Calleigh Duquesne

Template:CSI character Detective Calleigh Duquesne is a fictional character on the hit CBS drama CSI: Miami. She is portrayed by Emily Procter.

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". Her father, "Duke" Duquesne, is a defense attorney despite having trouble with alcohol and has tried to rehabilitate himself several times. Calleigh sometimes helped him by picking him up and driving home when he was 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 has a brief relationship with Detective John Hagen, former partner of Horatio Caine's brother Raymond, in season 2; in the season 3 finale Hagen shoots himself right in front of her, after having pulled a gun on her earlier in the episode. This precipitates Calleigh's transfer out of the Ballistics department. She returns to her position as the Ballistics specialist after observing her successor's incompetence.

She also shares a mutual attraction with Special Agent Peter Elliot, from the Financial Crimes Division, but breaks it off when she discovered he was 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").

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").

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.

During the course of the same 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").

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").