Cold Case

The team reopens the 1996 case of a wealthy woman who supposedly drowned during a citywide blackout (hence the episode's name). During the investigation, the team discovers she was no angel and everyone she was with at the time had a reason to want her dead. First of all, she had molested her son when he was younger and tried to do the same thing to her grandson at the pool (luckily, the son came in to stop her from doing the same thing to the grandson). Secondly, she divorced her husband who is now engaged to a much younger woman but didn't squander her share of the money and the husband is bitter about that. Of course, in the end Lauren Williams still got justice and the daughter is arrested.



An episode that is not to be missed!

Lauren Williams was by no means the perfect woman. She was a harsh woman who refused to put up with her family's problems and was disappointed with them about everything. She was found dead in her ex-husband's mansion pool during a black-out and blizzard in 1996.



I thought this was quite a good episode. The storyline was very original. It let you know a lot about Lauren's personality, although there was nothing there to make it sad when she died.



It was well written, the acting was good. The problem I had was casting the older Matt. The two actors looked nothing alike so whenever it would flash, it just ruined it for me.

A woman, beautiful and charming. A husband chasing younger women with his sweet little newbie, two damaged adult children and a 13 year old grandson converge in the dark in a lonely mansion. You just know that would not end well. However, the twists and turns surprised me. I did not see the revelation coming. When she accused him of being a pedophile I was certain she had caught him with their daughter at some time in the past. It never occured to me that she was the one who had taken the innocence of her own son or that she would set her sights on her grandson. I suppose we are all so certain when some one says pedohile that it has to be a man. Men are suppose to be the preditors not women so maybe that is why I found this so interesting and unsettling.