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Raised in 1960s Miami, by age 16 Horatio Caine had experienced a lifetime: Civil Rights marches, Cuban freedom flights, violent race riots and the rise of drug culture. His mother, a single parent in a time that did not favor such a definition of "family", taught Caine that strength resided in your mind, not your hand. Though she was demanding, her love protected him until she stood up to a drug dealer and was killed. At 17, while other teenagers were learning to disco, Caine set out to help the police find her killer. By the time the murderer was sent to life, Caine knew he had found his calling: to protect his city.

Caine entered the Police Academy after high school, but quickly discovered that the beat left him bored. When he realized that the evidence-cracking CSIs were the people who actually solved the crimes, he enrolled in university and, four years later, Chemistry degree in hand, he was a Level I Criminalist with the Miami-Dade Police.

Rising quickly through the ranks, Caine grew frustrated with departmental bureaucracy and threatened to quit. Al Humphries came to his rescue by offering to train him as his second-in-command with the Bomb Squad. Humphries became the father figure Caine had never had.

When Megan Donner stepped down as head of the Crime Lab, the Police Chief asked Caine to take over. Although he had thrived as a member of the Bomb Squad, Caine missed what had drawn him to police work in the first place: the science of catching the "bad guy." He accepted.

A three-dimensional thinker, Caine can rapidly understand how pieces fit into a puzzle. He knows that science ultimately provides the solution, but he also knows that threre is more to crime-solving than blood spatter and DNA. When it comes to protecting his city, Horatio doesn't just trust science; he trusts his gut.

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