The franchise offers two new episodes this week, featuring an FBI collaboration and a beauty pageant gone wrong. Official plot details and cast lists can be found after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> joins forces with the federal government in “Zippered”<\/a> on Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n When the CSI team discovers a deceased rancher was also a ballistics expert, they have to work with the FBI to solve the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nProducer Alec Smight<\/b> has directed 23 previous episodes of CSI<\/i>, most recently last month’s “Freaks & Geeks”<\/a>. Supervising Producer Joe Pokaski<\/b> penned “Zippered”, and he previously wrote “Tell Tale Hearts”<\/a> from earlier this season.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nCSI: New York<\/i> will not air on Friday. Instead, CBS will air Yes, Virginia<\/i> and The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf’s Story<\/i> from 9:00-10:00pm ET\/PT as part of a night of holiday-themed programming, leading into a repeat of Blue Bloods<\/i> at 10:00pm ET\/PT.<\/p>\n \nCompetition turns deadly when CSI: Miami<\/i> airs “Crowned”<\/a> on Sunday at 10:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n The CSIs expose the seedy underbelly of children’s beauty pageants when a contestant’s mom is murdered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nCo-Executive Producer Gina Lamar<\/b> directed the episode, which marks her sixteenth time in the director’s chair for the crime drama; her previous credits include this season’s “By the Book”<\/a>. “Crowned” was co-written by Supervising Producer Brett Mahoney<\/b> and Co-Executive Producer Krystal Houghton Ziv<\/b>. Mahoney wrote six previous episodes, including “Killer Regrets”<\/a>, and Ziv has 21 writing credits, most recently “Look Who’s Taunting”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe episode will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \n“Zippered” and “Crowned” begin airing December 7 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The franchise offers two new episodes this week, featuring an FBI collaboration and a beauty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906,2907,2908],"tags":[2990,2960],"class_list":["post-18770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-m","category-csi-ny","tag-guest-stars","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\/18770","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=18770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18774,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18770\/revisions\/18774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nKay Panabaker reprises her role as Catherine’s daughter Lindsey, who was last seen in season ten’s “World’s End”<\/a>. Monique Gabriela Curnen is back as Xiomara Garcia, the ballistics expert who most recently appeared in “Maid Man”<\/a>. This is the first of several appearances for Grant Show, Matt Lauria, Titus Welliver and Annabeth Gish, who are part of the multi-episode arc<\/a> leading to Marg Helgenberger’<\/b>s exit from the crime drama next month. Gish also guest-starred on CSI: Miami<\/i>, appearing in “Not Landing”<\/a> during the show’s second season. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nChristian Clemenson reprises his established recurring role as Dr Tom Loman. Taylor Cole is back as Samantha Owens, who was last seen in the previous episode, “Long Gone”<\/a>. “Crowned” marks the acting debut of Eva La Rue’<\/b>s (Natalia Boa Vista) daughter Kaya McKenna Callahan. Larry Sullivan has a recurring role on CSI<\/i> as Officer Akers. Melissa Ponzio guest-starred in “The Panty Sniffer”<\/a> during the tenth season of CSI<\/i>, and Aisha Hinds was in the CSI: NY<\/i> episode “Recycling”<\/a> during the show’s first season.<\/p>\n