| Well, it's that time of year again. For the seventh | | | | side. |
| year running, this fall season we'll see a new | | | | The season closed on a surprising note with |
| season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation hit our | | | | Grissom finally getting together with Sara Sidle - a |
| screens. | | | | story arc that has been several years in the |
| Since its debut in the fall season of 2000, CSI: | | | | making. |
| Crime Scene Investigation has been a major draw | | | | So what does the next season have in store for |
| for the CBS Network. It became the most | | | | CSI fans? Well, while the show will no doubt |
| watched program on television in the 2002-2003 | | | | continue with the format that has seen it become |
| season, and has since remained in the top 3 most | | | | one of the most successful shows on TV the |
| popular shows ever since. As of the sixth season | | | | main story in the coming season must revolve |
| each episode attracted an average of 30 million | | | | around the CSIs relationships. With a new |
| viewers, and 90 million people have seen the | | | | romance blooming between Grissom and Sidle it |
| show in the past year. | | | | will be interesting to see how these two loners will |
| The sixth season closed with a spectacular | | | | adapt to the new situation. |
| two-parter in which Detective Jim Brass was left | | | | On that count, at least, even the stars of the |
| fighting for life after a hostage negotiation went | | | | show don't know how it will turn out. Jorja Fox, |
| wrong. When murderer Willie Cutler took a | | | | the actor who plays Sidle, didn't know that she |
| woman hostage in a Vegas hotel room, Brass | | | | and Grissom were getting together until just a |
| volunteered to negotiate. However, when things | | | | few days before filming, but she believes that this |
| went awry Cutler fired three shots at Brass - and | | | | one is for keeps: "These two people, they have a |
| one of the shots breached his bulletproof vest, a | | | | lot in common. They're both really not great with |
| bullet lodging in his heart. | | | | people in many respects, and they're emotionally |
| After Brass was rushed to hospital in critical | | | | detached in many respects. If two people like that |
| condition, CSI Gil Grissom was informed that | | | | can kind of find each other, there's something |
| Brass had nominated him as his medical proxy, | | | | really beautiful in that." |
| which meant that Grissom had to decide whether | | | | But it won't just be the relationship between |
| to allow doctors to perform risky surgery to | | | | Grissom and Sidle hogging the limelight. As we |
| remove the bullet or - equally dangerous - leave | | | | saw in the penultimate episode of season six |
| the bullet where it was and risk a stroke. | | | | Warwick Brown's marriage is on the rocks. After |
| Grissom, believing that Brass would have wanted | | | | spotting his wife Tina with another man in the |
| it, ordered the surgery. | | | | Lucky Dragon Casino Warwick confronted her, |
| Meanwhile, Brass' estranged daughter Ellie arrived, | | | | not realizing that she was planning a surprise party |
| more interested in how much she'd get from her | | | | for Warwick's birthday. If Tina walks out on him, |
| father's pension scheme than in his well being. | | | | will Catherine offer Warwick a shoulder to cry on? |
| Grissom tried to make Ellie understand how much | | | | We'll have to wait and see... the story will unfold |
| Brass cares for her, but Ellie seemed unwilling to | | | | during the seventh season of CSI: Crime Scene |
| listen. By the time Brass regained consciousness | | | | Investigation on CBS this fall. |
| she had left, but Brass' CSI family were still by his | | | | |