CSI Las Vegas - Season 8 - Rumours and Spoilers

[tammyy2j]

Although CSI hasn't even pronounced Sara dead yet, it sounds suspiciously like the powers-that-be are already planning to breathe new life into the show by introducing a replacement for Jorja Fox's hot cop.

Executive producer Carol Mendolsohn has told me exclusively that a new female character will turn up in this season's third episode. "[She] may be a CSI or lab tech," the boss said. And, according to my casting spies, the junior detective will be in her mid-twenties, fresh out of college and lacking the capacity for self-censorship.

Of course, this isn't conclusive proof that Sara won't emerge unscathed from her, um, car wreck. But it certainly seems plausible, even likely, considering what else we've learned this week. In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel, CSI exec producer Jonathan Littman said the "Sara-Grissom story line is going to conclude." And you don't get much more definitive closure than death, now do ya?

In any case, at least this much is certain: Fox will appear in the premiere. Says Mendolsohn: "We're certainly going to be seeing her under the car in the premiere." Whether that will require her to act or just to lie very, very still remains to be seen.

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[Chloe O'brien]

I think the bosses at CSI are just trying to play mindgames with us (And they're winning) Vegas is now in its 8th year if the bosses didn't want to have on screen romance with Grissom and Sara or anyone else they wouldn't have written it in the series, no matter how many fans want it. They are the ones who are holding the cards. As for rumours replacing Jorja. Again, if the writers wanted to write her character out of the programe they would do regardless of her asking for more money or not. My opinion is that Sara will return next series the conclusion of her and grissom's relationship will be how long they have been together possible that they may even be married and that will be that.

If there is a new actress joining the show I think she will be a new lab rat or cop as is Louise Lombard (Sofia) not in another show at the moment so they could be covering the episodes she is not in.

I watch CSI mainly for the science and the crimes but I love a wee bit of romance. So let's us keeep our subtle looks across the morgue table.

[Jojo]

"À La Cart" follows the case of a man murdered in a restaurant where the lights are turned off. Restaurant owner Pippa Sanchez explains that when the patrons are deprived of sight, their other senses are heightened, creating a sensual eating experience. The very thing that makes the restaurant unique makes the murder investigation more difficult. Despite the room being full of people, nobody actually saw the murder take place.

Warrick, Catherine and Brass try to piece together what happened to the victim, Hampton Huxley. Huxley was stabbed in the temple at his table. The three young women who were dining with him had no idea that he was dead until they were getting ready to leave the restaurant. April Kissimee, who has blood on her shirt, explains that she thought Huxley, an older man, had just fallen asleep after their meal.

Pink angora fibers from April's dress lead the CSIs to Frankie Vannucci, who was dining in the restaurant with his brothers at the same time as Huxley's group. When Brass questions him about the fibers, Vannucci admits that he used the darkness as a chance to get close to Huxley's table and play a perverse joke on one of the "kitties" who were dining with the older man. The waiter, a blind man named Michael Bowie, tells Brass that he escorted Vannucci back to his table.

Bowie explains that he has an advantage working in the restaurant since other people rely on their eyes and need help getting around. Brass asks whether Bowie heard anything unusual, but he says that he didn't know that anything had gone wrong until April couldn't wake Huxley up and called for help. In the restaurant, Warrick and Catherine examine the rest of the room and find evidence of a struggle at a different table.

Meanwhile, Nick and Greg investigate the decapitation of Peter Bastille. They visit a go-cart track where the young man had been racing the day before. When they get a list of the race results, they discover that Peter had consistently beat 19-year-old Rodney "Hot Rod" Anderson. Nick goes to talk to Rodney and notices that he is wearing an Army Ranger belt--a belt that belonged to Peter Bastille.

"À La Cart" is expected to air October 4, 2007.

Seems like they have changed the episode name from the original "Aftermath"

[wizardthecat]

hmm... no mention of Sara in episode two. interesting...

[Jojo]

Question: Do you have any CSI spoilers?

Ausiello: Although there won’t be a miniature-type serial killer plot this season, exec producer Carol Mendelsohn reveals that Grissom will immerse himself in a season-long project. "Grissom will begin to study colonization in Episode 3," she reveals. "We're going to do this very dark, scary episode set in a haunted house. While there, Grissom is going to find a live beehive, and he is going to take this beehive back to [the lab] and he is going to study it all season. He's trying to figure out why these honey bees are dying around the world. It's really about Grissom looking outside the lab… to see the problems of the world. It's Grissom's science experiment for the year."

[Jojo]

In "Go to Hell", a couple is found dead in a hotel room, and the team finds fingerprints that belong to a pedophile at the scene--bad news for the couple's missing daughter.

The episode opens with footage of the seedier side of Las Vegas. Desperate souls--hookers, drunkards, homeless people--line the street on a sweltering hot day. One homeless man staggers, making his way into an alley, but he can't go any farther. He falls to the ground. Meanwhile, Reverend Johnnie Rhodes gives a sermon. His voice is strong as he speaks of judgment. Hell will not come when we die, he says, because Hell is already here--in Las Vegas. Sex, drinking, gambling--mankind imbibes but does not even realize that judgment isn't waiting for death. The human race, he says, is already damned.

That night, Warrick and Catherine are on their way to a crime scene. They must park two blocks from the hotel where the murders took place because of Sanitation work. As they walk by an alley on their way to where they really need to be, Warrick notices something strange. When he goes to investigate, he finds the body of the homeless man. Confirming that the man is dead--the body count is forever rising--Catherine calls it in and leaves a uniformed officer to wait with the body.

A hotel is the site of a double murder. A man and his wife, the Macalinos, are dead, and Brass questions the desk clerk. They paid in advance for a week, he says. He hands over a register with the license plate number of the car, but Brass is unable to read the handwriting--and so is the clerk. He can decipher only enough of his own writing to see an "N" and a "V", which he is sure must mean "Nevada". This isn't terribly helpful.

The team discovers that couple's youngest daughter, Elizabeth, has been killed in their home, shot in the head. Their other daughter, however, is missing. This is no longer just about murder--now they have the kidnapping of Amy Macalino to deal with. As if the news could get any worse, the fingerprints they lifted from the hotel room come back to a convicted pedophile: Reverend Johnnie Rhodes.

Catherine works the case of the dead homeless man, Eddie Kaye, with her new swing-shift partner Vivian Lee. A 20-something CSI level one, Vivian is extremely curious and talkative--to the point that Catherine announces that she is limiting the other woman to 20 questions per case. Together, they have to discover what happened to the old man. He has clean socks, the cellophane wrapper to a sandwich, and a bundle of papers wrapped in rubber bands. Although the license that they find in Eddie's pocket is his own, the man in the picture seems worlds away from the man they see laying in front of them. They hope that fingerprints found on the license will lead them to their killer, but instead the prints come back to a police officer.

This was originally billed to be name Epiphany, but the title is now Go to Hell

[Jojo]

Question: Have you found out anything definitive about Jorja Fox staying or going on CSI?

Ausiello: Yes, I have.

Grrr - why can't he just say she is or she isn't then....

[Chloe O'brien]

I think they are keeping quiet to win the ratings in the US. Last year CSI Vegas was aired the same time as Grey's Anatomy and GA had more viewers. If they keep everything underwraps in may attract more viewers for the premier and beat GA.

[Jojo]

I think they are keeping quiet to win the ratings in the US. Last year CSI Vegas was aired the same time as Grey's Anatomy and GA had more viewers. If they keep everything underwraps in may attract more viewers for the premier and beat GA.

Totally agree with you Kath - she's alive, they're just "attempting" to keep it under wraps to get the viewers in

[Chloe O'brien]

When the producers of CSI started to look for an actress to join the cast, many thought that the character would be a replacement for Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), whose fate was unknown at the end of last season's cliffhanger finale. It has been confirmed that this is not the case. Instead, Lucas has been chosen as an addition to the cast rather than a substitute.
Lucas will be playing a young CSI named Veronica Lake (originally reported to be Vivian Lee). "Ronnie", as she is also called, is smart and vivacious. Although she was offered several jobs, Veronica chose Las Vegas because of the rising crime rate. The 21-year-old actress has been in a number of previous movie and television roles including The Covenant, She's the Man and the ABC series Life as We Know It. Veronica Lake will first make her appearance during the third episode of CSI's eighth season, titled "Go to Hell".