The Low Down On Las Vegas Escorts.

When she was in her 40s, Catherine discovered that shady casino mogul Sam Braun was her biological father—a bit of a conflict for someone tasked with investigating crime in a town built on gaming… but, you know, we don’t choose our families. In Season 7, Sam took a bullet and died in Catherine’s arms.
Catherine’s final two episodes were staid by her usual standards: She was shot in the stomach, had her wound cauterized in a no-tell motel with a friendly whore’s curling iron, went into hiding in the club where she once “worked the pole,” and was betrayed by a childhood friend.
Maybe one day it will be possible for a network procedural to feature a female lead in her 50s who isn’t a former stripper whose husband and father were murdered and whose only child narrowly escaped death. But not yet, apparently.

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