Lady Heather
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Lady Heather (played by Melinda Clarke) is a fictional guest character in the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Lady Heather is a professional dominatrix who runs a house of domination in Las Vegas.
Throughout the series Lady Heather has made three memorable appearances on the show.
Lady Heather first appeared in the season two CSI episode Slaves of Las Vegas.
In the season three special 60-minute CSI episode Lady Heather's Box, deaths among Lady Heather's staff lead to a criminal investigation. As the episode progresses, she develops a rapport with the lead character of the series, forensic scientist Gil Grissom (William Petersen). It is deliberately left unclear whether her relationship with Grissom develops into a romantic relationship.
She returns in the season six episode, Pirates of the Third Reich, in which her daughter, Zoe, was murdered, and she attempts to exact revenge upon the killer by whipping him to death.
[edit] TV Biography
Lady Heather was researched when one of her employees ends up dead. Her fetish club brings in $20,000 a week, although it is implied that she only claims $10,000 on her taxes. Lady Heather has a daughter, Zoe, who was a freshman at Harvard in the episode "Slaves of Las Vegas." She told her daughter that she could give her body or her heart to a man, but never give him your power. Lady Heather claims she knows a lot about people. She thinks Catherine Willows would make a great dominatrix and takes a special interest in Gil Grissom. She even invites him for afternoon tea.
Lady Heather is the suspect in another murder case when two more of her employees get killed. They worked for her Web site, LadyHeather.com, which she calls "Voyeurism in a Brave New World."
Lady Heather is quick to notice Gil Grissom is reading her lips. They later spend some time together, but it's not clear what exactly happened between them. When they are drinking tea, Gil Grissom learns that Lady Heather is a diabetic, which makes her a suspect in his case, because a specific type of insulin, as well as an uncommon type of injector were used to commit the murders, identical to the insulin and injectors used by Lady Heather. Heather is disappointed that Grissom suspects her. She is later cleared, but by then the damage to their relationship has already been done.
Lady Heather meets Gil Grissom again when her daughter, Zoe Kessler, is murdered. In the sixth season episode, "Pirates of the Third Reich," she reveals that Zoe dropped out of Harvard, began seeing a psychiatrist, slept with him and became pregnant by him. Lady Heather reported the psychiatrist to the disciplinary board, infuriating Zoe. At the time Zoe was murdered, mother and daughter were estranged. Lady Heather says she understands that having a dominatrix for a mother must have been difficult for Zoe, but she always emphasized "empowerment" when raising her daughter. Lady Heather does not know whether Zoe aborted or gave birth to her baby. The autopsy was inconclusive about whether Zoe had given birth. Zoe went to a sleep clinic for help with insomnia. Zoe's killer saw her there and targeted her for Nazi-like experiments because of an unusual physical feature -- Zoe had one brown eye and one blue eye, a condition known as heterochromia.
Lady Heather later sleeps with the man suspected of killing her daughter Zoe to obtain his DNA. She then abducts him, drives him out into the desert, ties him to the front end of her car and starts lashing him with her whip until Gil Grissom arrives to stop her.
[edit] Trivia
- Lady Heather thinks that Catherine Willows would make a good dominatrix (which Catherine takes as a compliment).
- The house of domination earns about $20,000 per week ("Sex pays a lot better than death," to which Catherine Willows adds "Plus the outfits are cooler.")
- www.ladyheather.com brings you directly to the CSI homepage.
[edit] External links
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | |
|---|---|
| Episodes | Characters | Official website | |
| Characters | Gil Grissom | Catherine Willows | Nick Stokes | Warrick Brown Sara Sidle | Jim Brass | Greg Sanders | Al Robbins Sofia Curtis | Conrad Ecklie |
| Former Characters | Holly Gribbs | Paul Millander | Lady Heather |
| Creator(s) | Anthony E. Zuiker |
| Computer Games | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI: Dark Motives CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder |
| Related Series | CSI: New York | CSI: Miami |
