Sara Sidle

Name Sara Sidle Alias Birthdate September 16, 1971 City Las Vegas Family members Laura Sidle (mother) Gil Grissom (husband) Profession Former CSI night shift Las Vegas CSI Range CSI Level 3 Specialty Analysis of elements and materials Cases {{{cases}}} Current state Alive Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 First appearance "Cool Change"

Sara Sidle was a CSI at the Las Vegas Crime Lab. She was the Assistant Supervisor until she left to be with Grissom, whom she married (though she kept her maiden name), and left the Crime Lab to join an investigation team in Costa Rica.

Sara first left her job in season eight, episode seven ("Goodbye and Good Luck"), but returned to the lab at the beginning of season ten and worked with the team under DB Russell. She maintained a long-distance relationship with Grissom until it ended in season thirteen, then they reunited and got back together in the series finale.

Personality Early Life Sara was born in Tomales Bay, an hour and a half outside of San Francisco. Her parents were ex-hippies who ran a bed and breakfast where she preferred to associate with adults rather than children.

Her intellect, energy, and curiosity were far greater than those of a typical child. She was a perfectionist.

It seemed the roles of father and child were reversed. She was told to relax and take it easy. In turn, she responded by creating business models for her bed and breakfast so she could take it public and franchise it.

Her mother (Laura Sidle) murdered her father in 1984, and Sara was subsequently placed in foster care. Sara was in the system "for a while" and became familiar with the feelings of powerlessness that foster children experience ("No Humans Involved"). She remembers being the child whose father was murdered by her mother. Sara doesn't remember the name of the social worker who took her away from the crime scene, but she does remember not being able to let go of her hand ("Nesting Dolls"). Sara's mother was committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation after killing Sara's father. Sara was taken to visit her there and found the whole experience very disturbing ("Committed").

In high school, Sara preferred to befriend teachers rather than students and often ate lunch alone in the library. Her physics teacher sparked her interest in science. She graduated with honors at the age of sixteen, having excelled on all her exams. She was accepted among the top students at Harvard University with a substantial scholarship, and she found this experience liberating because she felt she was finally among her peers. She graduated near the top of her class with a Bachelor of Science degree in Theoretical Physics from Harvard. She then decided to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and