Dr. Leigh Sapien (CSI)

Dr. Leigh Sapien (Brenda Strong) is the main villainess from "Overload," episode 2.03 of CSI (airdate October 11, 2001). She is a psychiatrist who had 14-year-old Dylan Buckley as a patient.
Leigh's past revealed that she engaged in a sexual tryst with one of her other male patients, who was 17 at the time. The incident cost Leigh her license, though she still continued her practice and her duties for Dylan, who visited her after a fight with his mother; she was desperate to help her son. While Ms. Buckley was present with Dylan, Leigh decided to try an unorthodox therapeutic method known as "rebirthing."
The procedure had Dylan wrapped in a blanket and recreating his birth, but during the process, Dylan had problems breathing and shouted for help. The evil Leigh thwarted Ms. Buckley's attempt to save her son, as she stated that Dylan's screaming was part of the process. Both women held Dylan down to recreate the labor process, but when they unwrapped him, Dylan's eyes were closed and he wasn't responding. Ms. Buckley believed that he was pretending to be asleep, but the realization was that they had killed Dylan. Leigh covered up the murder by claiming that Dylan would have epileptic seizures, and that one of them led to his death. 
The villainess made the claim to Catherine Willows and Nick Stokes, and when they reminded her of her lecherous past, Leigh defended the tryst by stating that he was 17, that she was a resident, and also that it should have been expunged. The fibers of the blanket found on Dylan's corpse revealed Leigh's role in his death, as well as his mother's, and it was during the interrogation that Leigh gave details about the rebirthing method that they practiced on Dylan. During the interrogation, Leigh stated she hadn't intended to kill Dylan and continued to try and convince Ms. Buckley (albeit unsuccessfully) that her methods were best for Dylan's treatment. Following her villainous reveal, Leigh was arrested (off-screen) for her role in her patient's murder.
== Trivia ==
* Brenda Strong later played serial killer Kathy Jarrow on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, evil adulteress Joan Reston on Scandal, as well as greedy villainess Mel Gaynor-Randle on Rizzoli & Isles, and the evil Maggie Sherman on Notorious.
* Brenda Strong is perhaps best known for recurring on Supergirl as the villainous Lillian Luthor.
Category:2000s
Category:Blonde
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Suffocation
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested