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Cold Case Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2003 - 2004
Episode 1
Look Again
Sun, Sep 28, 200344 mins
Detective Lilly Rush interviews a maid who says she witnessed the beating death of a teenage girl during a party on a luxurious estate more than 25 years ago.
Episode 2
Gleen
Sun, Oct 5, 200344 mins
Detective Lilly is asked to investigate the murder of a fireman's first wife, who was going to testify against the man that exposed himself to her. One week before his trial, inside her detergent box of "Gleen" was planted a bomb that went off in her face. She was alive for 16 minutes after it went off and then died on her backyard patio. She is found by her young daughter at home at the time of the explosion. Her fireman husband has since remarried and he seems like a devoted husband to family, respected in the community, and revered as a hero at the fire station. As the father is preparing to elope, the daughter is still very much haunted by the memories of her mother's death. Marvelous sets recreates the time.
Episode 3
Our Boy Is Back
Sun, Oct 12, 200344 mins
When a serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years, the team re-investigates the 1998 murder of a college student who was believed to be one of his victims.
Episode 4
Churchgoing People
Sun, Oct 19, 200344 mins
The Alzheimer's inflicted widow of a slain church organist begins having flashbacks about her husband's murder, leading Lilly to reopen the case. She is disheveled and babbling wandering the streets. Once returned home it is discovered that years ago her husband, the victim, Mitchell Baye, was found stabbed, left in an alley in a seedy part of town, surrounded by pornography and crack vials. Mitchell's widow, Charlotte Baye, remembers that she was suspicious that he was cheating on her with a fellow church member. Charlotte's son, Ryan, who is also her keeper, asks Lilly to close the investigation, and Charlotte's estranged daughter, Tina, who hasn't seen Ryan who she was so close to in years, also wishes to keep the case closed.
Episode 5
The Runner
Sun, Oct 26, 200344 mins
The team reopen an unsolved case about a young policeman was murdered in 1973, Joe Washington, who was involved in a drug case at dangerous zone.
Episode 6
Love Conquers Al
Sun, Nov 9, 200344 mins
A petty crook, Ricky (Tim deZarn), hoping to get a reduced sentence, relates witnessing a young man washing blood out of his car the night a teen track runner was murdered. The young athlete, Paige Pratt (Summer Glau), was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson (Doug Kruse) was originally imprisoned for the crime.
Episode 7
A Time to Hate
Sun, Nov 16, 200344 mins
The team investigates a 1964 case when a young college student was killed outside a gay bar.
Episode 8
Fly Away
Sun, Nov 30, 200344 mins
After two years in a coma, a mother awakes in the hospital. Unfortunately, Rosie hardly remembers the night she and her little daughter were thrown out of a window, killing the girl and injuring herself severely. She only recalls that her daughter Toya was wearing a butterfly costume ...
Episode 9
Sherry Darlin'
Sun, Dec 7, 200344 mins
A young man calls Detective Lilly Rush to report a body buried in a basement. Rush finds a skeleton belonging to an 81-year-old grandmother who was reported missing 14 years before. Her grandson James is the main suspect since he recently revisited the home and wanted to see the basement. Detectives have other options, including Sherry, James's ex-girlfriend. When he keeps calling, Rush sets up a meeting where he demands Sherry be excluded from the investigation totally. A final confrontation at his grandma's house reveals the truth at last.
Episode 10
Hitchhiker
Sun, Dec 21, 200344 mins
The team is searching for a suspected serial killer. The murders started with a young man who was hitchhiking home from the casino after winning $3000. They have little to go on other than a boot print.
Episode 11
Hubris
Sun, Jan 11, 200444 mins
A young college girl had been killed several years earlier and laid out in a pond. The college professor, with whom the girl was having an affair, was always suspected but there was nothing solid to go on. Another girl is killed the same way.
Episode 12
Glued
Sun, Jan 18, 200460 mins
Lilly looks into one of Lt. Stillman's old cases, involving the death of an 8 year old boy killed on his way home from the corner store.
Episode 13
The Letter
Sun, Jan 25, 200460 mins
A 25-year-old woman was found raped and suffocated in a boarding house for "colored women" in 1939. Written off as a prostitute murdered by a john, Sadie's death made her daughter ashamed of her heritage. After her mother's death, the granddaughter asks Detective Rush to find the truth. Few contemporaries survive, and the crucial DNA evidence must be obtained from Sadie's exhumed body's fingernails.
Episode 14
The Boy in the Box
Sun, Feb 15, 200460 mins
The team investigates a 1958 case where a dead 6-year-old boy wrapped inside a box was discovered in a field. The previous investigation developed no leads in determining the identity of the boy. However, new evidence suggests he may have lived at a nearby Catholic orphanage.
Episode 15
Disco Inferno
Sun, Feb 22, 200444 mins
The team investigates a 1978 case where 22 people were killed in a fire at a popular disco after new evidence shows that one of the victims was shot before the fire.
Episode 16
Volunteers
Sun, Mar 7, 200444 mins
Excavation of a building erected in 1969 reveals two skeletons, one black male, one white female. Remains of clothing and ID's lead to a revolutionary group during that Summer of Love. The couple were volunteers who were taking pregnant girls to receive abortions from an activist physician just before they disappeared. Rush and her team must sort out many possible suspects and motives: jealous boyfriends, racism, rumored FBI informers, and the ALF (Afrikaner Liberation Front) among others.
Episode 17
The Lost Soul of Herman Lester
Sun, Mar 14, 200444 mins
An up and coming basketball player on the way to making it big is found dead on a street playground. Was it a street robbery gone bad, an overly competitive player who wanted his slot or something else?
Episode 18
Resolutions
Sun, Mar 28, 200444 mins
By 1999, Greg Cardiff had everything going for him, family, a good job, and a stable life. Then on New Years Day, he was dead. Now four years later, a recovering alcoholic comes forward as a possible suspect, being sure she killed him, but when the investigation reveals that it may have been poison, the team wonder who could've wanted the man who had everything dead.
Episode 19
Late Returns
Sun, Apr 4, 200444 mins
A man is found shot to death in his driveway. The team re-open a 1992 murder of a young woman, a Democratic worker, who went missing after leaving a political event on Election night.
Episode 20
Greed
Sun, Apr 18, 200444 mins
Facing federal charges induces an inside trader to broker another trade: information about a unsolved murder for a lesser charge/sentence. Though it does not pan out, it leads Rush and Valens to a tangled web of deception, drugs, stock swindles, sexual harassment, manipulation and enough suspects to keep them all busy sorting out trash from truth.
Episode 21
Maternal Instincts
Sun, Apr 25, 200444 mins
This case was from a woman's murder in 1989. The case is reopened in 2004 when the witness gets in trouble with the law and is a juvenile delinquent and arrested several times. The witness was her three-year old son on the night of his birthday. The son remembers red and yellow balloons, a train, and the name Bobby. The team investigates the case. They discover things that don't add up. Lilly attempts to drill some sense into the juvenile and brings up part of her past.
Episode 22
The Plan
Sun, May 2, 200444 mins
The Team gets an anonymous letter saying the 1999 accidental death of a swim coach at a military academy was the result of a carefully orchestrated plot.
Episode 23
Lover's Lane
Sun, May 23, 200444 mins
In 1986, a teenage girl was raped and stabbed to death in a popular lovers' lane. A man was arrested and convicted for the crime, based on circumstantial evidence. When the case is retried using modern DNA technology, he is proven innocent and Lilly and her team set out to find the real killer.
