The flagship series offers the only original episode this week, which features a guest appearance from burlesque artist Dita Von Teese<\/b>. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> delves into a shocking case in “A Kiss Before Frying”<\/a> on Thursday at 9:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n The CSIs link a body with severe burn marks to possible execution by electric chair—and to a legendary Vegas murder. Meanwhile, Greg asks out Ellen, a pretty schoolteacher and forensics enthusiast who has been touring the crime lab. Burlesque artist Dita Von Teese guest stars as Greg’s new love interest, Ellen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nDirector Brad Tanenbaum<\/b> has eight episodes of CSI<\/i> under his belt, including “Blood Moon”<\/a> from earlier this season. Evan Dunsky<\/b> penned the episode, which marks his twelfth time writing for the series. His most recent credit is for the season ten finale, “Meat Jekyll”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe episode will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \nOn Friday, CSI: New York<\/i> will air back-to-back repeats from 9:00-11:00pm ET\/PT. The season seven premiere “The 34th Floor”<\/a> will air in the show’s usual timeslot, followed by “Unfriendly Chat”<\/a>. The premiere introduced newcomer Jo Danville, and the team investigated the death of a young woman whose body was found in the crime lab after she was stabbed on a different floor of the same building. In the second episode of the season, Adam saw a woman being strangled during a live online chat, and the team had to locate the crime scene to discover if he witnessed a murder.<\/p>\n \nCSI: Miami<\/i> will not air on Sunday. Hawaii Five-0<\/i> will take the 10:00pm ET\/PT timeslot following the AFC Championship game.<\/p>\n \n“A Kiss Before Frying” and the repeats of “The 34th Floor” and “Unfriendly Chat” begin airing January 20 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flagship series offers the only original episode this week, which features a guest appearance…<\/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-13287","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\/13287","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=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nArchie Kao and Jon Wellner are reprising established recurring roles. Key set medic Jefferey D Stevens played a paramedic in seven previous episodes, most recently the season premiere “Shock Waves”<\/a>. Jim Pirri previously appeared on CSI: New York<\/i> (“Blood, Sweat and Tears”<\/a>) and CSI: Miami<\/i> (“Presumed Guilty”<\/a>). Michael Adam Hamilton was in the season six Miami<\/i> episode “Cyber-lebrity”<\/a>. Charles Hutchins guest-starred in “Officer Blue”<\/a> during New York’<\/i>s first season.<\/p>\n