"Pin me down."



(Breaking the moment, moving away.)
SARA: Grissom, um, I, um, wanted to talk to you about something.
GRISSOM: Go ahead.
SARA: Well, you know, I applied for the promotion for the key position.
GRISSOM: (nods) Your application's on my desk.
SARA: About that -- I, um ... I needed to know ... (she stops) ... I ... I wanted to make sure, rather, that anything that happened or didn't happen between us won't be a factor.
(A little lost at what she's saying, GRISSOM doesn't say anything. Awkward, Sara breaks the silent patch.)
SARA: Never mind. I-I shouldn't have said anything.
(Grissom still has a stunned look on his face, just staring at Sara and what she's asking.)
SARA: (smiles, embarrassed) I, um ... I'm always over-talking around you. (she leaves, escaping.)

(Gil is looking at pictures of the dead victim, who looks uncannily like Sara. Sara's image appears behind him, blurred.)


(It's obvious who he's referring to throughout his very touching and insightful speech.)
GRISSOM: We wake up one day and realize that for fifty years we haven't really lived at all. But then, all of a sudden we get a second chance.
Somebody young and beautiful shows up. Somebody ... we could care about. She offers us a new life with her ... but we have a big decision to make, right? Because we have to risk everything we've worked for in order to have her.
(Grissom's eyes move off of Dr. Lurie and his words turn introspective.)
GRISSOM: I couldn't do it...


(Later, as the speech ends, the camera pans out to Sara watching and listening through the one-sided glass. It is unclear how long she has been listening or how much she's heard. She watches, the episode ends.)

GRISSOM: I haven't seen you for a while have I?
SARA: You see me every day.

HODGES: Since when did you become an insects expert?
SARA: Entomology textbook. Grissom gave it to me last Christmas.
HODGES: Oh.
SARA: When I can't sleep, I read.
(Hodges turns to look at Nick.)
NICK: Funny, I didn't get a Christmas gift from Grissom. Did you?
HODGES: (Smirking) No.

SARA: Every woman knows what that is. It's a heart. Well, half a heart.