Home
search
more | tips
IMDb > "Cold Case" (2003) > Episode list
"Cold Case"
Quicklinks
Top Links
trailers and videosfull cast and crewtriviaofficial sitesmemorable quotes
Overview
main detailscombined detailsfull cast and crewcompany creditsepisode listepisodes castepisode ratings... by rating... by votestv schedule
Awards & Reviews
user commentsexternal reviewsnewsgroup reviewsawardsuser ratingsrecommendationsmessage board
Plot & Quotes
plot summaryplot keywordsAmazon.com summarymemorable quotes
Fun Stuff
triviagoofssoundtrack listingcrazy creditsalternate versionsmovie connectionsFAQ
Other Info
merchandising linksbox office/businessrelease datesfilming locationstechnical specslaserdisc detailsDVD detailsliterature listingsNewsDesk
Promotional
taglines trailers and videos posters photo gallery
External Links
showtimesofficial sitesmiscellaneousphotographssound clipsvideo clips

Episode list for
"Cold Case" (2003) More at IMDbPro »

View by:

Episodes: All (133)  |  With full-length videos ()  |  With videos ()  | See all videos (23) »

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6
Year: 2003  |  2004  |  2005  |  2006  |  2007  |  2008  |  2009  |  unknown


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Look Again

Original Air Date—28 September 2003

Season 1, Episode 2: Gleen

Original Air Date—5 October 2003

Season 1, Episode 3: Our Boy Is Back

Original Air Date—12 October 2003

Season 1, Episode 4: Churchgoing People

Original Air Date—19 October 2003

Season 1, Episode 5: The Runner

Original Air Date—26 October 2003

Season 1, Episode 6: Love Conquers Al

Original Air Date—9 November 2003
A petty crook, Ricky (Tim deZarn), hoping to get a reduced sentence, relates witnessing a young man washing blood out of his car the night a teen track runner was murdered. The young athlete, Paige Pratt (Summer Glau), was found shot, and her boyfriend Al Clarkson (Doug Kruse) was originally imprisoned for the crime.

Season 1, Episode 7: A Time to Hate

Original Air Date—16 November 2003
The team investigates a 1964 case when a young college student was killed outside a gay bar.

Season 1, Episode 8: Fly Away

Original Air Date—30 November 2003
After two years in a coma, a mother awakes in the hospital. Unfortunately, Rosie hardly remembers the night she and her little daughter were thrown out of a window, killing the girl and injuring herself severely. She only recalls that her daughter Toya was wearing a butterfly costume ...

Season 1, Episode 9: Sherry Darlin'

Original Air Date—7 December 2003
A man calls Detective Lilly Rush to confess that he murdered his grandmother in 1989 and buried her in the basement of his old house.

Season 1, Episode 10: Hitchhiker

Original Air Date—21 December 2003

Season 1, Episode 11: Hubris

Original Air Date—11 January 2004

Season 1, Episode 12: Glued

Original Air Date—18 January 2004

Season 1, Episode 13: The Letter

Original Air Date—25 January 2004

Season 1, Episode 14: The Boy in the Box

Original Air Date—15 February 2004
The team investigates a 1958 case where a dead 6-year-old boy wrapped inside a box was discovered in a field. The previous investigation developed no leads in determining the identity of the boy. However, new evidence suggests he may have lived at a nearby Catholic orphanage.

Season 1, Episode 15: Disco Inferno

Original Air Date—22 February 2004
The team investigates a 1978 case where 22 people were killed in a fire at a popular disco after new evidence shows that one of the victims was shot before the fire.

Season 1, Episode 16: Volunteers

Original Air Date—7 March 2004

Season 1, Episode 17: The Lost Soul of Herman Lester

Original Air Date—14 March 2004

Season 1, Episode 18: Resolutions

Original Air Date—28 March 2004

Season 1, Episode 19: Late Returns

Original Air Date—4 April 2004
A man is found shot to death in his driveway. The team re-open a 1992 murder of a young woman, a Democratic worker, who went missing after leaving a political event on Election night.
Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 112:35 AMCBS

Season 1, Episode 20: Greed

Original Air Date—18 April 2004

Season 1, Episode 21: Maternal Instincts

Original Air Date—25 April 2004

Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 182:35 AMCBS

Season 1, Episode 22: The Plan

Original Air Date—2 May 2004

Season 1, Episode 23: Lover's Lane

Original Air Date—23 May 2004
In 1986, a teenage girl was raped and stabbed to death in a popular lovers' lane. A man was arrested and convicted for the crime, based on circumstantial evidence. When the case is retried using modern DNA technology, he is proven innocent and Lilly and her team set out to find the real killer.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: The Badlands

Original Air Date—3 October 2004
The triple murder of a couple running a restaurant and their son is reopened when it is revealed in court that the man who was originally charged with the crime was robbing a store at another location at the time of the murders.

Season 2, Episode 2: Factory Girls

Original Air Date—10 October 2004
The detectives reopen a World War II era case of a female factory worker who died at work from what was believed to be an accidental fall.

Season 2, Episode 3: Daniela

Original Air Date—17 October 2004

Season 2, Episode 4: The House

Original Air Date—24 October 2004
Outside a prison, the bones of an inmate who tried to escape during the broadcast of Johnny Cash's prison concert in 1968 are found in an old underground escape tunnel. Suspiciously, that inmate was supposedly killed inside the prison at another time...

Season 2, Episode 5: Who's Your Daddy

Original Air Date—31 October 2004

Season 2, Episode 6: The Sleepover

Original Air Date—7 November 2004
A young woman, with similar markings, is strangled to death near devil's pond. The team re-opens a 1990 murder of a 12-year-old prep school girl at the home of a troubled teen.

Season 2, Episode 7: It's Raining Men

Original Air Date—14 November 2004
The team investigates the 1983 murder of an openly gay man who had been extremely active in attempting to stop the spread of AIDS. This included likely burning down a bathhouse where gay men were transmitting the disease and threatening to out closeted homosexuals who did not agree to petition congress for a solution. The early investigation also discovers that he was estranged from his prominent father who had kicked him out of his brother's wedding for bringing his partner along to the reception.

Season 2, Episode 8: Red Glare

Original Air Date—21 November 2004
The team investigates the murder of a school teacher in 1953 whose case wasn't very well investigated since he believed in integration.

Season 2, Episode 9: Mind Hunters

Original Air Date—28 November 2004

Season 2, Episode 10: Discretion

Original Air Date—19 December 2004
The team investigates the 2000 slaying of an up-and-coming Connecticut prosecutor who was about to try a high profile murder case. The early investigation discovers that prior to his death he seemed to have been heavily distracted by something.

Season 2, Episode 11: Blank Generation

Original Air Date—9 January 2005

Season 2, Episode 12: Yo, Adrian

Original Air Date—16 January 2005

Season 2, Episode 13: Time to Crime

Original Air Date—30 January 2005
A citywide incentive "guns for shoes" program causes a weapon to turn up that had been used in a 1987 drive-by killing of a little girl in a park. The team attempts to discover who had possessed the gun through the many hands it had since crossed while also investigating who may have been the intended target.

Season 2, Episode 14: Revolution

Original Air Date—20 February 2005

Season 2, Episode 15: Wishing

Original Air Date—6 March 2005
The early 1990's death on the railroad tracks of a mentally handicapped teenager is reopened. Drawings depicting the incident surface which indicate it may not have been an accident as originally believed.

Season 2, Episode 16: Revenge

Original Air Date—13 March 2005

Season 2, Episode 17: Schadenfreude

Original Air Date—20 March 2005
The team investigates the early 1980's murder of a surgeon's wife. The husband had been convicted of the murder and was thought to have committed it for insurance money. The couple was under financial pain as a result of the doctor being sued for malpractice after he accidentally caused the death of one of the family's best friends on his operating table. However, new evidence found on a dead junkie with a past connection to the victim causes the case to be reopened.

Season 2, Episode 18: Ravaged

Original Air Date—27 March 2005

Season 2, Episode 19: Strange Fruit

Original Air Date—3 April 2005
Jeffries reopens a 1963 case in which he, as a child, found the body of a 16-year-old African American boy who had been planning to attend Martin Luther King's March on Washington.

Season 2, Episode 20: Kensington

Original Air Date—24 April 2005

Season 2, Episode 21: Creatures of the Night

Original Air Date—1 May 2005

Season 2, Episode 22: Best Friends

Original Air Date—8 May 2005

Season 2, Episode 23: The Woods

Original Air Date—22 May 2005
The discovery of nine human skulls leads Rush back to George Marks, the serial killer she was unable to incriminate months earlier, and who walked away a free man. As the detectives re-investigate his mother's murder from 1972, George is forced to emerge from hiding to face Rush again. This time, their very lives are at stake in their final showdown.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Family

Original Air Date—25 September 2005

Season 3, Episode 2: The Promise

Original Air Date—2 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 3: Bad Night

Original Air Date—9 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 4: Colors

Original Air Date—16 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 5: Committed

Original Air Date—23 October 2005

Season 3, Episode 6: Saving Patrick Bubley

Original Air Date—6 November 2005
Brothers are being killed one by one as they grow to their teens. Flashbacks show how the family enjoyed Thanksgiving together until the killings started and the mother got addicted to drugs.

Season 3, Episode 7: Start-Up

Original Air Date—13 November 2005

Season 3, Episode 8: Honor

Original Air Date—20 November 2005
The team investigates the murder of a former POW who was killed days after coming home from the Viatnam War.

Season 3, Episode 9: A Perfect Day

Original Air Date—27 November 2005
The remains of a small girl are found under a bridge. The story goes back to the 60's and turns out the girl has a twin sister still alive. A sad family story begins to unravel.

Season 3, Episode 10: Frank's Best

Original Air Date—18 December 2005
Frank Dicenzio runs a small deli, until he is killed in 2001. Frank's employee, the immigrant Ricardo, is convicted and imprisoned. Ricardo's brother Paulo, however, asks Rush and Valens to reopen the case and prove Ricardo's innocence. The team finds suspects including 'Stump' Fanelli, the hoodlum friend of Frank's only son, Tommy; the unsavory Felix Darosa, who "helps" immigrants at high rates; and Ricardo himself. Meanwhile, Kat Miller joins the team, and Nick Vera's time spent caring for an abandoned baby seems to be not so onerous as he claims.

Season 3, Episode 11: 8 Years

Original Air Date—8 January 2006
The music of Bruce Springsteen provides the perfect accompaniment to this story of four young friends with modest dreams and the detours they take along the way. Clem was shot dead in 1988, and the Cold Case team follow up on his murder by tracking his friends' lives, forcing the survivors to review their life choices.

Season 3, Episode 12: Detention

Original Air Date—15 January 2006
When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens a 1994 case of a 16-year-old high-school kid, who fell off 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.

Season 3, Episode 13: Debut

Original Air Date—29 January 2006

Season 3, Episode 14: Dog Day Afternoons

Original Air Date—26 February 2006

Season 3, Episode 15: Sanctuary

Original Air Date—12 March 2006
When a drug dealer, Hector, is arrested, he recognizes Scotty Valens as Alvaro, who used to work as a driver for Hector. Detective Valens had been undercover in 1998, but his involvement with the young drug mule Ana, whose murder at the time went unsolved, makes the case uncomfortably personal for Valens, and raises questions for the rest of the team.

Season 3, Episode 16: One Night

Original Air Date—19 March 2006
On his way to the prom in 1980, Steve Jablonski gets a flat tire on his father's Cadillac, but that's just the start of his troubles. A stranger picks him up in the rain and has him write a will before being buried alive. In 2006, a man who won't give his name catches Det. Rush working late in the office, admits to the killing, and produces a shovel he says he buried Steve with. Working with few clues, the team hurry to save another young man they believe has likewise just been buried ... somewhere.

Season 3, Episode 17: Superstar

Original Air Date—26 March 2006
Young Andi Simmons was a talented tennis player when she won a "Battle of the Sexes" exhibition match against an older student back in 1973, but she was found strangled the next morning. Was the killer her opponent, who'd had his pride hurt by losing to a girl? Her jealous rival on the woman's team? The demanding coach or Andi's more demanding father? The detectives take a new look at the clues.

Season 3, Episode 18: Willkommen

Original Air Date—2 April 2006
Four years after the slaying, the Cold Case team investigates the murder of a cabbie-turned-actor who was shot to death outside the community theatre on opening night...

Season 3, Episode 19: Beautiful Little Fool

Original Air Date—9 April 2006

Season 3, Episode 20: Death Penalty: Final Appeal

Original Air Date—16 April 2006

Season 3, Episode 21: The Hen House

Original Air Date—30 April 2006
The "accidental" death of a woman newspaper columnist in 1943 is solved when old newspaper files indicate that maybe "Hey Lo" was murdered by a Nazi officer posing as a Dutch Jew.

Season 3, Episode 22: The River

Original Air Date—7 May 2006
The team looks into a previously thought to be solved 1984 murder of an emergency room doctor after a witness comes forward claiming to have seen the victim speaking with an unknown person shortly before his death. The investigation reveals that the doctor had a gambling addiction that was causing many problems.

Season 3, Episode 23: Joseph

Original Air Date—21 May 2006
Orlando is killed in 2005 in a house for chemical-addicted teens after he is beaten by a fellow patient. Joseph, the supervisor, catches Corey beating Orlando, but can't save Orlando. Two months later, right before Joseph is to testify against Corey, Joseph is found to have been killed at by a shotgun blast through his door. The obvious suspect, Corey, was in jail at the time of the murder, so the detectives work to solve the open case, which involves good intentions, poor choices, and entanglements for Lilly.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Rampage

Original Air Date—24 September 2006
A 1995 mall shooting spree, in which two teenagers killed and wounded several people before committing suicide, is reopened when it is found that there may be a third person involved.

Season 4, Episode 2: The War at Home

Original Air Date—1 October 2006

Season 4, Episode 3: Sandhogs

Original Air Date—8 October 2006

Season 4, Episode 4: Baby Blues

Original Air Date—15 October 2006

Season 4, Episode 5: Saving Sammy

Original Air Date—22 October 2006

Season 4, Episode 6: Static

Original Air Date—29 October 2006
The 1958 death of an influential and popular disc jockey is reopened when it becomes clear it was not a suicide as originally believed.

Season 4, Episode 7: The Key

Original Air Date—5 November 2006
The team reopens a 1979 murder of a schoolteacher when new evidence, including a key-chain belonging to a man with whom the victim had been having an affair, turns up in the wooded area where the body was found. The investigation soon discovers that the relationship was not kept a secret from anyone, including both of the spouses and their children.

Season 4, Episode 8: Fireflies

Original Air Date—12 November 2006
Bags of undelivered mail are discovered at the house of a mailman following his death. One of the undelivered items is a letter from an eight year old girl to her best friend, post-marked the day that she was abducted from her bedroom in 1975.

Season 4, Episode 9: Lonely Hearts

Original Air Date—19 November 2006
A handsome con-artist commits suicide as an awkward and overweight woman's dating-service tape, which eventually resulted in a relationship, plays on his VCR. The team then reopens her 1989 murder.

Season 4, Episode 10: Forever Blue

Original Air Date—3 December 2006
The murder of a cop in 1968 is reopened when a dying jailbird makes a deal with the police in order to get released earlier and tells them that he found drugs in the victim's car.

Season 4, Episode 11: The Red and the Blue

Original Air Date—10 December 2006

Season 4, Episode 12: Knuckle Up

Original Air Date—7 January 2007
Lilly reopens the 2006 case of a college-bound man's disappearance.

Season 4, Episode 13: Blackout

Original Air Date—14 January 2007
The team investigates the 1996 death of an abrasive, wealthy woman during a power blackout at a family gathering in her former husband's home.
Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 133:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 14: 8:03 AM

Original Air Date—28 January 2007

Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 134:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 15: Blood on the Tracks

Original Air Date—18 February 2007

Next US airings:
Tue. Jan. 135:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 16: The Good-Bye Room

Original Air Date—4 March 2007
Lilly and crew investigate the events at a now abandoned home for unwed mothers that led to the death of a patient and the adoption of her infant.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 143:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 17: Shuffle, Ball Change

Original Air Date—11 March 2007
The skeleton is found of a sixteen year old who wanted to become a dancer, against the wishes of his grocer/father and wrestler/brother.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 144:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 18: A Dollar, a Dream

Original Air Date—18 March 2007
After seven years, the body of a missing woman who had been living in her car with her two daughters is discovered in that car at the bottom of a lake.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 145:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 19: Offender

Original Air Date—25 March 2007
A man forces Lilly's team to reinvestigate his son's murder-rape in 1987 by pushing a sex offender off a roof and promising to systematically kill one person a day until the case is solved.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 213:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 20: Stand Up and Holler

Original Air Date—1 April 2007
When an anonymous confession to the murder of a 16-year old cheerleader is found in a modern art exhibit, the team reopens her case.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 214:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 21: Torn

Original Air Date—8 April 2007
Lilly and her team investigate their oldest case yet, the murder of a woman who was killed in 1919. They soon learn that she may have been murdered because of her activism for woman rights.
Next US airings:
Wed. Jan. 215:00 AMTNT

Season 4, Episode 22: Cargo

Original Air Date—15 April 2007

Season 4, Episode 23: The Good Death

Original Air Date—29 April 2007

Season 4, Episode 24: Stalker

Original Air Date—6 May 2007
When a teenage girl wakes up from a coma, the team reopens the murder of her family. Soon, they find out that she was being stalked by a man calling himself "Romeo".

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Thrill Kill

Original Air Date—23 September 2007
When a man who was convicted of child murder back in 1994 commits suicide, new evidence comes to light that he and his supposed accomplice, who is now serving a life term, may have been railroaded by an overzealous police detective for a crime they did not commit...

Season 5, Episode 2: That Woman

Original Air Date—30 September 2007
After a piece of clothing, that belonged to the murder victim, is found. The team re-opens a 1998 murder of a 15-year-old high school girl, who had a reputation for being promiscuous.

Season 5, Episode 3: Running Around

Original Air Date—7 October 2007

Season 5, Episode 4: Devil Music

Original Air Date—14 October 2007

Season 5, Episode 5: Thick as Thieves

Original Air Date—21 October 2007
The Detectives try and solve the case of a woman who died after being in a coma for 18 years.

Season 5, Episode 6: Wunderkind

Original Air Date—28 October 2007

Season 5, Episode 7: World's End

Original Air Date—4 November 2007
The discovery of human remains in the bottom of a well leads to the reinvestigation of the case of a housewife who went missing during Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds".

Season 5, Episode 8: It Takes a Village

Original Air Date—11 November 2007

Season 5, Episode 9: Boy Crazy

Original Air Date—18 November 2007

Rush learns that one of the men Dexter tried to save returned to his shady lifestyle after Dexter's death
See all videos (4) »

Season 5, Episode 10: Justice

Original Air Date—25 November 2007
Lily's team reinvestigates the 1982 murder of a man who was killed after being accused of date rape by several female college students.

Rush begins the investigation into a stewardess who was murdered in 1960
See all videos (5) »

Season 5, Episode 11: Family 8108

Original Air Date—9 December 2007

Nick and Will talk to a friend of the victim and learn that the father showed up out of nowhere just after Ed won the lottery
See all videos (4) »

Season 5, Episode 12: Sabotage

Original Air Date—29 July 2008

Season 5, Episode 13: Spiders

Original Air Date—17 February 2008

Season 5, Episode 14: Andy in C Minor

Original Air Date—30 March 2008
New evidence indicates that a teenager who disappeared in 2006 from a residential high school for deaf students had been murdered.

Season 5, Episode 15: The Road

Original Air Date—6 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 16: Bad Reputation

Original Air Date—13 April 2008
A drug bust discovers that an ex-convict had been murdered soon after being released in 1997. The investigation discovers that he had been attempting to reestablish a relationship with his teenage son, who had been five years old when he went to prison, against the wishes of the boy's mother and stepfather. The detectives also learn that a former associate had been attempting to lure him back into the life of crime.

Season 5, Episode 17: Slipping

Original Air Date—27 April 2008

Season 5, Episode 18: Ghost of My Child

Original Air Date—4 May 2008
A fire which killed the child of a junkie is reopened when she claims to have seen him alive in the park.

Season 6


Catch Cold Case in its sixth season on CBS

Season 6, Episode 1: Glory Days

Original Air Date—28 September 2008
The team reopens a the 1973 case of a murdered football player after new evidence surfaces that shows that he may have been killed later than originally thought.

Season 6, Episode 2: True Calling

Original Air Date—5 October 2008

Season 6, Episode 3: Wednesday's Women

Original Air Date—12 October 2008

Season 6, Episode 4: Roller Girl

Original Air Date—19 October 2008

Season 6, Episode 5: Shore Leave

Original Air Date—26 October 2008
Remains found in an oil drum at the Philadelphia are identified, by dog tags, as belonging to Jimmy Tully, a Marine who went AWOL while on leave in 1951, opening up a murder case for the first time. Among the witnesses and suspects are members of his unit, his sergeant, a beautiful girl and a jealous guy from a Navy bar that the victim visited while on leave. As usual, all of these people are still alive and in Philadelphia. In the end, the murderer confesses and Tully's family can be proud of him, finally.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Dealer

Original Air Date—2 November 2008

Season 6, Episode 7: One Small Step

Original Air Date—9 November 2008

Season 6, Episode 8: Triple Threat

Original Air Date—16 November 2008

Season 6, Episode 9: Pin Up Girl

Original Air Date—23 November 2008

Season 6, Episode 10: Street Money

Original Air Date—30 November 2008

Season 6, Episode 11: Wings

Original Air Date—21 December 2008

Season 6, Episode 12: Lotto Fever

Original Air Date—4 January 2009

Season 6, Episode 13: Breaking News

Original Air Date—11 January 2009

Next US airings:
Sun. Jan. 119:00 PMCBS

Season 6, Episode 14: Brush Man

Original Air Date—15 February 2009

Season 6, Episode 15: Witness Protection

Original Air Date—2009

Season 6, Episode 16: Episode #6.16

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 17: Episode #6.17

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 18: Episode #6.18

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 19: Episode #6.19

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 20: Episode #6.20

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 21: Episode #6.21

Original Air Date—????

Season 6, Episode 22: Episode #6.22

Original Air Date—????

Related Links

Episode cast Episode ratings Episode ratings by date
Episode ratings by votes Series credits Plot summary
TV schedule Main details

Add a new episode

You may add a new episode for this TV series by clicking the 'add episode' button