Maggie Sawyer

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Maggie Sawyer

Information
Species:	Human
Hair:	Blond
Eyes:	Black
Relatives:	Toby Raines (girlfriend)
Base:	Metropolis
Affiliations:	Special Crimes Unit
Voiced by:	Joanna Cassidy Dana Delany (uncredited)^[1]

Maggie Sawyer was head of the Metropolis Police's Special Crimes Unit (SCU). Her chief deputy was Inspector Dan Turpin.

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On numerous occasions, Sawyer proved herself to be a capable leader and problem solver. Unlike Turpin, she welcomed Superman's assistance and built a relationship of trust with him.

Despite whispers that the SCU became dependent on Superman's assistance, Sawyer trained and led her team to hold its own. Examples of this were when Superman's flawed clone, Bizarro, ran amok in Metropolis, and the SCU succeeded in holding him at bay.

Sawyer also worked with Superman to locate a bomb planted by rogue scientist Earl Garver, and to break into the Daily Planet building when it was transformed by the demon Karkull.

Sawyer approved the "loan" of her best officer, Sgt. Corey Mills, to LexCorp to test the prototype Series Alpha Police Battlesuit, though she suspended Mills from duty when he became too violent.

Her relationship with Turpin, her closest deputy, was sometimes difficult. Turpin was a willful officer, sometimes difficult to restrain, and on one occasion she had to suspend him from duty after he disobeyed a direct order to stay away from gangster Bruno Mannheim. Nevertheless, there was a close friendship, trust and professional respect between them.

During Darkseid's first invasion of Earth, she was badly injured and had to be hospitalized. However, her team, under Turpin's command, did her proud, holding the line against Apokoliptan forces. She watched on television as Turpin defiantly rejected Darkseid's threats of slavery, and was devastated when Darkseid murdered him. She appeared at his funeral, along with the rest of Metropolis.

When Superman was presumed dead, she attended his funeral.

[edit] Background Information

In the comics, Sawyer is a lesbian. There is a brief scene in "Apokolips... Now!," which seems to follow this, as she is seen being attended by a woman in the hospital, with whom she is on close terms.

Sawyer was a Metorpolis cop, before being transfered to the Gotham Police Department.