>>Or is it just my lack of familiarity with the minor characters on the
>>show?
>
>I don't know as I'd call Speed a minor character - he was one
>of the main CSIs on the first two seasons of the Miami show - but
>canonically, he has been dead for a rather long time. (He was killed
>off in the CSI: Miami season 3 premiere.)
>
>--G.

Yeah, that'd explain it alright. I've seen about a dozen eps of Miami, all told, and I have no clue what season any of them was in. They just don't get shown around me at times that I'm looking to watch CSI stuff.

Oh, and a damn cool story, all in all.