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2014 Season 14 'CSI' Cast News Update: Patricia Arquette Spin-Off; Ted Danson Real Life Autopsy Trauma

News has it actress Patricia Arquette is starring in a pilot for a brand new CSI spin-off update about an FBI agent based in Quantico, Virginia, who has been tasked with investigating the sexy world of cyber-crime. Current 2014 Season 14 cast member Ted Danson might be down for a shift in his current show's theme to include more cyber and less actual crime. A preparatory autopsy trip scarred the aging actor for life.

Patricia Arquette has been reported to be the new star of ABC's newest CSI spinoff, according to entertainment news source CNN.

The show shifts away from the hum-drum world of violent crimes to the more modern terror of internet-based illegal activities:

"The project is set in the FBI's Cyber Crime Division in Quantico, VA and follows a team "tasked to solve high octane crimes that start in the mind, live online, and play out into the real world." Arquette will play Avery Ryan, the special agent in charge of the unit.

"The new spin-off is written and produced by franchise veterans Carol Mendelsohn, Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue; exec produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, plus adds producer Mary Aiken, who inspired the concept via her work as a "cyber psychologist."

Ted Danson is going to need to see a psychologist to help him deal with the life altering trauma of witnessing an autopsy.

Ted Danson is quoted by Contact Music as admitting that he had been altered forever by his experience with that dead man's body:

"They suited me up and I walked in... One guy, who was completely splayed open, was like a science experiment... but that wasn't as scary as the person who looked like he did probably five minutes before he died; he looked like he had just closed his eyes. That was death.

"I still can't talk about it without going, 'Good Lord'... I ended up holding this man's skullcap while they weighed his (brain). I went home and wept and called my wife... It changed me. It was big."

Wait...are we still talking about this guy's skullcap or?

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