Official Details For Upcoming 'CSI' Episodes

By Caillan
March 8, 2003 - 3:54 AM

See Also: 'Dispo Day' Episode Guide

CBS recently released official plot information for next week's CSI: Miami and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episodes.

Synopses, creative staff and guest cast information for CSI: Miami's "Dispo Day" and CSI's "Crash and Burn" are now available online courtesy of TV Guide and Yahoo! TV.

"Dispo Day"

Airdate: March 10, 2003
Tagline: "The investigation into a drug heist offers brief glimpses into the private lives of the CSIs, whose nerves are on edge when they become suspects in the crime they're trying to solve."
Directed by : David Grossman
Written by: Elizabeth Devine, Ildy Modrovich & Laurence Walsh

David Grossman's credits include episodes of sci-fi/fantasy series such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Roswell as well as comedies like Ally McBeal and The Bernie Mac Show.

Elizabeth Devine is a former criminologist and serves as consulting producer on CSI: Miami. Ildy Modrovich and Laurence Walsh previously penned "A Horrible Mind" and "Broken" earlier in the season.

The official synopsis for "Dispo Day" is as follows:

A police convoy headed across town includes an unmarked truck filled with confiscated drugs being taken to an incinerator to be destroyed. The trip ends abruptly when thieves hijack the vehicle, kill its driver and shoot Speedle, who was riding shotgun. It's hard for Horatio when the media draw comparisons to a similar case 10 years ago in which his cop brother was killed. But it's worse for his team when Internal Affairs decides that one of them tipped off the robbers about the delivery.

A list of the episode's guest cast can be found below, including a list of featured roles and guest appearances on other shows and films:

Julie Ann Emery - Taken, ER, First Monday
Brandon Gilbert
Rex Linn as Detective Tripp ("Evidence of Things Unseen")
Don McManus - The West Wing, Murder One, NYPD Blue
Salli Richardson Whitfield as Laura ("Bunk", "Forced Entry" and "Evidence of Things Unseen")
Nick Searcy - Nathan Ramsey on Seven Days, One Hour Photo, Cast Away
Annika Peterson - Boomtown, The West Wing, Third Watch
Carlos LaCamara - JAG, Friends, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sofia Milos as Yelina ("Simple Man")
Maximo Morrone
Ken Kerman - 7th Heaven, NYPD Blue, Melrose Place

Images and a transcript of the "Dispo Day" promo are available here, while advance plot information can be found in this news item.

"Crash and Burn"

Airdate: March 13, 2003
Tagline: "Sara's personal life takes a hit when she investigates a deadly car crash."
Directed by : Richard J. Lewis
Written by: Not available

Richard J. Lewis is a regular CSI director, with his most recent episodes including "Recipe For Murder", "High and Low" and "Fight Night".

The official synopsis for the episode is as follows:

The accident is a bizarre and seemingly random one involving an elderly woman who killed and injured several people when she drove her car through the front of a bar crowded with happy-hour patrons. Among those hurt is Sara's EMT boyfriend, Hank. While Sara is rocked by his injury at first, she soon manages to work the case in her usual professional manner. But her emotions begin to get the best of her once again as she learns disturbing news about Hank's presence in the bar. Elsewhere, a woman dies of carbon-monoxide poisoning, and Grissom quickly decides it was no accident.

Guest actors featured in this episode include: