I like crime scene drama shows. I have been watching them for quite some time, and there have been many of them over the years. I think CSI started it. Then came NCIS. CSI then spawned CSI Miami and CSI New York.

I like the science that they show in them and how one strand of hair, one drop of blood or a spot of saliva can be run through the DNA machine and in about 10 minutes the criminal is identified and the crime is solved in the remaining 15 minutes. I never said that they were realistic but just fun to watch.

Another thing I noticed in my favorite three – CSI Vegas, Miami and NCIS, they all killed off a major cast member. In CSI Vegas, Warrick Brown was one of my favorites. I guess he wanted more money, and the producers didn’t want to pay him more, so they killed him off. The Under Sherriff, McKeen, shot him in an alley, because he was getting too close to Mckeen’s corrupt ways. Warrick died in the arms of his comrade and boss, Gill Griffin. I almost cried watching that episode. I really like CSI Miami better. One of the CSI Techs, Tim Speedle, was with Horatio responding to a jewelry robbery (I think) and his gun misfired during a gunfight with an assailant. He had been written up before for not performing maintenance on his firearm, and this time it cost him his life. He was not a major character, but he did have great working relationship with his colleagues.

Most recently I have been watching NCIS. Agent Caitlin Todd, Sasha Alexander, I recognized from a previous show, Rizzoli and Isles, another of my favorite shows. She had a great relationship with her co-workers and was a good agent. She was smart and quite talented. At the end of season two she took a bullet to the head, and it killed her. Again, like Warrick Brown, I almost cried. She was a big part of the show.

It makes me wonder why I keep watching these shows. It seems like every time I get hooked and attached to the characters….they kill them off. I have to admit, though, that following shows where they hunt down the murderer is always a thriller.

CSI Miami Tim Speedle’s killer was caught by the end of the episode. CSI Vegas took a little longer. It took a couple of more episodes. It had lots of drama and a great justification as the killer was caught. NCIS was a different story. Ari Haswari was Todd’s killer, and it had a series of twists, especially the person who killed Haswari in the end.

And then I remembered another hero of mine who was killed. This one wasn’t in a TV show. It was in a book. The main character was an awesome guy. He was always helping people. It would be considered today by some as random acts of kindness. But the big wigs around him were so jealous. They constantly tried different plots or ploys to trick him or say something that they knew could get him arrested.

After several attempts, all unsuccessful, they decided he had to go…and I don’t mean away to another area, county, or country. The leaders conspired, even putting aside long time hostilities and differences, to plot a way to have him killed. They couldn’t have his blood tied to them or on their hands.

So they lured with some money, someone in his camp, to betray him. And he did! They arrested him late one night. Had some hurryup, kangaroo court trials and finally trumped up some bogus charges on which he would be executed.

Have you figured out who it was? Jesus of Nazareth is the person, the Son of God. The book…the Holy Bible, particularly the Gospels.

But in my TV shows the characters died and that was it. Jesus, on the other hand, died, was buried in a tomb for three days and rose on the third day…alive and seen by many! Total twist of the plot none of the Religious Leaders saw coming (which makes it so interesting for me)! And the story continues on still today!

The TV show dramas will sometimes have guest appearances of the deceased character in a flashback. But Jesus made a promise that He would not only make an appearance, but it won’t be in the past but in the future and not just for a “one and done” show. When He comes back it will be for the long haul…eternity.

Some shows bring characters back with the reasoning that they only looked dead or seemed dead. The death for undercover reasons (Criminal Minds, Emily Preston). But this will not be the case with Jesus. He died and was raised from the dead, seated at God’s right hand waiting on the word to come back!

My kind of show right there. And that is why I called Him my Hero. No disappointment there.

Waiting For My Hero, Bro. Tim