Ray could walk around and go DUH all the time, then fans would go "gosh he's stupid" so he's smart and still gets panned. Grissom was the one who offered him this job, because of his expertise. And he does look things up and tries different theories and listens to eveyone, that's what fans admire about him. And channeling Grissom no way their totally different but are both low-key and soft spoken in their own way. Him and Hodges now have a bond not like when Hodges was so enamored and in awe and hero worship of Grissom, but all he did was insult him talk down to him. "shut the door.. from the other side" and "if you need to talk to someone there's a thearpist here on blah..blah" always something cynical, and insulting, and Hodges didn't have a clue. When he did say "Good job Hodges" on the bleach connection, in the MCSK season, he was so overjoyed he did a little dance jig down the hallway. Ray treats him as an equal, and doesn't put him down and lets him be himself. I thought it was off the wall in this episode that Ray went with Hodges to the Dinosaur exhibit, so not something I'd think he'd go to especially with Hodges, but he did.. and they got the samples together. I don't think any one of the CSI's are dumb bunnies, and all share their different ideas together:bolian:Ray is a astonishing, positive addition to CSI~