Chicago Tribune

It's about time 'CSI' got personal

For her part, Fox says she was “thrilled” to get the script pages with that intimate scene between Grissom and Sidle.

“I had sort of been gearing up from the beginning of the show that that might happen,” she told critics during the press session, noting that it’s never been entirely clear, even to those who work on the show, whether the two were an item before either arrived in Las Vegas to work as crime scene investigators.

“It’s also terrifying because I think there’s a certain peace that comes with doing more of a procedural show,” she noted. “There’s been about 50 percent of the audience who would like to know more about the characters and about 50 percent who would really rather stick to the [crime scene] stories. And I think the writers did something bold and brilliant by trying to just really follow their hearts, which is what I think we try to do.

“When you’ve got a split that is that significant, all you can really do is to kind of just tell what you feel passionate about and hope that people go on the road with you,” she added. “But it is really exciting, yeah, and scary, because then you step out into these story lines and you’re like what if they go badly?”