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CSI: Miami – Episode 8.07 – Bone Voyage
Air Date: November 9, 2009

CSI: NY – Episode 6.07: Hammer Down
Air Date: November 11, 2009

CSI: Vegas – Episode 10.07 – The Lost Girls
Air Date: November 12, 2009

Here is an overview from three different sources of the upcoming Three part all-CSI crossover event in November. For more detail about each episode, you can check the season information pages for each series. [CSI: Miami Season 8 Info][CSI: NY Season 6 Info][CSI: Vegas Season 10 Info]

Press Release:
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CSI HISTORY, ONE CHARACTER WILL APPEAR IN ALL THREE SERIES FOR A THREE PART CROSSOVER TRILOGY. CSI DR. RAY LANGSTON FOLLOWS THE EVIDENCE ON A CASE TO MIAMI, NEW YORK AND BACK TO LAS VEGAS

Laurence Fishburne Guest Stars in “CSI: Miami” and “CSI: NY,” and Wraps Up the Case at Home in Las Vegas on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”

[Source: CBS.com]

Spoiler:
When a severed leg is discovered in the Everglades belonging to a girl who went missing from Las Vegas a week earlier, Horatio Caine (David Caruso) sends for Dr. Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne).This launches a crossover that begins on “CSI: Miami,” moves to “CSI: NY” and finishes up in Las Vegas on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” making it the first time a “CSI” crossover has involved all three shows in the franchise.

“Everyone stays true to their writing style,” “CSI: NY” exec producer Pam Veasey tells ET. “What you fundamentally do is tell a ‘CSI’ story, which is what we all have in common. Once it gets to your show, you will see each of the show’s take a different approach to a story that starts in Miami. We did all get together and talk about what the through-line would be. Obviously, Ray Langston travels through all of the shows. You have to find the consistencies with his character, how he would flow into each story.”

Following Miami, Langston rushes to New York when Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) and his team identify a woman hidden in a big rig as someone Langston interviewed in Miami. Then the woman disappears and Taylor and Langston realize that they have uncovered an interstate trucking ring specializing in human cargo and black-market organ harvesting.

“The story is really a ticking clock story,” adds “CSI: NY” executive producer Peter Lenkov. “It is really a hunt for a suspect, but also saving a girl’s life. I think we put blinders on to get that done by the end of the episode. This [case] takes priority because it is real triage the way it lands in our lap. We realize soon after that time is of the essence. We elected in that episode to make it our sole focus.”

The search finally takes Langston back to Las Vegas, where the investigation leads to a prostitution ring that may be harboring the missing woman.
“They are all great episodes that blend together and lead you to the next,” Pam concludes.

The “CSI” crossover begins on “CSI: Miami” on Monday, Nov. 9 at 10 p.m., moves to “CSI: NY” Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 10 p.m., and wraps up on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” Thursday, Nov. 12 at 9 p.m. all on CBS. [Source: ET Online]

Spoiler:
CBS is planning a “CSI” extravaganza for November sweeps — star Laurence Fishburne (Dr. Raymond Langston) will appear in all three scene-of-the-crime shows in one week, and the whole thing wraps up on the flagship “CSI” on Nov. 12. Mild spoilers about the episodes follow.

Langston will first visit “CSI: Miami” on Nov. 9; he travels south in an episode titled “Bone Voyage” to investigate a case with ties to Las Vegas. Fishburne and “CSI: Miami” star David Caruso are pictured at left; perhaps Langston and Horatio Caine are talking about cool sunglasses, which Langston is still sporting when he arrives in New York on Nov. 11

In that “CSI: NY” episode, “Hammer Down,” according to CBS, “a big-rig accident results in the discovery of an interstate trucking ring that specializes in human cargo and black-market organ harvesting, and sets off a race against time to save a hostage.”

The three-part crossover concludes on Nov. 12 on “CSI.” In that episode, viewers will learn more about what Langston is investigating: “a nationwide human trafficking network that abducts young girls forces them into prostitution,” according to David Weddle, who penned the episode with his writing partner, Bradley Thompson.

Ubiquitious guest star Mark Sheppard, who played Romo Lampkin on “Battlestar Galactica” (a character who knew a thing or two about shades), has a guest role in that Nov. 12 “CSI” episode. Sheppard, who has a credit list as long as your arm and apparently by law must appear on every scripted show in existence, also appears on USA’s new show “White Collar” Oct. 23 and “Supernatural” on Nov. 19. [Source: Chicago Tribune]

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TV Guide has announced that Skeet Ulrich will join the cst of the show for three episodes. Word has it that he will play a diabolical serial killer. He should be very good at the role, since he was a killer in Scream as well. I’ll update you with the details as more are released, but for now, here’s the word about the role:

The Jericho star’s arc will send the CSIs all over New York City on one of the wildest cases of their careers. The three episodes will begin airing Oct. 7. The killer character harkens back to Ulrich’s role in Scream, the horror mystery that helped make him a star. [Source: TV Guide]

And this is from the casting sides for the part:

[HOLLIS] 35 – 45, He is a large and very strong, but emotionally fragile man, pale due to a vitamin deficiency. Hollis is a deeply troubled soul, fueled by a vengeance that’s tempered by grief. He’s terribly disfigured, with one side of face terribly marred by an accident.sptv050769..GUEST STAR, THREE (3) EPISODE ARC. [Source: SpoilerTV]

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There’s some news today about a guest star that will be in the season premiere episode of CSI: Vegas season 10. It’s Garret Dillahunt, most likely familiar for fans of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I have to admit that just looking at his photo, I’m hoping he’s around on the show for longer than one episode.

I’ve just read that Garret Dillahunt will guest-star in the season premiere of CSI. Is he playing “Dr. Jekyll,” the new serial killer, or will it be someone else? — Vic

ADAM: Sorry, Cromartie fans, but Dillahunt is not Dr. Jekyll. He plays the head of a celebrity security service, which doesn’t exactly scream “serial killer cover” to us. Then again, the character’s name does imply duplicity. Here’s what we do know about Dr. Jekyll: He’s infamous for leaving behind immaculate crime scenes: The body is all the evidence the CSIs will ever get. Fantastic! A serial killer with OCD! [Source: TV Guide]

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With all the success of the three CSI series, it’s amazing that none of the shows or their main characters have gotten Emmy Awards. What’s up with that?

The good news is that some of the fantastic folks behind the scenes are nominated for Emmys this year, including the makeup for that episode of CSI: Vegas that did a trbute to Battlestar Gallactica, A Space Oddity. CSI: NY guest star Ed Asner is also nominated for his performance in Yarzeit, the episode about Nazi war criminals.

This year, the usual suspects got a lot of Emmy attention. But we have to wait for the Emmy Awards Show to air on CBS on September 20 to find out who wins. Here’s the one nominations received by CSI shows:

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series

• CSI: NY – Yahrzeit – Edward Asner, as Abraham Klein
• Damages – They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney – Ted Danson, as Arthur Frobisher
• Dexter – Go Your Own Way – Jimmy Smits, as Miguel Prado
• ER – And In The End – Ernest Borgnine, as Paul Manning
• Rescue Me – Sheila – Michael J. Fox, as Dwight

Outstanding Cinematography For A One Hour Series

• Breaking Bad – ABQ
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – For Warrick
• Life On Mars – Out Here In The Fields
• Mad Men – The New Girl
• The Tudors – Episode 303

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – A Space Oddity
• Grey Gardens
  Grey’s Anatomy – Stand By Me
• Little Britain USA – 105
• Nip/Tuck – Budi Sabri
• Tracey Ullman’s State Of The Union – Episode 205

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series

• 24
  Battlestar Galactica – Daybreak (Part 2)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Mascara
• Smallville – Bloodline
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles – Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today

Congratulations to all the nominees!

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American Idol fans, as well as fans of Katherine McPhee herself will be excited to know that she has signed on to be a guest star in an upcoming episode of CSI: NY. According to EW, the episode will air in April and will not only involve her acting, but she will sing during the episode too.

Her fans are already aware that she is no novice in the world of acting. She has been in the movie House Bunny recently and will soon be in a new movie called Wedlock with Dave Annable of Brothers & Sisters.

I have word about what type of character she will play, but when I hear, I’ll share it with you.

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CSI: NY – Episode 5.03: Turbulence
Air Date: October 08, 2008

This is another detail-heavy episode. If you’re into the details, it certainly helps if you recorded the episode, just in case…

On a commercial airliner running into mild turbulence, Mac tries to calm the man sitting next to him. The young man, Ed Riley, is on his way to file for a patent, and shows Mac his invention: The Wig Lock, that holds his toupée down. Mac finds a flight attendant’s brisk movement to the back of the plane curious, and follows her to the galley.
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In the galley area, Mac flashes his badge, and the flight attendants show him the passenger lying dead and bloody in one of the lavatories. The man, who has lost a lot of blood from his severed carotid artery, has an Air Marshall badge. His weapon is missing from its holster. None of the attendants saw anyone come or go from the back lavatories, or saw or heard anything that might have caused the man’s death.

Mac tells the crew to ask the captain to lock the cockpit and turn back to New York. He tells them to tell the passengers that there is a sick passenger. Mac takes photos with his phone. None of the passengers seems overly suspicious. Mac tells Ed what’s going on, and asks him to help him watch for anything suspicious.

Mac searches the body, using gloves from the plane’s first aid kit, but finds no identification on the man. A flight attendant tells Mac that Air Marshalls don’t usually have seat assignments, but believes that he was sitting in 6C, but definitely Row 6.

Mac tells her to have the captain contact the Air Marshall Service with the badge number. He checks out the sixth row, finds nothing unusual. Then he noticies that 11D is missing its passenger, James Turner. Another flight attendant says he seemed agitated, and recognizes him sitting in Row 12. Mac walks by Turner, and notices blood on his cuff.

The first attendant comes back and reports that the badge belongs to Roger Stockwell, a late forties marshall, scheduled to go to Los Angeles that day. The victim, though, is much younger looking. Mac wants to send his fingerprints back to the lab. The attendant and Ed bring him the airsick bags, lipstick, and captains satellite phone that he needs to take the prints, photograph and send them.

Stella receives a call from Mac. He gives her the details, and asks if she’s heard of any hijackings. She hasn’t. Mac tells Stella to have Lindsay check the prints, and to look up James Turner. He tells her to send everyone to JFK to meet them, when the plane lands.

The victim is Anton Greenway, a man convicted of drug dealing and smuggling, who escaped from a courtroom the day before. He once worked at JFK, for Atlantic Vista Airways. She says the real Air Marshall, Roger Stockwell, was staying at an airport hotel, but failed to check in for his assignment that morning.

Don and Danny find Stockwell shot dead in his hotel room. There’s no sign of forced entry, but Stockwell is very bruised up with defensive wounds. They find duct tape and a handgun…a Desert Eagle 50…in the room. Danny finds white fibers in the bullet wound.

By the bed there are more, and under the bed, Danny finds a plush panda with a bullet hole and powder burns. This explains why no one in the hotel heard a gunshot. They find variegated hairs on the panda, but they’re not human. They suppose that the panda was also a delivery ruse that got the intruder into the room.

The plane lands at JFK, where the team, and a slew of authorities are waiting. Mac tells the passengers that a murder happened on board, and to cooperate with the police. He picks Turner out, and has him escorted first.

Stella tells Mac that Homeland Security and the FAA believe this is an isolated incident. They’ll allow NYPD to investigate, but want to be kept in the loop. Stella says she was unable to get a warrant to search all the passengers’ belongings. She says that Homeland Security will talk to the passengers, while NYPD looks for evidence.

Hawkes goes to inspect the body, and Mac dispatches Adam to search for the murder weapon and the air marshall’s gun. Stella receives a call on James Turner. He paid cash for a one-way ticket, had no luggage, hadn’t booked a hotel, and doesn’t live in Washington.

Turner acts surprised that he’s a suspect. He tells Mac that he has a second family in Washington, and that his other wife doesn’t know. Mac challenges him about the blood on his shirt, and sends him off to be searched.

Placement of blood in the crime scene tells Hawkes and Stella that the victim had his back to the wall when he was cut forcefully, spinning him around quickly. Blood in the sink basin makes them think the killer tried to clean up there, and could have left a trail back to the cabin. The search for latent blood reveals little, but the trail ends in the other lavatory.

Adam found the marshall’s gun in the trash across from the lavatory. He didn’t find the murder weapon, though. Mac leaves him to search the waste tanks.

As Stella and Hawkes ponder out loud why someone would kill an air marshall, but not hijack the plane, Hawkes finds a life vest holding $250,000 Canadian cash, blood, and the air marshall’s missing ID. They believe the murderer took the gun and the ID to distract the investigators from the actual crime, a botched robbery on-board the plane.

Sid tells Lindsay that Stockwell died from the bullet shot from the Desert Eagle found at the crime scene. Anton Greenway’s fist matches the bruising on Stockwell’s jaw. Greenway’s injury is torn, indicating a rough edged instrument. Sid also found condom lubricant and spermicide on his hand. He either had sex right before boarding, or while in flight. He also has “IKELIMM” written in indelible ink on his hand.

Don tells Mac that the airline won’t let the crew give samples until they each talk to a lawyer. Mac has eliminated Ed, the captain, and the co-pilot from the possible suspects. None of them left their seats before the murder.

Don says Homeland Security is going to talk to all the female passengers again, but he doesn’t understand why the Mile High Club entry would warrant killing the man. Mac makes the required “invertebrate kills her mate” reference, but Don thinks it’s Turner. Mac, though, says the blood on his shirt turned out to be his own.

Stella tells Lindsay that prints on the duct tape belong to Greenway. She supposes that his plan was merely to restrain Stockwell and steal his credentials. He must have used the gun, only because Stockwell fought back.

Lindsay hasn’t found any matches for the letters in the language databases to indicate what it might mean. It’s not a word or a phone number. Closer inspection revealed, though, that the Is are actually 1s. Lindsay realizes that they’re probably encoded geo coordinates.

Without further explanation, they determine that determine that it points to an abandoned airfield in Montreal. So, Greenway was planning on hijacking the plane to flee to Canada, explaining the money. He needed the air marshall badge to get the gun past security, but needed to hijack the plane to avoid Canadian customs.

Hawkes has found that Greenway’s jacket was custom fit with hidden pockets that were perfect for holding the money. The murderer must have found the money or knew he had it, and hid it to avoid its being found when the plane was forced to land. The jacket also shows traces of cocaine, and non-human hairs matching those on the panda in the hotel room…leopard hairs.

Danny says the Desert Eagle is missing its serial numbers, and had no latent prints. The magazine, however, was forgotten in the cleaning. Prints on the magazine match Terrence Davis, a downtown club manager (played by Hip-hop artist, Nelly). He was in the “import/export” business, before the DEA made him quit. Prior to his arrest, he worked for Atlantic Vista Airlines, at the same time as Greenway. But he wasn’t on the plane.

Danny and Don head to Davis’ club. Davis has a leopard. They ask him about his “partner”, Greenway. Davis claims he hasn’t worked with Greenway for a long time. Davis says that Greenway came by the day before, wanting some letters he was holding for Greenway, while he was in prison. He also asked for the jacket. Davis opens his desk to give them the gun, but is surprised to find it missing. They arrest Davis for owning the gun.

Lindsay tries to find matches for distinctive marks on Greenway’s jaw so they can determine the murder weapon. They try every possible weapon found on the aircraft. Adam bursts in with a condom wrapper. The condom had no useful DNA, but the wrapper has lipstick on it. He had narrowed down the shade and the manufacturer.

Terrence Davis won’t talk to Don. Flack tells him that he can keep the charges local, and make a deal, if he has any information. (This is the set-up for the recurring role Nelly will play this season.)

As the passengers are being released, Mac takes to searching for any more clues on the aircraft. Stella calls. The lipstick didn’t match that of Nina, the flight attendant who lent her lipstick to Mac. Mac, though, tells her that they’ve already released all the suspects.

Hawkes found brass and nickel plating in the marks in the victim’s jaw. It doesn’t, however, match anything confiscated from the plane. Mac realizes, though, that flight attendants’ wings might match. When Hawkes forwards him the jaw images, Mac finds that the points on the wing do match the marks. He also notes that photos of the crew show that Susan is the only one not wearing her wings.

Susan has already hopped on a flight to Paris that leaves in three minutes. Don and Mac hurry to the gate, and onto the aircraft. Her wings revealed blood matching Anton Greenway. Mac tells her that they found out that she worked at Atlantic Vista, at the same time as Greenway. He also reveals bank photos of Susan converting the same amount of money found on the plane. She admits that she loved Anton. She said he was only supposed to restrain the marshall, not kill him. He held a gun to her, when she refused to help him hijack the plane.

Mac: At that point you had two choices: come forward, having prevented a hijacking, or go for the cash. You made the wrong choice, Susan. And now, you’re grounded.

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Michaela McManus (One Tree Hill) has signed on to portray a flight attendant in episode 5 of CSI: New York. Details are still sketchy, but Mac is supposed to be on the plane with her, when another passenger attempts to hijack the aircraft. Mac is the new Job. The love of his life dies. Her son is kidnapped by the Cabbie Killer. He’s taken hostage by a gunman in a bank. Now, he’s going to be captive in-flight?!? Oi vey! At least he’ll have a veteran from another high tension drama to help him MacGyver his way out of another situation.

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Here’s a clip from an old CSI:Vegas episode, “Assume Nothing“ that had Josh Holloway from LOST appearing as a supporting bit part at a hotel crime scene.

If you’re a LOST fan, be sure and check-out the Approaching Lost blog that’s also a part of the b5media network.

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Horatio calls in Ryan Wolfe for a step in the direction of getting reinstated into the team. He wants Ryan to provide personal/private protection for Candice. As Horatio says, “This girl is in serious danger. Be careful”.

Calleigh begins interviewing the athletic director at the school about the archery team and equipment that was used in the murder. Calleigh obviously doubts him. The coach has a wall of photos of Candice.

We then see Adam Rodriguez back in the lab with another tech looking at the various photos that are available of Candice and the “shot that started it all”.

Note: The photo above is another illustration of how the CSI show is based on reality. I don’t know if there’s a single police department that has and uses technology like this tech is using. Similar stuff was seen and used in the movie “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise.

Calleigh is quite the weapons specialist as she begins collecting more information about the type of weapon used in the murder.

The team figures out that the boyfriend was taking some of the pictures and posting them. He had a pair of sunglasses with an embedded video camera. They trace the sunglasses to not be owned by the boyfriend, but from a blogger that setup the boyfriend with the glasses. He broke into his car and switched out his original glasses with the bugged-video camera. The actor playing the blogger is none other than Vince Vieluf from the movie Rat Race among others.

Candice’s online fans have added Horatio Caine as one of their targets of StalkWalking as well. They’ve even investigated him and found out about his involvement in the Argento grand jury case from 5 years ago. Horatio is now a target, which is interesting because as soon as I saw people taking pictures of Ryan with Candice I thought he might be a new target.

Argento’s people waste no time in going after Horatio. They slash his tires on the Hummer, steal his flat badge, breaking & entering, arson and all leaving Horatio’s bag. They bring in Argento’s son for questioning.

There’s a new suspect in the case as well. Another teenage girl that kissed Candice’s boyfriend, Luke, before the meet. They also find DNA that matches the athletic director’s on the weapon that killed Luke.

Candice’s mom has gotten her a marketing gig launching a nationwide ad campaign. She’s capitalizing on the opportunity to make some cash for Candice for college. Taking advantage of the opportunity as long as it lasts. Candice feels a little paranoid as Ryan continues getting the tips of StalkWalker.com alerting everyone to their location.

Are the two plotlines connected? Horatio’s involvement and Candice’s?

An update to StalkWalker alerts them that someone posted that Horatio Caine will die today. Ryan and Candice are mobbed in a parking lot because Candice’s mom takes a little too long coming around to pick them up in the Lincoln Towne Car.

During the attack, Ryan scratches the attacker’s arm and gets trace skin samples under his nails. The skin samples ends up being her own dad’s. Horatio questions him about it and he said he did it to scare both her and her mom for them to stop going in public. They arrest him.

Horatio goes on the offensive a bit and posts a picture of his own car in secluded location hoping to lure whoever is threatening him to that location so he can catch them in the act.

Calleigh and Natalie are in the lab and Natalie (who we found out in last week’s episode isn’t a very good gun marksman) said she’d prefer a bow to a gun because it’s easier. When she pulls the bow back Calleigh connect that the athletic director stated that each bow is calibrated for the shooter. They determine from the draw-length and weight resistance that the person who shot look with the arrow is about 5′5″ and weighs about 100lbs. Hmmm….could it be the other girl?

I think so. As the photo above shows, she had the director’s keys on her wrist when she walked by right before Luke was shot. But, if she walked by shortly before death, how’d she fire the bow. I think she remotely released the bow somehow with a radio device.

Turns out she didn’t. There was time for her to get the bow before Candice’s race started. She had actually intended to kill Candice by using the starting pistol as her mark knowing that Candice had been slow off the block at the start. She just confessed to the murder.

Let me ask this though, wasn’t Candice still on the block when she realized Luke was shot? That would have made her almost not reacting at all to the starter’s pistol. Was that a production flub?

Jumping back to whomever is after Horatio, we see this picture that was “leaked” by the lab tech on the website. The person that ends up waiting for Horatio is Argento’s son. This is going to be easy pickings for Caine. He tries to shoot Caine, and he doesn’t even flinch.

If you remember earlier, Horatio’s dash compartment was open in his Hummer. Horatio had loaded his gun with blanks and expecting Argento’s son to break-in and steal the gun.

Nice twist.

That’s it for this episode. What did you think?

Episode Screen Grabs: CBS innertube

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