Ernest Haskell is a Detective Sergeant in the Metro-Dade Homicide Division, working closely with Police Commissioner Vasquez--so much so that he is actively supporting Vasquez's run for Mayor in 1988. In 1987, the murder case involving W. Colton Avery of AveryTec received attention not only from Homicide but from OCB, due to the presence of the Japanese Yazuka. Haskell was trying to make the case seem like a routine drowning since Avery was pulled from the Miami River, but the fact that Avery's lungs contained freshwater, not saltwater as the case would be if he drowned, which arouses the suspicions of OCB's Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo, but Vasquez is determined to hand the case over to Homicide when Castillo requests additional time to investigate the yazuka angle. During the inves