{"id":10911,"date":"2010-08-04T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2010-08-04T23:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T06:28:41","slug":"mendelsohn-shares-details-about-vasseys-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/08\/mendelsohn-shares-details-about-vasseys-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelsohn Shares Details About Vassey&#8217;s Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/06\/vasseys-csi-exit-confirmed\/\">reported<\/a>, <b>Liz Vassey<\/b> (Wendy Simms) will be leaving <i>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> because her contract option was not picked up for another season. Showrunner <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> offered a teaser about how the show will explain the character&#8217;s exit and what it means for Wendy&#8217;s coworker and love interest David Hodges (<b>Wallace Langham<\/b>). (Spoilers after the jump!)<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->Despite the fact that Wendy is leaving, Hodges won&#8217;t be going anywhere. &#8220;We&#8217;re focusing primarily on the core team this season, and I want to bring Hodges more into that core group,&#8221; Mendelsohn told <i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i>. She added that Vassey will return for the second episode of the season, which will wrap up her character&#8217;s storyline. &#8220;I think fans will be satisfied,&#8221; Mendelsohn explained. &#8220;She will be able to say goodbye to Hodges, and Hodges will take his anger and heartbreak out on a fellow tech.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/ausiellofiles.ew.com\/2010\/08\/04\/ask-ausiello-spoilers-greys-house-bones\/\">Ask Ausiello<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As CSI Files previously reported, Liz Vassey (Wendy Simms) will be leaving CSI: Crime Scene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2924,2964,2923],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-langham","tag-mendelsohn","tag-vassey"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10914,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/10914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}