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Score: 8.5 Great 92 votes

Start-Up

Episode Number: 53    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Sunday November 13, 2005    Prod Code: n/a
Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990s, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Karin Lewicki
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Star: Kathryn Morris (Det. Lilly Rush),  John Finn (Lt. John Stillman),  Jeremy Ratchford (Det. Nick Vera),  Danny Pino (Scotty Valens),  Thom Barry (Det. Will Jeffries)
Guest Star: Mark Adair-Rios (Dante Gutierrez),  Richard Ian Cox (Clifton Coleman 1999/2005)),  Rodney Scott (Scott (1995/2005)),  Lori Lively (Nancy),  Zach Mills (Taylor),  Sarah Jane Morris (Amy Lind (1999)),  Amir Talai (Malvinder (1999/2005)),  Robin Weigert (Anna Mayes),  Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Geraldine (1999/2005)),  Valerie Dillman (Alora Lind)

Notes

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International Airdates:
- Denmark: December 14, 2005 on TV3+ (edit)
Music Featured in This Episode:
- You Get What You Give by The New Radicals
- Take a Picture by Filter
- Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind
- Stick by Runaway Cab
- It's No Good by Depeche Mode
- Push It by Garbage
- Sweet Surrender by Sarah McLachlan
- Save Me by Aimee Mann (edit)

Quotes

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Geraldine: Coffee or tea, sir?
Det. Vera: (looking amused) Sir! (edit)
Det. Scotty Valens: Did she have enemies?
Scott: Yeah. We called them employees. (edit)
Det. Nick Vera: 24 is pretty young to have a bad ticker.
Det. Scottie Valens: I guess it happens, but so does poison. (edit)

Trivia

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Malvinder says his marriage was arranged and Det. Valens asks if "they're still doing that". Actually, the majority of marriages in India are arranged. Marriages based on romance ("love matches") do exist in India, but they are controversial in many areas. (edit)
Nitpick: They asked the venture capitalist if he was worried about "all the millions he put in". He said no, that the venture capital business was all about risk. However:
1) He only put up one million; by the time they needed further funding, they were ready for the IPO.
2) The venture capital would almost certainly have been recovered from the sale of a chunk of his stock as soon as the IPO was complete -- that's how most venture capital funders work. (edit)
When shifting through the financial records, Det. Jeffries remarks "This is worse than those poems last year." This is possibly a reference to episode 2-22: Best Friends. (edit)
Amy Lind was killed on May 7, 1999. (edit)

Allusions

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Out of Africa
The book Malvinder gives to Amy is Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (written under the penname Isak Dinesen). The book is an autobiographical work about her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya. (edit)
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4.0
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Start-Up
"They did this one already"
After a kid finds a "murder journal" on a computer, the team investigates the murder discribed in the notes.
Continue » Posted Jun 11, 2008 4:33 pm PST
8.2
Great
Start-Up
"Well written"
Not the best
Continue » Posted Aug 24, 2006 4:57 am PST

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8.6
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Start-Up
"Above average"
Ok definitly not one of the best episodes but I did like the little jabs at Liily.
Continue » Posted Nov 14, 2005 11:49 am PST
9.1
Superb
Start-Up
"Well written"
Good episode but predictable.
Continue » Posted Nov 14, 2005 6:22 am PST
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