CSI: Miami

As the episode opens with Delko being at a bank at the same time its robbed, we see what appears to be a crime commited by inexperienced youths. However, it turns into much more as a second robbery attempt reveals the crimes to be copycats of a popular videogame series. It's here where the episode, packed with action, diverges from reality and common sense.

The thought that college students would be so into a game as to recreate entire scenes, even though its revealed to be a marketing ploy, including the infiltration of a police station, is beyond laughable. Even more insane is the seeming belief they have that they'll never be caught. The episode than breaks from reality by insisting on showing Ryan Wolfe needlessly playing the game to find what happens next and anticipate the perpetrators' next move, when they could have easily found out the game's plot through many faster means, and while they were at it they amped up the outrage factor by showing points awarded for killing police in the fictional Urban Hellraisers game, when the real Grand Theft Auto series actually never awards points for anything.

Once again, we're treated to seeing not just one, but two police offices (Caine and Delko) be involved in shootings, but remain on active duty. A glaring error, especially in light of the original CSI's recent 2-part episode involving a massive police shoot-out.

Additionally, they also borrow from the story of the Korean who died after two consecutive days of constant game play. It's another absurdity that somehow a student used a college facility for 70 hours and was never confronted about it.

In the end, we're left with an episode that excites the senses with lots of action, but forces the brain to work overtime to cover up all the obvious errors and attempts to villianize videogames.

I normally do not watch this show. This is only the third CSI:Miami episode I ever watched. The last two times I watched, I was dissapointed. But I wanted to give it another chance. Also I just got my first HDTV and wanted to see what a high tech show like CSI looked like in HD. I have to say, it looks stunning! Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the acting and storyline. The acting is

lifeless. The plot is really stupid. There is no suspense and a lot of things are fairly predictable. There seems to always be some villain pointing a gun on the innocent and out of nowhere Horatio shows up at exactly the right time. This gets old. I found constantly looking at the clock hoping to get the show over with.



I don't know if I've ever watched a show with cast members as listless as this one. I know they're always involved in cracking a serious crime, but still. Basically some guys shoot up a bank to act out a scene in a video game. It's up to the CSI team to find out whose behind this by doing some forensic and investigative

work. The perpetrators eventually get caught and get interrogated. And that's basically the story.



This episode pretty much made up my mind. I don't think I'll watch another CSI show again.

An armed robbery is taken place by three boys. An attempted rape is done alos but Delko shot the boy They got around raising hell because they can. They are playing a game called Urban Hellraisers. They got so tired of playing the game that they went out and actually played the game. A sniper was nearby. They came to CSI to get the evidence. Caine got down there just in time before he shot the evidence man. The video game is trafficking the guns etc. He was just trying to get his game out to sell more to more kids.

Quite a memorable episode; one of my favourites, actually. A LAW & ORDER episode ran along the same lines as this - not sure which one was the rip-off. I saw the CSI:MIAMI version first, though. Despite the fact that I've never heard of a murder patterning violent video games actually happening, the episode had me thinking. I actually resolved to monitor any video games my kids would play (when I have them, that is). The twist with a girl not only being the game point honcho, but being the lead crook was unexpected, & I guess, a deliberate twist.

Despite it's shortcomings, this episode turned out to be quite exciting and it kept my attention all the way to the end. One thing that makes this episode stand out in my memory is the reflection of today's culture. It's a very sad (even frightening) fact that many people devote their lives to playing video games day in and day out and letting the world pass them by. While the cases of people commiting crimes inspired by the games they play is very rare, it's more common that people would rather sit in their basements than do anything else. Sad.

man, I Knew Something like this would happen Video Makers create Violent Video Games Like Grand Theft Auto for the Kids but I doubt they'd expect to have one of their games (Sorta) featured on CSI: Miami (Under a different name). I Loved the new Layout of the Crime lab but I don't like The New Chick, Natalia Boa Vista she can just take a hike and don't look back but as for the storyline it was great storyline and cool to see Joel McHale (From E!'s "The Soup") Guest Star as the Bank Manager though it was for a couple of scenes but still it was great.



My Favorite scene is when after the shoot out in the lab and Horatio walks up to Shades with his Gun pointed at the kid and the camera pans up to show horatio (ala Dirty Harry) And he says "It's Your Turn." God That was Awsome I loved it!



the sad thing about this episode is One of these Days Some kid is actually gonna Pull this stunt in real life Thinking he can do better then the other gammers from the show.

Violence in video games is getting more explicit and here it is highlighted in the nasty bank robbery.



The more pressing storyline this week was that of Eric delko the we assume well paid but absolutely poor fiscal wise asking for a bank loan and in true CSI Miami style getting involved in a shoot out. Then Horatio Caine in true david caruso style overacts before the Who fill up the screen.



What the episode involved was a series of politically relevant statements about violence in video games the considewrable apathy of developers, the moral questionability, this though seemed to drag the episode down as they didn't bother to try and make it into a politcal statement. Thats lazy considering the debate around video games at the moment. The final twist was aimed at shattering the usual sterotype of wide eyed boys at the dead of night staring into the badly lit computer screen. A Girl Gamer.



As a casual Girl Gamer the entire way in which it was done did not give the episode much of an impact as the focus was on the crime and Delko (Whos not nearly as good looking as he thinks he is) rather than the psychology around the crime and of the people commiting it. I know that this is not really the focus of the show but the focus on action rather than the forensic process was frustrating as well as Horatios inability to pull on a pair of gloves and actually process a crime scene.



He aint no Gil Grissom just as much as hes no Lenny Briscoe.

This episode was chock-a-block from the beginning. Having read only a little about what was gonna happen I watched with great expectation and was not disappointed. Although I liked the Treasury Agent, I did think that him and Calleigh was never gonna happen so I was relieved as they've pretty much written him out.



People have poked holes in this episode, except I thought it was good provided you didn't take it too seriously. And as for those who say it just blames videogames for crimes, that's complete rubbish. It never once says that people are told to do this by the game, the game/episode never sets out to create an army of mass murderers.



When I saw Horatio tell Ryan that the news reporter had spoken to him about something but then didn't tell Ryan what it was about I figured that there was a mole or something like that, and it was only when I came online that I found out the truth. While I did think it was a little bit flawed as to how the one guy managed to hijack a shipment of tech-9s. Would the person smuggling them not watch them themselves. But hey, as I said, don't take the episode too seriously and it is really enjoyable. I can't recommend it enough.

being an avid gamer,yet also a rather productive member of society,this episode made me want to vomit,whoever wrote the script had obviously no experience about video games,and had spent all their time watching the bullcrap on the news about game regulation,labelling me and millions of other people as psychopaths in training isnt going to get CSI Miami good ratings,I and several friends from college plan to buy as many season 4 dvd\\\'s as possible just to destroy them in a bonfire and record the burning on camera and send to YouTube.

This episode was good, but I think that it tries takes an anti violence video game message. It portrays a Grand Theft Auto like game as the main motive of the crime. The game is outrageously stretched to extremes.



The thing that got me the most was how they showed that the player could rape someone for extra points. They forget all about reality. The ESRB would never release a game like that.



In Grand theft auto, the player does not have to commit any crimes what so ever if one does not wish too. You have to choice to run or steal a car. You have the choice to stop or roll over people.



The violent video game message that they give is too extreme and leads me to another point. Violent Movies! Violent TV SHOWS! One can equally blame motives of crime to the TV screen. One could even blame a crime on the show CSI itself! Does it not depict murder. One could gain criminal intelligence from the show by knowing how to NOT get caught by CSI.



I like CSI. But I\'m a gamer too. I don\'t want everybody looking at this episode and think that I am going to be a murderer because I play violent video games. Violent video games are simply one thing- games. My friends play them, yet they have no criminal record or any problems with the law whatsoever.

Having reality mixed with tv fiction is great, putting young people out of the game in real life shows how easy the ediction can become. As well as each cast member is given a problem personal or business and each has to solve that problem which is great. It made me want to search for the next episode just to find out what was happening with each of them.

I enjoyed the episode but i think that the music triva that was posted for it is incomplete. There was another song that was featured in the episode during the latter half of it. It was when Emily Procters character was in the hospital when she was with her friend who was injured during the shoot out. At that point she meet his wife and realizes that he is married. It is a slow song, sung by a woman, something about \"tell me that this isn\'t happening tell me or tell me that this isnt real\" or something along those lines. But if someone knows what I am talking about maybe they can edit the music posting for this episode.

It was a good episode that had a lot of action and was based in the actual concern on what the effect of violent video games may be on youth. It was at sometimes a little bit hard to keep track by that I mean that they weren't has clear as usual.... a little bit confusing....

Don't know what in the speech of the agent made Calleigh realize who was the person guilty of the murder on the bank....

Arguably this is a bad episode overall. Full of continuity errors and many unrealistic plot situations that makes the viewer unable to even use suspension of disbelief to make this episode enjoyable.



This episode seems like it was written during the height of the video game controversy with Grand Theft Auto and all, and it just appears not only as a badly-written episode, but also just to cash in on something the writers look like they don't even know a thing about it.



This was the first episode I've seen of CSI: Miami, and it'll probably be the last one I'll see. This episode is so bad that there's no way it can redeem itself.

This reminds me of a Law and Order SVU episode. I'm never really impressed with CSI Miami, and this plot has clearly been done before, but I actually liked this episode. I thought it was well done and Horatio was much less annoying than usual. More Ryan Wolfe = better show.

This was a good episode. Delko shooting the guy at the bank was good. But the idea of kids/adults buying these video games and then going out and doing things like they are actually in the game is pathetic. While I am all for 1st amendment rights, if someone goes and gets one of these games then does something criminal in nature they should not be allowed to use this as a defense. Also, the girl being the ringleader was a shock.

It was a great show with lots of intensity and character development. Although a couple of goofs, the show is my #2 favorite show in the series, following "Crime Wave", the 90-min special from the 3rd season.



Definitely a must-see if you want to capture the excitement, intensity, and attitude of the CSI: Miami TV show.

Let's start of with the inconsistencies. They are too numerous to point out, but some are worth mentioning. Horatio mentions that "a bank with a cop is worth more points", but when we see the game being played, it is clearly linear; you don't have a choice between a bank with a cop or without one. In general, the entire game part seems to be just buzzword, something which season 3 was very heavily infested with. Whatever happened with the other assailant at CSI headquarters, the one that was gunned down? The scoreboard implies that this real-life-as-game activity had been going on for some time, but then why do we not hear of cases that can be linked to this? They have all manner of implausible databases, but can't connect cases? I could go on, but it's too painful to do.



Eric Delko just continues his downward spiral, and I wouldn't be surprised if he's fired during this season. You simply do not single-handedly engage 3 hostiles armed with automatic weapons, and it's just bad luck/scripting that makes this not turn into a blood-bath. The character depictions of our psycopaths just doesn't fit either, they appear rather rational in the interviews.



All in all, another bad episode in a so far, rather bad season.

Indeed, the best description for this season is "Jump the shark"... and this episode is the best proof of that fact: where the original is interesting while staying within the plausible, the storylines on Miami are beyond bad, especially this last episode where violence is played on TV for the sake of violence (without a hint of plausibility)



Yep! Miami just jumped the shark!



And don't get me started about Ho-Caine...



(The only thing good this season in Miami is Calleigh... make her move to Vegas and shut down this Miami mess...)

Not too sure on this episodes choice of using a game for a crime spree. Tho I will say that it is an interesting choice for lack of a better description on this one. We also see more of Delco's majorly screwed up personal life. Once again Delco is on CSI time dealing with his personal problems that is currently running around money and a girl. I personally was tired of Delco's personal life messing with CSI from the first season, now it is just plain OLD. Fire him already. The episode simplifies the game that the crime spree is based on. Tho the idea that some good ol' fashioned sociopaths found each other on the net and decide this game would be fun to act out is intriguing. Meaning just how easy the internet brings people together. Whether it be good people, average people, or the truly insane :)

The way they could have made it better was if they killed of a major character. If only Calleigh or Horatio died it would have been the best day of my life. I liked the overall idea for the episode but there was something lacking in the delivery of the episode.



The bonus scene was a waste of time if ever there was one. It was like one big ad for Hummers. You could have learnt all the information from that one scene by watching the episodes and making an educated guess. FYI, with gas the price it is, just because the CSIs in Miami drive Hummers doesn't mean that people are going to buy them.

I knew Demon was a girl!! I don't know how but I just knew it. I am not one who is into the video games and really follows the video game industry. I am one though who knows the difference between fiction and reality. I liked this episode because the twists and turns of the story. It made for interesting television watching after a long day. If the writers, producers, tv stations had another motive for creating and showing this episode, I don't really care. When I watch a show, I watch it for what it is at that moment in time. Last night in my opinion CSI: Miami showed a pretty good episode that held my interst throughout. The extended ending on CBS.com was interesting to find out there is a mole in the crime lab. I think the writers want us to think it is Delko, remember when he was talking to that girl, but for some reason I think it is Frank. Delko would be too easy of a target.....but who knows.

Let me just start by saying, that action and plotwise, this was a great episode. The twist at the end was nice, though admittingly, as soon as they were emphasizing the fact that there were about 17000 boys registered as athletes, I just knew Demon was a girl. The strength of this episode was trying to guess what the deadly gamers were going to do next.



But having said, gamers recreating scenes from a videogame? C'mon! Just because a few incidents involving very violent games or internet deals gone sour have happened, doesn't mean it's enough for a story. Especially considering the extra effort they had to put in it... what... stolen firearms, a CEO wanting an edge? And the stupidest thing I've ever heard, a girl playing games 24/7 because otherwise no boy on campus would notice her? Excuse me, but that would never happen... let her come to my university town. Sheesh.



All and all.. great episode, no thanks to the story.

Coincidence that it came out the day before the XBOX 360 was released? I think not. The episode was a low blow to an opposing media that is getting more and more popular, even more so than TV. The plot implied that game companies are on the same level as those who traffic drugs and are only interested in making money at the exploitation of everyone else. When they brought the ex-athlete in to question him about the mask that matches his facial patterns he exclaims, "Hey I'm no gamer!" as if being a gamer is also like being a member of some Neo-Nazi like group who only exists in dark alleyways causing chaos and destruction. The whole episode was rediculous and it was very obvious by the mock game box that it was targeted towards Grand Theft Auto. The idea that the game was based on accumulating "points" is retarded. A game would never be based totally around killing cops and raping girls in order to achieve an end. In GTA there's this thing called a story that the player takes part in, which is no more graphic or perverted than some of the things you'll see on CSI. It's clear that the people who made this episode have no familiarity with games and they obviously don't uncerstand them. Games are now what comic books were in the 50's and 60's and it's getting really old. I haven't been very impressed with some of the recent episodes and this one was literally the worst one I've ever seen. Maybe it's time I go do something else instead of watching CSI, like training for when my gamer mind finally gives out and I rob a bank of my own; I'll be playing Mario Kart, practicing for when it comes time for me to flee from the cops.

I sincerely hope that they were just out of ideas for this episode. I'm getting tired of video games being vilified. This episode does nothing but play to a new media hype concerning video games and their developers. Video games are simply taking the spot that was previously reserved for Heavy Metal music, horror movies, and even Rock n' Roll during the 50s. There are obvious references to Jack Thompson's claims that games are simulators or trainers for killing cops. Perhaps violent people are drawn to violent expression rather than the other way around? Could it be that those who are already violent play these games rather than the games themselves causing violence in those people?



Have I played the Grand Theft Auto series? Yes. I also grew up on the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies. I know that a single sample is not remotely indicative of the entire picture, but considering that FBI crime records actually show that violent crime by minors is DECREASING each year since the late 90s (though I am no minor by an stretch), it's fairly easy to see that the media is simply found a new darling cause to fill slow news nights.



This is truly a "Jump the Shark" episode. I can only hope that the show improves and this is the only tarnish on an otherwise solid show.

Love the series. However, what the heck was the major secret that was supposed to be revealed, or whatever they were advertising? Something is up with Wolfe, if his so called girlfriend is calling Horatio and the reason not having anything to do with Wolfe not giving her a quote. I also wonder what is up with Delko.

Whoo, I can just imagine that Jerry was bribed by some mothers protection group to write and make an episode like this. An excelent episode thast just shows what can happen if teens take video games too far. Obviously the game Urban Hellraisers is based on the Grand Theft Auto series, I've never played the game and never plan on playing it, and after watching this episode has only renforced this vow. The only thing that still confuses me is why Wolfe had the game in the first place? Some insight would be nice please. Thanks.