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Even before starting filming on the CSI season finale, actor George Eads was certain "Grave Danger" was going to be a very special episode for his character Nick Stokes.

"This time it's personal," Eads said in an interview that was recently released on the official CSI web site. "This is the first time that we've really gotten this deep into Nick's character. To have it be cut by Quentin Tarantino, it's going to be -- rock on, it's going to be awesome."

Much as Eads enjoyed working with Tarantino, the actor -- who was the first to reveal the director's involvement in CSI -- said he was not surprised when Tarantino signed up for the show. "I wasn't that shocked. Only because I had seen him at the Golden Globes, and he had said what a fan he was of the show. Now I was shocked then. Then [about] a year and a half later, we get the news he wants to direct, so that wasn't as shocking to me as much as that he wrote it."

Although filming the episode promised to be pretty intense for Eads, he said he was "chomping at the bit" to get going, and added that he was happy to get such a challenging episode after five years on CSI. And Eads praised the directing style of Tarantino. "Quentin does not miss any moments," he said. "As a matter of fact, he's doing what directors do, he's finding the moments that aren't on the page. He's really giving the time, and the producers have given him the time, to explore those scenes and finding the moments and creating new ones."

More from Eads, including his thoughts on what it would be like to be filming his coffin scenes, head over to this section on the official CSI site, which also includes interviews with many of the season finale's other key players. If you'd like to read some comments that Eads made after filming the episode, click on to this news item.

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