Justice

Season 5, Episode 10, Aired

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The team re-opens the 1982 case of a well-liked young man who was shot to death after being accused of date rape by several female college students.
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  • The real hero is the Jimmy for defending the honor of his sister something the detectives were smart enough to differentiate from merely revenge. The episode posts many questions we do not ask ourselves until it happens to us.moreless

    8.0
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    By antoniosf, Apr 14, 2010
    I apologize if I sound to boring but I am a Latino studying law. Do we really need to waste our limited resources in defending "roaches" or we should focus in the real victims, a distinction the law will never make it obvious because any written text would never encapsulate the whole spirit of human beings. Liberals tend to idealize this with torture - it is bad, but like in this case sometimes you must turn a blind eye. Another, revenge is not always bad like in this case the legal system was ineffective; when the law does not work people look for other ways to find justice. Remember at the opening of the Godfather when a man asks Corleone to find justice when the police ignored his pledges after his daughter was beaten badly.moreless

  • This is a well written episode!

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    By alen76ers, May 28, 2008
    This episode is great! I just love it! It's probably one of the best in this show ( maybe even THE best). It was very emotional and i loved it. There are not so many episodes where a bad guy gets killed! So that makes this episode special! I love the part when the boss turns off the speaker so they don't hear that guy who killed the reaper. Our detectives did the right thing!

    I loved that part with the wall in the bathroom. This episode is full of emotions and conflicts and confusing moments and its just great! Bravo to the writers!!!moreless

  • The Detective team tries to find the killer of a popular intellectual college student whose tombstone was marked in graffiti with the word "Rapist" after the college made the announcement to honor his 25th anniversary death.moreless

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    By ariamaluum, Feb 10, 2008
    The show had lots of twists and turns of who did it. Stemming from victims, cops, and finally the surprise. Very sad in 1982, that the a college student loses her parents and has to raise her younger brother on her own with no help. Each victim has to relive the moment that they have been attacked and at the same time be accused of murder. I like how they mentioned "old school internet chat room" in the ladies room where they scribbled notes against the bathroom wall with individual anonymity. My only question is where was the murder victim relatives or friends? Don't they want to know who did it? At the time, it was thought as robbery or random violence because of the location of the college.

    I liked the ending of the interrogation room where Jeffries shuts off the intercom as well the rapist quoting Martin Luther King in his commencement and those girls feeling angry and sad on graduation day. You sensed empowerment amongst the rape victims who come together and look to stay together at the end.moreless

  • Another great episode from cold case

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    By Ninja1088, Nov 27, 2007
    An episode in which the victim ( a serial rapist) got what he deserved. Because of that, it keeps you guessing as to who the suspect is while not having any empathy for the victim. Everyone from the cop who felt the system didn't work to the numereous women he raped to the one victim's father. Many of the decectives don't even think the case should be solved. I won't reveal who the killer is but let's just say justice was served in this episode. Also nice seeing updates on Lily's post-tramuatic stress disorder, Lt. Stillman dealing with his time off and Jefferies adjusting to being the boss. In the end, you get the feelign the cops wanted to solve the case more to help the victims of the rapist heal more than actually catching the killer.moreless

  • He had what he deserved.

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    By karatiz, Nov 27, 2007
    What starts with a vandalized grave of a kid Mike Delaney, ends with another perspective.

    When a case is reopen, I always thing, and I'm not the only one, that the victim was someone innocent, someone that was caught in the middle of something and got killed.
    This kid was the perfect kid, good grades, sports, speeches, he was the perfect example to follow. But as the episode goes on it turns out to be the opposite. Despite his academic history, this guy was a date rapist.
    I have to say, I agree with that cop when she gave Tessie the gun and told her what might happen, back then that was the only way they could protect them selfs.
    First I suspected Regie, she was the most anger of them all and in the flashbacks she was the one heeling to Tessie to kill him. From the five, she was the only one that got pregnant and she really hate her. She was the one that wrote "rapist" in the grave.
    When they started focusing more in Tessie I knew they were close.
    The way this episode ended was the most fair, that kid had what he deserved and Jimmy was only trying to protect his sister.

    I don't think John is going back, Will finally got into his office...

    I liked to see the conflicts between the team, the "no" discussion and others. And I liked when Lilly revealed a bit more about her, about what she has been going through with the nightmares.

    Her decision at the end was the best, that's what I think.
    She just wanted to know that truth... Like they say "The truth will set you free"moreless
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    • There are a couple of inconsistencies regarding the date Mike Delaney was killed. Firstly, he was supposedly shot on the night of his college graduation. According to the title card, the graduation took place May 18, 1982, yet the date on Mike's headstone was May 29, 1982. Secondly, Lilly remarks that the 25th anniversary of his death is coming up. This would date the present-day events in the episode in May 2007, which is out of place considering the picture of the graveyard that Lilly shows one of the suspects is dated November 25, 2007, the air date of this episode.

    • According to the date on the headstone, Mike Delaney was killed on May 29, 1982.

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    • Nick Vera: My point is, sometimes women say 'no' when they don't mean it. Cause if they didn't, they'd be thought of, you know... Kat Miller: Hoes? Will Jeffries: Digging that ditch deeper... Nick Vera: I would never call a woman a ho. All I'm saying is what's a guy to do? Back off at the first no? Human race would go extinct. Kat Miller: No means no! How many ways you need that spelled out? Nick Vera: The name of the game is pursuit. You run, I chase. Kat Miller: You ain't chasing me anywhere.

    • Nick Vera: Sayin' we got a serial rapist? Lilly Rush: Saying we got a new pool of targets. Kat Miller: And any one of them could have killed him.

    • Maggie Lafferty: They didn't even have a name for date rape back then.

    • Nick Vera: Maggie Lafferty! Philly PD. Maggie Lafferty: Would've never guessed; cheap suit and all.

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