Hello..Im Dr. Gilbert Grissom...(roleplayer)His dispassionate demeanor and high intellect often work to his advantage in his job and in his personal life. However, his avoidance of job politics (and paperwork) often alienates his superiors (and sometimes his subordinates). Occasionally, right-hand woman Catherine Willows has to prod him to perform such menial tasks as employee evaluations. Grissom is rarely disturbed by the various subcultures with which his job brings him into contact. He hates abusive husbands, child predators, and drug dealers who "deal death to kids." He is also the least trigger-happy CSI, rarely drawing his firearm, a tendency that has brought about several scoldings from friend and cop Jim Brass. Despite this, he is an excellent marksman where he demonstrates exceptional accuracy at the firing range (he has never shot his firearm in the line of duty). Grissom's hobbies include his work, cockroach racing, reading, solving crossword puzzles, and riding roller coasters. He claims to have never hired a prostitute for sex, stating that sex is intended to create a human emotional connection, and hired sex does just the opposite.
Grissom keeps a variety of specimens in his office, including a radiated fetal pig and a tarantula. He also has a fish-shaped bulletin board on which unsolved cases go ("the ones that got away") In keeping with the fish theme, he has a Big Mouth Billy Bass over the door to his office, claiming that it's "better than a watchdog." He also occasionally keeps evidence from closed cases (such as the models created by "The Miniature Killer"). CSI newcomer Michael Keppler expresses interest while examining these miniatures when he first comes to the lab.
Grissom has a more than passing similarity to Sherlock Holmes. Like Holmes, Grissom is dispassionate with a fierce devotion to logic and little regard for societal norms of behavior (Grissom once smashed mustard jars in a grocery store to illustrate a theory; similarly, Holmes once practiced spearing a pig at a market to determine how strong a man would have to be to transfix a man with a harpoon). He possesses a Moriarty-like nemesis, Paul Millander, whom he pursues in several episodes, as well as a woman in whom he has taken an unusual interest, Lady Heather, who is a parallel to Irene Adler.
Grissom often offers quotes from a variety of literary sources, particularly Shakespeare. He also works 'advanced' crossword puzzles and listens to loud classical music and opera in his office, especially when he wants to think.
In 2007, Grissom took a sabbatical to teach a class at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts for four weeks. Prior to his sabbatical, Grissom had been showing signs of "burnout". Upon his return, however, he appears reinvigorated and tells Warrick Brown that he "missed Las Vegas."
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