As the franchise prepares to go on hiatus until the new year, all three series air fresh episodes that offer the return of a familiar face, a group of special guest stars and a suicide connection. Official plot details and cast lists after the jump.<\/p>\n
\nStarting out the week on Monday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, a former CSI finds himself taking on the CSI: Miami<\/I> team in “Delko for the Defense”<\/a>:<\/p>\n Eric Delko returns as an expert witness for the defense, pitting himself against his old team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nGina Lamar<\/b> has directed eight previous episodes of the show, including “Bolt Action”<\/a> earlier this season. “Delko for the Defense” was written by Tamara Jaron<\/b>, who has five credits under her belt. Jaron’s most recent episode was the season eight premiere, “Out of Time”<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nThe following guest stars will appear in the episode:<\/p>\n \nOn Wednesday at 10:00pm ET\/PT, CSI: New York<\/I> gets a visit from several special guest stars in “Second Chances”<\/a>:<\/p>\n A reformed drug addict with everything to live for is found dead in an alley. The CSI’s discover he was the victim of a premeditated plot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nThis is Eric Laneuville<\/b>‘s first time directing for the franchise. John Dove<\/b> has nine writing credits for the show, most recently “Dead Reckoning”<\/a> from earlier this season.<\/p>\n \n“Second Chances” will include the following actors and actresses in guest-starring roles:<\/p>\n \nRounding out the week on Thursday at 9:00pm ET\/PT, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/I> tries to make a connection in “Better Off Dead”<\/a>:<\/p>\n The CSIs dig to find the truth about how a recent shootout at a gun store might connect to a young woman who may have committed suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nThis is the ninth time Jeffrey Hunt<\/b> has directed an episode of CSI<\/i>. The story for “Better Off Dead” was written by Richard Catalani<\/b> and Tom Mularz<\/b>. Catalani has 18 credits for the series, including this season’s “Coup de Grace”<\/a>. This is the second credit for Mularz, who penned “Turn Turn Turn”<\/a> last season. Mularz co-wrote the teleplay for “Better Off Dead” with Corinne Marrinan<\/b>. Marrinan has written three previous episodes of CSI<\/i>, including “If I Had a Hammer”<\/a> during season nine.<\/p>\n \nThe following actors and actresses will guest-star in “Better Off Dead”:<\/p>\n \n“Delko for the Defense”, “Second Chances” and “Better Off Dead” begin airing December 14 on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the franchise prepares to go on hiatus until the new year, all three series…<\/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":[2990,2960,2928],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","category-csi-m","category-csi-ny","tag-guest-stars","tag-official-details","tag-this-week-on-csi"],"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\/8516","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=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67068,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/67068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWes Ramsey, Boti Bliss and Christian Clemenson are reprising established recurring roles. Denis O’Hare was in “Out of Time”, and he has also guest-starred on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> (“Who and What”<\/a>). Eric Jungmann appeared in the CSI<\/i> episode “Spellbound”<\/a> during the show’s sixth season. The other actors are new to the franchise.<\/p>\n\n
\nThe episode features special appearances from Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo, Lala Vazquez and Pat Monahan, the lead singer of the rock band Train<\/b>. Monahan’s bandmates James Woodrow Stafford and Scott Michael Underwood are also in the episode. David Sullivan guest-starred in the season premiere of CSI<\/i>, “Family Affair”<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
\nJon Wellner and Alex Carter are reprising established recurring roles, and Gerald McCullouch is returning as Bobby Dawson for the first time since the season nine premiere, “For Warrick”<\/a>. James Eckhouse previously appeared in “Face Lift”<\/a> during the show’s first season. Sam Henning was in “Snuff”<\/a> during season three, and he appeared on Miami<\/i> (“Kill Clause”<\/a>) earlier this year. Katy Stoll was also on Miami<\/i> this season, when she guest-starred in “Bad Seed”<\/a>. Marc Menchaca appeared in the New York<\/i> episode “Manhattanhenge”<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n