Inside CSI's love affair
Julie Chen: Last night's episode was almost over when we heard Gil Grissom ruminating about the end of his own life.
William Petersen: "It's a little scene but it's just a coda on the season. If we do it right it'll seem like 'did that just happen'?"
Julie Chen: It's what we saw next that is destined to become a classic CSI moment.
Jorja Fox: "You know what? Honestly, Sara's never given up on Grissom to be perfectly honest with you. And that is the big question - how long has this been going on? You know, Hall and Oates do a great version of that song, and I think we're all wondering that same question, including the writers at this point."
Julie Chen: For years it seemed as if there was something unspoken in the relationship between Grissom and Sara.
William Petersen: "We were doling it out in little tiny pieces, just between me and Jorja, so it's a big deal for me and her just in terms of where we're at.
The idea is that it's intimate, it's not sexual in any way. It's like a married couple in a bedroom at night talking to each other. The implication for Jorja and I is that we've had a relationship for many years that nobody knows about, that we, even in our behavior around here, nobody would know."
Grissom might think that no one knows about his relationship with Sara, but fellow supersleuths Catherine and Nick are far from clueless.
Julie Chen: Is Catherine going to judge it? Is she going to look at it --
Marg Helgenberger: "I don't think so. No, I don't think so at all. I think she'll be perfectly content just sort of watching it unfold and watching them trying to keep it a secret."
George Eads: "He sees the way they look at each other. He, I think, understands Sara very well. And I almost don't think he blames her. I mean, doesn't everyone just love Grissom? There's just something eccentric and weird and kooky and cool and awesome about Grissom, man!"
Jorja Fox: "One of the greatest gifts in this cliffhanger for Sara, irregardless of what it turns out to be, is that there's the tiniest ray of sunshine in that scene that we don't get to see these characters have that much. They live in the shadows. They live in the dark sides of peoples' lives.
Here's this little bit of oxygen that got blown into that space where we find Grissom and Sara. That's an interesting thing to maybe have to look forward to next season."
