Relationships
In past seasons, the character has had an interest in Sara, but she has never given him any reason to believe she shares his feelings. Langham said Hodges has a crush on fellow lab tech Wendy Simms. We see continuous flirting between them in every scene that they share. In the eighth season episode "The Chick Chop Flick Shop", Hodges and the other lab techs, Ronnie and Sara are seen watching a low-budget slasher film in which Wendy played a victim. Ronnie criticizes the genre for featuring stereotypically large-breasted women and Wendy argues that her breasts are not large, but are rather "kind of medium." Hodges, evidently not realizing that he's speaking aloud, adds "but perfect," to which everyone turns around and stares at him. He then attempts to cover his tracks, tacking "-ly adequate" on to the end of his sentence. In the season 8 episode 'You Kill Me", he labeled "Mindy Bimms", a player piece in his CSI board game, representing Wendy Simms as "clumsy yet buxom" (thus causing Wendy to get upset with him when she read it).
In the season 9 episode "A Space Oddity" after bumping into each other at an Astro Quest convention, there is considerable romantic tension, with Hodges repeatedly having fantasies regarding the show with him and Wendy in the main roles. These interfere with his work, something he blames Wendy for. This leads them to argue and bring their feelings out into the open. Wendy finally exclaims "It's good you're having fantasies because it means you're not as oblivious as everyone around here seems to think!". This shows that she has feelings for him. However, Hodges's guilt about his feelings for her interfering with his work prevents him from doing anything about it. He attempts to keep their relationship professional, though the romantic tension remains. In Hog Heaven, he rebukes a suspect who insults Wendy in front of him, demanding that the suspect apologize to her. In return, the suspect headbutts him in the face, causing his nose to bleed, and causing Wendy to chide him. Wendy kisses him at the end of "Field Mice".
At age seventeen, Hodges tried to pick up a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover police officer. Because he was underage, the arrest didn't go on his permanent record ("...because you're three months shy of your eighteenth birthday, so when you phone your Mom to come and get you, it doesn't go on my permanent record.") (Ending Happy)
In Pool Shark, Wendy leaves, not telling him until last minute, leaving him hurt and upset to the point where he hits and starts to drown Henry when he tells him what he did wrong and later mopes around CSI. However, Greg Sanders arranges "man dates" in which he meets up with David every week to take his mind off Wendy. Sanders and Hodges are usually seen as rivals during the earlier seasons, leading to something of a love-hate relationship: the two would often argue, but in Grave Danger they were seen playing a board game together and in Appendicitement, the two, along with Nick, "kidnapped" lab tech Henry Andrews to take him out for his birthday.
Although Morgan Brody has previously pretended to be dating Hodges to get his mother off his back (resulting in a putative romance between his mother and her father), Hodges states in "Homecoming" that they could not date for real. Whilst insisting she has no interest in any case, Morgan queries this, but all Hodges will say is that his recent trip to Italy (with his mother) was "life-changing". The audience, like Morgan, is left to draw its own conclusions.
When Ecklie is shot and put in the hospital to recover, Hodges is there for Morgan as support. Morgan begins to break down, blaming herself for her father's current state. When he attempts to calm her down, she suddenly kisses him. He's shocked, and both agree to pretend that it didn't happen. Morgan has begun to warm up to him as a good friend. It's unknown if this is merely friendship or if her feelings have turned romantic.
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