The franchise kicks off the new year with two new episodes, featuring a dead cage fighter and a genius killed with a unique weapon. Official plot details and cast lists can be found after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nCSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> will air a repeat of “Bittersweet”<\/a> from earlier this season on Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT. After decomposing body parts were found inside a piece of art, the team launched an investigation with ties to an old case.<\/p>\n \nOn Friday, CSI: New York<\/i> returns from the winter hiatus with “Clean Sweep”<\/a> at 9:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n A charred body turns into a hot mess for the CSIs when it appears a cage fighter has been murdered by his stalker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nDavid Von Ancken<\/b> directed seven previous episodes of New York<\/i>, most recently the season six premiere “Epilogue”<\/a>. Producer Adam Targum<\/b> has five writing credits for the series, including this season’s “Cavallino Rampante”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nCSI: Miami<\/i> investigates the death of a billionaire in “Friendly Fire”<\/a> on Sunday at 10:00pm ET\/PT:<\/p>\n An eccentric genius is assassinated with the most unique weapon the CSIs have ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nProducer and director Sam Hill<\/b> has helmed 34 previous episodes of Miami<\/i>, including “Dead Ringer”<\/a> earlier this season. “Friendly Fire” was penned by Co-Producer Tamara Jaron<\/b> and Greg Bassenian<\/b>. Jaron has 11 previous writing credits, most recently “Dead Ringer”; Bassenian wrote two episodes, including this season’s “Sinner Takes All”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe episode will feature the following guest stars:<\/p>\n \nThe repeat of “Bittersweet”, “Clean Sweep” and “Friendly Fire” begin airing January 4 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The franchise kicks off the new year with two new episodes, featuring a dead cage…<\/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-19570","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":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19570","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=19570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66841,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19570\/revisions\/66841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAlex Nesic was in the CSI: Miami<\/i> episode “Cop Killer”<\/a> during the show’s third season. Laura Breckenridge guest-starred in the CSI<\/i> episode “Blood Moon”<\/a> during season eleven. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nChristian Clemenson, Wes Ramsey and Taylor Cole are reprising established recurring roles. Leonard Roberts played a different character in season two’s “Complications”<\/a>, and he also appeared in the CSI<\/i> episode “Wild Life”<\/a> during season eleven.<\/p>\n