CSI: NY

CSI: NY left viewers with many questions surrounding the explosive third season finale "Snow Day", particularly those most affected by the events, including Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise), Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Adam Ross (A.J. Buckley).  The highly anticipated continuation premieres on Wednesday, September 26, but for fanatics who just can't wait until the crime drama series returns this fall, read on to find what's in store for season four.

“We're going to follow up. I think we're going to be a little more focused on the continuity with that kind of stuff now,” CSI: NY writer Peter Lenkov confirmed to CSI Files' Kristine Huntley when asked about the characters' fate from the season three finale.

At present, the cast and crew are still working on season four episodes.  However, Lenkov has revealed that everything is going as intended and that there will be a lot of exciting stuff to watch out for.  Many viewers considered last season's finale as a thrilling and action-packed instalment.  This consequently adds a new tone to the future episodes of the show.

“We wanted to do something different.  I think we wanted to do something big and noisy and get everyone involved and have space for everybody.  What happened was that [co-writer] Pam [Veasey] and I were sitting around and just talking about something we'd love to write but that we don't get to write on CSI and we ended up finding a way to fuse that love of action, adventure, pacing and timing and real big stakes, and were able to weave that in to a CSI framework,” Lenkov said.  “I think because of the response and the actors and everybody, we're adding some ticking clocks to episodes.  New York is a fast-paced town so I think a lot of our stories could work with some action-adventure elements in them, and I think that's what we're going to do in some episodes. You'll see that--there's definitely some in the first few episodes.  There's high stakes and ticking clocks and a lot of run and jump stuff that I think is satisfying to people.”


Lenkov, whose credits include 24, The District and Tracker, has hinted some details about season four's episode five and six, which he is currently working on.

“Nina [Tassler, the CBS executive has been talking about this for a while… [Episode five] is basically a forensic investigation into Second Life, an online social network, a metaverse where you go on, you create an avatar and cruise different worlds. Part of our investigation is going in there. Mac Taylor has to create an avatar and go and hunt down a killer who is using somebody's avatar to commit a murder. It's a little bit of a CSI: New York sci-fi internet pursuit with a big action sequence at the end of the episode. It's fun; it actually has a big moment for Mac and Adam because Adam sort of becomes this big expert in the world of Second Life.  He's done it before, so he sort of guides Mac into the how or the where of it all. I think it's going to be a fun episode. It's very different,” he revealed.

As for episode six, Lenkov reveals that it is going to be a horror plot involving a zombie story and a murder that takes place in Amityville.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: CSI Files
(Image courtesy of CBS)