Re: Gil<3Cath #28: Love Is Sharing Water, Glasses and Everyt
I thought Gil had much more emotion for her when Eddie died than with the rape thing. It was in his tone of voice and the manner in which he spoke. When he was allowing her time off for Eddie's death, his voice was sincere and directed solely towards her with comfort - even if he couldn't get the right words to come out.
With her possible rape, it just sounded so clinical - as if they were discussing an ordinary case. All he did was mention "thank God" when she said the results were negative, then he told her she needed to back off from the case. It all sounded so clinical in his voice.
As far as going to Sara vs Sofia? I don't think Sofia would have even crossed Catherine's mind at that point. Yes, a woman was her first choice. But it's also the fact that she's worked directly on the same team with Sara for a full six years up to that point. With Sofia, she'd only had limited contact - even though Sofia was technically around longer than we've seen her on the screen - as she was Ecklie's "right hand".
Now, for the new episode. We had one scene with Cath & Gil before Catherine disappeared for the rest of the episode. I actually liked the scene. Gil arrives as Cath & Greg are processing and asks where Warrick is. Cath says she's tried calling him, but not getting an answer. Gil says he & Cath will take the bodies and gives Greg a choice of processing the garbage truck or the trail of garbage, he chooses the "fresh air". Cath asks Gil if she also gets to choose, and she prefers the garbage truck guy instead of the more decomposed corpse they're standing in front of. He allows her that choice.
that scene gave me a deja vu moment: Think back to season 5 Down the drain where they're in the storm drain with the dead guy and Gil implies that Catherine and Warrick will be the ones walking through the miles of storm drain looking for evidence. She asks him "aren't we even going to draw straws?" and he says "no". Methinks he learned his lesson the first time around and encountered the "wrath of Cath" after she had to go through the storm drains.
And it was actually nice to see a caring, concerned Gil who seemed to be there helping Warrick out of trouble at every point - even though he couldn't get Warrick to heed his advice. I think they're finally trying to make him lovable Grissom again, albiet very slowly.
