The franchise offers three brand new episodes this week featuring a deadly photograph, a killer clown and a strange double homicide. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> starts things out on Thursday at 9:00pm ET\/PT with death imitating art in “Man Up”<\/a>:<\/p>\n The CSIs question the validity of an online picture depicting a murdered call girl until they find the same woman strangled to death in the dumpster that appears in the photo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nThe episode was directed by Alec Smight<\/b>. Smight has 17 previous credits for the series, including “House of Hoarders”<\/a> earlier this season. Michael F.X. Daley<\/b> wrote “Lying Down With Dogs”<\/a> during the show’s eighth season.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nIt’s no laughing matter when CSI: New York<\/i> airs “To What End?”<\/a> on Friday at 9:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n When a man in full clown costume shoots a bakery owner, the CSIs investigate and discover a decision from Flack’s past that may put him in jeopardy. David James Elliott (‘JAG’) guest stars as FBI Agent Russ Josephson, Jo’s ex-husband.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nEric Laneuville<\/b> directed two previous episodes, most recently “Unfriendly Chat”<\/a> earlier this season. Executive producer Pam Veasey<\/b> co-wrote “To What End?” with co-executive producer Zachary Reiter<\/b>. Veasey has 32 writing credits for the series, including the season seven premiere “The 34th Floor”<\/a>. Reiter penned 21 previous episodes, most recently last season’s finale, “Vacation Getaway”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe episode will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \nCSI: Miami<\/i> will air in its temporary 8:00pm ET\/PT timeslot on Sunday, and the team is forced to deal with a lack of evidence in “F-T-F”<\/a>:<\/p>\n When a fire hydrant washes away all of the evidence at a crime scene, the CSIs must recreate a very bizarre double murder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nActor David Arquette<\/b> directed the episode, which marks his first time working in the franchise. Melissa Scrivner<\/b> wrote the episode based on a story by K. David Bena<\/b>. Scrivner has four previous credits for the series, including this season’s “Reality Kills”<\/a>. Bena co-wrote season eight’s “Meltdown”.<\/p>\n \nThe following actors and actresses will appear in guest-starring roles:<\/p>\n \n“Man Up”, “To What End?” and “F-T-F” begin airing January 6 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The franchise offers three brand new episodes this week featuring a deadly photograph, a killer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906,2907,2908],"tags":[2960],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-m","category-csi-ny","tag-official-details"],"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":"CSI<\/a> CSI: Miami<\/a> CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","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=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nArchie Kao, Alex Carter and Sheeri Rappaport are reprising established recurring roles. Kevin Weisman previously appeared on CSI: New York<\/i> (“The Box”<\/a>) and CSI: Miami<\/i> (“Meltdown”<\/a>). Jonathan Chase was in the New York<\/i> episode “It Happened To Me”<\/a> last season. Blake Gibbons played different characters in two Miami<\/i> episodes: “Dead Air”<\/a> during the show’s fourth season, and season eight’s “Backfire”<\/a>. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nDavid James Elliott is making his first appearance in a potentially-recurring role as Russ Josephson, the ex-husband of newcomer Jo Danville (Sela Ward<\/b>). JD Pardo was in the Miami<\/i> episode “Silencer”<\/a> during the show’s fourth season, and Chris Warren Gilbert appeared in “Delko for the Defense”<\/a> during season eight.<\/p>\n\n
\nChristian Clemenson is reprising his role as coroner Dr Tom Loman. Michael McGrady played a detective in two episodes during Miami’<\/i>s first season: “Golden Parachute”<\/a> and “Camp Fear”<\/a>. Darby Stanchfield was in the CSI: NY<\/I> episode “It Happened to Me” during season six.<\/p>\n