Rachel Caine

## *Rachel Caine Delko*

### Specialty

Fingerprints, Psychology, Behavior Analyst, Chemistry, Explosives, Arson, Botany, Microexpressions

## Family informationn

### Family members

* Horatio Caine (Father)
* Julia Caine † (Mother)
* Kyle Caine (Younger Brother)
* Eric Delko (Husband)
* Carlos Delko (Son)
* Maria Delko (Daughter)
* Tyler Delko (Son)
* Derek Delko (Son)
* Eric Delko Jr. (Son)
* Julia Delko (Daughter)
* Pedro Delko (Son)
* Marisol Delko † (Sister-in-law)
* Raymond Caine † (Uncle)
* Yelina Caine (Aunt)
* Raymond Caine Jr. (Cousin)
* Madison Caine (Cousin)

## Affiliation

### Occupation

* Fusion Academy Manhattan Student (Formerly)
* San Ignacio University Student (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Police Officer (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Junior Detective (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Senior Detective (Formerly)
* Sergeant (Formerly)
* Lieutenant (Formerly)
* Captain (Currently)
* Miami-Dade Crime Lab CSI level 1 (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Crime Lab CSI level 2 (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Crime Lab CSI level 3 (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Crime Lab Assistant Supervisor (Formerly)
* Miami-Dade Crime Lab Day Shift Supervisor (Currently)

### Loyalty

* Caine Family
* Delko Family
* Miami Team

Captain **Rachel Caine** is the day shift assistant supervisor and co-head of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. She is also a forensic analyst and a botanist. She is married to Eric Delko and is the sister-in-law to Marisol Delko. She is the older sister of Kyle Caine.
Rachel and Eric have seven children: Carlos, Maria, Tyler, Derek, Eric Jr., Julia and Pedro.

## Personality

Rachel is a person that has positive descriptions of her personality. Rachel is very good at hiding her personality and behavior thus it is often difficult to tell what she is thinking.

Rachel is gifted at reading people's behavior and Microexpressions; when speaking to a person she can easily tell what they are thinking by they saying a word via reading their emotions and behavior. However, there have been instances throughout the series when flashes of her rather short and violent temper have come through, which she got from her father.

Rachel becomes dark and sinister when her sister-in-law and uncle were murdered but eventually returns to her normal self as the series progresses.

Rachel tends to follow her intuition and instincts to make unlikely connections and often jumps directly into action, also not hesitating to use deadly force if necessary. She pauses to sit and think things through at home and when she's at work she is shown sitting in her office but is out in the field most of the time.

Rachel is not afraid to bend the rules to get the job done, or to exact revenge sometimes. But most of the time she goes "by the book". This is evident when her husband Eric Delko, her father Horatio and she travel to Brazil to kill Antonio Riaz, the Mala Noche Don who ordered the hit on Marisol her sister-in-law and who killed Raymond her uncle. Also when they almost killed her husband Eric Delko.

## Co-Head of the Day Shift Crime Lab

In the CSI continuum, Rachel is a Day Shift assistant supervisor at the Miami-Dade crime lab, formerly CSI level 3, a forensic analyst, and a former Miami-Dade detective and bomb squad officer (her forensic specialty is botany and human behaviour). She is very protective of her team, friends and family. She is very concerned about the reputation of her father's lab and takes great care to keep them clean, perhaps because of her experience with her younger brother, Kyle.

## Skills and Abilities

Rachel appears to have a good sense of how to communicate with children and adults alike, who have just experienced traumatic ordeals, obtaining information from them quickly and gently. She also can read people's behavior and emotions easily and quickly and can tell if they are lying or not. She obtained a degree in Chemistry and is a botany expert, knowledge which still aids her in her duties. Along with this, she is an exceptionally skilled and accurate markswoman (since her father Horatio taught her). A superb markswoman, Rachel doesn't hesitate to use deadly force when needed. She is also an ardent advocate of the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes and doesn't think twice about threatening suspects with it in such cases. She has demonstrated several times to be fluent in Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew and Nigerian and is, along with Ryan Wolfe, Horatio Caine and Frank Tripp, among the fastest drivers among the Miami crew. Finally, Rachel has an uncanny knack for appearing, walking and disappearing silently, even in heavy boots just like her father but has extremely good looks like her mother Julia Eberly.

## Background

Born on February 14, 1978, Rachel is the first child and daughter of Horatio Caine and Julia Eberly. When she was two, on July 6, 1980, her younger brother Kyle Caine was born. As a child, Rachel learned to speak multiple languages and had perfect grades. After Rachel graduated from Highschool, Rachel then worked in Miami as a police officer with the Miami-Dade. In 2000, Rachel went to university but was promoted to detective and joined the Miami-Dade crime lab as CSI level 1.

In 2002 she was CSI level 3. Sometime later, on February 14, 2006, Rachel marries Eric Delko, during which Rachel gets pregnant in July 2006 she had her firstborn twins Carlos Delko and Maria Delko and accepted a promotion to Sergeant. On May 19, 2008, Rachel got pregnant again and had her son Tyler Delko and a year later Derek Delko and Eric Delko Jr. On October 10, 2010, Rachel got promoted to Lieutenant and became Day Shift assistant supervisor. A year later Rachel got pregnant yet again. On July 6, 2014, her daughter Julia Delko was born. On August 13, 2015, her youngest child Pedro Delko was born. On April 8, 2016, Rachel became the Day Shift supervisor when Lieutenant Horatio Caine retired, Rachel became the permanent head of the lab. On November 7, 2018, Rachel got promoted to Captain.

## Backdoor Pilot

Rachel and the CSI Miami counterparts were first introduced in CSI season 2 episode 22 Cross Jurisdictions thus inaugurating the first season of CSI: Miami.

## Season One

Rachel goes to university while working as CSI level 1.

## Season Two

At the end of season 2 (episode 223, "MIA/NYC NonStop"), Rachel and her father Horatio travel to New York City in pursuit of a murder suspect and meet Detective Mac Taylor and his team, inaugurating the first season of CSI: NY.

## Season Three

Rachel grieves over team member Tim Speedle as he was killed in a shootout after his gun misfired because of the lack of maintenance (episode 301, "Lost Son"). Rachel gets a call from Gil Jr. saying he is coming to Miami to help them catch Tim's killer, she later sees Gil Jr. at Tim's funeral. Rachel meets Ryan Wolfe as Tim Speedle's replacement in (episode 303, "Under the Influence").

## Season Four

Rachel later reunites with Detective Taylor and the New York CSIs to track down and arrest the murderer, Henry Darius, who would be extradited to Florida to face the death penalty (episode 407, "Felony Flight," CSI: NY episode 207, "Manhattan Manhunt").

After it was discovered that Eric was buying marijuana from a drug dealer, Marisol, Rachel's sister-in-law, visited her father Horatio at the police station to try and prevent Eric from losing his job. She told him about her struggle with cancer and how she smoked marijuana for the pain and nausea that came with her treatments (episode 410, "Shattered").

Later her father Horatio and sister-in-law Marisol decide to get married, much to Eric and Rachel's displeasure (episode 423, "Shock"). But a day after they married, she was shot in the stomach by a Mala Noche sniper. She later dies in the hospital, prompting Horatio, Eric and Rachel to track down the man responsible and kill him (episode 424, "Rampage").

## Season Five

Clavo Cruz, who was serving a life sentence for murdering a woman (episode 201, "Blood Brothers," episode 315, "Identity"), escapes custody in a dramatic rocket attack on a courthouse (superficially injuring coroner Alexx Woods).

It's all a set-up, however, and when Caine and Delko are ambushed on the roof of a parking garage. Though Rachel's father Horatio shoots down one man and escapes without injury, Rachel's husband Eric Delko is critically wounded even as Caine fires at the fleeing gunmen (episode 514, "No Man's Land"). Rachel imminently goes to the hospital where Eric is and stays by his side until he wakes. Horatio and Rachel eventually force Cruz out of hiding by removing all his avenues of escape. Cruz approaches Horatio and Rachel outside the Miami-Dade Crime Lab, and Caine kills Clavo with a single shot to the chest and Rachel also kills Clavo with a single shot to the head. (episode 515, "Man Down").

## Season Six

Rachel's younger brother, Kyle Caine returns to Miami after being in Afghanistan for four years.

Caine finds himself targeted by the son of Argento, a crime lord whom he helped put in jail some years earlier. After Caine's vehicle is vandalized, Damen Argento smugly denies culpability. Horatio walks headlong into a trap and is shot at by him. However, the rounds from his gun were replaced with blanks, Caine leaves without injury and Damen is arrested for the attempted murder of a police officer afterwards (episode 602, "Cyber-Lebrity").

At the end of the season 6 finale, Rachel's father Horatio is shot. It appears as though he is dead, but in behind the scenes, it's said Horatio's death was faked so he can go after Ron. Unknowingly Rachel goes after Damen Argento for murdering her father even though he is still alive. This was later proven true as Horatio was seen alive in "Resurrection, Part 2".

## Season Eight

In the episode "Bone Voyage", when Raymond Langston comes to help Rachel and her team, she mentions about deceased CSI Warrick Brown and asks Langston to tell Catherine Willows that she is sorry for their loss and expresses how it feels to lose a friend.

At the end of the Season 8 finale, she receives a shocking message from Bob Starling, who they had just arrested. The message said: "THEY ALL FALL DOWN".

## Season Nine

In the Season 9 premiere, she rushes to the crime lab, fearing for the team's lives. When he got out of the elevator along with her father Horatio, she finds everyone down and Eric still awake. Eric then tells Horatio to shoot the window for oxygen. After Horatio does so, everyone gets up. Rachel joins the team in a game of basketball at the end of the episode after they find the killer.

In the episode "Manhunt", she and the team track down Memmo Fierro, the man who was serving time for killing Marisol Delko (Horatio's second wife, Eric's sister and Rachel's sister-in-law) after he is one of the eight people who broke out in the previous episode. Memmo (under orders of Antonio Riaz of the Mala Noche) had shot Marisol then blocked the ambulance, trying to get Caine to come out, forcing the ambulance to drive over a center median (at the hospital, a doctor states that the car was worse than the bullet). Both the shooting and the blocking proved fatal to Marisol. At the end of the episode, Memmo takes hostage, his daughter's social worker. Eric and Rachel have a clear shot of him, but Horatio tells them not to shoot him in front of Memmo's daughter. After Memmo sees his daughter, he leaves with the hostage, who is later found dead.

In "Happy Birthday" Rachel goes to Marisols' grave and wishes her happy birthday and wishes she was her.

## Season Ten

In "Countermeasures" Rachel takes her father Horatio to the hospital and stays with him. Against the doctor's advice and still, visibly in pain, her father leaves the hospital to work on the case. Rachel scolds him as she sees him but Rachel tells him "We'll talk about this later". Rachel, Horatio and the team manage to find North and try to get him to tell them where Toller is. Despite setting him up. Toller slips through his fingers once at a rail yard, but Walter discovers that the chemicals in the soot from Toller's old clothes could only have come from trash burned at a particular landfill. Horatio manages to find and capture Toller thereafter he very nearly sets another woman on fire. After leading Toller back to jail, Horatio finally concedes that he is not all right and agrees to get checked out although Rachel chews him out for leaving the hospital against doctors' orders.

## Relationships

* Eric Delko is Rachel's husband.
* Marisol Delko is Rachel's sister-in-law but became Rachel's stepmother when she married Horatio Caine before she was murdered.
* Kyle Caine is Rachel's younger brother by 2 years.
* Raymond Caine is Rachel's uncle.
* Yelina Salas is Rachel's aunt.
* Ray Jr. is Rachel's cousin.
* Madison Caine is Rachel's cousin
* Pavel Delko is Rachel's stepfather-in-law.
* Carmen Delko is Rachel's mother-in-law
* Alexander Sharova is Rachel's father-in-law