Hands
Directed by Bryan SpicerWritten by Stacy Kravetz
First Air Date : Sunday, 12 October 2003
Flashback year : 1998 (5 years ago)
Based on real case : Troy Graves
Lilly Rush reopens a 1998 cold case that drove Vera nuts. They receive a letter from the serial rapist whose last victim, Gail Chimayo, was also killed and who is about to strike again after no activity during the last 5 years.
Once the main suspect, Gail's boyfriend, is finally discarded, the case gets a whole new angle. Lilly's
sensitive and soft approach makes the rape victims more inclined to talk. The pair obtain a composite and then a scenario detailing how the rapist picks his victims, leading them to the killer.
He's bragging, he's telling us he's back
I just wish we could met under different circumstances.
Vera: this case became a health issue for me
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 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 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 Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Tyler Bensinger
First Air Date : Sunday, 1 May 2005
Flashback year : 1977 (28 years ago)
Film tribute : The Rocky Horror Picture Show
A serial killer is to be released from a New Jersey prison based on a plea bargain made twenty-five years ago. Philadelphia homicide is asked to locate a potential crime committed while the killer was living in Philadelphia during the summer of 1977. A doorman was found strangled to death in a subway station in full uniform. The plot follows an evening at "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" involving the doorman, his girlfriend and the future serial killer. Valens received word from NYPD that his girlfriend was involved with credit card fraud and there's a warrant out for her arrest.
Directed by Bill EaglesWritten by Craig S. O'Neill Jason Tracey
First Air Date : Sunday, 26 March 2006
Flashback year : 1973 (33 years ago)
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.
Well, I know guys like you. Always setting your sights too high on girls that are, well, out of your league. And when they give you the brush-off, you get frustrated. Bitter. "Bitch thinks she's better than me?"
Directed by David BarrettWritten by Greg Plageman
First Air Date : Sunday, 25 March 2007
Flashback year : 1987 (20 years ago)
A desperate father turned serial killer coerces the team into taking another look of his son's 1987 murder.
Directed by Roxann DawsonWritten by Gavin Harris
First Air Date : Sunday, 4 November 2007
Flashback year : 1938 (69 years ago)
When human remains are discovered at the bottom of a well, the team opens the 1938 case of a housewife who went missing the night of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.
- Suddenly everything precious in life became crystal clear.
- Yeah, who do you wanna be with when the world ends.
- I wanna be with the guy who knows it's a hoax.
Directed by Kevin BrayWritten by Erica Shelton
First Air Date : Sunday, 27 April 2008
Flashback year : 1962 (46 years ago)
The team re-opens the case of a woman who allegedly committed suicide in 1962 when the victim's granddaughter comes forth with evidence that the note found on the death scene -- then thought to be the suicide note -- was not written in the victim's handwriting.
She was a beautiful woman. Full of life. Until she started slipping.
Hollow. No escape from the dark. I sit. Alone in empty rooms.
Directed by Donald E. Thorin Jr.Written by Gavin Harris
First Air Date : Sunday, 22 March 2009
Flashback year : 2004 (5 years ago)
The team tries to determine if a homeless and severely delusional paranoid schizophrenic killed his former psychiatrist by arson in 2004 - before dropping out of college and fully losing his grip of reality.
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