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Happy Belated Birthday, AJ Buckley!

Lynn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:31:30 +0000

I can’t believe I missed this date, but at least i realized it now. Monday, February 1 was AJ Buckley’s 32nd birthday. AJ plays the CSI: NY character Adam Ross. So far this season, Adam has hooked up with Stella and become extremely jealous of a very pushy co-worker.

I hope that AJ has had a terrific year so far as well. Please join with me in sending him Happy Birthday wishes.

[Photo: Zuma Press]

Happy Birthday, AJ!

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.01: “Epilogue” Recap

Lynn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:07:32 +0000

Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

The season 6 season premiere of CSI: NY began with a review of the final scene in season 5. The CSIs were having a toast to Jessica Angell, who had been killed. Just then, a car drove by and sent a shower of machine gun bullets through the group as they all hit the floor.
A month later, we see Mac in the office, going over evidence, Flack with a pretty new girl and Stella getting dressed while an undressed Adam watches from the bed. [Wow! I didn’t see that coming!]
Mac gets a phone call and joins Danny (in a wheelchair) at a dark room with very large crystal chandeliers. Soon, a woman joins them. She tells them that her brother is just a scared kid caught up with two others in something. They try to get her to tell them what she knows.
Just then, the elevator doors open and a man in the shadows fires a machine gun at them. They all hit the floor. Danny pulls himself to help the injured woman as Mac goes after the gunman. She dies before she can tell them anything. The gunman gets away.
When Stella & Hawkes show up at the scene, Danny fills them in. the only thing they learned from the woman was a name…Jake.
Flack shows up, just back from a leave of absence and says he’s going to help. He and Mac go over security camera footage…no camera in the elevator.
At the crime scene, Danny flashes back to the night of the bar shooting. Lindsay reminds him that there’s no permanent damage to his spine. He may regain the use of his legs eventually. He’s not so optimistic.
At the office, Stella scolds Mac for taking Danny and going without backup to talk to the woman. He quotes Shakespeare: “Tempt not a desperate man.”
Another phone call and Mac tells Stella that it’s happened again.
The team arrives at the scene where a car drove past a large group of people waiting to get into a club. A car had driven by and fired a machine gun at the crowd. Everyone looks up at a large lighted billboard that reads, “Do we have your attention? Pay us and we’ll stop.”
A reporter at the scene had tipped them to another similar shooting at a closed restaurant two weeks before. The team goes over everything so far and determines that the shootings are not targeting cops, not with the intent to kill because there had only been one fatality and one of the locations was closed. They want to scare people.
Just then, a clean-up crime scene technician tells the CSIs that she found an unreported bloody fingerprint on the ceiling of the elevator at the crime office building. Adam gets defensive because he says that he checked everything.
They realize that Mac must have injured the gunman and that now they may have DNA to identify him.
Haylen, the cleanup tech tells Adam that she wants to work in the lab and he tells her that the job she’s after is his, so he won’t help her.
Sid pulled a piece of tempered glass from the woman’s shoulder that Hawkes examined and found that it put her in the bar, the night of the shooting when they were all there.
Flack shows Stella the body of the missing security guard from the night in the office building. They look at the blood trail to see that the killer tracked the guard there and killed him. The killer was also wounded and took the guard’s sleeve to bandage the wound.
At the lab, they determine that the woman had worked in the building, so they got copies of the voicemail greetings to compare to the tip line for identification.
The blood from the elevator matched the blood on the front of the dead guard’s shirt and Hawkes’ investigation told them that the guard had stabbed the killer with the same knife that killed him. They had an identification of the killer.
The voice recognition software helped them identify the woman as Risa Calaveras. That means that her brother must be Jake Calaveras.
Stella tells Mac that the shooter was dumped at the hospital and died soon after. They decide to study the hospital security camera footage. They got a license plate number and a suspect’s identity.
They show up at the suspect’s apartment in time to see Jake Calaveras pointing a gun at him for killing his sister. They tell him that he shouldn’t shoot him and they will take care of him. Jake tells them it’s too late and shoots the other man. They take him into custody.
In the interrogation room, Jake explained to Mac that the other two had wanted to get the city to “work for them.” He said that Risa had talked him out of going with them the night of the bar shooting. He didn’t know she had been there to try to stop him.
Adam caught up to Stella in the office to talk about the night they were together. She blurted out that it had been wonderful and stupid and memorable and something they should never do again. He acted relived and agreed with her.
The episode ended with Stella helping Mac pack up the case files, Lindsay holding her baby and Danny in the wheelchair trying to move his legs. Suddenly, one of his feet barely moved. He looked up and smiled.

Discussion Points:

What do you think of the hookup between Stella & Adam? Did you see it coming?
I really liked how supportive and optimistic Lindsay was about Danny’s injury. What are your thoughts about them?
What was your opinion of this episode? Was it a satisfying result after the shooting and the cliffhanger?
Do you like the new character, Haylen?

Leave a comment to share your thoughts about it!

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.02 – “Blacklist Featuring Grave Digger” Spoiler Photos

Lynn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:49:42 +0000

Episode 6.02: Blacklist Featuring Grave Digger
Air Date: TBD

After we finally get to see the aftermath of the season 5 cliffhanger, the second episode of CSI: NY will give us even more to enjoy. In that episode, Mac has something more from his family’s past come back to haunt him and the team. These photos from the episode look like the team is going to be very serious about solving this one!

When Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) investigate a case of a cyber killer, it turns personal when the suspect invokes the name of Mac’s father who had died nearly two decades earlier
[Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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CSI: NY – Episode 6.01 – “Epilogue” Spoiler Photos

Lynn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:56:34 +0000

Episode 6.01: Epilogue
Air Date: September 23, 2009

I’m thrilled to bring you the very first episodic photos for CSI: NY’s 6th season. We see the newest cast member for the show and see most of the old regulars. The caption tells us that there will be one person’s life that will change forever. I’ve heard the rumors about that too but will only confirm once I know the true situation.

But the good news is that it’s clear that Mac, Stella, Hawkes, Adam and Lindsay have all survived the shooting. But what about Sid, Danny & Flack….? Here’s the description and name for the new character:

Sarah Carter (“Shark”) Joins the Cast as Haylen Becall, a Forensic School Graduate Who Works As a Crime Scene Clean Up Technician and Has Aspirations of Being a CSI

Following a spray of machine gunfire, Det. Stella Bonasera, (Melina Kanakaredes), and Det. Mac Taylor rise from the chaos. But when one member’s life is significantly changed, it proves to be the emotional motivation they need to piece together their lives and ultimately find the shooter, on the sixth season premiere of CSI: NY, Wednesday, September 23 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)
[Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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CSI: NY Stars at CBS’ Summer Press Tour

Lynn — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:20:14 +0000

This week, CBS held their huge Summer Press Tour Party. There were tons of stars at the event, including some from CSI: NY. Here are photos that were taken of Hill Harper, who plays Dr. Sheldon Hawkes; Robert Joy, who plays Dr. Sid Hammerback and A.J. Buckley, who plays Adam Ross on the show. They look like they were having a great time.

Hill Harper, left, and A.J. Buckley of CSI: NY the CBS, The CW and Showtime SUMMER 2009 PRESS TOUR party held on Monday, August 3, at the Huntingdon Gardens in Pasadena, CA.
[Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

From l-r, Josh Radnor of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Hill Harper of CSI: NY, Tracie Thoms of COLD CASE and guest at the CBS, The CW and Showtime SUMMER 2009 PRESS TOUR party held on Monday, August 3, at the Huntingdon Gardens in Pasadena, CA.
[Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

A.J. Buckley of CSI: NY the CBS, The CW and Showtime SUMMER 2009 PRESS TOUR party held on Monday, August 3, at the Huntingdon Gardens in Pasadena, CA.
[Photo: Mark Davis/CBS ©2009 CBS BROADCASTING INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]

Robert Joy, of CSI: NY, on the red carpet of the CBS, The CW and Showtime SUMMER 2009 PRESS TOUR party held on Monday, August 3, at the Huntingdon Gardens in Pasadena, CA.
[Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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CSI: NY’s A.J. Buckley Talks About the Finale and Who Might Be Killed

Lynn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:38:36 +0000

[Photo: newscom.com]

My contact at TV Guide just sent the tip about this interview that A.J. Buckley, aka Adam the lab rat on CSI: NY, did with them. If you’re like me, you are on pins and nedles, waiting to find out which of the CSI: NY characters will be killed off in the season finale that’s coming up. Thank goodness they asked him about it, or I might have been upset.

But surprisingly, he says that the cast is still completely in the dark about who it’s going to be. They won’t even find out their own fate until the scripts for the finale are handed out. (And you know I’ll be snooping everywhere for info about it and will share it as soon as there is any…)

A.J. also talked about his character’s development and about a potential romantic chemistry between Adam and Stella! Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

TVGuide.com: Thank goodness for Adam Ross’ street hockey hobby. It sure put him in the right place at the right time a few weeks ago.
A.J. Buckley: Isn’t it crazy how that happens? It felt great just to get out of the lab, but then to also get such great material to work with, and the explosion, and doing my own stunt…. I’ve really been excited with where they’ve taken Adam this year. They’re sort of peeling the layers back.

TVGuide.com: Will we learn more about Adam this season?
Buckley: Honestly, every time I read a script, he gets a bit more defined. He’s coming into his own. He’s going from being that nervous, wide-eyed guy to asserting him as an actual CSI team member.

TVGuide.com: [CSI: NY exec producer] Peter Lenkov recently told us that you and Melina Kanakaredes (Stella) “play nice together.”
Buckley: We do. Melina is always fun to work with. They keep writing this thing where there is, like, a tension between us, and I guess it all started with some look I once shot at her. I’m like, “OK, I’ll take it!”

TVGuide.com: A couple of fans seem to want an Adam-Stella hook-up.
Buckley: Adam needs some love. He had a girl at the beginning of Season 4, and now…. He works too hard, and he needs some feminine attention.

TVGuide.com: Does Adam have a take on the Danny-Lindsay baby situation?
Buckley: Adam’s sort of childlike anyway about anything, so he’s very excited — and probably nervous for them, as well.

TVGuide.com: Might Adam be made an honorary godfather?
Buckley: I am not, but there is an honorary. I can’t tell you who, though!
[Lynn: My money's on Mac...]

TVGuide.com: Speaking of things you can’t talk about, let’s discuss the season-finale death that reportedly will “forever change” CSI: NY….
Buckley: Literally, when I found out that something was going down, I didn’t sleep that night. The god’s honest truth is that none of us know [who is being killed off]. We have no idea.

TVGuide.com: You’re saying that at this moment [March 20], nobody on the cast knows who’s dying?
Buckley: Not one person. We have all been buzzing on the set, “Who is getting killed?” It’s created so much anxiety! It could be any one of us. I’m terrified to open up the [season finale] script when we get it in a couple weeks. This is such a family, it will be devastating to see anybody go. No joke, I will cry, I’ll be so bummed.

Be sure to go read the entire interview here.

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CSI: NY Celebrated 100 Episodes

Lynn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:03:21 +0000

On November 1, the cast of CSI: NY held a party at the Edison Hotel to celebrate their 100th episode. They all looked like they had a great time and there’s even a photo of Anna Belknap showing her baby bump!

[Photo: courtesy of newscom.com]

(click on “Read More” for the rest of the photos!)

[Photo: courtesy of newscom.com]

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CSI: NY – Episode 5.10 “The Triangle” Spoiler

Lynn — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:34:09 +0000

CSI: NY – Episode 5.10 The Triangle
Air Date: December 10, 2008

This one looks like fun…there’s an unknown energy field around the Empire State Building and two murders to investigate.

(click on “Read More” for the scoop)

Press Release:
WHEN A MYSTERIOUS ENERGY FIELD NEAR THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING APPEARS TO BE THE CAUSE OF BOTH A BILLIONAIRE’S DISAPPEARANCE AND HIS LIMO DRIVER’S DEATH, THE CSIs INVESTIGATE TWO CRIMES AT ONCE, ON “CSI: NY” WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10

“The Triangle” – The CSIs are forced to investigate two crimes at once when a mysterious energy field near The Empire State Building appears to be the cause of both a billionaire’s disappearance and his limo driver’s death, on CSI: NY Wednesday, Dec. 10 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Det. Mac Taylor…………………… …. Gary Sinise
Det. Stella Bonasera……… Melina Kanakaredes
Danny Messer………………. Carmine Giovinazzo
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes………………….. Hill Harper
Det. Don Flack……………………….. Eddie Cahill
Lindsay Monroe……………………. Anna Belknap
Adam Ross……………………………… AJ Buckley
Dr. Sid Hammerback…………………. Robert Joy

GUEST CAST:
Bernie Benton……………………….. Chris Mulkey
Greg Hufheinz………………………….. Brian Gross
Jamie Sunderland………………. Anastasia Ganias
Yert Yawallac……………………….. Neil Hopkins
FBI Agent Washington………………. Leith Burke
Uni………………………………………. Paris Afakhri
Newstand Owner………………………. Chris Hartl
FBI Agent Walsh…………………….. Brian Oblak
Carl Custer……………………………. Shawn Nash

Written by: Trey Callaway
Directed by: Jeff Thomas [Source: CBS]

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AJ Buckley Talked to Hollywood 411

Lynn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:24:17 +0000

Recently, CSI: NY’s AJ Buckley sat down to talk to Madison Michelle from Hollywood 411. They chatted about his childhood dyslexia and he practiced a few of his big scientific CSI words for her and discusses his appreciation for great roles.

[video source]

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CSI: NY – 5.02 “Page Turner” Recap

Lynn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:00:23 +0000

CSI: NY – Episode 5.02: Page Turner
Original Air Date: September 24, 2008

At the Maroon 5 concert in the park, a fight in the excited crowd becomes a small riot. The police use soft rounds to take down the fighters. Eliza Carpenter, a college student fleeing the action, collapses and dies, right in front of a city bus. She appears to have suffered a blow to the trachea, probably from a stray riot control soft round. The woman has a lot of face and body paint.

Listening to Mac and Stella assess what might have killed Carpenter, Don seems disturbed that the police may end up taking the blame. They were just doing their job.

Sid, examining the victim’s body, discovers signs of radiation poisoning, marks on her skin beneath the paint, and hair loss. Measuring high levels of radiation on the body, he shuts down the exam room. It isn’t airborne, though, likely transdermal…from the paint. Though Mac and Stella weren’t likely exposed enough to worry, Sid collapses. The CDC rushes in to contain the body and Sid.

Adam matches the writing…shriiimping…on the victim to the graffiti of Kenneth Bamford, aka KA-BLAM. Stella and Danny visit KA-BLAM. They find no signs of radiation, and ask him about his contact with the victim. He remembers her, but not that she complained of any discomfort or pain.
(click on “Read More” for the rest of the recap)

Mac and Lindsay visit Sid, who is still unconscious. They worry that he won’t last long, if they don’t figure out how to counteract the radiation.

Hawkes finds high levels of radiation in Eliza’s liver…600 Rem…but the level is twice as high on her skin. Lindsay comments that she was a “walking ghost”. She could have survived only about a week. She also notes that the radiation would have induced dementia. Toxocology reports indicate high traces of thallium 201. Thallium is highly toxic, but this is also radioactive. At finding this, Hawkes quickly alerts the hospital radiology team to treat Sid with a nasal intubation of Prussian Blue…aka radiogardase…the only treatment for radioactive thallium poisoning.

Stella and Danny search Carpenter’s clothing for signs of the source of the thallium. They find black mold on her shoes. Stella gets a call that another body has shown up, in a movie theater. Film director Dante Gunther was due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Horror Film Festival, and died in the balcony of the theater. Dante had shown up late, and was acting strangely. His death in the balcony was far enough from the crowd in the theater, that the film continued, even after the team arrived. Apparently, no one made contact with him.

In Gunther’s hotel room, though radiation levels are not unusual, they find a mylar tag fragment in the cuff of a pair of pants, showing high levels of radiation.

Hawkes shows Stella an aged-looking, torn piece of paper. It looks like a todo list: CALL AGENT; GET FESTIVAL DATES/TIMES; 7TH & WEBSTER. The paper has a wet sheen to it.

Adam tells Don and Danny that 60-70% of thallium is used in the electronic and optical lens industry, the rest in nuclear medicine.

Stella finds thallium in the mylar fragment, and that it’s part of an anti-theft tag used mostly in printed material. The paper carbon dates to the 1930s, and appears to have been freeze dried, as in after repair from water damage. Danny says the mold turned out to be black toxic mold, found commonly in water damaged buildings.

Mac and Stella head to the antiquities branch of the public library to search for the thallium. The building suffered a flood in the lower stacks, due to faulty plumbing. In the lower level, in Special Collections, they find radiation in a copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Knot of Eternity symbol on the cover matches the design on Carpenter’s forehead. Eliza must have researched the symbol before visiting KA-BLAM. They also find black mold on table legs in the room. The book is also the source of the mylar tag piece found in Gunther’s hotel room.

Doctors treat Sid with the Prussian Blue. Hawkes explains to Mac that it speeds the removal of thallium from the body. Meanwhile lawyer Paulson announces his intention to file a wrongful death suit against the city’s library. Paulson tells Mac that his wife worked in the main branch of the library…in Special Collections…and died with the same symptoms as Carpenter and Gunther. The family doctor said she had lupus, but seeing the news of radiation, led him to believe this was the actual cause. He shows Mac a painting he made of his wife, while the couple took an art class together. Paulson agrees to let Mac exhume his wife to investigate her death.

Stella is gleeful to find out that Sid is alert and responsive. Don tells Stella that none of the books can be removed from Special Collections. Carpenter and Gunther had both checked into Special Collections, within a week of each other. Only ten people have signed in, in the past six months. One of them, Timothy Pram, actually read the affected book. Pram also has a record including vandalism at chemical labs, and at Three Mile Island. He now resides at 7th and Webster, the intersection in Dante Gunther’s notes.

Stella and Don find Pram at the intersection, in a Buddhist temple. Changed, thanks to his newfound faith, he regrets his earlier protests, and claims to be innocent of any recent crimes. He denies knowing Carpenter. Gunther, however, had called him recently, asking about Buddhist views on preparations for death. He also told him to refer to the Book of the Dead.

Lindsay finds a small fleck of sea sponge in the Book of the Dead. The sponge has traces of chitin. Adam notes that it appears more consistent with an insect than with crustaceans or other sealife. Why would it be in a sea sponge?

Hawkes shows Mac the 3-D scan of Molly Paulson’s body. When exhumed, her body had pinned the radiation detectors. Enlarging the stomach image, they find lesions, indicating that Molly Paulson swallowed the thallium.

Danny and Stella deduce that, since Molly Paulson had died earlier, and from ingestion, she was the intended target. The other two victims were likely just collateral damage. Who, then, wanted Molly dead? Don shows up, and leads them to the office of Lawrence Wagner, Molly’s assistant at the library. Molly had written him three times for not showing up to work. Once she passed, he never showed up for work again. In Wagner’s office, the team finds a collection of smoke detectors, probably for their radioactive sources, as well as iodine tablets. The tablets would have protected the thyroid from absorbing too much radiation.

At Wagner’s home, they find him building a reactor. He exhibits a lot of agitation…almost paranoia…as he explains how he is searching for cheaper energy alternatives. He claims to have spent two years accumulating the supplies he needed to build a reactor. He says, though, that Molly had never been near his “work”. Among his radioactive materials, though, they don’t find thallium in his belongings.

Lindsay determines that the red chitin found in the sponge belongs to a beetle commonly used to make red paint pigments. KA-BLAM, though, uses an airbrush. Mac tells the team that there’s another artist involved.

Three years ago, Paulson represented a chemical plant in Chinatown. The plant had imported multiple radioactive agents, including thallium. Knowing his wife already had lupus, he feed her the thallium to collect the insurance money: $500,000. He also secretly painted the Book of the Dead to validate his claim that the library killed his wife. The additional victims would allow him to pursue a lawsuit, and claim much more money. Once discovered by Mac, Paulson confesses that, after working hard defending the chemical company, and looking after his sick wife, he just wanted to retire.

Mac, Hawkes, and Don visit a recoving Sid, bearing chips and water, to watch the Rangers game.

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