Cold Case – Recap & Review – Shattered

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Cold Case
Shattered

Original Air Date: May 2, 2010

Amanda – Sr. Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Hello, children! When last we met, Lilly had just stumbled into her sister’s hotel room to find said long-lost sister missing again…only this time, there were signs of a struggle.

This episode will see Lilly and Scotty tracking Chris down, while the rest of the squad focuses on a case that’s been eating Jeffries alive for seventeen years, a case whose twists and turns could spell the end of a couple of careers. All this is set to the music of The Rolling Stones, who even recorded a new song for the occasion!

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Almost Paradise

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Cold Case
Almost Paradise

Original Air Date: May 2, 2010

Amanda – Sr. Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Okay, truth time: what was your high school prom like? Were you royalty? A wallflower? Did you dance the night away with friends, or spend your evening making moony eyes at your date?

Well, whether good or bad, I can guarantee it was better than one young woman’s prom. In the first part of a two-part season finale, we experience an ‘80s prom in all its glory, exact a little extreme revenge…and see a blast from the past. Let’s get started, shall we?

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Free Love

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Cold Case
Free Love

Original Air Date: Apr. 11, 2010

Amanda – Sr. Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Woodstock: three days of music, mud, and free love. Unfortunately for one young GI, it also meant a premature end at the hands of an unknown shooter. He might not have gotten much in the way of free love, but it appears that several of our detectives might be, as Lilly, Stillman, Kat, and Vera either explore new relationships or rekindle old ones. In addition to all this, we have not one, but two cases to cover. Confused? Yeah, me, too.

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Bullet

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Cold Case
Bullet

Original Air Date: Apr 4, 2010

Amanda – Sr. Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

When last we met, our fearless detectives (and a couple annoying FBI agents) had traced a series of shootings in the 1980s to the ever-popular cabin in the woods…but the shooter, it turns out, wasn’t Bill Shepard, as they’d thought, but his son, Paul, who was last seen carjacking an old man. Lots of questions remained unanswered, including whether or not Bill actually killed anyone, whether uber-annoying Agent Diane Yates was, in fact, the date of the first victim, and whether she’d continue to sink her cougar claws into the show as a whole, or whether she’d fade to a more appropriate role. How’d all this pan out? Read on!

Cold Case – Recap & Review – The Last Drive-In

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Cold Case
The Last Drive-In

Original Air Date: Mar 28, 2010

Amanda – Sr. Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Ingredients for an interesting, but weird episode of Cold Case. One badass FBI agent with a personal agenda and a flagrant disregard for protocol, one detective in Psych, one gratuitous mention of an out-of-character movie, one lieutenant with an apparently steamy past…and one serial sniper, who’s back in the game after 27 years of retirement.  Blend, but not too carefully, lest the aforementioned FBI agent fail to be the star of the show.  Make sure the regulars fade into the background at all times.  Bake for one hour on Sunday night, and enjoy.  Maybe.  We’ll see about that.

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Flashover

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Cold Case
Flashover

Original Air Date: Mar 21, 2010

Amanda – Senior Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Nick Vera: Clown. Smart-aleck. The guy who can always be counted on for a wisecrack. But in art, as in life, such characters are often deceptively deep. In the tour de force that is “Flashover,” Vera is given his due, and the music of Pink Floyd sets the stage for one of the most heart-wrenchingly awesome episodes Cold Case has ever produced.

Cold Case – Recap & Review – One Fall

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Cold Case
One Fall

Original Air Date: Mar 14, 2010

Amanda – Senior Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Okay, how many of you watched professional wrestling in the ‘80s?  I couldn’t stand it myself, but my husband insists there was something that appealed to the inherent carnal nature of little boys. 

Apparently there was something about it that appealed to the Cold Case folks, too, because this week’s episode centers around the murder of a professional wrestler.  As if we don’t have enough blood and mayhem, Scotty’s getting into the ring himself…and not in a fake, scripted way, either.

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Two Weddings

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Cold Case
Two Weddings

Original Air Date: Feb 28, 2010

Amanda – Senior Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

“Mawwiage….is what bwings us….togethaaaah….today.”  Sorry.  I just had to get that in there.  Marriage is indeed what brings us together today, as everyone’s favorite arson investigator, the oddly charming, darkly humorous Louie Amante, is getting married. 

He’s invited the whole squad to the nuptials…but as we soon learn, our dashing groom is getting a whole lot more than he bargained for.  Rather than merely getting them something off their Pottery Barn registry, it appears our fearless detectives have decided to gift-wrap justice instead.

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Metamorphosis

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Cold Case
Metamorphosis

Original Air Date: Feb 21, 2010

Amanda–Senior Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, may I direct your attention to the center ring?  In this week’s Cold Case, co-written by series star Danny Pino and featuring music by The Doors, the detectives take a trip to the circus to investigate the death of an aerialist. 

Also, it looks like one of our leads might be about to take a very nasty fall…but it might not be the one you think.  Step right up!

Cold Case – Recap & Review – Bombers

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Cold Case
Bombers

Original Air Date: Feb 14, 2010

Amanda-Senior Reviewer
amanda@thetwocentscorp.com

It seems like it’s been forever since we had a new Cold Case, but this one more than made up for the wait. In “Bombers,” we explore graffiti-art culture (and here I was thinking it was plain old vandalism!) in investigating the 1982 death of a young painter. “Bombing,” it turns out, is slang for graffiti…but some of our detectives got bombed with some pretty heavy personal stuff, too.