Lia Ramsey (CSI: NY)

Lia Ramsey (Scottie Thompson) is the main villainess from "Buzzkill," episode 4.08 of CSI: NY (airdate November 14, 2007). She is a model and the business partner of ad executive Damien Barnes.
However, Lia had secretly harbored resentment towards Damien, as she cooked up an idea for the party that took place in the beginning of the episode, which was centered around the martini mix campaign. One night before Lia was set to pitch the idea, Damien took the company's CEO to a strip club and took full credit for Lia's vision, and believing that her career was ruined because of her partner, Lia planned to kill Damien out of revenge.
Lia's plan involved filling a beach ball with sea water and inserting a jellyfish inside, and then cutting a slit on the ball so the jellyfish could escape and kill Damien with its toxic. After setting up her makeshift weapon, the scheming villainess tossed the ball to Damien so he could inflate it, but the jellyfish didn't escape until the ball was tossed around during the party and ended up in the hands of model Jenna Donovan, who ended up killed once the jellyfish made contact with her.
Jenna was believed to be the main target, with many different suspects in her murder, but it was in the episode's climax that Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe discovered the jellyfish, and the female DNA led them to Lia in the episode's final scenes. When Damien stated that Lia tossed the ball to him, Stella deduced that Damien, not Jenna, was Lia's true target. Damien asked Lia why she would attempt to kill him, and in response to his question, the evil Lia snarled at Damien for stealing her idea for the parties, claiming that he ruined her career. Lia stated that she didn't know that the jellyfish would harm anyone else, and the episode ended with Stella handcuffing and arresting Lia for Jenna's murder, as well as the attempt to kill Damien.
== Trivia ==
* Scottie Thompson later appeared on Rizzoli & Isles as the evil Emily Stern, and returned to the CSI franchise as the evil Lt. Debra Hughes on the original series.
== Quotes ==
* "You killed my career! I created the martini mix campaign. The slogan, the tone, even the girl in the martini glass. It was all my idea. But the night before I was supposed to pitch it, he took our CEO to a strip club, acted like the idea was all his. (Lia Ramsey revealing her motive in her attempt to kill Damien Barnes)
Category:2000s
Category:Animal Weapon
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Business Villainess
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Makeshift Weapon
Category:Model
Category:Murder: Animals
Category:Murder: Poison
Category:Murderer
Category:Vengeful
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested