"CSI: Miami" (PC) Trivia Quiz

Answer: No one

When the Miami spin-off of the original "CSI" first aired, all characters were brand new. Although Horatio Caine, the supervisor, clearly has a lot of similarities to Gil Grissom e.g. very clever, methodical and resourceful.

Answer: Judge Lawford

The case involves a dead alligator turning up on a golf course. Normally that would not warrant police attention, but a human arm is next to it. The Judge is the only club member around that morning, and therefore a potential witness. He doesn't know anything about the alligator but later on it is revealed he knows about the victim!

Answer: Calleigh Duquesne

In each of the five cases the player is accompanied by a main member of the TV show. Calleigh Duquesne (pronounced "Doo-cane") is a strikingly pretty southern blonde with a fascination for firearms.

Answer: Tim Cole

Both Tim and his son Russ had gone missing before the alligator arrived. And both had won a father-son gold champion bracelet months earlier, so when such a bracelet turns up in the animal's stomach...how can they tell whose it is? But Russ soon turns up in police custody in New Orleans, so CSI Miami consider ruling him out as a victim...

Answer: Alexx Woods

In the TV series Alexx likes to talk soothingly to the dead bodies that come her way. It probably doesn't do them much good, but it's the thought that counts!

Answer: Maxine Valera

She is quite a wit (e.g. when presented with a victim's severed arm she says "You're putting the arm on me already?"!) and a fountain of jokes in the game.

Answer: Nightclub owner found dead

Jack was a not-too-popular owner of a nightclub under FBI surveillance for drugs. He is found dead underneath a spot-light which seems to have accidentally loosened and killed him. Foul play is eventually proven, but not before a lot of FBI red-tape has to be cut through.

Answer: False

The late Jack's partner Ron Preston is arrested for the crime, but they had to let him go because no murder weapon could be found. Or could it?

Answer: Donny Bronson

Judge Lawford calls Bronson a "smooth-talking shyster criminal lawyer". But when he later exposes Bronson for jury-tampering it is rather satisfying seeing a lawyer like Bronson on the verge of professional ruin...

Answer: Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is a fictitious Miami singing superstar. She calls 911 when a strange boat turns up at her dock with a dead woman aboard. But as she dials 911 from her dock, the boat suddenly takes off. So Julia assumes the woman wasn't really dead after all and hangs up. But the next day Julia foolishly denies calling 911, and naturally becomes a suspect.

Answer: All of these

It just goes to show: there's no point in throwing incriminating evidence into the ocean in this day and age - electronic tracking equipment it too sophisticated!

Answer: Troy Sullivan

Sullivan is a therapist who sometimes refers patients with sexual problems to the deceased woman, a "sex therapist". When she is found murdered on the yacht, the evidence eventually leads to Sullivan. At his home/office is found a press collection of a recent string of prostitute killings. More incriminating evidence!

Answer: His dog has died at the same time

Roy Diamond is an unpleasant retired wealthy manipulative real estate developer. He lives (and dies) in his beach mansion with family, servants and his devoted dog Profit. When both dog and master simultaneously die on the beach the medics call CSI in. Because it seems too co-incidental for natural causes!

Answer: Octopus venom

In the Diamond mansion's front room is a large aquarium housing fish and an octopus. The latter turns out to be dead; Roy's daughter-in-law Denise had used a syringe to take out the poor octopus' venom. Then she'd cunningly injected it into Roy's sunblock bottle, which he later uses out in the sun.

But once he's dead, poor Profit the dog starts licking his master, only to ingest the same poison. Denise had killed Roy because he was making advances on her.

Answer: Decryption

In cases 1, 3 and 5 one is required to solve encrypted messages. It is one of my favourite parts of this particular game!

Answer: All these reasons

Judge Lawford from case #1 has turned up dead. His body is slumped over his desk with a bullet in the head. But soon CSI Miami begins to wonder if he was really murdered at all, let alone shot...

Answer: Horatio Caine

So far the head of CSI Miami has only evaluated performance at the end of each case. But now he goes into the field with players, to help in the final case. An unusual case, in which players soon learn they must expect the unexpected!

Answer: All of them

This case is special: all villains or others from the previous cases are interviewed or arrested or brought from jail to shed light on the judge's death. Even the shifty lawyer Donny Bronson, whose fingerprints are found all over the deceased's study. Surely a co-incidence the latter was about to publish memoirs which would have implicated Bronson in jury-tampering? The judge turns out to have died from an overdose of medicine (and thus was already dead when someone else shot him for different reasons), but Bronson's fingerprints are on that too...

Answer: False

At first his conviction seems hopeless because no murder weapon can be found. But later when the judge's home is searched, the weapon turns up next to a torn picture of Shakespeare. Hidden by the judge as part of his elaborate game.

Answer: No one - it was a suicide

To successfully conclude this case, players must find a videotape the judge hid inside the plaster bust of Shakespeare in his study. The judge himself is on this tape and when it's played he explains everything. It was he who secretly manipulating the four villains of the previous cases to commit their murders (they were all members of the golf club in case #1), and he admits trying to frame Bronson for his own murder. Why? Because the judge has witnessed lawyers like Bronson and a justice system "grown soft" over the years letting obvious criminals walk free.

He made sure his four potential murderers killed people who were sinners themselves (though personally I don't think that "sex therapist" in case #3 or the cheating husband in case #1 deserved THAT!). Finally we see the judge swallow the medication that we know killed him - for he was diagnosed with cancer and not given long to live.