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There’s a category for the Best Breakout Performance of the year in this year’s Emmy Awards and the scene where CSI: Vegas’ Warrick Brown tragically dies is one of the nominations.

TV.com & Vaseline are going to give a special Breakout Performance Award at this year’s Emmy Awards Show. We get to vote for our favorite breakout moment on TV this year and the winning moment will win the Breakout Award during the Emmys on Sunday, September 20 at 8 pm ET.

Here are the moments that have been nominated for the award:

• David Letterman: Letterman’s interview with oddly-behaving Joaquin Phoenix (CBS)
• Desperate Housewives: Edie’s tragic death (ABC)
• Grey’s Anatomy Finale: Meredith is shocked to find out disfigured patient is George (ABC)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The shocking death of Warrick (CBS)
• Bachelor: The bachelor surprises the country by picking Molly over Melissa (ABC)
• Real Housewives of NJ: A frustrated Teresa flips a table (Bravo)
• GRAMMYs: Jennifer Hudson sings “You Pulled Me Through” (CBS)
• Saturday Night Live: Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL
• ER – Final Season: George Clooney returns for the final season (NBC)
• Gossip Girl: Chuck finally professes his love to Blair (CW)
• Obama Inauguration: Beyonce sings “At Last” as the Obamas have their first dance (ABC)
• Dancing With the Stars: Former Bachelorette Melissa steps in as last minute replacement (ABC)
• Entourage: Vincent Chase gets a call from Martin Scorsese offering him a part in the Great Gatsby, saving his career (HBO)
• American Idol Finale: Kris Allen wins over Adam Lambert (FOX)
• True Blood: Bill Compton meets waitress Sookie Stackhouse at Merlotte’s Bar for the first time (HBO)

Be sure to go vote for Warrick on this site, then return to vote for the best of the Top 10 Finalists on September 14, and again on September 20 to vote for the Top Three Finalists. Then watch for the award to be presented on the Emmys that night.

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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.”

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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.

Have you read CSI: Nevada Rose, yet? Let us know what you thought of it.

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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.

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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.

Hodges tells the IAB that he overheard Warrick speaking aggravatedly on the phone, just an hour before the incident. Warrick tells the IAB that he went to Gedda’s, but blacked out. The evidence, though, seems stacked against Warrick.

Grissom finds voids in the blood splatter pattern on Warrick’s shirt. The pattern indicates that he must have been only about three feet away from Gedda, but the voids imply that someone may have been holding Warrick up from behind during the shooting. It’s not conclusive, but may support Warrick’s innocence.

Evidence at the scene doesn’t seem to support another suspect. Grissom finds that the ligature marks on Gedda’s wrists are wider than Warrick’s cuffs. Suspecting a police officer is acting as a mole for Gedda, they look at the records for officer involvement on the scenes. Daniel Pritchard’s prints showed up on the mortuary, but he hadn’t signed in there. His prints also show up on the casket. They check his locker. His cuffs are missing, but his cuff key shows traces of blood.

Grissom assures Warrick that he was framed by a cop working for Gedda, and that the DA is dropping the charges. His actions, working outside of department guidelines, and investigating on his own, require action. Grissom tells him that he recommended that Warrick be suspended and demoted, but not terminated.

Warrick treats the team to dinner. Warrick leaves, and gets into his car. Undersheriff McKeen knocks on Warrick’s car window. He asks for his reassurance that he’s going to give up hunting bad guys on his own. McKeen then shoots Warrick, repeatedly, in the neck. [OMG!!!]

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