'CSI: Miami,' On Location

Stars On Difference It Makes, And Motivations Of Their Characters

(CBS)  "My (Delko's) take has been, here's a person who's fighting a terminal illness, facing death," Rodriquez explained. "She found some happiness with someone. I would never get in the way of that, regardless of how complicated it might make my life."

And Delko's life is complicated enough.

After a flirtation with lab tech Natalia Boa Vista (played by Eva la Rue), he seems to have dropped the ball, allowing Toggo's character, Ryan Wolfe, Wolfe to make his move.

"I don't know" what I'm doing, Rodriguez said of his character, Delko. "I'm probably like most men: We just kinda do and we think later, and that is the situation that I'm finding myself in. I think I actually like her more that I realized."

But Delko actually told Wolfe that he was "cleared for landing?"

"Yeah, hey, go for it," Rodriguez said of Delko's thoughts. "If she was open to dating him, then I guess there wasn't too much going on with us."

Why would Wolfe go after a woman Delko is interested in?

"I think," Toggo said of his character, Wolfe, "since the beginning, I've thought of the character of Ryan Wolfe as having little to no tact."

So, the question is, why should Natalia choose Wolfe over Delko?

"I think," Toggo answered, "he maybe would make a better long-term partner. He's on time. He's punctual."

"Ooooh, that's a tough choice. Yeah, I gotta go with family. I'm sorry, Jonathan, I'm sorry!" said a chuckling de La Garza to Toggo.

"I would choose Rex," Caruso said with a laugh of his character, Caine. "I would choose Detective Frank (Tripp, played by Rex Linn). "He's solid."

"Detective Frank Tripp," Linn remarked, "is the sexual tension on the show. I don't know if you've gotten it, but just about every scene that I'm in, the sexual tension is just unbearable."