Horatio Caine

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Horatio Caine
CSI: Miami character
Image:David Caruso waiting.jpg
Gender	Male <tr><th align="left">Hair color</th><td>Red</td></tr><tr><th align="left">Birthdate</th><td>April 7, 1960</td></tr>
City	Miami
Job	CSI <tr><th align="left">Rank</th><td>Lieutenant</td></tr><tr><th align="left">Position</th><td>Supervisor of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab</td></tr>
Current status	Alive <tr><th align="left" valign="top">Known relatives</th><td>unnamed parents (deceased), Ray Caine (brother, deceased), Marisol Delko Caine (wife, deceased), Yelina Salas (sister-in-law), Ray Caine, Jr. (nephew)</td></tr>
Portrayed by	David Caruso
First appearance	Cross Jurisdictions

Lt. Horatio Caine is a lead character in the series CSI: Miami. He is played by actor David Caruso.

1 Head of the Crime Lab
2 Personal Life
3 Trivia
4 Quotes

[edit] Head of the Crime Lab

Born April 7, 1960, Caine is an Irish-American supervisor at the Miami-Dade crime lab, a forensic analyst and former homicide investigator and bomb squad officer (his forensic speciality is arson and explosion evidence). He's very protective of his team, who affectionately call him "H". He is very concerned about the reputation of his lab, and takes great care to keep them clean, perhaps because of his experience with his tarnished younger brother, Ray. Horatio takes his job very seriously, and is almost a soldier in the war against crime in Miami. Unlike his counterpart in Las Vegas, Gil Grissom (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), he does not hesitate to carry a weapon (or use it). In the first two seasons, Caine carried a nine-millimeter Beretta Cougar on the job. Since the beginning of season three, he has been shown carrying a SIG-Sauer P229. Horatio is very insistent on gun maintanance, insisting that his team keep clean firearms, especially after CSI Tim Speedle is killed in a shootout after he froze when his gun misfires. One of Caine's reasons for selecting Officer Ryan Wolfe as Speedle's replacement is Wolfe's compulsive care of his firearm.

At the end of Season 2 (episode 223, "MIA/NYC - Nonstop"), Horatio travels to New York City in pursuit of a killer and meets Detective Mac Taylor and his team, inagurating the first season of "CSI: New York." Caine later reunites with Detective Taylor and the New York CSIs to track down and collar rampaging murderer Henry Darius, who would be extradited Florida to face the death penalty (CSI: Miami episode 407, "Felony Flight," CSI: NY episode 207, "Manhattan Manhunt").

He has many recurring enemies throughout the series, from serial killer Walter Resden to abusive Internal Affairs Agent Rick Stetler to the corrupt judge Joseph Ratner.

Before he moved to Miami, Horatio lived in New York. It was there that he killed the man who murdered his mother-- his own father. He was also badly stabbed while investigating a case in which children were locked in closets while their parents were murdered. The perpetrator, Walter Resden, harbored a deep grudge against Horatio, collecting the blood from the stabbing and preserving it for ten years in order to frame him for the murder of Caine's girfriend, Rachel Turner (episode 406, "Suspicion"). Horatio is later forced to shoot Resden (episdoe 415, "Skeletons").

[edit] Personal Life

Horatio's original backstory, revealed over the course of the first three seasons, revolves primarily around his relationship with his late brother Raymond, also a police officer (but a crooked one), and with Raymond's widow, Detective Yelina Salas. It was revealed in the Season 3 finale (episode 324, "10-7") that Raymond's apparent death had actually been staged to enable him to go deep undercover to gather information for a government investigation. Since the temporary resolution of the Raymond plotline, the show has begun to explore a new part of Horatio's history, the events surrounding his mother's murder. In CSI: NY episode 207 ("Manhattan Manhunt"), a continuation of CSI: Miami episode 407 ("Felony Flight"), Horatio is momentarily interrupted on his case when he is served with a subpoena. In episode 408 ("Nailed"), Caine informs the rest of the CSI team that he had recently been charged by a district attorney in New York with the murder of the man who killed his mother. It is later revealed in episode 412 ("Collision") that this man was actually Horatio's own father.

Caine was briefly married to Eric Delko's sister Marisol, who was shot by a Mala Noche gang member and later died (episode 424, "Rampage"). Horatio pursued the man who ordered the hit on her, Antonio Riaz, all the way to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and eventually killed him in hand-to-hand combat after Riaz not only brutally beat to death Horatio's brother Raymond but attempted to corrupt Ray's son, Ray Jr. (episode 501, "Rio"). One character put it very well that so many of the people in their lives get hurt (episode 505, "Death Eminent"). Horatio has lost almost his entire family to violence: his father murdered his mother, he killed his father, one of his girlfriends was murdered by a psychopath, Riaz had both his wife and his brother killed. Perhaps because of this, Horatio is ever more intent to put criminals behind bars before they cause more harm to innocents. Horatio is relentless in his pursuit of criminals, especially those that believe they're safe from the law. For many an overconfident suspect, smugness has given way to shock when Caine arrests them. Lieutenant Caine also advocates the death penalty, and is not leery of threatening suspects with it (CSI: NY episde 207, "Manhattan Manhunt").

For a victim, Horatio is equally protective and compassionate. When he offers his sympathy, help, or protection, he will do his utmost to live up to it, oftentimes going so far as to give his phone number to victims and the victim's family, should they need to talk. Caine remains very close to a lot of victims crimes that he investigated, and some from cases he worked in New York have actually followed him to Miami. He is very sensitive to the plight of children, tirelessly hounding those who would hurt them, even against opposition from outside sources (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode 222, "Cross Jurisdictions," CSI: Miami episode 503, "Death Pool 100", episode 407, "Felony Flight," episode 417, "Collision," et al.).

For some time after CSI Tim Speedle's death, Caine had a recurring nightmare in which he (Horatio) is the one whose weapone misfires, rather than Speed. Rather than talking with a counselor, as IAB officer Rick Stetler ordered, he instead works it out with girlfriend State Attorney Rebecca Nevins (episode 310, "After the Fall"). Horatio breaks up with Nevins after she makes a deal with a criminal he helps collar (episode 313, "Cop Killer"). He later dates Rachel Turner, who is murdered by Walter Resden in an attempt to take revenge on Horatio for 'embarrassing' him in New York about a decade earlier (episode 406, "Suspicion").

[edit] Trivia

Horatio is revealed to have worked in New York City before joining the Miami-Dade Police. His actor, David Caruso, actually from 1993-1994 starred in the first two seasons of NYPD Blue as Detective John Kelly. Interestingly enough, Alana de la Garza, who played Marisol Delko Caine, in 2006 joined the cast of Law and Order, also set in New York, as Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa. Just as intriguing is that Dean Winters, who played Horatio's younger brother Ray, previously belonged to the supporting cast of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, also set in New York, as Detective Brian Cassidy, who transferred from SVU to the narcotics division. Raymond Caine on "CSI: Miami" was an undercover narcotics officer.
According to Caine in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode 222 ("Cross Jurisdictions"), his parents named him for the late 19th-Century American author Horatio Alger.
His trademark is putting on and removing his sunglasses (a pair of Silhouette Titanium Model 8568 with special dark polarized lenses), often several times in an episode.
Horatio often stands sideways to the person he is speaking to and tilts his head slightly. Additionally, he frequently smiles flirtatiously at his primary suspect.
Usually within the first 30 seconds after the crime sequence is shown, he greets Detective Frank Tripp using his name, and asks a question or comments about the crime.
Originally, the character was to be named "Horatio Sands." The name may have been changed due to its similarity to "Horatio Sanz," a cast member on Saturday Night Live. (Interesteringly, the name "Horatio Caine" was also the name of a villainous department store owner in "Death at Bargain Prices," an episode of the 1960s program The Avengers).
Horatio is often referred to as "Horatio Caine, Supercop", owing to his seemingly one man ability to solve crimes and arrest assailants without the need for external help from officers specialised in prisoner capture.

[edit] Quotes

"We never close."
"Life, Stewart, is filled with disappointment."
"This place is a buffet for these creeps."
"Let's go talk to the other Russian, the cousin, before he chokes on a Twizzler."
"Tomorrow is what you make of it."
"Next time you want to take a swing at someone, start with me."
"Everyone has something to hide."
"He is a liar. I just don't know what the lie is yet."
"When you have everything, sometimes it feels like nothing."
"Bag it, tag it and let's see what else is there!"
(To Eric Delko)"If we want to be effective on this job we have to survive, too."
"Alright, be on the lookout for an Eastern European male with bad teeth who may have access to an ape."
(In response to a murderer who asks if Horatio wants to know why he killed people) You just killed four innocent people. You're evil. You enjoy death. I hope you enjoy your own."
"You guys couldn't find your ass with both hands."