For several months now,
CSI creator, Anthony Zuiker, has been working on a project that will draw people into cyberworld. After learning about CBS' venture with Electric Sheep, a company that designs software for
Second Life, Zuiker has decided to start off his plans with an episode of
CSI: NY.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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The fifth episode of
CSI: NY season 4 entitled “Down the Rabbit Hole,” which airs on October 24, serves as a spillover into the virtual landscape. According to csifiles.com, the team will be investigating the murder of a woman named Cheryl, who has been shot to death and is found with a tick on her body, as well as an action figure nearby. When the team looks into Cheryl's life in the hopes of finding clues about her death, the team discovers that she had been participating in
Second Life as her online alter ego, Venus. Mac Taylor (
Gary Sinise) will now have to create an avatar and go online in pursuit of her killer.
For those who are not familiar,
Second Life is an online community where people from around the world can create an avatar and live a virtual “second life.” Zuiker, who himself is a member of
Second Life, is now working with Electric Sheep to bring
CSI: NY online, aside from just featuring the virtual network on the show.
"I want to have 16 million people go to first life [
CSI: NY] and to
Second Life," he said. "That'd really be a lot of fun."
"The campaign will be something like, 'Your first life begins at 10 o'clock. But your
Second Life begins this weekend,'" he said. "You'll be able to go and download and get in the site and play in the [
CSI] lab."
The crossover to
Second Life is “going to be the biggest cross-platform stunt in TV history,” according to Zuiker. Within the virtual lab, members will be able to practice facial reconstructions and will also be able to visit the "Zuiker Blog", where they can see a dead body and give their opinion about how the person died.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: CSI Files
(Image courtesy of CBS)