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This was one of those episodes where you watch it and you enjoy it, but it just didn't seem that great. Then when you think about it, a ton of stuff happened. At this point, now in it's fourth season (and I know people are going to disagree with me), but I really think that CSI: Miami is starting to clearly distinguish itself as the best of the three CSIs.

So before you all chew my head to itty bitty pieces, let me at least make my case in terms of this episode. One of the hallmarks of the three CSI programs is that they take you into the world of forensics - it's fun to watch. But the one thing you notice, especially with the original, is that a lot of time from each episode is dedicated to the cut scenes and montages that show the lab techs doing their thing. And you get used to seeing it. So when it isn't a huge part of the episode, you notice. Such was the case with last night's installment. There wasn't much going on in the labs. When there was, the scenes were limited because for those of us that watch these shows, we've seen enough that we know what's going on. At first it seems out of place, but then you realize that the writer's have taken all this extra time and created some really amazing stories to help develop our main characters.

H and Tripp respond to a shooting at a posh Miami mansion. The vic is a known drug dealer and when one of his lackeys falls through the skylight window, he reveals that Delko was buying weed from him. More on that later. Calleigh recovers multiple bullet casings from the scene. Now in case you haven't been watching, each week Calleigh has been getting more and more fed up with the way the firearms lab (the lab she used to run) has been working lately. She finally reaches her boiling point, has the bumbling tech who runs it now transferred, and she reclaims the lab. In a triumphant scene, Calleigh shoots off a few rounds while smiling like a kid on Halloween. Back to Delko: his urine tests positive for THC and Wolfe mentions to Stetler that Delko might have had rolling papers in his lab kit a few weeks ago. So things aren't looking good for Delko, but he tells Horatio that there is an explanation.

Based on the bullet casings Calleigh recovered, she determines that there were two shooters and prints found at the scene lead H and Tripp to a hotel room inhabited by a Californian bounty hunter. Only problem is that he wasn't after the dead drug dealer. There was another guy in the room. Wolfe pulls DNA from a piece of chewing gum found at the scene and our mystery second shooter turns out to be a guy with four aliases. But the bounty hunter catches him first and brings him in. Too bad that by then all the evidence is stacked against the bounty hunter - he killed the druglord because he posed a threat to the bounty hunter's mark. Don't want anything to kill your paycheck.

Highlights of the episode? While looking at photographs that Wolfe took, Calleigh notices that they are all out of focus. Alexx examines Ryan's eyes and he may have an infection that could affect his eyesight. Don't forget, he got shot in the eye with a nailgun two week ago. That brings us back to Delko. We've seen him with a mysterious woman a few times this season. It's his sister, Marisol, and a few months ago she found a lump in her breast. Eric had been buying her the marijuana to help deal with the nausea that the chemo causes. The only reason Delko tested positive for THC was because he stayed with her while she smoked. It wrapped up the story neatly, but it certainly leaves it open for future issues. As far as Wolfe goes, he better not lose his sight, because Blind Justice was a terrible show.