TV.com

Cold Case

Shore Leave

Season 6, Episode 5, Aired Oct 26, 2008

Next
Episode Previous
Episode

Episode Summary

EDIT

8.5

EPISODE RATING: Great

92 votes

Your Rating: 10

"Perfect"
Your Rating: 9.5

"Superb"
Your Rating: 9

"Superb"
Your Rating: 8.5

"Great"
Your Rating: 8

"Great"
Your Rating: 7.5

"Good"
Your Rating: 7

"Good"
Your Rating: 6.5

"Fair"
Your Rating: 6

"Fair"
Your Rating: 5.5

"Mediocre"
Your Rating: 5

"Mediocre"
Your Rating: 4.5

"Poor"
Your Rating: 4

"Poor"
Your Rating: 3.5

"Bad"
Your Rating: 3

"Bad"
Your Rating: 2.5

"Terrible"
Your Rating: 2

"Terrible"
Your Rating: 1.5

"Abysmal"
Your Rating: 1

"Abysmal"

Rate Now!

The team re-opens the 1951 case of a marine who went missing and never reported for duty after his shore leave.

WRITE A REVIEW

Cast & Crew

See All EDIT

GUEST STAR
Wilson Bethel

James "Jimmy" Tully
GUEST STAR
Matthew Florida

Max Heidhorn (1951)
GUEST STAR
Luke Askew

Max Heidhorn (2008)

Kathryn Morris

Lilly Rush
Danny Pino

Scotty Valens
John Finn

Lt. John Stillman
Thom Barry

Will Jeffries
Jeremy Ratchford

Nick Vera
Tracie Thoms

Kat Miller (Episodes 3.13+; recurring previously)

Fan Episode Reviews (4)

See All

Really a great episode that had people hooked.

10

"Perfect"

By JPPT1974, Nov 27, 2008

The show made a comeback after the disaterous of the roller skating rink show. About a soldier that went AWOL. But he didn't go AWOL at all. For he was dead and was stuck heartlessly in a drum. Killed on the spot. As his girlfriend, young at the time. Now an old lady, has spent over fifty years looking for the man. And still has a heart for him. The Lt Stillman, himself a veteran. And one of my favorite characters on the show. Next to of course, Lily. He wants to find the killers. And doesn't want justice delayed. For he also has a heart for soldiers. Again a great comeback for Cold Case!moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
0 1

Flag
Share Hide
A Marine goes AOWL after liberty. Only to be found years later in a toxic dumb. Excellent entry in this great series.

10

"Perfect"

By moogy7, Nov 02, 2008

A marine goes awol after liberty and is found some 50 years later in a toxic dump. Encased in a steel drum. His young lady left wondering and waiting on him. Still waiting after 50 years. This was a excellent and heart wrenching episode. Good dialog between the cast with excellent story telling and fine storyline. The marine was shot and stuffed into a drum and hyeartlessly put in a drum. Then into a toxic waste dump. When it comes on again I will watch it again. I watch all of them over and over again. What ever channel they come on.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
1 1

Flag
Share Hide
An Excellent Episode.

9.0

"Superb"

By saleblanc, Oct 27, 2008

This episode had me hooked from the very beginning. I felt from the start that Jimmy didn't desert and that something more tragic happened. How Jimmy's character was written you knew he was a good man and more importantly a good marine. One of the aspects that I loved is being shown what "shore leave" was like at that time. I liked how Lt. Stillman's influence as a veteran came into play when conducting the interviews of the possible suspects. The script was written so that you didn't know until the end exactly what happened. Overall, this is one of my favorites.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
4 1

Flag
Share Hide
A fairly average episode with a workman-like script. There are a few production details I think take away from the storyline

6.0

"Fair"

By Mac-Ale, Oct 27, 2008

An investigation is launched when the body of a Marine due to ship out to Korea in the 1950s is discovered.

There really isn't much of a sense of mystery or twist to the screenplay in this installment, it plays as fairly predictable in its setting and outcome. I do like the sense of time, the elements of romance under the circumstances, and the Marine/Navy rivalries that are brought out.

On the other hand, I think that the drill instructor's character has un-needed detail, and it might have been more intriguing and tragic if he went on to a distinguished career. I also think the mixing of black and white and color is a cheap effect here that adds nothing to the story other than "black and white" means "old". Since "Cold Case" has lots of episodes that don't use black and white, it just seems to set off the flashbacks in this episode as "old enough" without adding any sense of a point to be made.

I also would like this series to once or twice devote a few more minutes to the characterizations before the climax and skip the last five minutes of "music and meaningful looks" between the past and present protagonists.moreless
DO YOU AGREE?
3 8

Flag
Share Hide

WRITE A REVIEW

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

See All

FILTER BY TYPE

TRIVIA (1)
ADD TRIVIA
- PFC James Tully was killed on September 8, 1951.
  EDIT SHARE
QUOTES (7)
ADD QUOTES
- Stillman: Trying to reverse a charge like that with the Military Bureaucracy is like trying to get a battleship to reverse course: slow and unlikely to happen. Lilly: It's our job to see that this Marine gets his honor back.
  EDIT SHARE
- Jeffries: (when Vera staples Jeffries' tie to some papers) Hey, that's my tie! Vera: That's revenge for the decapitation of my best tie last week! Jeffries: What makes you think I had anything to do with that incident? Vera: Oh, don't worry. Your little partner-in-crime, LaBumba? He's going to get his, too. Scotty: What up, fellas? Vera: You tell me, Scotty. (Scotty walks away with a sign on his back that says 'Ask me about Erectile Dysfunction'.)
  EDIT SHARE
- Nora: I lost him ten years ago. Ben was a good man, he was there for me. Kat: Don't make men like they used to.
  EDIT SHARE
- Scotty: I'm done with you, Ray. Either you talk, or a few friends of that cop you swung at are goin' to come in here and tuck ya in for the night.
  EDIT SHARE
- Scotty: We got an eyewitness says you flashed a gun at him Ray: That's interesting. Scotty: Gets better seein' as this Marine got shot. Ray: Well, ain't that what they sign up for?
  EDIT SHARE
- Stillman: (to Chaney as he stands up to walk out of the interrogation room) If you want, we can cuff you to that chair!
  EDIT SHARE
- Stillman: I love the smell of toxic waste in the morning.
  EDIT SHARE
NOTES (2)
ADD NOTES
- International Airdates: - Norway: December 29, 2008 on TVNorge - Denmark: January 10, 2009 on TV3+ - The Netherlands: March 14, 2009 on Net 5 - Czech Republic: April 8, 2009 on TV Nova - Slovakia: December 9, 2009 on Markiza - Turkey: March 18, 2010 on CNBC-e
  EDIT SHARE
- Music Featured in This Episode: - Sound Off by Vaughn Monroe (1951) - If You Turn Me Down by Peggy Lee (1951) - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah by Keely Smith and Louis Prima (1951) - Go, Man, Go by Melvin "Sy" Oliver (?) - Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole (single released in 1950) - Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (single released in 1951) - Taps by The O'Neill Brothers from Celebrate America (2006)
  EDIT SHARE
ALLUSIONS (1)
ADD ALLUSIONS
- Stillman: I love the smell of toxic waste in the morning. This is a play on the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now, starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando.
  EDIT SHARE