Gone Baby Gone

A woman's baby is taken in front of her and the the CSI team races to find the kidnappers before it is too late. Read the recap and review of CBS's CSI Miami.

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A mother and her baby are attacked at one of Miami's outdoor shopping malls. During the attack, the woman's baby is taken. After the incident, Horatio and the CSI team are called in to investigate. Horatio learns that the woman is named Jill Walsh. Her baby, Sophie, is a 7 month baby girl wearing blue overalls. Horatio promises that he will get her baby back.

Jill is brought back to her house. The team meets with her husband, Stewart and their teenage son, Keith. Horatio is shown a recent sepia toned picture of Sophie. Stewart says that their neighbor took the photo for them. The phone rings and Stewart is ordered to answer as the team attempts to trace the call. Stewart hears an altered voice ordering him to gather $500,000 dollars for the safe return of his baby. The conversation ends before the team is able to locate the call.

Jill overhears the conversation and goes to her safe. Calleigh tells her that if she pays the ransom, the kidnappers will have no reason to keep her baby alive. Calleigh tells Jill to allow her team to track her baby's kidnappers down.

Eric asks Keith to help show him around his house. Eric asks about a broken window on a door. Keith says that he found a baseball on the other side and figured that a kid threw it. Eric asks if Keith still has the ball. Keith shows him where he is keeping it. Later, Eric takes a print from the baseball, but doesn't find a match in the database. He tells Keith that he is going to take the ball to the lab.

Horatio and Ryan go back to the crime scene. They find a pair of blue overalls in one of the trashcans. They figure that the kidnappers want to keep Sophie alive. The overalls are taken back to the lab to be examined. Boa Vista finds DNA on the clothing belonging to Marty Ellis.

Horatio, Eric and a SWAT team arrive at Marty's residence to find that he was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest. They find traces of baby powder on the door and a bandana belonging to the baby.

Back at the Walsh residence, they discover that Keith has switched out the SIM card of his dad's phone. Calleigh finds that the money is missing. Stewart tells her that she only had $100,000 in the safe.

In the lab, Eric finds that the baseball has trace amounts of sepia toner. He believes that the ball belongs to the photographer living next to the Walsh's.

Brad Gardner, the photographer, goes downtown for questioning. He tells the team that he found the ball in his yard, then threw it over and into the window. He tells the detectives that he was at a photo shoot when the baby was kidnapped.

Eric locates Keith riding his motorcyle. Keith tells Eric that he already dropped off the money to the kidnappers. He says that he is expecting a text with his sister's location. Eric says that there will be no text. Eric and Horatio go to the park. Under the bench where Keith said that he dropped off the money, Horatio finds a pacifier.

The pacifier is brought back to the lab and Boa Vista finds that the DNA sample from the saliva matches Sophie. She finds that the DNA matches the mother, but not the father. They figure that Jill had an affair.

Jill admits to having an affair with Brad Gardner. She says it was a one time thing. She says that her husband doesn't know about it. Horatio tells her that most kidnappings involve one of the biological parents. Later, Brad is brought in and told that he is the father. Brad says that he is surprised at the news. He tells the detectives that he hopes that the Walsh's don't try to get child support money from him. He says that he did not kidnap Sophie.

Calleigh examines the bullet that killed Marty and finds that it belonged to a .357 Magnum used by Carla Hoyle. Horatio and Ryan arrest her at her house and find the weapon and Keith's backpack with the cash in her car. After she is arrested, Carla admits that she was hired to kidnap the baby by Ricardo Sanchez, an employee of a restaurant near the mall. Ricardo provided the distraction as Marty and Carla took Jill's baby.

Boa Vista and Tripp visit Ricardo's work and learn that he quit that day. They look in his locker and find a book containing a sepia toned photo of Sophie and Jill. They figure that the Brad was involved in the kidnapping.

Brad is taken to the station. He admits that he always thought that Sophie was his baby. He broke into the Walsh house and took a hair sample to make sure. He performed the DNA test and found that he was the father. He hired Ricardo to kidnap the baby. Brad expects to be contacted by Ricardo to receive his baby. Brad is told that Ricardo has gone missing.

Calleigh examines Ricardo's book and finds that he was planning to meet with a couple flying in to the country to sell off the baby. Horatio tracks down couple and arrives as Ricardo is taking the money for the baby. Ricardo sees the police come after to him and escapes with both the baby and cash. Horatio chases him down and Ricardo crashes into a pile of cardboard boxes, which causes his truck to flip and roll over several times. Ricardo crawls out of his truck and points his gun at Horatio. Horatio shoots and kills Ricardo. As the vehicle ignites in flames and begins to smoke, Horatio saves the child. Later, Jill arrives and recovers her baby. Jill asks if there is anything she can do to thank Horatio and he says that she already has.

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The thing that I have problem's with this brand is that the writers seem to want to quickly move from one place to the next. I have read that one of Bruckheimer's goal in production is to transport the viewer from place to place. I find that the writers find the most unlikely and most convenient ways to lead the detectives from clue to clue. Convenient clues in this episode include the book left behind in the locker for no reason, the pacifier found under the bench for no reason, and the overalls thrown away for no reason. I often see this series as a crime drama on rails, meaning there is barely any deduction needed and the viewers are taken for a boring ride. Some viewers feel good for being present when the crime is solved. I am not one of them. Hopefully, Bruckheimer soon realizes that it is not the quantity of places, but the the quality time in between stops that makes the trip memorable.

- Kristofer M.

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