Minor Character: Las Vegas
Name	Lindsey Willows
Gender	Female
Family	Catherine Willows Eddie Willows (father)
City	Las Vegas
Occupation	Kid
Status	Alive
Portrayed By	Madison McReynolds Kay Panabaker
First Appearance	Pilot

Lindsey Willows is the teenage daughter of CSI Catherine Willows and her deceased ex-husband Eddie Willows.

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. 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.

Behind the Scenes

Madison McReynolds played Lindsey from season 1 to season 5; Kay Panabaker took over the role in the season 6 finale "Way To Go", and continued to play the role up until 2007, at the end of season 7. Panabaker continued to portray Lindsey Willows in season 9 in the episode "Let It Bleed".