Exclusive: CSI: NY Plots Major Love Interest for Mac

Megan Dodds, Gary Sinise Mac Taylor's social calendar may soon receive bigger on CSI: NY.The CBS drama has reserved former Detroit 1-8-7 star Megan Dodds to appear in multiple episodes just like a new love interest for Gary Sinise's Mac, executive producer Zach Reiter notifies TVGuide.com. The casting will come in the identical season that finally introduced Mac's wife, Claire (Jaime Ray Newman), who died inside the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Convey more scoop inside your favorite shows inside our Winter TV preview"Just before the conclusion of the year - that might function as finish in the show - we explore Mac's romantic existence just a little,Inch Reiter states. "We basically set that up inside the premiere, getting that moment where Mac releases the opera tickets to the ocean and symbolically states goodbye to Claire which chapter of his existence. I had been wanting he'd be capable of proceed romantically. It may be unfortunate in case your guy like him could not find love within the existence."Dodds may have Christine, a girl from Mac's past. "When Mac first gone after NY and made a decision to participate police force department, Mac reaches police force academy with Christine's brother," Reiter states. "So there's a familiarity plus an association from sometime ago when. ... But this is often a lady such a long time later who reaches to reunite, virtually to convey, 'I discover about everything you did for your [Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance] as well as the kids of 9/11. It snowballs next.InchUnique: CSI: NY books Lee Majors for guest spotReiter states Dodds' character look in five episodes. "We'll start to see the courtship," according to him. "If an individual can be obtained. You'll find areas of that relationship that become a little complicated, but what we should are wanting is always to determine if Mac can effectively proceed from Claire. It's fun to find out him awkwardly undergo that."Dodds, 41, co-starred among Came Barrymore's evil stepsisters in Ever After: A Cinderella Story. She also came out on such Tv shows as House, Mislead Me, as well as the BBC's MI-5.CSI: NY airs Fridays at 9/8c on CBS. Dodds will first are available in this season's twelfth episode, that is not scheduled.