|appearance=[[Pilot]]}}'''Lindsey Willows''' is the teenage daughter of CSI [[Catherine Willows]] and her deceased ex-husband [[Eddie Willows]] in ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''.
|appearance=[[Pilot]]}}'''Lindsey Willows''' is the teenage daughter of CSI [[Catherine Willows]] and her deceased ex-husband [[Eddie Willows]] in ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''.
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==Background==
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==History==
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 Willows|Eddie]], before that character's death, or afterward proving to be a rebellious (but not implausibly so) teenager.
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 Willows|Eddie]], before that character's death, or afterward proving to be a rebellious (but not implausibly so) teenager.
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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. In more recent episodes, Lindsey has been enrolled in a private school, the fictional Butterfield Academy. Lindsey was abducted and briefly held captive by enemies of her maternal grandfather, [[Sam Braun]], in the seventh season episode ''[[Built to Kill, Part 2]]''
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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. In more recent episodes, Lindsey has been enrolled in a private school, the fictional Butterfield Academy. Lindsey was abducted and briefly held captive by enemies of her maternal grandfather, [[Sam Braun]], in the seventh season episode ''[[Built to Kill, Part 2]]''. At the time of Catherine's departure, Lindsey has gone to college.
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. In more recent episodes, Lindsey has been enrolled in a private school, the fictional Butterfield Academy. Lindsey was abducted and briefly held captive by enemies of her maternal grandfather, Sam Braun, in the seventh season episode Built to Kill, Part 2. At the time of Catherine's departure, Lindsey has gone to college.
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.
