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Cold Case Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Rampage
Sun, Sep 24, 200644 mins
In 1995, two high school teens opened fire in the middle of a mall, killing 15 people and injuring several before committing suicide. In the present, when the ventilation system was renovated, a video camera was found with a recording of the shooters inside, suggesting that there may have been a third person involved.
Episode 2
The War at Home
Sun, Oct 1, 200644 mins
The discovery of a prosthetic arm in the river leads detectives to look into the case of a woman in the National Guard who went missing shortly after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, where she lost an arm. Detectives learn she had trouble fitting back into civilian life.
Episode 3
Sandhogs
Sun, Oct 8, 200644 mins
Construction workers discover the corpse of John 'Donny' Donovan, missing since 1948, shortly before he was to lead a strike against scrooge contractor Sam Bertleman Sr. of fellow sandhogs (urban miners, digging tunnels). The boss stirred discord among the men, using threats and hiring Pinkerton. The agency found out about Donny's affair with Alice , the widow of equally black Nate Stallworth, whose accidental death due to lacking precautions started Donny's syndical zeal, whom he got pregnant while unhappily married. Yet another rivalry played a fatal part.
Episode 4
Baby Blues
Sun, Oct 15, 200644 mins
Cold case investigator Kat Miller notices a photo of a closed case of Iris, the six month old baby girl with wet hair in the photo which made Kat question the cause of death as sudden infant death syndrome. The married couple were brought in for questioning as the team investigates whether the baby girl might have died from drowning. Both the husband and wife were feeling overwhelmed with the demands of their careers, struggling with raising a young son and the extra demands of such a young baby. Also investigated are two babysitters.
Episode 5
Saving Sammy
Sun, Oct 22, 200644 mins
A married couple were gunned down in their car during their weekly run for a take-out but their young autistic son riding in the back seat is spared. The parents also left behind a teenage daughter. The couple were owners of a local tropical fish store, there didn't seem to be any motive. As the only witness, their autistic son's ability to remember events with numerical sequence was always the same regarding his parents. Detective Valens showed a compassion and patience to learn to communicate with the autistic son's abilities that brought forth the clues to unravel this baffling case.
Episode 6
Static
Sun, Oct 29, 200644 mins
The team reopens the 1958 death of John "The Hawk" Hawkins, a popular radio disk jockey, after discovering audio evidence indicating that his death may have been a murder staged as suicide. The team uncovers a complicated relationship with the victim and a young girl as well as his station's less than savory practices, notably bribery and blackmail by gangsters, as well as a complex plot of copyright and paternity secrets. Meanwhile Scotty's sister in law asks his help with brother Mike, who stays in bed for days, worrying about his income and possible trial.
Episode 7
The Key
Sun, Nov 5, 200644 mins
The team reopens a 1979 murder of a schoolteacher when new evidence, including a key-chain belonging to a man with whom the victim had been having an affair, turns up in the wooded area where the body was found. The investigation soon discovers that the relationship was not kept a secret from anyone, including both of the spouses and their children.
Episode 8
Fireflies
Sun, Nov 12, 200644 mins
Bags of undelivered mail are discovered at the house of a mailman following his death. One of the undelivered items is a letter from an eight year old girl to her best friend, post-marked the day that she was abducted from her bedroom in 1975.
Episode 9
Lonely Hearts
Sun, Nov 19, 200644 mins
A handsome con-artist commits suicide as an awkward and overweight woman's dating-service tape, which eventually resulted in a relationship, plays on his VCR. The team then reopens her 1989 murder.
Episode 10
Forever Blue
Sun, Dec 3, 200644 mins
The murder of a cop in 1968 is reopened when a dying jailbird makes a deal with the police in order to get released earlier and tells them that he found drugs in the victim's car.
Episode 11
The Red and the Blue
Sun, Dec 10, 200660 mins
When the murder weapon used in the 2000 murder of country singer Truck Sugar is found, Lilly must travel to Tennessee with a reluctant Scotty in tow to re-investigate the case.
Episode 12
Knuckle Up
Sun, Jan 7, 200760 mins
The Cold Case team discovers the body of a prep student rolled up in a barrel in an inner-city area. They learn that he was involved in an underground fight club, and possibly even a much darker incident involving a friendly businessman.
Episode 13
Blackout
Sun, Jan 14, 200744 mins
The team investigates the 1996 death of an abrasive, wealthy woman during a power blackout at a family gathering in her former husband's home.
Episode 14
8:03 AM
Sun, Jan 28, 200760 mins
The team reopens the 2002 murders of teenagers Skill Jones and Madison 'Maddy' Reed, from different parts of the city, after Kat discovers they were both fatally shot at precisely 8:03 AM. The team discovers that the timing of their deaths wasn't the only connection as both teens were involved in drug dealing, as were her mother Shirley Reed, regular junkie-informer Toomey Nelson and Michael Ellis, now a Wall Street broker, but jealousy was the worst poison.
Episode 15
Blood on the Tracks
Sun, Feb 18, 200744 mins
The team reopens the 1981 deaths of spouses Jack and Johanna Kimball, a married couple who died in a house explosion, after remnants of a bomb are found during the remodeling of their house. They soon learn that the couple was haunted by secrets from their past anti-war activism with college friends, leading to shocking discoveries, notably adultery and one's abhorred intent to break their vow of silence.
Episode 16
The Good-Bye Room
Sun, Mar 4, 200744 mins
As an adult, Barbara Lakey discovers in 2007 she was adopted and her biological mother Hilary West murdered shortly after the birth in 1964. Respectable parents William and Patricia West had sent her 'secretly' to a nunnery home for unwed mothers, which systematically arranged for discrete adoptions and prevented the father, Huck Oberland, from risking his future too. Fellow slut other Kat Miller inspired Hilary to question the system, yielding nun as well as kin suspects to cover up, but the fatal day actually was more of an accident.
Episode 17
Shuffle, Ball Change
Sun, Mar 11, 200744 mins
The team reopens the 1984 disappearance of 16-year-old boy Maurice Hall, who was written off as a runaway, after his remains are discovered in a dumpster, with an autopsy revealing he was bludgeoned to death. The team learns the teen was an aspiring dancer who wanted to follow in his late mother's footsteps, much to the dismay of his father, grocer Pat Hall, who was obsessed with the older brother Brian's wrestling potential. Maurice's love affair with a rising ballerina Crystal Stacy developed while he became the informal private pupil of her official dance master Dr. Octavius Leroy, defying hostile rivalry from muscular dancer Carlos Garcia.
Episode 18
A Dollar, a Dream
Sun, Mar 18, 200760 mins
After seven years, the body of a missing woman who had been living in her car with her two daughters is discovered in that car at the bottom of a lake.
Episode 19
Offender
Sun, Mar 25, 200744 mins
The team reopens the 1987 rape and murder of 6-year-old Clayton Hathaway after his innocent father Mitch, who was convicted and deserted by his wife Tara, is released and pushes a sex offender from the roof of a building, 'promising' to kill another 'perverse suspect' daily until his son's real killer is arrested. The team finds Mitch was set-up, suspects and key witnesses include a postman, a gothic neighbor then-teen who now runs a comics shop, Clayton's neighbor buddy Johnny Burrell and his scary father Cliff.
Episode 20
Stand Up and Holler
Sun, Apr 1, 200760 mins
The team reopens the 1997 death of then 16-year-old cheerleader Rainey Karlsen, who died from drug overdose, believed accidental, but now an anonymous confession to her murder, with an atom sketch, is found in a modern art exhibit along with new suspicious evidence. She joined the cheer-leading squad with her spineless buddy Celeste Church, but unlike her refused to dance to the tunes of tyrannical airhead queen bee Becca Abrams, and even confronted popular teacher and coach Pruit, whom she might even 'expose as a pervert' for allowing hazing and other dubious traditions. The note came from Joe Vives-Alvarez, who supplied the drugs, but the fatal night was the girls' own bitch-doing.
Episode 21
Torn
Sun, Apr 8, 200760 mins
The team reopens the 1919 murder (their oldest case yet) of then 18-year-old heiress Frances Stone, as requested by her great grand-niece, who heard about Lilly from a women's studies lecture. The victim was a suffragette, which put her at odds with her family, which owns a brewery and will be ruined by the suffragettes-supported Prohibition, and suspiciously close with a maid.
Episode 22
Cargo
Sun, Apr 15, 200744 mins
The team reopens the 2005 murder of longshoreman Mike Chulaski at the request of ADA Alexandra Thomas and the FBI, who believe solving the case can help bring down an international human trafficking ring still using the same MO, including foot burns. However it turns out the victims of the Russians didn't all just wait around either, one even tried her charms on Mike to seduce a potential savior, in vain.
Episode 23
The Good Death
Sun, Apr 29, 200744 mins
The detectives discover that nine years ago a terminally ill man actually died of a morphine overdose before the disease could take him.
Episode 24
Stalker
Sun, May 6, 200744 mins
When a teenage girl wakes up from a coma, the team reopens the murder of her family. Soon, they find out that she was being stalked by a man calling himself "Romeo".
