I think I'll jump in and write a book. LOL!
I have a lot in my brain I want to say right now and I'm not good and condensing as most of you know. ;D
There is all kinds of speculation about what's really happening to Horatio.
Even TPTB at CSI have given us wrong information before.
Or if you'd prefer to use the term 'misinformation,' that's accurate too.
Sometimes it's just because the story line changed after the information was given.
Which is fine.
So whatever TPTB say should be taken with a grain of salt.
This is what I think about the 'advanced information' or 'spoilers' from TPTB.
I have no idea if I'm right, but bear with me...
Their goal is to generate an interest so that people watch the show to get the ratings.
Sometimes, I think, that ¡ts accomplished by giving a small detail (that is true) about something to the press, media or to the fansites or whoever.
Then, they sit back and watch it grow.
How does it grow?
It grows with discussion and speculation between the fans, and others, sometimes bouncing off each others ideas.
You know what I mean?
Someone gives an idea like, FOR EXAMPLE,
"Maybe it was a sack of fake blood and was designed to burst when he fell on it when he hit the ground."
Then someone else will come back with "Oh didn't think about that! Or it could have been rigged to burst by remote control!"
And so on.
So, what TPTB have actually accomplished at this point is getting people to talk about it and give their ideas and opinions based on that one little piece of information they gave. Sparking interest in other people and the speculation from others who are also talking about it.
So that one little piece of information (which was true) has now grown into a genuine interest in finding out what really happened. Right?
And guess what?
Millions and millions of people are going to be watching on the 22nd.
They accomplished the goal of sparking interest.
People are interested and are talking about it, aren't they?
So, those people are going to watch to see if they were right or not.
Ratings baby! Ratings! They need to stay in the top 20.
Please feel free to express your ideas, speculations and opinions; it can go any number of ways. At this point, before the episode airs, no one is right or wrong.
With that said, I'd like to give my opinion about what I think is going to happen if you don't mind.
I've heard David say in an interview it was an undercover operation.
Is he right?
Was he telling the truth?
Yes, I think he was. Even if it's not true anymore, it was when he said it.
Why? Story lines change, don't they?
Remember when David said in an interview that he'd like to see Horatio have a son.
And what happened? Kyle showed up, right?
So there is an instance where the advanced information, or the 'clue' or 'hint' was true.
I enjoyed that. I enjoyed knowing I, and others here, caught that clue, and it happened.
I then speculated and hoped that Kyle (I of course didn't know his name then) would have inferno colored hair like his dad, and be in every episode.
But I was wrong.
So, I'm leaning toward Horatio being undercover and getting someone who couldn't be caught otherwise, based on David's history of giving information that is correct about what's going to happen.
Do I think he was really shot, or if it was fake?
It could, at this point, it could still go both ways.
(TV Guide is getting more and more unreliable as time goes by in my opinion.)
I saw the blood, too.
Was it real blood, though?
I have no idea if he was really shot or not.
So, I'm just waiting to watch the episode to find out.
It's going to be exciting to say the least.
Just like all the speculation about whether Professor Snape was really a good guy or a bad guy during the wait times between the 6th & 7th Harry Potter books. There were people on both sides with very good 'evidence' to support what they thought.
There were even specific meetings during parties before the a book release where the topic of discussion was 'Is Snape a Friend or Foe?¨ Hundreds of people during those events attended those and it was exciting to say the least! To hear everyone talk about why they thought this or that.
But it turned out that that's the way Rowling wrote Snape into the Harry Potter story. So that there would be that uncertainty, to keep people speculating, and developing a need to find out, until the very moment of Snape's last 'scene' in the 7th book.
The goal, to keep people buying the books. That was just one of the many things she did to keep people buying the books.
I told you I was going to write a book! LOL! ;D
You write a good book! 
