The sneak peek to the major crossover that the “CSI” franchise will do in November has been given in the form of promo pics. As reported in August, Laurence Fishburne’s Raymond Langston from “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” will visit the other two shows, “CSI: Miami” and “CSI: NY“, during special one-week event.

The crossover begins on the November 9 episode for “Miami” called “Bone Voyage“. Horatio Caine calls Langston to come to Miami when a severed leg found in the Everglades is discovered to belong to a girl who went missing in Las Vegas a week earlier.

The second part takes place on November 11 for a “NY” episode called “Hammer Down”. Langston rushes to New York when Det. Mac Taylor and his team identify a woman hidden in a big rig following an accident as someone he interviewed in Miami related to his missing person’s case. Though the woman disappears after the accident, Langston and Mac discover they’re onto an interstate trucking ring that specializes in human cargo and black market organ harvesting.

The third and final part lands as the “Las Vegas” episode called “The Lost Girl“. Langston’s continued search for the young girl taken hostage as part of the human trafficking operation leads him to investigate a prostitution ring in Las Vegas that may harbor the missing woman.

CBS is planning a “CSI” extravaganza for November sweeps — star Laurence Fishburne (Dr. Raymond Langston) will appear in all three scene-of-the-crime shows in one week, and the whole thing wraps up on the flagship “CSI” on Nov. 12. Mild spoilers about the episodes follow.

Langston will first visit “CSI: Miami” on Nov. 9; he travels south in an episode titled “Bone Voyage” to investigate a case with ties to Las Vegas. Fishburne and “CSI: Miami” star David Caruso are pictured at left; perhaps Langston and Horatio Caine are talking about cool sunglasses, which Langston is still sporting when he arrives in New York on Nov. 11 (Fishburne and “CSI: NY” star Gary Sinise are pictured at right).

In that “CSI: NY” episode, “Hammer Down,” according to CBS, “a big-rig accident results in the discovery of an interstate trucking ring that specializes in human cargo and black-market organ harvesting, and sets off a race against time to save a hostage.”

The three-part crossover concludes on Nov. 12 on “CSI.” In that episode, viewers will learn more about what Langston is investigating: “a nationwide human trafficking network that abducts young girls forces them into prostitution,” according to David Weddle, who penned the episode with his writing partner, Bradley Thompson.

Ubiquitious guest star Mark Sheppard, who played Romo Lampkin on “Battlestar Galactica” (a character who knew a thing or two about shades), has a guest role in that Nov. 12 “CSI” episode. Sheppard, who has a credit list as long as your arm and apparently by law must appear on every scripted show in existence, also appears on USA’s new show “White Collar” Oct. 23 and “Supernatural” on Nov. 19.

You know I usually make a slideshow when new photos from an upcoming episode of CSI (and, obviously, all the other shows I cover) come out.  But anyone who’s done a slideshow on BuddyTV know the rules: you need to have at least three slides before you can make one.  Unfortunately, for next week’s episode of CSI, the folks at CBS only gave us one.

So I decided we’ll just have a little bit of fun and make up a caption to this image.  Nothing’s at stake.  Just a bit of fun.  This photo, by the way, if for next week’s episode, named “Working Stiffs”–and involves a case of office politics gone wrong.  Really wrong.

Let’s put it this way.  Two people who work at the same place decide to rob a casino.  Sounds bad already, right?  But something worse happens in the end, and I’m guessing it’s a murder, because the team will be investigating a murder.  Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight will be a guest star in this episode.

Now for the photo, because seeing Laurence Fishburne look like this is a bit funny:

What do you think is happening?  Does Langston know anyone past those doors?  Why is Nick rapping?  Okay, he isn’t rapping, but you get my idea.  This episode of CSI airs October 15, from 9pm, on CBS.  That’s how I’d end the slideshow if this was a slideshow.

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