Lieutenant Horatio Caine
Detective Yelina Salas (sister-in-law)I have watched so much of CSI that I am now watching re-runs of the earlier seasons while waiting for our cable channel to update itself. Well, there's an option to pay like $3 or so to watch the latest episodes but I am not fan to that extent.
You know, I like watching CSI is for the deducing that I do. But I don't watch Foxcrime's real CSI - criminal minds, where the episodes are real-life cases. Because my mind's threshold can only deal with drama and not non-fiction crimes. Call it denial but I take no interest in knowing a sick criminal's mind.
Okay, back to CSI Miami.
Character Lieutenant Horatio Caine (actor David Caruso) is a man whose word is good as oak.
He has a lot of compassion for the victims no matter their background and he always vows to find answers for the survivors and he makes their safety his personal responsibility.
Plus, his staff / team = to him. He puts himself on the chopping board before his team.
So that makes him to be the hero of the series naturally.
I have always liked him (character) and I almost couldn't differentiate Caruso from Lt. Caine as his acting is so intense.
So anyway, what I wanted to tell you is that there was something that set me thinking, and it was nothing to do with mystery or crime but how Lt. Caine handled a situation.
In the series, Lt. Caine had a younger brother who died while on duty or something along the line. His brother's wife was Detective Yelina Salas, a mature and sohpisticated lady. They were very close as a family as well as as workmates and after the death of the brother, Yelina and Caine bonded even more as they have both lost the person they love dearly. So, there was this thick bond and family love between them.
Then came a younger blond lady and a toddler daughter- Madison.
Lo and Behold! They were the brother's mistress and biological daughter.
(The brother & Yelina have a son about 10)
The mistress only came to Caine because Madison was having some serious illness and she needed the pension money that Caine's brother left for them. (She is also a genuinely nice person and supposedly Caine could tell that their affair was no fling etc)
Caine did not let Yelina know about the mistress & daughter.
He didn't lie, he just didn't bring it up.
He continued to maintain a close relationship with the brother's mistress as well as the already well establish relationship with Yelina.
The strain came when Yelina saw the mistress with Madison and the way & manner Caine looked and treated the little girl. She realised that was the lovechild of her husband.
After recovering from her initial shock, she was bitter and felt betrayed.
Not just by the dead husband but by Caine, who obviously chose to have a relationship with them.
Caine, in the show is a person who is clear headed, firm to his opinion.
As it is, he is like a crusader for the weak, so it is not surprising that he chose to take care of the mistress and his brother's daughter. But I couldn't quite agree with him when under pressure from Yelina, he chose to let Yelina go. Yelina was upset and bagan to not let Caine walk her or have dinner together, the usual stuff they did. She was implying "it's them or me". And Caine let her be. So, she was even more heartbroken.
Well, you can say that she did it to herself cos she cornered Caine to choose.
She could have left it as it is and continued her relationship with Caine but she couldn't.
She couldn't be with someone who treat her as well her nemesis with equal love.
I couldn't blame her.
Life with all its complexities is like this.
In drama or real-life, this is just one thing that gets me thinking.
So what say you?
