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Character Biography Character Stats Birthday: August 17, 1956 Star sign- Leo Congratulations, you have finished the first Scavenger Hunt! Hair color: Graying-brown (salt-and-pepper curls) Eye color: Blue Marital Status: Married to Sara Sidle Reason for becoming a CSI: Because the dead can't speak for themselves Forensic Specialty: Forensic Entomology CSI Level: 3 / Retired December 2008 Personality type: Interior Signature look: The beard (sometimes), glasses, jacket. Vice(s): Over working, poor communication skills. Virtue(s): Very fartherly, caring. Endearing trait(s): Good leadership skills, very intelligent. Annoying trait(s): Too quiet Character Connections Family members: Sara Sidle - Wife Romance(s): Lady Heather, Terri Miller, Sofia Curtis Friends: Lady Heather, Terri Miller, his team Enemies: Conrad Eckile (Not directly)Paul Millander

Personal Story lines/Issues:

• His surprising romance with Sara Sidle.
• His loathing of abusive husbands, child predators, and drug dealers.

Trivia:

• Enjoys riding roller coasters.
• His birthday is on the anniversary of the murder of Paul Millander's father.
  
• Is often sarcastic.
• Gave Sara Sidle a book about bugs for christmas.
• Once went to an entomology convention in Cincinnati just because he wanted to ride "Son of Beast".
• Nicknamed 'The Bugman'.
• Keeps a radiated fetal pig in his office.
• Says that in high school he was a "ghost".
• Grew up as an only child.
  
• Knows sign language.
• Has a certificate of honorary ownership of Trigger, "The Smartest Horse in the Movies".
• Hobbies include cockroach races and crossword puzzles.
• He enjoys listening to Classical Music.
• Has been a baseball fan his whole life and thinks it's a beautiful game.
• Says he has been interested in beauty since he met Sara Sidle (who is his current romantic partner).
• He financed his first body farm in college playing poker. He says that it's not a game of interaction, it's a game of observation. Grissom got bored of studying people, so he studies evidence.
• Likes Pink Floyd
• Created a miniature of his own office.
• Is Currently Engaged To Sara Sidle
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• married to Sara Sidle
  

• "I don't get people"
• "I'm wrong all the time. It's how I get to right."
• "People don't vanish, it's a molecular impossibility."
• "It looks like these guys went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"
• "It took five people to kill him. It would only have taken one person to ask him if he was okay."
• Grissom: I'm looking for one.

Sara: A screw?

Grissom: Yes.

• "Sometimes the hardest thing is to do nothing."
• Coroner in 'Jackpot': I bet you need a place to sleep.

Grissom: I need a place to work.

• "I learned at a very early age that the bugs always win."
• "Could you close the door, please? No, from the other side."
• "Did you ever hear a dog say 'woof-woof,' Greg? I mean, what is the origin of that? And what do we sound like to them, I wonder?"
• "The best intentions are fraught with disappointment."
• "Everybody can learn from science, it all depends on how you use the knowledge."
• "If people knew what was out there hunting them, they'd never leave the house."
• "I'm pretty good at mouth to mouth" (to Sara Sidle).
• "It's sad isn't it Doc...guys like us. A couple of middle-aged men who've allowed their work to consume their lives. The only time we ever touch other people is when we are wearing our latex gloves. 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. Somebody young and beautiful shows up...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. I couldn't do it, but you did, you risked it all and she showed you a wonderful life didn't she? But then she took it away and you were lost, so you took her life. You killed them both and now you have nothing. (Dr. Lurie-I'm still here) Are you? (sigh)-Gilbert Grissom, episode 412-Butterflied
• "Dead men don't ride roller coasters"
• "Whoa, is that a pickle in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?"
• Sara: Since when are you interested in beauty? Grissom: Since I met you.
• "Julius Caesar, murdered in 44 B.C., legend has it that the molecules from his last breath spread all over the world. Probably like your fingerprints, right, they're everywhere."
• "I can't be everywhere (to Warrick), and they banned human cloning."
• "To assume makes an ASS out of U and ME."
• "Concentrate on what cannot lie: the evidence."
• Greg: "It's not about the money." (Silence) Grissom: "That's good to know, Greg."
• Grissom: "This better be good, DAVE..." Hodges: " bleach." Grissom: "What?"
• "I think he's on to us, Doc." (to Doc Robbins)
• Grissom: "Can you smell that?" Doc Robbins: "Yeah." Grissom: "You're not supposed to be able to smell that through your suit." Doc: "Good to know."
• "That's the sad thing, Conrad. You think of this as a career."
• "Paul Millander HE SET ME UP! SON OF A *****! I had him and I let him go!" [grissom] [anonymous]
• "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse."
• Grissom: "I haven't felt that in a while." Jim: "What?" Grissom: "The element of surprise."
• "I'll do all the talking. You just stand there and look 'apologetic'." (To Nick, Sara, and Greg)
• Undersheriff: "So, who's going first?" Grissom (looks around): "I don't think it matters." (looks back at the undersheriff) "I'm pretty sure all our stories are the same."
• "The bellows..." (to Hodges)
• "Places like this always keep their pools warm. Encourages the girls to swim topless. It's good for business." (Sara looks at Grissom) "So they tell me."
  
• "Sex without love is pointless. It makes you sad."(Grissom to Sara) "Well I'm pretty sure, I don't make you sad" (Sara in response to Griss) "No. You make me happy" (Griss to Sara)
• "I love mankind, it's the people I can't stand." (To Warrick)
• (DNA guy to Grissom) "Why did the fly fly??" (Grissom *bored*) "Because the spider spied-er....Catherines daughter told me that when she was 3......" (DNA guy) "..oh..."
• Sara: "Hey guess what?" Grissom: "Mankind has reached a new evolutionary plateau and, starting tomorrow, no one will rape, murder, or maim again?" Sara: "Uh..no.." Grissom: "Too bad."
• 'yes yes Norman pushed ,norman jumped ,Norman fell' = ;'Wouldnt u if you were married to mrs Roper?' [grissom to sara ]
• Grissom: "Greg, why do you do this every time?" Greg: "Because you make me nervous '' [gissom to greg]
• girl at rave :: ''i love you'' grissom ':thank you, yur a stranger to me'' [girl at rave to grissom] [friends and lovers]
• warrick: ''dont take it personally ,miss hes kinda married to his job'' [warrick brown to girl at rave about grissom ] [friends and lovers]
• How tall was this man? Was he shorter or taller than Mr. Brass, here?"
  "A hair taller."
  "By a hair, do you mean the hair of a rabbit... or the hair of a grizzly bear?"
  -- Bum and Gil Grissom (Anonymous)
• "Ring any bells? Rub-a-dub-dub. Dead man in a tub."
  -- Jim Brass to Gil Grissom (Anonymous)
• You want to sleep with me?"
  "Did you just say what I think you said?"
  "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."
  -- Sara Sidle and Gil Grissom (Sex, Lies and Larvae)
  
  
  
  
  

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