Writer:	Veena Cabreros Sud
Director:	Paris Barclay
Star:	Jeremy Ratchford (Det. Nick Vera),  Thom Barry (Det. Will Jeffries),  John Finn (Lt. John Stillman),  Kathryn Morris (Det. Lilly Rush),  Danny Pino (Scotty Valens)
Guest Star:	Paul James (Zeke Williams),  Ed Bernard (Donald Williams (2005)),  DJ Wyatt (14 K Leader / Will Jeffries (1963)),  Liana Liberato (Charlotte (1963)),  Scott Alan Smith (Henry (1963)),  Melinda Allen (Judith (1963)),  Chaney Kley (Billy Jones (1963)),  Dana Davis (Mathilde (1963)),  Billy Brown (Donald Williams (1963)),  Dallas McKinney (Kid #1),  Drew Snyder (Billy Jones (2005)),  Tripp Henningston (Tommy (1963)),  Francis Fallon (Worker #2 (2005)),  Dee Wallace Stone (Charlotte (2005)),  Brian Glanney (Worker #1 (1963)),  Mary Anne McGarry (Linda O'Hara (2005)),  Cazimir Milostan (Sergeant (1963)),  Buffy Charlet (Linda Callahan (1963) (uncredited)),  Sean Blakemore (Clyde (1963)),  Mimi Cozzens (Judith (2005)),  Cyndi Martino (Mary Williams (1963))

Music Featured in This Episode:
- One Fine Day by The Chiffons
- Walk Like a Man by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
- (Love Is Like a) Heat Wave by Martha & The Vandellas
- Just One Look by Doris Troy
- Rainbow by Gene Chandler
- Till Death Do Us Part from Opus 1 Music Library
- Strange Fruit by Nina Simone (edit)

Miss O'Hara: Back then, they said rape was when a lady changed her mind. (edit)

Det. Jeffries discovered the victim's body when he was a boy and therefore he "sees" the victim at the end. (edit) This is the first episode to feature a younger/past version of a main cast member, a 12-year-old Will Jeffries (played by DJ Wyatt). (edit) Goof: In this episode, Zeke wrote a note in 1963 with his chess move, the Ruy Lopez opening, on it. The note reads "Nf3 Nc6", which stands for knight to f3, knight to c6 in the algebraic chess notation. However, during the 1960's, American chess players, especially amateurs like these, used the descriptive chess notation system, in which the same move should have been written as "NQB3 NKB3". The algebraic notation didn't become dominant until the beginning on the 1970's. (edit)

Some elements in this episode are very similar to the recently re-opened case of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old who was kidnapped and murdered in 1955 after whistling at, or openly flirting with, a white woman, a grocery shop owner named Carolyn Bryant. (edit) Title: Strange Fruit
The episode is named after a poem by Abel Meeropol (written under the pseudonym of Lewis Allan in the mid-1930's) and later performed as a song by Billie Holiday in 1939. Nina Simone's version, recorded in 1965, is heard as the closing song of the episode. The "strange fruit" in the song lyrics refer to the hanged bodies of African-American men who were the victims of lynching brought on by racism:
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. (edit) Zeke's winning chess move, the Ruy Lopez Opening, is named after a 16th century Spanish priest, Rúy López de Segura, who studied chess moves. (edit)