Film tribute
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 Karen GaviolaWritten by Stacy Kravetz
First Air Date : Saturday, 17 April 2004
Flashback year : 1985 (19 years ago)
Film tribute : Wall Street
The team reopens the 1985 case of a wealthy stock broker. At the time it was deemed that Charles Danville was killed when someone attempted to steal his car, but new evidence suggests that he may, in fact, have been murdered.
To lives of quiet desperation... and not leading them.
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 James Whitmore Jr.Written by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 16 January 2005
Flashback year : 1976 (29 years ago)
Film tribute : Rocky
When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwards.
This movie's got me thinking, If some bum wants to be president in the United States, he really can be.
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 Alex ZakrzewskiWritten by Liz Garcia
First Air Date : Sunday, 23 October 2005
Flashback year : 1954 (51 years ago)
Film tribute : One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.
- It was my decision as a medical professional.
- To lobotomize Bettie?
- You have to understand. At the time we thought it was the cure.
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 Jessica LandawWritten by Liz Garcia
First Air Date : Sunday, 15 January 2006
Flashback year : 1994 (12 years ago)
Film tribute : The Breakfast Club
When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.
Goodbye forever bloody / but beautiful we three are / falling from heaven
Directed by Craig Ross Jr.Written by Sean Whitesell
First Air Date : Sunday, 26 February 2006
Flashback year : 2000 (6 years ago)
Film tribute : Dog Day Afternoon
The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
Directed by Paris BarclayWritten by Andrea Newman
First Air Date : Sunday, 2 April 2006
Flashback year : 2002 (4 years ago)
Film tribute : Cabaret
The team re-opens the 2002 case of a murdered amateur actor when the owner of a local community theater finds a gun hidden inside prop furniture.
It isn't fair they canceled the show! Whatever happened to "the show must go on"?

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