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Directed by Mark PellingtonWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 28 September 2003
Flashback year : 1976 (27 years ago)
Based on real case : Martha Moxley and the Skakel brothers
Lilly Rush investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. A maid to a wealthy family, Bonita Jakarta, claims she witnessed the murder of teenager Jill Shelby. Now dying of cancer, the maid who remained silent, wants the killer brought to justice. Rush reopens the case, in which two brothers were originally suspected but not charged due to their powerful society family.
Directed by Paris BarclayWritten by Jan Oxenberg
First Air Date : Sunday, 5 October 2003
Flashback year : 1983 (20 years ago)
Lorraine, the fiancé of a fireman asks Lilly to help prove that a convicted felon, Albert Miller, about to be paroled on an unrelated crime, is responsible for the murder of the fireman's first wife. The young mother was killed by a homemade bomb packed in a laundry-detergent box shortly before she was to testify in court against a man who exposed himself to her.
Stillman: Why do women always have high hopes for guys who want to kill them?
Directed by Mark PellingtonWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 19 October 2003
Flashback year : 1990 (13 years ago)
Lilly re-investigates the case of a murdered church organist Mitchell Bayes, when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question. Lilly's investigation has both Mitchell's son, Ryan, and daughter, Tina, demanding Lilly close the search.
Whatever happened, this case was a rush job.
Bayes was a hypocrite church type. Whoring Saturday night, asking forgiveness on Sunday.
We got to redeem this guy.
Directed by Greg YaitanesWritten by Kim Newton
First Air Date : Sunday, 9 November 2003
Flashback year : 1981 (22 years ago)
Based on real case : 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones at the hands of Texas Navy cadets Diane Zamora and David Graham
A petty crook, Ricky, 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, was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson was originally imprisoned for the crime.
Bennet : Jane and I used to say that we were as... we were as rare as Halley's Comet.
Lilly : Don't like bastards getting away with murder.
Directed by Agnieszka HollandWritten by Stacy Kravetz Kim Newton
First Air Date : Sunday, 11 January 2004
Flashback year : 1995 (9 years ago)
A college professor, who lost everything ? his career, his family, his reputation ? after being suspected of murdering one of his female students in 1995, offers new information regarding the case that he hopes will clear his name. He believes the student's death is connected to a copycat murder of a prostitute. Rush investigates the woman who was killed and the men in her life in order to discover which one of them killed her.
Roy Minnard : My unfortunate role was as the number one suspect.
Lilly Rush : Who had the unfortunate role of victim?
Lilly Rush : So you saw you and Holly as a kind of modern-day Hamlet and Ophelia, huh?
Barry Tepler : So?
Scoty Valens : That didn't end well for that chick in the play, Barry. Didn't end well for Holly, either.
Directed by Tim HunterWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 25 January 2004
Flashback year : 1939 (65 years ago)
Rush and Valens re-open the case of a 25-year-old black woman, who was murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information. The woman was assumed to be a prostitute murdered by a client, but letters written by the victim indicate that she was afraid of a milkman.
And because what happens in the past never really goes away, does it?
Directed by Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Kim Newton
First Air Date : Sunday, 28 March 2004
Flashback year : 1999 (5 years ago)
A drunken driver's hit-and-run confession leads the detectives to discover that foul play -- not an accident -- may have killed the victim.
My millennium resolution was to have a family, kids and all. Susan and Gary were that family.
Directed by Kevin HooksWritten by Laurie Arent
First Air Date : Sunday, 25 April 2004
Flashback year : 1989 (15 years ago)
Based on real case : Cathleen Krauseneck
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
Red and yellow balloons. A train and the name "Bobby". That's what I remember about her being murdered.
Directed by David Von AnckenWritten by Stacy Kravetz
First Air Date : Sunday, 10 October 2004
Flashback year : 1943 (61 years ago)
On the eve of the 60-year reunion of women who worked in a weapons factory during World War II, Lilly is asked to re-investigate the death of Alice Miller, one of the worker girls. The death was deemed accidental at the time, but her friend pleads to Lilly to look closer into the case.
Directed by Greg YaitanesWritten by Tyler Bensinger
First Air Date : Sunday, 31 October 2004
Flashback year : 1991 (13 years ago)
Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter. The now-teenage girl brings the case to Lilly after she discovers a bracelet once owned by her mother is for sale on the internet. The probe reveals that the parents had dark secrets unknown to their daughter.
Must rob you of something, soul-wise, suspecting people of unsavory motives all the time.
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