CBS Rolls Three Out For Sweeps Season

By Chris Wales
November 8, 2004 - 12:51 PM

See Also: 'Crime Wave' Episode Guide

With CBS hitting a full week of sweeps this week, it will be airing three brand-new CSI episodes to rise to the occasion with.

First up to meet the task is CSI: Miami, tonight at a special time of 9:30pm. The episode, entitled "Crime Wave" will last an hour and a half, and feature the events leading up to and following a tsunami hitting Miami. The Futon Critic gives a synopsis of the episode as follows:

A huge tsunami is heading directly towards Miami and the 10-hour warning gives citizens just enough time to evacuate inland. In the chaos, two people are killed in a parking lot and the evidence leads Horatio to discover a plot to rob a bank timed to take advantage of the evacuation. However, as the CSIs close in on the robbery already in progress, they find that it's a more elaborate crime than they previously thought. Meanwhile, in the wake of the storm, Ryan and Alexx discover a body washed up from a local cemetery that may have a different cause of death than originally recorded.

The episode was directed by Karen Gaviola, whose previous work includes "Pro Per", "Money for Nothing" and "Extreme", as well as episodes of fellow procedural drama Cold Case. It was written by supervising producer Elizabeth Devine, herself a former criminologist and writer of numerous CSI and CSI: Miami episodes.

"Crime Wave" will feature the following guest cast:

Amanda Russell as Anna
Pedro Miguel Arce as Leon Caldwell
Louis Mandylor as Steve Riddick
Rex Linn as Detective Frank Tripp
Manny Suarez as Charlie
Christina Chang as Rebecca Nevins
Beth Broderick as Mona Daniels
Manny Perez as Manny Orantes
David Allen Brooks as Ed Miller
Brian Bloom as Scott Riley
Laura Regan as Mara Riley
Kaiyana Rain as Paramedic
David Lee Smith as Rick Stetler
Corbin Allred as Alice Arena
John Kassir as Farley Wheeler
Brian Poth as Tyler Jenson
Armando Valdes as Aaron Peters
Boti Bliss as Valera
Tamara Taylor as Dr. Leslie Harrison
Matt Champagne as Dr. Greismer
Nicole Rawlins as Hottie
Jodi Harris as Woman
Kieran Campion as Jarrod Walker
Kasey Wlison as Regina Deacon
Ricardo Molina as Border Patrolman

Later in the week on Wednesday at 10:00pm, CSI: New York will burst on to TV screens around the country with "Outside Man". Directed by Rob Bailey, whose previous credits include fellow CBS show Without a Trace and British drama Spooks (known as MI-5 in some places), the episode was written by co-producer Timothy J. Lea and was summarised by the Futon Critic as follows:

In a test of faith to them both, Mac assigns Danny and Aiden to one of the team's toughest cases yet: a multiple homicide in which employees of a restaurant are found shot to death with plastic bags over their heads. As they examine the clues, all signs point to an "inside" job but not to a suspect. Meanwhile, Mac and Stella investigate the death of a man found dead in his bed, whose amputated lower leg led them to him.

"Outside Man" will utilise the talents of the following guest actors:

Patrick Bauchau as Dr. Willems
Paul Perri as Joe Garford
Kristen Shaw as Deirdre Hertzberg
Michael B. Silver as EMT
Greg Davis Jr. as Terrell Davenport
De�Angelo Wilson as Lamar Adams
David Barrera as Jose Figueroa
Laurence N. Kaldor as Frank Hertzberg
Jacob Vargas as Luis Torres
Denice J. Sealy as Tech
Sean Shanks as Jared Perkins
Leticia Castillo as Octavia Figueroa

Rounding off the week in Thursday's 9:00pm slow is the original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which will air "Formalities". The episode will feature Grissom working with a dayshift CSI shortly after colleague and rival Conrad Ecklie has received a promotion. It was penned by executive producer Naren Shankar in collaboration with story editor Dustin Lee Abrahams. Directed by Bill Eagles (The Riverman; The Book of Ruth), the episode was summarised as below by the Futon Critic:

Grissom abruptly leaves a dinner honoring Conrad Ecklie's (Marc Vann) appointment to new Assistant Director of the Crime Lab after he gets an urgent page to rush across the street to a hotel suite where a high school student was found dead. Dayshift CSI Sofia Curtis (Lombard) assists Grissom with the case. The autopsy reveals that the victim died of suffocation after one of her classmates was kidnapped from the party. The CSI team now races to find the kidnapped victim before she is found dead, too.

"Formalities" will feature the following guest cast: