New murder
Directed by Marita GrabiakWritten by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 21 December 2003
Flashback year : 1997 (6 years ago)
Rush and Valens investigate the case of a cold-blooded killer who shot a young man trying to hitchhike his way home to Philly from Atlantic City.
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 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 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 David BarrettWritten by Chris Mundy
First Air Date : Sunday, 9 January 2005
Flashback year : 1978 (27 years ago)
The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the deprogrammer her family hired to rescue her brother.
Directed by Marcos SiegaWritten by Tyler Bensinger Karin Lewicki
First Air Date : Sunday, 6 November 2005
Flashback year : 1999 (6 years ago)
Film tribute : Saving Private Ryan
When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out the save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad.
Solve one Bubley murder, solve them all.
Directed by Tim HunterWritten by Karin Lewicki Kate Purdy
First Air Date : Sunday, 29 January 2006
Flashback year : 1968 (38 years ago)
Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.
- Crushed skull, spinal fracture. A bad fall.
- Or a good shove.
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 Andy GarciaWritten by Tom Pettit
First Air Date : Sunday, 15 April 2007
Flashback year : 2005 (2 years ago)
The team re-opens the 2005 case of a killed longshoreman who got tangled up with the Russian mob.
Directed by Nicole KassellWritten by Greg Plageman
First Air Date : Sunday, 6 January 2008
Flashback year : 1999 (9 years ago)
Based on real case : Unabomber
The team re-opens the 1999, 2001, and 2003 pipe bombing incidents that killed two and blinded one victim. The serial bomber is still on the loose and ready to strike again as he missed his latest target.
I got an education... a good job... I tried to do good work, and in the end, it just doesn't matter. I'm disposable, like everything is now.

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