In episode #2 of the first season, "Cool Change", Gil Grissom turns to greet the young CSI from San Francisco. He has called her to investigate the shooting of new CSI, Holly Gribbs. Holly later dies and Sara stays in Vegas, and with Grissom.

Although their relationship started at a forensic lecture in San Francisco, their love wasn't an easy one. Grissom fought his feelings, while Sara let hers be known from the start.




The flirting continued throughtthrough out the season and in "Unfriendly Skies" there was alota lot of flirting. Just check out this GSR scene from the script:
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(While examining the airplane bathroom)
Sara: I take it that's not blood?
Grissom: No, but it has protein in it.
Sara: Ah, the mile high club. That means the two passengers may have had no idea what was going on inside that cabin.
Grissom: High altitude enhances the entire sexual experience. It increases the euphoria.
Sara: Well, it's good. I don't know if it's that good...Cite your source.
Grissom: Would you hand me a swab please?
Sara: You're avoiding the question. "Enhances sexual experience. Increases euphoria." Cite your source.
Grissom: A magazine.
Sara: What magazine?
Grissom: "Applied Psychodynamics in Forensic Science".
Sara: Never heard of it.
Grissom: I'll get you a subscription.
(Sara doesn't say anything)
Grissom: Now cite your source.
Sara: Oh, now you wanna go down that route?
Grissom: Yeah.
Sara (Smiles and shakes her head): Nah, nevermind.
Grissom: You started it.
Sara: Delta Airlines, Flight 1109, Boston-Miami, March '93, Ken Fuller. Hazel eyes, Organic Chem Lab TA, BMOC...overrated...in...every aspect. (Grissom looks at her) Could we get back to work please?
Grissom: Yeah, I think due to your uh...first hand knowledge and experience in airplane bathrooms, you should do the swab.



The end of the first season brought us "The Strip Strangler" It was a case that brought alota lot of attention and the FBI was brought in. They asked Sara to be a decoy and Grissom wasn't happy.


Here is a bit of what Grissom said to Brass about the FBI asking for Sara:

"I told Culpepper that he could not have Sara."
"I know what you told him."
-- Gil Grissom and Jim Brass (The Strip Strangler)



In season 2, there was a new development in the relationship of Grissom and Sara. She was told, by Grissom to "get a life". She did. She met Hank Pedegrew in "Bully For You". Nick and Sara were investigating a body left in a leather bag. They both smelled of decomp. Hank asked Sara out, even though she smelled.
Grissom told them to shower with lemons.

Here's a scene with Sara and Greg:

You smell like death."
"I've heard."
"You know ... a real man wouldn't mind."
-- Greg Sanders and Sara Sidle (Bully for You)





In Scuba Doobie- Doo,Doobie-Doo, we get our most intimate GSR moment since the show began. Here's a picture and a bit of the script:


Clip of the scene

"You okay?"
"Ninety-five."
"Excuse me?"
"Normally my pulse is seventy. When it gets to 95, I realize how mad I am. I-I have ten people working around the clock on this thing."
"You're too hard on yourself."
"No, no. I'm not mad at me. There's a body in there and that guy knows where it is!"
"What's your pulse at now?"
"You want to take a walk around the block? Get some air?"
"No."
"Clear your head ..."
"I'm fine."
"Okay."
[Sara reaches up, touches Grissom's face. Grissom is not sure how to take this.]
"Chalk ... from plaster."
"Oh."
[Grissom wipes his cheek and looks at the back of his hand. Then back at Sara.]
"Better go wash up."
[Sara goes back into the appartment, leaving Gil Grissom behind to look at her as she goes.]
-- Sara Sidle and Gil Grissom (Scuba Doobie-Doo)


In "You've Got Male", Sara realizes that she is alot like one of the victims. She has alot of take out menus, emails, and catalogs. She also gets to read an email from a vic to a suspect with Grissom that hits close to home:






"It's easy to wear your heart on your sleeve when you're not looking in his eyes."
-- Sara Sidle to Gil Grissom (You've Got Male)


In "The Finger", Sara is on a date with Hank, when Catherine comes into the diner with a finger of a kidnapping victim and leaves it with Sara.



"I don't normally date women from work but there was ... something about you. And it definitely wasn't your perfume."
"I cannot believe you brought that up."
-- Hank Peddigrew and Sara Sidle (The Finger)




"Burden Of Proof" gave us some insight into the Sara/Grissom relationship.
They worked on an experiment together. It involved raw meat.



"So, take some photos of the experiment for the D.A. And then ... uh ... get rid of that stuff."
"That meat... the raw meat... me?"
"Yeah."
"How many meals have we shared together?"
"I don't know."
"Take a guess -- over a year working together."
"Thirty."
"I'm a vegetarian. Everyone here knows I'm a vegetarian. I haven't eaten meat since we stayed up that night with that dead pig. It pains me to see ground beef; forget about cleaning it up."
"Okay. Have Nick do it."
-- Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle (Burden of Proof)




"What is this?"
"It's, uh, just what it says: It's a request for a leave of absence -- six months ... year, maybe."
"Why?"
"I was thinking of checking out the federal government system - FBI ..."
"We have the best lab in the country."
"I need a different work environment."
"What does that mean?"
"One with, um, communication ... respect."
"Everybody here respects you."
"You don't."
"Is this about that hamburger thing?"
"No, Grissom ... this is not about that Hamburger thing. I-I-I don't believe you. How can you reduce everything that I've said to some kind of single quirk? Do you think the problem here is just about me?"
"If you don't sign my leave, I'm going to have to quit."
"Hey, Sara?"
"The Lab needs you here."
"Great."
-- Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle (Burden of Proof)

Later, being a good friend, Catherine tries to help Grissom:
"I heard about you and ... uh ... Sara."
"Sara, you know, she gets very emotional ... "
"Are you in denial? No, that's ... no, no ... way too analytical. Wow, you got burned bad, huh? Welcome to the club. I got third-degree burns from my marriage. Happens to everybody. Everybody just moves on."
"Good. Let's move on."
"But you have to deal with it. You have to deal with it first. You got to deal with it before it goes away. You are the supervisor. You have responsibilities, and people are making a family around you whether you like it not, whether you give them permission or not. We don't have to go to the Grand Tetons together, just ... every now and then you got to lift your head up out of that microscope."
-- Catherine Willows and Gil Grissom (Burden of Proof)

Clips from Burden Of Proof


Another great GSR eppy is "Prinum Non Nocere"



"Two minutes for elbowing. Four minutes for high sticking. Ten minutes, unsportsman-like conduct."
"Boys will be boys."
"Yeah, sounds like these boys went to a fight and a hockey game broke out."
"I've been a baseball fan my whole life."
"Baseball. Well, that figures. All those stats."
"It's a beautiful game."
"Since when are you interested in beauty?"
"Since I met you."
-- Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle (Primum Non Nocere)



"Anatomy Of A Lye" gave us another good GSR moment. Sara and Grissom were investigating a scene and she turns of a light.
Here's what Grissom had to say:


"Well, you do know how to light up a room."
-- Gil Grissom to Sara Sidle (Anatomy of a Lye)


In "Crash and Burn" Sara finds out she is "the other woman" in Hank's life. When his long-time girlfriend is injured, Hank can't lie anymore.


Catherine shows Sara that she can be her friend after Sara breaks it off with Hank.