Cold Case

The reason why I enjoyed this episode as much as I did despite it's very sad storyline is that I believe it's a very good reflection of society then and now. Like in a third-season episode titled "Committed," it showed how the hospitals of the time were doing anything but helping their patients. It's also a good reflection of today's society. While electro shock may no longer be used, harsh treatment and shunning are and they can be as dangerous an electrode. The acting is once again top notch here. Cold Case has delivered once again. A very good episode.

I am tired of this show and the tear jercking.Samantha/sam the person would have to be a moron before the shock treatment. Most men would put on lip stick if it meant saving their lives. Only the most superficial person would spend so much energy fighting to dress a certain way. I don't agree with shock treatment, of course, but following a dress code at a school isn't that cruel. I didn't shed a single tear for that silly git. You don't need to be a detective to solve most Cold Case episodes. The wealthy attractive people are always guilty. It would be nice if just once the poor single mother was the culprit.

This is my favorite episode in the entire world. I watch it every time it reruns and i always cry. It is the best ever!!! I love how Cold Case uses music from the year of the murder. I downloaded all of the songs from them. I cant think od anything else to make this 100 words. dfg dfgdfg dfgdfgdfgdfgdfg dfg dfg dfg fdg fg gf fg gf gf fg fg gf gf gf gfgf d d fgd fdfd gfd gf gfd gfd fg gf gf gf gf gfd fgd fggf gf gf gf fgfgd dfg gfd gfd gf gf gf gf gfdgfd g fdgf gf

This episode like all the others in cold case was really sad in the end....but one thing still gets me. I really don't understand why Dom got arrested. It wasn't his fault that she died, it was that hospital right? I mean, he technically saved her from the hospital but she was two far gone to be saved...isn't that's why she died? other then that bit I really did enjoy this one. It was really interesting how they portrayed the 50's in the flashbacks.



The best part for me was when it showed Stillmen taking Scotty's place for the suspension. I thought that was pretty honorable thing to do...and it totally makes you wonder weather or not he is going to be leaving permanently or not...I Hope he doesn't!

This was a really special episode. Sam behaved and dress like a boy, but felt like a girl. She fell for her only friend Dom. It's kind a sad episode, but my favorite scene is the moment where Dom reveals he killed her, and remember the last time he saw her, in a dress and lipstick, and tell her she looks pretty witouth them. Is a really special moment, it kind of feels real. Is this episode we also see the departure of the chief, who's taking the responsability of Scotty's actions. He leaves the door open, and we don't know if he's coming back or no. Definitely, a episode to watch twice!

Why I watch this series! Well written with lots of empathy and character development. Great acting and directing. This episode had suprises from moment to moment. Many of the main characters showed much character development in the long and short term. The sets and costumes are perfect to period. And I should know because I lived then. I lived with the stereotypes. The contemporary characters were just a little short on their understanding of the victim's dilemna at the time. But they were unusually passive in this episode. Contemporary issues could have been connected, but this would have made this a two part episode.

Normally I am not the biggest fan of Cold Case, but this was a really good episode and I love the scenes from the biased 50's high school and when Sam is sent to the facility, it is so creepy and good that I just love it. The scene with the lip stick is so emotional and great that it is really moving, because there really isn't anything wrong with her.

I also love the scene between Sam and Dom because you really wanted them to be together, but he was too trapped by society to do what he wanted to do.

I also loved the girly girl who wouldn't let her be, I really like the actress who plays her. I was also really happy that Lily had so few scenes in this episode because she is one of the most annoying characters on the show. I do hate how he confesses at the end, everyone always confesses on this show when there is not enough evidence to convict, it is the most unrealistic part of this show but not even that could mar this really great episode.

Be near to death is a way to try to calm our conscience and almost every case is reopened that way. This time a man with a terminal illness wants to die in peace and tells what he remember about a body been dropped by the lake.

The victim was a girl named Sam who wanted to be a boy. Her struggle to be accepted just the way she was in society. The way she was rejected by everyone, including her own father, so afraid because she was different. Same thing happens these days, we still are afraid of what is different from traditional behavioral standards and we discriminated them from society.

This girl was so brave trying to be herself, who she though she was and died trying just as she wanted.

Was a very sad story, because even the people who are supposed to love us with no conditions leave us alone just because we're different from what they expect from us.

It was very confusing the fact Sam was trying to be a boy, but at the same time in love with another boy. So, was she really a boy trapped in a girls body, o just a girl who liked boyish activities?

On the other hand, it was so touching that Valen's suspension was taken by the boss. He felt so bad...

Cold Case -- Boy Crazy, a very sad episode. A story about an androphilic transsexual named Sam (Samantha Randal). Sam who the hold world seemed to be against in the 60s, who was a girl who identified as a boy, to make matte *worse* she was attracted to other boys (in particular Dom Barron). It could be because Dom was the fist person to treat him normal and they got along, or that Sam was an androphilic transsexual. The kids at school taunted Sam about his gender, and then about being queer and beating him up at times. Where Dom turned his back on Sam and let him get beat up and abused by the kids at school because Dom was upset and confused when Sam first kissed him and admitted he was attracted to him. Even the teacher at the school taunted Sam even to the point of expelling him after he got beat up during class by the other kids. The father (Archie Randall) confused and upset with Sam's gender identity and getting expelled from school, takes her to the worse place you can take a sane person- a mental institution. Where Samantha is said to have gender identity disorder where they perfect *women* task to make the transsexual women to society women, like cooking, putting on lipstick, wearing dresses. Where on many of their patients they preform CTs and such which leaves most brain damaged after. Sam burst out when they try and force them to wear lipstick, shouting, "I am not crazy, I am just me, why can't you guys let me be?". After her outburst and cries for her human freedom, she got a CT done which seemed to have left her brain damaged. Dom got the key from the nurse and come and saw Sam, feeling guilty of leaving him earlier in time of need he was determined to be with him now, even saying he cared for him and kissed him. Sam was pretty unresponsive from the brain damage, all he could mutter was "free me." Dom in tears holding Sam in his arms, he had to free Sam, which he did.



Abandoned by two people who should have been there. (Dom and his father Archie) Then finally, when one helped set Sam free, 40 years later he goes to jail for it. Not a real good story. Very sad. Also confusing, since transsexualism is not really understood. Cold Case seem to do a good job portraying the pains of a transsexual person, you could really feel their pain, confusion, and emptiness.

The team investigates a 1963 case where a girl who dressed and acted like a boy supposedly committed suicide but was actually murdered. One of the most powerful episodes of cold case, it deals with a girl who doesn't behave according to her gender. The end result is she up ends in a mental hospital and as time goes on, many of the people involved realize there was nothing wrong with her. From her dad still being haunted about leaving her in the hospital to the nurse who quit in disguist to her friend Dom, this episode will emotionally impact you as it did them.

Interesting episode.

Sam Randall died in 1963. The cops back then thought it was a suicide but now a witness says another thing.

The team starts to investigate the case.



For those times, a girl that dressed like a boy and acted like one was called a freak. That was Samantha...



I looks like a circle, they talk to someone, that someone lead to another person and that other person to another one but in the end it comes to the first.

The medicine for girls like Sam was treatment, even ECT. She came out bad and when Dom came to save her she just wanted to be free.

They had a pack and she wanted him to keep it.



He loved her, even it being confusing he loved her his own way. Just like Scotty said "She was a boy inside of a girl who liked a boy"



The boss is gone, he took the heat for the shooting. It's going to be different from now on...

It made me think about another similar episode about ECT Room, Season 1 Episode14, "Boy in the Box". Both of the two episodes are terrific. Sometimes we don't need to behave like everybody else, just be ourselves! That girl, Samantha, must be a fantastic kid if she were born during nowadays. However, she lived in 1960s, she didn't even gain support from her dad. When she was sent to that terrible hospital, when she was desperately calling for her dad, to let her go, her dad just, walked away. When she was bullied by other boys in school, her only friend, Dom Barron, just watched her crying instead of helping her.

The team investigates the murder of a cross dressing girl. In the end, it turned out that she was killed by the only boy that ever loved her. He killed her because she asked him to. I don't feel like it's right to arrest the guy. He's lived with his actions for dozens of years, isn't that punishment enough? I get really annoyed at the episodes that investigate really old cases. I just don't like seeing old people that have lived good lives for years be put in jail because of one mistake they made when they were young. Oh well. It was interesting to see the different times back them. Overall, good episode.

Good episode it really turned out to be more than what I thought it would be. I really was wary of another gay themed episode but I have to say it was done in quite a way that it rose above a politically themed episode. The story was gripping for the most part of how a tomboy who refused to conform. Was made an outcast and put in bodily harm for not wanting to fit in. Sadly when she acts like a heterosexual girl because of her looks. The boy is teased into to distancing himself from her by being called gay for liking a girl who looks like a boy. She gets shipped off to a mental institution and killed by shock therapy for not allowing herself to be conformed to normal female standards of the time. Great story with such a sad ending on top of that we have the squad chief taking a suspension to spare Danny which was a powerful moment and on top of that Jeffries is going to be running things for the next month. I like the way the direction the show is going and the emotional depth of the episode it was really great.

Boy times have really changed when the transsexual gender thing was a no-no in the fifties and sixties. But to this poor girl, it wasn't. As she tried to act and look like a boy. Only to get made fun of from everybody from the boys whom she thought were her friends until they discover whom she was. Even her jerk of a principal and her parents sadly. Which is tragic. That girl was really messed up in her head and sometimes this episode was not just sad but pretty much shows you what happens when people just need help. Not like the heinous shock treatment. Just someone to sit down and listen to them. What they are going through and why.

Cocky & Loud Girl willing to be like the guys except chase girls. Guys don't like that double standard and laid down the law. When getting electro, you didn't see her bond with other girls, she was scared to bond even in pain. Same thing, when asked if she liked girls by that prom queen. Yet, queen followed her to the woods and gave her a note before class? A future Marilyn Barnett? As for girly man, why was he arrested when the girl requested. What was the difference between that and mercy killing by the wife of the business guy?

What a great episode! The story of the gender confused girl in the 1960s was truely heart wrenching. I am horrified that this type of so called "treatment" really occurred. I hate to say that Cold Case is usually predictable for "whudunit", but this one was a total surprise to me. The character Sam Randall was a teenage girl growing up in the early 1960s. She dressed as a boy, acted like a boy, and knew all about cars/racing/engines. She had been rejected and picked on for who she was, but she never tried to change dispite the sometimes tragic results. Her father tried to get her to act like a girl, her teachers and principals ordered her to stop dressing as a boy. And of course her fellow classmates were brutal. She was constantly in trouble in school for fights, which weren't her fault, and she was expelled several times. The only friend she had was a guy named Dom, he was a fellow reject. Though the episode didn't really specify why he felt he was an "outsider". Sam was sent to a psychiatric hospital by her father so that her behaviors could be modified. Unfortunately, the treatment involved humiliation, medication and Eletro Shock Therapy. The two most memorable scenes were both extremely hard to watch and upsetting. The first was when the boys were picking on Sam in the class room. They held her down and tried to put lipstick on her. Her friend, Dom just sat in silence and did nothing to help her. Bullying rearing it's ugly head.

The other scene was when she was pleading and begging her father to get her out of the hospital. The poor guy thought he was doing what was best for his daughter. But you know it was tearing him up to walk away. She screamed "I'll be good, daddy. Please help me. I'll wear whatever you want me to wear. Please get me out of here." Just remembering it is making me tear up again. Very moving.



The situation with Valens is kind of over now. IAD recommended he get suspended for 30 days. However, John takes the rap for him and he gets suspended instead. He leaves Valens no way to thank him for it, and hints that he just may not be back after a month. I am glad this crap is over. The story line was getting a little tired. But I am not all that happy about John possibly leaving the show. I guess time will tell.

Reminiscent of "Boys Don't Cry" (which was alluded to in a scene in this episode), "Boy Crazy" involves the story of a young woman struggling with gender identity back in the early 1960s. It was a tough episode to watch. Sam Randall was bullied by her peers, humiliated, degraded and dehumanized at highschool, even by the principal. Despite befriending fellow outsider, Dom, her behaviour continues to be problematic, prompting her father to admit her to a mental institution, where she was given ECT treatments, medication, and behaviour modification classes. She was treated like a mentally ill person - and it was brutal. In the end, I was mildly surprised at who the actual murderer was and the circumstances around her death, but it was poignant, and given the attitude of the times and her veritable torture at the mental hospital, sadly logical. Scotty's continuing saga with IAD comes to a resolution at the end, and is just as surprising and poignant as Sam's story was.