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The revelation in the season finale was “hugely embraced by the audience,” Tassler said . although fan reaction, in fact, was split.

Count Fox as thrilled. The first description of Sara “suggested that she was a love interest for Grissom, (so) I had sort of been gearing up from the beginning of the show that that might happen.” She especially enjoyed the fact that “we suddenly find these characters together, and we don’t know how long has this been going on.”

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