CSI: Miami (TV Series)
Out of Time (2009)
David Caruso: CSI Lieutenant Horatio 'H' Caine
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[searching for Eric in the Everglades]
Calleigh Duquesne : What if he collapsed in the water?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : He's out here, Calleigh, and we're gonna find him.
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[flashback to 1997]
Eric Delko : Detective Caine, I thought you were going to invest in a pair of sunglasses.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And I thought you were going to find them for me, Eric.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : We believe that a DNA test will confirm the blood found on Hollings will match the victim.
Evan Talbot : You have a pinhead-sized sample of blood. You can't run that for DNA.
Jesse Cardoza : For one test, we can.
Evan Talbot : Yeah, the defense has the right to run their own DNA test. And if you use the sample up, there's none left for them.
Jesse Cardoza : You're saying if we test it, we can't use it against the guy, and if we don't test it, we can't get the guy.
Evan Talbot : Yeah, that's the law. Excuse me, I have to be in court.
Jesse Cardoza : Well, the law just screwed us.
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Calleigh Duquesne : I really appreciate you asking me to help with the case, Horatio.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : What do you see?
Calleigh Duquesne : Well, the car's been underwater, so we're not gonna find any usable prints, fibers, or hairs. Front end's damaged.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [opening the driver's side door] The airbag is deployed. Could that have happened when the car went in the water?
Calleigh Duquesne : No. I don't think so. I've got transfer here, and you don't get transfer from water. It looks like the car came into contact with steel or maybe concrete.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay, so that means someone crashed it before it went in the water. Don't we need propellant to inflate the bag?
Calleigh Duquesne : The impact will ignite the propellant, and that generates the gas that fills the airbag. It basically works like the primer of a gun.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And just like a gun, wouldn't there be explosive material on the driver?
Calleigh Duquesne : Yeah. Wow, I never even thought about that.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Calleigh, when I was back with the bomb squad, we used to do the Greiss test for nitrites. Why are you smiling?
Calleigh Duquesne : Because this is what I was hoping it would be like when I got here.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Me, too.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'm looking for Officer Tripp.
Frank Tripp : I spend half my days on paperwork. It would be nice if we computerized all this stuff.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Then what would we complain about?
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Calleigh Duquesne : Detective Caine, did I speak out of turn back there?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You did, but you're asking the right questions. Okay?
Calleigh Duquesne : Thanks, Detective.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay. You know what? Call me Horatio.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : How'd you know to look here?
Eric Delko : Water levels rise when it rains. Excess water gets diverted into these drainage pipes.
[wading in, he feels around in the water, finding mostly garbage, then pulls out a gun]
Eric Delko : You said the killer used a nine-millimeter, right?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I did.
Eric Delko : Looks like a nine-mil. Sometimes things end up where you never expect. Pays to know your environment.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And you know, Eric, that's the essence of good police work.
Eric Delko : Yeah, I guess it is.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I know it is. Nice job.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Do you smell bleach?
John 'Sully' Sullivan : [sniffing] Mm-hmm.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Mr. Bowers, have you been doing some cleaning?
Steve Bowers : I told you. I-I haven't been home.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : The man has mud on his shoes. He had access to the victim. You're releasing him.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : While you were doing your little science experiment, I did some real police work. The husband wasn't on a business trip. He was riding the high horse with some little cocktail waitress from Miami Shores.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I want to talk to the girl.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : I already did. She said "He wanted a divorce, but he couldn't afford it." You wanted motive. There's your motive. Open and shut. I'm hungry. Let's go eat.
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Eric Delko : Someone shot her here?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : No, Eric. This is a body dump. She was shot elsewhere.
Eric Delko : How do you know it's a body dump?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [indicating the victim's leg] See this bruising right here? Bruising happens when gravity pools the blood at the spot closest to the ground.
[lifting her skirt a tad]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And if you notice this bruising right here, it's called double lividity. And it means that she was on her back until she was shifted to her side.
Eric Delko : So they killed her and then moved her here.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Exactly right.
Eric Delko : How are you gonna figure out where they killed her?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Watch and learn.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You work patrol in the Grove. Have you ever answered a domestic for Amy and Steve Bowers?
Frank Tripp : Bowers. Yeah, I was there about three weeks ago. Neighbors heard arguing.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Did it get physical?
Frank Tripp : No. Uh, harmless. Just a married couple shouting. No hitting, so I didn't file anything.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Any B&Es recently in their area?
Frank Tripp : No, but I did catch a Peeping Tom close to there last month. Couple of female residents said they were being watched while they got undressed. I say shut the damn curtains.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And those Peeping Toms, they go from sexual assault to murder easily.
Frank Tripp : The bad news is, until they do, all we can give 'em is a citation.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Did you give this one a citation?
Frank Tripp : Ah, let's see.
[checking his records]
Frank Tripp : That's last month. Yeah, here's the little creep. Arnold Hollings, age 32. Occupation, landscaper.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Officer Tripp, I see one of those new computers, you're first on the list.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I appreciate the call. You pulling tin?
Eric Delko : Yeah, you know the tow truck company pays minimum wage.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : Yeah, why can't you ever pull out a big bag of unmarked cash, Delko?
Eric Delko : Yeah, well, I'm working on that, Sully.
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Jesse Cardoza : Horatio, I still got five hours left in my shift.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Megan is out in the field. I need your eyes.
Jesse Cardoza : I'll head over to the canal.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : No. The primary; the Bowers' home. Someone used bleach on the living room.
Jesse Cardoza : You got a pump spray?
[Horatio tosses him one]
Jesse Cardoza : All right.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [finding a miniscule blood sample, enough for just one test] What if we multiply the sample?
Jesse Cardoza : Yeah, well, that's pretty new science. We don't have access to that equipment.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yes, but the feds are doing it.
Jesse Cardoza : Think you can reach out?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I have a friend in the Miami field office; she owes me a favor.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Thank you for doing this, Agent Reed. If we don't find a way to stretch this DNA, an innocent man is gonna go to jail.
Agent Diane Reed : Couldn't have caught that serial bomber without your expertise, Detective. It's the least I could do.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I put a reference sample from our victim in here, too.
Agent Diane Reed : But first step is to multiply the DNA.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [at Delko's hospital bedside] Eric, I know how hard... how hard you're fighting right now, and I know how easy it would be to slip away and be with Marisol. I think about that, too. But I don't want you to do it. I'm not ready. I'm not ready for you...
[breaking down, then composing himself]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's just that I... that I... I lost her, and... and Ray... and Speed. You're... you're all I've got left, Eric. So... I... I want you to do what we always do. I want you to fight.
[whispering in his ear]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : That's what I need you to do.
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Agent Diane Reed : Used to be we needed a blood sample the size of a quarter to run DNA. Now it's the equivalent of a few skin cells.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Progress marches on, huh?
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Jesse Cardoza : [after his last day] Congratulations. I just heard. Chief wants you to head up the Special Investigations Unit, huh?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yeah, they're gonna re-name it CSI.
Jesse Cardoza : Fred Dorsey's old broom closet?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : No, we've got our eye on a piece of property not far from here.
Jesse Cardoza : Yeah, I bet you do. Well... thank you for everything.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I hope this works out for you, Jesse. You're a good man.
Jesse Cardoza : Yeah, me, too. Oh, and Calleigh says you're putting together a team. I know a good cop up at St. Pete, Tim Speedle, if you'd like.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Speedle.
Jesse Cardoza : Yeah. A little hard to get on the phone, but he's a good guy.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'll give him a call.
[shaking hands]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You take care. You stay in touch, all right?
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Eric Delko : [giving Horatio his trademark sunglasses] Go for it.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Are you ready? Here we go.
Eric Delko : [he puts them on] Oh, yeah.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yeah?
Eric Delko : Oh, yeah. Yeah, man, those are you.
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Alexx Woods : Gunshot wound is what killed her. Based on the level of rigor, I'd place her time of death between 5:00 and 8:00 this morning.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [scraping the victim's nails] Let's see. There's no skin underneath these fingernails, and I don't see any defensive wounds on her arms, so she wasn't fighting off her attacker.
Alexx Woods : So either she knew him...
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Or maybe the killer took her by surprise. What about old injuries?
Alexx Woods : Just an appendectomy scar.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : So we can't paint her as an abused wife.
Alexx Woods : [showing him the victim's head wound] No, but look at this. I thought the blunt force trauma happened when she hit the ground.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Maybe, Alexx, he was attempting to subdue her.
Alexx Woods : Where are you doing with this, Horatio?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I don't know. I'm just following the evidence.
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Steve Bowers : You think I shot my wife?
John 'Sully' Sullivan : Yeah.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You know what? Maybe we shouldn't rush this. Let's see how the evidence lines up.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : Well, I know how it's gonna line up. It's a crime of passion. I mean, this guy's greasy as lard. Come on, he can't even fake tears.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Sully, somebody tracked mud across that floor. His shoes are clean as a whistle. They never touched dirt.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : He washed 'em, just like he spit-shined the rest of this place.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'd really like to see some motive here.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : We'll get motive later. I'm taking the widower back to the barn. Make sure he doesn't leave town.
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Alexx Woods : I have your bullet for you, Horatio, from the back of the wife's head.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [taking an evidence baggie] That's a nine-millimeter. It's a match to the husband's box of ammo.
Alexx Woods : Sully's convinced it was a domestic.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'd like to hear what the body has to say.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : So, Fred, what can you tell me?
Fred Dorsey : Well, elemental composition of the bullet that Dr. Woods pulled out of the victim matches the batch of bullets that were found at the house. Now, it doesn't put the gun in Bowers' hand, but this is, uh, pretty definitive.
Calleigh Duquesne : Excuse me, but I believe that analysis is flawed.
Fred Dorsey : Are you questioning my science?
Calleigh Duquesne : No, I'm not questioning the science, just the interpretation... sir.
Fred Dorsey : I don't know if they told you at that fancy institute, but bullets packaged at the same time and from the same batch are elementally identical.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Hang on a second, Fred. Officer Duquesne, continue, please.
Calleigh Duquesne : A study done by the Department of Justice is finding that bullets packaged months apart in separate batches can have the same lead composition. Therefore, your link between the husband and the victim is unfounded. I mean, anyone could own this bullet.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Fred, did we see this study?
Fred Dorsey : It's worked for 40 years, Horatio. That's good enough for me.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : But, Fred, things are changing, and we need to change with them.
Fred Dorsey : We don't have any other way to compare bullets. You drop the ball on this one, and we're back to zero. What do we do then?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Look for more evidence. Officer Duquesne?
Calleigh Duquesne : Yes, sir?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Can I have a word?
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John 'Sully' Sullivan : Minimal decomp. No more than 24 hours. What do you think, drowned?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : She's been shot. This isn't our primary. It's a secondary.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : I'll run the plates. Get an ID.
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[first lines]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay, listen up! We're gonna fan out in both directions and cover the entire area! Right now and be thorough! Be thorough!
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I noticed you have mud on your shoes.
Arnold Hollings : I'm a gardener.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I ask you because we found mud inside the Bowers' home.
Arnold Hollings : So?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You told us that you never went inside.
Arnold Hollings : Oh. I forgot. I went in to pick up my payment. Mrs. Bowers left it in an envelope.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : What time was that?
Arnold Hollings : 6:00, I think.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Was she home?
Arnold Hollings : She was in the shower.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : Oh, how do you know that? Were you watching her?
Arnold Hollings : I heard the water running.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Really?
Arnold Hollings : You think I killed Mrs. Bowers?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : If the shoe fits, my friend...
Arnold Hollings : I pull weeds and I leave. Got no idea who killed that lady.
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Jesse Cardoza : All right, so... what is all this?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I think I know how the blood drops got on the window. We agree that it wasn't the head injury. What about the gunshot wound?
Jesse Cardoza : Well, the victim was on this side of the room. There's no way the blood could have traveled that far.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Sometimes things end up where they never should be, and it pays to know your environment.
Jesse Cardoza : Okay. Well, what'd we miss?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I have placed the target where the victim fell to her knees.
[handing Jesse his gun]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay? Take this, go to the shooter's position and shoot the target.
Jesse Cardoza : You want me to shoot the target?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [turning the AC on] Go ahead.
Jesse Cardoza : Really?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Really. It's a dummy round. Go ahead.
Jesse Cardoza : [as he shoots the bloody sponge, blood spatter hits the window behind him] The air conditioning was on.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yeah. Watch this. The air from the AC carried the blood to the window.
Jesse Cardoza : Know what this means? If the blood hit the killer like it hit me...
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : We just put him in the room.
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[transitioning between two parallel conversations]
Steve Bowers : Why do you want my shirt?
Calleigh Duquesne : Because every contact you make, no matter how small, will leave a trace.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : It's called Locard's exchange principle.
Arnold Hollings : I don't get it.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : That's okay. We do.
Steve Bowers : Sounds like a lot of hocus-pocus.
Calleigh Duquesne : Actually, there's an entire forensic discipline based on this principle.
Arnold Hollings : How come I've never heard of this on TV?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Because guns make the news and science doesn't.
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Calleigh Duquesne : So, all we have to do is lift these papers and see if either one of them pops for nitrites.
[checking one]
Calleigh Duquesne : Husband's negative.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Let's try the gardener.
Calleigh Duquesne : It's a positive result.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Wow. That is amazing. We just put Hollings in the car.
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John 'Sully' Sullivan : Heard you found the murder weapon. Too bad the serial numbers were scratched off. Might've been one more nail in the husband's coffin. Thought you should know the ASA has agreed to file charges against Bowers.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Sully, you've got the wrong guy.
John 'Sully' Sullivan : Prove it.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'm going to.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Alexx, I just got a call from Jesse. Have we checked her for sexual assault?
Alexx Woods : She was sexually assaulted.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Alex, was there bruising?
Alexx Woods : [checking] Vaginal mucosa lacerations. Without bruising. They were definitely inflicted post-mortem.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : But correct me if I'm wrong, Alexx, the body stops bruising once the heart stops beating, right?
Alexx Woods : Yes. Poor girl's corpse was desecrated. Thanks to the Glades water, there's no semen, and without it, I can't identify your perpetrator.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Arnold Hollings is good for this. These results place him in the victim's car.
Evan Talbot : No. It says that he was in *a* car when an airbag deployed. But what if he crashed his own car?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : On the same day his employer was murdered?
Evan Talbot : It's possible. That's all a judge cares about. Besides, wasn't the guy a gardener? So, possible that the residue on his clothes came from fertilizer or weed killer.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : So grant me the warrant, we'll confirm the Griess test, and get him off the street.
Evan Talbot : Is this even an accepted application of the Griess in any county in Florida?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Not yet.
Evan Talbot : Oh. So you're bringing me junk science, is that it? You trying to put a loss in my column? I don't think so. Besides, I agree with your partner, Sullivan, on this one.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [surprised] He was here?
Evan Talbot : Yeah. Helping me to put the husband away. Slam dunk.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Explain to me the blood drops.
Jesse Cardoza : Still can't explain directionality. It's completely out of context.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [looking at crime scene photos, something clicks] Jesse, I've got an idea. Before you punch out, I need one more thing.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Eric, you did good work out there today.
Eric Delko : Thanks. I appreciate you showing me how everything works.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You ever think about being a cop?
Eric Delko : [chuckling] Come on, me a cop? No, man.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I'm serious, Eric. See, this work is about observation, and you have a great eye for detail. Why don't you go to the academy, let me put in a good word for you, get your badge, and then come and find me?
Eric Delko : People make a lot of promises, and in my experience, they don't usually show up after that.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Eric, I'm different. I'll be here.
Eric Delko : You mean that.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : I mean it. Get your badge and find me.
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Eric Delko : When you said the driver hit something, I immediately thought of this. Drove by here yesterday, this guardrail wasn't damaged.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : We know the victim died between 5:00 and 8:00, and that would mean... that the gardener dumped her body after you came through. See that blue paint; that's transfer, which confirms the impact took place here.
Eric Delko : This road was pretty slick from the rain last night. Maybe the driver took the turn too fast.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : So Hollings walked away. These last two prints confirm that he put his weight... on his left foot. He planted it.
Eric Delko : Yeah, like he was going to throw something.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : What do you mean?
Eric Delko : I played right field for the Hurricanes for a few years. You're gonna throw something, you plant on your left foot. Question is, what was he tossing?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : How about the murder weapon? Problem is, it's halfway to Florida Bay by now.
Eric Delko : You know, maybe not.
[leading him down the road]
Eric Delko : Check this out.
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Agent Diane Reed : Magic. DNA for you, and DNA for the defense.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : If it matches our victim.
Agent Diane Reed : All right.
[going about the process]
Agent Diane Reed : This is the DNA profile for your victim. This is the unknown sample. Odds that two people have the same profile are about one in a billion.
[seeing the results]
Agent Diane Reed : The blood is a match.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Arnold Hollings murdered Amy Bowers, open and shut.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay, hang on a second. What is that, guys?
[Jesse presses processing tape on Arnold's shirt and removes it]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : No. That's dirt; that's not blood.
Jesse Cardoza : Bend over, please.
[Hollings does so, and he brushes trace out of his hair]
Jesse Cardoza : That's a whole lot of dandruff.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yeah. No blood.
Arnold Hollings : Is that it? Am I done?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [noticing something] No, you're not done. Lean your head back, please. All the way back. Right there. Calleigh, a swab please. Take a look at that. Right there.
[Calleigh swabs Hollings' nose]
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [seeing blood] Brother... you shouldn't have inhaled.
Arnold Hollings : What does all this mean?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You're about to find out.