Emily Procter stopped by for a photo session to help promote CSI Miami during the 49th Monte-Carlo TV Festival in Monaco today. She’s looking terrific in these photos, don’t you think?

I’ll be watching for interviews and videos of her there too. So be sure to check back for those!

[Photo: Newscom.com]

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CSI: NY Episode 5.11: Forbidden Fruit
Air Date: December 17, 2008

While cruising down a dark road, patrolmen spot a man pulling a woman’s body from the trunk of a car. They drive up, and he runs. As the officers catch up to him on foot, he falls from a fence and impales himself on a piece of rebar.

At the grocery store, Mac runs into Ella McBride, the owner of the confessions website SecretsU from episode 5.07 Dead Inside. Ella invites Mac to breakfast, but he gets a text, though, about the new case.

At the scene, Don tells Mac that the man is Tony Clark, a department store buyer. The woman has no identification, no signs of trauma, defensive wounds, no missing or disturbed clothing, or any of the usual clues to what happened. Her mouth does show internal bleeding. Danny hears Clark’s cell phone. He is receiving a text from a blocked number:

“Is it done yet?”

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CSI: Miami Episode 7.11 Tipping Point
Air Date: December 15, 2008

We see the blurry vision of a man lying in the back of a car. He seems to be suffering shock. There’s blood on the window.

As an large auger digs into ground, and we see the man lying, buried alive in a box. He cries out, when he sees the earth dug away, and the auger coming at him. The operator probably cannot hear him, though. The auger rises and lowers back into the box holding the man.

Horatio stands over the dead man. The auger operator tells him that they just broke ground that morning to begin an 18 month construction project. He says that his foreman thought he heard a scream, but it was too late by the time he could stop the machine. The man says that they began work on the site around 9:30 AM. He tells Horatio that he had picked the area with the loose dirt, thinking it would be an easy place to start, never imagining what was there.
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CSI: Vegas Episode 9.09 - 19 Down
Air Date: December 11, 2008

In a dimly lit living room, two men watch a video. On the video, a woman seems to be wimpering, as if she is held captive, perhaps being tortured or sexually assaulted. One man, seated on a sofa, says it brings back old times, and asks the man standing behind him what he thinks it’s worth. At that the other man strangles the seated man, and stuffs his lifeless body into a large trashbag. He drags the body out of the house, and places it into a car. In the dark, he dumps the body off a cliff into a ravine. The camera captures the body’s exposure to the elements and visible decomposition.

Grissom finishes a crossword, and walks out to hand Riley paperwork for a case of suspicious remains at the city dump. She jokingly pretends excitement over the assignment, “Awesome! Trash run for the low man on the totem pole.”

Greg gets a recovered stolen vehicle. To Nick he hands a possible arson at the Burger Giant. He hands Catherine a 419 in Green Valley. Grissom somberly announces his departure from CSI, and tells them that Catherine will take over. They will also get a new Level 1 CSI. He gets a message that there’s another case, that he’ll take. As he walks away, the team looks stunned.
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CSI: NY Episode 5.10: The Triangle
Air Date: December 10, 2008

On the street, near the Empire State Building, a man is walking about, frantically talking to himself…or his cellphone…about the “airwaves”. At the same time, several people talking on their phones or listening to radios all suffer horrible interference. This includes Danny, who has just been talking on his phone to Lindsay about the baby. His phone goes out as he’s heading into the 34th Street Station. The strange man talking about the “airwaves” announces to himself the arrival of “The Bermuda Triangle.” An armored car nearby is stalled at an intersection. The driver can’t reach anyone on his radio or his phone. When he slides the peephole open to check on Carl in back, Carl is suffering from a rain of sparks, and is apparently being electrocuted as a result of the phenomenon hitting the whole block. The driver seems unable to exit the cab, and bangs the glass crying out for help. The back door swings open.

The driver, Greg Hufheinz, tells the team about the incident. They ask if he had opened the door to help, but he tells them that drivers are instructed to stay in the cab until emergency assistance arrives.

Stella and Mac examine the irregularly shaped “bullet” wound on Carl Custer’s chest. There’s no GSR, exit wound, or apparent bullet. He has burns around his eyes, as well as on his wrist near his watch. Stella spots a small, black pineapple sticker on the guards cuff. She asks Mac if the crime scene seems strange, but Mac has already walked away from the body.
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Episode 7.10 - The DeLuca Motel
Air Date: December 8, 2008

As others in the Deluca Motel buzz around, going about their business, Delko walks out of his room. He goes to his car, makes some suspicious actions before opening the door and getting quarters from the console. As a pregnant woman gets ice, he passes her to get a coffee from a coin-op machine.

He goes back to his room, looks out the window, almost expectantly. As he sits to open an envelope, he hears a shot. As he goes to the window, the glass shatters, cutting his arm. He goes into the courtyard with his gun in hand. A body is floating in the pool, as he looks around the upper level for the shooter.

The team arrives, and tests all the people in the motel for gunshot residue. Delko and Horatio discuss the body…single shot to the chest, blindfolded, and no blood drops on the pool deck. Delko wonders how he ended up at the motel pool, especially since he hadn’t seen him around there. He tells Horatio he’s staying there while his condo is remodelled. Horatio doesn’t seem convinced that this is simply a construction getaway for Delko.

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CSI: Vegas - Episode 9.08 - Young Man With A Horn
Air Date: December 4, 2008

A man and woman sing a duet in rehearsal for the show “Overnight Sensation” –an obvious take on American Idol. The producer gruffly stops them, complaining that the young man is lazy and insufficiently emotive. The man’s father rushes from offstage to defend his son. The producer reprimands the father and warns the Layla that she was flat. They resume singing. When the producer shouts over Layla’s singing, telling her to watch her pitch, she rushes off the stage, crying. At the producer’s order, the man continues singing.

Below a highway overpass, Catherine and Phillips examine what looks like a tablecloth rolled up like a handled sack. Cutting through the cloth, they find a woman’s face –it’s Layla Wells.

Wells had been wrapped up in the bundle, clothed in just her lingerie, hinting at sexual assault. Dr. Robbins notes the time of death is between 2 and 4 AM.

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Episode 5.09 - The Box
Air Date: November 26, 2008

Danny appears to be talking to a therapist of some kind. He’s telling of how his baseball career ended when he shattered his wrist in a game. He changed careers, no big deal, but now, ten years later, he has another life-changing moment, and he’s scared. A flashback of a recent case begins.

A group breaks into a junk yard. Clad in padding and helmets, they climb atop stacks of vehicles to “fight”. Afterwards, they’re all joking, laughing, and enjoying some beers. One of them, too close to the trunk of a car, is surprised by his friends and put into the unlatched trunk. After closing the lid, they’re interrupted by a vehicle entering the lot. They tell their friend to relax and keep quiet, promising to return for him. They flee.

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Episode 7.09 - Power Trip
Air Date: November 24, 2008

A woman looks for her car keys, and hears something behind her. She looks. We see her body placed into a trunk, then her scared face. She appears to be tortured with electrocution.

Eric’s shower, Calleigh’s run, and Ryan’s dropping off his son at school are interrupted by seemingly simultaneous phone calls. They, along with Tara, arrive at a murder scene. For the second week in a row, Horatio’s trademark one-line opening-ender is replaced by a simpler, more apt, “Let’s go to work.” Where’s the cheesy pathos? Where’s the non sequitur? Where’s the attempt at one-upping Frank, that’s just a re-wording or distillation.

Eric tells Horatio that it appears to be a secondary crime scene. There are no tire tracks or other evidence, except for the body. Tara finds multiple burns on her body, and left hand, consistent with strong electrical shock. Tara guesses it would take around 10 amps to cause such burns. It appears that jumper cables were applied to the burnt skin.

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CSI: Vegas - Episode 9.06 Say Uncle
Air Date: November 13, 2008

At a Korean street party, gunshots interrupt the fun, and send the crowd running, ducking, and scrambling for cover.

The team shows up, but no one seems to have seen exactly what happened. A young woman and a young man lie dead on the asphalt, she with two bullet wounds, he with three. Grissom spots only one casing nearby, but the rest may have been scattered by foot traffic from the crowd. Riley opens the man’s wallet, and identifies him as Sung Bang. He also has an prison release form in his pocket, indicating that he spent six months in detention for two DUIs and had just been released that morning. Hodges notes that the man is loaded with ID, but the woman doesn’t even have lint in her pocket. Just a few feet away from the bodies, Grissom finds a child’s sunglasses, spattered with blood.

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