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CBS this week released various video promos of the CSI season finale episode "Grave Danger".
With the CSI closing episode only a few days away, CBS is doing everything it can to catch the attention of regular and not so regular viewers of the show. The Eye network is currently running five different promos on the Quentin Tarantino directed "Grave Danger". In this two-hour episode, Nick is kidnapped and buried alive, and the CSI teams come together in a race against the clock to find him and bring him home safely. But time and lack of objectivity soon make them realize this is a race they might lose.
For those of you with slower connections, CSI Files has available a transcript of one of the promos, in addition to the one released last week (news):
ON THE NEXT CSI
[Debris shoots out the windows of a trailer as an explosion occurs inside.]
[Smoke comes out of the trailer as the windows explode.]
[In the lab, Warrick jumps back as he's spooked by something he sees in a monitor.]
[Nick drives alone through the streets of Vegas. In the distance, the strip is visible.]
[A police car rushes down the road and onto an alley.]
[Sara runs down the lab's hall.]
[Grissom walks towards a trailer with a bag in hand. It's the same trailer that previously exploded.]
[Close-up of the duffel bag as he walks up the trailer's steps.]
[At the lab, Nick swings something at Warrick.]
[Warrick catches it and smiles.]
[Grissom, Sara, Greg, and Brass run down a wooded area at night, flashlights drawn.]
[Down another path, Catherine runs through the area, searching.]
[The CSIs meet in a clearing, surrounded by police cars. They search for their friend.]
[Greg and Catherine move a piece of wood over and search through the ground.]
[Grissom stands in the middle of a small office, searching through books.]
[Grissom, Catherine, and Greg watch through the monitor as Nick's life slips away.]
[Warrick works over the perimeters of an area with a map.]
[A police officer breaks a door open with a bar.]
[As officers swarm in side, we see a man laying on a recliner. He doesn't move.]
[Brass rushes inside with the other officers, his gun drawn.]
[An SUV rushes down the road, followed by a police car.]
[In the lab, Catherine walks into one of the offices.]
[Nick is back in the field, surveying a dark crime scene, his flashlight pointing ahead.]
[In a darkened shop, someone works the crank of a vice.]
[Grissom opens up the door to the trailer, bag still in hand.]
[Inside, there's a white SUV. But he seems to be alone.]
[Sam Braun addresses Catherine.]
[Catherine looks uncertain.]
[In the locker room, Warrick opens one of the lockers and sits down, exhausted.]
[Maps are scattered all over the layout table. The CSIs try to figure out Nick's location.]
[Nick lays inside the coffin, unconscious, as someone shovels dirt over it.]
[Later, he wakes up and realizes where he is, tries to find a way out but there isn't one.]
[As he holds a light-stick in his hand he looks up, but there's nothing up but six feet of dirt.]
[Holding the light tightly, he screams.]
In addition, the network has released two heartbreaking promos that highlight Grissom's paternal affection towards Nick. In them, various members of the CSI team break down emotionally when the realization that they might lose one of their own finally hits, as Nick tries to do everything he can to survive. Eventually, however, he gives up fighting and leaves his mentor a gut wrenching message. "This is a lousy way to say goodbye," Nick cries to Grissom on the tape recorder. "I know you did the best you could to find me."
The network has also released a 3-minute extended footage from one of the episode's key scenes. In it, Nick wakes up to realize he's trapped in an enclosed space. He can barely move but tries to keep himself together. Panic begins to set in when he finds a light stick, and a gun. A tape recorder has also been left inside the coffin, and confused, Nick hits plays. The voice of Walter Gordon comes on. Nick listens in horror as his assailant tells him he has two options: breathe slowly or put a gun in his mouth. "You're gonna die anyway," Walter Gordon laughs. Nick struggles to push the lid of the coffin open, but eventually gives up. There's nothing he can do but scream.
To view the new "Grave Danger" promos, visit Omaetoy's Season Five Clips website. The extended footage of Nick inside the coffin can be seen as a 3-minute streaming RealMedia file at CBS's official CSI web site. "Grave Danger" will air this Thursday, May 19th, at a special time: 8/7c.
[Close-up of the duffel bag as he walks up the trailer's steps.]
[Inside, there's a white SUV. But he seems to be alone.]
