Multiple year flashbacks
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 David StraitonWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 26 October 2003
Flashback year : 1973 (30 years ago)
After a drug addict brings in an audio tape she found on which a fatal shooting is heard, Lilly reopens a 1973 murder case involving the death of a 21-year-old rookie cop, Joe Washington. The young officer was shot three times in the chest while responding to a call at a drug-infested housing project. Also on the tape are the victim's final words: "Runner! Runner! Runner!"
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 Kevin HooksWritten by Laurie Arent
First Air Date : Sunday, 25 April 2004
Flashback year : 1989 (15 years ago)
Based on real case : Cathleen Krauseneck
The 1989 case of a woman murdered in front of her 3-year-old son is re-opened. A psychologist asks Det. Rush to look into the case again when the son, now a 17-year-old teen, suffers from intense nightmares and troubled behavior.
Red and yellow balloons. A train and the name "Bobby". That's what I remember about her being murdered.
Directed by Kevin BrayWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 28 November 2004
Flashback year : 1985 (19 years ago)
Based on real case : Robert Hansen
The headless torso of a woman who disappeared in 1985, on the same day she filed domestic-abuse charges against her husband, is found by hikers in a wildlife preserve. The investigation quickly leads to the grisly discovery of 8 more decapitated bodies, the victims of a serial killer.
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 David Von AnckenWritten by Jay Beattie
First Air Date : Sunday, 13 March 2005
Flashback year : 1998 (7 years ago)
Lt. Stillman's priest informs him of a long ago confession where a man confessed being involved in the 1998 kidnapping of a 9-year old boy. The case is reopened with this new lead, and it turns out the truth is closer to home.
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 Mark PellingtonWritten by Meredith Stiehm
First Air Date : Sunday, 8 January 2006
Flashback year : 1988 (18 years ago)
Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.
Directed by Nicole KassellWritten by Veena Cabreros Sud
First Air Date : Sunday, 19 March 2006
Flashback year : 1980 (26 years ago)
Lilly and the cold case team will have to decode the clues given by a twisted killer in order to save the life of a young boy who has been left to die alone. But first they must find the boy and for that they need to dig a little deeper into their own pasts.
The first is denial. Then anger. Then bargaining. Depression and acceptance.
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