On Jan 13, 6:08 pm, Martin Phipps <martinphip...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I don't know if anybody remembers this but here in Asia they've
> just finished showing season 5 of CSI: Miami and, frankly, I
> thought it was a good season overall but this particular exchange
> in one of the episodes really bothered me.
>
> HORATIO: There are a lot of people out looking for you, Chavez.
> CHAVEZ: Well now you've found me.
> HORATIO: You're going to pay for all the things you did.
> CHAVEZ: Is it true? Is my birth father going to testify against
> me?
> HORATIO: It's true, Chavez. You're going away for a long time.
> CHAVEZ: You've taken everything away from me. I've got nothing
> left to live for.
> HORATIO: Is that why you've come down here brandi****ng a gun?
> CHAVEZ: I'm not going back to jail. You're going to have to kill
> me.
> HORATIO: I _am_ going to kill you.
> [Chavez points his gun at Horatio and Horatio shoots him dead.]
>
> Okay, I don't know if that's word for word but the line "I _am_
> going to kill you" is right and that's what I am concerned about:
> Horatio would have been in his rights to shoot a suspect that
> pulled a gun on him but NOT if he had just said "I'm going to kill
> you" because if witnesses had heard him say that then internal
> affairs should have been all over Horatio saying Chavez pulled his
> gun on him in self defense. Uh. I couldn't believe that Horatio
> didn't face an inquiry for that!
Self defense really wouldn't apply. Horatio was making an arrest and
Cruz was resisting. Saying he was going to kill him really doesn't
mean much. There's some form of inquiry whenever a cop shoots someone.
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