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First up on Monday at 10:00pm will be CSI: Miami's "Urban Hellraisers," in which Horatio Caine's CSIs have to deal with the fall-out of a Grand Theft Auto-style video game:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>Delko witnesses a bank robbery and the CSIs soon discover that the culprits are playing out the action from the videogame "Urban Hellraisers" on the streets of Miami. As they score points for each crime committed, the CSIs must discover what consists of getting to the next level in the game in order to stop the culprits before they strike again.
</font></blockquote>"Urban Hellraisers" was directed by <font color=yellow>Matt Earl Beesley</font>, making this his first episode of the CSI franchise since CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's "Eleven Angry Jurors" two years ago. The episode is the second Miami outing for both screenwriters: <font color=yellow>Dean Widenmann</font> started out with "Blood In The Water," and <font color=yellow>Marc Guggenheim</font> previously wrote "Three-Way."
The following actors will be making a guest appearance on "Urban Hellraisers:"
<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Rex Linn</font> as Det. Frank Tripp[*]<font color=yellow>Eva LaRue</font> as Natalia Boa Vista[*]<font color=yellow>Diana Chavez</font> as Hot Girl[*]<font color=yellow>Lea Moreno</font> as Demon/Kim Mills[*]<font color=yellow>Shaun Sipos</font> as Hellys/Gabe Hammond[*]<font color=yellow>Kanin Howell</font> as Scream[*]<font color=yellow>Shoshana Bush</font> as Teenage Girl[*]<font color=yellow>Larissa Gomes </font> as Monica Rodriguez[*]<font color=yellow>Amy Laughlin</font> as Erica Sikes[*]<font color=yellow>Brendan Fehr</font> as Dan Cooper[*]<font color=yellow>Marty McSorley</font> as Rink Manager[*]<font color=yellow>Michael B. Silver</font> as Peter Elliott[*]<font color=yellow>Philip Winchester</font> as Chris Allen[*]<font color=yellow>Jared Ward</font> as Officer Tovado[*]<font color=yellow>Jerad Anderson</font> as Glasses/Michael Page[*]<font color=yellow>Bellamy Young</font> as Megan West[*]<font color=yellow>Boti Bliss</font> as Valera[*]<font color=yellow>Akeem Smith</font> as John Berg[*]<font color=yellow>Jeremy Kent Jackson</font> as Carl Hiatt[*]<font color=yellow>Ryan Ryusaki </font> as Ski Mask[/list]
Rex Linn, Eva LaRue, Amy Laughlin, Brendan Fehr, Michael B. Silver, and Boti Bliss will all be playing previously-established recurring characters. This is also true for Jared Ward, whose Officer Tovado also appeared in "Felony Flight" two weeks ago, but was then known as Officer Camston. Two other actors have previous CSI connections: Kanin J. Howell, who played Roy Hinton in the first-season original CSI episode "Sound of Silence" and Lenny Starks in last year's CSI: New York episode "Officer Blue;" and Jeremy Kent Jackson, who appeared as a store clerk in last year's original CSI episode "Harvest." Finally, Bellamy Young has never appeared on CSI before, but you can expect to see her character in at least the next two CSI: Miami episodes, just with a slight name change from Megan to Monica West.
On Wednesday at 10:00pm, CBS will be airing the CSI: New York episode "City of the Dolls," featuring the return of <font color=yellow>Kelly Hu's</font> Det. Kaila Maka. Here's what else you can expect from the episode:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>When the body of a man is discovered buried among a pile of detached doll parts, Mac, Lindsay, Det. Maka and Danny are called to one of their most bizarre crime scenes yet. The team must piece together the clues and doll parts to discover who murdered the store's owner. Meanwhile, a beautiful waitress is found dead in a studio apartment recently bestowed to her by one of her patrons.
</font></blockquote>Director <font color=yellow>Norberto Barba</font> previously helmed the New York episode "The Fall." Screenwriter <font color=yellow>Pam Veasey</font> is one of the show's executive producers, and this season also worked on "Summer In The City."
Below you can find the "City of the Dolls" guest cast list:
<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Kelly Hu</font> as Det. Kaila Maka[*]<font color=yellow>Robert Joy</font> as Dr. Sid Hammerback[*]<font color=yellow>Leila Arcieri</font> as Darcy Sullivan[*]<font color=yellow>Kate Norby</font> as Monica Drake[*]<font color=yellow>Victor McCay</font> as Harry Ellis[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Gant</font> as Dale Straker[*]<font color=yellow>Aimee Garcia</font> as Rhonda Chavez[*]<font color=yellow>Stephanie Marie Baker</font> as Carolyn Straker[*]<font color=yellow>Helena Mattsson</font> as Lauren Redgrave[*]<font color=yellow>Owen Beckman</font> as Luke Fisher[*]<font color=yellow>Kristina Anapau</font> as Virginia Felton[*]<font color=yellow>Madison Davenporte</font> as Abby Drake[*]<font color=yellow>Mark Mahoney</font> as Arvin Dooley[*]<font color=yellow>Mitchell Fink</font> as Russell McCulley[*]<font color=yellow>Zack Stewart </font> as Lou Pugletti[/list]
Besides recurring actors Kelly Hu and Robert Joy, only two actors have a previous connection to the CSI franchise: Kate Norby, who played Julie Sullivan in last year's Miami episode "Game Over," and Mitchell Fink, who's played Parademic Fink in several episodes of the original CSI this season.
The final new episode of the week will be CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's "Dog Eat Dog," the final new CSI episode before CBS will repeat the season premiere on December 1. But for now, here's what you can expect from this week's new episode:
<font color=yellow><blockquote>The CSIs investigate the unusual death of a man found dead in a dumpster on Thanksgiving night. Grissom and his team must take their clues from what the man ate in order to identify his cause of death, which leads them into the world of competitive eating. Meanwhile, Nick and Sara investigate the suspicious death of a couple attacked and killed by their seemingly sweet dog.
</font></blockquote>Director <font color=yellow>Duane Clark</font> most recently worked on a New York episode, last week's "Bad Beat," but has also previously directed the original CSI episode "Compulsion."
Here's the list of "Dog Eat Dog" guest actors:
<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>David Berman</font> as David Phillips[*]<font color=yellow>Louise Lombard</font> as Sophia Curtis[*]<font color=yellow>Wallace Langham</font> as Hodges[*]<font color=yellow>Doan Ly</font> as Jesse Menken[*]<font color=yellow>Bill Chott</font> as Jerry Gable[*]<font color=yellow>Dane Northcutt</font> as Michael Tinsley[*]<font color=yellow>Paula Trickey</font> as Lori Tinsley[*]<font color=yellow>Terrell Ramsey</font> as Pretzel Vendor[*]<font color=yellow>Jessica Collins</font> as Missy[*]<font color=yellow>Daphne Ashbrook</font> as Buffet Manager[*]<font color=yellow>Hal Sparks</font> as Digger James[*]<font color=yellow>Bailey Chase</font> as Marty Mayron[*]<font color=yellow>Joel David Moore</font> as Guy in the Yellow Hat[*]<font color=yellow>Angela Goethals</font> as Suzie Gable[/list]
For an episode of the original CSI, there's a relatively small group of recurring characters, as only David Berman, Louise Lombard, Wallace Langham and Doan Ly will be playing previously established characters. Only one other actor has appeared on any of the CSI shows before: Dane Northcutt, who played Lloyd Cole in the second-season Miami episode "Big Brother."
Besides these three new episodes, CBS will be showing a repeat of the fifth-season original CSI episode "Nesting Dolls" this Saturday at 9:00pm, as part of the CrimeTime Saturday block. In this episode, two female corpses are uncovered in a new housing development construction area, and the CSIs are led into the world of Russian mail-order brides, where young women get work visas and come to America hoping to land a man who will marry them and give them citizenship. Meanwhile, Sara is reprimanded by Ecklie for an inappropriate comment and ends up opening up to Grissom about her long-held family secret.<center></center>