The franchise offers three brand new episodes this week, featuring a spare brain, a crashed party and the return of a new nemesis. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> gets things started with “Brain Doe”<\/a> on Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, and a spare organ leaves the CSIs perplexed:<\/p>\n When the CSI team arrives at a car crash, they find three casualties and a human brain that doesn’t belong to any of the victims. Also, D.B. Russell is concerned his son is not focused on college following his suspension from school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nCo-Producer Brad Tanenbaum<\/b> directed 11 previous episodes of CSI<\/i>, including “Tell Tale Hearts”<\/a> earlier this season. Supervising Producer Gavin Harris<\/b> has two writing credits for the series, and he most recently created the story for “CSI Down”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nOn Friday, CSI: New York<\/i> is on the case when a teenager gets “Crushed”<\/a> at 9:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n When news of a high school house party goes viral, resulting in overcrowding, a collapsed porch and a teenage girl’s death, the CSIs must use social media to uncover the truth about how she died. Meanwhile, Jo’s final case at the FBI returns to haunt her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nDirector Duane Clark<\/b> has helmed eight previous episodes of the crime drama, most recently the season seven premiere, “The 34th Floor”<\/a>. Kim Clements<\/b> has two writing credits, including last season’s “The Untouchable”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe following actors and actresses will appear in guest-starring roles:<\/p>\n \nCSI: Miami<\/i> rounds out the week with “Dead Ringer”<\/a> on Sunday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, and Horatio once again comes face to face with his elusive new enemy:<\/p>\n When Horatio finds another corpse with missing eyes, everything points to his nemesis, ‘The Taunter’ – except he has an airtight alibi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nProducer Sam Hill<\/b> has 33 directing credits for Miami<\/i>, most recently “Killer Regrets”<\/a> from last month. Co-Producer Tamara Jaron<\/b> penned 10 previous episodes, including season nine’s “Caged”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe episode will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \n“Brain Doe”, “Crushed” and “Dead Ringer” begin airing November 9 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The franchise offers three brand new episodes this week, featuring a spare brain, a crashed…<\/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-18205","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\/18205","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=18205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18207,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions\/18207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAlex Carter is reprising his role as Detective Vartann, who was last seen in season eleven’s “The List”<\/a>. Barbara Eve Harris was first seen as Sheriff Liston in “Maid Man”<\/a> last month. Brandon W Jones guest-starred in the CSI: New York<\/i> episode “Food for Thought”<\/a> during the show’s seventh season, Robyn Lively was in season two’s “Manhattan Manhunt”<\/a>, and Erik Aud\u00e9 appeared in the season three episode “Not What It Looks Like”<\/a>. Victor Webster was in the CSI: Miami<\/i> episode “Throwing Heat”<\/a> during season five. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nValentina De Angelis was in the CSI<\/i> episode “Disarmed and Dangerous”<\/a> during the show’s ninth season. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nChristian Clemenson and Ed Begley Jr are reprising established recurring roles. Carlos Bernard and Kuno Becker are back as Diego and Esteban Navarro, who were introduced in “Look Who’s Taunting”<\/a> last month. Olivia Taylor Dudley also guest-starred in “Look Who’s Taunting”. Taylor Cole appeared in last week’s episode, “Sinner Takes All”<\/a>. Dana Ward played a reporter during the season ten premiere, “Countermeasures”<\/a>. Graham Shiels was in the CSI: NY<\/i> episode “No Good Deed”<\/a> during the show’s fifth season. Dwayne Adway guest-starred on CSI<\/i> in the season three episode “Lucky Strike”<\/a>, and Tess Lina was in season six’s “Room Service”<\/a>.<\/p>\n