Eric Delko
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Detective Eric Delko is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami
, portrayed by Adam Rodríguez
.
, tire and drug identification expert of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab, as well as their underwater recovery expert. He was born in Havana
, Cuba, on December 18, 1976. His original family name was Delektorsky; his adoptive father, Pavel, is a Russian national who had been assigned to Havana during the 1960s and married a Cuban woman named Carmen, with whom he had three daughters. When Eric's mother was pregnant with him, his father decided that he wanted a better life for his family, so he moved the clan to Miami not long afterward. He also shortened the family name to Delko in an effort at Americanization. Eric later finds out (in Season 7) that his biological father, Alexander Sharova, is head of the Russian Mob.
Delko typically acts as the team's frogman
when the situation arises—his boss has even termed him his best diver. In the episode "Shattered", his job is endangered when he is busted for drug possession. It is later revealed that he had been buying the drugs for his sister Marisol, to ease the pain she suffered while undergoing treatments for leukemia
.
It is revealed that Delko is Roman Catholic. He is fluent in Spanish
.
On the episode "Dead Woman Walking", Eric has a nosebleed, which he thought may have been from exposure to iodine. But Calleigh told Eric, who has been given a clean bill of health, that he does get nosebleeds in high-pressure situations. His nosebleeds had not been addressed since.
It has been recently revealed that Eric was born in Cuba before his mother and adoptive father arrived in the USA, after which they received fake birth documents for him. Delko pressed his mother for the truth after revealing that he knew his American birth certificate
was a forgery
, and the he had acquired his real birth certificate from Cuba. He told her he had become suspicious after realizing that several key facts in the story of their arrival in the USA, changed each time she told it. She also told him that his biological father was a terrible man, and that she wanted to shield Eric from him by hiding his identity with the forged papers. Delko's biological father, in fact, orders a hit on him.
The season 8 opener, "Out of Time", reveals in a flashback
that Eric had, in the past, discovered a BMW
that had been dumped in the Everglades
with a body in the trunk
and called Detective Caine. Eric was a tow truck
driver at the time and knew the area quite well. He helped Caine recover the murder weapon, which Caine used to prevent an innocent man from going to jail. In this same episode, Eric meets Calleigh and hits on her by saying: "Are you going to give me your number now or later"? Calleigh responds that she doesn't date people she's even remotely involved with at work, and Eric replies, "Ok. We'll see". Caine, impressed by Eric's eye for minute details, convinces him to go to the police academy
, get his badge, and work for the new CSI team later. Eric accepts the offer.
(who at one point thought she might be pregnant with their child). Despite Natalia's apparent duplicity (he told an FBI agent that she slept with him to get information regarding the lab), he remains protective of her when her ex-husband harasses her at crime scenes under the pretext of performing his duties as crime scene cleanup.
He also had a relationship with the unstable Gloria, who broke both Natalia's car windows (because of Eric's former relationship with her), and also of Eric's sister Marisol (thinking she was Eric's wife). She stole Marisol's purse from the car, and later was suspected of being the sniper who shot Marisol, when Gloria is found to have been in hotel room below the source of the sniper's shot, and when a sniper rifle turns up in the trunk of her car. She ends up having been there with her own rifle to shoot Marisol, but couldn't do it, and then hearing the shots from the room above her. However, she did provide some important information that lead to the capture of the real suspects.
At one point, Delko "tooths" - text messages - someone for anonymous sex, though he later seeks counseling when his badge goes missing after one such encounter. Despite any appearance of womanizing on his part, Eric Delko is actually protective of women in general, standing up for them against abusive men.
He has a close relationship with colleague Calleigh Duquesne
. They care greatly for each other; when he was shot in the head, she stayed by his side in the hospital. Early in season 7, it is shown that after the shooting, Eric started thinking about his future and admits to his therapist that he's been thinking about settling down and he'd like for it to be with Calleigh, revealing he has fallen in love with her. Later in Season 7, Eric finally admits to Calleigh that he "can't imagine living his life without her" as she lies unconscious in the hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation, and they kiss in the episode, "Sink or Swim", after Eric is released from ICE
custody. Eric is seen waking up nude in Calleigh's bed in the episode, "Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing", and they share the bathroom as they get ready for work. As of Season 7, they appear to keep their romantic relationship under wraps, especially at work. In the season 8 episode, "In The Wind", Calleigh and Eric are seen kissing passionately in bed early in the morning. Further on in season eight, Calleigh is shown to have a key to Eric's apartment, and their relationship seems to be serious.
Delko was good friends with fellow CSI Tim Speedle
, who was killed in a shootout when his firearm jammed because of poor maintenance. It had been Speedle who "welcomed" a rookie Delko to the lab with a friendly hazing
. He is at first deeply resentful of Speedle's replacement, Ryan Wolfe
, especially when some of Speedle's previous cases come under review. For some time, there is a measure of verbal sniping between the two. At one time, Delko fails to show at a crime scene to which Ryan is called on his day off, and Ryan is injured when a suspect shoots him in the eye with a nail gun; unsurprisingly, Ryan is upset with Eric, but in the end they work out their differences. Eventually, Delko comes to accept Ryan's presence, and they become strong co-workers and friends. Since Season 4, the two regularly partner in solving cases and there were several instances where they bail each other out.
Delko was also friends with audio-visual lab technician, Dan Cooper, and they are seen in one episode watching a beach volleyball
tournament together with a group of bikini
-clad women. When Cooper unwittingly reveals their activities to Natalia, she becomes offended at Delko. He and Cooper's friendship ends when he and Calleigh discover that Cooper had stolen Speedle's credit card and used it.
Delko became Horatio Caine
's brother-in-law when his sister Marisol married Horatio, but their family bond was tragically severed when Marisol succumbed to the gunshot wound she suffered at the hands of a Mala Noche sniper. They uncover the member who ordered the hit, Antontio Riaz, and pursued him all the way to Brazil
. Riaz was killed with his own knife after refusing to surrender.
Delko is shown to be protective of his family and those he cares about, even if it brings him into conflict with his work and colleagues. Towards the end of season 7, he chose to help his biological father, who is a Russian mobster, despite Calleigh expressing her concern about his choice. When his sister Marisol, also Caine's wife, died as a result of a Mala Noche sniper attack, he follows Caine in tracking them all the way to Brazil to bring them to justice.
Delko is usually the one who plays practical jokes on CSI newbies. When Ryan first started out with the department, he and Calleigh ostensibly send Ryan to supposedly help Alexx with the autopsy only for a hapless Ryan to witness a headless cadaver for the first time, shocking him. He and Ryan play a prank on new coroner
, Tara Price
, by putting a robotic dummy under the sheets and making it sit up, thus frightening her.
before fleeing.
In the episode where Marisol is murdered, Eric is also hit in the arm with a bullet, that was meant for Marisol. Despite the fact that he had been shot in the arm, he insisted on going to the hospital with Marisol, but Horatio firmly told him not to.
, and that he may suffer permanent damage to motor skills, speech and memory due to the hematoma
. This is evident as he consistently asks to see his sister Marisol despite the fact she has been dead for months, and he also has no memory of being shot by Cruz's men. Coroner Alexx Woods
explains to the rest of the team that while Eric is alive, he may not be the same Eric they knew. Indeed, Eric's return to work several weeks later is difficult (in "Broken Home"), and he is frustrated with the slow steps he must take, relearning basics and making rookie mistakes. He almost lets a killer escape when he makes a simple but crucial error on a blood-presence test, mistaking H2O and H2O2
in order of application, which yields a false negative as a result. However, Eric later provides the insight to find the murder weapon, and thus a perpetrator. Eric experiences such difficulties as double vision, which interferes with his performance. When Ryan gently points out doubled evidence markers, Eric snaps at him in frustration, but Wolfe is not offended, as he remembers his own vision problems after being shot with a nail gun the previous season. Eric's memory lapses apparently cover only the six months or so prior to his injury, and as such he no longer recognizes the woman who sued him. This is used by a lawyer in an attempt to prove his incompetence.
Even after three full years after Tim Speedle
's death, Delko, still feeling the effects of a head injury he had suffered earlier in the series, suffers from vivid hallucinations of his deceased friend.
In mid-season seven (Smoke gets in your CSIs), Eric eventually tells Calleigh he couldn't imagine living his life without her. They finally share a kiss in Episode 16 of Season 7 (Sink or Swim). As of season eight, they are in a serious romantic relationship.
A few episodes later, Delko returns in the episode "Delko for the Defense" as a special guest star, to become an expert witness for defense against his former team. In the beginning of the episode, it was revealed that he was in Puerto Rico. He then tells Calleigh that he missed living in Miami and decided to come back. In the middle of the episode, Calleigh tells him that the district attorney is looking for a forensics expert and Delko tells her that he will think about whether or not he wants to work for him. In the end of the episode, Delko discusses things with the D.A. and decides to work for him.
In the beginning of the episode "In The Wind", he and Calleigh embrace in a passionate kiss in bed. This was later interrupted by a phone call from the D.A. to whom Eric says he hasn't spoken to for a week. He works with the CSI team on a fifteen-year-old double homicide case. Around the end of the episode, as Eric is getting ready to go to the gym, Calleigh talks with him about what they did that night together.
In the episode "L.A.", he and Horatio go to Los Angeles
, California
to help defend CSI Jesse Cardoza
from a murder case, that was actually committed by a porn producer.
In the episode "Backfire", after hearing the news that Calleigh was in the hospital, he rushes there along with Natalia and Ryan. While Calleigh was fighting for life, Eric was beside her and gets the evidence of the case from her.
In the episode "Time Bomb", Eric witnesses the murder of State Attorney Rebecca Nevins while arguing with Calleigh. Calleigh then sees Eric driving past after telling her he's busy. Calleigh follows him. Eric's honesty is later questioned when Calleigh, Walter, and Natalia confront him and ask him about his involvement with Nevins. Calleigh questions whether Eric was wearing a wire when they were "at home, together", implying they live together. Eric and Calleigh follow the GPS tracking device recovered from Rebecca's body, which Eric reactivates, to Ryan's home. A fed up Ryan loudly confronts Eric and mocks Eric's investigation of Walter hitting "a dead end" (from a previous episode). Eric finds stolen diamonds and Ryan gets escorted back to the police station, where he is questioned by Stetler, and shortly hauled off to jail. But Eric finds new evidence that places Stetler as a suspect, giving Ryan the pleasure of arresting Stetler, and thanking Eric for having his back.
In the Season 8 finale, Eric announces to Horatio that he has been re-instated by the Miami-Dade Police Department, and received his detective shield to validate his return. He is once again a CSI. In the end of the episode, he is concerned for Calleigh's safety, as well as everyone else; as he enters the crime lab from the elevator, he sees everyone down, including Calleigh. The screen goes black with Eric calling for help.
In the Season 9 premiere, he is shown trying to carry Calleigh out of the crime lab, but he starts to pass out as he gets near the elevator. Seconds later, Horatio walks in the crime lab and Eric tells him to shoot the window for oxygen. After Horatio does so, everyone wakes up, except for Jesse, who died from head trauma falling down.
In "Manhunt" Eric and Horatio chase Memmo Fierro, the hitman who shot Marisol and then blocked the ambulance, down. In a hostage situation, Eric has a clear shot at Memmo, but does not wish to shoot him in front of his young daughter and lets him go.
is credited as part of the recurring cast, as his character Eric Delko.
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
, portrayed by Adam Rodríguez
Adam Rodriguez
Adam Michael Rodríguez is an American actor and director. He is best known for his long running role as Eric Delko on CSI: Miami.-Life and career:...
.
Background
Eric Delko is the fingerprintFingerprint
A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. In a wider use of the term, fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the friction ridges of any part of a human hand. A print from the foot can also leave an impression of friction ridges...
, tire and drug identification expert of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab, as well as their underwater recovery expert. He was born in Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, Cuba, on December 18, 1976. His original family name was Delektorsky; his adoptive father, Pavel, is a Russian national who had been assigned to Havana during the 1960s and married a Cuban woman named Carmen, with whom he had three daughters. When Eric's mother was pregnant with him, his father decided that he wanted a better life for his family, so he moved the clan to Miami not long afterward. He also shortened the family name to Delko in an effort at Americanization. Eric later finds out (in Season 7) that his biological father, Alexander Sharova, is head of the Russian Mob.
Delko typically acts as the team's frogman
Frogman
A frogman is someone who is trained to scuba diving or swim underwater in a military capacity which can include combat. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver or combatant diver or combat swimmer....
when the situation arises—his boss has even termed him his best diver. In the episode "Shattered", his job is endangered when he is busted for drug possession. It is later revealed that he had been buying the drugs for his sister Marisol, to ease the pain she suffered while undergoing treatments for leukemia
Leukemia
Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...
.
It is revealed that Delko is Roman Catholic. He is fluent in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
.
On the episode "Dead Woman Walking", Eric has a nosebleed, which he thought may have been from exposure to iodine. But Calleigh told Eric, who has been given a clean bill of health, that he does get nosebleeds in high-pressure situations. His nosebleeds had not been addressed since.
It has been recently revealed that Eric was born in Cuba before his mother and adoptive father arrived in the USA, after which they received fake birth documents for him. Delko pressed his mother for the truth after revealing that he knew his American birth certificate
Birth certificate
A birth certificate is a vital record that documents the birth of a child. The term "birth certificate" can refer to either the original document certifying the circumstances of the birth or to a certified copy of or representation of the ensuing registration of that birth...
was a forgery
Forgery
Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive. Copies, studio replicas, and reproductions are not considered forgeries, though they may later become forgeries through knowing and willful misrepresentations. Forging money or...
, and the he had acquired his real birth certificate from Cuba. He told her he had become suspicious after realizing that several key facts in the story of their arrival in the USA, changed each time she told it. She also told him that his biological father was a terrible man, and that she wanted to shield Eric from him by hiding his identity with the forged papers. Delko's biological father, in fact, orders a hit on him.
The season 8 opener, "Out of Time", reveals in a flashback
Flashback (narrative)
Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory...
that Eric had, in the past, discovered a BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
that had been dumped in the Everglades
Everglades
The Everglades are subtropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee...
with a body in the trunk
Trunk (automobile)
The trunk or boot of an automobile or car is the vehicle's main storage, luggage, or cargo compartment. Trunk is used in North American English and Jamaican English; boot is used elsewhere in the English speaking world. Trunk is also primarily used in many non-English speaking regions, such as...
and called Detective Caine. Eric was a tow truck
Tow truck
A tow truck is a vehicle used to transport motor vehicles to another location , or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface.Towing services are generally provided by an emergency road service operator...
driver at the time and knew the area quite well. He helped Caine recover the murder weapon, which Caine used to prevent an innocent man from going to jail. In this same episode, Eric meets Calleigh and hits on her by saying: "Are you going to give me your number now or later"? Calleigh responds that she doesn't date people she's even remotely involved with at work, and Eric replies, "Ok. We'll see". Caine, impressed by Eric's eye for minute details, convinces him to go to the police academy
Police academy
A police academy is a training school for new police recruits, also known as a law enforcement academy.-Australia:Larger police departments usually run their own academies. States often run a centralised academy for training of personnel of law enforcement agencies within the state.Police...
, get his badge, and work for the new CSI team later. Eric accepts the offer.
Relationships with colleagues
Eric has been involved with a number of women, including co-worker Natalia Boa VistaNatalia Boa Vista
Natalia Boa Vista is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by actress Eva LaRue.- Background :Little is known about Natalia's background prior to her association with the FBI and MDPD. In the Season 5 episode "Darkroom", it is revealed that she has at least two younger...
(who at one point thought she might be pregnant with their child). Despite Natalia's apparent duplicity (he told an FBI agent that she slept with him to get information regarding the lab), he remains protective of her when her ex-husband harasses her at crime scenes under the pretext of performing his duties as crime scene cleanup.
He also had a relationship with the unstable Gloria, who broke both Natalia's car windows (because of Eric's former relationship with her), and also of Eric's sister Marisol (thinking she was Eric's wife). She stole Marisol's purse from the car, and later was suspected of being the sniper who shot Marisol, when Gloria is found to have been in hotel room below the source of the sniper's shot, and when a sniper rifle turns up in the trunk of her car. She ends up having been there with her own rifle to shoot Marisol, but couldn't do it, and then hearing the shots from the room above her. However, she did provide some important information that lead to the capture of the real suspects.
At one point, Delko "tooths" - text messages - someone for anonymous sex, though he later seeks counseling when his badge goes missing after one such encounter. Despite any appearance of womanizing on his part, Eric Delko is actually protective of women in general, standing up for them against abusive men.
He has a close relationship with colleague Calleigh Duquesne
Calleigh Duquesne
Detective Calleigh Duquesne is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by Emily Procter.- Background :Calleigh is a ballistics specialist originally from Louisiana. She is fluent in Spanish and has a bachelor's degree in physics from Tulane University...
. They care greatly for each other; when he was shot in the head, she stayed by his side in the hospital. Early in season 7, it is shown that after the shooting, Eric started thinking about his future and admits to his therapist that he's been thinking about settling down and he'd like for it to be with Calleigh, revealing he has fallen in love with her. Later in Season 7, Eric finally admits to Calleigh that he "can't imagine living his life without her" as she lies unconscious in the hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation, and they kiss in the episode, "Sink or Swim", after Eric is released from ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security...
custody. Eric is seen waking up nude in Calleigh's bed in the episode, "Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing", and they share the bathroom as they get ready for work. As of Season 7, they appear to keep their romantic relationship under wraps, especially at work. In the season 8 episode, "In The Wind", Calleigh and Eric are seen kissing passionately in bed early in the morning. Further on in season eight, Calleigh is shown to have a key to Eric's apartment, and their relationship seems to be serious.
Delko was good friends with fellow CSI Tim Speedle
Tim Speedle
Timothy "Speed" Speedle is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, who was portrayed by Rory Cochrane until the character's death in the third season opening episode "Lost Son".- Characterization :...
, who was killed in a shootout when his firearm jammed because of poor maintenance. It had been Speedle who "welcomed" a rookie Delko to the lab with a friendly hazing
Hazing
Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....
. He is at first deeply resentful of Speedle's replacement, Ryan Wolfe
Ryan Wolfe
Detective Ryan Wolfe is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by Jonathan Togo.-Background:Ryan Wolfe, a former patrol officer, is hired after veteran CSI Tim Speedle is killed on the job. He has a strong background in science, having majored in chemistry at Boston...
, especially when some of Speedle's previous cases come under review. For some time, there is a measure of verbal sniping between the two. At one time, Delko fails to show at a crime scene to which Ryan is called on his day off, and Ryan is injured when a suspect shoots him in the eye with a nail gun; unsurprisingly, Ryan is upset with Eric, but in the end they work out their differences. Eventually, Delko comes to accept Ryan's presence, and they become strong co-workers and friends. Since Season 4, the two regularly partner in solving cases and there were several instances where they bail each other out.
Delko was also friends with audio-visual lab technician, Dan Cooper, and they are seen in one episode watching a beach volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
tournament together with a group of bikini
Bikini
The bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit. One part of the attire covers the breasts and the other part covers the crotch and part of or the entire buttocks, leaving an uncovered area between the two. Merriam–Webster describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit" or "a...
-clad women. When Cooper unwittingly reveals their activities to Natalia, she becomes offended at Delko. He and Cooper's friendship ends when he and Calleigh discover that Cooper had stolen Speedle's credit card and used it.
Delko became Horatio Caine
Horatio Caine
Horatio Caine is a fictional character and the protagonist in the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by David Caruso. He is currently head of the crime lab, under the rank of Lieutenant of the MDPD.-Fictional character biography:...
's brother-in-law when his sister Marisol married Horatio, but their family bond was tragically severed when Marisol succumbed to the gunshot wound she suffered at the hands of a Mala Noche sniper. They uncover the member who ordered the hit, Antontio Riaz, and pursued him all the way to Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. Riaz was killed with his own knife after refusing to surrender.
Delko is shown to be protective of his family and those he cares about, even if it brings him into conflict with his work and colleagues. Towards the end of season 7, he chose to help his biological father, who is a Russian mobster, despite Calleigh expressing her concern about his choice. When his sister Marisol, also Caine's wife, died as a result of a Mala Noche sniper attack, he follows Caine in tracking them all the way to Brazil to bring them to justice.
Delko is usually the one who plays practical jokes on CSI newbies. When Ryan first started out with the department, he and Calleigh ostensibly send Ryan to supposedly help Alexx with the autopsy only for a hapless Ryan to witness a headless cadaver for the first time, shocking him. He and Ryan play a prank on new coroner
Coroner
A coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...
, Tara Price
Tara Price
Dr. Tara Price is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by actress Megalyn Echikunwoke.-Character's background:...
, by putting a robotic dummy under the sheets and making it sit up, thus frightening her.
Nightclub incident
During a night of clubbing with friend and colleague Tim Speedle, Delko is caught in a devastating nightclub fire set by the bouncer. Delko feels guilty that he couldn't save more victims, even though his efforts are heroic as he shepherds terrified clubgoers to an emergency exit. Despite the trauma of the incident, he insists on working the scene with the rest of his team.Hostage situation/Death of Marisol
In season four, Eric is taken hostage with others at a bank when a group of armed teenagers show up to rob it. When a 19-year-old gunman moves to rape a teenage girl, Delko opens fire, killing him. Two other bank robbers see him and start shooting with automatic Tec9'sIntratec TEC-DC9
The Intratec TEC-DC9 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic firearm, chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum, and classified by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a handgun. Designed by Intratec, an American offshoot of Interdynamic AB, it is made of inexpensive molded polymers...
before fleeing.
In the episode where Marisol is murdered, Eric is also hit in the arm with a bullet, that was meant for Marisol. Despite the fact that he had been shot in the arm, he insisted on going to the hospital with Marisol, but Horatio firmly told him not to.
Legal troubles
In the 13th episode of season five, Eric finds himself being sued for $250,000 in personal injury after intervening in a heated and physical argument between a man and his wife in a bar. Despite the fact that they are later determined to be scam artists (and the husband's subsequent murder), Eric settles with the wife rather than take it to court, so as to prevent more scrutiny of the lab, particularly in the case of Delko and Horatio's less-than-official trip to Brazil earlier in the season. At the end of the episode, Eric signs papers authorizing his wages to be garnished, and starts arrangements to work extra shifts to cover the garnishment.Memory loss/Tim Speedle's death
In the final minutes of "No Man's Land", Eric is shot in the leg and then the head during a shootout with men hired by escaped murderer Clavo Cruz. In the second episode of the storyline, he is rushed to the hospital, where he flat-lines. After every other attempt at revival fails, an adrenaline injection to the heart brings him back. Following a tense surgery, he remains in critical condition in the hospital. It is revealed that most of the bullet is still lodged in his temporal lobeTemporal lobe
The temporal lobe is a region of the cerebral cortex that is located beneath the Sylvian fissure on both cerebral hemispheres of the mammalian brain....
, and that he may suffer permanent damage to motor skills, speech and memory due to the hematoma
Hematoma
A hematoma, or haematoma, is a localized collection of blood outside the blood vessels, usually in liquid form within the tissue. This distinguishes it from an ecchymosis, which is the spread of blood under the skin in a thin layer, commonly called a bruise...
. This is evident as he consistently asks to see his sister Marisol despite the fact she has been dead for months, and he also has no memory of being shot by Cruz's men. Coroner Alexx Woods
Alexx Woods
Alexx Woods is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, portrayed by actress Khandi Alexander.- Character's background :...
explains to the rest of the team that while Eric is alive, he may not be the same Eric they knew. Indeed, Eric's return to work several weeks later is difficult (in "Broken Home"), and he is frustrated with the slow steps he must take, relearning basics and making rookie mistakes. He almost lets a killer escape when he makes a simple but crucial error on a blood-presence test, mistaking H2O and H2O2
Hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is the simplest peroxide and an oxidizer. Hydrogen peroxide is a clear liquid, slightly more viscous than water. In dilute solution, it appears colorless. With its oxidizing properties, hydrogen peroxide is often used as a bleach or cleaning agent...
in order of application, which yields a false negative as a result. However, Eric later provides the insight to find the murder weapon, and thus a perpetrator. Eric experiences such difficulties as double vision, which interferes with his performance. When Ryan gently points out doubled evidence markers, Eric snaps at him in frustration, but Wolfe is not offended, as he remembers his own vision problems after being shot with a nail gun the previous season. Eric's memory lapses apparently cover only the six months or so prior to his injury, and as such he no longer recognizes the woman who sued him. This is used by a lawyer in an attempt to prove his incompetence.
Even after three full years after Tim Speedle
Tim Speedle
Timothy "Speed" Speedle is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami, who was portrayed by Rory Cochrane until the character's death in the third season opening episode "Lost Son".- Characterization :...
's death, Delko, still feeling the effects of a head injury he had suffered earlier in the series, suffers from vivid hallucinations of his deceased friend.
Traumatization
Early in season six, Eric Delko has flashbacks about his near-death experiences and panic attacks due to his fear and anxiety.Working with Calleigh
At the start of season seven, Delko's therapist is murdered and as he and Calleigh are going through the files, Calleigh read where Eric has quoted "After I got shot, it really put things in perspective. Made me think about my future, settling down. It'd be nice if it were Calleigh.".In mid-season seven (Smoke gets in your CSIs), Eric eventually tells Calleigh he couldn't imagine living his life without her. They finally share a kiss in Episode 16 of Season 7 (Sink or Swim). As of season eight, they are in a serious romantic relationship.
Departure and return
In season eight, episode five ("Bad Seed"), Eric leaves the CSI team for many personal reasons. Horatio leaves a note on his windshield saying, "I'll always be here. H."A few episodes later, Delko returns in the episode "Delko for the Defense" as a special guest star, to become an expert witness for defense against his former team. In the beginning of the episode, it was revealed that he was in Puerto Rico. He then tells Calleigh that he missed living in Miami and decided to come back. In the middle of the episode, Calleigh tells him that the district attorney is looking for a forensics expert and Delko tells her that he will think about whether or not he wants to work for him. In the end of the episode, Delko discusses things with the D.A. and decides to work for him.
In the beginning of the episode "In The Wind", he and Calleigh embrace in a passionate kiss in bed. This was later interrupted by a phone call from the D.A. to whom Eric says he hasn't spoken to for a week. He works with the CSI team on a fifteen-year-old double homicide case. Around the end of the episode, as Eric is getting ready to go to the gym, Calleigh talks with him about what they did that night together.
In the episode "L.A.", he and Horatio go to Los Angeles
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, California
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to help defend CSI Jesse Cardoza
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from a murder case, that was actually committed by a porn producer.
In the episode "Backfire", after hearing the news that Calleigh was in the hospital, he rushes there along with Natalia and Ryan. While Calleigh was fighting for life, Eric was beside her and gets the evidence of the case from her.
In the episode "Time Bomb", Eric witnesses the murder of State Attorney Rebecca Nevins while arguing with Calleigh. Calleigh then sees Eric driving past after telling her he's busy. Calleigh follows him. Eric's honesty is later questioned when Calleigh, Walter, and Natalia confront him and ask him about his involvement with Nevins. Calleigh questions whether Eric was wearing a wire when they were "at home, together", implying they live together. Eric and Calleigh follow the GPS tracking device recovered from Rebecca's body, which Eric reactivates, to Ryan's home. A fed up Ryan loudly confronts Eric and mocks Eric's investigation of Walter hitting "a dead end" (from a previous episode). Eric finds stolen diamonds and Ryan gets escorted back to the police station, where he is questioned by Stetler, and shortly hauled off to jail. But Eric finds new evidence that places Stetler as a suspect, giving Ryan the pleasure of arresting Stetler, and thanking Eric for having his back.
In the Season 8 finale, Eric announces to Horatio that he has been re-instated by the Miami-Dade Police Department, and received his detective shield to validate his return. He is once again a CSI. In the end of the episode, he is concerned for Calleigh's safety, as well as everyone else; as he enters the crime lab from the elevator, he sees everyone down, including Calleigh. The screen goes black with Eric calling for help.
In the Season 9 premiere, he is shown trying to carry Calleigh out of the crime lab, but he starts to pass out as he gets near the elevator. Seconds later, Horatio walks in the crime lab and Eric tells him to shoot the window for oxygen. After Horatio does so, everyone wakes up, except for Jesse, who died from head trauma falling down.
In "Manhunt" Eric and Horatio chase Memmo Fierro, the hitman who shot Marisol and then blocked the ambulance, down. In a hostage situation, Eric has a clear shot at Memmo, but does not wish to shoot him in front of his young daughter and lets him go.
Episodic appearances
This section contains episodes wherein Adam RodriguezAdam Rodriguez
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is credited as part of the recurring cast, as his character Eric Delko.
- Season 8CSI: Miami (season 8)The eighth season of CSI: Miami premiered on CBS on September 21, 2009 and ended May 24, 2010. Eddie Cibrian joins the cast in the season premiere, along with Omar Benson Miller in episode 6. Christian Clemenson joins the show as the team's new medical examiner. Adam Rodriguez was only a regular...
: "Delko for the Defense", "In the Wind", "L.A.", "Backfire", "Meltdown", "Mommie Deadest", "Time Bomb", and "All Fall Down"