Firstly guys, can we not discuss "the clip" in here - its against the rules regarding Intellectual Property.
The spoilers, however, are fair game...
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ancienttomb, the impression I get from the spoilers is that Grissom isn't acting like his fathers death was hugely traumatic - I mean, I'm sure it was for him at the time, as would it be for any child who's parent had died, but it doesn't seem to be haunting him or affecting him in any huge way. I think the only part that may still bother him a little was that he was never told 'why' it happened - this might mean cause of death, or it might mean something else.
Certainly I think the event contributed towards him following the path he chose (as I said before, it reminds me of the Dr Kay Scarpetta character from the Cornwell novels - her father died when she was 12, leaving this voic in her life, which she filled by studying the dead) I don't think, however, that Grissom's fathers death would have had as big an affect on him as the aftermath of the event would have... (see my earlier post regarding how learning a pattern of behavior from his mother may have affected him...)
But to get back to the earlier point, I truly don't think that Grissom is revealing this hugely traumatic thing - he's simply remembering, thinking out loud, a memory that is triggered by the circumstances of the case he's working on. ITs not a traumatic revelation in the way that ND was with Sara. It's just a small piece of the puzzle that is Grissom...