Official Details For This Week's 'CSI' Episodes

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CBS recently published official information on next week's episodes of CSI: Miami and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Synopses, creative staff and guest cast listings for CSI: Miami's "Tinder Box" and CSI's "Play With Fire" are available courtesy of TV Guide and Yahoo! TV.

<center>"Tinder Box"</center>

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Airdate: May 5, 2003

Tagline: "The team learns that a night club fire that killed 16 and wounded 58 others was not an accident."

Directed by: <font color=yellow>Charlie Correll</font>

Written by: <font color=yellow>Corey Miller</font>

A former cinematographer, Charlie Correll's directorial work includes "Ellie" and "You've Got Male" on CSI and "Breathless" and "Bunk" for CSI: Miami. He has also helmed episodes of Law & Order, Stargate SG-1, Seven Days and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Corey Miller previously wrote CSI's "One Hit Wonder" and "You've Got Male".

The official synopsis for the episode is as follows:

<font color=yellow><blockquote>Speedle and Delko are present when a trendy nightclub catches fire, apparently from a deejay's pyrotechnics display, killing 16 people and injuring dozens of others. But the ensuing investigation reveals it may have been arson to cover up a murder. Also: Horatio probes the death of a prostitute who is found dead in a judge's bathroom in his home.

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"Tinder Box's" guest cast includes the follows actors, with their previous credits listed in brackets:<ul>

[*]<font color=yellow>Rex Linn</font> as Detective Tripp

[*]<font color=yellow>Michael Whaley</font> as Detective Bernstein

[*]<font color=yellow>William Lee Scott</font> as D.J. (Pearl Harbour, October Sky)

[*]<font color=yellow>Ben Browder</font> as Danny (Farscape, Party of Five)

[*]<font color=yellow>Richard Edson</font> as Haid (Platoon, Good Morning, Vietnam)

[*]<font color=yellow>Lisa Gerber</font> as Veronica (The Wonder Years)

[*]<font color=yellow>Jaclyn Guiterrez</font> as Connie (Undressed)

[*]<font color=yellow>John F. O'Donohue</font> as Jameson (NYPD Blue, Carl Mercer in "Organ Grinder")

[*]<font color=yellow>Robert Beltran</font> as Ojeda (Star Trek: Voyager)

[*]<font color=yellow>Richard Romero</font> (Santa Barbara)

[*]<font color=yellow>Natalia Cigliuti</font> (Beverly Hills, 90210)

[*]<font color=yellow>Heather Salmon</font> (Providence)

[*]<font color=yellow>Craig Kvinsland</font> (JAG)

[*]<font color=yellow>Bill Doyle</font>[/list]

The promo for the episode can be found at this page.

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Airdate: May 8, 2003

Tagline: "Grissom and Nick investigate the murder of a woman strangled in a high-school press box; an explosion rocks the CSI lab."

Directed by: <font color=yellow>Ken Fink</font>

Written by: <font color=yellow>Naren Shankar & Andrew Lipsitz</font>

Kenneth Fink, who also serves as a producer, has directed numerous episodes of CSI. His instalments this season include "The Accused Is Entitled", "The Execution of Catherine Willows" and "Snuff".

Consulting producer Naren Shankar's work includes "A Little Murder" and "Random Acts of Violence" while producer Andrew Lipsitz has penned "Sounds of Silence" and "Let The Seller Beware, among others.

The official synopsis for the episode is as follows:

<font color=yellow><blockquote>A woman's body is discovered in a small press box at a high-school football field, apparently the victim of strangulation. The evidence leads investigators to two convicts, one of whom is still in prison. At the crime lab, an explosion destroys key evidence and leaves Greg and Sara injured.

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"Play With Fire's" guest cast includes:<ul>

[*]<font color=yellow>Jeffrey D. Sams</font> as Detective Lockwood

[*]<font color=yellow>David Berman</font> as David Phillips

[*]<font color=yellow>Wallace Langham</font> as David Hodges

[*]<font color=yellow>Romy Rosemont</font> as Jacqui Franco

[*]<font color=yellow>Archie Kao</font> as Archie Johnson

[*]<font color=yellow>Max Martini</font> (24, The Division)

[*]<font color=yellow>Bob Gunton</font> (The Shawshank Redemption, Patch Adams)

[*]<font color=yellow>Luis Antonio Ramos</font> (Early Edition)

[*]<font color=yellow>Rebecca McFarland</font> (NYPD Blue, Seinfeld)

[*]<font color=yellow>Olivia Rosewood</font> (Almost Famous)

[*]<font color=yellow>Brandon Kirsch</font>[/list]

Advance spoilers for the episode are available in this news item.<center></center>
 
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