Conrad Ecklie
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation character | |
| Conrad Ecklie | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Brown(But now is almost bald) |
| City | Las Vegas |
| Job | CSI |
| Rank | CSI Level 3 |
| Position | Assistant Director of the crime lab, former Dayshift supervisor |
| Current status | Alive |
| Portrayed by | Marc Vann |
| First appearance | Blood Drops |
Conrad Ecklie is a fictional character on the television series CSI played by Marc Vann. He is employed as Assistant Director of the crime lab of Clark County, Nevada.
Ecklie is a former dayshift supervisor, promoted to Assistant Director in season 5. He is known for his strict adherence to regulations. He also appears to be quite ambitious and career-minded and a vigorous self-promoter; nevertheless he has received praise from senior city and county officials on several occasions. Ecklie and nightshift supervisor Gil Grissom have a very rocky relationship throughout the series, with Grissom claiming Ecklie is more concerned with advancement than evidence, and Ecklie maintaining that Grissom shows favoritism toward his subordinates.
In part to spite Grissom, Ecklie split the nightshift CSI team in the middle of season 5 and made Catherine Willows the swing shift supervisor, ignoring her repeated requests for transfer to days. Despite that animosity, Ecklie put aside all differences in the season 5 finale "Grave Danger" and helped the team locate and rescue a kidnapped Nick Stokes.
Grissom's animosity toward Ecklie is shared by several other members of the night shift, including Sara Sidle who was nearly fired for insubordination when she yelled at Ecklie in a moment of anger. Catherine Willows, though not an admirer of Ecklie's, has criticized Grissom on several occasions because his indifference to office politics has allowed the more ambitious Ecklie to advance beyond him.
Although Ecklie's personal life is hardly touched on throughout his sporadic appearances in the CSI series, it was revealed in the season 2 episode, Anatomy of a Lye, that he had bought a Mercedes from Gil Grissom five years prior. In the season five episode Iced, he says that he is both divorced, and allergic to cats. The two latter facts, however, about his life outside his work as a public servant, both half truths which may be open to debate. Reason being, at the time he answered, he was under pressure to provide an answer to the inquiring people, who were a flirtatious woman and Al Robbins respectively.
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| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | |
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| Episodes | Characters | |
| 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 | Michael Keppler |
| Creator(s) | Anthony E. Zuiker |
| Computer Games | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CSI: Dark Motives CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder | CSI: Hard Evidence |
| Related Series | CSI: NY | CSI: Miami |
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