Here's the article about the FINALE in the latest TV Guide..May 14-20
THE MINATURE KILLER IS REVELAED..BUT WHERE'S SARA?
All season long on CSI, it's been the little things that have given Gil Grissom [William Petersen] the biggest headaches . Literally. He's spent the year hunting down a killer who creates exact minature replicas of crime scenes...and even took a sabbitical to escape the stress. But now it looks like his search for the psychopath will pay off. "The killer will definately be revealed", says executive producer Naren Shankar, "This is going to be a disturbing and very, very creepy episode". All the CSI team will be involved in the hunt to find the killer and save the next victim, but it's going to be Grissom doing most of the work. In fact, he's become so obessed with the case, he takes to building his own MCSK that Shankar will play a key role in the finale. "This really has been Grissom's season-long story line, so the finale will focus on him. But what happens is not going to leave him the same as he was when we first saw him this year.
Way back then, viewers were just coming to terms with his secret relationship with Sara Sidle [Jorja Fox]. And in the finale, according to Shankar, "this episode where Grissom goes public with the relationship" after Sara suddenly disappears". Fox's contract with the show is up at the end of this season, and the network has NO comment on whether she'll be returning next season. Shankar will only admit that the situation Sara finds herself in
"will have some significant ramifications" for her relationship with Grissom
CSI producers dreamed up all these plot twists a year ago, and while they are pleased about the MCSK story line has played out excatly as they'd hoped it would, there may be more to it than even they imagined. Grissom and his investigators will be discovering who the killer is, but there will be some more surprises in store. Remember when Nick stokes [George Eads] was buried alive in the '05 finale and the Grissom-Sara affair was revealed last May?, well shockers from the finale's big finish will carry over to next season, too.
Explains Shankar, "We have no intention of tightly serializing the show, bt we have tried over the past several years to pull character elements through, so it's no like we're hitting the reset button at the start of every year. The end, won't necessarily be the end"
Craig Tomashoff.. TV Guide writer