Female Suspect: I have a cat, that's hos they show affection. Frank: Pick up any habits from them? Edit
- (Horatio has just caught a woman for murder) Woman: The cruelty... he showed his true colors. Horatio: Now we've seen yours. Edit
- Horatio: Hang on there's a problem, take a look at that address. Calleigh: 1126 Charthouse Drive, it's in the grove. Horatio: Miami Beach Cafe wich is right on the water is at 1020 Charthouse right? So 1126 would probably make his front door out in the Atlantic wouldn't it? Edit
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- While watching the body being examined, Horatio says, "Dead men do tell tales." This is an allusion to a book published in 2001: "Dead Men Do Tell Tales: A 1933 Archeological Expedition Into Abyssinia" by Byron Khun de Prorok, Raymond C. Schindler. Edit