Black & White
Directed by Deran SarafianWritten by Jan Oxenberg
First Air Date : Sunday, 16 November 2003
Flashback year : 1964 (39 years ago)
Lilly investigates the case of Daniel Holtz, a college baseball player who was found beaten to death in an alley behind a gay bar in 1964. Daniel's mother comes to Lilly in the hopes that his killer can be brought to justice before she dies. Lilly discovers the maltreatment gay victims received in the 60's, when her investigation discloses that it may have been a policeman's nightstick that made the lethal blows.
Lilly : You didn't know your son was gay?
Helen : I didn't wanna know. And now, much too late, I realize... that kept me from really knowing him.
Directed by Karen GaviolaWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 15 February 2004
Flashback year : 1958 (46 years ago)
Based on real case : Philadelphia Boy in the Box
The 1958 death of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box is reinvestigated after a small suitcase with the child's picture and his old cowboy hat is left in front of a church. The new probe reveals that the rowdy boy lived at a Catholic-run orphanage and was adopted two days before his suspicious demise.
Oh, that old job. Boy in the box. City's most famous cold job.
Directed by Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 24 October 2004
Flashback year : 1968 (36 years ago)
When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.
Directed by James Whitmore Jr.Written by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 16 January 2005
Flashback year : 1976 (29 years ago)
Film tribute : Rocky
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwards.
This movie's got me thinking, If some bum wants to be president in the United States, he really can be.
Directed by Paris BarclayWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 3 April 2005
Flashback year : 1963 (42 years ago)
Based on real case : Emmett Till
The unsolved 1963 murder of a black teenager, whose body was discovered by the then-young Will Jeffries, is reopened.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
Directed by Paris BarclayWritten by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 16 October 2005
Flashback year : 1945 (60 years ago)
Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.
It's only a game. Hit a ball and run around bags. Fun. But for kids. A man has a life to live.
Directed by Craig Ross Jr.Written by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 26 February 2006
Flashback year : 2000 (6 years ago)
Film tribute : Dog Day Afternoon
The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
Directed by David Von AnckenWritten by Craig Turk
First Air Date : Sunday, 30 April 2006
Flashback year : 1945 (61 years ago)
The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.
Directed by Chris FisherWritten by Erica Shelton
First Air Date : Sunday, 18 March 2007
Flashback year : 1999 (8 years ago)
The team re-opens the 1999 case of a murdered homeless woman when her remains are found in a station wagon at the bottom of a lake.
Directed by Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Elwood Reid
First Air Date : Sunday, 26 October 2008
Flashback year : 1951 (57 years ago)
Rush and the team investigate the case of a young Marine who was found dead after being AWOL on his last night of shore leave and discover that, on that night, he was trying to defend a fellow soldier.
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