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With CBS hitting a full week of sweeps this week, it will be airing three brand-new CSI episodes to rise to the occasion with.
First up to meet the task is CSI: Miami, tonight at a special time of 9:30pm. The episode, entitled <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season3/crime_wave.shtml>"Crime Wave"</a> will last an hour and a half, and feature the events leading up to and following a tsunami hitting Miami. The <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a> gives a synopsis of the episode as follows:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>A huge tsunami is heading directly towards Miami and the 10-hour warning gives citizens just enough time to evacuate inland. In the chaos, two people are killed in a parking lot and the evidence leads Horatio to discover a plot to rob a bank timed to take advantage of the evacuation. However, as the CSIs close in on the robbery already in progress, they find that it's a more elaborate crime than they previously thought. Meanwhile, in the wake of the storm, Ryan and Alexx discover a body washed up from a local cemetery that may have a different cause of death than originally recorded.</font></blockquote>
The episode was directed by <font color=yellow>Karen Gaviola</font>, whose previous work includes <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season3/pro_per.shtml>"Pro Per"</a>, <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/money_for_nothing.shtml>"Money for Nothing"</a> and <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/extreme.shtml>"Extreme"</a>, as well as episodes of fellow procedural drama Cold Case. It was written by supervising producer <font color=yellow>Elizabeth Devine</font>, herself a former criminologist and writer of numerous CSI and CSI: Miami episodes.
"Crime Wave" will feature the following guest cast:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Amanda Russell</font> as Anna[*]<font color=yellow>Pedro Miguel Arce</font> as Leon Caldwell[*]<font color=yellow>Louis Mandylor</font> as Steve Riddick[*]<font color=yellow>Rex Linn</font> as Detective Frank Tripp[*]<font color=yellow>Manny Suarez</font> as Charlie[*]<font color=yellow>Christina Chang</font> as Rebecca Nevins[*]<font color=yellow>Beth Broderick</font> as Mona Daniels[*]<font color=yellow>Manny Perez</font> as Manny Orantes[*]<font color=yellow>David Allen Brooks</font> as Ed Miller[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Bloom</font> as Scott Riley[*]<font color=yellow>Laura Regan</font> as Mara Riley[*]<font color=yellow>Kaiyana Rain</font> as Paramedic[*]<font color=yellow>David Lee Smith</font> as Rick Stetler[*]<font color=yellow>Corbin Allred</font> as Alice Arena[*]<font color=yellow>John Kassir</font> as Farley Wheeler[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Poth</font> as Tyler Jenson[*]<font color=yellow>Armando Valdes</font> as Aaron Peters[*]<font color=yellow>Boti Bliss</font> as Valera[*]<font color=yellow>Tamara Taylor</font> as Dr. Leslie Harrison[*]<font color=yellow>Matt Champagne</font> as Dr. Greismer[*]<font color=yellow>Nicole Rawlins</font> as Hottie[*]<font color=yellow>Jodi Harris</font> as Woman[*]<font color=yellow>Kieran Campion</font> as Jarrod Walker[*]<font color=yellow>Kasey Wlison</font> as Regina Deacon[*]<font color=yellow>Ricardo Molina</font> as Border Patrolman[/list]Later in the week on Wednesday at 10:00pm, CSI: New York will burst on to TV screens around the country with <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/newyork/season1/outside_man.shtml>"Outside Man"</a>. Directed by <font color=yellow>Rob Bailey</font>, whose previous credits include fellow CBS show Without a Trace and British drama Spooks (known as MI-5 in some places), the episode was written by co-producer <font color=yellow>Timothy J. Lea</font> and was summarised by the <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a> as follows:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>In a test of faith to them both, Mac assigns Danny and Aiden to one of the team's toughest cases yet: a multiple homicide in which employees of a restaurant are found shot to death with plastic bags over their heads. As they examine the clues, all signs point to an "inside" job but not to a suspect. Meanwhile, Mac and Stella investigate the death of a man found dead in his bed, whose amputated lower leg led them to him.</font></blockquote>
"Outside Man" will utilise the talents of the following guest actors:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Patrick Bauchau</font> as Dr. Willems [*]<font color=yellow>Paul Perri</font> as Joe Garford[*]<font color=yellow>Kristen Shaw</font> as Deirdre Hertzberg[*]<font color=yellow>Michael B. Silver</font> as EMT[*]<font color=yellow>Greg Davis Jr.</font> as Terrell Davenport[*]<font color=yellow>De’Angelo Wilson</font> as Lamar Adams [*]<font color=yellow>David Barrera</font> as Jose Figueroa[*]<font color=yellow>Laurence N. Kaldor</font> as Frank Hertzberg[*]<font color=yellow>Jacob Vargas</font> as Luis Torres[*]<font color=yellow>Denice J. Sealy</font> as Tech[*]<font color=yellow>Sean Shanks</font> as Jared Perkins[*]<font color=yellow>Leticia Castillo</font> as Octavia Figueroa[/list]
Rounding off the week in Thursday's 9:00pm slow is the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which will air <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season5/formalities.shtml>"Formalities"</a>. The episode will feature Grissom working with a dayshift CSI shortly after colleague and rival Conrad Ecklie has received a promotion. It was penned by executive producer <font color=yellow>Naren Shankar</font> in collaboration with story editor <font color=yellow>Dustin Lee Abrahams</font>. Directed by <font color=yellow>Bill Eagles</font> (The Riverman; The Book of Ruth), the episode was summarised as below by the <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a>:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>Grissom abruptly leaves a dinner honoring Conrad Ecklie's (Marc Vann) appointment to new Assistant Director of the Crime Lab after he gets an urgent page to rush across the street to a hotel suite where a high school student was found dead. Dayshift CSI Sofia Curtis (Lombard) assists Grissom with the case. The autopsy reveals that the victim died of suffocation after one of her classmates was kidnapped from the party. The CSI team now races to find the kidnapped victim before she is found dead, too.</font></blockquote>
"Formalities" will feature the following guest cast:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Eric Szmanda</font> as Greg Sanders[*]<font color=yellow>Robert David Hall</font> as Dr. Robbins[*]<font color=yellow>David Berman</font> as David Phillips[*]<font color=yellow>Xander Berkeley</font> as Sheriff Rory Atwater[*]<font color=yellow>Joseph Patrick Kelly</font> as Officer Metcalf[*]<font color=yellow>Louise Lombard</font> as Sofia Curtis[*]<font color=yellow>Jon Tenney</font> as Charlie Macklin[*]<font color=yellow>Jonathan Banks</font> as Bobby Jensen[*]<font color=yellow>Danica Stewart</font> as Nikki Jensen[*]<font color=yellow>Kate Mara</font> as Janelle Macklin[*]<font color=yellow>Kevin Cooney</font> as Polygraphist[*]<font color=yellow>Nicole Lenz</font> as Rachel Macklin [*]<font color=yellow>Ty Upshaw</font> as Officer G. Levitt[*]<font color=yellow>Marc Vann</font> as Conrad Ecklie[*]<font color=yellow>Larry Sullivan</font> as Officer Akers[/list]
The original press releases are available from <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=listings&id=home&sort=air_date>this page</a> at the Futon Critic.<center></center>
First up to meet the task is CSI: Miami, tonight at a special time of 9:30pm. The episode, entitled <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season3/crime_wave.shtml>"Crime Wave"</a> will last an hour and a half, and feature the events leading up to and following a tsunami hitting Miami. The <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a> gives a synopsis of the episode as follows:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>A huge tsunami is heading directly towards Miami and the 10-hour warning gives citizens just enough time to evacuate inland. In the chaos, two people are killed in a parking lot and the evidence leads Horatio to discover a plot to rob a bank timed to take advantage of the evacuation. However, as the CSIs close in on the robbery already in progress, they find that it's a more elaborate crime than they previously thought. Meanwhile, in the wake of the storm, Ryan and Alexx discover a body washed up from a local cemetery that may have a different cause of death than originally recorded.</font></blockquote>
The episode was directed by <font color=yellow>Karen Gaviola</font>, whose previous work includes <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season3/pro_per.shtml>"Pro Per"</a>, <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/money_for_nothing.shtml>"Money for Nothing"</a> and <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season2/extreme.shtml>"Extreme"</a>, as well as episodes of fellow procedural drama Cold Case. It was written by supervising producer <font color=yellow>Elizabeth Devine</font>, herself a former criminologist and writer of numerous CSI and CSI: Miami episodes.
"Crime Wave" will feature the following guest cast:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Amanda Russell</font> as Anna[*]<font color=yellow>Pedro Miguel Arce</font> as Leon Caldwell[*]<font color=yellow>Louis Mandylor</font> as Steve Riddick[*]<font color=yellow>Rex Linn</font> as Detective Frank Tripp[*]<font color=yellow>Manny Suarez</font> as Charlie[*]<font color=yellow>Christina Chang</font> as Rebecca Nevins[*]<font color=yellow>Beth Broderick</font> as Mona Daniels[*]<font color=yellow>Manny Perez</font> as Manny Orantes[*]<font color=yellow>David Allen Brooks</font> as Ed Miller[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Bloom</font> as Scott Riley[*]<font color=yellow>Laura Regan</font> as Mara Riley[*]<font color=yellow>Kaiyana Rain</font> as Paramedic[*]<font color=yellow>David Lee Smith</font> as Rick Stetler[*]<font color=yellow>Corbin Allred</font> as Alice Arena[*]<font color=yellow>John Kassir</font> as Farley Wheeler[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Poth</font> as Tyler Jenson[*]<font color=yellow>Armando Valdes</font> as Aaron Peters[*]<font color=yellow>Boti Bliss</font> as Valera[*]<font color=yellow>Tamara Taylor</font> as Dr. Leslie Harrison[*]<font color=yellow>Matt Champagne</font> as Dr. Greismer[*]<font color=yellow>Nicole Rawlins</font> as Hottie[*]<font color=yellow>Jodi Harris</font> as Woman[*]<font color=yellow>Kieran Campion</font> as Jarrod Walker[*]<font color=yellow>Kasey Wlison</font> as Regina Deacon[*]<font color=yellow>Ricardo Molina</font> as Border Patrolman[/list]Later in the week on Wednesday at 10:00pm, CSI: New York will burst on to TV screens around the country with <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/newyork/season1/outside_man.shtml>"Outside Man"</a>. Directed by <font color=yellow>Rob Bailey</font>, whose previous credits include fellow CBS show Without a Trace and British drama Spooks (known as MI-5 in some places), the episode was written by co-producer <font color=yellow>Timothy J. Lea</font> and was summarised by the <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a> as follows:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>In a test of faith to them both, Mac assigns Danny and Aiden to one of the team's toughest cases yet: a multiple homicide in which employees of a restaurant are found shot to death with plastic bags over their heads. As they examine the clues, all signs point to an "inside" job but not to a suspect. Meanwhile, Mac and Stella investigate the death of a man found dead in his bed, whose amputated lower leg led them to him.</font></blockquote>
"Outside Man" will utilise the talents of the following guest actors:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Patrick Bauchau</font> as Dr. Willems [*]<font color=yellow>Paul Perri</font> as Joe Garford[*]<font color=yellow>Kristen Shaw</font> as Deirdre Hertzberg[*]<font color=yellow>Michael B. Silver</font> as EMT[*]<font color=yellow>Greg Davis Jr.</font> as Terrell Davenport[*]<font color=yellow>De’Angelo Wilson</font> as Lamar Adams [*]<font color=yellow>David Barrera</font> as Jose Figueroa[*]<font color=yellow>Laurence N. Kaldor</font> as Frank Hertzberg[*]<font color=yellow>Jacob Vargas</font> as Luis Torres[*]<font color=yellow>Denice J. Sealy</font> as Tech[*]<font color=yellow>Sean Shanks</font> as Jared Perkins[*]<font color=yellow>Leticia Castillo</font> as Octavia Figueroa[/list]
Rounding off the week in Thursday's 9:00pm slow is the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which will air <A class="link" HREF=http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season5/formalities.shtml>"Formalities"</a>. The episode will feature Grissom working with a dayshift CSI shortly after colleague and rival Conrad Ecklie has received a promotion. It was penned by executive producer <font color=yellow>Naren Shankar</font> in collaboration with story editor <font color=yellow>Dustin Lee Abrahams</font>. Directed by <font color=yellow>Bill Eagles</font> (The Riverman; The Book of Ruth), the episode was summarised as below by the <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/>Futon Critic</a>:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>Grissom abruptly leaves a dinner honoring Conrad Ecklie's (Marc Vann) appointment to new Assistant Director of the Crime Lab after he gets an urgent page to rush across the street to a hotel suite where a high school student was found dead. Dayshift CSI Sofia Curtis (Lombard) assists Grissom with the case. The autopsy reveals that the victim died of suffocation after one of her classmates was kidnapped from the party. The CSI team now races to find the kidnapped victim before she is found dead, too.</font></blockquote>
"Formalities" will feature the following guest cast:<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Eric Szmanda</font> as Greg Sanders[*]<font color=yellow>Robert David Hall</font> as Dr. Robbins[*]<font color=yellow>David Berman</font> as David Phillips[*]<font color=yellow>Xander Berkeley</font> as Sheriff Rory Atwater[*]<font color=yellow>Joseph Patrick Kelly</font> as Officer Metcalf[*]<font color=yellow>Louise Lombard</font> as Sofia Curtis[*]<font color=yellow>Jon Tenney</font> as Charlie Macklin[*]<font color=yellow>Jonathan Banks</font> as Bobby Jensen[*]<font color=yellow>Danica Stewart</font> as Nikki Jensen[*]<font color=yellow>Kate Mara</font> as Janelle Macklin[*]<font color=yellow>Kevin Cooney</font> as Polygraphist[*]<font color=yellow>Nicole Lenz</font> as Rachel Macklin [*]<font color=yellow>Ty Upshaw</font> as Officer G. Levitt[*]<font color=yellow>Marc Vann</font> as Conrad Ecklie[*]<font color=yellow>Larry Sullivan</font> as Officer Akers[/list]
The original press releases are available from <A class="link" HREF=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/gofuton.cgi?action=listings&id=home&sort=air_date>this page</a> at the Futon Critic.<center></center>