Murder 2
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 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 James Whitmore Jr.Written by Tyler Bensinger
First Air Date : Sunday, 22 February 2004
Flashback year : 1978 (26 years ago)
Film tribute : Saturday Night Fever
Based on real case : The Station nightclub fire
Construction workers discover a skull with bullet hole under the ruins of a disco club burned down in 1978. 22 people died in the fire. Rush and Valens come to the conclusion that the burning of the club was arson, meant to cover up a murder leaving them with not one, but 23 cold cases.
We don't got a cold one here. We got 23 of them.
Directed by David StraitonWritten by Jay Beattie Dan Dworkin
First Air Date : Sunday, 4 April 2004
Flashback year : 1992 (12 years ago)
Based on real case : Chandra Levy
The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election night. The investigation centers on the relationship the dead woman had with a present-day congressman. Apparently, the victim in the current homicide probed into the earlier slaying and discovered damning new evidence. Elsewhere, Lilly spies Kite flirting with a new ADA and gets jealous.
If there's one thing I learned from Bill Clinton, never lie about that sort of thing.
Directed by Agnieszka HollandWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 2 May 2004
Flashback year : 1999 (5 years ago)
The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's swim coach, which was originally ruled as accidental, is reinvestigated after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it was murder. Back at the office, Valens searches for Elisa after she goes missing.
From the child, comes forth the soldier.
1. Ignore
2. Reward
3. Secret
4.Test
5. Escalate
6. Destroy
Directed by Emilio EstevezWritten by Liz Garcia
First Air Date : Sunday, 7 November 2004
Flashback year : 1990 (14 years ago)
Film tribute : Heathers
Lilly reopens a 1990 murder case, in which a prep-school girl was found dead in a local swimming hole, after a present-day victim with similar markings is discovered at the same place. The investigation reveals that the victim of the earlier crime was routinely tormented by a trio of classmates who invited her to a sleepover the night she was killed.
Rita, listen to me. Everyone who's ever been anything in the history of time has been a loser in junior high. In 6 years from now, you're gonna be in college and you are gonna be the coolest girl around. Because you're smart and you're different and you're wacky. And that's what's important in this world. Not what those idiot girls think of you.
Directed by Paul HolahanWritten by Jan Oxenberg
First Air Date : Sunday, 14 November 2004
Flashback year : 1983 (21 years ago)
An HIV-positive gay man asks Rush and Valens to re-investigate the case of his dead partner who died of strangulation in 1983. Not only was the victim outspoken in his views about AIDS education within the 1980's secretive gay community, he was also the member of a very prominent family, disowned by his father for his sexual orientation.
He was lost and is found... the prodigal son.
Directed by Tim HunterWritten by Tyler Bensinger
First Air Date : Sunday, 30 January 2005
Flashback year : 1987 (18 years ago)
After a murder weapon connected to the 1987 drive-by shooting of a little girl turns up, Det. Rush and her team re-open the case. The team slowly tracks back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.
Directed by Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Liz Garcia
First Air Date : Sunday, 20 February 2005
Flashback year : 1969 (36 years ago)
Rush and the team investigate the 1969 murder of a 19-year-old girl Ellie McCormick whose body was found in her boyfriend's apartment the day he fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
I was clean when I did it... I could see right to tomorrow... all the way down the line.
Directed by Tim MathesonWritten by Gina Gionfriddo
First Air Date : Sunday, 20 March 2005
Flashback year : 1982 (23 years ago)
Based on real case : Sam Sheppard
A man claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 murder of his rich wife. The case is reopened when the victim's rare ring is discovered worn by a recently deceased junkie.
- You two remember the Lindsay Chase murder?
- Doctor kills his wife for the insurance money?
- for 23 years, Steven Chase has been in prison telling the same story about that night. (...) Well, the doctor swore he heard a gunshot, came downstairs, and saw a shaggy man and
a blond woman running out the door.
- She was desperate. To save you.
- Then we both hit our lowest point. Funny thing is that's when we found each other again.

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