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Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990s, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.
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  • After a kid finds a "murder journal" on a computer, the team investigates the murder discribed in the notes.

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    By luckydagangsta, Aug 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Amy was a smart 20 something woman who co-owned a website, for a brief amount of time that website made her a millionaire. Not long after losing those millions to bad business decisions, the perfectly healthy woman dies of a heart attack while rowing.

    This episode as so far been one of the worst I've wtached. It was just so boring and it never picked up once for me during it's whole 40 minutes of run time. It was all about Amy's internet business. Maybe if I had any interest at all in business, I'd be interested, but I don't so I wasn't.

    All it really showed about her personality was that she was that her business was very important to her and she'd do nothing to screw it up. That just wasn't enough for me to care about her. It wasn't sad until the very end, when it shows her receiving the poison.

    Unless your big on business, skip this one. You won't miss much.moreless

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    By Malora, Aug 24, 2006 Report Abuse
    The problem with crime dramas is that it gets harder and harder to come up with new storylines. This one, poisoned for protection has been used many times but the inventive part this week used the dot com boom of 1999 to make the story. The thing about cold case the glimpse into the past it gives and how it leads to the present. It also has an advantage over other crime dramas as the past can be intriguing as the present. The perils of the business, all the insider trading was not very well explained and the early hoaxes like the system designer were obvious, although I felt the victim was too harsh with him, she could have told him that they were'nt taking partners right then but if and whne they did he would have been first in line. The venture capitalist was clearly not a nice person from the start and his involvement was somewhat obvious. Still the eventual conclusion was satisfactory.moreless

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  • Ok definitly not one of the best episodes but I did like the little jabs at Liily.

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    By Femvamp, Nov 14, 2005 Report Abuse
    This wasn't one of the best episodes ever but the little jabs at Lilly were fun. The plot was mostly predictable but some of the dialog was nice. Both Lilly her partner (keep forgetting his name) had great character moments. All in all its gets my better then most but not the best vote.

    Basic plot: 2 business grads (1 boy 1 girl) get backing for there dot com venture. Then the girl ends up dead. Lilly and co discover that the boy made some very bad business decisions one of which was getting talked into killing the girl to avoid doing jailtime for short selling stock.

    Like I said predictable but I still say watch the ep for the Lilly jabs. Tee hee cats......moreless

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  • Good episode but predictable.

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    By angelspinknose, Nov 14, 2005 Report Abuse
    I knew the secretary had something to do with the murder but I figured she did it. I didn't suspect her partner to have the guts. The programmer guy having a crush on her was a surprise. I figured he really did hate her. He saved himself millions. Good try.

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    • Malvinder says his marriage was arranged and Det. Valens asks if "they're still doing that". Actually, the majority of marriages in India are arranged. Marriages based on romance ("love matches") do exist in India, but they are controversial in many areas. Edit
    • Nitpick: They asked the venture capitalist if he was worried about "all the millions he put in". He said no, that the venture capital business was all about risk. However: 1) He only put up one million; by the time they needed further funding, they were ready for the IPO. 2) The venture capital would almost certainly have been recovered from the sale of a chunk of his stock as soon as the IPO was complete -- that's how most venture capital funders work. Edit
    • When shifting through the financial records, Det. Jeffries remarks "This is worse than those poems last year." This is possibly a reference to episode 2-22: Best Friends. Edit

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    • Geraldine: Coffee or tea, sir? Det. Vera: (looking amused) Sir! Edit
    • Det. Scotty Valens: Did she have enemies? Scott: Yeah. We called them employees. Edit
    • Det. Nick Vera: 24 is pretty young to have a bad ticker. Det. Scottie Valens: I guess it happens, but so does poison. Edit

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    • Out of Africa The book Malvinder gives to Amy is Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (written under the penname Isak Dinesen). The book is an autobiographical work about her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya. Edit

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