Cold Case

In the real world:

A young lady enters the police station, goes right to the detectives and says:

- You know, my grandma just died and she was always curious to know who killed his aunt.

- You mean, somebody killed your grandmother's aunt?

- Yep. In 1919.

- In 1919?????

- Yes.

- Lady, you realize we are in 2007, right?

- Yes.

- And that all the people involved in the murder is dead?

- Yes.

- And you know that dead people can't go to jail.

- Yes.

- And, even more, they can't be sentenced to death, haw haw.

- Yes, I know.

- And you still want us to solve your great great aunt murder?

- Yes. My granny always wanted to know who killed her aunt and I think it's a great way to honor her memory if I solve the mistery.

- Lady, we are working here. Get a private detective or a shrink. Don't use taxpayers' money for your personal issues.



In this episode

A young lady enters the police station, goes right to the detectives and says:

- You know, my grandma just died and she was always curious to know who killed his aunt.

- You mean, somebody killed your grandmother's aunt?

- Yep. In 1919.

- Holy cow, Batman, this is a really cold case!

- You're right, Girl Wonder, we have a chilling mistery. To the bat-tubes!



Please!

And there are episodes of Scooby Doo where Shaggy and the gang get it harder to find the clues, here all the evidence is in plain sight! Do you need Homicide Detectives to tidy up your granny's attic?



In this episode we are supposed to believe that in the social pages of a 1919 newspaper there is a photo depicting a maid with a black eye. A maid! The whole episode is about the low role of women in 1919 society and we are supposed to believe that a lower class woman would appear in the social pages. And clearly showing a black eye. Yeah, right.



And the rest of the "clues" are as absurd as this. But the cherry in the top of this clumsy cake is when Scotty looks in the bookshelf and says "Look at this! A phonograph record! And it says 'I killed my daughter - by Mommy Richest'" (well, it's not the actual quote, but it was close).

C'mon! Are we supposed to believe that in almost 100 years NOBODY saw that phonograph record?



I can't see the point of the episode. If it was a feminist statement is a lame one (it reminded me the Virginia Slims commercials of the 70s).

Character development? Zilch. The closest thing to this was when they say that Kat is the second female detective and she makes a gesture as saying "finally they noticed that single moms are women!"



I can't understand why this episode. Really.

I can't figure out how Francis Stone is Emma Stone's great great aunt. Francis would have to emma's grandmother's aunt, but in the show Francis didn't have any brothers.I have this show taped and i watch it over and over again. I really do love this episode. The further cold case goes back the better I like it. It just bugs me because I can't figure out how they got this great great aunt when Francis didn't have any brothers. I love Alice Harris the way they taped the interview with her. It would have been nice if they did tell what happen to fillipa and who found Francis.

The show should stick to the investigative aspects of a mystery, rather then delving into politics in an inept way. The resolution of this case is so unrealistic, it is laughable. I assumed that they were going to make it so that the older lady who had been 7 years old in 1919 had been an eyewitness to the murder. That would have made sense. Whoever wrote this was obviously pushing their own agenda and was more interested in that than in writing a decent episode. It is like viewing the women's movement through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl. For one thing, a false dichotomy is set up between enjoying being a wife & mother, and wanting to participate in politics or the wider world. The character Frances screams at her mother that the mother's life is not enough and is empty and meaningless. Fortunately, back here in the real world, a woman can enjoy the right to vote and to participate in politics, without having to feel like motherhood is evil. When they show Nancy Pelosi on TV at the end, as if that symbolizes something, the agenda is made clear. If Pelosi is the best example they can come up with of a successful female politician, then the women's political movement certainly has failed!

Francis Stone was a wealthy young woman who at first is happy to play the role of housewife. Until she meets Alice, leader of the Philadelphia suffragette movement. When she starts fighting for woman's right to vote, enemies begin to pile up. In 1919, she was thrown off the top of the stairs.



I tried to like this episode. I really did. Normally I enjoy the episodes that take place in the past, the farther back the better. I especially enjoyed seeing how things were so different, but this episode was just too unrealistic to bear.



I mean, all Cold Case episodes rely on people's stories and in the end the murderer or the witness to the murder's confession. Some of the other Cold Case episodes that are based this far back in the past I'd believe, but this one just takes the cake. All of the pieces to the puzzle was the woman's home to begin with, all she had to do was go through the stuff. She basically got the detectives on the job to clean up the house for her.

I like the story though there is some public announcement dialogue particular with that 95 year old woman "about woman having it hard then then now and why they should vote." Really, you still got a little defensive about your mom and the murder victim being lovers. Tried to go backhand compliment with the bad man your mom chose and prefered her. Ah, Please. With that aside, it was a good story. I thought it was convenient that a record confessing the murder was found in good condition. Also to record a disk confessing murder, you would have to speak loudly and get somebody to record it. I wish they would shown how the mother did that. Telling portion was Meredith Baxter Birney character drinking when those suffragetes were against booze. You look a great women in history, they needed a man solidify their place in history or be dismissed as lesbians, bisexuals, or some unnatural sex fiend, celibate or promiscuous.

I'm all for cold cases being solved and belated justice being handed out, but this episode was just plain silly. Since the murder happened in 1919, all of the main characters were now dead. So when they finally found out who killed the victim, nothing happened, there was no arrest, because the murderer was long dead!! This episode was just full of flashbacks and sitting with an old lady shooting the breeze and cackling at her memories.



I'm surprised I had the patience to watch it right to the very end. I recommend you give this episode a miss and watch something better.

The case really was good, showing the flashbacks in a way that the old silent movies were and slides in someway. I must say that Kathryn Morris did an outstanding job showing Lilly emotion's without letting it be the basics of the whole show. I liked for once she didn't play victim and instead it was her mother. Both Kathryn Morris and Mereridth Baxter were really good in this episode. It was really shows that something don't change. I like the ending a lot showing that Lilly and Frances looking at each other and how much has changed for woman,that they can have all.

A close look at this episode clearly shows that women haven't won the war yet. It was wonderful to see Meredith Baxter playing the role of Lilly's alcoholic mother who thinks her life is only of value if she is attached to a man. Baxter who hasn't been seen very much in tv or movies because she's too old now! Also interesting that Katheryn Morris is no longer allowed by the show to wear her hair up because she looks more "sexy" with long hair. Ugh! The times they haven't changed all that much. I suppose we should be thankful that this show is allowed to be on tv at all.

The oldest case the team has to investigate involves a

Young lady with women's rights issues now found dead as

It will be pretty hard to find people still living since

1919. Meanwhile, Lily has a crisis of her own with her

Own mom that she has been estranged from. As her own

Mom tries to shut her out of her own life. Very sad.

I liked the coincidence aspect of this episode. A Women's Studies professor mentions Lilly Rush in her class as an example of a woman with a "nontraditional" career, which inspires a student, Emma Stone, to contact Lilly about the 1919 death of her great-great-grandmother, who it turns out was a very "nontraditional" woman herself. Obviously Lilly has a very different life from Francis, the victim; Francis lived in a world where women couldn't vote and usually didn't have the option to go to university or go to work, where it was unheard of for a man to get arrested for hitting his wife, and where women were expected to be "domestic angels." But Lilly ends up relating to Francis because they both have conflicts with their mothers and also because Lilly knows that chauvinism still exists. I also really liked the part when Janice Warner says, "If women today knew what women back then had to go through, they wouldn't take the vote for granted." I agree with her.