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“CSI”: “The Sara-Grissom storyline is going to conclude,” Littman says. “Don’t take it in that definitive term. It’s very smartly done.”

Tell me more.

“We have a big storyline finish at the start of the season,” he says. “It will play out for a few episodes. … The ambition of their [the writers’] stories is once again extremely high and extremely quirky. That arc worked so well with Grissom and Sara, that we are going to let these characters breathe this year. Everyone has their moments. The characters are going to have their journeys.”

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