The Future Is Bleak For One Of 'New York''s Finest

[CSI Files]

The season five finale of <I>CSI: New York</I>, <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/newyork/season5/pay_up.shtml">"Pay Up"</a>, leaves the fate of one team member up in the air.<p>As CSI Files previously <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/news/060309_02.shtml">reported</a>, a member of the <I>New York</I> team will die within the first 10 minutes of the finale. However, another character will be in danger at the end of the episode. "There's talk that we're losing a character," <font color=yellow>Eddie Cahill</font> (Don Flack) told <A class="link" HREF="http://www.cbs.com/">CBS</a>. "I don't know who it is. None of us know who it is, which lends itself to a bit of anxiety."<p>"If you look at all our cliffhangers, we kind of always have somebody in jeopardy, but you know who that person is at the end of the year," <font color=yellow>Melina Kanakaredes</font> (Stella Bonasera) explained, but this season will be different. <font color=yellow>Anna Belknap</font> (Lindsay Monroe) revealed, "It'll be a cliffhanger for all of us. We're all wandering around, wondering who it's going to be."<p>"I don't know who it's gonna be, and I don't know why exactly they're doing that," admitted <font color=yellow>Carmine Giovinazzo</font> (Danny Messer). "We're all just knocking on wood that we're still here." Co-star <font color=yellow>Hill Harper</font> (Dr Sheldon Hawkes) said, "I certainly don't want to get killed off." <font color=yellow>AJ Buckley</font> (Adam Ross) shared that he has "lost some sleep" over the mystery.<p>"The way it's being set up right now is, for me it's a little bit beyond just curious about what's gonna happen," Cahill continued. "It may work itself out in a way that could be, for my money, kind of upsetting on a personal level." Kanakaredes offered a few details about the cliffhanger: "The only thing you can be certain of is that we are all in a bar, kind of toasting the person who does pass away at the beginning of the episode, and pretty much it could be any one of us."<p>The original video is courtesy of <A class="link" HREF="http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_ny/video/video.php?cid=544177915&pid=7kB2_rxl_nlFHpJkoV2gvwc56nP_0xd7&category=recent&play=true">CBS</a> and can be watched below. Thanks to <font color=yellow>CdfSjaI</font> on TalkCSI for the heads up.<p><center><object width='400' height='300'><param name='movie' value='http://www.cbs.com/e/7kB2_rxl_nlFHpJkoV2gvwc56nP_0xd7/cbs/1/'></param><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'></param><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'></param><embed width='400' height='300' src='http://www.cbs.com/e/7kB2_rxl_nlFHpJkoV2gvwc56nP_0xd7/cbs/1/' allowfullscreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' type='application/x-shockwave-flash'></embed></object></center><center></center>

 

[Elsie]

I'm not convinced that no one knows who (if anyone) will be going at the start of next season. :lol: I'm not a fan of cliffhangers, although it'll give us lots to speculate about over the coming months, which is fun. I'm still nervous though. Losing one person from the team is enough.

 

[egeria]

Em...I'm curious.

Can they really 'kill off a character' without discussing it with the actor involved? Isn't that why they sign contracts? *head scratch*

 

[myfuturecsi]

Did they all film a death scene and leave it to the writers to decide who it is?

 

[Top41]

I don't think there's going the audience is going to find out until next season, which means the injury/death scene won't be filmed until then.

I imagine someone has a brush with death, but it doesn't sound like anyone's actually going to die as a result of what happens at the bar, especially not on the heels of the other death that occurs early in the episode.