Yes, Gil and Sara ended up back together. At the end of the episode, Sara walked up to Gil by his boat, The Ishmael. No words needed to be said between them. They just sailed away as the sun set over the horizon — together.
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Series creator Anthony E. Zuiker revealed how that satisfying ending came about, and how it pays homage to the very first episode.
“William Peterson pulled out this research folder that dealt with sea shepherd. This is a gentleman that goes along the ocean and does things in terms of keeping the ocean safe. That was the beginning of me thinking of the Gil Grissom’s character being a CSI at sea,” Anthony told our sister site Deadline. We knew we wanted to start with him on a boat. Then we started to think about ending with him on the boat. And it just organically happened. Once he’d gotten in touch with his heart and when he really understood that Sara was the only person for him, it was only fitting as a closure for the series that Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle would drive off into the sunset.”
Anthony admits that he looked on Twitter to see how fans really felt about putting Grissom and Sara together in the end. “This one really was for the fans,” he continued. “I’d put some feelers out early on Twitter about what were some things the hardcore Twittersphere wanted to accomplish. And overwhelmingly it really was a sufficient closure between Grissom and Sara. We knew that we would be going that route.”
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