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The CSIs must reportedly track down the murderer of a police officer before he kills the principal witness in the upcoming CSI: Miami episode "Cop Killer".

According to CSI Files sources, the episode opens with Officer Rich Insko going about his routine patrol of the Miami streets, with 17-year-old cop wannabe Patrick Brookner along for the ride. He's teaching the kid the rules of good policing when he spots a red Acura RSX with expired number plates. Insko gets out to give the driver a ticket while Patrick watches from the car. Less than a minute later, Insko falls to the ground, shot a point-blank range.

When Horatio, Detective Tripp and Alexx turn up at the gruesome scene, Patrick is nowhere to be seen. Alexx discovers part of a driver's license wedged inside the bullet hole on Officer Insko's vest. But the small piece of reflective plastic is just a fragment and doesn't give them any clues about the identity of the murderer. The CSIs soon have bigger fish to fry when the red Acura is spotted out and about being driven by a 16-year-old school girl called Missy Marshall.

Under interrogation from Calleigh and Yelina, Missy soon crumbles. She confesses that she knows the man who shot Officer Insko. His name is "JoJo", and she only hooked up with him a couple of days before. Missy says JoJo means nothing to her. But she was forced to go out in the Acura and get him some donuts and cigarettes because if she didn't, JoJo said he'd kill Patrick. She's clearly rattled at the entire situation, and Calleigh is inclined to believe her story.

With Patrick, the principal witness to Officer Insko's murder, having been kidnapped, the CSIs must track down JoJo before he can harm the boy. Detective Tripp soon picks up the murder weapon, a nine-mil pistol, from a thief arrested for carjacking. His name is Jake Mann, an upfront sort of guy (for a criminal), who makes no bones about the fact that he's a thief. But he swears he didn't kill Officer Insko, he simply "found" the gun. The blood on his shoe tells a different story.

Horatio puts Jake Mann in a line-up and calls back Missy Marshall to see if she can identify any of the men as JoJo. She shows no hestitation in selecting Jake as the man who shot Insko and kidnapped Patrick. There's only one problem: the evidence from Insko's gun is telling a very different story...

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details and the airing order of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

"Cop Killer" will likely air in early 2005.

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