CBS: Recaps of Returning Favorites
‘Without a Trace’
‘CSI: Crime Scene
Investgation’
Returns: 9 p.m. Oct. 9
■ Recap: A coffin broke during a funeral, reveal-
ing two bodies inside. One of them was a private
investigator with ties to Lou Gedda, the mobster
and strip club owner who tried to frame Warrick
for the death of one of his dancers.
Later, police find Warrick standing
over Gedda’s body at his club, gun
in hand and arrest him. A bloody
key was found in the locker of a
police officer named Pritchard
Marg
clearing Warrick of Gedda’s mur-
Helgenberger der. After a celebratory breakfast
with his colleagues, Warrick was approached by
Undersheriff McKeen, whom he’d insulted during
an earlier case involving Gedda. He told McKeen
he suspected others were involved in the mob-
ster’s murder and he planned to pursue them.
McKeen shot and killed Warrick.
■ Cast: Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric
Szmanda, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall
‘CSI: Miami’
Returns: 10 p.m. Monday
■ Recap: The CSI team investigated the death of a
man involved in illegal munitions trafficking.
Suspecting that their shooter had powder burns,
they questioned two men with powder-burned
hands. One was an ammo dealer who did business
with the dead man. He was killed as he was being
arrested. The other was Ron Saris, who turned out
to be recently married to Julia, the mother of
Horatio’s son, Kyle. Convinced that Ron was only
after Julia’s money and could hurt Kyle, Horatio
persuaded them to meet him at an airfield. They
never showed, but the dead man’s brother did; he
shot the ammo dealer to avenge his sibling’s death.
Horatio is shot while he waits for Julia.
■ Cast: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Jonathan
Togo, Adam Rodriquez, Rex Linn, Eva La Rue
‘CSI: NY’
Returns: 10 p.m. Wednesday
■ Recap: A bank robber calling himself Joe asked
for a crime scene investigator to come into the
bank, whose manager had been shot dead, to prove
that he didn’t kill the man. Mac went in and used a
portable CT scanner to capture images of the dead
man so that Sid and Hawkes could do a long-dis-
tance autopsy. Then the bank manager’s wife was
shot — at home — with the same gun. Joe told Mac
the real robbers were holding his family. Mac emp-
tied Joe’s gun and drove him to Joe’s home, which
was empty, but Joe saved one bullet, which he
loaded into his gun as he ordered Mac to drive
onto a bridge.
■ Cast: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes,
Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Eddie Cahill,
Hill Harper
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Returns: 10 p.m. Tuesday
■ Recap: As Jack faced his dis-
ciplinary hearing for “going
rogue” to bring down a human-
trafficking ring — and getting
shot in the process — the rest
of the team investigated a
strange incident at a coffee
shop where five people disap-
peared within seconds of one
another. The suicide of a friend
of one of the missing persons
was the key to solving the case,
which involved the molestation
of children at a camp years
earlier. Jack was relieved of his
duties as head of the Missing
Persons Unit. Sam had her
baby — a boy. Jack visited her
at the hospital and told her she
no longer needed to go through
this alone.
■ Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Eric Close, Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery,
Enrique Murciano (pictured above) and Roselyn Sanchez
‘NCIS’
Returns: 8 p.m. Tuesday
■ Recap: NCIS Director Jenny Shepard tracked her there, but they were too late;
she’d been fatally shot. Assistant Director
attended the funeral of Decker, a retired
Leon Vance was promoted to director, and
agent with whom she and
he immediately disbanded Gibbs’ team,
Gibbs had worked under
terminating Ziva’s liaison position, assign-
cover in Europe years earli-
ing Tony to sea duty and transferring
er. When she overheard a
McGee to the Cyber Crimes Unit. The sea-
man at the funeral using a
son ended with him saying, “Agent Gibbs,
code name from that time,
meet your new team.”
she feared the worst. A lead
Mark Harmon from Decker’s widow sent ■ Cast: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly,
Shepard to the Nevada desert, where Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray, Pauley
Decker owned a diner. Tony and Ziva Perrette
‘Cold Case’
Returns: 9 p.m. Sept. 28
■ Recap: Things won’t be as bad
for Philadelphia police detective
Lilly Rush as they were a year ago,
since she was getting back to the
job after being shot. She and her
cohorts will continue to revisit
long-unsolved crimes, with the
show maintaining its clever con-
ceit of often using two guest casts
— one playing relevant characters
in the present day, the other por-
traying the same parts in flash-
backs to a previous year, when the
given story’s crime was commit-
ted. True cases have fueled many
episodes, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see that happen again, along with the use of one par-
ticular artist’s music throughout one story.
■ Cast: Danny Pino, Jeremy Ratchford, Kathryn Morris, John Finn, Thom Barry,