Lindsey Willows

Minor Character: Las Vegas

Name	Lindsey Willows
Gender	Female
Family	Catherine Willows (mother) Eddie Willows (father; deceased) Lily Flynn (grandmother) Sam Braun (grandfather; deceased) Jeremy (cousin)
City	Las Vegas
Occupation	Student (formerly) Crime Scene Investigator
Status	Alive
Portrayed By	Madison McReynolds (1-5) Kay Panabaker (6-12) Katie Stevens (finale)
First Appearance	Pilot

Lindsey Willows is the daughter of CSI Catherine Willows and the late Eddie Willows in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Background

Primarily, the character's function is to highlight the difficulties faced by Catherine Willows in being a single mother while holding down a demanding law-enforcement job and trying to maintain a social life.

Lindsey's appearances have typically been in episodes where she was used as a pawn by Eddie, before that character's death or afterward proving to be a rebellious (but not implausibly so) teenager.

One episode featured Lindsey getting caught fighting at school; another after she was detained for hitchhiking.

This latter incident prompted a scene where Catherine takes Lindsey to a morgue to show her the corpse of an adult female assault victim to impress upon her the risks in her behavior.

Lindsey was enrolled in a private school, the fictional Butterfield Academy. She was abducted and briefly held captive by enemies of her maternal grandfather, Sam Braun, in the seventh season episode Built to Kill, Part 2.

Season Seven

Lindsey appears in the ending of "Sweet Jane" where her mother drops her off and sees her talk with her friends.

Season Nine

In the Season 9 episode "Let It Bleed", while investigating the murder of a drug lord's daughter at a bar, Catherine spots Lindsey in the crowd, dancing with a man and threatens the man to back off. She finds a fake I.D. on her and has an officer send Lindsey home. Later, Lindsey appeared in her mother's office and apologized for going to the club and Catherine forgave her (but still had her grounded).

Season Ten

Lindsey was involved in a high school performance of Cabaret in Season 10 "World's End" where she helps identify a victim and told her mother that he wouldn't be missed. She was caught looking at the case files by Sara Sidle, but promises not to tell Catherine. Lindsey also told Sara that the victim came up to her and wanted her mother to do him a favor, but she rejected, thinking he was hitting on her. It was revealed that the janitor, a fugitive from the Rwanda conflict, killed him and the victim wanted her to run the man's fingerprints. At the end of the episode, Catherine watched as Lindsey performed.

At the time of Catherine's departure, Lindsey has gone to college.

TV Movie/Series finale

She appears in the CSI TV Movie "Immortality" alongside her mother where she is now a CSI Level One. She first appears, greeting Grissom, but he doesn't recognise her.

Appearances

CSI:Crime Scene Investigation
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	#
Season 1	X	-	X	-	-	X	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A		5
Season 2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A		1
Season 3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A		1
Season 5	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	2
Season 6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	N/A	1
Season 7	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A	2
Season 9	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A	1
Season 10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	N/A		1
Season 12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	N/A			1
Season 15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	X	X	N/A					2
Total																										16

Gallery:

Lindsey comforting her mom after her dad's death
Catherine confronting Lindsey in a club
Lindsey Willows in CSI: Immortality

Behind the Scenes

Madison McReynolds played Lindsey from season one to season five; Kay Panabaker took over the role in the season six finale Way to Go, and continued to play it up until season twelve, episode Zippered, via photo, where she's uncredited.