Cecilia Abandonato

Cecilia Abandonato (née Harris) aka Iris is a 1st Grade Detective that's second-in-command only to Jake.

Biography
She is very short, only 4'6" in height and only weighing 110 lbs, every other character overtowering her in height. She as long, beautiful, curly blonde hair and deep green eyes.

She is shown to be a romantic like Émile and slightly flirty. She is shown to be very intelligent, like Émile himself. Unlike him, she is very bold and not easily frightened. She would actually boldly go in front of him to protect him if someone tried to shoot at him. She was an excellent shooter, just as good as Émile is. She carried a Glock 21 and a Smith & Wesson 5609. Her downfall is her insecurity about her height, as she was only 4'6" in height. She makes up her lack in height by her confidence and her go-getter personality.

She acquired her nickname after Émile compared her to its beauty and it being her favourite flower.

Before Nanu's Revenge
Cecilia was born to Aiden and Adam Alderfer. Her mother and father were both CSIs until they were fired for tampering with evidence. She is known to a flirty type of person. She married her high school sweetheart, Niles Harris. However, he was murdered.

She never got a look at Niles's killer, so that is when she decided to become an Interpol officer (1992). After three years of searching (about 1995), she finally found her husband's killer, Grant MacGillivray. Six months later, she got the promotion of being a captain (Head Investigator).

Grant was killed via illegal injection. It was the first time Émile, Rico, Jake and Cecilia got to see a lethal injection. But, it was also the first time she actually noticed Émile. She allowed him to come to her home. When she first meets Émile, she thinks he is going to make fun of her height; however, he doesn't and the two started a relationship after that

Rico, Jake and her decided to nickname Émile, "Looker" because of his intellectual ability to see "everything around him".

While investigating a crime scene, she nicked her hand on a needle that punctured through her glove. She had no idea what was on the needle, so she never said anything about it.

Her badge number is 12956. Her code number is 0492, the date she entered the office (April 26, 1992).

She studies ballistics, forensic dentistry, pathology, chemistry.

She was once at a shooting range with Émile while firing a rifle (a SIG 551) when it recoiled and hit her nose, almost breaking it and causing her to have a bloody nose that bled for hours. She needed thirty stitches to fix up her nose. It also gave her a black eye and chipped her two front teeth.

In Nanu's Revenge
Nanu admits to helping her fake her death to get away from Oliver Swift. Nanu seems to feel guilt about helping her.

In Stanford
It is shown that almost all but the first AIDS tests were negative, the first one being a false positive. It is shown that she has suffered cases of Whipple's disease, which may look like AIDS.

Family tree
She has a son named Danny, who is Émile's. She also has two parents and a brother.


 * Mother: status unknown
 * Father: status unknown
 * Brother: status unknown
 * Danny Abandonato (son): alive (as of Stanford: chapter 56)