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Here’s great news for fans of Jorja Fox who plays Sara Sidle on CSI: Vegas! Today, TV Guide lets us know that her guest appearances on the show will continue “indefinitely.” I guess the fans have made their wishes known and the show producers have listened.

“We will be seeing a lot more of Jorja,” executive producer Carol Mendolsohn tells EW.” This season is about bringing the [CSI] family back together again … Jorja has been the glue that has really helped to reform the bond of our team.”

The length of Fox’s stay remains unknown but it will definitely be more than the five episodes she was originally scheduled for. “As many episodes as we can have Jorja for, we want her for,” Mendolsohn told EW, which was the first to report the news. [Source: TV Guide]

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• The season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas began with an amazing…I mean AMAZING 3-D look through the entire lab and lot outside where a huge incident was taking place. We see shards of glass and blood droplets in mid air, along with bullets frozen in their trajectories. Dr. Robbins was using his crutch to take out a gunman and Langston was in mid-kick sending a gunman backward through a window. It was incredible. I’ll try to get you a clip of it.
• 48 HOURS EARLIER: Stokes is studying a book about caring for arachnids while a large tarantula crawls through an aquarium. I guess he’s going to take over the bug thing where Grissom left off.
• Catherine told someone on the phone about Riley leaving them with 100 open cases. And Langston got promoted to CSI Level 2.
• The team is called to the scene of an auto accident where a popular actress is dead. The other driver still had a pulse and the evidence shoed that he had kept his foot on the gas pedal after the crash. She had been stopped when he hit her.
• Catherine assigned Greg Sanders to go to a fleabag motel to check out a dead body. He protests because he thinks he should be able to stay and wants someone with less seniority to go. He loses his argument.
• A young man was in Brass’ office where he is questioned about the starlet being on the road at 4 am. He tells Brass that she had been on her way to the set of a movie she was working on. He’s her significant other and his father owns a casino.
• At the motel, Sanders finds the man’s body. He was robbed and had been dead for at least two days. He finds some fibers between two teeth in a dental partial.
• Dr. Robbins tells Catherine that the starlet had been 8 weeks pregnant. We see that he has a ghoulish hobby of collecting photos of dead people’s faces.
• At the hospital, the doctor tells Langston that the drunk managed to survive the crash, but with a broken C2 vertebra. He had had blood alcohol level of 1.8 and GHB in his system. Stokes finds a small vial of something in the man’s duffel bag and they take it to analyze it.
• When they look further in his possessions, he has a scrapbook full of pictures of the starlet he killed, along with duct tape, rope a hunting knife and a teddy bear. He had been stalking her.
• The guy had hacked into the film production company’s computer and had all the info from the actress’s call sheet, so he knew where she would be.
• Langston thought the guy wanted to kidnap her, but not kill her yet. Stokes thought he wanted to kill her with the accident. Just then, Brass found out that the driver had regained consciousness and he went to talk to him.
• The guy knew he had killed her but wasn’t making much sense otherwise.
• Langston & Stokes studied some security tapes near the crash scene for clues. They figured out that someone overrode the traffic signal to make her have to stop.
• When the boyfriend went to the morgue to view the actress’ body, he almost showed no emotion at all. Was he in shock?
• They didn’t find an “emitter” in the man’s car, but knew one had to have been used to stop her at the light. The one that had been used was an illegal one, without an identifier, so it hadn’t been one of the police, fire or ambulance ones.
• Langston went to the hospital to check out the driver and found bruises from a seatbelt on the passenger side. He hadn’t been driving after all. They figure that the real killer hit her, pulled the unconscious man to the driver’s seat and broke his neck.
• Just when Catherine was getting read the riot act about information leaked to the press, Sara Sidle walks in. She married Grissom and while he’s lecturing at the Sorbonne, she came to help out temporarily.
• Catherine read riley’s exit interview where she basically trashed Catherine as a leader. Then, when looking over the bad press on the case, she finds an article about the boyfriend having other women sue him for paternity.
• Langston & Stokes go to the hotel where the guy in the hospital had stayed and paid cash. The surveillance video showed him being taken from the bar by the boyfriend’s security man.
• Brass took the security guy to talk to him while Catherine asked the boyfriend about the reason he hadn’t been with her that morning. He took an engagement ring from his pocket and told her he was going to give it to her, but hadn’t had the chance.
• The security guy told Brass that he had talked to the stalker to get him to go away, but Langston did some homework on the guy and found that he raced cars. He searched the guy’s room and found a crash helmet, with white powder on it. He suspected it was airbag dust from the crash. The guy asked for a lawyer.
• The dust was confirmed to be airbag talc. Catherine confided in Sara about the exit interview. Sara suggested that Catherine make someone the second in charge to help her.
• Just then, men with dark sunglasses, black suits and white shirts burst into the morgue. The bodies were all pulled out and things were in total disarray. They carried out a body in a body bag. Dr. Robbins tried to stop them and the bullets started to fly. Two of the men got into a large panel truck with the body and fired at Stokes and Sara as they drove away.
• Two people from the lab were injured, but stable. They seemed to be Russian mobsters and instead of taking the actress’ body as people expected, they took the body of the bum that Sanders had been investigating. The bum’s DNA came back and he was the actress’ father.
• Nick & Sara arrived at a scene where the father had been put through a wood chipper. They found out that the man had been a diagnosed schizophrenic and the actress had been taking care of him as well as she could.
• The boyfriend’s father had hired the security guy to breakup the actress and the boyfriend. When the security guy went to talk to the father, they struggle and he kills the father. So now the only thing he can do to fix things is to kill the actress too.
• They know they have to find a way to connect the security guy to both murders. The father had bitten the man’s sleeve and swallowed his cufflink. They sifted through the remains to find it. He was arrested for killing the father, but they couldn’t connect him to the actress.
• Catherine called Nick Stokes to her office and promoted him to Assistant Supervisor on the Graveyard Shift. Then she handed him a pile of folders to go through for her.
• The episode ended with Langston going to visit Robbins in the morgue. Robbins is doing an autopsy and when he opens the abdomen, they are both shocked and puzzled. We don’t get to see what it is. I guess we have to wait for next week.

Discussion Points:

1. Were you disappointed at how little Sara was involved this week?
2. Did I miss something? Why were the men in black that broke in to the morgue to steal the man’s body from the Russian mob? I didn’t see how they were ever connected that way, did you?
3. What are your thoughts about Riley leaving in such a negative way?
4. What are your thoughts about Grissom & Sara being married now?
5. Did you notice that Hodges was intent on protecting Wendy? I wonder how long he’s going to have a crush on her before letting her know…
6. Did you like this episode? What did you like/dislike most about it?

Leave a comment to let us know what you think!

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Tomorrow night is the season 10 premiere of CSI: Vegas and we know that Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) will be back for a few episodes. This is a clip showing us a few scenes from the episode, along with Jorja Fox, George Eads, Laurence Fishburne and Marg Helgenberger talking about what it’s like to be back at work and how it feels to have worked on the show for 10 years.

Personally, I can’t believe sometimes that it’s been on for 10 years already. I love the show so much, it always seems new in some way. Here’s what the cast thinks:

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CSI: Vegas – Episode 10.01 – Family Affair
Air Date: September 24, 2009

The very first episode photos for CSI: Vegas have been released. We know that Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle will be back for five episodes this season from these photos, it’s clear that she’s looking great! Hopefully, the case she starts with won’t send her packing again!

Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) returns to the CSI team, on the tenth season premiere of CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, Thursday, September 24 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)
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I want to go on record by saing that I personally liked the character of Riley Adams. She was a regular CSI on CSI: Vegas for only one season and I don’t think they gave her enough time for the audience to get into her character. I liked her snarky wit and the way she could think fast in a tough situation. But, alas, perhaps I was only one of the few…

But we are told that Riley won’t be a part of season 10 and that Jorja Fox, aka Sara Sidle will be back for at least five episodes. So, I guess this is some good news and some bad news. I guess we can’t have it all… Here’s what executive producer Naren Shankar says about the switch:

Executive producer Naren Shankar confirms to TV Guide Magazine that Lauren Lee Smith will not return as series regular, Riley Adams. “She’s not going to be back for Season 10,” he tells us exclusively. “It was an issue of how we were feeling the ensemble was working. When we brought in the character of Riley, it got lost in the shuffle a little bit because we had lost Warrick, we had lost Sara, and then in the middle of last season Grissom finally left. I think, as a result, the character never quite found its footing in terms of the rest of the gang.”

Riley’s absence will open up a slot for Sara Sidle, who is now ready to return to work after her severe burnout in Season 8. “She shows up because the team is understaffed,” says Shankar. “The undersheriff reaches out for a recommendation and Sara says, ‘I think that person might be me.’” [Source: TV Guide]

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That’s right Sara Sidle fans. Sara (Jorja Fox) will be back on the CSI: Vegas season 10 premiere and in multiple episodes during the season. No word on whether Grissom will be with her at this point, but at least we’ll get to catch up with what Jorja’s character has been doing since leaving the team.

As far as I can tell, Jorja won’t be back as a series regular, but it will be good to see her back, even for a few episodes. Here’s what Carol Mendelsohn had to say about it:

“We’re thrilled for Jorja’s return to CSI,” said executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. “The viewers and longtime CSI fans will be excited to discover where life has taken Sara Sidle and what brings her back to the CSI team in Las Vegas in our premiere episode.” [Source: CBS]

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And nearly all of his fellow CSI: Vegas co-stars were there to celebrate the occasion with him. I don’t see Lauren Lee Smith, Wallace Langham, Paul Guilfoyle or Gary Dourdan, But Robert David Hall, David Berman, Liz Vassey, George Eads, Jorja Fox, Eric Szmanda, Marg Helgenberger and Archie Kao all were there.

Here are some cute photos of them at the event, including one where Petersen dusted the star for fingerprints! LOL!

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It’s a very cool article. Be sure to go read it. I don’t have permission to publish the scan, but you can go to SpoilerTV to see it.

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Episode 9.02 – The Happy Place
Air Date: October 16, 2008

The show begins with Sara and Grissom sharing moments in bed. As obvious as it is that they still care deeply for each other, he can’t convince her to stay in Vegas. His phone rings. It’s the lab.

A woman, Sprig Grenigier, leaps to her death from an apartment window. The team begins investigating the apartment and surrounding scene. They are unconvinced that Sprig committed suicide. Minutes before her death, she had received a phone call from a payphone across the street from the apartments.

Meanwhile, Grissom leads the investigation at the scene of a woman’s body in the alley behind a pawn shop. Her eyes have been poked and ruptured like a pair of grapes, as if by a pair of thumbs.
(click on “Read More” for the rest of the recap)

Sprig and her fiancé were getting married in a just a couple weeks. He told Willows that she had just lost her job as a bank teller, accused of stealing ten thousand dollars. She had recently applied for unemployment benefits.

Sara arrives at Pam Adler’s hospital bedside, where she had just died. Her husband had “pulled the plug”for his wife. Police were cautiously waiting outside the door for her. Her husband, Tom, sat next to her still body. Tom tells Sara that he had received a newspaper clipping from Tony Thorpe.

Thorpe, who had raped and beaten Pam, had written on the clipping, claiming to have visited her in the hopital and raped her again. Tom said that pulling the plug on his wife was the only way he knew to save her from Thorpe. He tells Sara and the police, though, that he had burned the note. Sara goes with Tom, as he heads to the station to give his statement.

Willows and Nick watch surveillance video from the bank. It shows Sprig giving a man, obviously a woman in “drag”, one hundred hundred dollar bills as change for two fifty dollar bills. There are, however, no signs of duress. There is no note, no gun, and no other evidence that she was coerced. The bank manager, though, said that Sprig claimed not to remember the customer or the transaction.

Nick shows Willows a video from a different bank, where another teller lost her job, having given the same “change”. The customer was the same “man” from Sprig’s bank.

Willow questions other teller, Linara Powell. She had no memory of the transaction, just as Sprig had claimed. Willows asks Powell if she had done anything to lose weight, recently. She says that she quit smoking, recently, with the help of a hypnotherapist. She hands Catherine a business card for Viviana Conway, AKA Madame Marvelous.

Willows discovers an entry in Sprig’s checkbook, a check made out to Viviana Conway. She and Nick visit a Madame Marvelous show, where Conway has a stage full of people clucking like chickens.

After the show, Viviana tells them that most of her work is with private clients. Sprig Grenigier was one of her weight-loss clients. She says Sprig lost twelve pounds to get ready for her honeymoon. She explains that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. She just provides visualizations of what the client really wants. She had Sprig picture herself in a “teeny bikini”. She explains the different states of mind between awake and asleep. She says, though, that she can’t convince anyone to do anything they wouldn’t otherwise do.

Detective Williams tells Brass that they’ve identified the body of the woman in the alley. Paula Bonfilio was a high school guidance counselor. The Tangiers room key belonged to a pit boss who used the room to entertain high rollers. Bonfilio would hit the casino like clockwork, every time she got a paycheck. The night before, she was in pretty deep. The pit boss claims he helped her get out of the hole. His DNA sample matched semen found in Bonfilio’s vaginal vault.

Grissom and Williams visit Bonfilio’s home to try and find out what she might have been doing in the part of town where they found her. Her son, Scott, drives up, and says he talked to his mother the night before, and that she was fine. She was with his baby sister, Lexi Bonfilio. The police initiate an Amber Alert for Lexi.

Scott brings the team a pacifier, unwashed, for a DNA sample. He tells Grissom and Williams that his mom said she and Lexi were going shopping. Around 10 PM, she called and said she’d be out for the night. According to Scott, her staying out all night was normal. Taking Lexi out late was not as normal, except when Scott had to work. Scott tells them that he and his mom didn’t have a good relationship. He’s a straight A senior, but was going to community college, thanks to her gambling addiction. He hid his paychecks, but she found them. Grissom asks about the possibility that Lexi is with her father, but Scott says that she had always been a party girl. She never brought men home, but always met them. Paula told Scott that Lexi was a “gift from God”.

Archie shows Grissom that Paula’s card had been used at the Tangiers Casino child care. On the casino surveillance video, Archie shows Grissom that Paula spent a long time at the tables, losing big for a couple of hours. Around 6, she gets up and finds a pit boss, whom she walks away with for a bit. At one point, she received a call on a disposable cell phone, then a white-haired man arrived. The man grabs her shoulders, she picks up her last $500 chip and they leave. Grissom notes that the larger value chips often have Radio Frequency devices. At 8:15 PM, Paula and the man pick up her baby. Later, they all appear on video at Pete’s Pawn Shop, near the scene of her body. Around 9PM, her ATM card was rejected at the pawn shop. A while later, she showed up dead in the alley.

Sara watches Tom, as he’s escorted into jail. Although he pulled the cord to help his wife, euthanasia is a felony. Though he was trying to help her, he failed to save the note from Thorpe, hurting his case.

Grissom tells Sara that none of Adler’s incoming calls came from Tony Thorpe. She figures he used a cell phone. Grissom also says that they found no evidence that Thorpe had ever hean inside Pam Adler’s room. There’s also no sign of sexual assault. Grissom doen’t believe Adler’s story. He appeals to Sara’s belief in science, making a case for the possibility that Tom Adler is just covering up for his own action. His words, though, make her wonder whose relationship he’s describing.

A hypnotherapist tries to help Grace remember the day of the robbery. She says the man wants change for two fifties; she gave him 100 singles. The hypnotherapist says the hypnotist must have put a “block” in, preventing her from remembering the details. The hypnotist must have used a post-hypnotic suggestion with a word or phrase to trigger the scam. Nick asks if the person could have used post-hypnotic suggestion to get them to do something they wouldn’t normally do. He says you can, depending on how you word it. If it sounds like something the person would do, it’s possible. He says, also, that the trigger has to be from the same voice that gave the post-hypnotic suggestion. Grace said the “man” had small hands…”little sissy hands”…and “jacked up” fingernails. Archie zooms in on the video to the man’s hands. “His” nails show signs of ripped off acrylic tips. Willows has Archie compare the facial features of the “man” in the teller windows to those on Viviana Conway’s DMV photo. They match!

Sanders tells Sara that Thorpe may have been harrassing Tom to get him to euthanize his wife. According to a new law, he could still be tried for her murder. At one time, if Adler’s died over a year after the assault and rape, he would have been free. Now, however, at any time, if her death could be attributed to Thorpe’s raping and assaulting her, he could still face charges. If Tom did it, though, it would remove him from the list of potential charges for the murder.

Williams and the police spot Paula Bonfilio’s car. A prostitute, “Trixie,” says an old man with a baby gave her the car, on the condition that he drop the baby off for him. Trixie leads them to the Palermo hotel nursery, where she had taken the baby. Williams claims Lexi, and Scott holds her briefly. Williams says CPS will have to decide if Scott can take custody of Lext, though.

Willows and Nick confront Viviana. Nick asks why she would take advantage of these people, who had trusted them. She says she “had to try”. She said she gave Sprig a free session. Viviana’s prints were on the payphone that called Sprig. Apparently, she told Sprig to picture herself in a bikini, at the beach, and jump into the water.

Viviana: There is no way that you can prove I had anything to do with her death. It’s like I told you. I cannot make people do anything that they don’t want to do.
Willows: I can. Get in jail.

Sara and Detective Vega visit Tony Thorpe. He’s in a wheelchair, and had been since Christmas.

Williams questions Leon. He says he roughed Paula up, and relieved her of her car and her baby. He says, though, that he left her alive in the alley. About the $500 chip, he says that she owed him $12,000, so it wasn’t enough to worry about.

Sara confronts Tom about Thorpe, asking why he lied. He says he wasn’t living, just sitting with Pam in the hospital. He tells Sara that he couldn’t move on, and leave Pam in the hospital like that. He couldn’t ask the doctors to help, though. He couldn’t ask them to kill his wife so he could have a weekend to himself.

Archie receives a call saying that the $500 chip showed up. Scott was trying to cash it. Back in the Bonfilio house, Grissom finds a bloodied gold chain matching the one near Paula’s body. Grissom also finds sexy photos of Scott and Paula. Grissom believes he had Oedipus issues.

Lab results, however, show that Scott and Paula didn’t share any DNA markers. Lexi, however, is Scott and Paula’s child. Records show that Paula worked in Akron, Ohio, until 2 years before. So, she brought Scott and Lexi to Vegas, when he was 15. Scott’s fingerprints are in the missing children’s database.

Scott claims that Paula didn’t kidnap him. He says, though, that it was better than his parents. Paula was Scott’s guidance counselor. She listened to all his problems. Scott tells Grissom that she only liked him while he was more risky. He tells Grissom that Lexi is better off without Paula, even if she is without her father.

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After a totally emotional season premiere, CBS has just released this trailer for next week’s episode of CSI: Vegas called The Happy Place. It looks like Grissom is going to try to get Sara to stay in Vegas with him. And the two cases the team will investigate seem very intriguing! Check it out:

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