Both Eddie Cibrian and Sharif Atkins guest starred on another CBS crime drama, Criminal Minds (2005), one of CSI: Miami's sister shows. Cibrian played a serial killer who uses his son to lure women to his home and kill them, while Atkins played an Iraq War veteran who seeks the BAU's help into finding his missing sister.
Rick Hoffman( Darren Ripley) also played Bruno Gomez in the season 2 episode 9 "Bait". He also played characters in the mothership csi and spinoff csi: ny.