Cold Case (2004)
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases" -- older crimes that have never been solved.
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Episode 1 - Family
Release Date: 25 Sep. 2005After a teenage girl who was dumped in the garbage by her parents 17 years earlier is approached by a man claiming to be her father, the team re-investigates the hit and run death of her father, Jimmy in 1988.
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Episode 2 - The Promise
Release Date: 2 Oct. 2005Lilly reopens the case of an overweight film student who was subjected to a cruel 'Hog Scale prank' at a fraternity party, after which she mysteriously died in a fire.
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Episode 3 - Bad Night
Release Date: 9 Oct. 2005Lilly reopens the 1978 case of Angus, a young boy who was killed soon after a car accident that paralyzed his friend around the time the slasher film Halloween was released.
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Episode 4 - Colors
Release Date: 16 Oct. 2005Clyde Taylor, after winning the 1945 All-Star game for the Negro League (against the majors' All-Stars), was beaten to death with his own bat outside the stadium. Taylor became a legend as the one who might have been chosen to break the "color line" in the major leagues. Jefferies' nephew challenges his uncle's cold case team to solve the crime now sixty years old ("What if it had been Babe Ruth?"). Envious, hostile white players and greedy Negro League owners, as well as the complications of a white girlfriend, are pieces of the puzzle.
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Episode 5 - Committed
Release Date: 23 Oct. 2005A former mental patient named Betty Patroski dies. The woman's only child, her son Otis, is called to identify the body and finds it is not the body of his mother. Det. Rush and her colleagues begin the search for Otis' real mother.
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Episode 6 - Saving Patrick Bubley
Release Date: 6 Nov. 2005Brothers are being killed one by one as they grow to their teens. Flashbacks show how the family enjoyed Thanksgiving together until the killings started and the mother got addicted to drugs.
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Episode 7 - Start-Up
Release Date: 13 Nov. 2005In the nineties, business school graduates Scott and Amy start up a computer health care business called Lionstaff, but Amy dies of a heart attack soon after and Lilly reopens the case.
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Episode 8 - Honor
Release Date: 20 Nov. 2005The team investigates the murder of a former POW who was killed days after coming home from the Vietnam War.
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Episode 9 - A Perfect Day
Release Date: 27 Nov. 2005The remains of a small girl are found under a bridge. The story goes back to the 60's and turns out the girl has a twin sister still alive. A sad family story begins to unravel.
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Episode 10 - Frank's Best
Release Date: 18 Dec. 2005The friendly owner of a local grocery store is murdered and Lilly reopens his case, finding that Frank was having issues with his rebellious son, his son's trashy friend Stump and his employee, Ricardo.
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Episode 11 - 8 Years
Release Date: 8 Jan. 2006The music of Bruce Springsteen provides the perfect accompaniment to this story of four young friends with modest dreams and the detours they take along the way. Clem was shot dead in 1988, and the Cold Case team follow up on his murder by tracking his friends' lives, forcing the survivors to review their life choices.
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Episode 12 - Detention
Release Date: 15 Jan. 2006An emo high school boy supposedly kills himself in 1991 and Lilly reopens his case, learning of the dark secrets he was keeping with three other outcast students during their detention together.
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Episode 13 - Debut
Release Date: 29 Jan. 2006The Cold Case team investigates a 1960's case of a young débutant who fell to her death. They also discover that the girl's mother was very traditional and expected her daughter to follow order.
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Episode 14 - Dog Day Afternoons
Release Date: 26 Feb. 2006A sweet, wallflower who works at a bank is courted by a Lothario bank robber who informs her that his crew is robbing her bank. Her love for him is to motivate her to assist them with key knowledge they need for the bank safe. On the day of the robbery, with a change of mind, she pushes the silent alarm which is seen by her lover, sealing her fate. When the same bank is robbed by similarly masked gunman again, it looks like the bank was struck twice by the same robbers, though years apart. The team is convinced there must have been an 'inside man'.
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Episode 15 - Sanctuary
Release Date: 12 Mar. 2006The Cold Case team investigates the case of a woman who was disemboweled violently by an unknown killer - a woman Scotty knew from his undercover years.
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Episode 16 - One Night
Release Date: 19 Mar. 2006During a slow night at the P.P.D., it turns out to be anything but when a pitiful man shows up with a dirt-encrusted shovel, claiming to have just buried somebody alive.
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Episode 17 - Superstar
Release Date: 26 Mar. 2006Young Andi Simmons was a talented tennis player when she won a "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition match against an older student back in 1973, but she was found strangled the next morning. Was the killer her opponent, who'd had his pride hurt by losing to a girl? Her jealous rival on the woman's team? The demanding coach or Andi's more demanding father? The detectives take a new look at the clues.
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Episode 18 - Willkommen
Release Date: 2 Apr. 2006Four years after the slaying, the Cold Case team investigates the murder of a cabbie-turned-actor who was shot to death outside the community theatre on opening night...
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Episode 19 - Beautiful Little Fool
Release Date: 9 Apr. 2006It was 1929 and vivacious, plucky Violet Polley was a promising singer and songwriter attempting to support herself. She draws the attention of affluent Nick Bartleby. Initially scoffing his attentions, his charm wins her over. The difficulty of the depression and its affect on his family's wealth had him overwhelmed. When Violet Polley shows up with the baby carriage of little Rose, their love child, at the family mansion requesting assistance or marriage. She and baby were cruelly rebuffed by him. Violet is bludgeoned to death within minutes outside the Bartleby's ...
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Episode 20 - Death Penalty: Final Appeal
Release Date: 16 Apr. 2006A corrupt cop's suicide leads to new questions about an old murder, challenging Detective Jeffries' belief that the man on death row for the crime is guilty -- and also putting Jeffries on a collision course with an arrogant ADA.
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Episode 21 - The Hen House
Release Date: 30 Apr. 2006The "accidental" death of a woman newspaper columnist in 1943 is solved when old newspaper files indicate that maybe "Hey Lo" was murdered by a Nazi officer posing as a Dutch Jew.
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Episode 22 - The River
Release Date: 7 May 2006A successful and loved emergency room doctor's case is reopened and Lilly learns that his life was rapidly becoming unmanageable thanks to his gambling addiction.
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Episode 23 - Joseph
Release Date: 21 May 2006Orlando is killed in 2005 in a house for chemical-addicted teens after he is beaten by a fellow patient. Joseph, the supervisor, catches Corey beating Orlando, but can't save Orlando. Two months later, right before Joseph is to testify against Corey, Joseph is found to have been killed at home by a shotgun blast through his door. The obvious suspect, Corey, was in jail at the time of the murder, so the detectives work to solve the open case, which involves good intentions, poor choices, and entanglements for Lilly.