In this week’s season premiere of CSI: Vegas, the episode ended with a very emotional tribute to Warrick Brown…at his funeral. In this clip, we get to see a montage of scenes with Warrick and the tear-jerking eulogy delivered by Gil Grissom…

CSI: Vegas fans have been waiting (and even mourning) since the season 8 finale, when Warrick Brown was shot, to find out his fate. We know that Gary Dourdan is leaving the cast, but we still don’t know if that means he is going to live or die.

CBS Just released a spoiler/teaser video clip for tomorrow night’s season 9 premiere. In it, the cast members all talk about what it was like to film both the S8 finale and the S9 premiere. Apparently, they found it very emotional. After all, they’ve been a “family”, of sorts for over 8 years. It really must be hard to act out the loss of one of their own.

Check out this clip. I really enjoyed when Marg Helgenberger says that it was good to have Jorja Fox back for the episode because there had been an “overabundance of testosterone on the set.”

In this CSI novel, by Jerome Preisler, Grissom, Catherine, Warrick, and the rest of the team investigate two deaths. One is a John Doe, discovered on a world-class Vegas golf course, and the possible victim of a bad case of sibling rivalry. The other, “Nevada Rose” Demille, a beautiful sports groupie, and heavily sought-after barfly, well-known at the trendiest casinos and clubs. When her nude body is found, Willows and Warrick find a trail that seems to lead to “The Fireball”, a major leaque pither, who’s a future Hall of Famer, and a womanizer, who had a recent, very public affair with “Nevada Rose”.

Order CSI: Nevada Rose from Amazon.com.

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Photo: Newscom.

Fan favorite among the crew in CSI: Vegas, Gary Dourdan has agreed to appear on Season Two of VH1’s reality series, Celebrity Rehab, according to The National Enquirer. If you, by chance, love VH1 Reality, or, at least Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, this is good news. For CSI fans, this may just sound awkward. It’s difficult to say. One, they are still just rumors. Two, Dr. Drew is a talented practitioner, and the first season’s exhibition of the trials of rehab arguably made a positive impact on a sizeable swath of American youth.

Dourdan was arrested in April after police found drugs in his car. The CSI favorite agreed to a plea bargain requiring him to pay a $4,500 fine and to complete a 16-class drug program. I’m not sure Celebrity Rehab counts, but who cares?

True or not, let’s hope that the series will have the power to save a few lives. That would make it worth it.

8.17 For Gedda
Air Date: May 15, 2008.

At a funeral, the pall bearers seem to be faltering under the weight of the casket. The bottom gives out, and two bodies fall to the ground. The team arrives. The second, “surprise” body hasn’t been dead long –24 hours.

Brass talks to the mortician, who won’t say anything. He grabs a pad, and writes “lawyer”. Brass returns –on the pad- “you’re under arrest”.

In the morgue, Warrick recognizes the mystery body. He looks a bit freaked out, as well. The body is that of Lenny Harper. He was a cop, who “retired” at age 33, sporting a long list of complaints from his department tenure. He was most recently working as a private investigator.

The team goes to Harper’s office. It’s a bit too clean. Keys in a drawer lead Nick and Grissom to a car that has, likewise, been meticulously cleaned.

As Warrick is thinking about recent run-ins with bookies, he receives a phone call that aggravates him. He says he’ll “be there”.

On Harper’s computer, they find audio recordings of interviews and calls with clients. They listen to one that sounds like Gedda saying that he was going to “bury that guy Lenny”. Nick tells Grissom that Warrick hired Lenny to investigate Gedda, since he couldn’t do it himself.

Warrick calls Grissom from the Galley. He says he doesn’t know how he got there, that he just woke up there. He has a handgun in his free hand. Police storm in and arrest Warrick. Grissom shows up on the scene. Warrick is in cuffs, and Gedda is a bloody mess, slumped over dead in his chair, with Warrick’s cuffs on his wrists. Warrick says he doesn’t remember anything. The officer in the room tells Grissom that a nearby merchant heard shots. The officer answered the call, and found no one else in the building. Brass tells Warrick not to say a word, until he gets to the station.
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