Melinda Clarke Returns to CSI

Strap on your assless chaps and your ball gag! Lady Heather is bringing her whip back to the Las Vegas Crime Lab. Melinda Clarke (Nikita) confirms that she will be reprising her role as everyone’s favorite dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI this April.

When Lady Heather returns, she will be known now as Dr. Lady Heather and she will be assisting the CSI team on a murder involving human pets in the BDSM world. Unfortunately, she won’t be sparring and/or flirting with Gil Grissom this time around. Besides the fact that Grissom is now happily married to Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), William Petersen, who departed the series in 2009 and has only made one cameo appearance since then, has chosen not to return for this episode.

When we last saw Lady Heather in 2008, she helped Grissom on a case that involved a murder in an S&M club and also advised him in dealing with his grief over Warrick Brown’s (Gary Dourdan) death and Sara’s departure. This episode was a vast improvement on her previous two appearances, in which the cool, empowered badass Lady Heather had turned into a suicidal mess over the murder of her daughter.

This will be Clarke’s sixth appearance as Lady Heather on CSI. She previously appeared in the episodes “Slaves of Las Vegas,” “Lady Heather’s Box,” “Pirates of the Third Reich,” “The Good, the Bad, and the Dominatrix,” and “Leave Out All the Rest.”