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InAWorld of nasty crimes, only one man can ensure that the women of {{Miami}} continue to be able to wear bikinis and sunbathe without corpses washing ashore. That man...[[CoolShades wears sunglasses]].

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''{{CSI}}'' SpinOff, set in Miami. Horatio Caine (played by David Caruso) takes the role of the guy spouting the GrissomOneLiner, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 which he always does]] after [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHnUrUAbho putting his sunglasses on]] - wonderfully parodied by WeeblAndBob [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/ here]]. Horatio differs from Grissom by being a complete and utter unrepentant dick. Unless you're under 15 and/or a woman and/or have just survived a horrible crime, in which case he's your best and most compassionate friend.

The show uses its Miami setting to tell different stories to its Vegas counterpart, namely more water-based mysteries, i.e. stories involving dead people on boats and people fleeing Cuba. One of its oddities is Alexx TheCoroner, who liked to say, "Oh, poor baby" or words to that effect over the corpse of the week. Other characters include Calleigh Duquesne, known as the "bullet girl"; Ryan Wolfe (always referred to by Horatio as "Mr. Wolfe"); and Eric Delko, whose intensely drippy sister was briefly married to Mr. Caine before getting introduced to a firearm.

Probably what would result if the writers of ''StarskyAndHutch'' were told '''Stop'' that! This is ''serious'', goddammit!'.

Strictly speaking this is an ensemble show, like the other {{CSI}}s, but one character dominates the show.
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This show provides examples of:
* AtonementDetective - (Caine)
* [[BadBlueLighting Bad]] [[strike: Blue]] [[BadBlueLighting Orange Lighting]]
* ButtMonkey & ChewToy: Eric Delko. The universe hates him. His sister got shot to get at Horatio, and died. He got shot in the head (again someone trying to get to Horatio. Feeling a pattern yet?) but survives, albeit with several side effects. He's been in trouble with internal affairs over his sister's use of medicinal marijuana, had a girlfriend who was the jealous clingy type who wanted to snipe his sister (she got beaten to it by another sniper). He goes to a nightclub, the place burns down while he's there - and no, he doesn't manage to save everyone. Every lawyer in Miami tries to have him seen as incompetent after his bullet to the head incident. Said bullet made him forget his sister's death, meaning he had to grieve all over again. His badge was once stolen and used to commit a murder. If crap is going to happen to a member of the team, there is a 80% chance it happens to Eric.
**Even when it's not happening to Eric, odds are he'll be the person most affected after whoever's unlucky this episode. Don't forget that while Speed's fate ([[spoiler:Death]]) was worse for Speed himself, Eric was his best friend. And when Wolfe got a nail shot in his eye, he was only working that day because Eric had shown up to work late (making Eric feel responsible for Wolfe getting an eyeful of nail).
*** Essentially, if your a male member of Horatio's team, there's a 100% chance you'll get shot by something (either bullets or nail). Jesse should've asked for the statistics before signing up.
**And where's Eric now? He got shot ''again'', this time by ''his own girlfriend'' while ''helping his father escape the mob.'' There was also some question as to the legitimacy of his US citizenship. [[spoiler: No wonder he finally decided to leave.]]
* BigYes - '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''
* CaliforniaDoubling - Except for the season opening episodes, the show is not filmed in Miami (which may explain the random mountains out of nowhere). Considering ''[[DisneyThemeParks Space Mountain]]'' is the third-highest point in the entire state of Florida, anything with a higher elevation than an anthill is out of place in Miami.
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction
* ChekhovsGun - Speedle's gun, which he doesn't keep clean and misfired on him once (and earned him a stern talking to from Calleigh) before his fatal shooting.
* ChekhovMIA (Caine's brother)
* ClickHello - Horatio's favorite method of executing a StealthHiBye on a perp.
* CoolestClubEver: It '''IS''' Miami, after all.
* CoolShades: Horatio. That...[[GlassesPull *puts on shades*]] is all.
**'''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''
** The production team have 100 sets of H's shades.
** And the season 8 opener is a {{Flashback}} telling the ''origin story'' of H's shades.
* ColdOpening - often featuring some of the most intense techno beats ever.
* TheCoroner (Alexx, Price)
* CrimeAndPunishmentSeries
* DeathGlare - Horatio and Delko while PerpSweating.
* DeathInTheClouds - "Flight Risk"
* DiplomaticImpunity: One of the bad guys, naturally.
* DramaticLandfallShot
* DroppedABridgeOnHim
* DrugsAreBad [[spoiler: Horatio's son is now working in the coroner's office (don't ask me how or why) and Horatio suspects he's stealing drugs. It turns out that Dr. Price (the current coroner) is an Oxycontin addict - when a grenade went off in the lab, Wolfe noticed her grabbing her spilled drugs: "Your pills are more important then your safety?"]]
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep - Tim "Speed" Speedle.
* EvilIsSexy: Julia, Horatio's secret baby-mama, who [[VaporWear doesn't wear a bra]] and had a neckline steadily lower over the course of a two-parter.
* EyeScream: Wolfe getting a nailgun to the eye. Owww.
* {{Fanservice}}: What else do you call the regular shots in the pre-titles sequence of scantily-clad women? Or every outfit in Calleigh or Natalia's wardrobes? And, occasionally, Alex.
* {{Flanderization}}: Caine used to have moments when [[DullSurprise he would actually emote]].
** Caine used to have moments where he worked in the lab, like, you know, a CSI.
* GlassesPull: Horatio
-->'''Horatio Caine:''' Only I...*puts on shades* make it cool. ('''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!''''')
* GrissomOneLiner. Subverted on one occasion when the episode starts with Horatio's old friend on the bomb squad being killed in an explosion while he's outside. Caine, stunned, actually takes ''off'' his shades and says absolutely nothing.
** Due to the sheer amount of mocking the character has received for his OneLiner style, Caine has pretty much stopped doing it.
* GodModeSue: Horatio. Seriously. Name me ANYTHING he's not capable of doing. He's a bomb expert, a flawless marksman, great driver, and seems to have a wider scientific knowledge than Grissom did.
* GutFeeling: Horatio. In fact, one wonders why the Miami-Dade police department even needs crime scene investigators, given the guilty party always turns out to be the person H doesn't like.
* HotScientist: Take your pick of the ''entire cast''.
* IdiotBall The [=CSIs=] don't even have a camera in their interrogation rooms. Allowing suspects to beat themselves up on the table and claim police brutality.
** What makes this scene even worse is the fact that said interrogation room is basically made entirely out of glass, meaning pretty much anyone else in the entire police station at the time and within 200 yards of the scene would have seen the suspect smashing their head into the table while Horatio is standing on the other side of the room.
** To be fair, how many cop shows have you seen where the detectives didn't record their questioning? That's right, ''all of them''.
*** The sad part is that the ''suspect beating himself up to claim police brutality ploy'' happened not one, but '''twice'''. Seems that while they can afford holographic interfaces, cameras for the interrogation rooms are still way too expensive.
** Meanwhile, up in [[CSINewYork New York]], Mac Taylor responds to a suspect trying this by explaining how forensic evidence can establish that the wound was self-inflicted. The perp sulks a bit and asks for an aspirin.
** {{CSI}} (the original) does have a camera in the interrogation room. As seen in the episode where the suspect went ballistic and ''tried to strangle Grissom''.
** {{NCIS}} also has a camera in the interrogation room, with someone sitting there overseeing the recordings...
** ''TheCloser'' records all interrogations.
* IllGirl - Eric's sister, who valiantly survives cancer only to get a terminal case of [[StuffedInTheFridge bullet to the gut]]; Horatio's brother also had an illegitimate daughter who is diagnosed with leukemia (I think), necessitating Horatio to tell the widow about this so that her son can be tested as a potential bone marrow donor.
* ItsPersonal
* TheLabRat: Originally Natalia, now shared by Maxine and Travers, who is very... British.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: "Dude Where's My Groom", thanks to a drug.
* LastNameBasis: Horatio to Ryan. It's never explained why Ryan is the only one to get this treatment from Horatio.
** Speedle was mostly refered to by his last name, or his nickname "Speed".
** Because his name is MR. WOLFE. If people could call me [[PulpFiction Mr. Wolfe]] I'd beg people to call me by my last name.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Caine discovers he has a son he didn't know about. The mum is Jessie off ''SavedByTheBell''.
* MacGyvering: When Calleigh gets kidnapped, she uses her l33t forensic skillz to give the team the identities of her kidnappers and her location.
* ManOnFire - The fate of at least two Corpses Of The Week, both related to siphoning gasoline out of the tank (but in different episodes)
* MemeticMutation - Looks like...it's time for...the opening sequence.
** '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'''''
* MoodLighting, because it's always easier to find forensic evidence in a darkened room.
* MoralDissonance: It's difficult to take anything Horatio says about the law seriously after seeing him cold-bloodedly murder an opponent he'd already disabled.
* MsFanservice: Natalia and Calleigh share this duty, but have reined it in recently.
* NarmCharm: '''''YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!'''''
* NeverFoundTheBody: The fate of at least one nemesis who has escaped the long arm of the law.
* OnlyOne: The Miami cops cannot do ANYTHING - SWAT interventions, bomb disposal or police chase - without Horatio's direct presence and involvement.
** Hilariously, later seasons regularly have Horatio showing up first when a crime is in progress, or there's a 911 call. And By showing up first we mean he gets there ''before'' patrol cars. Leading ThisTroper to suspect that either A) Horatio has no life and patrols Miami even during his downtime. or B) He's Miami's equivalent to {{Batman}}.
* OverprotectiveDad / PapaWolf: "Dude Where's My Groom": [[spoiler: the bride's dad ''really'' disapproved of the groom and at the first sign that he had hurt his daughter (emotionally, by going to a strip club after swearing he wouldn't) he bribed a stripper to bring him out back, hogtied him and [[DisproportionateRetribution left him to die at sea in a tiny inflatable raft]].]]
* PerpWalk - OncePerEpisode, in super dramatic SloMo.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot
* RealSongThemeTune - "Won't Get Fooled Again" by TheWho, beginning right at the '''''[[RunningGag YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!]]'''''
* ShipTease - Eric/Calleigh gets a big one when Calleigh dons a wedding veil while attempting to recreate the crime scene.
* ShootTheHostage - Mostly averted, as Horatio is good enough to shoot the hostage taker.
* SixthRanger - Technically First Ranger Jesse Cardoza, who is [[RetCon introduced in flashback]] retiring just as Calleigh joins the lab; he rejoins just in time [[spoiler: to replace Eric after he decided to leave]].
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty - Very much on the shiny side.
* SoBadItsGood (Everything ridiculous about the original ''CSI'', distilled to pure form.)
**This troper maintains that it is in a category all of its own: So Bad It's ''Awesome''.
* SplitScreen (common in Season Five)
* StealthHiBye - Horatio is a master of the Stealth Hi.
* StockFootage - The aerial establishing shots over Miami.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute - Jessie Cardoza replacing [[spoiler:Eric Delko]]
* TakeFive
* TeamDad - Horatio to his team members, though he doesn't really go into full [[PapaWolf berserker]] mode unless Alexx or Calleigh are in danger. Meaning if your a male member of Horatio's team... sucks to be you.
* TeamMom - Alexx, who'd even act motherly to the ''corpses''.
* {{TemptingFate}}/{{Foreshadowing}} - When walking into a jewelry store with Horatio, Speed discusses expensive cars, disdaining them in favor of his bike. Caine mentions that he might need "something with doors" some day. Speed says he has plenty of time. He is fatally shot not ''five minutes later''.
* ThisIsSparta - Just about every line out of Horatio's mouth. The other lines are OneLinerNameOneLiner.
* VerbalTic - Horatio has a tendency to repeat himself for emphasis.
** Every episode, my friends. . . . Every episode.
** He'll also phrase half his statements in the form of a question, won't he?
* VigilanteExecution - A common hazard, and not just at the end of the episode, either - sometimes it happens halfway through and they discover some additional twist in the case.
* WeAreEverywhere - Subverted on at least one occasion when Horatio answers back that he'll be using the evidence they found out of the Perp Of the Week's stuff to hunt down every last member of this "we".
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ('''''[[OverlyLongGag YEAHHHH]]--''''' *is shot*)
** That and they edit looking at lab samples to make it look exciting.
* YouFailGeographyForever (I didn't know there were [[TheMountainsOfIllinois mountains in Miami]]! I guess I just wasn't observant stepping out of my house.)
** Are there even any mountains in Florida ''at all?''
*** There are three -- [[DisneyThemeParks Space Mountain, Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain.]]
* WholePlotReference - ''"Dude, Where's My Groom?"'' was explicitly inspired by ''TheHangover'', except BloodierAndGorier (naturally) and the groom might be dead. The commercial even uses a few lines from the film.
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