Y O B L I N G

You may often ask yourself; just what the heck is YoBling? And why is the Catherine/Warrick 'ship called that? Who else could answer it better if not the one person who came up with it; Marita!

Um, well, I was sitting around thinking that it was totally uncool that the GSR (Grissom/Sara shippers) people had a name for their couple (Geek Love), but we had none. Back then the joke was that Warrick's only line was, "Yo", so that took care of that. For Catherine, I thought of the episode where she says, "Maybe a little bling bling?". I put the two together and came up with YoBling, which at the time I thought was ridiculous, but apparently I was wrong!

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CSI: PARTNERS IN LOVE

It was only the second episode into Season Five and something peculiar happened between two very attractive CSIs. Catherine (Helgenberger) accidentally fell into Warrick's (Dourdan) arms while they were working on a case and they shared a brief moment looking into each other's eyes. In that instant, the first thing that went through the minds of most fans was: will there be a romance between Catherine and Warrick?

"That's an excellent question. I was told by Carol Mendelsohn that there was going to be some kind of tryst but I have yet to see it on paper. I mean, I am all for it," laughs Helgenberger. "The two characters being who they are, I think they understand each other on a level that the others don't relate to given our pasts--his addiction to gambling and my coming from a world of taking my clothes off in front of a group of men. We have gone through sort of the underbelly of life. We can communicate without saying a whole lot. So I was looking forward to playing out the subtext."

Dourdan too sees the sparks. "I think we have a great chemistry together. The characters complement each other very well."

Of course, there is the problem of Catherine being Warrick's boss. "I would have to check my feelings with one of my co-workers, especially somebody who I am supposed to be in charge of," Helgenberger admits later.

But Mendelsohn readily clarifies Catherine's position. "Catherine is a very sexual being. She has always had chemistry with Warrick. Catherine is someone with who boundaries are crossed more than with any of the other characters. Whether she will ever really cross that line, I think, is something that will be explored in many seasons to come.

"Will she cross the line too many times that it will compromise her ability to do her job? Will we get to a place where Warrick might put a stop to it? Do Warrick and Nick feel as comfortable with Catherine now as they felt with her when she was their equal?"

Excerpt from Galaxie article, July 2005 (Malaysia)
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SWING TIME

The shift began innocently enough with studly Warrick Brown and sultry Catherine Willows wading through a Las Vegas drainpipe to look for clues to a crime earlier this season. Then Catherine stumbled and fell into Warrick's waiting arms. For a fleeting, flirting moment, they seemed on the verge of something steamy in the sewer -until a passerby interrupted. "I felt that we had entered the zone of tenderness and exhilaration," recalls Helgenberger. Adds Dourdan, grinning; "It's always fun to work with a fine-ass costar."

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But a subtle shift is afoot and Catherine is leading the way. "Catherine needs to explore her sexuality and have some intimacy in her life," says Helgenberger, lounging in her trailer during a break in filming. "Carol has told me she can't see Catherine kissing just anyone. It has to be the right guy." Warrick may be the lucky fella. "There's a lot of tension between the characters, sexual and otherwise," Dourdan says. "Warrick has had ideas about her since their early days on the team. He's not blind, you know."

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As it turns out, Dourdan and Helgenberger had a thing going long before the storm drain. "In the first season we talked about the chemistry between Marg and Gary," Mendelsohn says. "But then watching that moment when they fell into each other's arms -oh, my God! I couldn't believe it!"

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[About Keys:]
"I was a forensic specialist and he was my neighbour who helped me solve crimes. Check this out!" Helgenberger says, rushing over to pluck a photo from the refrigator door. It's a shot of her and a dreadlocked Dourdan smiling and clutching each other. "We bonded then and there's a lot we can do without even saying anything. It's great to have a flirtaious thing with him now."

She isn't the only one who thinks so. Dourdan says he often gets stopped by female fans who "want me to manhandle Marg. They say, 'She looks like she could use a man.'

Apparantely, Catherine feels the same way: Later this season , in true "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" fashion, she'll cruise for dates in Vegas bars. Unfortunately, the relationship she finds may become more lethal than loving when a murder case leads her back to the same nightclub. Perhaps this will push Catherine into Warrick's arms for real this time.

"There is something between Catherine and Warrick that will come to head," Mendelsohn promises. "In May there will be an opportunity for them to get closer, when they are away from the office. But this time the person that wanted to (hook up) before may not be the one who wants to this time."

Dourdan, for one, is ready for action. "I'm excited to see what happens with them," he says. "I'd love to see that (sex) scene on the kitchen table. Or maybe on the desk. And then the breakroom. Not in the morgue, though."

TV Guide, February 27, 2005.

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Random Quotes

Marg:

"They have a smooth, utterly natural collaboration.." (...) "They're soul mates in a lot of ways," says Marg Helgenberger of their mutual identification. "I think they're attracted to a lot of darkness in their personal lives and battle with that darkness from time to time." The beauty of their symbiosis, she continues, is its understatement. "It's something we share but never talk about," she says. "We just always have that bond."

Ann Donahue:

Catherine and Warrick can get away with such affectionate flirting without losing their emotional grounding, Donahue says. "Grissom and Sara go up and down, depending on their most recent interaction, but Catherine and Warrick are always at the same level. They don't get their hearts broken the same way. Sara and Grissom are all intellect, while Cartherine and Warrick are all viscera."

Gary:

[About A Little Murder] Gary Dourdan recalls, "There was a lot of stuff there to go on, because of Warrick and Catherine's relationship. My character not wanting to let that happen again. Going back to the first show, where you saw him being on the job but not being completely responsible, and a CSI dying in his care. That, and the long realtionship he's had with Catherine - like, 'Damn, I almost lost you.'"

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