5x07 World's End

Created on July 2, 2008 - 10:33
5x07 World's End
Season 5 x 07 - imdb - tvcom
First Air Date : Sunday, 4 November 2007
Ratings : 13.9 millions of viewers
Directed by Roxann Dawson imdb
Written by Gavin Harris imdb
Flashback year : 1938 (69 years ago)
 

Summary

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.

Sidestories

Nick Vera is back with Toni. Tupac was playing on their first date.

Music

"Jumpin' At The Woodside" - Count Basie
"It's Easy to Remember" - Bing Crosby
"You Can't Pull The Wool Over My Eyes" - Benny Goodman
"Moonlight Serenade" - Glenn Miller Orchestra
"Begin The Beguine" - Artie Shaw
"Always" - Frank Sinatra

Notes

Number of victims : 1
New lead: Body or body part
Flashback style: Color
Motive: Disillusion-or-let-down
Murder weapon: Hands
Murder type: Murder 2
Special: Missing Person Case - Not a cold case
Ghost: Audrey Metz appeared to Lilly Rush.

This is the only episode from 1938.

This episode marks the 100th episode of the series.

The War of the Worlds was a Halloween episode directed and narrated by Orson Welles on October 30, 1938 based on the H. G. Wells' novel.

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Victim(s)

Bellamy Young
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Doer(s)

Ralph Waite
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Tuc Watkins
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Characters

Sonja Sohn
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Lawrence Pressman
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Chip Hormess
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Len Lesser
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Ari Zagaris
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James Sharpe
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Julianna McCarthy
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Sarah Laine
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Peter Haskell
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Jonathan Scarfe
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Vera wants Toni back

Point is... I didn't want to wait until the end of the world to do this.