CSI

I love CSI. I finally manage to sit down throughout the holiday period to watch through the entire first season of CSI. It is just so good. The plot, the technology, the script, each person’s character. And Gil Grissom, the ultimate nerd. And the frightening part of it is, I seem to be like Gil Grissom in so many ways.

Here are some really good quotes from the first season:

Gil Grissom: It’s not about that. You all have different opinions but you’ve taken the same
point of view. You’ve put yourself in the shoes of the passengers, but nobody’s put themselves in the shoes of the victim. That’s the point.
Sara Sidle: I’m sorry. What are you saying?
Gil Grissom: Nobody stopped to ask Candlewell if he was all right. They just assumed,
because he was kicking the back of Nate’s seat, that he was a jerk — because he was pushing his call button that he was bothering the Flight Attendant — because he was trying to get into the lavatory he was making a scene — because he was going back and forth up and down the aisles, he was posing a threat.
Catherine Willows: He was a threat.
Gil Grissom: No. He turned into a threat. It didn’t have to be that way. People make assumptions. That’s the problem. You just did. And I think these passengers made the wrong assumption and now this guy’s dead.
Warrick Brown: Well, if that’s your stance how could it have been prevented?
Gil Grissom: If just one person had stopped and taken the time to look at the guy to listen to him, to figure out what was wrong with him it might not have happened. It took five people to kill him. It would have only taken one person to save his life.

Gil Grissom: You can’t give him anything, Catherine. We’re scientists. We’re not psychiatrists or victims’ rights advocates.
Catherine Willows: You right, you know. I should be just like you. Alone in my hermetically sealed condo watching discovery on the big screen working genius-level crossword puzzles, but no relationships. No chance any will slop over into a case. Right. I want to be just like you.
Gil Grissom: Technically, it’s a townhouse. And the crosswords are advanced, not genius. But you’re right. I’m deficient in a lot of ways. But I never screw up one of my cases with personal stuff.
Catherine Willows: Grissom … what personal stuff?

Conrad Ecklie: I don’t care that you got some pimply-faced kid to confess. You kept the Sheriff out of the loop. That’s a career-killer, Gil.
Gil Grissom: That’s what so sad, Conrad. You think of this as a career.

Sara Sidle: You want to sleep with me?
(Grissom freezes. He puts down his food and takes off his glasses.)
Gil Grissom: Did you just say what I think you said?
Sara Sidle: That way, when I wake up in a cold sweat under the blanket, hearing Kaye’s screams … you can tell me it’s nothing. It’s just empathy.

Now I just need to get my hands on season two.