CSI Las Vegas - Season 8 - Rumours and Spoilers

[wizardthecat]

oh dear.... what is with that hat??!! he looks so old in it

[Jojo]

......Sorry about the size of these pics, they don't start that size but when i post they get bigger

Generally its better to save the images to your own pc and then upload them to a free host, such as imageshack, which will then reduce the size etc (and you can then delete them from your pc) I have done this already with the pics you've posted

[Chloe O'brien]

"mmmm ooh Betty the cat done a whoopsy in the corridor" Sorry I just had a sudden urge to do a Frank Spencer impersonation when I seen that hat. Moving on:

The CSI team investigates the suspicious death of a go-cart racer who took his hobby to the highway, when a severed head rolls through tonight's episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," airing at 9 p.m. on CBS.
Then the murder rate doubles when the team gets a second case -- the murder of a HUGH HEFNER-like publisher at a hip new restaurant where customers dine in the dark.
Dining in the dark isn't something that series star MARG HELGENBERGER, who plays Catherine Willows, is interested in. "I want to see what I am putting in my mouth," she tells ET's JANN CARL, who is on location with the hit CBS series at a go-cart rink.
"The best part about it is we are all here on one day," says GARY DOURDAN (Warrick Brown), who was competing with GEORGE EADS (Nick Stokes) to see who could bump each other harder. "That is pretty rare. Those are nice days."
The best part of the episode for many fans may be the return of Sara Sidle (JORJA FOX) to action, following her near-death experience in last week's season premiere.
"Coming into episode two, Grissom (WILLIAM PETERSEN) or Sara have been invited not to be on the night shift anymore," Jorja reveals. "Sara has decided it should be her who should leave and go to the swing shift ... For Sara, the idea of not working with Grissom anymore is devastating. The only friends she has are on this shift, so after the most devastating thing [that happened] in her life, she is going off alone."
In real life, the hardest part for Jorja was having to keep the secret of whether or not she survived her attack by the miniature killer.
"I lied to my own family," she admits. "[I said,] 'I don't know anything.' It was hard, but what was great about it, too, was there were people that actually wanted to know."

[tammyy2j]

Exclusive: CSI Boss Vows Jorja Fox is "Coming Back"

Jorja Fox by Michael Caulfield/WireImage.comNow that Jorja Fox has officially confirmed the worst kept secret in the TV biz — she's ditching CSI next month after seven years in the forensics lab — we can start to focus on more important things in life. Like, you know, her return to the show! In her only interview, CSI's top gun, Carol Mendelsohn, weighs in on the circumstances surrounding Fox's exit, responds to published reports that she considered killing her off, previews tonight's big marriage proposal, and utters the words grieving fans have been dying to hear: Sara Sidle will be back.

Are you bummed that something couldn't be worked out to keep Jorja around?
Carol Mendelsohn: I am very bummed. You know, it's been something we've been facing for a while now [so] I've given it a lot of thought. When Jorja expressed her desire to move on — even though I would have loved nothing more than to have had her here for Season 8 and Season 9 and on — you [react] as you would in any family: You love the person and respect them and want them to be happy and fulfilled. If this was the very end for Sara Sidle on CSI, I don't think I could have handled the last few months. But it's not. Jorja was always No. 6 on our call sheet. We're retiring No. 6, so it's there for Jorja when she comes back.

She's definitely returning?
Mendelsohn: Yes. You can count on it.

This season?
Mendelsohn: That I can't say. But the fans will not have seen the last of Sara Sidle. Nor will Grissom.

Would you describe her departure as a mutual decision?
Mendelsohn: No. It was, in the end, Jorja's decision. And we accept it. I think sometimes the fans don't really understand that the writers are fans of the show, too. And we love Sara Sidle. We love writing for Sara Sidle. And, as an actor, it doesn't get better than Jorja. She's phenomenal. So, yeah, it's heartbreaking [for me], as well as for the cast and the crew. I'm almost tearing up now because it's very hard to say goodbye, even if it's [just] goodbye for now.

Did you know she was leaving before you shot the season finale last April?
Mendelsohn: Yes. I didn't have a definitive date, but yes.

There were reports that the original plan was to kill her off in the finale, but Jorja refused to show up to work and shoot her death scene. Is that true?
Mendelsohn: No… I don't, as a fan or a writer, embrace killing off characters — especially when you see this outpouring that we have gotten from the fans in support of keeping Jorja and Sara on the show; it has just been mind-boggling. [We] owe the fans so much and I don't think killing off Sara Sidle would have ever been a way to pay a satisfactory ending for Sara.

So what kind of send-off are you giving her?
Mendelsohn: I’m not telling you. [Laughs]

C'mon.
Mendelsohn: As the season unfolds through November, there is a character arc threaded through the episodes for Sara Sidle. And it is something that will build and build and build until the episode in which she departs, sometime in November.

Can you shed any light on the final scene, like who's in it with her?
Mendelsohn: Jorja is in it with Jorja.

She's by herself?
Mendelsohn: Yes.

What do you make of the intensity of the fan reaction to Jorja's exit?
Mendelsohn: It has been astounding. It's incredible how creative our fans are. We got two cases of chocolate covered insects with the message "CSI without Sara bugs us." We got a bouquet of red, pink and white balloons with Hershey kisses and the message was, "Don't break our hearts, keep Jorja Fox on CSI." We got two large cases of Lifesavers with the message, "You were Sara's lifesaver, now be ours, keep Jorja Fox on CSI." They've been sending money in from all over the world [as part of the] Dollars for Sense campaign. One woman named Kim West from Northern Ireland, she and her friends sent in 60 pound notes, and she wrote a four page letter. It's just been overwhelming how many people love Jorja.

Did you go back to her and beg her to reconsider?
Mendelsohn: I had done everything that I could. But in the end, I respect Jorja. This is something that she wanted to do, and I would never stand in her way. She's coming back at some point anyway.

How long before Grissom is ready to move on?
Mendelsohn: Oh my God. I don't think that Gil Grissom is the kind of guy that moves on quickly. I was thinking about how Gil Grissom thinks about time, and there's an Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, who said, "The butterfly counts not months, but moments." I think Grissom thinks about time that way. I wouldn't count on Gil Grissom moving on.

What about a little fling here and there?
Mendelsohn: Well, you know, gosh, I don't think of Grissom as a flingy kind of guy. Of course, there is Lady Heather... Grissom's family is the team, and moving forward, you know, that's what Grissom will focus on. His team. His family.

Speaking of Lady Heather, will she be back this season?
Mendelsohn: You know what? We haven't really talked about it. [But the door is] always open. We love Melinda Clarke.

What can you tell me about tonight's episode — specifically the marriage proposal?
Mendelsohn: It's very CSI-style. David Rambo wrote the scene and he and Jackie Hoyt wrote the episode. We have been talking for months about how to do this. And, originally at the beginning of the season, we had a plan to take Grissom and Sara back to San Francisco, because, as we all know, that's where they first met. And then last week, Grissom found this beehive and it just occurred to us what the scene should be, and I love it. I love it. And again, there are many, many more scenes between them in the last few episodes and they're all terrific.

[Trinity]

When is this on???

What day, what channel, what time ??????

[Chloe O'brien]

Season 8 is being aired in the USA at the moment Trin and Jorja departure happens around November. It won't reach our screens until the end of January early February, crap I know. One consolation is that its rumoured that she and Grissom marry next week in New York when they are doing a crossover with Without a trace so maybe she will return for the end of the series.

By the time the series hits the UK my senses and feelings will be numbed by the new season of 24 so the pain won't be so hard to suffer.

[Trinity]

Thanks Kath.

I was worried that it was on and I was missing it!

Is it just miami that is on at the mo - on 5?

[Chloe O'brien]

Thanks Kath.

I was worried that it was on and I was missing it!

Is it just miami that is on at the mo - on 5?

Yeah Trin the vegas and New York series that are on at the moment are repeats from the last series.

[tammyy2j]

Exclusive: More CSI Exits Looming?

In Part 1 of my interview with CSI boss lady Carol Mendelsohn, she swore that Grissom "will not have seen the last of Sara Sidle" after Jorja Fox departs next month. But what that statement doesn't address is the fact that by the time Sara returns, Grissom may already be gone. With contracts for the rest of the show's primary cast — William Petersen included — set to expire at the end of this season, he and other CSIers could follow Fox out the door. What does Mendelsohn have to say about that? Find out — and get the lowdown on who'll replace Grissom and Sara as the show's next super-couple — in this, the second part of our Q&A.

So, who'll fill the couple void left from Grissom-Sara?
Mendelsohn: The new couple may be [one who] sort of started last season that you may not suspect. We have someone who works in the lab and has an interest in another lab tech.

Ahhh… Hodges and Wendy. Interesting. There's been speculation about a possible Catherine-Warrick romance.
Mendelsohn: Clearly, among the team there's a lot of love. But it's kind of familial love. I think Grissom and Sara was a very, very special case.

So nothing's going to develop between Warrick and Catherine?
Mendelsohn: I'm not saying it's not. But that is a friendship that we developed from the beginning of the series. We don't sit in the writers' room and say, "What relationship are we gonna have now?" We were totally invested, all of us, in Grissom and Sara.

It's no secret that the contracts of the rest of your main cast will be expiring soon. Is it possible we may be losing more CSIs in the near future?
Mendelsohn: I suppose anything is possible, but I hope that doesn't happen. I think one of the strengths of CSI and one of the pleasures of doing this job is that we have all been together from the beginning. I would love for us to all continue to be together.

Do you know where things stand? I imagine talks have already begun.
Mendelsohn: As show-runners, we're responsible for the creative direction of the show; we are not responsible for contract negotiations.

Fair enough. Do you see CSI as the type of show that can weather major cast changes, as ER and Law & Order have?
Mendelsohn: Yes. I felt from day one of CSI that the show itself was a living, breathing entity, separate and apart from any of us.... The show is so strong that it could get along without any one of us. That means me or [fellow executive producer] Naren [Shankar] or any producer or writer or cast member. But Gil Grissom is the soul of the show. Gil Grissom is an incredible character. And, you know, it's hard…. I have difficulty thinking about CSI without Grissom and Catherine and Warrick and Nick. But I do believe that people love the show, too, and it could go on. But that doesn't mean it should or we want it to. It's weird. When a show goes on this long, some people start getting itchy feet and want to move on. And I think all of us realized that creatively — and this is separate and apart from anyone's personal decisions about wanting to try other things — we couldn't be more excited or more inspired to be working on this show. We're very lucky that way. Creatively, it's a good place. And I hope that means we'll all stay together.

Will Bill be taking another little mini-hiatus this season?
Mendelsohn: I anticipate as the series goes on, yes, he will want to do that, and we'll figure out a creative way for that to happen.

Any plans to extend Jessica Lucas' stay?
Mendelsohn: We haven't made that decision yet. I absolutely love Jessica, and I love the character of Ronnie Lake. We've got some great episodes with Ronnie coming up. I would say it's a pretty good bet there'll be a Ronnie in our future.

[wizardthecat]

When a young man is found hanging from a tree strangled to death, the CSIs move in to find the killer. It appears that the man, Brian, was taking hormone injections in preparation for a sex reassignment surgery. But as usual, there's more to the story. Brian lived near a local water treatment reservoir where children often swam and fished. The recycled reservoir water was considered "grey," meaning purified, though it was not meant to be drunk.

A former hydrologist, Paul Cyden, had enlisted Brian's help to find out the truth about the reservoir. The water had been contaminated with pharmaceuticals, which had leaked into ground water in the town as well. After Paul is murdered in his home, Brian's mother is identified as Paul's shooter. She had misunderstood Paul and Brian's connection, and believed he had murdered her son. But Brian had killed himself, unable to deal with the humiliation of his misshapen body. To make matters worse, Brian's mother, ill with cancer, ultimately discovers that her cancer is also due to the water's contamination.

Sara continues to work alongside Ronnie Lake on swing shift, and they handle the case of a body found at a construction site. With Greg's help, they deduce that the man had been a reporter covering the opening of a casino (built by Catherine's father, Sam). He died with a film canister in his hands. When Greg develops the film, he discovers evidence that the gaming commissioner at the time was on the take. Sam's bodyguard, Benny Dunbar, killed the reporter to keep the news quiet. Lily, Catherine's mother, helps out on the case, and Greg takes her out to get more information from her for the book he's writing on Vegas.

Meanwhile, as Grissom continues his study of bees, he makes a proposal of marriage to Sara. She accepts.