Cold Case

I'm a huge fan of "Cold Case" since I starded watching it in the summer of 2004. I'm watching the 5th season nowadays but I think if I had to choose only one episode, maybe I would chose this one. Ok, it was clear that nothing was going to hapen to Lilly, but what a nerve-wracking hour I spent when I watch this for the first time. on "Mindhunters" they couldn't catch George but this time he was not going to runaway after what he did. Kathryn Morris did an incredible performance in this episode. I loved the last shot, when The Who's "Behing Blue Eyes" sounds and we see the fragile child Lilly who becomes the strong adult Lilly.

It was nice to see the case of the hunter finally coming to a close. The Mind Hunter episode was one of the ones I felt the most emotion for. I really wanted to see them put that guy to rest.



Although, the episode was different than most Cold Case episodes. It seemed they really wanted to add some extra action and scare you a little with this episode for May's sweeps. It was a bit too over-dramatic for my tastes. I thought it was kind of annoying. It's not what Cold Case is about, but it was kind of pleasant to see Lilly get into a tough spot. Just because she works cold cases doesn't mean she doesn't have to face trouble. At least that's what this episode was saying.



I think overall though, it was a good episode, albeit a bit over the top. But you should definitely check it out if you enjoyed the Mind Hunters episode.

The serial killer guy in the episode (George) is really creepy. His voice, his looks & his behaviour gave me chills (means he was a good actor). We learn from his childhood what drove him to brutally kill his female victims. We also learn what his mother was like & how that made him who he is. Through conversations with Lilly & an inmate the team is given hints that they must figure out before it is too late. The scenes were dark & the music fit the mood. We see a vulnerable emotional side to Lilly that we've naver seen before. Excellent acting. A really great ending to season 2.

A somewhat dark and sinister episode which revolves around a man named George - someone who has already once been a suspect in one of the earlier episodes of Cold Case.



George lost his mother as a young boy and the murder of his mother is yet to be solved. George clearly was a troubled person already as a young boy as it is revealed that he in fact was the one who pulled the trigger and killed his mother. Later in life George tried to relive that moment of murdering his mother by finding new victims. Finally he spots Rush and picks her as his next victim. The story gets interesting as George gets Rush to open up and tell about her past. She didn't have a happy childhood either...

I actually didn't see part one of this episode until last night. I love Cold Case, but it is on Sunday Nights at 7:00 and for a while I was working 3-11. I would tape almost all of them, but I must have missed the first half of this one.



I did enjoy both halves of the episode. It kind of creeped me out how much he (Billingsely) knew about everybody else. The way he was saying that Lily was "just like him" was compelling.



The thing I like most, as has been brought up by others, is that I hate cliffhangers, and this didn't end with one. I had just watched "Crossing Jordan" and here Woody lays in a Hospital bed. I was so afraid, when I heard the shots that were fired at the end of Cold Case, that they would roll the credits without showing who got shot. Fortunately, they did it right.



Excelent job. Excelent show. Excelent series.

In the second season final, the shows brings up a pervious story ark, the serial killer, George Marks, the one that got away from them a couple mouths ago and ending it a clear manner. This episode clearly demonstrates what the Cold Case series’ writers can do for the fans of the show. By bring up digging up story arks over the past year.



While I knew that George Marks would be back, because he was the one case that got away from them, but I didn’t know that the turn around would be so fast, that it would occurred in the same season. Because most of the time when a story ark starts in one season is normally continued or ended in the next series of seasons. This is why this episode is so great and pivotal because it breaks with a traditional way of doing story arks, being and ending in the same season. What makes story arks so great in story telling is the fact that the episode can’t waste time in telling the viewer what had happen, because the viewer is already inform of what happen before. So it can jump right into the action and this is what this episode did.



With the first scene where the skulls are found in the dirt everybody knew who what this episode was all about, George Marks. Unlike the first episode that he appears, Mind Hunters, which was more about his victims, this episode is clearly about him and his past and what had happen to him when he was a child. Watching it you could see what had happen to him and what had turned him into a serial killer, a Mother that had locked him up in a dark room where his only connection to the outside world was a flashlight to another bedroom of another child. A Mother who did nothing to stop him from being rapped, you could feel why he acts they way he did when he grew up.



And while learning about his past was interesting, he were also learned about Lily Rush as well, a piece of her past, the a part of her past that was only quickly hinted in Mind Hunters was fully explained, that she herself was a victim of violet and innocent robbing crime, while not as evil as the one that had happen to George when he was a child, but it still was an innocent robbing type of crime. A good reason why George thought that she was a kindred sprit, a person that could understand his quandary and it turned out that Lily wasn’t like that at.



This diversion of options between the two of them resulted into the conformation between the two of them and proved to be a nerve-wracking experience to watch. As the two of them one-up each other, trying to get the upper hand on each other, praying on what had happen to each other in their past. During this, we also learned what of might of happen to Scotty Valens’s girlfriend, that George might of killed her as well. While they are doing this they are also upping the dangers for each one of them and you got the feel that this could possibly be the last of Lily Rush, but it wasn’t.



While seeing a serial killer get what he deserves is both satisfying and upsetting, because he will know that he wouldn’t be hutting anybody else, but won’t know the entire story of why he did what he did. It is their type of unanswered questions that make you feel empty, that while George did get what he deserved, he still had the last laugh at all of them. That the secrets that he had, if there were other victims, went along with him to the grave.

Cold Case has been an excellent series throughout these two seasons. We have seen different types of homicides and stories. I, personally regret missing some season 2 episodes, because Its worth staying up late to watch the show. Just to Clarify, I live in Colombia, so I watch the series through Warner Channel, at 11 pm, on Wednesdays.



Anyway, this episode has revealed a big part of Rush's past, but not using it to fill the whole chapter. They brought back George, to hunt Lily, and to finally receive what he deserves. I really didnt quite understand why those heads were looking at the Atic, or why his mother was so mentally ill, but I did understand George's psychology, and why he killed in that strange way. This, and the Kid in the Box case, are in my opinion, the best that Cold Case has produced. If anyone that works or helps producing this series reads this, Congratulations for such an excelent job. It is really a Masterpiece.

What a great season finale. It was kind of discomforting to see John Billingsley as a serial killer instead of the big smilin' Dr Phlox on Enteprrise.



I know there was never ever any real chance that Lily would die, but the suspension was getting to me. This was a great episode. The revelation that the mother was blind only because she told herself she was, that the intruder actually raped the boy, and that Lily was beaten as a child running a midnight errand for her mother...



Just oustanding. I loved the little touch of the notches on the wall at the top of the steps. I didn't know what they meant until the detectives discovered that the evil mother was blind.

This was a very moving episode as we learned something about Lilly’s background. I found the scenes with young George and his mother very disturbing to watch, but well written and acted. I was glad to see they didn’t end it with a cliffhanger.

I am certainly looking forward to the third season.

I thought that the finale of Cold Case had a very emotional, if not tearjerking end to their second season. A very revealing look into Lily's past coupled by the return of George, plus the nerve wracking shootout, this series compiled a wonderful episode. I loved the way this show portrayed such a sensitive issue. Great job.