Throng

Tuesday 4th August 9.00pm

The seventh season of the hit Miami-based crime drama continues. This week, a crane crashes into a Miami high-rise, killing a vital witness in the trial against crime boss Joey Salucci. The CSIs suspect foul play – but can they find the murderer and put Salucci away for good?

Calleigh and Delko are in a safe house near a construction site with William Campbell, the key witness in a trial against crime boss Joey Salucci. Campbell was in a toilet stall in Spiral nightclub when he heard a man shoot AJ Watkins in retaliation for the death of Salucci’s daughter, Emma. Campbell is beginning to get cold feet, but Calleigh tries to persuade him to testify. “If you don’t take the stand we can’t indict Joey Salucci,” she tells him. However, the pair are interrupted when a crane smashes into the building. Calleigh watches in horror as Campbell plummets to his death.

Horatio arrives at the scene and quickly surmises that Salucci killed Campbell to prevent him from testifying. “He just used the biggest murder weapon in Miami,” he says. Horatio visits Salucci at the site of his daughter’s grave. “I come here every morning but it’ll never be enough,” says the crime boss. Horatio reminds Salucci that Emma’s death was an accident – she fell asleep on the beach after a bonfire party and Watkins accidentally ran over her in his truck. “It seems you’ve taken your revenge at the Spiral bar,” he suggests. However, without Campbell’s testimony, there is no evidence against Salucci.

Ryan overcomes his vertigo in order to examine the control area of the crane, and finds the black box and some samples of blood. At the lab, the CSIs find a match to a construction worker named Karl Greenwood. Frank and Horatio interview Karl, but he tells them he was fired from the site the previous week and only returned to get some pills from the crane. “I wasn’t in the cage when Armageddon hit. You’ve got to believe me,” he says.

Back at the construction site, Calleigh and Delko face a tense encounter with Campbell’s widow, Beth, and teenage son, Noah. Calleigh attempts to apologise for Campbell’s death, but his furious wife responds by slapping her. “I know exactly what happened! The only reason we came down here was to look you both in the face,” she shouts. “We really thought we had all our bases covered,” Calleigh tells her.

Increasingly desperate to find Campbell’s killer, Ryan and Calleigh check the tyre marks on the area outside the high-rise and find some shards of glass coated with grey paint. The CSIs are able to trace the make and model of the car to a known associate of Salucci, Mick Ragosa. When the CSIs apprehend Ragosa they notice that his car has sustained significant damage. However, Ragosa claims that although he visited the apartment block in an attempt to scare Campbell, he arrived just as the crane was smashing into the building.

The CSIs finally make a breakthrough in the case when they examine the black box and discover the crane was being operated remotely. Lab tech Jane Bartlett is able to pinpoint the most likely location of the killer – the top floor of a car park. The CSIs are astounded when they recover the remote device from a rubbish bin – and DNA provides a match to none other than Campbell’s son, Noah! It transpires that Noah was reluctant to go into witness protection and decided to attack the building in order to stop his father from standing trial. “I only wanted to scare Dad so he wouldn’t testify. So things could be the way they were,” he says.

To send Salucci to jail, the CSIs must now reopen the original investigation into Watkins’s murder. Calleigh listens to Campbell’s 911 call on the night of the crime and hears a toilet flushing in the background. Could vital evidence have found its way into the sewer system? And is Mick Ragosa more involved in the case than he claims?