David Caruso (Horatio Caine) is looking forward to giving audiences what they want in the third season of CSI: Miami: more in depth exploration of the complex characters the populate the show.

Caruso told India's AXN television station (via The Nation) that he thought that now that the audience had grown to know and like the characters, the writers would explore them more. "The characters’ personal lives are going to be a factor this season, now that the audience has embraced us to some degree," Caruso said. "You can never count on the fact that that is going to last forever but I think that it’s a natural evolution for a show like this to now have more character moments and more relationships."

When asked about differences between him and his character, Horatio Caine, Caruso joked, "Well, he’s a very handsome man." Caruso didn't make light of the tough job Horatio does. "He meets people on the worst day of their lives and in order to deal with the tremendous amount of responsibility he has, he does not have the luxury to give way to his own horror and sadness," he said of his character, who is still coping with the death of his brother Raymond. "He has tremendous poise, which is essential to being able to function as the CSI team leader. I have a tremendous admiration for his poise," Caruso added.

Caruso is happy to be part of the CSI franchise, and had no qualms about signing on to a spinoff show. "Well for CSI, you fit into an existing formula that is proven to work," he said. "Film entertainment today is such that if you don’t have viewers immediately, it’s c’est la vie to you. A franchise does provide the type of muscle, which gives you a chance to survive."

Speaking of films, Caruso would love to see another crossover between CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, possibly on the big screen. "I tell you, halfway through the season last year, I had a little snippet of a vision and I ended up calling the producers of the Las Vegas show. I saw a scene in my mind a vision of the two casts standing in a still together. And I realised it was a movie," he said. "My mind began wandering and its like a tiny little piece of DNA leads to do something big, with the two casts combined. That will be fun. But don’t tell anybody I said that."

To read more from Caruso, please visit The Nation!

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