Former Medium star Patricia Arquette has been cast in the lead role for the CBS' CSI spinoff pilot.

She will play a cyber-psychologist and FBI Special Agent Avery Ryan who leads Quantico's Cyber Crime Division, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Her character will have to deal crimes that first begin on the Internet before they spill out into the real world.

Arquette hasn't been on TV much since her NBC show Medium ended after seven seasons. She did appear, for a several episodes, in the HBO show Boardwalk Empire and will be in the Martin Scorsese film The Wannabe.

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