We choose to go to the moon...

I've got another four episodes before Gil Grissom leaves me which has me thinking about my favorite Grissom moments over the years. I could easily pick 20 but I narrowed it down to five.

Episode 03x04; “A Little Murder.” Grissom at the little people's convention is a classic. I love how easily he connects with, and relates to, Melanie Grace. One of his best traits is the way he relates to anyone who falls in a traditional category of “other.”

Which leads me to episode 05x05; “Ch-Ch-Changes.” He never judges. Case in point when Grissom investigates the murder of a transgendered murder:

• Grissom: Mercedes, I presume? We're with the Las Vegas Crime Lab, and we're looking for somebody.
  
• Mercedes: Isn't this where you say my P.O. would be interested to know that I'm hustling, and you ask for a freebie?
  
• Grissom: I'm actually not interested in your ass, but the person we're looking for is a human butcher who might be.

Speaking of never judging, 05x16; “Big Middle” is another classic. It's the episode set around the plus-sized convention and it's Grissom at his best. I will never get enough of Grissom's conversation over the purple teddy but the defining moment comes at the end when Greg asks Grissom, “So what do you like? What gets your juices flowing?” and Grissom answers, “Someone who doesn't judge me.” It's particularly perfect because that's exactly how he lives his own life.

I'm not sure if it's even possible to pick one Grissom/Lady Heather moment but, if I have to, it's in episode 06x15, “Pirates of the Third Reich.” Heather is going to town on the man who tortured and murdered her daughter and Grissom grabs the whip and says, “Heather, I said stop.” It all ties back perfectly to episode 03x15, “Lady Heather's Box” when Heather and Grissom have that intimate moment in the hallway. Grissom says, “You can always say "stop" and Heather replies, “So can you.” AAHFKSDHFKSKF. *cue brain melt* I'm a continuity whore and Lady Heather/Grissom continuity is the BEST KIND.

Episode 06x10; “Still Life.” Catherine and Grissom are in the home of the woman of the crazy woman who killer her son and, out of the blue, Grissom reveals that his father died suddenly when he was nine and no one would tell him what happened. He ended up in forensics because of a need to find answers to death! I just. I've got nothing people. GIL GRISSOM. The end.

Evidence is in: Gil Grissom is irreplaceable



Bed now. Sweet Grissom dreams.