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Cold Case Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
The Badlands
Sun, Oct 3, 200444 mins
The triple murder of a couple running a restaurant and their employee is reopened when it is revealed in court that the man who was originally charged with the crime was robbing a store at another location at the time of the murders.
Episode 2
Factory Girls
Sun, Oct 10, 200444 mins
The detectives reopen a World War II era case of a female factory worker who died at work from what was believed to be an accidental fall.
Episode 3
Daniela
Sun, Oct 17, 200444 mins
The case begins when an abused wife alleges that her husband killed a girl in 1979 and produces a supposed snuff reel showing him possibly committing the crime. The team reopens the assumed murder investigation where an unnamed girl's blood splattered clothes were discovered in a trash can, but no body was ever retrieved.
Episode 4
The House
Sun, Oct 24, 200444 mins
Outside a prison, the bones of an inmate who tried to escape during the broadcast of Johnny Cash's prison concert in 1968 are found in an old underground escape tunnel. Suspiciously, that inmate was supposedly killed inside the prison at another time...
Episode 5
Who's Your Daddy
Sun, Oct 31, 200444 mins
Lilly meets a teenage girl named Kara whose parents were shot point-blank back in '91 and offers to reopen their murder files.
Episode 6
The Sleepover
Sun, Nov 7, 200444 mins
When a young woman is killed on the fourteenth anniversary of a similar murder, even bearing similar drawings on her body, Rush and her team hone in on a mentally-disturbed young man. He admits killing the second girl and having visited the site yearly since the first death. Further investigation reveals a group of high-society girls who had bullied the first victim might be involved somehow.
Episode 7
It's Raining Men
Sun, Nov 14, 200444 mins
The team investigates the 1983 murder of an openly gay man who had been extremely active in attempting to stop the spread of AIDS. This included likely burning down a bathhouse where gay men were transmitting the disease and threatening to out closeted homosexuals who did not agree to petition congress for a solution. The early investigation also discovers that he was estranged from his prominent father who had kicked him out of his brother's wedding for bringing his partner along to the reception.
Episode 8
Red Glare
Sun, Nov 21, 200444 mins
After a suicide attempt, a psychiatrist reveals to the son of a murdered teacher that, contrary to what he had been told by his mother, his father was NOT a drunk and did not desert his family. Rush's team learns that in 1953, favoring integration was equated with Communist sympathies; HUAC had subpoenaed the teacher, he was pressured to identify others as Communists; his wife suspected him of an affair, the family was ostracized, he was suspended by the school. Though 50 years have passed, the cold case squad wants to find out the truth and give his son the will to live.
Episode 9
Mind Hunters
Sun, Nov 28, 200444 mins
A headless corpse is found in the woods. The victim is identified and the ex-husband who used to assault his wife is charged with the murder. Later several similar corpses are found by the hounds; all the victims are women who disappeared in November and all were shot. While trying to find connections between the victims the team learns that all of them tried making denouncements for having been attacked but to no avail.
Episode 10
Discretion
Sun, Dec 19, 200444 mins
The team investigates the 2000 slaying of an up-and-coming Connecticut prosecutor who was about to try a high profile murder case. The early investigation discovers that prior to his death he seemed to have been heavily distracted by something.
Episode 11
Blank Generation
Sun, Jan 9, 200544 mins
A programmer of sects' victims is accused of murder, so the sister of a teenager who committed suicide in 1978, treated by the same man, asks Lilly and the team for help. She now suspects that her brother could have been murdered then, too. Additionally, Valens receives bad news.
Episode 12
Yo, Adrian
Sun, Jan 16, 200544 mins
An underdog boxer dies from a knock-out on a fight that should have been called by the referee and the boxer's corner. The plot was deeper when the team re-investigates this cold case.
Episode 13
Time to Crime
Sun, Jan 30, 200544 mins
A citywide incentive "guns for shoes" program causes a weapon to turn up that had been used in a 1987 drive-by killing of a little girl in a park. The team attempts to discover who had possessed the gun through the many hands it had since crossed while also investigating who may have been the intended target.
Episode 14
Revolution
Sun, Feb 20, 200544 mins
Detectives Rush and Valens reopen a murder case from December of 1969 after serving an arrest warrant to a draft dodger who claims he is innocent of murdering his girlfriend.
Episode 15
Wishing
Sun, Mar 6, 200544 mins
In the early 90's, the death of a mentally handicapped teen has been reopened. Drawings depicting the incident at the railroad tracks surface, which indicate it may not have been an accident as originally believed.
Episode 16
Revenge
Sun, Mar 13, 200544 mins
The Cold Case team investigates the death by drowning of a young boy who disappeared from an outlet mall in the 1990's. They uncover a bizarre, elaborate kidnapping plot in the process.
Episode 17
Schadenfreude
Sun, Mar 20, 200544 mins
Lilly investigates the 1982 murder of a surgeon's wife, of which he had been found guilty of committing, after new evidence is found that appears to support his innocence. The probe gets under way after a woman who knew the victim is found overdosed in her home wearing a ring belonging to the surgeon. She also fits the description of the woman he claimed ran from his house following the fatal shooting.
Episode 18
Ravaged
Sun, Mar 27, 200544 mins
Back in 1995, an alcoholic barmaid is found dead from a blow and exposure in freezing snow overnight outside the bar where she worked. She struggled to get her life on track including AA. There's plenty of potential culprits. This is a richly textured cold case and a good mystery.
Episode 19
Strange Fruit
Sun, Apr 3, 200544 mins
Jeffries reopens a 1963 case in which he, as a child, found the body of a 16-year-old African American boy who had been planning to attend Martin Luther King's March on Washington.
Episode 20
Kensington
Sun, Apr 24, 200544 mins
An optimistic young mill worker is murdered months after the mill closes.
Episode 21
Creatures of the Night
Sun, May 1, 200544 mins
An apartment building doorman is murdered while his girlfriend dances at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Lilly tries to pursue the killer.
Episode 22
Best Friends
Sun, May 8, 200560 mins
An old truck is found in a river with human remains inside, leading the team to re-open the case of a girl who disappeared in 1932. When the girl's former best friend is interviewed, questions arise: just best friends, or forbidden love?
Episode 23
The Woods
Sun, May 22, 200544 mins
The discovery of nine human skulls leads Rush back to George Marks, the serial killer she was unable to charge months earlier, and who walked away a free man. As the detectives re-investigate his mother's murder from 1972, George is forced to emerge from hiding to face Rush again. This time, their very lives are at stake in their final showdown.
