Official 'Vengeance,' 'Closer' & 'Iced' Details

By Christian
May 9, 2005 - 8:22 AM

CBS is starting a sports-themed week today, as the CSIs will be investigating the deaths of a former football star, a Boston Red Sox fan, and a college basketball player.

Tonight at 10:00pm, CBS will be airing the new CSI: Miami episode "Vengeance," from which you can expect the following:

When a former football star is murdered at a high school reunion, the CSIs must find the killer. The victim was the big man on campus in high school and there are a lot of guests at the reunion with reasons to resent him all these years. Now, the team must investigate everyone, from the head cheerleader to the school misfit, to see who held a decade-old grudge big enough to kill. Meanwhile, Horatio and Delko arrive at a crime scene and discover that it's already been processed, leading Horatio to uncover further information about his brother possibly being alive.

This will be director Norberto Barba's third episode, after taking on CSI: New York's "The Fall" CSI: Miami's "Shooutout" earlier this year. That last episode was written by the writing team of Sunil Nayar and Corey Miller, who are also the writers of "Vengeance."

The following guest stars will be making an appearance in "Vengeance:"

Dylan Neal as Patrick Hale
Rex Linn as Det. Frank Tripp
Jessica Stone as Krystal Sneed
Megan Ward as Jennie Hale
Katy Selverstone as Michelle Day
Christian Monzon as Officer Joe McCue
Nick Jaine as Asst. M.E. Scott Sanders
Max Martini as Bob Keaton
Holt McCallany as Det. John Hagen
Richard Speight Jr. as Kevin Banks
Armando Valdes-Kennedy as Aaron Peters
Kimiko Gelman as Dr. Nicole Talcott
Paul Fitzgerald as Dan Winslet
Andre Royo as Julio Pena
Marcus Patrick as Luis Rivera
Tyler Goucher as Teen Patrick Hale
Gregory Mikurak as Teen Dan Winslet
Lance Reddick as David Park
Eli Danker as Richard Thomason

Rex Linn, and Holt McCallany will both be playing previously-established recurring roles. This is true as well for Armando Valdes-Kennedy, although his character's name now apparently shifts back again to Aaron Peters, the way he was introduced in "Crime Wave," before being called Aaron Price in both "Identity" and "Nothing to Lose."

Three other guest actors have previously appeared on CSI before. Megan Ward was Audrey Hilden in the original CSI's third-season episode "A Night At The Movies," while two seasons later Katy Selverstone played Amber Hamshaw in "Ch-Ch-Changes." Max Martine has appeared on two CSI shows, first playing Jason Kent in the penultimate episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's third season, "Play With Fire," and then Robert Keaton on the second-season Miami episode "Big Brother."

On Wednesday at 10:00pm, the end of CSI: New York's first season will be getting ever closer, as CBS is scheduled to air this year's pre-final episode, "The Closer." The network described the episode as follows:

The team examines the murder of an avid Boston fan found dead with a ruptured spleen following a tough loss against New York. Danny must put his baseball skills to the test to piece together the evidence as the CSIs try to find out how and why he was murdered. Meanwhile, after testifying in a murder trial, Mac is confronted by the defendant, Quinn Sullivan, who questions the validity of the evidence. Mac is torn between trusting science or his desire to help a man facing jail time who swears he's innocent. Also, when a barely clad woman is killed by a truck early one morning, the team investigates why she was running through the streets and from whom.

Actor-turned-director Emilio Estevez helmed this episode, his second after "The Dove Commission." Screenwriter Pam Veasey has this year previously worked on the episodes "Creatures of the Night" and "Rain," while she is also the show's co-executive producer.

Below is a list of "The Closer" guest stars:

Michael Clarke Duncan as Quinn Sullivan
Sonya Walger as Jane Parsons
Raphael Sbarge as D. A. Latham
Kathryn Harrold as Judge Beverly Fulton
Petros Papadakis as Rico Savalas
Amaury Nolasco as Ruben DeRosa
Danielle Burgio as Margo Trent
Jason Cerbone as Tony Reanetti
Andrew Bowen as Bryce Sweet
Marty Yost as Gilbert Novotny
Brian Jay as Stuart Ashton
Gina Doctor as Tech
Dan Kruse as Attorney

CBS has been hyping the guest role by Michael Clarke Duncan, who received an Oscar nomination for his role in The Green Mile, and has also starred in films such as Daredevil, The Whole Nine Yards and Sin City, among many others. Another familiar face in "The Closer," at least for CSI: NY fans, will be Sonya Walger, playing Jane Parsons in her eight episode this year. Finally, two other guest stars already have a CSI past: Raphael Sbarge, earlier this year Aaron Laner in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's "Ch-Ch-Changes,"and Amaury Nolasco, who played Hector in the second-season original CSI installment "Slaves of Las Vegas."

The original CSI is approaching the end of its season, too, with CBS airing the penultimate episode "Iced" on Thursday at 9:00pm. Here's how the network's official press release summarised the episode:

When a popular college basketball player doesn't turn up for a big game, a fellow dorm resident finds him and a pretty young student dead on a sleeping bag in his dorm room. CSIs Sara and Greg reach one dead end after another as they try to solve the mystery of why the two young students were killed. Meanwhile, Catherine and her team look into the death of young man whose body was found in a "crop circle" that shows no outward or inward signs of what killed him.

This episode was helmed by veteran CSI director Richard J. Lewis, this season also responsible for "Crow's Feet," "Ch-Ch-Changes," "Snakes," "King Baby" and "Committed." CSI co-executive producer Josh Berman wrote the episode, as he already revealed in last week's Q&A with CSI Files visitors.

Unfortunately, CBS has so far only issued a partial guest cast list for this episode, just containing the names of the below four recurring actors:

David Berman as David Phillips
Wallace Langham as Hodges
Aisha Tyler as Mia Dickerson
Marc Vann as Conrad Ecklie

If and when a full guest cast list is released, we will update the entry for this episode in our CSI episode guide.

In addition to the above three new episodes, CBS will be airing one repeat episode this week, on Saturday at 9:00pm. The network will be showing the third-season original CSI episode "One Hit Wonder," in which Catherine takes the point in the investigation of an escalating series of peeping tom incidents. The crew is racing to stop the attacker before his crimes become more serious assaults. Meanwhile, Sara reopens the dormant case of her friend, a district attorney. The DA is facing surgery to remove a bullet she got in an attack that killed her husband three years prior.

The original press releases for all these episodes can be found at the Futon Critic.

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