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Grissom and his team investigate the a double murder when a woman is found murdered in her house. The woman's striking resemblance to Sara causes Grissom to confront his feelings for her. When the body of the victim's boyfriend is found disected and separated over multiple garbage cans, the CSIs soon suspect the murderer is a doctor.
The victim was Sara's double. Grissom's reaction:
Grissom takes his time in the house doing a one hour walk through before going out to talk to his team. He seeks out Sara to make sure she isn't the vic in the house.
Grissom doesn't want Sara in the house. She is confused and a little mad when he tells her to take the perimiter.
Warrick and Sara check out Debbie's fridge
Brass talks with Dr. Lurie
Later, Sara prints the vic, Debbie and sees what has had Grissom at the crime scene for three shifts.
Sara meets Debbie
Grissom starts to hallucinate at the crime scene. He looks around Debbie's house and sits on her bed. Looking in the mirror, he first sees Debbie, then Sara looking back at him.
When the suspect, Dr. Lurie is brought in for questioning,it's Grissom that confesses. Here is a bit of the script.
(VINCENT LURIE and the LAWYER stand up and head for the door. The LAWYER holds
the door open for LURIE. Before he can leave, GRISSOM stops him.)
GRISSOM: (quietly) It's sad, isn't it, doc? Guys like us. Couple of middle-
aged men who've allowed their work to consume their lives.
(Although he doesn't turn to look at GRISSOM, he's listening.)
GRISSOM: The only time we ever touch other people is when we're wearing our
latex gloves.
(LURIE turns to look at GRISSOM.)
GRISSOM: We wake up one day and realize that for fifty years we haven't really
lived at all. But then, all of a sudden ... we get a second chance.
GRISSOM: (v.o.) Somebody young and beautiful shows up. Somebody ...
GRISSOM: ...somebody we could care about. She offers us a new life with her ... ...
but we have a big decision to make, right? Because we have to risk everything
we've worked for in order to have her.
GRISSOM: I couldn't do it ...
GRISSOM: ... but you did. You risked it all ...
GRISSOM: ... and she showed you a wonderful life, didn't she? But then she
took it away and gave it to somebody else, ...
GRISSOM: (v.o.) ... and you were lost.
GRISSOM: You killed them both, and now you have nothing.
VINCENT LURIE: (nods) I'm still here.
GRISSOM: Are you?
(VINCENT LURIE turns and walks out of the interview room, his LAWYER following
behind him.)
[OBSERVATION ROOM VIEW]
(Through the glass, SARA watches GRISSOM sitting at the interview table, her
image reflected in the glass. Just how long she's been standing there, how much
she's heard, is anyone's guess.)
(Camera refocuses on SARA.)
(Although by the look on her face, we suspect she's heard it all. She watches
as GRISSOM shakes his head and lowers it. BRASS walks out of the room leaving
GRISSOM alone at the table while SARA watches him.)
Grissom's confession
Butterflied Ending with commentary
William Petersen personally scripted most of his "talk" with the suspect Dr. Lurie. However, when he says "We wake up one day & realize that for 50 years we haven’t really lived at all." His character Gil Grissom at present time would only be 48 years old (17 August 1956). William Petersen himself was 51 (21 February 1953) at the time. Dr. Lurie was also in his late 40's.
This episode was originally titled "Fishing in Vegas"
From Modern Day Sherlock.
David Rambo was a freelancer when he wrote this episode, but he subsequently joined the writing staff in season five.
DAVID RAMBO: The call to write a freelance script for CSI: came out of the blue. William Petersen [Gil Grissom], who came from a theatre background, wanted to bring a playwright into the show's writing mix. He called friends from the Steppenwolf Theatre who were now running the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, which had produced one of my plays and for whom I was writing another. I was happily going around the country for productions of my plays, and to teach and give workshops on playwriting with no expectation to work in television. The Geffen people gave Billy my name. The producers read some of my plays, called me in for a meeting, and the next week I was in the writer's room sitting in on the story break for "Jackpot." In fact, if you look at the special features on the Season Three DVDs, the camera crew shot some footage of that break, and I'm there being very, very quiet at the writer's table.
DAVID RAMBO: Like most episodes, this one came from sitting down with the writers and kicking lots of ideas around. The initial idea was to write a two-character episode for Grissom and Catherine that would essentially be a filmed two-character play, but it didn't feel like a CSI: episode. We ended up taking details from two real-life cases that our tech advisers had familiarity with. What I tried to do in the script was to make Grissom's journey a forensic expedition into his own heart. The idea of having the victim look exactly like Sara Sidle came from the director, Richard Lewis. It was a brilliant way to illustrate what was going on there. At the end of the season, a writing spot opened up on the staff when CSI: New York was getting started, and Carol Mendelson asked if I'd be interested in it. I've been with CSI: ever since.
DAVID RAMBO: I hate spoilers and teases. But I will say that we've just filmed two of the episodes that Liev Schreiber is doing for us, and they're very exciting. All of our regular cast have been really terrific in these episodes as the CSI: team has to deal with an outsider coming to work with them. I think everybody's heard that Grissom is going on a teaching sabbatical, but viewers, especially "Butterflied" fans, should watch closely during episode 711, "Leaving Las Vegas" -- Grissom sends Sara a special gift.
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