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08: Tim Speedle |
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Played by: Rory Cochrane
Nickname: Speed, Alexx sometimes calls him Timmy
Function: CSI Level Three
Height: 6'
Weight: 153 lbs
DoB: June 24, 1973
DoD: September 20, 2004
PoB: Syracuse, NY
Education: B.S. in Biology, Columbia University
Special Skills: Trace & Impressions Evidence
Marital Status: Single
Biography:
Tim Speedle was born and raised in suburban Syracuse New York. His father owned a chain of family restaurants, a position that offered Tim a financially secure and also well-fed childhood. His Mother,was a volunteer with Social Services, she devoted her life to help less fortunate children in the community. Growing up with all manner of neglected, abandoned and abused children instilled a driving sense of compassion in him for people caught in circumstances beyond their control.
Tim had a younger brother, who is 13 years younger than him, with whom he never developed a close relationship, preferring to keep to himself.
During those hours spent alone, Tim read voraciously. There wasn't a subject that did not interest him, but the one section of the school library where he read every book was the sciences. It was there he met his one and only best friend. Together they led their high school's science team to the State Championship four years in a row.
Months before graduating, his best friend was paralyzed from the neck down in a snowmobile accident while on their high school senior trip. Their plans of going to Europe and then college together dissolved in that one night. Swearing he would do everything he could for his friend, Speed went to Columbia University and devoted himself to studying the biology of the paralysis (His Thesis: "Molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in vertebrate development").
He was top of his class. But, two years later, his friend died from complications during surgery. As far as Tim was concerned, nothing mattered any more. He dropped out of school and disappeared.
His family didn't hear from him until almost a year later when he called from his best friends uncle's house in Miami. He had wandered and landed there, and "No, he still didn't know what do with his life", and didn't know until he started following his friend's uncle to work at the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. With the same focus he had in school, he consumed everything he could about the work that was done in the crime lab. It was here he met Megan Donner. Megan took him under her wing and Tim quickly realized that this was the work he needed to do.
He returned to Columbia, and finished his honors degree in one year, and took an official internship at the Miami-Dade Crime Lab under Donner's tutelage. Six months later, he was working as a full-time CSI.
Cause of death: Tim Speedle was shot and killed in the line of duty during an investigation which started with a boat ramming into the support of a bridge, this then turned into a kidnapping and for Tim ended when the evidence led them to a jeweler suspected of foul play. Ryan Wolfe (Jonathan Togo) later replaced him on the CSI team.
Personal demons:
Tim was deeply affected by his best friend's death, and it was what led him into becoming the man he was.
Defining Cases (or Episodes):
Season 1: "Dispo Day": His service weapon misfired, and he was shot, non-fatally, while wearing a kevlar vest.
Season 2:"Wannabe": Tim forms a tentative bond with a geeky CSI enthusiast who later killed himself. We see a softer side to him in this episode.
Season 3 : "Lost Son": Tim was haunted by poor gun maintenence, which came back to ultimately end his life when a situation at a jeweler's turned dangerous.
Deep Dark Secret:
Tim has a deadly habit of neglecting to keep his gun well-maintained. (Fact: Rory spoke out against this.)
Trivia:
-Tim owns a yellow Ducati.
-Women Tim has date:
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One works for the city,
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One he took to a club,
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Another tended to make him late for work, and to wear the same clothes two days in a row (as pointed out by Horatio).
