Calleigh Duquesne
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| CSI: Miami character | |
| Calleigh Duquesne | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Birthdate | February 28, 1974 |
| City | Miami |
| Job | CSI |
| Rank | Detective |
| Position | Ballistics specialist |
| Current status | Alive |
| Known relatives | Kenwall Duquesne (father), 3 unnamed brothers |
| Portrayed by | Emily Procter |
| First appearance | Cross Jurisdictions |
Detective Calleigh Duquesne is a fictional character on the hit CBS drama CSI: Miami. She is portrayed by Emily Procter.
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[edit] Background
Calleigh is a ballistics specialist; originally from Darnell, Louisiana, she is fluent in Spanish and has a bachelor's degree in physics from Tulane University. While working for the New Orleans Police Department, she gained the nickname "Bullet Girl". Calleigh is an almost eternal optimist, with a sunny disposition and a smile to match. However, this attitude does not in any way interfere with her quest to put criminals where they belong. She is pretty much universally liked by her co-workers, who sometimes remark on her being nearly 'too happy.' And while she does not believe in supernatural curses and the like, she does believe in karma (episode 5-06, "Curse of the Coffin"). Though her time as a CSI has exposed her to intense violence and gore, as of episode 2-18 "Wannabe," she has an intense fear of ants which Eric Delko helps her overcome.
[edit] Relationships
Her father, Kenwall "Duke" Duquesne, is an alchoholic defense attorney who has tried to rehabilitate himself several times. Calleigh sometimes helps him by picking him up and driving home when he is too drunk to do so himself. When he comes to the lab to confess that he might have killed someone while driving drunk, she lies to her boss to protect her father (episode 3-03, "Under the Influence"). Her father sometimes calls her "lambchop" (episode 1-18, "Dispo Day").
Calleigh reveals that she once dated a Marine Corps Special Ops sniper, now retired, who helps Horatio understand the mindset of a sniper on a spree in downtown Miami (episode 1-09, "Kill Zone").
Calleigh has a brief relationship with Detective John Hagen, former partner of Horatio Caine's brother Raymond, in season 2; in the season 3 finale, a deeply depressed Hagen steals a crucial piece of evidence from a crime scene, possibly to produce it later and look like a hero. Unfortunately for him, Calleigh notices the void when she comes to photograph the scene, and Hagen come up from behind, pulls his gun on her, and flees. Though at the time, she does not know that he is the perpetrator, she remembers vividly the sound of the gun cock, and recognizes it moments before Hagen commits suidice in the ballistics lab. She finds the missing evidence in his jacket pocket as the coroners wheel out his body (episode 3-24, "10-7").
She also shares a mutual attraction with Special Agent Peter Elliot, a Fed from the Financial Crimes Division, but breaks it off when she discoveres he is already engaged to State Attorney Monica West, who is later proved to be leaking false information that discredited the Miami-Dade Crime Lab (episode 4-25, "One of Our Own"). Despite this falling-out, Calleigh and Elliot remain friends, and she calls him in to determine the authenticity of money they confiscated during the course of a case (episode 5-03, "Death Pool 100").
Ryan Wolfe's first case upon joining the lab investigates the possibility that Calleigh's father killed a man while driving under the influence of alchohol. Therefore, Calleigh and Ryan's relationship begins on a bit of a sour note (episode 3-03, "Under the Influence"). However, Calleigh soon grows to accept him. She is often caught in the middle of verbal sniping between Ryan and Eric Delko, at least until they grow to trust each other (episode 4-08, "Nailed"). She later buys an iPod for Ryan's niece, and, when he pays her back with a $100 bill, she is dismayed to learn from Federal Agent Peter Elliot that the bill is counterfit. Though Calleigh confronts Ryan about his participation in the very Death Pool they are investigating (the source of the fake money), she does not follow up officially, and Ryan destroys all his "winnings" shortly afterwards (episode 5-03, "Death Pool 100")
During an investigation in 2006, another of her former love-interests surfaces: an undercover police officer, Jake Berkeley. Unfortunately, Berkeley had become too enamoured of his role in a weapons-dealing, drug-using motorcycle gang, and at one point Calleigh suspects he murdered his clean partner, Ken McCartney, though this assumption is later proved false (episode 5-02, "Going Under").
After colleague and friend Eric Delko is critically wounded in the line of duty, Calleigh and fellow CSI Ryan Wolfe go to the hospital to give him blood, but they learn that they are too late and that he is on plasma due to catastrophic blood loss. Calleigh and the others take turns at his bedside; she places a cross in his hand to show how much she cares, and is scared for him while he is unconsious (Eric is Roman Catholic); She is the first to talk to Eric after he wakes up, and the first to learn of his impaired memory when he asks after his months-dead sister Marisol. Calleigh, unwilling to tell Delko of that tragedy, puts him off for the time being. She is instrumental in discovering his shooter by her analysis of the bullet fragment recovered from Eric's head (episode 515, "Man Down"). After Delko's return to work, Calleigh keeps a close eye on him, going over his reports and hoping his recovery is as complete as they would like. Unfortunately, she discovers a small but critical error in his procedure, which almost allows a killer to escape justice. Later, a depressed Delko declines to join her in the interview room, even though he earlier provided critical insight to the case, saying forlornly he came back to work too soon. Sympathetic, Calleigh allows him to sit out the interrogation (episode 516, "Broken Home").
[edit] Other Major Events
Following John Hagen's suicide in her lab at the end of season 3, Calleigh transfers out of ballistics briefly, only to return after she witnesses her successor's incompetence (episode 4-10, "Shattered").
When Horatio Caine and Eric Delko go to Brazil in pursuit of murderer Antonio Riaz, Calleigh is given temporary charge of the lab. Despite the geographic distance between them, she does her best to help them in their quest for justice by identifing a substance that leads them closer to Riaz (episode 5-01, "Rio").
During the course of the one case, while taking back roads to avoid traffic on the way back to the lab from the scene of the murder, Calleigh is nearly killed when another vehicle forced her off the road into the water. Fortunately, she is able to escape the Hummer before she drowns, but much of the evidence is contaminated. Despite this setback, she and the team eventually solve the case (episode 5-02, "Going Under"). She is also shot in the line of duty after tracking down and confronting a suspect, but her Kevlar vest protects her from any serious injury (episode 5-09, "Going, Going, Gone").
[edit] Quotes
Horatio: So what do you get when a six-foot man lays down with a three-foot rifle?
Calleigh: Hot flashes, but that's just me.
Calleigh: Do you believe her story?
Horatio: That depends on whether or not you like to see men in your underwear.
Calleigh: Personally? Leather chaps... nothing else... (Beat) That was a joke.
Horatio: I know.
Calleigh: That smells good.
Eric: What, cafe Cubano? Puts some hair on your chest.
Calleigh: Don't you just say the sweetest things?
Calleigh: (Upon entering her gun vault, she stops, smiles and sighs) Be still, my heart.
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| Characters: | Horatio Caine | Calleigh Duquesne | Eric Delko | Tim Speedle | Frank Tripp | Natalia Boa Vista | Ryan Wolfe | Alexx Woods | Vallera |
| Episodes: | List of CSI: Miami episodes |
| Executive producer: | Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Creators: | Anthony E. Zuiker | Carol Mendelsohn | Ann Donahue |
| Related Series: | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI: NY |
| Other: | CSI: Miami | List of CSI: Miami Japan voice actors | List of CSI: Miami Korea voice actors | Official homepage |
