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2x21 Creatures of the Night  Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
 Written 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.

4x09 Lonely Hearts  Directed by John Peters
 Written by Liz Garcia
 First Air Date : Sunday, 19 November 2006
 Flashback year : 1989 (17 years ago)
   Based on real case : The Lonely Hearts Killers (Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck )

The team re-investigates the unsolved 1989 murder of a woman shot in an alley when the victim's video dating tape shows up in a dead man's apartment.

4x14 8:03 AM  Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
 Written by Veena Cabreros Sud
 First Air Date : Sunday, 28 January 2007
 Flashback year : 2002 (5 years ago)
   

In 2002, two kids were shot in front of two different schools on the same day at precisely 8:03 a.m. It's the fifth anniversary of the shootings, and Kat Miller wants to re-open the murders because she feels the cases are connected.

4x23 The Good Death  Directed by Paris Barclay
 Written by Gavin Harris
 First Air Date : Sunday, 29 April 2007
 Flashback year : 1998 (9 years ago)
   

The team re-opens the 1998 case of a terminally ill man when a nurse comes forth confessing to euthanizing six of his former patients.

5x13 Spiders  Directed by John Peters
 Written by Liz Garcia
 First Air Date : Sunday, 17 February 2008
 Flashback year : 1998 (10 years ago)
 Film tribute : American History X
 

The team re-opens the 1998 case of a murdered 17-year-old girl when her father is arrested for beating another child.

6x15 Witness Protection  Directed by Alex Zakrzewski
 Written by Elle Triedman
 First Air Date : Sunday, 15 February 2009
 Flashback year : 2008 (1 years ago)
   

The team searches for a recently missing teenager while also investigating the five-month-old murder of the boy's father, both of whom were in a witness protection program as the father prepared to testify against a mob boss.

6x16 Jackals  Directed by Marcos Siega
 Written by Taylor Elmore
 First Air Date : Sunday, 8 March 2009
 Flashback year : 1976 (33 years ago)
   

The team reopens the 1976 case of a murdered 17-year-old after a newfound photo of her on the back of a motorcycle exposes her connection to a notoriously nefarious gang.

Everybody is a criminal... at least the Jackals are upfront about it.

7x02 Hoodrats  Directed by Chris Fisher
 Written by Elwood Reid
 First Air Date : Sunday, 4 October 2009
 Flashback year : 1995 (14 years ago)
   

The team investigates the 1995 murder of a 17-year-old boy who left his dysfunctional home for the streets, where he started to make his mark as a skateboarding prodigy.

7x08 Chinatown  Directed by David Von Ancken
 Written by Alicia Kirk
 First Air Date : Sunday, 22 November 2009
 Flashback year : 1983 (26 years ago)
   

The team reopens a 1983 case, originally investigated by Stillman, of a teenaged Chinese-American Jack Chao Lu who was slain before he could obtain justice for his girlfriend who was killed by one of many bullets unleashed at a festival by Chinese gang members.

2000 years of culture says don’t talk to the police

7x17 Flashover  Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
 Written by Greg Plageman
 First Air Date : Sunday, 21 March 2010
 Flashback year : 2006 (4 years ago)
   Based on real case : Cameron Todd Willingham

Realizing that the missing Vera has finally hit rock bottom, his worried team members hope that a new twist to a 2006 arson case, which he was secretly obsessing about in recent weeks, might supply leads to his whereabouts.

I mistook cowardice for guilt.