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Cold Case

Stand Up and Holler

Season 4, Episode 20, Aired Apr 01, 2007

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The team re-opens the 1997 case of a 16-year-old high school cheerleader when they discover an anonymous confession to the girl's murder.

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Cast & Crew

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Paydin LoPachin

Cheerleader #1 (1997)
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Robin Pearson Rose

Elizabeth Karlsen (2007)
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Jonathon Trent

Joe Vives-Alvarez (1997)

Thom Barry

Det. Will Jeffries
Kathryn Morris

Det. Lilly Rush
John Finn

Lt. John Stillman
Jeremy Ratchford

Det. Nick Vera
Danny Pino

Scotty Valens
Tracie Thoms

Kat Miller (Episodes 3.13+; recurring previously)

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Episde deals with the pecking order among...cheerladers. Never havng gotten within 50 feet of one, I was amazed to learn that the 'pecking' can involve accidental killing, and doing anything to remain, or get into, the in-group. Life itself becomes cheap.moreless

3.3

"Bad"

By dickon01, Nov 21, 2010

I did not grade this episode abysmal, because the acting seemed pretty goood...I just could't believe the things they did and said to each other, although...they seemed to. I suppose it only takes one bad apple to bring out the worst in everyone...the weak, the lonely, the desparate. Had the Top Dog not been purposefully manuipulatng these, the tragedy never woud have happeed.

There's also something important to be larned from this epiode, whether everyone in your school (or workplace, or home) treats everyoe else like a human being or not...you can OD on ANYTHING. It does not have to have the reputation as a poison. It can be known for..something entirely dfferent.

Asperin, for intance....yeah, I know: it wasn't asperin.moreless
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Rainey Karlsen and her friend wanted to join the varsity cheerleading squad to be popular. They made it, but Rainey got the bad end of the deal when in the end she was killed. mainly as a result of peer preesure.moreless

9.5

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By detroitgirlbj, Nov 21, 2010

This episode shows the lengths high-schoolers will go to just to be popular. Perhaps if Rainey Karlsen acted like herself she would not have made the squad. Yet, at the same time maybe she would have. With this episode you can see many examples of peer pressure. From the locker room scene to the scenes in the classroom. This episode show one of the reasons why I watch this show. Drama.moreless
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2.0

"Terrible"

By thefanof, Nov 21, 2010

TNT has been airing lots of Cold Case during the afternoon, so it was inevitable that you would eventually come across this when flipping through the channels on a summer afternoon.

But Cold Case is just a really bad show. Both of my parents loved it, and I honestly have no idea why. I guess it was a mildly clever concept in the beginning with the flashbacks, but once Lost started to use them it was game over.

This featured an early appearance by Annalynne McCord who would go on to "act" in the CW's reboot of 90201. She was awful here and awful on that.moreless
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Not my favorite episode, I really liked the Offender a lot better. But as usual, I enjoyed the team work and especially Nick (Jeremy) : I loved the picture of him back in HS !moreless

7.5

"Good"

By NellaGene, Nov 11, 2008

Not my favorite episode, I really liked the Offender a lot better. I've seen these shows before but they're on our national tv now in France so I enjoy watching them again. The actors did a good job though but the storyline about cheerleaders, it was probably the first episode not to get an amazing review here, probably because we don't have cheerleaders down here, so people don't understand the pressure. But as usual, I enjoyed the team work and especially Nick (Jeremy) : I loved the picture of him back in HS ! He was really cute. Everyone loves him down here.moreless
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When a confession is found on a note in an art gallery to the murder of a girl in 1997. The team re-opens the case of the murdered cheerleader, Rainey.

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"Great"

By luckydagangsta, Jun 19, 2008

Rainey Karlsen finally got what she wanted: to be on the varsity cheerleading squad, to hang out with the popular kids. But not long after becoming their friend she realizes they're not true friends afterall. She's found dead in 1997 on the football field of an overdose of GHB.

I was wondering when Cold Case was going to get around to doing a high school episode (Sleepover doesn't count since that was in junior high, although they are somewhat similar). I mean, with all of the viciousness that goes on with social circles in high school, they could make like a dozen of these episodes and still be radically different from one another.

For a high school episode I thought it was pretty well done. It held most of the basics that you would expect from such an episode. The plot was good and it was well written, although quite predictable.moreless
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- Nitpick: The reunion in the episode does not fit the timeline. The start of the school year is in September 1997, which means that seniors like Becca and Casey would graduate in the summer of 1998. Yet their ten year reunion is for the class of 1997. Celeste, like Rainey, is a junior in the beginning of the episode, so she wouldn't graduate until 1999. Yet she's at the reunion, too.
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- Rainey Karlsen died in September 1997.
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QUOTES (8)
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- Nick Vera: Popular, pretty, lots of friends... Who'd want to kill someone like that? Kat Miller: I would. (Nick and Lilly look at her.) Lilly Rush: High school.
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- Lilly Rush: (echoing Becca's words) Don't move a muscle... bitch.
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- Becca: This is a special night for me. It's my ten-year reunion! Can't your stupid investigation wait until tomorrow?
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- Kat Miller: Joe did a lot of drawing on his desk? Coach Pruitt: Yeah, the kid fancied himself an angst-ridden Picasso. Will Jeffries: You still have that desk? Coach Pruitt: Is this a public school?
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- Casey Kale: Those date rape charges were dropped. You're not supposed to ask me about that. John Stillman: We'll ask whatever we damn want, Casey. Lilly Rush: You got a real problem with keeping that thing in your pants, huh?
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- Becca: So, I'm like, "Mom, that's totally unfair. Why can't I have a Beemer and a boob job?" My parents just like to deny me things. Rainey: So, your parents would actually let you get a boob job? Becca: As long as I ask during cocktail hour.
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- Celeste Church: The cheerleading squad was a shark tank. Everyone out for blood. Nick Vera: Sounds like Becca was the great white.
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- Kat Miller: Who were you in high school, Lil? Lilly Rush: Definitely not the cheerleader. Kat Miller: Bad girl no one would mess with? Lilly Rush: You could say that... Nick Vera: You too, Miller? Looked at you the wrong way, you'd get popped in the mouth? Kat Miller: Who says you still won't?
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NOTES (5)
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- International Airdates: - Denmark: May 2, 2007 on TV3+ - Norway: June 13, 2007 on TVNorge
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- Music Featured in This Episode: - Plowed by Sponge - Wannabe by Spice Girls - Something's Always Wrong by Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life by Toad the Wet Sprocket - Doll Parts by Hole - High and Dry by Radiohead
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- Adam LaVorgna, who plays the present-day Joe, is only three years older than Jonathon Trent, the 1997 Joe.
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- The CBS press release for this episode has Becca's last name listed as Crossan. In the episode, Celeste says her last name is Abrams.
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- This episode aired at 10 p.m. instead of the show's regular timeslot an hour earlier. The 9 p.m. slot was exceptionally occupied by the second leg of a double-episode event of The Amazing Race: All Stars.
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- Celeste Church: Frenemies. Exactly. The word frenemy refers to a person that is both a friend and a rival (an enemy) at the same time. It was popularized in the title of episode 3-16: Frenemies of the show Sex and the City. The expression was also used by Lacey Chabert's character in the 2004 movie Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.
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- The art exhibit where visitors write down secrets and put them on the wall is similar to the Post Secret community art project, a web site that features anonymous secrets mailed in on postcards.
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