Valera tells Delko that Raphael is not the rapist, but that the person who hid in the coffin and killed Aberto is a match.
For emphasis, he destroys the tape recorder she brought with her.
When the dust clears, Horatio has Raphael hauled off.īack at the lab, Ryan confronts Erica and tells her about the hit out on Horatio, and then demands she stay away from him. Raphael cooly informs Horatio that there is a 'green light' on him and shots erupt forcing Horatio and Delko to run for cover and return fire. Horatio and Delko storm the place with a SWAT team and locate Raphael Sifuentes, whose print was found on the grenade at Mrs. Calleigh searches for an abandoned plant and locates the Mala Noche stronghold. When he asks after the father, Celia hesitates and Horatio realizes the father was Dale Livingston.Īt the lab, Aaron Peters informs Calleigh that the substance she found on the Livingston's carpet was processed limestone with magnesium mixed in, the kind that would be found at a processing plant. After a discussion with the doctor, Horatio has to tell Celia that she's lost her baby. Ryan heads to the hospital where he picks up DNA from Celia's rapist to run at the lab. Dan Cooper, the new AV tech is more helpful-he points out Erica's newscast to Ryan, in which she's picked up footage of Ryan working at the crime scene and commenting on the case to Calleigh. At the labs, Natalia Boa Vista introduces herself to Calleigh and Ryan but offers them no help with their case, since her grant is for working on cold cases only. Fuentes's house, he finds a grenade under a bed and believes Alexx is correct. She shows Delko a suspect mark on the woman's cheek. In the morgue, Alexx Woods postulates to Delko that Aberto's mother, who died of a heart attack, was frightened to the death. Calleigh is able to get an alkali trace off the carpet from the suspect's shoes. When Horatio gets the Livingstons to come out of their panic room he tersely tells Dale, the husband, that he'd better cover Celia's medical bills. Celia is pregnant and won't allow a rape exam for fear of harming the baby. Horatio, Delko and Tripp respond to a break in call and find Celia Gonzalez, the housekeeper beaten and raped while the family of the house was safe in their panic room. Back at the scene, Eric Delko and Calleigh Duquesne lose the gas trail of the hearse, but they're able to narrow it's range down to a 5 mile radius. She claims to not know he was planning to kill Aberto. A rich young girl, she's dabbling in bad boys and admits under pressure that a guy going by the name of Diablo got her to put up the money for Aberto. Tripp and Horatio pay a visit to Michele Burke who paid for Aberto to come to his mother's funeral.
Ryan Wolfe collects DNA and chases away reporter Erica Sikes, who is hoping to get another big scoop from the young CSI. When Frank Tripp tells Horatio that Aberto was in jail for selling drugs in violation of the gang's code, Horatio realizes that this is why Aberto was killed by a member of his own gang. When Horatio spies a pitchfork tattoo on Aberto's chest, he realizes he's dealing with Mala Noche, a deadly gang that deals not in drugs but weaponry and who are renowned for being deadly assassins. Horatio runs to the scene in time to fire a few shots at the man's escape vehicle: a hearse. Aberto Fuentes was transported from jail to attend his mother's funeral, but when he approaches the coffin a man pops out of it, firing a machine gun. They are interrupted by the sound of gunfire. Horatio Caine is at Holy Redeemer church, speaking with Cardinal Benedetti about an old sin that haunts him-a life he took long ago. That the order came all the way from Nicaragua. The lab and Horatio learns that Mala Noche have put a Green Light (a hit) out on them. The team must find the connection between the two crime scenes the killing of a drug dealer and the rape of a well-off family's housekeeper who happens to be pregnant with her boss's child.