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The new guy is settling in nicely.<p><font color=yellow>Laurence Fishburne</font> (Dr Raymond Langston) became the leading man on <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</I> after <font color=yellow>William Petersen</font> (Gil Grissom) left the show to return to the theater. Fishburne didn't feel any pressure when he took over for Petersen, and that was due in part to how his character was introduced. "Although he's a professor, a doctor, a knowledgeable man with respect to pathology, he's a novice as a crime scene investigator," the actor explained to <A class="link" HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/CBS">CBS</a>. "He has to learn from square one, and I think that's exciting to the audience because the audience gets to learn along with him what it's like to start from the beginning."<p>Fishburne has enjoyed the development of his character so far, and he said there's more to come. "There's going to be an episode where you actually get to see this aggressive tendency that they were talking about at the very beginning," he told <A class="link" HREF="http://www.tvguide.com/">TV Guide</a>, referring to <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/news/220808_01.shtml">biological facts</a> that might be associated with aggression and criminal behavior. "You're going to get to see some of that in one of the episodes coming up, which is I think the 200th episode. It was directed by the great <font color=yellow>William Friedkin</font> [<A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/csi/season8/cockroaches.shtml">"Cockroaches"</a>]." Fishburne said he doesn't worry about the character becoming too dark. "I think with <I>CSI</I>, you can never worry about being too dark," he explained.<p>Even though Petersen is no longer <I>CSI</I>'s leading man, his presence is still felt behind the scenes. "Billy's been around a little bit," Fishburne told <I>TV Guide</I>. Before he left, Petersen gave the new guy some tips. "Unfortunately, I can't share them with you," Fishburne explained to CBS. "He swore me to secrecy. He said, 'Look, I'm going to tell you this, but you can't tell anybody.'"<p>The original interviews are from <A class="link" HREF="http://www.tvguide.com/News/VIDEO-Fishburne-CSI-1003386.aspx">TV Guide</a> and <A class="link" HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqrAzLstnVI">CBS</a>, and both can be viewed below:<p><center><script src="http://www.ooyala.com/player.js?width=400&height=300&embedCode=ZuZzdjOgP3KhJYYaHD-MoDaTwQ-JgR5_"></script></center><p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hqrAzLstnVI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hqrAzLstnVI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><center></center>