Leigh Turner

Leigh Turner was a supporting character on the ABC television series The Gates. Played by actress Janina Gavankar, she was introduced in the pilot episode of the series.

Biography
Leigh Turner was a police officer who worked in the idyllic, upper-class community known as The Gates in the state of Washington. Her partner was a young man named Marcus Jordan. In 2010, a former Chicago police detective named Nick Monohan became the new chief of police of The Gates. Leigh was led to believe that the former police chief had retired and moved to Mexico. She did a background check on Monohan and learned that he retired from the Chicago police department following a controversial shooting incident involving a suspected felon. Though she liked Nick, this information made her slightly suspicious of him.

Nick put Leigh and Marcus to work almost immediately. They began investigating a missing persons case involving a contractor from Franklin named Mark Woodbury. Nick had Leigh contact the D.A. in an effort to obtain a search warrant, but the district attorney (likely pressured by The Gates builder Frank Buckley) turned down the request.

Shortly thereafter, Turner, Monohan and Jordan discovered the remains of the former police chief. He had not retired to Mexico as they had been led to believe, but was in fact murdered.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of was created by Grant Scharbo and Richard Hatem.