‘Zippered’ & ‘Crowned’ Official Details

The franchise offers two new episodes this week, featuring an FBI collaboration and a beauty pageant gone wrong. Official plot details and cast lists can be found after the jump.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation joins forces with the federal government in “Zippered” on Wednesday at 10:00pm ET/PT:

When the CSI team discovers a deceased rancher was also a ballistics expert, they have to work with the FBI to solve the case.

Producer Alec Smight has directed 23 previous episodes of CSI, most recently last month’s “Freaks & Geeks”. Supervising Producer Joe Pokaski penned “Zippered”, and he previously wrote “Tell Tale Hearts” from earlier this season.

The following guest stars will appear in the episode:

Monique Gabriela Curnen as Xiomara Garcia
Grant Show as Agent Viggo McQuaid
Matt Lauria as Agent Pratt
Titus Welliver as Mark Gabriel
Annabeth Gish as Laura Gabriel
Sterling Beaumon as Drillbit
Patrick LoSasso as Michael Newbury
Benjamin Ciaramello as Lenny Wesson
Kay Panabaker as Lindsey Willows

Kay Panabaker reprises her role as Catherine’s daughter Lindsey, who was last seen in season ten’s “World’s End”. Monique Gabriela Curnen is back as Xiomara Garcia, the ballistics expert who most recently appeared in “Maid Man”. This is the first of several appearances for Grant Show, Matt Lauria, Titus Welliver and Annabeth Gish, who are part of the multi-episode arc leading to Marg Helgenberger’s exit from the crime drama next month. Gish also guest-starred on CSI: Miami, appearing in “Not Landing” during the show’s second season. The other actors are new to the franchise.

CSI: New York will not air on Friday. Instead, CBS will air Yes, Virginia and The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf’s Story from 9:00-10:00pm ET/PT as part of a night of holiday-themed programming, leading into a repeat of Blue Bloods at 10:00pm ET/PT.

Competition turns deadly when CSI: Miami airs “Crowned” on Sunday at 10:00pm ET/PT:

The CSIs expose the seedy underbelly of children’s beauty pageants when a contestant’s mom is murdered.

Co-Executive Producer Gina Lamar directed the episode, which marks her sixteenth time in the director’s chair for the crime drama; her previous credits include this season’s “By the Book”. “Crowned” was co-written by Supervising Producer Brett Mahoney and Co-Executive Producer Krystal Houghton Ziv. Mahoney wrote six previous episodes, including “Killer Regrets”, and Ziv has 21 writing credits, most recently “Look Who’s Taunting”.

The episode will feature the following guest stars:

Christian Clemenson as Tom Loman
Danielle Parker as Melrose Gramercy
Jenny Cooper as Suzanne Gramercy
Kiersten Warren as Darla Chambers
Larry Sullivan as Edwin Chambers
Catheryn Brockett as Momager
Kevin Ashworth as Announcer
Lindsay Northern as Alicia Haverford
Caitlin Carmichael as Tori Haverford
Chris Bouffard as Stagehand
Nick Sandow as Larry Gramercy
Meredith Hagner as Jan Gramercry
Taylor Cole as Samantha Cole
Aisha Hinds as Dr. Rachel Porter
Melissa Ponzio as Kathy Jennings
Isabella Cramp as Six Year Old Jan Gramercy
Kaya McKenna Callahan as Blakley

Christian Clemenson reprises his established recurring role as Dr Tom Loman. Taylor Cole is back as Samantha Owens, who was last seen in the previous episode, “Long Gone”. “Crowned” marks the acting debut of Eva La Rue’s (Natalia Boa Vista) daughter Kaya McKenna Callahan. Larry Sullivan has a recurring role on CSI as Officer Akers. Melissa Ponzio guest-starred in “The Panty Sniffer” during the tenth season of CSI, and Aisha Hinds was in the CSI: NY episode “Recycling” during the show’s first season.

“Zippered” and “Crowned” begin airing December 7 on CBS.