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Cold Case Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Family
Sun, Sep 25, 200544 mins
The team reopens the 1988 murder of Jimmy Tate, a fatherless 18-year-old model high school student and young father who was killed in a hit-and-run incident on graduation night, after his daughter Claire is contacted in 2005 by a man claiming to be her biological father and to know the culprit. Claire was born that night and abandoned in a dumpster, costing mother Quinn two years in prison. They were scared off from abortion, which his 'second father' coach Johnson offered to pay for, by the lies of violently-criminal pro-life school nurse Laura Graham, and coach warned him not to waste his scholarship as the baby may not even be Jimmy's as she was sleeping around, so he dumped her. Laura points the team to a classmate obsessed with Jimmy, who stopped taking her psychosis medication shortly before. Jimmy caught Laura with his adulterous math teacher Jered Wyatt, who promised to buy his silence .
Episode 2
The Promise
Sun, Oct 2, 200544 mins
In 2003, an overweight college girl dies in a fire at a fraternity house. Several years later her father brings the detectives a suspicious picture of his daughter dated the night of the party. As the team investigates the girl's death they uncover a disturbing chain of events that occurred the night she died.
Episode 3
Bad Night
Sun, Oct 9, 200544 mins
A woman to ask Lilly to reopen the case of her son, a college student murdered in 1978, after apparently causing car accident that left his crush confined to a wheelchair. It turns out there was more than enough blame to go around, however.
Episode 4
Colors
Sun, Oct 16, 200544 mins
Clyde 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.
Episode 5
Committed
Sun, Oct 23, 200544 mins
A former mental patient named Betty Petrowski 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.
Episode 6
Saving Patrick Bubley
Sun, Nov 6, 200544 mins
After Maeve Bubley, a mother of five boys loses her fourth son Luther in 2005 to gang violence, the team reopens the 1999 murder of her first son, Vaughn, one of Rush's first cases as a homicide detective, and the murders of her three other sons: Cedric in 2001, Quincy in 2003, despite her and last son Patrick's uncooperative hostility. The team is determined to track down the killer(s) of the first four brothers hoping to save the survivor, who did well at school until he got obsessed with vengeance. They find it involves the drug trade, notably untouchable Miguel Maldonado's O gang, but his cousin Jesus can be leaned on while Danny mildly tortures injured goon Carlos to work out the quadruple-fatal tit for tat.
Episode 7
Start-Up
Sun, Nov 13, 200544 mins
College friends Scott and Amy start an Internet company in a garage which is instantly successful. Investment banker Clinton Coleman puts up the money to take the company public. The IPO makes Scott and Amy millionaires--on paper. Scott buys a Ferrari and commits more than a million for a Super Bowl ad that fizzles, alarming Amy and threatening their business. When the young health-conscious woman is found dead of a heart attack at the oars of a canoe, the autopsy reveals potassium chloride in her blood. Rush, as part of the homicide team, investigates Scott, Coleman and even Coleman's protective secretary Geraldine; they uncover a cold case in the process.
Episode 8
Honor
Sun, Nov 20, 200544 mins
Shortly after crashed US Navy pilot Carl Burton returned home in 1972 after five years of Vietnamese POW horror, he's fatally shot in the stomach. The case is reopened in 2005 when a home-made case of military ID copies for his festive return are found. Carl had no time to reconnect properly with wife Janet, who became a lush and 7 year-old son Ned, from whom he learned she had an affair with security guard Ken Westin, who passed himself of as Ned's veteran pa. Carl also wrestled with teen Daniel Potter, whose father perished in the camp which torture-broken Carl got out of by giving in to propaganda lies.
Episode 9
A Perfect Day
Sun, Nov 27, 200544 mins
The team reopens the 1965 disappearance of 4-year-old Vivian Mulvaney, in 2005 when her remains wash up on a New Jersey shore. The team discovers that her father Roger Mulvaney, a cop who died in action shortly after her, abused his wife Cindy and both daughters, Maura surviving with vague memories. Roger was untouchable as cop, except for colleagues; beat cop Art Balducci and a few other officers beat him up, Art having taken the females away on beach holiday with 'Mrs. Cindy Balducci', but Roger made a tragic reappearance.
Episode 10
Frank's Best
Sun, Dec 18, 200544 mins
Frank Dicenzio runs a small deli, until he is killed in 2001. Frank's employee, the immigrant Ricardo, is convicted and imprisoned. Ricardo's brother Paulo, however, asks Rush and Valens to reopen the case and prove Ricardo's innocence. The team finds suspects including 'Stump' Fanelli, the hoodlum friend of Frank's only son, Tommy; the unsavory Felix Darosa, who "helps" immigrants at high rates; and Ricardo himself. Meanwhile, Kat Miller joins the team, and Nick Vera's time spent caring for an abandoned baby seems to be not so onerous as he claims.
Episode 11
8 Years
Sun, Jan 8, 200644 mins
The 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.
Episode 12
Detention
Sun, Jan 15, 200644 mins
When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens a 1994 case of a 16-year-old high-school kid, who fell off the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.
Episode 13
Debut
Sun, Jan 29, 200644 mins
A mother's dream of seeing her daughter presented at a Debutante ball has tragic results. Being the daughter of a prominent astronaut as well as her mother's prodding succeeds in her invitation to be one of the Debutantes. But there is tension within the society girls as well as one of the men who has been harboring the known secret within the set that he is a 'Jew' which should have made him ineligible. (A sign of the times.) The Debutante is dead from a fall at the base of a staircase as her name was announced.
Episode 14
Dog Day Afternoons
Sun, Feb 26, 200644 mins
A 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'.
Episode 15
Sanctuary
Sun, Mar 12, 200644 mins
When a drug dealer, Hector, is arrested, he recognizes Scotty Valens as Alvaro, who used to work as a driver for Hector. Detective Valens had been undercover in 1998, but his involvement with the young drug mule Ana, whose murder at the time went unsolved, makes the case uncomfortably personal for Valens, and raises questions for the rest of the team.
Episode 16
One Night
Sun, Mar 19, 200644 mins
On his way to the prom in 1980, Steve Jablonski gets a flat tire on his father's Cadillac, but that's just the start of his troubles. A stranger picks him up in the rain and has him write a will before being buried alive. In 2006, a man who won't give his name catches Det. Rush working late in the office, admits to the killing, and produces a shovel he says he buried Steve with. Working with few clues, the team hurry to save another young man they believe has likewise just been buried ... somewhere.
Episode 17
Superstar
Sun, Mar 26, 200644 mins
Young 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.
Episode 18
Willkommen
Sun, Apr 2, 200644 mins
Four 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...
Episode 19
Beautiful Little Fool
Sun, Apr 9, 200644 mins
It 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 mansion and hidden in the bushes. No one was prosecuted. Also there at that time was a pretty theatrical lover of Nick's who had come around to being more cordial to Violet. Hearing the baby Rose's cries she rushed outside, seeing no one, snatched her and raised her.
Episode 20
Death Penalty: Final Appeal
Sun, Apr 16, 200644 mins
The team reopens the 1994 rape and murder of then 16-year-old Kate Lange, after Andre Tibbs, who is about to be executed in three days for the murder, swears to Detective Will Jeffries that he was set up by one of the detectives who had originally investigated the case. The team discovers that he may be right, but is probably too late to save the man, due to arrogant ADA William Danner stonewalling them, and demanding a sanction when Will decks him, continuing the possible case against Kate's father Terry Mike Lange.
Episode 21
The Hen House
Sun, Apr 30, 200644 mins
The "accidental" death of a woman newspaper columnist in 1943 is solved when an old letter resurfaces, suggesting that she was supposed to meet someone at the time of her death.
Episode 22
The River
Sun, May 7, 200644 mins
The team looks into a previously thought to be solved 1984 murder of an emergency room doctor after a witness comes forward claiming to have seen the victim speaking with an unknown person shortly before his death. The investigation reveals that the doctor had a gambling addiction that was causing many problems.
Episode 23
Joseph
Sun, May 21, 200644 mins
Orlando 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.
