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Fox, whose criminalist Sara Sidle renews contact with her ex, Grissom, says the finale resolves some relationship matters while characters solve a deadly mystery. “Anthony wrote a suspenseful, exhilarating, crazy, warped story, which is one of his specialties,” she says.

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Questions of legacy were hardly at the forefront when CSI started. The series was a late addition to the network’s fall schedule and was initially scheduled on Fridays, a low-wattage night. Some skeptics wondered about the appeal of such non-traditional crime fighters. “You have a group of people trying to fight bad guys with their minds instead of leading with their guns,” Fox says.

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