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Bucking the trend of crime shows that focus solely on the workplace, exec producer Pam Veasey says for season 5, ''we decided we would bring the audience into moments when [the characters] go home. We're introducing relationships like brothers and sisters'' — specifically, the bad-girl sister of Eddie Cahill's Detective Flack, who'll be played by Kathleen Munroe. Veasey says CSI: NY wants ''to be very hip, very youthful, very contemporary, so Maroon 5 open up our second episode, performing. And we have Nelly in our episode 3, playing a confidential informant.'' Yep, nothing says ''hip'' like Maroon 5 and Nelly!

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