Cold Case
Cold Case
TV ShowCanceled

Cold Case

7.8 / 10
2003
7 seasons
156 episodes
CrimeDramaMystery

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

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Cast

Seasons

  • Look Again

    1.Look Again

    7.7
    28-09-200346m

    Lilly investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate.

  • Gleen

    2.Gleen

    7.8
    05-10-200345m

    The fiancé of a fireman asks Lilly to help prove that a convicted felon, about to be paroled on an unrelated crime, is responsible for the murder of the fireman's first wife. The y...

  • Our Boy Is Back

    3.Our Boy Is Back

    7.8
    12-10-200344m

    A serial rapist sends a letter to the squad announcing his return to Philadelphia after five years and his plan to strike again. Lilly's best hope of catching the rapist comes from...

  • Churchgoing People

    4.Churchgoing People

    7.0
    19-10-200345m

    Lilly re-investigates the case of a murdered church organist, when his Alzheimer's-stricken widow begins having flashbacks of the night in question.

  • The Runner

    5.The Runner

    7.6
    26-10-200344m

    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 twenty-one-year-old rookie cop....

  • Love Conquers Al

    6.Love Conquers Al

    7.5
    09-11-200344m

    A petty crook, Ricky, 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,...

  • A Time to Hate

    7.A Time to Hate

    6.8
    16-11-200346m

    Lilly investigates the case of Daniel Holtz, a college baseball player who was found beaten to death in an alley behind a gay bar in 1964. Daniel's mother comes to Lilly in the hop...

  • Fly Away

    8.Fly Away

    8.1
    30-11-200346m

    When a young woman, Rosie, wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya died. Things get complicated when the mother remembers very little o...

  • Sherry Darlin'

    9.Sherry Darlin'

    7.6
    07-12-200346m

    Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man claiming he killed an elderly woman back in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house. When Lilly checks the dwelling, a bod...

  • The Hitchhiker

    10.The Hitchhiker

    7.9
    21-12-200344m

    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 Atlanta.

  • Hubris

    11.Hubris

    8.0
    11-01-200446m

    A college professor (Jeffrey Nordling), who lost everything − his career, his family, his reputation − after being suspected of murdering one of his female students (Kaitlin Double...

  • Glued

    12.Glued

    8.8
    18-01-200446m

    Det. Stillman asks Lilly to re-open a case he couldn't solve, wherein an 8-year-old boy, Tim Barnes, was murdered in 1980. The prime suspects included a catholic priest, three glue...

  • The Letter

    13.The Letter

    6.6
    25-01-200445m

    Rush and Valens re-open the case of a 25-year-old black woman, who was murdered in 1939, after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information. The woman was assumed t...

  • Boy in the Box

    14.Boy in the Box

    8.3
    15-02-200443m

    The 1958 death of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box is reinvestigated after a small suitcase with the child's picture and his old cowboy hat is left...

  • Disco Inferno

    15.Disco Inferno

    8.2
    22-02-200446m

    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...

  • Volunteers

    16.Volunteers

    7.7
    07-03-200446m

    When the remains of a young black man and a white woman are found under the foundation of a building, Rush and Valens discover that not only did the two go missing in 1969, but tha...

  • The Lost Soul of Herman Lester

    17.The Lost Soul of Herman Lester

    7.7
    14-03-200446m

    When the son of a murdered high-school basketball star receives a death threat, Rush and Valens reopen the 1987 case of Herman Lester who was stabbed to death only hours after lead...

  • Resolutions

    18.Resolutions

    8.3
    28-03-200443m

    Lilly investigates an unsolved hit-and-run accident from New Year's Eve 1999 that left a man dead, after a recovering alcoholic comes forward and claims she is the one who hit him....

  • Late Returns

    19.Late Returns

    7.8
    04-04-200444m

    The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election...

  • Greed

    20.Greed

    8.3
    18-04-200443m

    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 sugge...

  • Maternal Instincts

    21.Maternal Instincts

    7.6
    25-04-200444m

    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, suffe...

  • The Plan

    22.The Plan

    8.9
    02-05-200446m

    The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's swim coach, which was originally ruled as accidental, is reinvestigated after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it...

  • Lover's Lane

    23.Lover's Lane

    6.4
    23-05-200444m

    When DNA evidence reveals that a wrong man was convicted for killing 15-year-old Eve Kendall back in 1986, the team re-opens her case in an attempt to find the real killer.

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