Losing Face (30 Sep. 2002)

A Colombian importer is found with a 'necklace bomb' around his neck. The bomb explodes, killing a bomb squad officer, Al, who is Horatio's friend.

Director:

Joe Chappelle

Writers:

Anthony E. Zuiker (creator), Ann Donahue (creator),

Stars:

David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
David Caruso	...	Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Emily Procter	...	Calleigh Duquesne
Adam Rodriguez	...	Eric Delko
Khandi Alexander	...	Dr. Alexx Woods
Rory Cochrane	...	Tim Speedle
Kim Delaney	...	Megan Donner
Conor O'Farrell	...	Charlie Berenger
Magali Caicedo	...	Moira Burgess (as Magaly Caicedo)
Mercedes Colon	...	Katrina Cabrera, Bomb Tech (as Mercedes Colón)
Jessica Ferrarone	...	Julisa Moreno
Joe Renteria	...	Aurelio Moreno
Candy Ann Brown	...	Felicia Humphreys (as Candy Brown Houston)
Lou Beatty Jr.	...	Al Humphreys
Liz Alvarado	...	Lauriana Moreno
Seth Adkins	...	Conner

Storyline

Succesfull Colombian importer Aurelio Moreno is found by his wife Julisa Moreno with a 'necklace bomb' and a notice pinned on his chest. The bomb squad enters, and loses Al Humphreys, Lieutenant Horatio Caine's friend and former trainer, when it explodes. Autopsy shows Aurelio was under chloroform before his neck-lacing. The team not only investigates the ingenious bomb, with a photocell designed to trigger it when the bomb squad man follows standard disarming procedure, but also the paper- the water mark proves it was imported by Moreno, and used for similar crimes in Bogota, where the bigamist, who is also under smuggle investigation, had a second wife Lauriana, who is currently in Miami and has incriminating chemical traces on her hands, but those can also come from make-up. Then a second bomb is found, different but they manage to disarm it; Horatio spots the boy Conner watching on his bike with a brown paper package and guesses right the kid got that from a stranger who promised ...

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Plot Keywords:

bomb | bomb squad

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Release Date:

30 September 2002 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

The first necklace bomb is supposedly acetoneperoxide. This explosive does not release heat, only gas. There's no flash and no burns, only blast pressure damage.

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Quotes

Lieutenant Horatio Caine: [after a colleague cuts the circuitry of a bomb] Circuit interruptus.

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Connections

References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Soundtracks

"Losing Face"
(uncredited)
Writer Ernst Meinrath
Performed by Airlock
Courtesy of One Little Indian Records

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