Official 'Vengeance,' 'Closer' & 'Iced' Details

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CBS is starting a sports-themed week today, as the CSIs will be investigating the deaths of a former football star, a Boston Red Sox fan, and a college basketball player.

Tonight at 10:00pm, CBS will be airing the new CSI: Miami episode "Vengeance," from which you can expect the following:

<font color=yellow><blockquote>When a former football star is murdered at a high school reunion, the CSIs must find the killer. The victim was the big man on campus in high school and there are a lot of guests at the reunion with reasons to resent him all these years. Now, the team must investigate everyone, from the head cheerleader to the school misfit, to see who held a decade-old grudge big enough to kill. Meanwhile, Horatio and Delko arrive at a crime scene and discover that it's already been processed, leading Horatio to uncover further information about his brother possibly being alive.

</font></blockquote>This will be director <font color=yellow>Norberto Barba's</font> third episode, after taking on CSI: New York's "The Fall" CSI: Miami's "Shooutout" earlier this year. That last episode was written by the writing team of <font color=yellow>Sunil Nayar</font> and <font color=yellow>Corey Miller</font>, who are also the writers of "Vengeance."

The following guest stars will be making an appearance in "Vengeance:"

<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Dylan Neal</font> as Patrick Hale[*]<font color=yellow>Rex Linn</font> as Det. Frank Tripp[*]<font color=yellow>Jessica Stone</font> as Krystal Sneed[*]<font color=yellow>Megan Ward</font> as Jennie Hale[*]<font color=yellow>Katy Selverstone</font> as Michelle Day[*]<font color=yellow>Christian Monzon</font> as Officer Joe McCue[*]<font color=yellow>Nick Jaine</font> as Asst. M.E. Scott Sanders[*]<font color=yellow>Max Martini</font> as Bob Keaton[*]<font color=yellow>Holt McCallany</font> as Det. John Hagen[*]<font color=yellow>Richard Speight Jr.</font> as Kevin Banks[*]<font color=yellow>Armando Valdes-Kennedy</font> as Aaron Peters[*]<font color=yellow>Kimiko Gelman</font> as Dr. Nicole Talcott[*]<font color=yellow>Paul Fitzgerald</font> as Dan Winslet[*]<font color=yellow>Andre Royo</font> as Julio Pena[*]<font color=yellow>Marcus Patrick</font> as Luis Rivera[*]<font color=yellow>Tyler Goucher</font> as Teen Patrick Hale[*]<font color=yellow>Gregory Mikurak</font> as Teen Dan Winslet[*]<font color=yellow>Lance Reddick</font> as David Park[*]<font color=yellow>Eli Danker </font> as Richard Thomason[/list]Rex Linn, and Holt McCallany will both be playing previously-established recurring roles. This is true as well for Armando Valdes-Kennedy, although his character's name now apparently shifts back again to Aaron Peters, the way he was introduced in "Crime Wave," before being called Aaron Price in both "Identity" and "Nothing to Lose."

Three other guest actors have previously appeared on CSI before. Megan Ward was Audrey Hilden in the original CSI's third-season episode "A Night At The Movies," while two seasons later Katy Selverstone played Amber Hamshaw in "Ch-Ch-Changes." Max Martine has appeared on two CSI shows, first playing Jason Kent in the penultimate episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's third season, "Play With Fire," and then Robert Keaton on the second-season Miami episode "Big Brother."

On Wednesday at 10:00pm, the end of CSI: New York's first season will be getting ever closer, as CBS is scheduled to air this year's pre-final episode, "The Closer." The network described the episode as follows:

<font color=yellow><blockquote>The team examines the murder of an avid Boston fan found dead with a ruptured spleen following a tough loss against New York. Danny must put his baseball skills to the test to piece together the evidence as the CSIs try to find out how and why he was murdered. Meanwhile, after testifying in a murder trial, Mac is confronted by the defendant, Quinn Sullivan, who questions the validity of the evidence. Mac is torn between trusting science or his desire to help a man facing jail time who swears he's innocent. Also, when a barely clad woman is killed by a truck early one morning, the team investigates why she was running through the streets and from whom.

</font></blockquote>Actor-turned-director <font color=yellow>Emilio Estevez</font> helmed this episode, his second after "The Dove Commission." Screenwriter <font color=yellow>Pam Veasey</font> has this year previously worked on the episodes "Creatures of the Night" and "Rain," while she is also the show's co-executive producer.

Below is a list of "The Closer" guest stars:

<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>Michael Clarke Duncan</font> as Quinn Sullivan[*]<font color=yellow>Sonya Walger</font> as Jane Parsons[*]<font color=yellow>Raphael Sbarge</font> as D. A. Latham[*]<font color=yellow>Kathryn Harrold</font> as Judge Beverly Fulton[*]<font color=yellow>Petros Papadakis </font> as Rico Savalas[*]<font color=yellow>Amaury Nolasco</font> as Ruben DeRosa[*]<font color=yellow>Danielle Burgio</font> as Margo Trent[*]<font color=yellow>Jason Cerbone</font> as Tony Reanetti[*]<font color=yellow>Andrew Bowen</font> as Bryce Sweet[*]<font color=yellow>Marty Yost</font> as Gilbert Novotny[*]<font color=yellow>Brian Jay</font> as Stuart Ashton[*]<font color=yellow>Gina Doctor</font> as Tech[*]<font color=yellow>Dan Kruse</font> as Attorney[/list]

CBS has been hyping the guest role by Michael Clarke Duncan, who received an Oscar nomination for his role in The Green Mile, and has also starred in films such as Daredevil, The Whole Nine Yards and Sin City, among many others. Another familiar face in "The Closer," at least for CSI: NY fans, will be Sonya Walger, playing Jane Parsons in her eight episode this year. Finally, two other guest stars already have a CSI past: Raphael Sbarge, earlier this year Aaron Laner in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's "Ch-Ch-Changes,"and Amaury Nolasco, who played Hector in the second-season original CSI installment "Slaves of Las Vegas."

The original CSI is approaching the end of its season, too, with CBS airing the penultimate episode "Iced" on Thursday at 9:00pm. Here's how the network's official press release summarised the episode:

<font color=yellow><blockquote>When a popular college basketball player doesn't turn up for a big game, a fellow dorm resident finds him and a pretty young student dead on a sleeping bag in his dorm room. CSIs Sara and Greg reach one dead end after another as they try to solve the mystery of why the two young students were killed. Meanwhile, Catherine and her team look into the death of young man whose body was found in a "crop circle" that shows no outward or inward signs of what killed him.

</font></blockquote>This episode was helmed by veteran CSI director <font color=yellow>Richard J. Lewis</font>, this season also responsible for "Crow's Feet," "Ch-Ch-Changes," "Snakes," "King Baby" and "Committed." CSI co-executive producer <font color=yellow>Josh Berman</font> wrote the episode, as he already revealed in last week's Q&A with CSI Files visitors.

Unfortunately, CBS has so far only issued a partial guest cast list for this episode, just containing the names of the below four recurring actors:

<ul>[*]<font color=yellow>David Berman</font> as David Phillips[*]<font color=yellow>Wallace Langham</font> as Hodges[*]<font color=yellow>Aisha Tyler</font> as Mia Dickerson[*]<font color=yellow>Marc Vann</font> as Conrad Ecklie[/list]

If and when a full guest cast list is released, we will update the entry for this episode in our CSI episode guide.

In addition to the above three new episodes, CBS will be airing one repeat episode this week, on Saturday at 9:00pm. The network will be showing the third-season original CSI episode "One Hit Wonder," in which Catherine takes the point in the investigation of an escalating series of peeping tom incidents. The crew is racing to stop the attacker before his crimes become more serious assaults. Meanwhile, Sara reopens the dormant case of her friend, a district attorney. The DA is facing surgery to remove a bullet she got in an attack that killed her husband three years prior.

The original press releases for all these episodes can be found at the Futon Critic.<center></center>
 
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