CSI: Miami (TV Series) Man Down (2007) User Reviews

Liked The Dialog Between 'Clavo' And 'H'

[ccthemovieman-1 · 9/10 · 11 December 2007]

"Eric Delko" (Adam Rodriguez) fights for his life as the second part of this two-part story begins. The writers always dramatize things to the hilt so they make it appear Eric is next to dead, before reviving him. The next task is the find the shooter and to get Clavo Cruz, who is still on the loose and with a hostage.

The hostage situation turns out to be an interesting one, with a twist you won't see coming. The rest of the story has the cat-and-mouse game between CSI and Clavo - with great dialog between he and Horatio, and a story about "blood diamonds" being in back of a number of things here.

Overall, a solid episode and we find out Eric is going to make it, but he may not be the old Eric. Stay tuned for more on that.

Clavo and Horatio

[jsrtheta · 10/10 · 21 November 2021]

SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Of all the villains of this series, my favorite has always been Clavo Cruz. Not sure what that says about me. But what made Clavo fascinating is that, more than any other bad guy on the show, Clavo changed from episode to episode, as his entire sense of reality was gradually revealed to be an illusion, and he went from being a spoiled wild child to a destroyed man made aware of how alone, and lonely, he actually was.

It would take too much space here to recap his odyssey. He started as a gleefully evil punk and ended as a scared little boy, but one who went out on his feet.

He had been adrift ever since his abandonment and betrayal by his father, who revealed him to be a bastard. He became a man without a family. He was disowned and cast out, his options disappearing, his privilege stripped from him, an abandoned orphan.

So he committed suicide by cop, by Horatio, perhaps the last person left who Clavo knew had no choice either. Maybe I'm reading too much into the dynamics between the two men, but there was a sense that Clavo realized Horatio was the only real man in the entire sordid drama of his life. And it seemed that Horatio took no joy in ending Clavo's life, that he got how devastated and stripped Clavo had been by his family and events and his own character. It was one of the saddest scenes in the whole franchise.

I'll raise my next glass of beer to Clavo. I'll even pour out a little on the ground for him, the absent brother. He was Horatio's most worthy opponent, and they both knew it.

So do we.