Episode 6.03 Pain Killer
Airdate: October 9, 2009

Allison (Patricia Arquette, left) talks with her friend Rosemary Widdick (Martha Plimpton) who has a life-threatening brain tumor on Medium, Friday, Oct. (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)
[Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

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Episode 5.05 Cradle to Grave
Airdate: October 21, 2009

Press Release:
THE BAU INVESTIGATES THE BIZARRE CASE OF A SUSPECT WHO FORCES YOUNG WOMEN INTO MOTHERHOOD BEFORE KILLING THEM, ON “CRIMINAL MINDS,” WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21

“Cradle to Grave” – The team hunts a suspect who impregnates young women and has them give birth before murdering them, on CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Oct. 21 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

• David Rossi………………………….. Joe Mantegna
• Aaron Hotchner………………….. Thomas Gibson
• Emily Prentiss……………………… Paget Brewster
• Derek Morgan…………………….. Shemar Moore
• Dr. Spencer Reid……….. Matthew Gray Gubler
• Jennifer Jareau…………………………… A.J. Cook
• Penelope Garcia……………… Kirsten Vangsness

GUEST CAST:

• Carol…………………………………….. Hallee Hirsh
• Erin Strauss………………………… Jayne Atkinson
• Unsub………………………………… Erik Sundquist
• Maria Ortiz…………………………….. Liz Burnette
• Conrad Winmar…………………………… Max Gail
• Jane Winmar……………………….. Diana Scarwid
• Medical Examiner…………………. Van Epperson
• Julie……………………………………. Mae Whitman
• Young Man…………………………. Simon Sorrells
• Unsub’s Wife…………………………… Frieda Jane
• ND Detective…………………… Spence Kramber
• Dr. Marvin Saul…………………….. Jonathan Nail
• Dekeyser…………………. Lyn Alicia Henderson
• Michael…………………….. Riley Thomas
• Stewart Kristie………………………………… Lauren Skirvin
• SWAT Commander…………………. Mark Berry

WRITTEN BY: Breen Frazier
DIRECTED BY: Rob Spera [Source: CBS]

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Here’s a cool video clip that shows the cast of the hit show Southland going through training with actual Los Angles police officers. They spent time on the firing range, doing traffic stops and learned a lot about the everyday life of the real officers.

Regina King said that they also even felt more respect for the officers after seeing what they go through on a daily basis. Check this out:

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Three Rivers Episode 1.01 – Place of Life
Air Date: October 4, 2009

[Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved]

• On the season premiere of Three Rivers, we see a construction accident where a man falls several stories in Cleveland. Then we see a spelling bee in Pittsburgh where a boy finishes spelling his word correctly, then rushes backstage and starts throwing up blood.
• At Three Rivers Hospital, it’s Ryan Abbott’s first day as Assistant to the Transplant Coordinator. Dr. Andy Yablonski gets called to the ER. There’s a gentleman with a foreign accent that won’t speak to anyone but him. The man tells Andy that he’s been diagnosed with HCM (hypertrophic cardio myopathy). His cardiologist in Omaha told him he has less than 6 months to live. He originally was from a refugee camp in Ethiopia. He wants Andy to give him a heart transplant.
• Just then, a pregnant woman with no other symptoms goes into cardiac arrest. Andy gets her heart going and she is taken to ICU.
• Dr. David Lee is grilling Ryan on transplant trivia, then sends him for donuts for the department meeting later that morning. He seems like he’s hazing the new guy.
• Dr. Miranda Foster is assigned the 13-year-old patient, who turns out to be the son of one of the hospital’s biggest donors. She examines the boy and tells the father that she’ll know more after some tests.
• The morning department meeting begins and Andy briefs the team on the pregnant woman. She has congestive heart failure. They opt for bed rest to try to let the baby grow to term, then transplant. She has O-neg blood, so it may take longer to find a heart. They’ll need to put in a VAD (ventricular assist device) to help her heart pump until she can get a transplant.
• In Cleveland the wife of the construction worker agrees to let him be a transplant donor, but wants to wait until her daughter arrives to say goodbye first.
• Dr. foster is called to a room where a radiologist has an x-ray of the boy to show her. Somehow, he has swallowed tweezers, a paper clip and other odd metal items. That has to be the cause of his stomach bleed.
• Andy talks to the Ethiopian young man and hears the story of his village being burned to the ground when he was six, then living in the desert for a year, and finally being put in a refugee camp where many others died. Andy promises to do his best to get him the treatment her needs, but it won’t be easy. He is a non-citizen and has no insurance, and those will be hurdles.
• When Dr. Foster tells the boy’s father about the pica problem, he gets very defensive and angry with her. She feels the boy needs psychological help too, but the father won’t hear any of it.
• Ryan finds out about the heart of the construction worker in Cleveland. He rushes to tell Andy just before he performs the surgery to insert the VAD in the pregnant woman. They rush to talk to the woman’s husband.
• Andy tells him that if they don’t commit to the heart right away, they have to let the next patient on the list have it and wait for another. But they will have to deliver the baby (28 weeks gestation) before they do the transplant. The husband has to make the decision before the wife is out from under general anesthetic. He decides to go for the heart.

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