Season two dvd featurette
ANTHONY ZUIKER - Creator & executive producer: "I think the show has developed much more for the second season. Number one, we really attempted to ratchet up the scripts and be a lot more visual, tell a lot more complex stories, really amp up from Season one. Season one was more of a discovery season for us. We were learning what the show was after the pilot - the things that weren't right in the pilot, the things that were right in the pilot in terms of learning who these characters were. Grissom himself will face a personal challenge that will go on with one of his five senses that may sort of make his crime solving a little more difficult. We will also be going into the issue of Sara Sidle's feelings for a particular character on the show."
JORJA FOX: "Sara solidified her identity as a complete loner. (She's) sort of a throwback kind of person, (who) at the same time fell, maybe, head over heels for Grissom."
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"There's a loneliness about the work that the CSIs do and the difference that she had in starting with the show is that she was sort of ripped out of another environment and came down to Las Vegas and became a member of a team of people that were already very close, already had families and friends and everything in Las Vegas. So I think it was an Achilles heel that she's had - she came alone and rather than sorta going out and trying to make a life for herself, she's let that loneliness completely magnify into her work."
ANN DONAHUE - Executive producer: "A defining moment in the Grissom-Sara relationship. That's when they were trying to break into the walls to find a dead body and they stepped outside the apartment - Grissom and Sara - and she reached to him and brushed chalk off his face. It was very intimate and we joke that with our show, that's a love scene on CSI. There's no sex, but it's sexier than almost anything on tv."
JORJA FOX: "I have no idea if Grissom's in love with Sara, you'll have to ask Billy that question. I think she hits a wall by the end of Season two also, I think she finds herself very much alone and not really quite sure how to dig herself out of that.
It might take a long time for Sara to get what she wants. I think she ultimately, probably will get it, but it might be a long time coming."
