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On Thursday’s CSI, Ray Langston’s obsession with Dr. Jekyll begins to involve other members of the team.

When Langston (Laurence Fishburne) and Nick (George Eads) are called to the scene of a family’s brutal murder, their investigation leads them to the basement of the house next door, which is full of equipment that suggests Dr. Jekyll lives there.

“We find some of his homemade surgical equipment that will make your hair stand up,” Eads tells TVGuide.com. “The clues he leaves are literally something out of dinner theater. This guy’s dropping all these squirrelly clues all over the place. To decipher these clues, we call upon Nick’s instinct, but tap even more into Dr. Ray’s insights into the criminal mind.”

The case takes the team to a hospital, where the investigators soon learn that Dr. Jekyll is impersonating a staff member. “Right when we’re about to catch the guy and bust in to see him torturing someone, he’s not there,” Eads says. “Realizing that he’s in this hospital we’re in and he’s in disguise, we end up running and chasing. It gets pretty intense.”

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Aspiring actors at Capital High School got some real-life answers about the profession during an online Skype session with cast members from “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” Monday afternoon.

Students in theater and business classes used the popular web cam program Skype to discuss acting and directing with the cast and crew of the show.

Technology teacher Bill Kaiser said the school was fortunate to get such an opportunity.

“You can’t put a price on that,” he said.

The Skype session was initiated by CHS librarian Joan Meyer and English teacher Ryan Hanson, whose cousin, Shelli Bergh, is a cast member of the show.

Freshman Shelby Branson said getting to ask questions of professional actors will help further her motivation to pursue an acting career.

Classmate Connor McSweeney agreed.

“When it comes down to it, you want to hear it from someone who is doing it, making the money, and you see them every night on TV,” McSweeney said. “It’s more powerful.”

Kaiser said students got to see how actors work on real, live, active sets since the broadcast was from the sound stage the “CSI” cast uses.

“They got to ask questions with people who are actively engaged in high levels of the business,” he said.

Cast member George Eads and director Martha Coolidge took breaks while filming an episode that will air on April 1 to talk to the young people.

Eads, who plays crime scene investigator Nick Strokes, said his Texan accent requires him to spend extra time rehearsing.

“I don’t want to sound like Gomer Pyle,” he said with a laugh.

Students asked Eads the best part of being an actor.

Eads didn’t say a word, and just gestured the money sign with two fingers.

Eads told the group that he was 28 years old with 12 cents to his name when he got the part on “CSI”

“I didn’t know where my next meal was going to come from,” he said. “I went from having 12 cents to a quarter million — from zero to hero.”

Although the money is good, it’s not the main motivating factor, Eads said.

“Once I went to acting school I knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” he said.

Director Martha Coolidge told students that it’s important to become established before one attempts directing.

“I highly recommend studying acting if you want to be a director,” Coolidge said.

Then one must feel they are ready, call in all their favors, have a vision, and go for it, she said.

“You can also establish yourself as a director by being a really good writer,” she added.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actor George Eads (Nick Stokes) will be honored at the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund’s 19th Anniversary Gala on May 8, 2010 in New York City. Eads, whose mother is of Greek descent, will receive the Artistic Humanitarian Award. CSI: New York actress Melina Kanakaredes (Stella Bonasera) will also attend the Gala as a scholarship presenter.

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