CSI: Crime Scene Investigation/Characters: Difference between revisions

** And anyone who tries to hurt Sara

* [[Game of Nerds]]: He likes baseball

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Pretty much the only way to get him riled up is to either threaten one of his teammates, especially Sara, or do anything to endanger children

** He did have a cameo in season 12's "The Two Mrs.Grissoms"

* [[Quip to Black]]: Famous for it -- [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|used to be the]] [[Trope Namer]]

* [[Sarcasm Failure]]: When he doesn't use the above

* [[Serious Business]]: Racing cockroaches. One of the first time we see him take some time off and puts Catherine in charge is when he goes to a conference to race his vermin. It doesn't go so well ("Stage fright.")

* [[Faking the Dead]]: With D.B. to escape the bad guys before her departure

* [[Mama Bear]]: Messing with her daughter? Big mistake. The same applies to her team members

* [[Berserk Button]]: Harming children in general, though sexual assault especially gets to him {{spoiler|since he was molested by his babysitter as a kid.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Stuffed in The Fridge]]...essentially. He wasn't exactly dead when Grissom found him, but he was close enough.}}

* [[Commuting on a Bus]]: As of season 10, she's on the line...she's listed as a series regular, but only appears in a certain number of episodes per season.

* [[The Maiden Name Debate]]: She still uses "Sidle" now that she is married to Grissom

* [[Married to the Job]]: At least until she married Grissom

* [[May-December Romance]]: with Grissom; the actors are 16 years apart in real life. Not that it matters to Sara, who as mentioned above, has a thing for silver foxes.

* [[Relationship Reveal]]: with Grissom

** [[Ascended Fanboy]]: {{spoiler|from "CSI Wannabe" to actual CSI.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Does this to Haskell in "In A Dark, Dark House."}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Played with. His father was apparently violent, and Raymond worries that he may become that way himself. He also has a gene that has been associated with violent behaviour. On the other hand, when faced with [[Serial Killer]] Nate Haskell, who has the same gene and his own abusive father, he testifys in open court against his attempt to use this card, and afterwards Haskell admits to him that he decided in his youth he'd blame it on those things if he were ever caught.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: considering her reaction to suicides, something unpleasant has happened in her past.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: {{spoiler|''Diebenkorn Russell.''}}

* [[Happily Married]]: The only CSI to be this from the beginning. (There's Grissom and Sara, but that came later)

* [[Sympathetic Adulterer]]/[[Your Cheating Heart]]: Reveals in season 12 that he cheated once, essentially just to see if he had the guts to. It nearly ruined him and his wife, and they've been faithful ever since. It's really kind of adorable.

* [[Jerkass]] and/or [[Jerkass Facade]] (up for debate)

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Birds

* [[The Lab Rat]]: although she wants to become a "field mouse".

* [[Dirty Cop]] : Originally a big subversion of this, stating how he refused to be bought or get dirty, but now drifting into that territory as of the end of season 11. {{spoiler|He covered for Ray when Ray killed Nate Haskell, and was reluctant to help catch a killer who was killing other killers.}}

* [[Rank Up]]: Now she's Brass's boss

* [[Big Bad]]: Arguably, of season five. He never does anything illegal, but his antagonistic actions drive the overarching plot of that season.

* [[Parental Abandoment]]: He left when Morgan was 14

* [[Smug Snake]]: Pre-"Grave Danger." He took utmost pleasure in seeing Grissom's team humiliated, and even worked to get Nick convicted of murder once purely out of spite.

* [[Clueless Detective]]: Doesn't always get or appreciate the abilities of the CSI's or what they do {{spoiler|which bites him in the ass when he tries to frame someone else for murder.}}

* [[Implacable Man]]: Crashes his car at high speed when shot by his paranoid passenger, and drags himself away from the wreckage to bleed out...and lives,{{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop|despite his best efforts]].}}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]:{{spoiler|Subverted. He seems like that at times...until he [[Moral Event Horizon|murders Warrick in cold blood.]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Might as Well Not Be in Prison At All]]: "Homecoming" reveals that he's ''still'' running his criminal machinations from prison.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide by Cop]]}}: Attempts this with Nick, but he (Nick)doesn't go through with it.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Sort of. {{spoiler|In one episode, she hires a guy to kill her because she lost custody of her granddaughter.}} She lives, though.