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 …read more

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 …read more

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 …read more

CSI: Vegas – Episode 9.05 Leave Out All the Rest
Air Date: November 06, 2008
The team works a scene out in the desert during a heavy downpour, where a man’s body is badly beaten up, and his fingers and toes torn off. Ligature marks on the man’s wrists make it look like he was tied up and dragged behind a vehicle. On his back, burnt motor oil, and scorched shirt fabric make it appear he was actually tied to the bottom of a vehicle.
Nine stab wounds are in the victim’s shirt. White tissue around the facial wounds indicate they happened post-mortem. …read more

CSI: Vegas Episode 9.04 Let It Bleed
Air Date: October 30, 2008
A man in a police uniform runs out of a liquor store. Nick and Riley give chase. When the man runs into a building, Nick follows, but tells Riley to call for help. The man, cornered, jumps out an upstairs window, landing in a dumpster. Inside the dumpster is also a woman’s body. The man had small bills, beef jerky, and a porn magazine. Riley notes that the woman smells fresh.
An ink stamp on the victim’s upper thigh leads the team to a club. There, Catherine finds her daughter, dancing …read more

CSI: Vegas – 9.03 Art Imitates Life
Air Date: October 23, 2008
A woman is found dead and leaning casually against a light pole. She is seemingly frozen in place, like a wax figure. No burn marks, no signs of lightning. The body is in full rigor, and is roughly the same temperature as the outside air, around 100 degrees fahrenheit. She’s sporting a brand new mobile phone, that has no personalization yet. The only call on it, so far, is to MovieFone. Her purse is totally empty, and pretty new looking.
Back at the lab, the “frozen” woman’s fingerprints turn up in …read more

July 7, David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, writers for the SciFi Channel series Battlestar Galactica begin their new jobs writing for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The pair make the move from the void of deep space to the hot sands of Vegas, after being released from writing the SciFi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica movie. Apparently, the CSI offer was just too good to pass up.
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William L. Petersen as Gil Grissom. Photo: Newscom.
Gil Grissom knows tough situations. William Petersen, though, isn’t accustomed to being in the airport when a bomb comes into the building. Apparently, while Petersen was at LA International Airport, last Wednesday, a man, Scott Juhun Lee, approached authorities, and told them he was a terrorist. The police arrested the man when he said he had a bomb inside his black bag. The upper and lower roads at the airport were immediately shut down and the LAPD bomb squad examined the black bag. They found only “junk”.
The CSI star probably kept his cool, …read more

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Get Grissom on the horn! Las Vegas, the hometown of the critically acclaimed, original CSI series is no longer home to a university forensic science program. Administrators at UNLV pulled the plug on the program, citing the need for budget cuts. The administration also points to the financial inability to appoint a program director and the faculty required to attain accreditation for the program.
Background Check
Creating the program was a brilliant move, actually. Build upon the mystique, and the fact that the country already associates forensic science with Las Vegas. Less than five years ago, the university began the …read more

CSI Emmy Nominations. Image: Newscom

The producers have put forward their Primetime Emmy submissions for the CSI franchise. There are plenty of proposed accolades to go around in all three hit series.
Episodes

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Dead Doll (season eight premiere)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Who and What (Without a Trace crossover)
CSI: Miami All In
CSI: Miami Ambush
CSI: New York Right Next Door

Leading Men

William Petersen (Gil Grissom) for Dead Doll
David Caruso (Horatio Caine) for All In
Gary Sinise (Mac Taylor) for The Thing About Heroes

Leading Women

Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows) for A Thousand Days on Earth
Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquesne) for All In

Supporting Actor

Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown) …read more