{"id":15168,"date":"2011-05-12T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2011-05-12T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:22:12","slug":"langston-dances-with-the-devil-in-the-csi-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/05\/langston-dances-with-the-devil-in-the-csi-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Langston &#8216;Dances With The Devil&#8217; In The &#8216;CSI&#8217; Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final episode of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8217;<\/i>s eleventh season will air tonight at 9:00pm ET\/PT. Here&#8217;s a picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/in_a_dark_dark_house.shtml\">&#8220;In a Dark, Dark House&#8221;<\/a> (click to see it full-sized):<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/4wqrte\" title=\"Could this be the end of Haskell? Or Langston? Watch #CSI fin... on Twitpic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/show\/thumb\/4wqrte.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Could this be the end of Haskell? Or Langston? Watch #CSI fin... on Twitpic\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nNext up, two <I>CSI<\/i> executive producers offer some insight into the confrontation between Dr Ray Langston (<b>Laurence Fishburne<\/b>) and serial killer Nate Haskell (<b>Bill Irwin<\/b>). (Minor spoilers after the jump!)<\/p>\n<p>\n<!--more-->In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/episodes\/csi\/season11\/cello_and_goodbye.shtml\">&#8220;Cello and Goodbye&#8221;<\/a>, Haskell kidnapped Langston&#8217;s ex-wife Gloria (<b>Tracee Ellis Ross<\/b>). Langston came face to face with Haskell at the end of the episode, and the finale finds the pair facing off in Haskell&#8217;s childhood home. Haskell hopes to show Langston just how much they have in common. &#8220;Haskell and Langston are reflections of each other, at least in Haskell&#8217;s mind,&#8221; executive producer <b>Carol Mendelsohn<\/b> told <I>TV Guide<\/i>. &#8220;Langston does share a similar background in terms of having an abusive father, growing up in an abusive household. Haskell wants his reflection, his alter ego, to come out and play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBlood will be spilled before all is said and done; if Langston survives &#8220;In a Dark, Dark House&#8221;, he might be a different man. &#8220;If you dance the devil, if you flirt with a dark side, evil has a way of taking control of you,&#8221; explained executive producer <b>Don McGill<\/b>. &#8220;If you unleash the beast, can you put that beast back in the bottle?&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nYou can find the full article, including a clip from the episode, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/News\/CSI-Finale-Laurence-Fishburne-1032989.aspx\">TVGuide.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation&#8217;s eleventh season will air tonight at 9:00pm&#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":[3045,2964],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-mcgill","tag-mendelsohn"],"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\/15168","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=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}