CSI's George Eads Is Back for Season [Six]

CSI's George Eads Is Back for Season [Six]
Entertainment Tonight

How do you top the season [five] finale of "CSI," directed by QUENTIN TARANTINO, in which Nick (GEORGE EADS) was buried alive with a Web cam? As he lays helpless, the CSI is swarmed and bitten by fire ants, whose sting can be deadly.

"You can throw bugs all over me and they don't bother me but, man, stinky milk," says George, who admits bad smells gross him out more than anything visual. "A coroner explained to me how lucky we are that we don't have to deal with the smell of a dead body. It is pretty horrible."

The season finale racked up more than 30 million viewers, making it the most-watched May sweeps episode in the procedural crime drama's history. And for George it was his favorite episode. "There is no need for me to look anywhere else for creative fulfillment," he says, adding, "The cool thing about Quentin is he has the utmost respect for us and what we are doing, I hold him in such reverence, anyway, that when we got to work there wasn't anything I wouldn't do for him."

Rather than look for a summer project that wouldn't match the standards to which he has become accustomed on "CSI," George spent his time off playing golf and riding his new motorcycle. But his antics on the bike are nowhere near those performed by "Evel Knievel," a role the actor played in the 2004 TNT movie.

"I am not death-defying," George says with a laugh. "It is a great way to clear the mind. With the right bike, it is like street surfing."

Back to work on the [sixth] season of "CSI," along with castmates WILLIAM PETERSEN and MARG HELGENBERGER, George is hoping to see his character in some action sequences while he is still in his prime.

"I told one writer I would like to have a case where Nick is in a bar one night getting some late night food and he hears a guy talking belligerently about a case over beers with a bunch of meatheads. Nick goes over and one-time punches somebody and gets his a$$ kicked. Then he goes through the whole episode beaten up and, at the end, Grissom asks, 'Are you still fighting, what is the matter with you?'"