1. By
CRAIG
TOMASHOFF
and
LISA
CHAMBERS
Photograph by
JIM
WRIGHT
Las Vegas. Sin City. The night was
black as an oil patch left by a perp’s getaway
car, but the neon lights of the Strip cast a glow
WILLIAM on the town like a rainbow on a bender. That’s
PETERSEN
when we saw them…Grissom and Sidle, two
CSIs who had no business being in a bedroom
together. The dame wore a robe, like she’d just
and stepped out of the shower. And Grissom…her
JORJA boss…lay on the bed, talking about death.
Turns out relationships that happen in Vegas
FOX don’t always stay in Vegas. Here’s the evidence:
In the last scene of CSI’s May season finale,
tell all about Gil Grissom (William Petersen) and Sara Sidle
(Jorja Fox) shocked viewers with their roman-
CSI’S tic rendezvous. Fan Web sites went nuts.
TV GUIDE got lots of letters—some people
liked the relationship; others wanted to send
biggest the story line on a slow boat to China. We had
mystery yet to know: What were the producers thinking?
Exec producer Carol Mendelsohn came
clean. This promises to be the most personal
season of CSI yet. Good thing, too, since it’s now
going up against TV’s sudsiest smash, Grey’s
Anatomy. “The bones of Season 7 will be
the toll the job has on our CSIs,” she says. “The
sin in Sin City is beginning to wear on them.”
Next, we talked to exec producer Naren
Shankar: “We’re not turning into a soap opera
but we’re going to see their anger with the
world, and them reaching out to each other.”
Then they really sang like canaries: Turns
out all the CSIs will get roughed up this sea-
son, in one way or another.
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