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One minute a poker-faced sleuth can be found intoning “We chase the lie till it leads to the truth”; the next they’ll be gesturing to an anatomical sketch, cracking “This is the vagina, and it does tell a monologue.”

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Cold ones too, most likely, considering he and the rest of the crew are spending this nippy March night outdoors-lensing the opener to an upcoming episode in which a couple is found stabbed to death outside a restaurant. “These are the nights when I get a little freaked out….The crime scenes [are] always just a little spooky and sad,” says costar Jorja Fox, 31, who plays Grissom protege Sara Sidle, of tonight’s bloody scenario. But it’s the chillingly real, ripped-from-the-headlines tales that creep Fox out the most. “If something just falls out of the sky into someone’s imagination, it’s easier to just be like ‘Wow, this is cool,’” she says. “But when you know that this is based on something that happened to somebody somewhere, there’s a weight to that that’s very real. I hope I don’t lose that.”

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