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Quentin Tarantino recently sat down with the Philadelphia Daily News and the New York Post to discuss the season finale episode of CSI, "Grave Danger."

Tarantino admitted his approach to the season finale came naturally due to his admiration for CSI. "I just wanted to do my episode of it. So the format was all the stuff I embrace. I just wanted it to be bigger, to feel in someway like a CSI movie," the director told the Philadelphia Daily News. Though Tarantino had a hard time toning down the language and graphics in order to appease the CBS censors, that doesn't mean fans shouldn't expect the famous Tarantino signature. The director described one of the scenes as, "so gory I think we are going to have to show it in black and white. But it's a hallucination sequence, so it will work kind of well like that."

Tarantino was approached by the producers when they learned of his love for the show, and the director didn't hesitate to climb on board. George Eads (Nick Stokes), whose character will be buried alive in the two-hour season finale, recalled Tarantino's enthusiasm infected the cast and crew. "So when Quentin came on that set, everybody had a little pep in their step, excited to be at work," Eads told the newspaper. "They were laughing and smiling. They loved being there and after five years, it was like the adrenaline shot that was in Pulp Fiction that the girl got in the chest. That was exactly what our set needed."

Co-star Robert David Hall (Dr. Al Robbins) agreed, and fondly remembered his amazement at the director's devotion to the show. "When I first met him, I wanted to tell him how much I loved his movies -- but I wanted to be cool," Hall recalled. "It was 11 o'clock at night and I was really tired from working on another episode all day," but then Tarantino approached him "and started naming off episodes I'd done that he liked -- and actually quoted dialogue I'd said back to me. He is maybe the most enthusiastic person over 21 that I've ever met in my life - an encyclopedia master of the art."

"I'm a big fan of the show," Tarantino went on to tell the New York Post. "So, like, I know the backstory of all the characters and everything... And I know these sets from watching the show and stuff, so I feel strangely comfortable even though I haven't been here before." "Grave Danger" promises to be a rollercoaster ride of emotions, but it set not to deviate from the main format of the show. "Something I really like about this episode is it's very story-oriented," Tarantino added. "It plays sort of, you know, not to be too grandiose, but it plays like a movie."

"Grave Danger" will air Thursday at 8/7c. To read the full article on Tarantino and Eads reactions to the episode, visit the Philadelphia Daily News. Hall's comments on the episode can be accessed via Elyse. Thanks to Al Forno for the NY Post transcript.

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