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Cold Case

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Cold Case	comment	A cold case is a criminal investigation that has been rendered inactive and unsolved due to a lack of evidence, witnesses, or suspects to form a solid lead. When new evidence does show up, it's a long, difficult, and painful process to peel back the layers of dust covering it and try to put the new lead into context with what's already known about the case, and where that may lead, no one knows.This is the basis of Cold Case (2003-2010), a Jerry Bruckheimer-created crime drama that forms one corner of his crime drama trifecta (along with CSI and Without a Trace, both of which had crossovers with the show note actually it was CSI:NY, not the mothership). Far less science or legalese-absorbed than the other Bruckheimer-verse installments, Cold Case instead focuses on the human aspect of a crime, and how the victims, witnesses, and criminals are affected by the crime both at the time of its commission and in the years afterwards.One of the most interesting aspects of the show was that each episode played out as a Period Piece, as the bulk of the story is told through flashbacks strongly reflecting the time when the crime was committed and the culture surrounding those involved. For instance, the Flashback Effects are In the Style of a prominent cinematic and audio style of each period- the story of a young man from the wrong side of the tracks in the 70's resembles a grindhouse flick, the story of a conflicted teen in the 80's recalls the look and sound of Degrassi Junior High. The music for each episode was of course a Nothing but Hits medley of that period's music (though credit is due for scrounging up some obscure hits from time to time). Timeshifted Actors are employed to strong effect, juxtaposed with their future/present-day selves, showing how the effects of a crime can ripple through decades and generations. Also expect a bit of a history lesson with each episode, as a great many of the cases have something to do with something historically significant at the time (for instance, the oldest case deals with women's suffrage). It's also brutal about "The Good Old Days", blatantly showing them to be every bit as bad (or worse) than present day. Expect at least two or three episodes a season to deal with themes of racism or homophobia.The emotionally-driven nature of the show means that it will most likely not interest those interested in the "hard science" of crime solving. However, it is, in general, well done and more suited to those looking for something more emotionally-involving.Based on the A&E reality show Cold Case Files and many suspect also the Canadian series, Cold Squad. In 2016 a remake titled ''Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira" aired in Japan, with each episode based directly on episodes from the original American show with three seasons already airing there. Specifically"Blank Generation", "Fly Away", "Discretion", "Mind Hunters", "The Plan", "The Sleepover", "The Letter", "Resolutions", "Boy In The Box", and "The Woods".
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Cold Case / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Cold Case / int_1036c075	comment	Forceful Kiss: In "Superstar", "Roller Girl" and "Almost Paradise". Doesn't end well for the girls.
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Cold Case / int_1078bba8	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
Cold Case / int_1078bba8	comment	"Mister Sandman" Sequence: The flashbacks will often feature a nearly perfect representation of the era in question—hair, clothes, fads, music, social issues—the whole works.
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Cold Case / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Cold Case / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Particularly Lilly, who many characters consider extremely attractive. More than once somebody's wondered if she got her position by sleeping with someone (she didn't).
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Cold Case / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
Cold Case / int_113472aa	comment	Miles Gloriosus: "Honor" has a downplayed example where Ken claims he was a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, despite the fact he had a nervous breakdown before he even had a chance to go. Deconstructed when he borrows Carl's identity as a POW. The realistic outcome happens when Stillman not only finds out, but shames him for his lies. The killers in "Glory Days" and "Forensics". They go on endlessly about their past as a college football player and championship debater, respectively. The former was a bench warmer while the latter blew the final competition and blamed it on his partner. In both cases, the reason they killed the Victim of the Week was because they snapped when the victims not only called them out for being phonies, they told the killers that everyone else already knew as well.
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Cold Case / int_11af5b9f	type	Funeral Banishment
Cold Case / int_11af5b9f	comment	Funeral Banishment: In "Honor", a 1970s former POW returns home after five years of imprisonment during the Vietnam War. Due to the circumstances of his detainment (where he was forced to disavow his country and his fellow troops to stop his torment and go home), he is shunned when he tries to attend the funeral of his best friend, another servicemen whose death several of his fellow soldiers and former friends blame him for. He winds up accidentally killed by the man's teenage son.
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Cold Case / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Cold Case / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: When you sum up everything she did, the killer in "Blood on the Tracks" is this - she even admits to it when confronted by Lilly. The victim in "Justice" is a serial date rapist who exploits the lax laws regarding date rape to repeatedly perpetuate the crimes, pees himself when several of his former victims confront him at gunpoint, and then acts unapologetic and unrepentant about his actions once they leave. The detectives become so repulsed by what they learn of him that they actually tell the killer what to say in court to defend himself. The spoiled rich kid and one of the killers in "8:03 AM". While the other killer could be seen as somewhat sympathetic, this kid is nothing more than a Smug Snake who feels that, because his father is rich, he can get away with anything. Yet, he starts bawling the moment he finds out that that isnâ€™t the case.
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Cold Case / int_125f3ee4	type	Cannot Keep a Secret
Cold Case / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: Tina Bream tells her sister and drug addict brother-in-law about her husbandâ€™s bearer-bonds. She later tells him about the police sting operation. Both of these cause her sonâ€™s kidnapping and prevent them from retrieving him.
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Cold Case / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Cold Case / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In "One Fall", the two chief suspects are totally not Vince McMahon and Ric Flair. Possibly a Take That! since WWE exists in the Cold Case universe. "Soul" is clearly based off of Marvin Gaye; a young and gifted Black musician with substance abuse issues clashing with both a powerful and egotistical record producer and his strict reverend father who disapproves of his genre of music/lifestyle and who has a brother in the Vietnam War.
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Cold Case / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Cold Case / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Some episodes feature characters who are Obviously Evil (and played by big name actors) as a way to mislead the viewers into believing they are the killers.
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Cold Case / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Cold Case / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD / Heroic Willpower: The father in "Family 8108" goes through this after his son dies. It's made all the more obvious due to the fact that he endures all of the hardships of World War II-era Japanese citizens, but he can't cope with knowing that his son died while they were still mad at each other. He bounces right back up the moment he finds out that wasnâ€™t true.
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Cold Case / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Cold Case / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: The victim (and Serial Killer partner) in "Lonely Hearts", thinking she's outlived her usefulness, attempts to join forces with another woman he's conned and kill him. Unfortunately, the woman is in love with the killer still, and ends up shooting the other woman In the Back. The murdered suffragette in "Torn" is coerced into betraying her friends and decides to try to rejoin them. She is instead accidentally killed by her mother. The killer from "Boy Crazy" abandons the victim, a girl who looks like a boy, after she kissed him, because he doesn't want anyone to think he's gay. He tries to break her out of a mental institution but he is too late; they have already tampered with her brain, leaving her half-dead. All he can do is finish her off.
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Cold Case / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Cold Case / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: A number of episodes are based on real life cases, and many others, while not referencing a specific case, do reference the hot-button social issues of the time — the AIDs crisis, the Vietnam War, Women's liberation, the dot-com bubble, The Space Race and so on. Has its own page.
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Cold Case / int_17122cfd	type	Put on a Prison Bus
Cold Case / int_17122cfd	comment	Put on a Prison Bus: An integral part of every single episode is the killer being arrested for their crimes and taken away. Trials are never shown, nor is it discussed what's going to happen to any of them in prison - presuming they make it that far. There are a couple of exceptions in the over 150 episodes, including "Mindhunters" (which ends with the killer walking free), "A Perfect Day" (where the killer was already dead so Stillman had to do a replacement by having his photograph taken down); and "Torn" (where every single character except the maid's daughter has already died so there's nobody to arrest). Every other episode follows the pattern. There are also semi examples that play with the formula, like in "The Road" where the killer is arrested at the beginning of the episode, so it couldn't technically happen at the end of the episode, but it does end with the police taking him into custody.
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Cold Case / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Cold Case / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: George "Tinkerbell" Polk in "A Time to Hate" was a drag queen singer in the 60s and still cross-dresses with pride, and provides the detectives with helpful tips.
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Cold Case / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Cold Case / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: The victim in "Shuffle, Ball Change" is one. Subverted in that he actually does get his father's approval, but is killed before the man can tell him. This is also the motivation of his older brother, the killer. The son of the victim in "Dead Heat" is one. He finds out his father really loves him only after he finds out his father'd taken out a life insurance policy on him. Shame he'd already killed his old man by then.
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Cold Case / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Cold Case / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "One Fall": The victim, a dock worker who moonlights as a wrestler until he gets shot in 1986, complains to the promoter about going through a table. This was NOT common in pro wrestling in 1986.note Randy Savage had piledriven Ricky Morton through one in Memphis in 1984. Yes, Terry Funk did the same to Ric Flair in 1989, but it would take Sabu and ECW to really popularize the use of tables.
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Cold Case / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
Cold Case / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Occurs only rarely, as in "Jackals", "Wishing" and "Libertyville". We see the aftermath with their bodies being discovered, but do not actually see their last moments alive (although the former was quite haunting, as we can still hear her loud, anguished screams as she's being stabbed.)
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Cold Case / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Cold Case / int_18d15922	comment	"Glory Days" and "Forensics" also end rather similarly, with a student being murdered by a teacher after confronting them with both their own wrongdoing and the fact that their glory days at school were in reality anything but.
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Cold Case / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
Cold Case / int_18e11001	comment	Victim of the Week: Each episode focuses on a certain unsolved case, often with the personality and situation of the victim explored in great detail.
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Cold Case / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Cold Case / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: The victim from "Read Between The Lines" beats a guy in a freestyle rap battle and he becomes her mentor.
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Cold Case / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Cold Case / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: John Stillman, the Benevolent Boss to the unit, who will take care of all of them when they need him. Lt. Brown from "The Red and The Blue" is even more of an example. His detectives all call him "Big Daddy" and Rush and Valens are encouraged to as well. They are initially hesitant to do so, but later he addresses Rush as "Little Sister" and she calls him "Big Daddy" without missing a beat.
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Cold Case / int_1a920604	type	Twirl of Love
Cold Case / int_1a920604	comment	Twirl of Love: In the episode "The Road", when the victim is reunited with her fiancÃ© after she's found alive by Lilly, he greets her with one of these — set to the strains of OneRepublic's "Come Home". It's adorable.
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Cold Case / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Cold Case / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Anton the hunky orderly in "Committed". It doesn't end well for him; he's blackmailed into murdering someone with a threat of being framed for attempted rape, when in reality the women are very, very happy to partake in his hotness.
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Cold Case / int_1c2b6ac8	type	Soft Water
Cold Case / int_1c2b6ac8	comment	Soft Water: Subverted in "A Perfect Day". The victim's skeleton is shown to have multiple fractures as a result of her being thrown off a bridge by her father. Well, besides the broken arm he had already given her. Averted in "War at Home". The victim falls off a bridge into the water and never surfaces.
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Cold Case / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Cold Case / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: The victim in "Bad Reputation", who is just trying to clean up his act and be a good father to his estranged son after getting out of jail. Played with due to the fact that he is specifically rejected because he had reformed. The victim in "Lonely Hearts" is the former partner of a Serial Killer who tries to make things right after realizing she'd outlived her usefulness and is next on his list. She gets killed in the process.
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Cold Case / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Cold Case / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Scotty has known his ill-fated fiancÃ©e since they were kids. Lilly and her Old Flame Ray were also revealed to be Childhood Friends before running (or rather biking) away together when she was 19.
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Cold Case / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Cold Case / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: The killer in "One Small Step". He is a rich kid who only recruits the victim because of the boy's technical know-how. Unfortunately, as time passes, his flunkies look towards the victim as the leader after the kid faces down and injures the psychopathic older brother of one of them and manages to talk the curmudgeonly junk yard dealer into giving them rocket fuel. When the killer fails to make a jump due to fear, the victim tries to save his life; this causes the killer to snap and lash out in shame. It's so strong that even 40 years later, the team is able to goad him into confessing by exploiting that jealousy. Hilary in "The Goodbye Room", a teenage girl who has just given birth and is trying to run away from the convent where they are going to give her daughter up for adoption, is killed by one of her fellow teen moms both out of jealousy because the girl had to give up her baby and Hilary didn't, and a delusion that Hilary was taking the other mother's child. Phoebe in "Triple Threat", who poisoned Nadia, a talented student singer, simply because she thought Nadia was getting more attention from the male teacher the former liked. Though her envy of Nadia's musical skills was also a factor. Daniel in "Slipping" became jealous of his wife's writing skills so he resorted to gaslighting to drive her mad, eventually murdering her and staging it to appear to be suicide. He then stole her notes and published the book she was writing as his own. His accomplice, their housekeeper, was also jealous of the victim's beauty and marriage to Daniel, wanting to take her place as his wife. Betty in "Pin Up Girl" resented that despite their similar backgrounds, her best friend Rita went on to have a successful career as a cover girl who was loved and admired by everyone. Meanwhile, Betty worked under her and moonlighted as a stripper to support herself and her deadbeat father, refusing any help from Rita out of pride. The boiling point was when she had a failed date with a jerk who was only using her to get Rita's autograph. A drunken Betty then visited Rita, who revealed she was quitting modeling to pursue photography. Enraged at Rita getting another opportunity while she was stuck in her friend's shadow, Betty shot her. Lyle in "Willkommen", who served as the music director to a local production of Cabaret, became jealous of the lead actor after being told that there is a talent scout in the audience. He then murdered the lead actor between breaks, believing that he would serve as the replacement actor and get noticed by the talent scout, whose presence was actually a lie made by the director. Ryan in "The Thin Blue Line" and "Into the Blue" has been outshined by Kate, the sole female cadet, earning him the Embarrassing Nickname "Riana" and humiliation from fellow cadets and the Drill Sergeant Nasty. He accidentally knocked out and killed Kate in a fit of anger.
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Cold Case / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Cold Case / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Played with in "Cargo", as even though the girl isnâ€™t his child, the victim sees her as family and does everything he can to save her, even selling his own home to buy her freedom. The younger brother of the killer in "Sabotage". The police have to physically hold him back when he thinks his brother has killed his wife and daughter. Both the killer and the victim in "Witness Protection". The killer comes to the victim's house looking for his teenage daughter, who is dating the victim's son; the victim doesn't want the killer around his son while he's so agitated, and refuses to let the killer talk to him for that reason.
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Cold Case / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Cold Case / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Many of the murders are played this way. "Shuffle, Ball Change", "Triple Threat", "The Letter", and "Almost Paradise" are all rather cruel, but the most bloodcurdling one of all was probably "A Perfect Day".
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Cold Case / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Cold Case / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Many victims. Anyone who is drowned, particularly the victim in "The Plan" who is beaten by three of his own victims while in a swimming pool, then held underwater until he dies. Carrie Swett, who is stoned for being promiscuous in a scene right out of Old Testament times. Steve Jablonski, who is Buried Alive. Carlos Espinosa, who has spray paint poured down his throat. Fans generally agree, though, that John Smith's victims, who are starved to death, are the most bloodcurdling of all.
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Cold Case / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Cold Case / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: "Beautiful Little Fool" opens with the 1929 New Year party in a mansion. In the next scene, one of the attendants is dead. The Butler Did It.
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Cold Case / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Cold Case / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The signature of the serial killer from "It Takes a Village" is to cut one of his victims' fingers off. "The House" has a scene where the corrupt warden breaks two of an inmate's fingers with a pair of pliers.
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Cold Case / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Cold Case / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: It bounces between played straight and subverted. Any episode that has a teenage suspect who turns out not to be the killer depicts them as believing that this doesnâ€™t exist; the daughters in "The Key" and "Stalker" attempt suicide due to their family problems. In "The Key", the parents have affairs with other people to cope with their Awful Wedded Life and the mother ends up humiliating her family when she tries to get back at her lover during her daughter's birthday. In "Stalker", the parents are going through depression after they moved to another state—the father because he has become recently unemployed and the mother for having to take on the load of being the primary breadwinner. In both cases, the family members begin making amends with each other right before the murders.
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Cold Case / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Cold Case / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The ending of "Roller Girl" involves the victim and her best guy-friend, who has a crush on her, in a scene straight out of a romantic movie, so he kisses her on an impulse... and she's confused and revolted, and in the ensuing tussle falls to her death. "Yo, Adrian", an in-universe parody of the movie Rocky, shows just what would happen if a man is mercilessly beaten on for 15 rounds (well, 14). Ruby's lovesick boyfriend in "Saving Sammy" shoots her and Brent's parents in order to stop her from moving away. Naturally, she is angry and disgusted instead of being impressed or happy once she finds out he is the doer.
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Cold Case / int_21af94ed	type	The Prom Plot
Cold Case / int_21af94ed	comment	The Prom Plot: The series has two prom-related episodes: The season 3 premiere, "Family", has a teen couple having a Prom Baby in the school's bathroom. The boy is fatally run over after refusing to give his child over to his math teacher desperate for a child, which he had previously said he would. Meanwhile, the girl then abandons her daughter, who is soon discovered and placed for adoption. The season 7 episode "Almost Paradise" has the prom queen, disillusioned with her popularity and on the verge of growing up and going to college, get struck and killed by the beloved high school assistant principal after prom when he tried to kiss her and she threatened to expose him.
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Cold Case / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Cold Case / int_22a27b19	comment	Rainey in "Stand Up and Holler" only tries to do the right thing, but is fatally attacked by the Alpha Bitch for deciding to shed her toxic influence, and then left to die by her supposed best friend because she wants to stay cool.
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Cold Case / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Cold Case / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At some point in the many flashbacks, sometimes even from the very first one, something is said or done that proves relevant not only to the victim's murder, but to the identity of the killer. Sometimes in the present-day scenes as well— in "Sandhogs", a unique cigarette lighter owned by one of the suspects turns out to have been a gift given to the victim, thus revealing him to be the murderer. "Willkommen" deals with a murder that takes place during a play, thus limiting the suspects to the cast and crew. Early on, the music director briefly mentions that the equipment in his booth lets him hear everything in the theater easily, a point that's dropped fairly quickly. At the end of the episode, the suspects have been narrowed down to two, both of whom planned to scare the victim the night of the show, and each flips on the other, leaving the cops with no case. Stillman seems like he's about to reluctantly let the case die for lack of evidence, before Lilly remembers that if the music director had been in the booth at the time, he'd have heard the plan, too. Yup, he did it.
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Cold Case / int_233d181	type	Misaimed Fandom
Cold Case / int_233d181	comment	Misaimed Fandom: An in-series instance of this in "Static" stymies the investigation for well over forty years. The victim, a radio DJ in the late '50s, is shot midway through playing a mysterious new song called "Scarlet Rose," whose writer and vocalist nobody has ever been able to track down in the ensuing decades. It's eventually written off as a dime-a-dozen hokey love ballad only notable for its connection to the case... until Vera notices a reference to a "tiny cheek," indicating that, for once, the word "baby" in a song from the '50s refers to a literal baby. From there, it's a straight shot to learning the victim was the writer, he had an estranged daughter, she is the vocalist, and his ex-wife is the killer.
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Cold Case / int_235a2706	type	Baseball Episode
Cold Case / int_235a2706	comment	Baseball Episode: Cold Case has three baseball episodes: "A Time to Hate" about a gay college baseball player beaten to death in 1964. "Colors", where the team re-opens the 1945 case of an African-American baseball player who was beaten to death with his own bat. "Stealing Home", where the team looks into the 1999 murder of a former Cuban baseball star who escapes to the U.S. to provide for his family after the Cuban government fired him for talking to a U.S. sports agent. It also features the annual softball game against the fire department.
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Cold Case / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Cold Case / int_23698fa8	comment	Scotty never suffers any consequences for engineering the death of his mother's rapist, nor for beating up a would-be pedophile (though Scotty's assessment of him is correct, the man had technically not done anything illegal and as such, there is no reason for Scotty's assault on him). Ironic, since throughout the series he is reprimanded for other mistakes that he's made. In the latter case, this is likely due to the show being cancelled before there was a chance to explore that plot line further.
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Cold Case / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
Cold Case / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Invoked in "8:03 AM", when the grandfather of a murdered black teen thinks the police are only reopening the case because a white girl was killed at the same time. He is actually wrong. Several (innocent) suspects admit that they fled from or refused to cooperate with the police because they knew they would be the prime suspect, simply for having been a black person in the mere vicinity of the dead white victim. One in particular, in "True Calling", is fully aware of who the murderer is—he saw the whole thing happen—but never said anything because he knew no one would believe him due to his race, class, and background. "It Takes a Village". Race is never mentioned, but it's obvious that the grieving relatives of the victims suspect that the cops would have paid more attention to the cases had they not been black boys from a poor section of Philadelphia. It's a plot point in "Discretion" where the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a pretty white college student is a dimwitted Barrio kid. Not only do many people believe he was framed, but the prosecutor and arresting officer, both Latino themselves, are seen as traitors by the community. The kid actually was framed, but not for that reason. Averted in "A Dollar, A Dream". The victim, an attractive white woman, went missing for over seven years until her body was found. Judging by the comments of the main cast, the case appears not to have been particularly noteworthy at the time. Played straight in that the victim was homeless, and the trope most frequently applies to the upper-middle class (or higher).
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Cold Case / int_24115bb4	type	Pass Fail
Cold Case / int_24115bb4	comment	Pass Fail: "Libertyville" and "Colors" both have characters who are half black and half white, but look completely white, struggling with whether they should accept their identity or bury it. This proves fatal for the victim of "Libertyville," as he'd passed as white and is murdered for doing so.
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Cold Case / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Cold Case / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: The victim in "Family 8108". He knows that letting himself be goaded, consumed by rage and letting Honor Before Reason dictate his actions will only make a bad situation worse, and is just trying to make the best out of a bad situation in order to get out as soon as he can.
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Cold Case / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Cold Case / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: The victim in "That Woman". While she may be promiscuous and dresses and acts somewhat lewdly, she generally tries to be a decent person and even joins her high school's chastity club in order to reform herself. Too bad her fellow members end up killing her...
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Cold Case / int_2565ac2	type	Save Our Students
Cold Case / int_2565ac2	comment	Laura in "True Calling", a Harvard graduate who passed up on a high-powered career to teach an inner city school. She genuinely only wants to help her students, but falls afoul of a Jaded Washout co-worker.
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Cold Case / int_25c7b33a	type	Cruel to Be Kind
Cold Case / int_25c7b33a	comment	Cruel to Be Kind: Somewhat in "Strange Fruit". The victim's friend visits him in jail and acts cold-hearted and mean for finding out her husband raped their maid. She pays his bail, but not before snidely prompting them to go to Washington. ...Except, she does that so the victim won't stick around to be killed by the husband if the latter finds out about their secret friendship.
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Cold Case / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Cold Case / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Several side characters have demonstrated these, and it's often helpful to the case. One of the executives at the company the victim is trying to expose in "Breaking News" says "When you drill it down" when summarizing things. The detectives ID him as the whistleblower who'd been speaking to the victim using this. The college newspaper reporter in "Superstar" tends to call people "Sport." He's identified as the victim's stalker and ultimately killer using this. The victim's best friend in "Colors" says "Check!" when answering in the affirmative. He is the killer, but that's not what gives him away.
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Cold Case / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Cold Case / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Anybody from the killer to the victim to any suspect in between. The killer in "Gleen". Being a retired firefighter and caring father makes for fine sheep's clothing. But underneath, he's a controlling, overbearing monster who scared off his first and third wives and killed his second wife, the victim and mother of their child, with a bomb he plants. In episode 9 of season 1, we have Sherry Fox. Outside: A beautiful, caring young woman who loves her boyfriend. Inside: Con artist, gold digger, murderer. In "Justice", we have the victim Mike Delaney: a handsome college student who was considered a 'Casanova' and had good grades, was a varsity athlete, a charitable member of the Meals on Wheels program, and made valedictorian at graduation. But all that goes out the window once you learn he was a serial rapist in life. Almost literally with the killer in "Churchgoing People". All flashbacks of her show her as a prim, modestly dressed and coifed woman. Until her son finally confesses that she was actually a violent and abusive drunk who regularly beat his father and finally killed him in a rage upon learning of his infidelity. "Slipping" gives us the victim's husband, her own killer. He throws off the audience by claiming he wrote his poem as a dedication to his wife. But once you learn he actually stole that poem from her before killing her, it becomes clear he only married her to be close to the competition. The professor in "Hubris". When we meet him, he's a broken man whose marriage and career were ruined by the murder suspicions and the fact that not only had he had an affair with the victim, she wasn't his first dalliance. Despite his cheating, it's easy to have a little sympathy for him given that he regrets his behavior and just wants to clear his name and get his life back. Until the end of the episode where we learn that he IS the killer, every single thing that happened to him is fully deserved, and he's actually an arrogant bastard who isn't the least bit sorry for what he did. Indeed, he felt completely entitled to seduce his female students and to kill the one girl who dared break up with him rather than him be the one to dump her, to the point where he outright states, "It's her fault. She made me fall in love with her." In "Who's Your Daddy", Brad Atwater is this to an extent. Although the foreman is earlier described as an unfair boss to his employees, he's initially introduced as a friendly sort who has a family of four, and an ailing wife he cares about. But later, it's revealed that not only is he unfaithful to said-wife, he makes the wives of his Asian employees service him sexually by licking his boots. And later, when the wife offers some evidence, Atwater denounces her as crazy and even claims her illness is probably 'made up'.
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Cold Case / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Cold Case / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: In "Fly Away", "The Boy in the Box", "A Perfect Day", "Baby Blues", "Forever Blue", "Torn", "Thrill Kill", and "Read Between the Lines"note Technically, the victim was the killer's foster child. However, only the third and seventh cases were deliberate, while the first and fourth were double suicides gone awry and the rest were accidental or unintentional.
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Cold Case / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Cold Case / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: The victim in "Soul" thinks his killer is angry for abandoning her to start his own record label. She is actually in love with him.
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Cold Case / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Cold Case / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: George Polk, a key witness in "A Time to Hate" and major Cool Old Guy.
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Cold Case / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Cold Case / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Lilly was raised (sorta) by her alcoholic mother alone. So was George Marks, then he was abandoned by his mother to be raped, starting him on his Start of Darkness.
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Cold Case / int_2989316a	type	The Illegal
Cold Case / int_2989316a	comment	The Illegal: The Eastern European women in "Cargo". The victims in "Who's Your Daddy?"
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Cold Case / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Cold Case / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Done in a weird way in "It's Raining Men"; the studly, Really Gets Around-type gay man who is revealed to have been giving other men AIDs For the Evulz has aged much worse than the straight-laced key witness who is the victim's totally-devoted partner... but he's also become a much better person with age.
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Cold Case / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Cold Case / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: In "Sherry Darlin'", Lilly has to talk down a suicidal suspect with a shotgun who had barricaded himself in the basement where his grandmother's body was discovered.
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Cold Case / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Cold Case / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: In the episode "Forever Blue", the cop who calls him and his partner 'the lucky ones', tells his father that he is a man, and all but admits that he's in love with said partner is the one who's killed. Meanwhile, his partner, who in present day still insists until near the end of the episode that he isn't gay (and to add insult to death, claims his partner also wasn't 'like that') is the one who lives. He lived because he broke things off the night they were supposed to go patrolling together. The season 1 episode, "A Time to Hate", features the fatal beating of a college baseball star outside an underground club after a raid. And then there's the heartbreaking ending scene... "Best Friends" involves a lesbian couple in the 1930s, one white, one black. The black woman drowned, with it turning out both had been attacked and run off the road by the white woman's relatives outraged at their relationship, but the drowning was a failed suicide attempt. "It's Raining Men" has a gay man being murdered by his own Closet Gay brother fearing the former might out him. "Boy Crazy" has a mental patient who dies mysteriously in the 60's. It turns out they were there due to gender non-conformity (either being a transgender boy or tomboyish girl, it's never made clear), then subjected to very excessive ECT treatment and rendered catatonic for defiance. They were then euthanized by their friend, in a blatant Shout-Out to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In "Daniela", the titular character, a young trans woman, kills herself when her boyfriend's father makes him break up with her.
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Cold Case / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Cold Case / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Mike Delaney ("Justice") actually pisses himself when his rape victims confront him and hold him at gunpoint.
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Cold Case / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
Cold Case / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: Many of the victims get killed for reasons thought important at the time: Perhaps the biggest example is in "Love Conquers Al", as even the killers acknowledge it wasn't. Big Bad Duumvirate Jane and Bennett kill Bennett's other woman, Paige, because he had cheated on Jane with her. Their relationship breaks down anyway, so it is literally All for Nothing. Travis kills Emma in "Debut" because she makes one cruel comment to him after he laughs at a Jewish joke despite being Jewish. In "Thick as Thieves", the maid and the dead woman's son plot to shoot her, so they can collect the insurance money. After she survives, the son ends up staying behind anyway to take care of her. The officers call out Sandra in "Revenge," who stays in a loveless marriage with a pedophile and lets him abuse their son, like this.
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Cold Case / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Cold Case / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The older brother in "One Small Step"; he and his accomplice threaten his younger brother and their friends with a knife. The mastermind in "That Woman". While the killing itself is planned with the others, it still has that crime of passion element with each of them showing genuine guilt for their actions. The leader of the group, however, not only plans the whole thing, the expression never leaves her face. Add to this that she seems to be a Cloud Cuckoolander who canâ€™t tell reality from fiction.
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Cold Case / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
Cold Case / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: Several. The guy in "True Calling" who forces his students to run drugs. The coach in "Family", who molests one of his students in the locker room and apparently planned to do the same to the girl's now-grown daughter, who he may or may not have believed was also his daughter from said rape (she's not, the girl's boyfriend is the father). The actual killer is also a teacher, but played more sympathetically than the coach. The Asshole Victim in "The Plan", a swimming coach who is shown to relentlessly bully and browbeat his students. As if this isn't bad enough, the investigation reveals that he is also a pedophile. The coach and booster of the football team in "Glory Days", who dose the players with steroids without their consent, ruining the academic and athletic careers of at least one. The ephebophilic assistant principal in "Almost Paradise", who forcibly kisses and then murders the victim.
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Cold Case / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Cold Case / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Nearly every suspect and victim, as well as other people involved in the crimes, has one. Notably, the killer and eponymous stalker in "Stalker", in addition to being a trained nurse, is also an EMT before love makes him crazy, showing that he is capable of doing good things for people. It's also strongly implied that he comes from an abusive home, though none of this is ever really explored.
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Cold Case / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Cold Case / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: "Late Returns" ends with one of the killers, a congressman, being let off due to higher-ups shutting down the case. Scotty took it upon himself to find out the truth without intent to arrest him. A mild version in "Red Glare", as the killer essentially accomplishes everything he wanted to and gets away with his crime for fifty years, and although he's caught in the end, it's strongly implied that he's too old to be given a severe punishment for his actions. George Marks in "Mind Hunters", though he's brought down in "The Woods". Caroline Hargreave AKA Mandy Mae Smith in "The Runaway Bunny", a Black Widow who attempted to kill her stepdaughter, is let off at the end due to the lack of hard evidence.
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Cold Case / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Cold Case / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: The killer in "It Takes a Village". Horrifically abused while in a group home, he is now killing innocent boys who have the misfortune of reminding him of his tormentors, instead of, you know, those who actually bullied him, or those who let it happen. Tanner in "Knuckle Up" kills a random stranger who happens to remind him of his father. "Cops" is considered a blanket term with the homicide detectives always being blamed for missing persons or earlier detectives not doing their jobs. "Sabotage": The killer's brother is one of the people he blames for his daughter's death. A lot of the people he targets are people just doing their jobs. He wants them to behave a certain way (which usually involves putting him or his interests first) and takes it as a personal insult when they don't. In order to stop his daughter from running off, the killer in "Witness Protection" kills the boyfriendâ€™s father.
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Cold Case / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
Cold Case / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: Lilly Rush: "The Badlands", "Saving Patrick Bubley" Scotty Valens: "Sanctuary", "Jurisprudence" Nick Vera: "Our Boy is Back", "Triple Threat", "Flashover" he is suspended during the Medley Exit. Will Jeffries: "Strange Fruit", "The Key", "Shattered" John Stillman: "Glued", "Chinatown" Kat Miller: "8:03 AM" Other, non-main cast detectives: "Churchgoing People", "Spiders", "One Small Step", "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet"
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Cold Case / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Cold Case / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: How many shows have one of these in the first episode? It is in the form of a jailed, somewhat effete pederast. Seen in "Greed" where the manipulative stockbroker tells young men they can get ahead if they sleep with him, and sleeps with a mother and a son to get the mother to invest money.
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Cold Case / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
Cold Case / int_2fc21a19	comment	"Justice", which is essentially the Distaff Counterpart to "The Plan", has a date rapist's victims also find each other and threaten him with a gun. They just terrify him — it's actually one victim's brother who finds the gun afterwards and finishes the job.
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Cold Case / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Cold Case / int_317629db	comment	Ryan in "The Thin Blue Line" and "Into the Blue" has been outshined by Kate, the sole female cadet, earning him the Embarrassing Nickname "Riana" and humiliation from fellow cadets and the Drill Sergeant Nasty. He accidentally knocked out and killed Kate in a fit of anger.
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Cold Case / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Cold Case / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The killer's brother in "Strange Fruit" may be a rapist and a Morally Bankrupt Banker, but the lynching of a man and making a child watch brings even him to tears. Mac in "Wishing" may be a major Jerkass, but even he is disgusted by the victim's "friend" Joshâ€™s actions. The rapist in "Offender" considers his own son off-limits. The racist prison guard in "Family 8108" admits that he left the victim alone after witnessing the full extent of his horrible family life (his marriage is falling apart, his wife's pregnant, his son is rebelling, he's trying to remain sunny and upbeat despite the situation) simply because he just doesn't have it in him to pick on someone that miserable.
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Cold Case / int_31f0842c	type	Age-Appropriate Angst
Cold Case / int_31f0842c	comment	Age-Appropriate Angst: Highlighted when they confront the killer in "Honor". The man claims that he understands his victim's actions (he was a Vietnam POW who took early release and left the killer's father behind to die) but the detectives point out that that is the perspective of a mature adult, which he very much wasn't at the time of the murder.
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Cold Case / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Cold Case / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: How many bodies are found.
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Cold Case / int_331d9f32	type	Silent Snarker
Cold Case / int_331d9f32	comment	Silent Snarker: Andy and Carlos from "Andy In C Minor" are justified examples. Both teens are not only quite snarky, but they're also hearing-impaired.
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Cold Case / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Cold Case / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Granted, given this show is more fantasy-driven than fact-based, but some common police procedurals and conduct displayed here are blatantly disregarded and are downright illegal in real life. One very prevalent example was in the sixth episode of the series, "Love Conquers Al" where the killer's so-called best friend, Will Harrell, constantly stonewalled detectives regarding his knowledge of/involvement in the murder of a teenaged high school track star. At the end of the episode, he was seen still working at the garage as he was before, but in real life, he would have been arrested both for being an accessory after the fact and for obstruction of justice. A similar case is the accomplice's secretary in "Start Up", who knew for years that her boss had given the killer the poison he used to kill the victim, but kept silent due to her fear of him. The boss is arrested as an accessory, but she isn't. Deidre in "Disco Inferno" is seen being let off, despite inciting the killer to commit assault, which escalated into a murder-arson that killed 22 people. The headmistress of the school for the deaf is used as an interpreter in "Andy in C Minor". Leaving aside the fact that the Philadelphia Police Department probably either has one on staff already or could easily enlist a sign language interpreter, is it really advisable to use a possible suspect as an interpreter? The gang leader in "Knuckle Up" is not arrested for running away from the scene of a murder, despite doing so making him an Accomplice by Inaction. Same goes for the girls in "The Promise". As noted below, at the end of "World's End" the squad arrests the nonagenarian, Alzheimer's-afflicted Felton Metz as the man's son is begging them to let him live out his final days in peace. In reality, the fellow would be out of custody before the cops finished filing the paperwork, because the lawyer the son would call would invoke the defense principle that an individual with dementia as advanced as Metz's is in no wise competent to give a legally-admissible confession. It's not unreasonable though, to assume something like this might have happened anyway. Detectives usually need a solid reason for reopening a cold case, such as the discovery of new evidence or eyewitness testimony. The show usually gets this right, but there are a few episodes where in reality the reason presented would not be enough. For example, in "It's Raining Men", Rush reopens a twenty-one year old case simply because a man wants his long-dead lover's murder solved as a wedding present. The detectives will occasionally badger a suspect into not calling their lawyer, something very much not allowed in real life.
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Cold Case / int_3322e9cd	type	Hollywood Old
Cold Case / int_3322e9cd	comment	Hollywood Old: Actors who are only in their 60's are frequently hired to play characters in their 70's, 80's, or even 90's. Particularly noticeable in "Family 8108", where two characters old enough to have teenage children in the 1940s don't look a day past a very well-aged 70 in the present, and in fact a friend and peer of one of said children actually looks older than them. One of the two (ostensibly) older characters also picked up an accent with age somehow.
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Cold Case / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Cold Case / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: In "Stand Up and Holler", this is the obvious in-universe intent behind the tradition of having two newly-inducted high school cheerleaders kiss each other on the lips, as exemplified by the entire team of football players demanding they use tongue. Hot for the football players, not so much for the audience. Discussed in "Torn". Audrey Abruzzi is amused when the detectives suggest that her mother and the murder victim were lovers. (They weren't.)
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Cold Case / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Cold Case / int_34dcfc96	comment	The serial rapist in "Justice". One would think Mike would be smarter than to taunt the younger brother of his rape victim (who has a gun aimed point blank at him, by the way).
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Cold Case / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Cold Case / int_3678fbfa	comment	The killer from "Sabotage". A man pushed to the edge after losing his house to a legal battle with developers and his job to the company moving overseas, while his daughter died of cancer due to delayed health insurance and his wife divorced him soon after. He became a Mad Bomber sending timed bombs to people who perceived to have wronged him.
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Cold Case / int_36a2827b	type	Tragic AIDS Story
Cold Case / int_36a2827b	comment	Tragic AIDS Story: There's an episode where the detectives are re-investigating the murder of a gay man in the 1980s. The victim became an AIDS activist after his lover contracted HIV. Flashbacks show him receiving a lot of grief from many gay people who are not yet aware of the seriousness of the situation and think it is another ploy to destroy the subculture they have built. The present day investigation is complicated by the fact that many of the witnesses have died of AIDS in the meantime. The victim's lover actually survived the disease and went into remission. He is the one who comes to the Cold Case detectives asking for the case to be reopened.
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Cold Case / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Cold Case / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: "Metamorphosis" has a subversion, as it is discovered that Lester is in reality a very cruel Smug Snake that plays dumb to draw suspicions off of him. He is Out-Gambitted and tricked into confessing to the crime. Detectives Jeffries and Vera are straight versions. Most of the time.
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Cold Case / int_37085956	type	Gayngst-Induced Suicide
Cold Case / int_37085956	comment	Gayngst-Induced Suicide: In the episode "Best Friends", a Butch Lesbian dies and her girlfriend lives after they try to commit suicide by driving off a bridge, while being chased by the girlfriend's homophobic brother.
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Cold Case / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Cold Case / int_3763bcf8	comment	Leah in "Wishing": Filing a False Rape Accusation heightens the stress of the victimâ€˜s mother and makes it so that he can never be put in a proper facility, making the killer desperate enough to do what he does. While she is remorseful in the present, neither she nor her family are shown to be punished for the false charges (her parents for filing them, Leah for keeping quiet about the truth).
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Cold Case / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Cold Case / int_37cb353b	comment	Paul Shepard from "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet" has a pretty rough life, too. His father lost his business due to a minor clerical error by his accountant's secretary, then lost most of his property due to being unable to keep up payments and ultimately Ate His Gun. Paul himself settles down with a fellow film geek and opens a video store, but then the home video market crashes and, at the same time, he discovers he can't have children, and finally snaps.
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Cold Case / int_38ad0e6a	type	BreakingSpeech
Cold Case / int_38ad0e6a	comment	Breaking Speech: John Smith tries this on Lilly in "The Road". Then he takes it too far and Lilly's Kensington background proves vital to the case. George Marks uses it on everyone in both the episodes he's in.
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Cold Case / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
Cold Case / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: In "It Takes a Village", the central clue to catching the killer is an arcade game called Defector 3. They describe it as a 'Role Playing Game' despite the fact that the on-screen action is akin to the fighting game Mortal Kombat. Great job, guys.
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Cold Case / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Cold Case / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The army surplus store owner whom George Marks gets most of his stuff from is wearing a USS Enterprise cap, a reference to John Billingsley's previous role in Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Cold Case / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Cold Case / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: One of the suspects in "One Small Step" believes that the moon landings were faked. The murder they are investigating occurred on the day of the first moon landing, and the events of that day may have fueled his later delusion. A witness in "Glued" believes the murder was the first step in an extremely elaborate real estate scam. He's right about who did it, but the motive was rather more mundane.
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Cold Case / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Cold Case / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: The killer from "Forensics" who turns out to be the victim's debate coach who had once been a debating prodigy until he lost his temper in the finals. He had turned his back on a promising legal career to teach debate and find someone to avenge his loss. He kills the victim when the boy decides to quit to take care of his suicidal father. Since she was 12, Ariel from "The Sleepover" has spent her life trying to please the popular Alpha Bitch. Even to the point of killing her geeky former friend. The killer from "Iced" who turns out to be the victim's best friend who drugged and raped the victim's girlfriend. He shows up at the ice rink to explain himself, stating "chicks like guys who step up and pull the trigger" and calling her a "sporty little slut". When the victim punches him down and insults him, he beats him to death with a hockey stick.
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Cold Case / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Cold Case / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Anton, a studly orderly at the women's mental hospital in "Committed", is a rare male example. He is much-ogled by the patients, and the Big Bad uses that fact to his advantage to blackmail him into helping with the murder, threatening to press false charges against him for sexually abusing said patients. Note that Anton is black and the episode is set in the '50s, meaning he ran the serious risk of not just being arrested but lynched.
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Cold Case / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Cold Case / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: We already know someone's going to die—the very first minutes of each episode depict this. The flashbacks and investigations serve to reveal the identity and motive of whoever is responsible.
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Cold Case / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Cold Case / int_3cb1d38d	comment	In "Who's Your Daddy", Brad Atwater is this to an extent. Although the foreman is earlier described as an unfair boss to his employees, he's initially introduced as a friendly sort who has a family of four, and an ailing wife he cares about. But later, it's revealed that not only is he unfaithful to said-wife, he makes the wives of his Asian employees service him sexually by licking his boots. And later, when the wife offers some evidence, Atwater denounces her as crazy and even claims her illness is probably 'made up'.
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Cold Case / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Cold Case / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Quite a few killers demonstrate these, particularly in the episodes about sports. Victims have been killed for the terrible crime of wanting to save their family ("Stealing Home", "Forensics"), marry the love of their life ("Colors"), or expose wrongdoing done by the coach ("Glory Days"). The victims will usually give a "sports isn't everything" speech to the killers, swiftly answered by a bullet between the eyes/bat upside the head/whatever.
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Cold Case / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
Cold Case / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: Related to the Hollywood Law entry above—in several instances, a suspect's explicit request for a lawyer is blatantly ignored while the interrogation continues (although one puts his foot down and staunchly refuses to answer anymore questions until his attorney arrives). Another has Vera convinced that a suspect is guilty because the man refuses to talk with them or offer a DNA sample. Both of these are perfectly within his rights, yet Vera sees them as proof of guilt and justification for continuing to hound the man. The occasional snarky "Why, got something to hide?" can probably be written off as simple Perp Sweating, but there are times it goes much further than that. Discussed and actually averted in "Hubris"; when questioning a person related to the case, Lilly points out that immediately calling a lawyer when accused of a crime is actually the smart thing to do, regardless of guilt.
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Cold Case / int_3e24cb38	type	Musical Nod
Cold Case / int_3e24cb38	comment	Musical Nod: "Get Together" by the Youngbloods is the ending song for first season episode "Volunteers"; the song shows up again in the final season episode "Free Love". Both cases occur in the year 1969.
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Cold Case / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Cold Case / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: Most victims are genuinely heroic people, which is usually why they get murdered, but the details of all the good things they'd done are only revealed as the investigation proceeds.
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Cold Case / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Cold Case / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Many victims, such as the one from "The Good-Bye Room", sometimes going into Honor Before Reason territory. The clash of their optimism with cruel reality is often what ultimately gets them killed.
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Cold Case / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Cold Case / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: "Blood on the Tracks". The explosion that kills the two victims is thought to be due to an accidental gas leak. 20-something years later, evidence surfaces revealing that it was the result of a bomb. A handful of other deaths as well were initially thought to be accidental, suicide, or even natural causes.
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Cold Case / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Cold Case / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: (Like most CBS Procedurals...) Mundane scene in the past that introduces us to the victim, his or her loved ones and sometimes even a few hints as to why they'll be murdered. Then, said murder. Case reopened in the modern day due to discovery of new evidence. Interviews. Flashbacks. Case solved. Medley Exit. Where Are They Now. Somebody sees the victim's ghost.
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Cold Case / int_3f32da0f	type	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture
Cold Case / int_3f32da0f	comment	Similarly, the head doctor in "Boy Crazy" who turned the victim into a traumatized wreck through ECT is long dead.
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Cold Case / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Cold Case / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: While Heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned Serial Killer Martha in "Lonely Hearts" is based on the very real Martha Beck. Whilst the things this Martha does are cold and savage, she does actually feel bad about her actions and even tries to make up for them. Unfortunately, this gets her killed. The real Martha on the other hand had absolutely no remorse for her actions which were arguably worse since she drowned one of her victim's two-year-old daughter. With that in mind, this Martha comes away looking relatively innocent.
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Cold Case / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Cold Case / int_3f7a958b	comment	"The Plan" has a non-villainous example of failing the Secret Test of Character. Instead of helping the pedophilic swimming coach out of the pool when he's drowning, he allows him to drown once they're alone.
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Cold Case / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Cold Case / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The victim's family in "Lotto Fever". The Warrior program in "Glory Days", even though it's averted with the killer who tried to invoke this. Ungrateful Bitch: Brandi from "The Sleepover", Natalie from "A Dollar, A Dream", and Julie from "Roller Girl". The latter two get better, though. The killer in "A Perfect Day" perceives his wife as this, although it's pretty clear to everyone else that he's the one with the problem.
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Cold Case / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Cold Case / int_401d4116	comment	We are supposed to believe that the brilliant, creative dancer is this in "World's End", but it's something of a Broken Aesop for the uncritically sympathetic way some of her more asshole-ish behavior is treated.
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Cold Case / int_408762f	type	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture
Cold Case / int_408762f	comment	Electro Convulsive Therapy Is Torture: One episode's case about the unsolved killing of a mental patient in the 1960s. The victim was a girl who preferred to dress like a boy and do "boy" things, was ultimately hospitalized for "gender identity disorder" (though whether the victim was actually transgender or was just a girl who didn't like conventionally feminine things is never made clear) and subjected to ECT for not abiding by the rules which the psychiatrist stipulated in "acting female", and was ultimately left catatonic due to the extent of the procedure. The victim's friend then killed the victim (in a clear homage to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as a MercyKill. It's also mentioned that the psychiatrist had done the same to other patients. Thankfully, he at least gets both sued and fired over it.
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Cold Case / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Cold Case / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Mel Davis, the killer in "Resolutions". Jealous of his best friend, Greg Cardiff, and his family, he kills him by poisoning him. He then marries Greg's widow, Susan, leaving his own wife high and dry. He allows two innocent people to take the fall for his crime (as they thought they killed Greg by striking him with their car, even though he was already dead when he was hit). After it's eventually discovered to be a murder instead of an accident some years later, Mel then tries to pin Greg's death on his second wife/Greg's widow. When that fails and as the detectives discover he's the real killer and close in on him, he kills himself to avoid arrest, preventing any real justice to be found in the case and leaving his wife a widow and stepson fatherless for the second time.
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Cold Case / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Cold Case / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Every episode. The flashbacks spend a lot of time developing the victim's character, allowing the audience to get to know him or her, often making them so nice that it's easy to forget that he/she is already dead. Even their killer finally being arrested can't take away the sting of this person being gone foreverâ€”especially since the killer themselves is often depicted as being genuinely horrified by their actions. And in the case of the occasional Asshole Victim, it bites that someone's being arrested for killing someone who probably got what he or she deserved. "The Runaway Bunny" has one of these. The doer is caught and the victim gets justice. Great! Unfortunately, the doer is just a henchman, and they don't have enough evidence to charge the real villain. "Chinatown". Literally everything could have been prevented had one specific cop just arrested the local Chinese mob leader, but he doesn't because he figures someone else just as bad will replace him. Even all three villains — the cop, the mob boss, and the killer — getting theirs at the end doesn't seem to balance out the fact that two innocent lives were lost and several more ruined, all due to the cynicism of one man.
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Cold Case / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Cold Case / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Occasionally occurs during interrogation scenes with the eventual perpetrator. Most notably via Stillman in both "Fireflies" and "Forever Blue". With Valens in "8:03 A.M." and "Slipping" (though he also does one on a child abductor who is not the main doer in "Revenge").
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Cold Case / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Cold Case / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: "Creatures of the Night", where the lighting in the flashbacks is more intrusive than usual, and everyone is acting fairly hammy. This was done on purpose as an homage to the Camp nature of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which plays an important role in the episode's plot.
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Cold Case / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Cold Case / int_41be2c1b	comment	In episode 9 of season 1, we have Sherry Fox. Outside: A beautiful, caring young woman who loves her boyfriend. Inside: Con artist, gold digger, murderer.
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Cold Case / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Cold Case / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: There are two in "One Small Step". Granted, one is a lot more Ax-Crazy than the other, an ordinary mean older sister.
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Cold Case / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Cold Case / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: The two successful kills in "Sabotage" are just unlucky enough to have been the ones to tell the bomber he can't get what he wants; neither of them is responsible for that decision, nor do they have the power to overrule it. The intended victims who had genuinely wronged the killer (at least in his opinion) both survive. In "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet", only the second victim had actually done something wrong; everyone else is either this or collateral damage.
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Cold Case / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Cold Case / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed in "The House", "Late Returns" and "Roller Girl" where a legal loophole leaves the detectives unable to arrest the killer, but a.) the death was accidental (though the "killer" still didn't report it, which was definitely wrong), and b.) all three episodes include a genuinely evil character who is sent to jail (the one in "Late Returns" is arguably responsible for the death anyway, and was also a murderer in her own time).
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Cold Case / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Cold Case / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Each episode almost exclusively uses chart-toppers from the year of the episode's case during the Flashbacks.
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Cold Case / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Cold Case / int_443b78cd	comment	The mastermind in "That Woman". While the killing itself is planned with the others, it still has that crime of passion element with each of them showing genuine guilt for their actions. The leader of the group, however, not only plans the whole thing, the expression never leaves her face. Add to this that she seems to be a Cloud Cuckoolander who canâ€™t tell reality from fiction.
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Cold Case / int_44c279ae	type	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
Cold Case / int_44c279ae	comment	In the pilot episode, "Look Again," the younger and weaker-willed of the two murderous brothers pulls this. The amoral older brother, who had been the direct killer, decides to throw the cops off his scent and gives a bare-bones statement implicating the younger one, who is actually just a Guilt-Ridden Accomplice. When Lilly (who doesn't fully believe the older brother) goes to arrest the younger brother, he finally decides to stand up for himself and proceeds to give a much more detailed confession, including providing blood evidence and the location of the murder weapon, implicating both of them.
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Cold Case / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
Cold Case / int_44dd01be	comment	One very prevalent example was in the sixth episode of the series, "Love Conquers Al" where the killer's so-called best friend, Will Harrell, constantly stonewalled detectives regarding his knowledge of/involvement in the murder of a teenaged high school track star. At the end of the episode, he was seen still working at the garage as he was before, but in real life, he would have been arrested both for being an accessory after the fact and for obstruction of justice.
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Cold Case / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Cold Case / int_44fc28e8	comment	"Street Money" - The victim's devotion to being a completely honest politician, despite everyone from his campaign manager to his opponent telling him this is unrealistic.
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Cold Case / int_45ab69e6	type	Middle School Is Miserable
Cold Case / int_45ab69e6	comment	Middle School Is Miserable: Played for drama in the episode "The Sleepover", in which a toxic environment of bullying and domestic abuse at a sleepover leads to one poor girl being accidentally killed in the woods by her former friend in a misguided attempt to regain status with the class Alpha Bitch. As the culprit laments, at the time, she didn't realize that middle school would end eventually and the opinions of her classmates wouldn't matter anymore.
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Cold Case / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Cold Case / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Councilman Avery in "The Promise" is secretly a rapist. Councilman Boone in "Street Money". The detectives are extremely disappointed that he turns out to be innocent.
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Cold Case / int_45eae59e	type	Terminally-Ill Criminal
Cold Case / int_45eae59e	comment	Terminally-Ill Criminal: In "One Night", after learning that he had MS, John buried a teenage boy alive so he could see what it felt like to watch someone else die. He does the same thing again, twenty years later, after finding out that his MS has progressed.
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Cold Case / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Cold Case / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: George Marks sees Lilly as this, and such as ensures that she is the one who kills him.
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Cold Case / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Cold Case / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: The surviving partners in "Forever Blue" and "Best Friends", who are still closeted and mourning their one true love when the team comes to investigate decades later.
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Cold Case / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Cold Case / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: "The Lost Soul of Herman Lester", "Soul", "Sandhogs" and "Shore Leave". Gender-Inverted in "The Goodbye Room".
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Cold Case / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Cold Case / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The junkyard owner in "One Small Step". Despite his reputation as a mean hermit, he comes to sympathize with the victim's desire to make friends and willingly loans him materials to build a rocket. Vera offers to pay the hospital bills of a mother whom he had mouthed off to earlier. The victim's tutor in "Glory Days," after years of working his ass off while watching Dumb Jocks get a free ride, becomes very jaded and starts to see the jocks as a means to an end. But once he sees that the victim not only takes school very seriously but is also very intelligent, they become fast friends. It also helps that the victim is a Lovable Jock. The dance instructor in "Shuffle, Ball Change" combines this with Drill Sergeant Nasty. At first, he comes off as a complete asshole towards the victim, but he recognizes talent when he sees it. Knowing the victim is unable to leave his job at the family supermarket to take lessons, he makes it a point to visit the market daily and teach the victim on the sly.
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Cold Case / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Cold Case / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Vince Patrielli in "Running Around". There are implications that he may have had some affection for the victim (he actually speaks respectfully of her when asked about her, and goes from smug to somewhat hurt when accused of murdering her), but it's also clear he has no regrets about raping and impregnating her best friend (he even seems to consider the kid "lucky" for having parents that will raise him). All of the rapists on this show are considered this. Charles Danville, the Asshole Victim of the episode "Greed". He has no qualms about screwing people over for money, but when one of his mentees falls in love with him, it looks like he might have genuine affection for him. Well, if he has, it doesn't stop him from stealing from the kid's mother, and telling him as much without a shred of regret. This particular act of callousness is what gets him killed in the end. "Revenge": Tina Bream is a My Beloved Smother who blames her husband for their son getting kidnapped because he let him go to the dressing room by himself. She also believes Police Are Useless so when the ransom fails, she blames him again for trusting them. It turns out the kidnapping is entirely her fault because she told her drug addict brother-in-law about money that was supposed to be kept secret and then told him about the police sting operation, tipping him off. What truly makes her this? After finding out that their son is dead, she manipulates her husband into killing the one they thought was responsible and afterwards, she continues to blame him.
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Cold Case / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Cold Case / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The victims in "Glued", "The Boy in the Box", "Baby Blues", "Thrill Kill", "The Sleepover" and "One Small Step" are all children (though for the last two, the killers are also children).
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Cold Case / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Cold Case / int_483152c4	comment	Betty in "Pin Up Girl" resented that despite their similar backgrounds, her best friend Rita went on to have a successful career as a cover girl who was loved and admired by everyone. Meanwhile, Betty worked under her and moonlighted as a stripper to support herself and her deadbeat father, refusing any help from Rita out of pride. The boiling point was when she had a failed date with a jerk who was only using her to get Rita's autograph. A drunken Betty then visited Rita, who revealed she was quitting modeling to pursue photography. Enraged at Rita getting another opportunity while she was stuck in her friend's shadow, Betty shot her.
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Cold Case / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Cold Case / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Lampshaded, during the episode "Thick as Thieves", by the victim's son, who turns out to be the one who planned her death. Considering he had been on the road with his mother since he was 6, it's not surprising he'd feel that way.
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Cold Case / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
Cold Case / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: "Mind Hunters" has the teenage track star cry out, "I want my Daddy!" just before George Marks fatally shoots her. "Shuffle, Ball Change" has the aspiring dancer cry out for his father as his jealous older brother crushes his foot with his crutch then beats him to death with it.
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Cold Case / int_4a2de52e	type	Cruel Cheerleader
Cold Case / int_4a2de52e	comment	In â€œStand Up and Hollerâ€�, Rainey Karlsen and Celeste Church join the varsity cheerleading squad, only to find out how corrupt and cruel the other cheerleaders are. When Rainey tries to quit, she is accidentally poisoned by the head cheerleader in a brutal attack with tainted beer. Intoxicated and alone with Celeste, Rainey tells her she is going to get the squad disbanded. Not wanting to lose the popularity she has gained with the squad, Celeste leaves Rainey on the football field to die.
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Cold Case / int_4a8fd6a0	type	Honor-Related Abuse
Cold Case / int_4a8fd6a0	comment	Honor-Related Abuse: Explored as a possible motive in "Chinatown", as the boyfriend and girlfriend victims are Chinese and Vietnamese respectively and their relationship is thus looked down upon by the community. This turns out not to be the case; they are killed because they got caught up in a feud involving the local Tong boss.
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Cold Case / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Cold Case / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: How they trip up the doer in "Red Glare" - he knows something about the victim that he could've only known if he'd been the last one to see him alive. Played with in "The Hitchhiker". The first prime suspect, a violent-tempered truck driver, seems to slip up this way when he denies killing "that hitchhiker". The detectives never told him the victim was hitching at the time of his death. As it turns out, he didn't kill the episode's victim. He did however kill two other hitchhikers the cops were trying to nail him for. The killer in "8:03 AM" gives himself away by correctly identifying the type of gun used in the murder without being told. One of the Neo-Nazis in "Spiders", when told a witness saw her at the scene of a murder, replies, "That's impossible; it was pitch-dark!" The killer in "Breaking News" knows about an interview he couldn't have known about unless he was involved with the murder. The killer in "Fireflies" says the name of the witness who saw him before the cops even mention it. The killer in "The Dealer" denies both killing the victim and stealing her bonus. The detectives had only mentioned her money being stolen, not the source of that money.
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Cold Case / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Cold Case / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: When a villain flashes back to his first kill (inadvertent, as he merely let the woman die rather than outright harming her), he remembers a woman trapped in a well, frantically treading water and babbling, "Cold. . .so cold".
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Cold Case / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Cold Case / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: "Slipping" features an extremely cruel one performed on the victim by the killer, in an attempt to drive her to suicide. When this gambit fails, he does the deed himself.
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Cold Case / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
Cold Case / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: This is the main way to get convictions, since, in many of the cases, any physical evidence has degraded beyond use.
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Cold Case / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Cold Case / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Since a lot of the murders are spur-of-the-moment, lots of different objects have been used. Some examples include a clock, a metronome, a phone, a crutch, and a skateboard.
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Cold Case / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Cold Case / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: While most episodes are bittersweet at best, a few episodes end this way due to the doer getting off or even if the victim had lived, they still would be implied to have had led an unhappy life: The victim's daughter in "Gleen" is left an emotional wreck due to her mother's brutal murder during her childhood and the heartbreak of learning that her father had killed her. "Late Returns" has another person taking the blame for the initial murder, and the higher-ups order charges against the Sympathetic Murderer, a congressman, be dropped. "Mind Hunters" ends with George Marks walking out of police headquarters a free man due to lack of evidence and the follow up episode, "The Woods" reveals that he is able to successfully kill the lone woman who had escaped him in 1997. "The Runaway Bunny" has the Evil Stepmother of the eponymous Bunny not be charged in the long-unsolved murder of her father for similar reasons. "Death Penalty: Final Appeal" has the wrong man executed for raping and killing a teenage girl in 1994 due to an overly ambitious prosecutor who fudges the case. The man's angry ghost appears at his funeral alongside Lilly and Jeffries. The victim from "Honor", a former prisoner of war who served in Vietnam, faces a post-service life with a wife and son who abandon him for a Phony Veteran who pretends to be him, and his old friends and fellow soldiers turn on him due to blaming him for the death of his best friend in the POW camp. The victim from "Spiders" comes from an abusive home, is unsuccessfully made an emancipated minor and ultimately held captive by a group of Neo-Nazis, then gets murdered by one after she escapes. "Committed": The Big Bad has been dead for decades, with nobody the wiser that he was a murderer for the entirety of his life, and so his tragic Guilt Ridden Accomplices whom he'd blackmailed into assisting him get the blame for the whole thing. Similarly, the head doctor in "Boy Crazy" who turned the victim into a traumatized wreck through ECT is long dead.
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Cold Case / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Cold Case / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Screw the Political Power, I Have Rules! This gets the victim in "Street Money" killed. He is an up-and-coming city council candidate who refuses to use blackmail against the powerful incumbent and thus probably sacrifices any chance of beating him. When one of his campaign staff, who views the victim as the last hope for the neighborhood, finds out, he shoots him. This also leads to the victimâ€™s murder in "Discretion". He is a District Attorney who finds out the defendant in his first big case that he is supposed to prove guilty is actually innocent of the rape/murder. He wants to prove this, even though it could possibly jeopardize his own promising political career. The detective who forced The Fall Guy to confess tries to talk him out out it to preserve both their careers, and then kills the victim when he sticks to his guns.
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Cold Case / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Cold Case / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Rampage": "Daniela": "Libertyville": "Soul": "The Woods": "The Plan": "Red Glare": "Spiders": "Boy Crazy":
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Cold Case / int_4eb2ef02	type	Vehicle Vanish
Cold Case / int_4eb2ef02	comment	Vehicle Vanish: In "Sherry Darlin'", Lilly is meeting with a suspect at Berks elevated rapid transit station. At a tense moment, a train passes between Lilly and James and, when it has passed, James is gone.
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Cold Case / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Cold Case / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Many of the more sympathetic killers try to turn into this, living exemplary lives to make up for what they did, or living crappy lives as a means of punishing themselves. The victim in "The Brush Man", who had accidentally killed a Domestic Abuser in a bar fight years before, and after serving his manslaughter sentence begins giving money to the dead man's widow (who is nevertheless relieved to be rid of him). The victim in "Blood On The Tracks" is determined to go to the police and confess to a crime he and his friends had been involved in that resulted in another friend's death. Unfortunately, he fails to anticipate the rest of them making sure he keeps his mouth shut.
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Cold Case / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Cold Case / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Many of the Time-Shifted Actors (especially at the end of the episode) would "change" back and forth between then and now via a flash instead of a Wipe/Body Wipe. Neither Valens nor Miller were featured characters; Scotty replaced Lilly's first partner, Chris Lassing, who traded in being a cop to be a doctor and Kat didn't appear until the third season. Not everyone was single: Vera was married and Scotty had a longtime serious girlfriend named Elisa. Come season three, both men were single, with the former being left by his wife by then and the latter's girlfriend committing suicide. Speaking of Vera, season one had him occasionally being dealt fat jokes by his fellow detectives and he even admitted that he was unpopular in high school. This is done away with later on, having him instead portrayed as a popular hockey player and ladies' man who was also elected prom king. The cases boxes went throught many designs changes during season 1, such as having the year of the case's resolution written on the lid ("Love Conquers All"), having a different front ("Fly Away", "Volunteers"), or having victims sharing the same case box when latter episodes would imply that every cases box is individual even when the victims died in the same accident ("Volunteers").
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Cold Case / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Cold Case / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Det. Vera. Even though he NEVER stays with any of the women he hooks up with, it boggles the mind how someone as uncouth as he is always tends to get them.
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Cold Case / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Cold Case / int_4f84cdef	comment	Jim Larkin ("Lover's Lane") starts out as a Smug Snake... until the team reveals they have DNA evidence, at which point he has a Freak Out and rants about how both the victim and her boyfriend should have died that night.
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Cold Case / int_4fc172d5	type	Divorce Requires Death
Cold Case / int_4fc172d5	comment	The killer in "Gleen". Being a retired firefighter and caring father makes for fine sheep's clothing. But underneath, he's a controlling, overbearing monster who scared off his first and third wives and killed his second wife, the victim and mother of their child, with a bomb he plants.
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Cold Case / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Cold Case / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The killers from "Rampage" shoot up a mall, killing 15 people while wounding many others, after a rape victim egged them on to kill her attackers. "Thrill Kill". The doer kills his son and his friends because of a harmless prank they pulled on him (it ended up triggering his intense fear of the dark, but still). None of these hold a candle to the guy from "Disco Inferno", who murders 23 people over an insult to his dancing skills and displays not one iota of remorse—and said insult was only given after he had just attacked the victim in the hopes that he could break the guy's legs or damage them enough so he couldn't win the dance contest. The victim is understandably ticked off at having been assaulted. "Fireflies". A white girl defends her black friend from a racist boy. Said boy is humiliated and breaks into her house and attempts to kill her. It wasn't just that. The boy is being beaten daily by his father because of a situation that starts when the white girl befriends the black girl. He shoots at them to scare both into breaking their friendship, but thought he had accidentally murdered one... and then went to kill the other so she couldn't tell anyone. Luckily, the girl survived. The serial killer from "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet" targets the people he blames for his father's suicide, and later for his own business failing. Most of them are nothing more than innocent bearers of bad news. The killer in "Sabotage" is a serial bomber targeting people who have wronged him. The crimes that draw his ire include: being a medical assistant at the hospital that didn't treat his daughter due to his lack of insurance, not respecting his decision not to sell his father's home, and refusing to refund a broken radio. Most of his victims are just enforcing policies they have no control over. As for the one he arguably has the most right to be angry at—his brother, who abandons him during his daughter's illness and allows their father's home to be demolished—he still manages to go above and beyond by targeting the man's wife and young daughter. The preteen killers in "The Sleepover" and "One Small Step" murder for the most ridiculous of reasons. The former for simply losing her chance to be the Alpha Bitch's friend, and the latter for being continuously one-upped by the new kid in the group. The killer in "The Lost Soul Of Herman Lester", a Sports Dad of a high school basketball player, simply chooses to stab the star player to death because he believes that he made his son lose interest in basketball, without actually confirming anything with his son first. All the Cycle of Revenge killings and senseless waste of life in "Saving Patrick Bubley" started because a gangster wants to steal a scooter off a 12-year-old and murders the boy's brother when he comes to his defense.
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Cold Case / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Cold Case / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The victim in "Witness Protection" videotapes his deposition so that even if he is killed the crime boss will go to jail.
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Cold Case / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Cold Case / int_51300dbf	comment	In "Ravaged", the victim's sexually harassing Fat Bastard boss is revealed to have kept her dog after she died.
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Cold Case / int_5158df81	type	The Casino
Cold Case / int_5158df81	comment	The Casino: In "The Hitchhiker", the team reopens the 1997 murder of Matthew Mills, a 20-year-old hitchhiker killed on his way back to Philadelphia after winning big in Atlantic City, and the episode features multiple flashbacks showing what happened in the casino.
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Cold Case / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Cold Case / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Sort of necessary, given the format, since murder is one of the few crimes with no Statute of Limitations. However, there have been a few aversions: "Fireflies". The victim never actually dies. She is just kidnapped and due to the bullet the kidnapper shoots into her head, forgets who she is. She is put into the adoption system as a runaway and eventually is reunited with her real parents (and gets her memory back) thirty years later. "Ghost of My Child". Much like the above example, the victim is kidnapped and presumed dead. He is reunited with his mother in the end. In â€œThe Riverâ€� and "The Good Death", it is the result of a Mercy Kill rather than a cold-blooded murder. "Fly Away", "Best Friends", and "Baby Blues" are supposed to be double suicides but they go awry and only one person dies. In "Two Weddings", the victim jumps to his death the night before his wedding after hearing that his first wife, whom he was still in love with, dies after being in a coma for 8 years.
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Cold Case / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Cold Case / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: The popular girls clique in "The Sleepover" hate each other as grownups. The victim has this with one of the girls in the clique; they were close friends until the one girl was invited into the clique, whereupon she stopped being friends with the victim so as not to risk her popularity by being associated with an "uncool" kid. The footballers and the cheerleaders in "Stand Up And Holler" were this, though they're sort of forced back into it at the school reunion, but most of them have barely seen each other for years before then.
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Cold Case / int_51a3ba7	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_51a3ba7
Cold Case / int_52fc4d4b	type	Daddy Didn't Show
Cold Case / int_52fc4d4b	comment	Daddy Didn't Show: Subverted in "Static". Apparently, Daddy took too long to show. His wife is pissed off, and shoots him when he tries to apologize.
Cold Case / int_52fc4d4b	featureApplicability	-0.3
Cold Case / int_52fc4d4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_52fc4d4b
Cold Case / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Cold Case / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: "It Takes A Village" starts with the victim bidding farewell to his grandmother as she's sitting on the porch (this was the last time she saw him alive). It ends with her in the same place, listening to his iPod, looking up to see his spirit standing there before he smiles and fades away as he turns to head down the steps, just as he did in the beginning. Virtually every episode starts with the victim's case file/box being put away and ends with it being put away again, except with the word "SOLVED" now written on it.
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Cold Case / int_53224e46	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_53224e46
Cold Case / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Cold Case / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: The show runs on this trope in order to portray events in the past as told by people who knew or encountered the Victim of the Week.
Cold Case / int_53c9fc92	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_53c9fc92	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_53c9fc92
Cold Case / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
Cold Case / int_544b2bff	comment	Signature Item Clue: In "8:03 AM", Miller's informant Toomey has a very distinctive dreamcatcher pendant. Over the course of the investigation, the detectives learn that the pendent originally belonged to one of the two victims, who had given it to the second victim as thanks for pulling her out of a dangerous situation. On learning this, Miller realises that the only way Toomey could have the pendent is if he was involved in the murders.
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Cold Case / int_544b2bff	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_544b2bff
Cold Case / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
Cold Case / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: Two episodes, "Volunteers" and "Wings", involve the Victim of the Week's friend who suffers through a botched abortion which leaves her infertile (both were set in the 1960s and highlighted the trouble criminalizing abortion could cause, rather than serving to punish the characters).
Cold Case / int_545f8c91	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_545f8c91	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_545f8c91
Cold Case / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
Cold Case / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: The premise of the series.
Cold Case / int_54c6b2b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_54c6b2b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_54c6b2b6
Cold Case / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Cold Case / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death, "Glued", "Ravaged", "Baby Blues", "Committed".
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Cold Case / int_55180ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_55180ce
Cold Case / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
Cold Case / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: The girl murdered in 1919 is originally thought to be a lesbian after a letter from her maid talking about their "shared passion" is read. The actual subject is them being suffragettes.
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Cold Case / int_561dab6b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_561dab6b
Cold Case / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
Cold Case / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Jeffries grew up in the poorest part of Philadelphia and wanted to be a Gang Banger as a kid, until he was straightened out by his football coach and his first boss and became a cop instead. As such, a good way to piss him off is to suggest he "sold out" by doing so. In "Wunderkind", a slimy witness insinuating he's forgotten "his people" leads to Jeffries almost strangling the guy. In "Fireflies", a suspect tries to curry Jeffries' favor by reminding him how bad black people had it in the '70s. Jeffries simply responds that he lived through the '50s and '60s.
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Cold Case / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Cold Case / int_590eb583	comment	The killer in "A Perfect Day" perceives his wife as this, although it's pretty clear to everyone else that he's the one with the problem.
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Cold Case / int_590eb583	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_590eb583
Cold Case / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Cold Case / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Jimmy Tully and Gene Karnow, boxing opponents with a fair amount of Interservice Rivalry, going against a threatening civilian together in "Shore Leave".
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Cold Case / int_5989e3b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5989e3b6
Cold Case / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Cold Case / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: The main premise of the show, as the killers in most episodes get away with their crimes for years before the case is re-opened by the protagonists and they are eventually arrested for their crimes.
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Cold Case / int_599f943f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_599f943f
Cold Case / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Cold Case / int_59b9f4df	comment	Speaking of Vera, season one had him occasionally being dealt fat jokes by his fellow detectives and he even admitted that he was unpopular in high school. This is done away with later on, having him instead portrayed as a popular hockey player and ladies' man who was also elected prom king.
Cold Case / int_59b9f4df	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_59b9f4df	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_59b9f4df
Cold Case / int_5a33cf5	type	Future Loser
Cold Case / int_5a33cf5	comment	Future Loser: A special yet recurrent variant is to show people that were beautiful or hot in the past (and exploiting it for their benefit) to be "fugly" or having aged way worse than others in the present, especially if they weren't good people back then. Examples include the rival male dancer in "Disco Inferno", the football player in "Stand Up and Holler", the Gold Digger in "The Runaway Bunny", the Beta Bitch in "The Sleepover", the gorgeous blonde in "Justice" (though the latter two are more sympathetic cases), and the former prom king in "Almost Paradise". None are hit as hard as the dumb babysitter in "Baby Blues", who in the modern day is still dumb, really ugly and now... "works" in the street. Notably averted in "Debut" - all of the young, beautiful high-society debutantes (male and female) are still fairly attractive (for their age) 40 years later. Wealth and privilege can have that effect. Several characters in "The Badlands" have gone from being decent people to criminals.
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Cold Case / int_5a33cf5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5a33cf5
Cold Case / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Cold Case / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: In "Willkommen", we never learn why Lilly hates musical theatre so much.
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Cold Case / int_5a3b8032	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5a3b8032
Cold Case / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Cold Case / int_5ad80bf8	comment	Missy in "Roller Girl" sees her loose-goose friend, Julie, drugged senseless and about to be taken advantage of by a sleazy skating rink manager. Instead of just turning a blind eye and going home, she protects Julie and eventually helps her home. An embarrassed Julie repays her by breaking off their friendship and refusing to let Missy stay the night at her place, and this ultimately leads to Missy's accidental death. Unlike the similar example in "The Sleepover", though, Julie at least has the decency to feel bad about it and make some serious life changes.
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Cold Case / int_5ad80bf8	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5ad80bf8
Cold Case / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Cold Case / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: The killer's nine-year-old niece in "Strange Fruit" is forced to watch a lynching. The killer is a real piece of work, as you can probably tell. In "A Perfect Day", Cindy's abusive husband at one point threatens "to take away what she loves the most". One of the women who runs the battered women shelter translates this as: he'll murder their children and make her watch him do it. Nice guy. He does in fact murder one of their children in front of her, but she is able to save the other.
Cold Case / int_5af55436	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5af55436	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5af55436
Cold Case / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
Cold Case / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: "Lotto Fever". His financial adviser states so himself.
Cold Case / int_5b88d4c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5b88d4c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5b88d4c4
Cold Case / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
Cold Case / int_5c554458	comment	The victim's tutor in "Glory Days," after years of working his ass off while watching Dumb Jocks get a free ride, becomes very jaded and starts to see the jocks as a means to an end. But once he sees that the victim not only takes school very seriously but is also very intelligent, they become fast friends. It also helps that the victim is a Lovable Jock.
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Cold Case / int_5c554458	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5c554458
Cold Case / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Cold Case / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Some episodes have their own. "Thrill Kill": What You Are in the Dark. "Glory Days": What do you do if you find out that the person you idolize isn't as good as you thought they were? "Boy Crazy": Abandonment. "Running Around": You Can't Go Home Again, or can you? "Saving Patrick Bubley" is partly about a family's attempt to rise above poverty and achieve success, whether by legitimate or illicit means. An idealistic person who has become jaded can easily be pushed from one side to the other.
Cold Case / int_5ce7dbb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5ce7dbb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5ce7dbb9
Cold Case / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Cold Case / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: In the early seasons, Lilly is not just the only female member of the Cold Case squad, but it is stated several times that she is the only female detective in Philadelphia. Or at least, the only female homicide detective in Philadelphia. Female detectives from other parts of Philadelphia are introduced after the second season and in later seasons, Kat joins the squad.
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Cold Case / int_5d753b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5d753b19
Cold Case / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
Cold Case / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Played with in "Libertyville"; the victim was afraid of this because he was hiding his race, but his daughter was born with no signs of her black ancestry.
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Cold Case / int_5d88876d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5d88876d
Cold Case / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Cold Case / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: A weird version: In Season 3's "Detention", the Ending Montage song is the Smashing Pumpkins' cover of "Landslide". In next season's "Fireflies", where the victim turns out to have survived, the Ending Montage song is the original version by Fleetwood Mac.
Cold Case / int_5da37ab5	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5da37ab5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5da37ab5
Cold Case / int_5e04ab60	type	No Mercy for Murderers
Cold Case / int_5e04ab60	comment	No Mercy for Murderers: In episode "Blackout", the doer, the daughter of the Evil Matriarch who had previously molested her brother and was now attempting to do the same to her teenage son, drowns her to protect him. At the end, in spite of her remorse, her confession, and her sympathetic reasons, she is still arrested to her, her brother and son's anguish. In "The Promise", a group of girls are invited to a frat house's "pig party" and one of them, who was also raped by a local politician who attended the party, set the house on fire in retaliation, which unintentionally killed one of the other women due to being locked in a room by the frat president. In spite of the rape and the likely temporary insanity she suffered at the time, she's still arrested for her culpability in her friend's death, to Detective Josie Sutton's dismay.
Cold Case / int_5e04ab60	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5e04ab60	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5e04ab60
Cold Case / int_5e5b1f43	type	Sports Dad
Cold Case / int_5e5b1f43	comment	The younger daughter, particularly in the present-day, from "Superstar". Even though the pushy Sports Dad was a Jerkass to his tennis-playing elder daughter during her lifetime, years later, he mourns her death and acts as if she were his only child. It isn't until Lilly calls him out on this that he finally gets his act together.
Cold Case / int_5e5b1f43	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5e5b1f43	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5e5b1f43
Cold Case / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Cold Case / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: The Victim of the Week in "Breaking News".
Cold Case / int_5f52cfcf	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_5f52cfcf	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_5f52cfcf
Cold Case / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Cold Case / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: A variation is occasionally used where the key piece of evidence is a prized possession of the victim's that has mysteriously gone missing; usually, this item turning up in the hands of one of the suspects is all the detectives need to close the case.
Cold Case / int_60492b98	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_60492b98	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_60492b98
Cold Case / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Cold Case / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: The victim in "Blackout" had seduced and molested her son for years, and is now starting in on her grandson when she is killed.
Cold Case / int_606244c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_606244c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_606244c2
Cold Case / int_60985aa7	type	In with the In Crowd
Cold Case / int_60985aa7	comment	Subverted with Jim Horn in "Wednesday's Women". He joins the Ku Klux Klan, but mostly just because everyone else is doing it and kills the victim, a white civil-rights activist, not out of racism but because she embarrassed him in front of his much-more-racist friends.
Cold Case / int_60985aa7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Cold Case / int_60985aa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_60985aa7
Cold Case / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Cold Case / int_617f0563	comment	The victim in "The Runaway Bunny" is a former Philadelphia cop who was fired from the force for being on the take. He becomes a very disreputable private investigator but eventually performs a Heelâ€“Face Turn that results in his death when he realizes what his Black Widow client is up to.
Cold Case / int_617f0563	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_617f0563	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_617f0563
Cold Case / int_6205320f	type	Trans Tribulations
Cold Case / int_6205320f	comment	Trans Tribulations: The victim in "Boy Crazy" is diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" (the older term for gender dysphoria, from when being trans was pathologized and considered synonymous with it), and winds up being murdered for presenting as a boy. The earlier episode "Daniela" focuses on a trans woman in the 70s who is Driven to Suicide when her boyfriend's father forces them to break up.
Cold Case / int_6205320f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6205320f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6205320f
Cold Case / int_6269a4b3	type	Psycho Psychologist
Cold Case / int_6269a4b3	comment	Psycho Psychologist: The killer in "Mind Games" is a respected psychiatrist who is secretly mentally ill himself and in denial about it. When he is diagnosed and prescribed medication by one of his subordinates, the hit to his ego is such that he not only kills her, but tricks her favorite patient into disposing of the evidence for him.
Cold Case / int_6269a4b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6269a4b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6269a4b3
Cold Case / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
Cold Case / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The flashbacks in "Blood on the Tracks" are all in the same house, over a weekend. In "Blackout", the flashbacks are in the same house over a matter of hours. "Almost Paradise" depicts the victim's prom night. "One Night"—all of the present day scenes take place over... one night, as do most of the flashbacks. "Two Weddings" does the same thing, with both the flashbacks and the present day investigation taking place over one day in their respective time periods.
Cold Case / int_62907b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_62907b90	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_62907b90
Cold Case / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Cold Case / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: "The Sleepover". The victim, a mousey teen named Rita, is invited by her wannabe-popular former bestie, Ariel, to a sleepover where the mean girls mock her appearance and weight and only half-joke about killing her. The leader ends up tossing Rita and Ariel out despite the fact that (or partially because) Rita tries to save her from her abusive parents. This results in Ariel thinking she's not part of the clique anymore, blaming Rita for it, and killing her in a fit of rage.
Cold Case / int_63389b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_63389b0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_63389b0b
Cold Case / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Cold Case / int_6375f746	comment	The dance instructor in "Shuffle, Ball Change" combines this with Drill Sergeant Nasty. At first, he comes off as a complete asshole towards the victim, but he recognizes talent when he sees it. Knowing the victim is unable to leave his job at the family supermarket to take lessons, he makes it a point to visit the market daily and teach the victim on the sly.
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Cold Case / int_6375f746	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6375f746
Cold Case / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
Cold Case / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: At the end of most episodes, the ghost of victim is seen by the officers and/or by someone whom they were close to (family, friend, etc.). Occasionally the killer will also see the victim. Subverted in episodes in which the victim is not seen: one because the case isn't closed, and another because the victim is only an infant at the time of death. And then, there's the one where it turns out the victim isn't dead.
Cold Case / int_6459cc02	featureApplicability	-0.3
Cold Case / int_6459cc02	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6459cc02
Cold Case / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Cold Case / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Usually averted: unless someone has amnesia, the majority of the killers and other criminals on the show (obviously) remember the murders vividly. Reaction to the detectives confronting them on the crime, however, ranges from either a confession, attempting to downplay their roles in it or shifting the blame onto another person, or outright refusing to speak with the investigators.
Cold Case / int_648fe274	featureApplicability	-1.0
Cold Case / int_648fe274	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_648fe274
Cold Case / int_64972c10	type	Flashback Effects
Cold Case / int_64972c10	comment	Flashback Effects: Flashback scenes imitate the style and appearance of actual footage from that time period, including Deliberately Monochrome for really old cases, spots on the film, and what have you. An episode where the crime happened at a party in 2004 has flashback footage looking like it was filmed with a camera phone. An episode set in 1990 looks as though it were filmed on home video. Episode 3x01, "Family", is set in 1988. They use a pop art style with four windows in one screen, and exaggerated colors. "The Woods", set in 1972, has flashbacks that appear to have been filmed with low-quality Super-8 home movie film, giving the scenes a de-saturated quality that adds to the nightmarish atmosphere of the story.
Cold Case / int_64972c10	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_64972c10	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_64972c10
Cold Case / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Cold Case / int_658f7193	comment	The frat leader in "The Promise". After luring the victim and her friends into going to a "pig party", they were fat-shamed, force-fed alcohol and assaulted. When one of the traumatized women sets the frat house on fire in revenge, he locks the victim in a room to die for embarrassing them and continues to badmouth her memory in the present day.
Cold Case / int_658f7193	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_658f7193	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_658f7193
Cold Case / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Cold Case / int_65acf9db	comment	The drug dealer in "Discretion" participates in a sting operation to help the cops bust the initial murderers; the main victim had been killed after discovering the man arrested for that crime had been framed.
Cold Case / int_65acf9db	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_65acf9db	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_65acf9db
Cold Case / int_66c2ca76	type	Nazi Grandpa
Cold Case / int_66c2ca76	comment	Nazi Grandpa: "The Hen House" has a Nazi distant uncle, or rather a Nazi who assumes said relative's identity after killing him.
Cold Case / int_66c2ca76	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_66c2ca76	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_66c2ca76
Cold Case / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Cold Case / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: "Officer Down" deals with a current homicide that is solved within a few hours instead of a cold case.
Cold Case / int_670db7d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_670db7d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_670db7d7
Cold Case / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Cold Case / int_676e942c	comment	In "The Promise", a group of girls are invited to a frat house's "pig party" and one of them, who was also raped by a local politician who attended the party, set the house on fire in retaliation, which unintentionally killed one of the other women due to being locked in a room by the frat president. In spite of the rape and the likely temporary insanity she suffered at the time, she's still arrested for her culpability in her friend's death, to Detective Josie Sutton's dismay.
Cold Case / int_676e942c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_676e942c	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_676e942c
Cold Case / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Cold Case / int_6774150c	comment	"A Perfect Day", and how! In a fit of If I Can't Have Youâ€¦, an abusive husband forces his wife to choose which of their twin daughters she'll save, and which one he'll throw off the bridge. You can guess what happens next.
Cold Case / int_6774150c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6774150c	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6774150c
Cold Case / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Cold Case / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In "Saving Sammy", Valens and Vera go to interview a witness who has autism. Valens tells Vera to take off his yellow tie as the witness does not like the colour yellow. Vera refuses. The next shot has them walking into the room of the boy with autism. Vera is not wearing his tie.
Cold Case / int_680f950	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_680f950	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_680f950
Cold Case / int_687c78ff	type	Railroad Tracks of Doom
Cold Case / int_687c78ff	comment	Railroad Tracks of Doom: "Wishing": The victim, a mentally challenged young man, makes a wish with his eyes closed while standing on some tracks and is run over by a train.
Cold Case / int_687c78ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_687c78ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_687c78ff
Cold Case / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
Cold Case / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Both the originals ("The Hen House") and the imitators ("Spiders").
Cold Case / int_697b5232	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_697b5232	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_697b5232
Cold Case / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Cold Case / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: The store clerk from "Maternal Instincts" had a crush on the victim who was killed in 1989 and had hoped that they would become a couple, with him even giving her free diapers for her kidnapped baby. Upon being rejected by her one final time and her subsequent murder, even though she was exposed for being a manipulative, promiscuous child abductor, he still considered her the one and his once-cheerful personality was now more pessimistic in the present day fifteen years later.
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Cold Case / int_6a42ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6a42ef
Cold Case / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Cold Case / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The FBI agents from "Red Glare". Everything turns black & white when they come around.
Cold Case / int_6a47a1e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6a47a1e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6a47a1e2
Cold Case / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Cold Case / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: In "The Key", the victim's husband is incensed that his wife is cheating on him, despite the fact that he's been cheating on her left and right for years. Interestingly enough, he is NOT the murderer.
Cold Case / int_6ae4dedd	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6ae4dedd	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6ae4dedd
Cold Case / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Cold Case / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: Multiple episodes feature the Victim of the Week dying after being shoved (down a flight of stairs, off a balcony, onto a curbstone, etc.) by the killer.
Cold Case / int_6af8ebb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6af8ebb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6af8ebb5
Cold Case / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Cold Case / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The killer in "That Woman" takes her high school chastity club so seriously that she never even sleeps with her husband, costing her her marriage.
Cold Case / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6b35bdff	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6b35bdff
Cold Case / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Cold Case / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: In "Family", a Prom Baby is born shortly before her father is murdered, when he reneges on a deal to have the doer adopt the baby after deciding to raise her himself.
Cold Case / int_6b7e3069	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6b7e3069	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6b7e3069
Cold Case / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Cold Case / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: At the end of "Bombers", having learned that his mother was raped, Scotty is distressed to see her pulling away from his father when he touches her hand. After he's avenged her, at the end of "Almost Paradise", he's pleased to see HER reaching for HIS hand, laughing and smiling, clearly having recovered from her ordeal.
Cold Case / int_6bd689ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6bd689ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6bd689ca
Cold Case / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Cold Case / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name : Deconstructed when you have a pedophilic social worker named Josh Freely who freely abuses his power over single mothers and their daughters. Not surprising that a woman named Sherry Fox turns out to be a con-artist.
Cold Case / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6bda9a30
Cold Case / int_6cbcd596	type	Gangbangers
Cold Case / int_6cbcd596	comment	Gangbangers: All of the suspects in "Saving Patrick Bubley".
Cold Case / int_6cbcd596	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6cbcd596	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6cbcd596
Cold Case / int_6d2a892a	type	Everybody Is Single
Cold Case / int_6d2a892a	comment	Everybody Is Single: Vera is the only team member who is married, and he gets divorced in season one.
Cold Case / int_6d2a892a	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6d2a892a	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6d2a892a
Cold Case / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Cold Case / int_6d332aea	comment	The earlier episode "Daniela" focuses on a trans woman in the 70s who is Driven to Suicide when her boyfriend's father forces them to break up.
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Cold Case / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6d332aea
Cold Case / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Cold Case / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: One of the suspects in "Daniela" is a man named John who frequently hires prostitutes.
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Cold Case / int_6d7026fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6d7026fa
Cold Case / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Cold Case / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: The dead woman from "Committed" is using the identity of a murder victim. The killer from "Blood on the Tracks" takes the identity of one her victims. As it turns out, this is easy to do as they bear a strong resemblance to each other. In "The Hen House", the murderer is a Nazi guard at Auschwitz who had stolen the name of a young man killed at the camp, both to escape and in an attempt to redeem himself. With the rest of the family also having died at the camp, he easily passes without much question, even going so far as to join the man's living family members in the US (who didn't have a way of knowing it was a impostor, having likely never met him) and lives among them for over sixty years. He is only caught thanks to an investigation into the murder he committed in the 40's, both to prevent from being exposed and being half-enraged/half-heartbroken that his victim (whom he'd fallen in love with) rejected him after finding out what he'd done.
Cold Case / int_6d7cd3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6d7cd3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6d7cd3e
Cold Case / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Cold Case / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: In the final minutes of the series finale, Lilly discovers she's an aunt when she finds her missing sister—and her infant daughter.
Cold Case / int_6d9bc945	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6d9bc945	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6d9bc945
Cold Case / int_6e5da6fe	type	UngratefulBitch
Cold Case / int_6e5da6fe	comment	Ungrateful Bitch: Brandi from "The Sleepover", Natalie from "A Dollar, A Dream", and Julie from "Roller Girl". The latter two get better, though. The killer in "A Perfect Day" perceives his wife as this, although it's pretty clear to everyone else that he's the one with the problem.
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Cold Case / int_6e5da6fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6e5da6fe
Cold Case / int_6fba77ef	type	Moon-Landing Hoax
Cold Case / int_6fba77ef	comment	Moon-Landing Hoax: One of the suspects in "One Small Step" believes that the moon landings were faked. The murder the police are investigating occurred on the day of the first moon landing, and the events of that day may have fueled his later delusion.
Cold Case / int_6fba77ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_6fba77ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_6fba77ef
Cold Case / int_701c45bb	type	Played for Horror
Cold Case / int_701c45bb	comment	Played for Horror in "Blackout". Being seduced by a hot older woman isn't nearly as sexy when you're only 13 and related to her.
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Cold Case / int_701c45bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_701c45bb
Cold Case / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Cold Case / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: Such a dealership and its almost universally sleazy sales force are central to events in "The Dealer".
Cold Case / int_70bdac19	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_70bdac19	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_70bdac19
Cold Case / int_710f3133	type	Just One Little Mistake
Cold Case / int_710f3133	comment	Just One Little Mistake: This comes up a lot in the suspects' earlier interviews, before the confession. By rights, they should be saying something like "I met with the victim and we planned a robbery so she could collect the insurance," with the flashback on-screen being something that the audience sees to facilitate the story, but it always turns out that the suspect is literally describing the encounter down to the smallest detail, so the suspect is telling the police "I planned to take these specific items, and the signal was that her phone would ring twice," even though there was no reason to include that specific information. "The Road" has probably the best example in the series. Guy gets pulled over for speeding. Traffic cop notices blood in his car. Detectives are called in to investigate. Investigation reveals guy is actually a brutal Serial Killer. Perhaps an even bigger example in the same episode is when the killer overshares details about his latest victim's final hours and mentions she was able to keep her sanity because she could count the days using the chiming of a nearby church's bells. Rush's Kensington background allows her to identify the location of the church and by extension, the basement where the victim is walled up, allowing her to be saved in time and reunited with her fiancÃ©. Several other episodes (including "Debut" and "Sandhogs") have the villains' greed get the better of them and they steal a victim's prized possession off the body. One suspect in "Devil Music", in his first interview, sings a few lines of a song written by the victim. Later on, however, another witness claims that she is the only one the victim had told about the song. Adding to the fact that the first guy turns out to have lied about his alibi, this makes the case a slam-dunk. Speaking of alibis, the villain in "Iced" contracting out his snowplow job to his underage cousin turns out to be what does him in, as the plow company's records are able to confirm it was the cousin behind the wheel that night. In "The Dealer", the killer is caught because he stripped the victim's car for parts and added them to his own. The detectives actually point out that if he had just refrained from doing this, he almost certainly would've gotten away with it. In "November 22nd", the culprit makes the mistake of writing a letter to the victim's last rival, calling him the nickname she called him.
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Cold Case / int_710f3133	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_710f3133
Cold Case / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Cold Case / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: In "Stand Up and Holler", we have one of those rare examples where it's not Played for Laughs. A flashback shows two girls, Celeste and Rainey, who are ordered to kiss each other as part of a hazing initiation into the cheerleading squad. Celeste encourages Rainey in going ahead with it, since it would be "Stoopid" (slang term for cool). Rainey responds, "Exactly", in the sense she thinks it would be "stupid". Needless to say, the miscommunication prompts Celeste to go ahead with kissing her friend.
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Cold Case / int_71152dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_71152dd
Cold Case / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
Cold Case / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: In "Sherry Darlin'", it looks as if the main suspect James is about to confess to smothering his grandmother with a pillow. However, at the last moment, he decides he cannot go through with it. His girlfriend, who had put him up to it, takes the pillow and does it herself.
Cold Case / int_716cdf08	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_716cdf08	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_716cdf08
Cold Case / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Cold Case / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: The victim and her daughters from "A Dollar, A Dream" suffer from this fate. Their husband/father became sick with cancer and the medical bills wiped their savings out. More heartbreakingly, he dies from it, leaving the family now destitute since the victim was a housewife and without anyone else to help them, they lose their home and start living in the family car. The victim is eventually able to find a job as a cashier, but they still have to resort to humiliating means to be able to bathe and use other faculties, all while the mother befriends a homeless man who ultimately kills her and the elder daughter blames her for their situation, even telling her that she should have died instead of their father.
Cold Case / int_71e8a5c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_71e8a5c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_71e8a5c5
Cold Case / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Cold Case / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: The killer in "Slipping" tries to drive his wife to suicide by making her believe the ghost of her mother (who had killed herself) is after her, while maintaining the facade of a caring husband to her face.
Cold Case / int_727a65e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_727a65e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_727a65e0
Cold Case / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Cold Case / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The agent in "Witness Protection" sleeping with his clientâ€™s wife as well as not telling him he was living near one of the people he thought he was testifying against.
Cold Case / int_7286e96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7286e96d
Cold Case / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Cold Case / int_729c69f3	comment	Everything up to and including the title of the episode in "Colors" wants you to think race was the motive. The killer is the only non-racist white character in the episode.
Cold Case / int_729c69f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_729c69f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_729c69f3
Cold Case / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Cold Case / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: The victim in "Bad Reputation" finds this out the hard way when his former associates and a Dirty Cop force him to go back to committing heists, despite his efforts to stay clean for the sake of his son.
Cold Case / int_72b0dfd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_72b0dfd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_72b0dfd2
Cold Case / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Cold Case / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked in "Stand Up and Holler". A friend of the victim anonymously posts a (false) confession to having murdered her, complete with a drawing that matches an image that had been drawn on the victim's leg, because he wants to force the police to take another look. (He knows about the drawing because he is the one who drew it, during a conversation with her shortly before she was killed.)
Cold Case / int_72e0023f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_72e0023f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_72e0023f
Cold Case / int_72f83d04	type	School Nurse
Cold Case / int_72f83d04	comment	School Nurse: A suspect in season 3 opener "Family". She's a school nurse who talks kids out of getting their pregnancies "taken care of" because "murder is never easy."
Cold Case / int_72f83d04	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_72f83d04	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_72f83d04
Cold Case / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Cold Case / int_7301ae04	comment	Paul and Claire Shepard in "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet". He's an overweight, nerdy, infertile Serial Killer. She's a cute-as-a-button Luna Lovegood lookalike who seems about half his age and has no knowledge of his... extracurricular activities.
Cold Case / int_7301ae04	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7301ae04	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7301ae04
Cold Case / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Cold Case / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Played straight with George Marks, by Lilly.
Cold Case / int_73328e84	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_73328e84	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_73328e84
Cold Case / int_73f51de7	type	Jerkass Ball
Cold Case / int_73f51de7	comment	Jerkass Ball: Vera tends to catch this whenever the writers need to make a point. He's made misogynistic statements, expressed belief in the "no humans involved" principle (that criminals killed by criminals aren't worth the police's time), and even made a pro-rape comment at one point, which is especially weird since in other episodes he's the one most disgusted by rapists.
Cold Case / int_73f51de7	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_73f51de7	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_73f51de7
Cold Case / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Cold Case / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Virtually every episode has a word or phrase that reflects powerfully on the victim, the prep or some other meaningful element of the case at hand: "The woods" in the George Marks two-parter. "Nobody cares" in the Paul Shepard two-parter. "The Republican Hotel" in "Wings". "Together we stand" in "Glory Days".
Cold Case / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7464705c
Cold Case / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
Cold Case / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: Lilly and Kat.
Cold Case / int_74c9cf33	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_74c9cf33	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_74c9cf33
Cold Case / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Cold Case / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: The mostly forgotten detectives Chris Lassing (Lilly's first partner) and Josie Sutton. Saccardo goes through this twice. There is Scotty's girlfriend Elisa, who was Put on a Bus to Hell: To an asylum after suffering a mental breakdown, despite Scotty promising her she wouldn't be interned. And then suffered a Bus Crash: By jumping off a bridge some time after she had been discharged. All this happened off-screen.
Cold Case / int_754df088	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_754df088	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_754df088
Cold Case / int_75588c15	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Cold Case / int_75588c15	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent (Waking the Dead and Cold Squad)
Cold Case / int_75588c15	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_75588c15	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_75588c15
Cold Case / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Cold Case / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Purposefully used in the opening scene of every episode. Each shows an idealized world where everyone is happy. The rest of the episode then subverts and deconstructs this trope as it reveals that the lives of the people in the opening scene were quickly thrown into upheaval or that they were all secretly miserable the whole time.
Cold Case / int_75f626a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_75f626a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_75f626a5
Cold Case / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Cold Case / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: The baddie in "Late Returns" turns out to be the older sister of a prominent Congressman, who had molested him as a child. In the present she's his campaign manager, and still retains a disturbing obsession with and degree of control over him.
Cold Case / int_771f6307	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_771f6307	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_771f6307
Cold Case / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Cold Case / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: George Marks believes that "God's a sociopath." John Smith refers to Him as "the greatest conman of all."
Cold Case / int_77473d35	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_77473d35	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_77473d35
Cold Case / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Cold Case / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Led to the pre-series divorces of John Stillman, and is the reason for some of Lilly's failed relationships. Subverted in Vera's case. Yes, like with Stillman, his job was very important to him, but it's seen and implied many times that he was unfaithful to his wife and was unable to get her pregnant, all of this culminating in her leaving him.
Cold Case / int_775a1af6	featureApplicability	-0.3
Cold Case / int_775a1af6	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_775a1af6
Cold Case / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Cold Case / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: "A Time to Hate", "Colors" and "Stealing Home". All three are Baseball Episodes.
Cold Case / int_77922c8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_77922c8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_77922c8c
Cold Case / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Cold Case / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Some of the killers are this, either because the parents are Abusive Parents or because the children have problems of their own. Season 7's "Dead Heat" is a good example of the latter.
Cold Case / int_780a078e	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_780a078e	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_780a078e
Cold Case / int_7813e9c4	type	The Fall Guy
Cold Case / int_7813e9c4	comment	This also leads to the victimâ€™s murder in "Discretion". He is a District Attorney who finds out the defendant in his first big case that he is supposed to prove guilty is actually innocent of the rape/murder. He wants to prove this, even though it could possibly jeopardize his own promising political career. The detective who forced The Fall Guy to confess tries to talk him out out it to preserve both their careers, and then kills the victim when he sticks to his guns.
Cold Case / int_7813e9c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7813e9c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7813e9c4
Cold Case / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Cold Case / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: One of the story arcs in season seven is the department suffering severe budget cuts, which coincides with CBS also doing budget cuts on the series. Possible Take That! involved in the fact that the guy forcing those cuts is a new Deputy Commissioner that Stillman despises.
Cold Case / int_786bf97f	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_786bf97f	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_786bf97f
Cold Case / int_79505052	type	Popular Is Evil
Cold Case / int_79505052	comment	Popular Is Evil: Played With with each Girl Posse member in â€œThe Sleepoverâ€�. With them, nothing is clear cut. The violent Alpha Bitch with anger issues has a Freudian Excuse, the Beta Bitch has a reason for hating the victim and regrets it an hour later, and the Nice Girl ends up being the killer. In â€œStand Up and Hollerâ€�, Rainey Karlsen and Celeste Church join the varsity cheerleading squad, only to find out how corrupt and cruel the other cheerleaders are. When Rainey tries to quit, she is accidentally poisoned by the head cheerleader in a brutal attack with tainted beer. Intoxicated and alone with Celeste, Rainey tells her she is going to get the squad disbanded. Not wanting to lose the popularity she has gained with the squad, Celeste leaves Rainey on the football field to die.
Cold Case / int_79505052	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_79505052	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_79505052
Cold Case / int_7a004c0d	type	TimeShiftedActors
Cold Case / int_7a004c0d	comment	Many of the Time-Shifted Actors (especially at the end of the episode) would "change" back and forth between then and now via a flash instead of a Wipe/Body Wipe.
Cold Case / int_7a004c0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7a004c0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7a004c0d
Cold Case / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Cold Case / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: "Beautiful Little Fool" involves a formerly rich family who lost everything in the Stock Market Crash. By the present day, the only surviving member of the family is an old woman who was but a child in 1929. She still lives in her family's faded mansion. She does, however, mention that while the family lost a lot at first, they essentially survived the Crash and didn't fall as hard as others, which makes it all the more sad, since they could've taken in her brother's baby daughter.
Cold Case / int_7a0374eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7a0374eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7a0374eb
Cold Case / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Cold Case / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: "Revolution", "Honor", "War at Home", "Family 8108", "The Brush Man", "The Good Soldier".
Cold Case / int_7a143509	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7a143509	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7a143509
Cold Case / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Cold Case / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: "Devil Music" is a deconstruction of Type 1, in a similar vein to Pleasantville. It's set in a seemingly-idyllic Leave It to Beaver-style community, but over the course of the episode, the victim, an Elvis Presley Expy, starts discovering and bringing to light dirty little secrets about the town, such as its incredibly-restrictive racism and sexism. He's ultimately killed by his cousin, who had bought into the facade completely and blamed the victim for taking his utopian life away from him (but, of course, it was never utopian to begin with and the cousin was missing the point).
Cold Case / int_7a265daa	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7a265daa	featureConfidence	1.0
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cold Case / int_7a265daa
Cold Case / int_7aeb0635	type	Arms Dealer
Cold Case / int_7aeb0635	comment	An Arms Dealer in "Time to Crime" is arrested simply for being this, selling a gun to the person who tries to kill him, who just happens to be a 12-year-old-boy.
Cold Case / int_7aeb0635	featureApplicability	1.0
Cold Case / int_7aeb0635	featureConfidence	1.0
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Cold Case / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Cold Case / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: Due to the budget cuts of the series by CBS, episodes in season seven were not only filmed in Los Angeles instead of Philadelphia, but there were more cases that occurred within the last ten years instead of being decades old. Furthermore, not every character appeared in every episode save for Lilly. Whereas the earlier seasons had the detectives more or less straight and narrow, come season six, their motives and behavior become more morally ambiguous. Such an example has the one detective of unimpeachable character, Lt. Stillman, out of the blue being retconned into carrying on an affair with FBI Agent Yates that apparently broke up his marriage (instead of the original reason of him being Married to the Job). Karma Houdinis are more common later in the series as well, including the Evil Stepmother from "The Runaway Bunny", whoever stabbed the (in all likelihood innocent) inmate Joe Don Billingsley in "Flashover" and most notoriously Scotty, who arranged for his mother's rapist to be murdered in prison during the final episode.
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Cold Case / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Cold Case / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: How Lilly defeats George Marks in "The Woods". After forcing her to relive one of her worst memories (her mother sent her out to get alcohol which resulted in Lilly getting attacked and beaten by a mugger) she finally realizes why George is so interested (as well as the double meaning of his taunts about how she was "betrayed by those you thought you loved most").
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Cold Case / int_7b71737e	type	Closet Gay
Cold Case / int_7b71737e	comment	"It's Raining Men" has a gay man being murdered by his own Closet Gay brother fearing the former might out him.
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Cold Case / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Cold Case / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: "Creatures of the Night" has The Rocky Horror Picture Show star Barry Bostwick as a serial killer, in an episode about the murder of a The Rocky Horror Picture Show fan. "One Fall" has "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as a fictional wrestler.
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Cold Case / int_7b8ee2f5	type	I Remember Because...
Cold Case / int_7b8ee2f5	comment	I Remember Because...: For a show that relies mostly on witness statements going back as far as 1919, they really don't rely on this trope much. Someone who claims not to remember something unremarkable from 20 years ago is almost certainly lying. That said, they do put forth the effort sometimes. An early episode, "Love Conquers Al" has Lilly expect a witness not to remember anything specific about the night a girl her boyfriend might have known was killed, but she remembers exactly where she was because she was losing her virginity to said boyfriend. Subverted. She and the boyfriend killed the girl because he'd cheated with her. Season 6 has episodes where the victim was killed during the first moon landing ("One Small Step") and the same day as JFK ("November 22"). An old man in "Static" recalls a random conversation between the victim and a suspect from nearly fifty years prior... because the suspect later did time for killing a bank teller during a robbery.
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Cold Case / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
Cold Case / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: In "One Small Step", a witness who hands in a piece of evidence related to a murder that took place on the day of the first moon landing uses the alias 'Michael Collins', the name of the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission.
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Cold Case / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Cold Case / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: The only witness in "Saving Sammy" is a boy with High-Functioning Autism. He regresses for several years, making it hard for him to even speak, much less tell the truth.
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Cold Case / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
Cold Case / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Happens a lot. Harry Kemp in "Libertyville" is a notable example, being sidelined in the company in favor of his brother in-law. The victim in "Read Between the Lines" is murdered because she is this. She and her younger sister are foster kids, and their foster mother is much more attached to the sister (if understandably so—she initially tries to connect with both of them, but the victim, jaded by past experience, pushes her away). Then she figures out that her foster father is a pedophile because of the way he looks at her. When the foster mother finds out she's planning to leave and take her sister, she murders her in a panicked rage. The younger daughter, particularly in the present-day, from "Superstar". Even though the pushy Sports Dad was a Jerkass to his tennis-playing elder daughter during her lifetime, years later, he mourns her death and acts as if she were his only child. It isn't until Lilly calls him out on this that he finally gets his act together.
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Cold Case / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Cold Case / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Often happens during the interrogation that leads to the perpetrator's confession and just before The Reveal of the actual murder scene. Stillman gives a particularly vicious one in "Chinatown" to another cop who is discovered to be in bed with the Tongs, the Chinese mob. The guy is completely aware of who the local Tong boss is and could have arrested him at any time, which would have prevented the murders, but didn't because he felt there was no point, as someone else would just take over, so the cop made a deal with the boss to keep the gang violence low. Stillman... was not amused. Victims usually give them to their killers before their death, such as in "Ravaged", "8:03 AM", "Stand Up and Holler", and "Glory Days".
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Cold Case / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Cold Case / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: "Mind Hunters". The killer chases his victims through the woods before shooting them in the head and decapitating them.
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Cold Case / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Cold Case / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted. The episodes that flash back far enough don't shy away from the racism or sexism that was prominent at the time. Deliberate Values Dissonance is in full effect. Even the cases set in later years don't ignore how prevalent discrimination still is—in 2001/2004, a landlord blithely admits that she would never rent to a black tenant nor even allow black people in her building, while an innocent black murder suspect admits that he ran from the police because he knew he'd be the prime suspect simply for being a black man in the vicinity of a badly injured white woman and her dead child.
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Cold Case / int_7e84a642	type	Serial Rapist
Cold Case / int_7e84a642	comment	Likewise, in "Justice", where the dead guy is a Serial Rapist murdered by the then-12-year-old brother of one of his victims, Rush and Valens goad the brother into saying he acted in self-defense, with Vera and Jeffries turning off the audio in the interview room and claiming to hear nothing. The case is later closed as a justifiable homicide and he faces no charges.
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Cold Case / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Cold Case / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The serial killer from "It Takes a Village." Surely someone who tortures, mutilates and murders young boys just because they are able to beat him at a video game couldn't possibly have any sympathetic qualities, right? As it turns out, the game is symbolic of a room in a particularly awful foster home where he spent his childhood, during which he and five other boys were made to stand naked on a square for days at a time by his counselor. He attempts a Moment of Awesome by standing up to said counselor. Instead of joining in, the other boys gang up on him and cut his finger off. He targets boys who remind him of the ones that attacked him and at times seems to legitimately believe it's them, even though it's been over 20 years. By the time the detectives catch up to him, he's an incoherent mess who slips in and out of third person. He finally comes to his senses long enough to realize that his latest intended prey is just an innocent little boy who had nothing to do with what happened to him, so he lets him go. As awful as his crimes are, even the detectives can't help but feel a tinge of sympathy for him, or at least for the little boy he used to be. The killer from "Sabotage". A man pushed to the edge after losing his house to a legal battle with developers and his job to the company moving overseas, while his daughter died of cancer due to delayed health insurance and his wife divorced him soon after. He became a Mad Bomber sending timed bombs to people who perceived to have wronged him. The pedophile killer from "Offender" qualifies, given that he has been wrongfully incarcerated for killing his own child for 20 years, is freed largely on a technicality (prime evidence was contaminated) and his own wife abandons him. By the time he finally confronts the bastard who killed his child and framed him for the deed, he's completely lost it. Phil, one of the robbers from "Dog Day Afternoons", qualifies as such. Despite his cold, almost murderous exterior, he actually has somewhat of a heart, and actually wants to get out of the robbery business for good, unlike his boss Julius Carver, and tries to warn Roween Ryan about Julius's lying nature as well as his having another accomplice that he seduced to helping him rob the bank. When she decides to set off the alarm so Julius will be caught, Phil also tries to stand up to Julius when he orders him to execute her, but unfortunately, he is verbally and emotionally broken by Julius' words, and thus ends up having to kill her anyway. At the end, despite his being the murderer, you actually have to pity him. The Congressman in "Late Returns", if you can even call him a "destroyer" at all. As a teenager, he was taken advantage of by his controlling older sister, and ultimately kills his girlfriend essentially on a reflex when her touch causes him to have flashbacks to his sister abusing him. The killer in "Revenge", that is, the pedophile's son. It helps that he doesn't physically kill the little boy his father has abducted, although he does tell him to swim an impossibly long distance. But the fact that he's solely motivated by his mistaken belief that his monstrous father actually loves him. Also in "Revenge": the father who feels so blamed for his son's death that he shoots the pedophile whom, he believes, killed him. As the victim is a pedophile and murderer who even abused his own son, it's hard to feel any sympathy for the victim over the killer. Tina from "Rampage". She had been gang-raped in the back room of a mall by some Jerk Jocks, and lost her best friend immediately afterward due to a misunderstanding. She ends up walking up to two disturbed teenagers who work at the mall and tells them point-blank "Kill. Everyone." Which they do. Quite messily. And not just the jocks but literally everyone, including children. When she gets arrested at the end, it almost feels like the detectives are kicking the dog, especially as she didn't actually kill anyone. Deidre from "The Promise". She was invited to a frat party which turned out to be a ritual where she and several others were fat-shamed and force-fed alcohol, and she was sexually assaulted by a councilman at the party. Traumatized, she sets the frat house on fire, but unknowingly killed one of the girls who was deliberately locked in a room by the fleeing frat president. Paul Shepard from "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet" has a pretty rough life, too. His father lost his business due to a minor clerical error by his accountant's secretary, then lost most of his property due to being unable to keep up payments and ultimately Ate His Gun. Paul himself settles down with a fellow film geek and opens a video store, but then the home video market crashes and, at the same time, he discovers he can't have children, and finally snaps.
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Cold Case / int_7f0f19e5	type	I Coulda Been a Contender!
Cold Case / int_7f0f19e5	comment	I Coulda Been a Contender!: Many of the victims die before they reach their full potential.
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Cold Case / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Cold Case / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: The Victim of the Week is fleshed out in numerous flashbacks that keep him/her onscreen throughout the entire episode. As such, it is often very easy to forget that these persons are already dead despite their death having been established within the first five minutes, making the final scenes that depict their murder and the person responsible quite gut-wrenching.
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Cold Case / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
Cold Case / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: The prom queen victim in "Almost Paradise". As the episode progresses, she works to make peace with everyone she's alienated and pissed off with her popularity, only to be murdered over something completely unrelated that same night.
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Cold Case / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Cold Case / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Happens relatively often. One example is Matthew Ridgely from "Debut". After the victim (the daughter of his childhood friend and family housekeeper) tries to withdraw from the debutante ball due to the unavailability of her father (whom she was supposed to bow in front of), he offers to stand in for Emma's dad. This was a kind gesture without any ulterior motives, but if he hadn't done so, then Emma wouldn't have gone to the ball and been killed there. The detectives also wonder if it might have caused Matthew's daughter to murder her out of jealousy, although this turns out to be just another Red Herring.
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Cold Case / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Cold Case / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: At times, it's the point of the prologue. It helps to introduce the characters of the week to the audience. In "Strange Fruit", a father is put-off by how a gelatin dish is brought to the BBQ by an African-American family and tries to discourage his daughter from having some. He even tries to convince her to have cake, despite her reminding him she doesn't like cake.
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Cold Case / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Cold Case / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The flashbacks that fill in the gap between when we first meet the victim and when they are murdered. Occasionally, they even fill in the blanks from before the introduction.
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Cold Case / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Cold Case / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Isaac Keller. He only appears in two season four episodes, "Shuffle, Ball Change" and "A Dollar, A Dream", but it's revealed that he was the one who killed Jeffries' wife years earlier in a hit-and-run. In the latter episode, Jeffries confronts him and nearly kills him, but stops himself at the last minute and forgives him.
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Cold Case / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
Cold Case / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: The couple in "Lonely Hearts" team up to kill women for profit.
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Cold Case / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
Cold Case / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: How the sisters in St. Mary (an American Magdalene laundry) want the girls to think of themselves in "The Goodbye Room". The victim actually defies this:
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Cold Case / int_815db542	type	Phony Veteran
Cold Case / int_815db542	comment	Phony Veteran: The victim's wife's boyfriend in "Honor", who pretended to be the victim while he was a POW. Fellow Vietnam vet Stillman gives a guy a Tranquil Fury Moment of Awesome by telling him "you lie about being a race car driver or a brain surgeon, but never a POW".
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Cold Case / int_815ea36	type	Foreign Wrestling Heel
Cold Case / int_815ea36	comment	Foreign Wrestling Heel: One of the wrestlers interviewed in "One Fall" plays an angry Communist Russian character.
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Cold Case / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Cold Case / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Basically any episode in which there was an example of: Asshole Victim: "Blackout", "Justice", "Greed", "The Plan", etc. An Asshole Victim that's not the main victim: "Revenge", "Offender", "A Perfect Day", etc. Averted in "Maternal Instincts", which has an Asshole Victim... and an Even Bigger Asshole Killer. Accidental Murder: "Kensington", "Late Returns", "Detention", etc. A mercy killing, like in "The River", "The Good Death", "Boy Crazy", etc. A crime of passion, committed in the heat of the moment and almost instantly regretted - "The Sleepover", "Colors", "Shuffle, Ball-Change", "Andy in C Minor", and others. A plain tragic killer, such as in "The Promise", "The Good-Bye Room", "Cargo", etc.
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Cold Case / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Cold Case / int_81ae2774	comment	In episode "Blackout", the doer, the daughter of the Evil Matriarch who had previously molested her brother and was now attempting to do the same to her teenage son, drowns her to protect him. At the end, in spite of her remorse, her confession, and her sympathetic reasons, she is still arrested to her, her brother and son's anguish.
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Cold Case / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
Cold Case / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: "Thick As Thieves". The detectives investigate the past of the victim Margot and her boyfriend Spencer, eventually discovering that Margot and Spencer are con artists and they aren't a couple, as an informant tells them:
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Cold Case / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Cold Case / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The agenda of a suspect in season 3 opener "Family". She's a School Nurse who talks kids out of getting their pregnancies "taken care of" because "murder is never easy." The show doesn't push the issue, as the character is a radical anti-abortion activist who has been arrested on multiple occasions in the process of pushing her cause, usually violently. Averted in Season One's "Volunteers". The victims were helping run an abortion clinic in the 60's, and are even presented heroically because of this. One of the victims' friends tells the detectives that the female victim initially found the clinic (which, unlike many back-alley "clinics" at the time, was operated by an actual doctor) when she needed an abortion, and was so grateful for being able to get a safe procedure (especially after seeing the horror show that one of her friends went through) that she joined the group to help other women get the same. The victim in "The Goodbye Room" is a pregnant teen who is instead sent to a home for unwed mothers ran by nuns. As the flashback is set in the 1960s, abortion was not easily accessible then.
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Cold Case / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Cold Case / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Jakob in "Running Around". He talks about how he hates the Amish world and is happy in the English world, but he's actually deeply screwed up and wants to go home. Unfortunately, because he's addicted to drugs, they refuse to let him back. He ultimately murders the victim because she refuses to help him go back (having decided to tough Rumspringa out in order to make a more informed choice), and because he resents her having a supportive family waiting at home. "Torn": The murdered suffragette is accidentally killed by her mother after she tells her, "You're not happy, Mother."
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Cold Case / int_83ab1b39	type	The Tragic Rose
Cold Case / int_83ab1b39	comment	The Tragic Rose: Played very, very straight in "Daniela". The titular girl is given a rose corsage by her boyfriend as they prepare for prom. Then the boy's father arrives and the boy denies their relationship out of some combination of embarrassment and fear, and the corsage ends up in the trash along with her bloodied clothes after she kills herself. Rose Collins, in the episode "Best Friends", who is still mourning her one true love 70 years later.
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Cold Case / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Cold Case / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: The victim from "A Time of Hate". He's a baseball player on his college's team and when he goes to The Hush Room, where there are plenty of Camp Gay and Crossdressers there, he just sits at the bar and enjoys both the atmosphere and his drink.
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Cold Case / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Cold Case / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: In "The Hitchhiker," the team gets involved because one of their old cases is related to two similar cases from other states. By combining their resources and narrowing down suspects who don't have alibis for all three murders, they're able to quickly identify a suspect. Unfortunately, while he did kill the other two men, he's not responsible for the Philadelphia case, which means the FBI just got lucky that he didn't happen to be accounted for that day. If he'd been alibied for the murder he didn't commit, they would have ruled him out.
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Cold Case / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Cold Case / int_84249fbc	comment	"Almost Paradise" had the victim's mousy, bespectacled Hopeless Suitor grow up to be a tough martial arts instructor, albeit one who still uses an inhaler.
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Cold Case / int_84b1a036	type	Gay Aesop
Cold Case / int_84b1a036	comment	Gay Aesop: The whole show is this, even during episodes where a gay person is not the Victim of the Week. However, it also crosses into being a Broken Aesop due to the tremendous amount of crap that the gay victim/relative/non-victim/etc. goes through during the episode.
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Cold Case / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Cold Case / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: The victim in "Stealing Home" uses his skill as a baseball player to get into the country.
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Cold Case / int_8510bb62	type	Saved by the Church Bell
Cold Case / int_8510bb62	comment	Saved by the Church Bell: One victim in "The Road" is saved from her abductor because the villain gets overconfident and tells the investigators that the woman is able to stay sane due to being able to hear nearby church bells, which she uses to count her days in captivity. Det. Rush's knowledge of the neighborhood in question allows her to determine where she is being held and rescue her.
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Cold Case / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
Cold Case / int_863fac26	comment	Tina from "Rampage". She had been gang-raped in the back room of a mall by some Jerk Jocks, and lost her best friend immediately afterward due to a misunderstanding. She ends up walking up to two disturbed teenagers who work at the mall and tells them point-blank "Kill. Everyone." Which they do. Quite messily. And not just the jocks but literally everyone, including children. When she gets arrested at the end, it almost feels like the detectives are kicking the dog, especially as she didn't actually kill anyone.
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Cold Case / int_8657c5	type	Rhyming Title
Cold Case / int_8657c5	comment	Rhyming Title: "Time to Crime" "Thrill Kill"
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Cold Case / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Cold Case / int_868409c	comment	"Glory Days": What do you do if you find out that the person you idolize isn't as good as you thought they were?
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Cold Case / int_869e787c	type	Creepy Gym Coach
Cold Case / int_869e787c	comment	The Creepy Gym Coach raped one of his students, and after learning she was pregnant, lied about her fidelity to her boyfriend, his star student who saw the coach as a father figure. Years later, he begins stalking the couple's troubled teenaged daughter and lies that he's her father (though it's unclear whether or not he believes this), planning to take advantage of her like he did to her mother.
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Cold Case / int_87021519	type	Ghost Reunion Ending
Cold Case / int_87021519	comment	Ghost Reunion Ending: The series almost always ends with somebody seeing the victim. Often, they are seen by a detective, but also a loved one (especially in the later seasons).
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Cold Case / int_8709b3b7	type	MedleyExit
Cold Case / int_8709b3b7	comment	Nick Vera: "Our Boy is Back", "Triple Threat", "Flashover" he is suspended during the Medley Exit.
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Cold Case / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Cold Case / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In "Saving Patrick Bubley", Miguel Maldonado and Patrick's older brother, Vaughn, fight over Patrick's scooter. Miguel lets Vaughn think he's won the tussle, then catches him off-guard and shoots him to death. Season six is full of these plot lines where an episode initially sets up one person (usually a more viable and unlikable character) to be the killer, only for the killer to be someone unexpected or even close to the victim: "Glory Days": Instead of the asshole coach being the killer of the football star, it's The Mentor to keep him quiet from discussing his illegal misdeeds with steroids. "Breaking News": Instead of it being the jealous and ambitious co-anchor who kills the reporter, it is her mentor who kills her due to her investigating a local plant and its connection to making citizens ill. "The Dealer": Instead of any of the female car dealer's many sexist and racist coworkers being her killer, it is another coworker who isn't either of those but still kills her in the heat of the moment. "Mind Games": While it looks like the therapist's client, a mentally ill young man with an imaginary friend, has a breakdown and kills her, it is a coworker who is secretly mentally ill himself.
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Cold Case / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Cold Case / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Half the killers in the show until they're caught, to the point of being a staple... the idea is that these people may have adjusted totally normally to life afterwards, but they still killed someone. A notable example is Ariel in "The Sleepover" who kills her "best friend", Rita, solely because Rita tries to comfort Ariel for losing the monstrous Brandi as a friend. She ends up as the most respected of the friend group after this, becoming a doctor.
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Cold Case / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Cold Case / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: The victim in "The River" flashes his friend a smile, after requesting that said friend kill him so his wife and son can collect on his life insurance policy. He wears it right up to the moment his friend honors his wish and shoots him.
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Cold Case / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
Cold Case / int_8970d739	comment	The One That Got Away: Some cases have the victims being killed right when they are about to meet up with a love interest, with said love interest never finding out about their death and assuming they just abandoned them, only to find out the truth years later. These include "Revolution", "Shore Leave", and "Free Love".
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Cold Case / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Cold Case / int_8a817c2a	comment	The killer's brother in "Strange Fruit" may be a rapist and a Morally Bankrupt Banker, but the lynching of a man and making a child watch brings even him to tears.
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Cold Case / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Cold Case / int_8ae880f7	comment	"Running Around" features a deconstruction of the All Girls Want Bad Boys trope as a major plot element. Turns out the dreamy, leather-clad drug dealer with a seeming heart of gold really is just a knob.
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Cold Case / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
Cold Case / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: The episodes "Fly Away", "The Woods", and "Ghost of My Child" have the child service workers being a pedophile, a burglar, and a child kidnapper, respectively.
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Cold Case / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Cold Case / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: With only a few exceptions, the victim of the week, whose death is established in the opening sequence, yet remains onscreen throughout the episode, fleshed out via flashbacks with the information provided by friends, family members, etc. Occasionally, some of those tertiary characters themselves fit this trope, depending on how long ago the murder took place (1919, 1929, etc.)
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Cold Case / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Cold Case / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: "The Runner": three fatal gunshots to the heart. "Offender": rape followed by murder. "A Perfect Day": the victim falls several stories and drowns. "Disco Inferno": main victim killed and burned along with everyone else in the disco.
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Cold Case / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
Cold Case / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: "Discretion" has a Hispanic detective and prosecutor (the latter is the episode's main victim) working a Missing White Woman Syndrome case being seen as this by their community, since the prime suspect was Hispanic as well.
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Cold Case / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Cold Case / int_8cb4ea46	comment	Whereas the earlier seasons had the detectives more or less straight and narrow, come season six, their motives and behavior become more morally ambiguous. Such an example has the one detective of unimpeachable character, Lt. Stillman, out of the blue being retconned into carrying on an affair with FBI Agent Yates that apparently broke up his marriage (instead of the original reason of him being Married to the Job).
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Cold Case / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
Cold Case / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: In quite a few episodes, the Victim of the Week in a given case is so infamously reviled that part of the challenge in solving the case comes in the form of finding evidence to narrow down the suspect pool, and some of the potential suspects, when interrogated, outright confess to wishing to have killed the Asshole Victim in question but never did so for whatever reason they had (not knowing better back then, the method for which the victim died would have been too merciful by their standards, etc.).
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Cold Case / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Cold Case / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: While the revelation of who the doer was in "Time to Crime" was heartbreaking, to say the least, that doesn't really change the fact that he was a complete and utter moron. Dude buys a gun that he intends to use to kill someone from the same person he intends to kill, then instead of, say, shooting him right there, he waits until the guy is in the middle of a crowded park, then fires randomly into said crowded park, and not only misses his target, but hits his own sister by accident. Perhaps he knew that shooting the guy right then and there would immediately focus suspicion on him, whereas shooting at him via a drive-by might leave the case unsolved? (The victim was well-known as a local criminal and there would have been no shortage of suspects.) Maybe he had second thoughts about killing the victim and only the realization that the man was going to continue to be a problem for his family spurred him on? Most likely, as the killer himself said, he was just copying what he saw from a television show. While incredibly intelligent, he was still just 12 years old; the thought of shooting the guy right then and there probably never entered his mind. Also, he was looking for an alibi—he chose that night because both his parents were out but knew he was home.
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Cold Case / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Cold Case / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The end of "Stalker", which has the killer go batshit and take several members of the team hostage, shooting and nearly killing both Lilly and John.
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Cold Case / int_8e6a882b	type	Prison Episode
Cold Case / int_8e6a882b	comment	Prison Episode: "The House" takes place in a prison; it involves an escape attempt and the death of an inmate.
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Cold Case / int_8e76ea52	type	Fish-Eye Lens
Cold Case / int_8e76ea52	comment	Fish-Eye Lens: The flashbacks in "The Hitchhiker" are mostly shot like this.
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Cold Case / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Cold Case / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Averted in "Maternal Instincts", which has an Asshole Victim... and an Even Bigger Asshole Killer.
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Cold Case / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Cold Case / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: "Disco Inferno" is The Jazz Singer, in The '70s.
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Cold Case / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Cold Case / int_90c018ac	comment	Two other episodes ("Torn" and "Beautiful Little Fool") have the murder take place so long ago (1919 and 1929 respectively) that an investigation seems utterly pointless, since virtually everyone involved with the case is dead, so it's a safe bet the killer is too. The 1929 case might be at least partially Justified by the fact that they'd recently closed a 1932 case where the two key people (other than the victim, of course) are still alive ("Best Friends"), so they might have perceived a slim chance that the same would hold true for the 1929 case, but the 1919 one had to be a Foregone Conclusion.
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Cold Case / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Cold Case / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Because of his claustrophobia and the nature of his crimes, merely being caught is this for the killer in "The Road", as it means heâ€™ll spend the rest of his life locked in a cell.
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Cold Case / int_90f6b68a	type	The Suffragette
Cold Case / int_90f6b68a	comment	The Suffragette: The oldest cold case that Lilly and her team handle in "Torn" is set in 1919, and involves the murder of Frances Stone, a suffragette who is in conflict with her family for joining the movement. She and her family maid, Phil, are inspired to join the movement after Frances sees that Phil has a black eye courtesy of her husband, who disapproved of her reading a pamphlet given by the suffragettes. However, Frances' mother tries to appeal to her that giving women the right to vote will to lead to Prohibition being enacted, which will shut down the family's brewing business. Despite being briefly imprisoned and threatened to be disowned by her father, Frances sticks to her beliefs, leading to a heated argument with her mother, who accidentally causes her to fall off the second story balcony, killing her.
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Cold Case / int_912ada71	type	Faux Interracial Relationship
Cold Case / int_912ada71	comment	Faux Interracial Relationship: The victim in "Colors" is a black man in a relationship with a white woman. Except it turns out that the woman is also black and just passing as white (he was aware of it).
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Cold Case / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Cold Case / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: The victim in "Glued" is a little boy that doesn't understand the pressures of being raised by a single mother or the racist tension in his neighborhood. He is killed by someone who claims something like "he betrayed his race", again something he didn't understand.
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Cold Case / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
Cold Case / int_9315c635	comment	Lovable Jock: The victim and his best friend in "Glory Days". The coach and sponsor of the team had been slipping them steroids against their will, the side-effects of which cause the friend to lose his scholarship. When the victim confronts the sponsor, the sponsor murders him.
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Cold Case / int_931773f1	type	Lovable Nerd
Cold Case / int_931773f1	comment	Rita in "The Sleepover" is a kind and smart, but bullied and unpopular Lovable Nerd who is murdered for trying to comfort her former best friend who got rejected by the cool girls.
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Cold Case / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Cold Case / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: "Soul" had Chandra the church girl and Beatrice, a girl with a reputation who is secretary to a record producer. It turns out to be a Betty and Veronica Switch—the victim ends up having a son with the latter and gets killed by the former because she's a Yandere.
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Cold Case / int_953a8ee8	type	Age Cut
Cold Case / int_953a8ee8	comment	Age Cut: The viewer is frequently treated to flashes between the younger and older versions of the characters. Frequently happens mid-sentence, in fact.
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Cold Case / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Cold Case / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: George Marks suffers this after Lilly resists being completely broken, confronts him about his past, and rips his god complex apart saying that all he is is a frightened little boy whose mommy never loved him. In the span of two minutes, George goes from Smug Snake / Manipulative Bastard to a lunatic who can only scream, "You shut up!" over and over again. After watching him walk away like a smug bastard in "Mind Hunters", watching George lose it feels strangely satisfying. John Smith ("The Road") kind of has this too. He's rattled by the fact that his latest victim refuses to give up hope of rescue, leading him to make the mistake that gets him arrested, and he's infuriated that Lilly doesn't give up either and instead figures out where the victim is being held in time to save her from starving to death. Jim Larkin ("Lover's Lane") starts out as a Smug Snake... until the team reveals they have DNA evidence, at which point he has a Freak Out and rants about how both the victim and her boyfriend should have died that night. The killer in "Shore Leave" has a pretty epic one when the detectives inform him that the man he tried to wash out of the military by framing him for the theft of an officer's gun (which led to him killing the victim when the latter refused to go along with this) went on to become a Navy Cross-winning Marine.
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Cold Case / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Cold Case / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: The father in "Superstar" realizing he's been neglecting his youngest daughter all these years by obsessing over his oldest daughter's death and her lost career. The guy who hires someone to steal his car for the insurance in "Resolutions" after coming this close to going down for murder due how much of a Jerkass he is, to the point that that he becomes The Atoner. The father in "Shuffle, Ball Change", who declares, "It haunts me how I raised those boys. Pushing one (the athletic wrestler who is more like him), ignoring the other (the dancer who is more like his late wife)", realizing that he set the stage for one to murder the other out of jealousy.
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Cold Case / int_95af2c0c	type	Standard Cop Backstory
Cold Case / int_95af2c0c	comment	Standard Cop Backstory: Lilly's father abandoned the family when she was young. She grew up on welfare with an alcoholic mother and an irresponsible younger sister. She has a history of failed romances and, outside of these failed romances, no personal life.
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Cold Case / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
Cold Case / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: Brenda the kidnapping victim and her fiancÃ© David in "The Road". She races up and hugs him, and he lifts her off her feet and in a circle as both of them beam with happiness.
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Cold Case / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Cold Case / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: We never find out whether Elisa, Scotty's childhood sweetheart, was murdered or committed suicide. Evidence is offered both ways, but nothing is stated for certain.
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Cold Case / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Cold Case / int_970c790a	comment	A particularly notable example is Linda Boyka, the Big Bad in "Cargo". At first, she seems to be quite The Chessmaster, never losing her cool during her interrogation while freely admitting to her crimes because, according to her, it doesn't matter, as she calmly states that by the time the case is over, the team will have no evidence against her, she will go free, and The Dragon, who flipped on her, will be dead before he ever gets the chance to testify (even though he's already in prison). By the end of the episode, exactly none of this has happened, showing she really is just full of hot air.
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Cold Case / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Cold Case / int_973d220f	comment	The two teenage boys in "Thrill Kill", who donâ€™t realize that playing for the camera in a murder trial against three children is a bad idea. To make matters worse, after they reopen the case, the surviving one tries to invoke Never My Fault.
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Cold Case / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Cold Case / int_978a82e6	comment	Perhaps the biggest example is in "Love Conquers Al", as even the killers acknowledge it wasn't. Big Bad Duumvirate Jane and Bennett kill Bennett's other woman, Paige, because he had cheated on Jane with her. Their relationship breaks down anyway, so it is literally All for Nothing.
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Cold Case / int_984763bb	type	555
Cold Case / int_984763bb	comment	555: 215-555-0196, in "Saving Sammy". The number flashes on the doer's cell phone, putting him at the crime scene.
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Cold Case / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Cold Case / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Well, probably not all wardens, but the one in "The House" certainly is. Though as an expy of Samuel Norton, could he be anything else?
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Cold Case / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Cold Case / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A particularly heartbreaking one in "Wishing" gives us a girl who has a crush on the Victim of the Week, a mentally-challenged teenager. One day alone in class, she tries to kiss him, and when her meathead boyfriend walks in, she lies and said he tried to sexually assault her so that she wouldn't get a "bad reputation". This causes the boy to be beaten up by said boyfriend and his gang of thugs (as well as his only friend, who is embarrassed by him) and her parents to file charges against him. Because of his alleged sexual deviance, he ends up institutionalized in the worst tier of the facility where the care for the patients is horrifyingly neglectful. In addition, the boy's loving mother (and one of only two people at this point who gives a damn about him) is dying of cancer as all of this is occurring, the boy's father won't take care of him because of his mental status and the boy's caregiver, who is also dating the mother, takes him from the institute and has him ran over by a train rather than let him live a life of loneliness and neglect. In present day, the the now-adult girl tears up in remorse upon realizing that she inadvertently caused the death of an innocent and harmless boy because of a little white lie. The teacher/priest in "That Woman". He has an affair with the killer and when the victim points out the hypocrisy, the killer (who is already unstable) blames the victim for what happened and kills her. When interviewed, he admits that he transferred largely out of guilt for causing the victim's death. The Jerkass in "Pin Up Girl" who asks the killer out to get close to the victim, even laughing in her face for not realizing that is what he's doing. If the wife in "Revenge" hadn't told her brother-in-law about her husband's bearer bonds like she was told not to, her son would be alive today. Roy Brigham Anthonyâ€™s aunt in "Creatures of the Night" is the one who gave him the idea that the voice in his head is God telling him what to do. Before that, he believes he is crazy and could have gotten help. This is one of the few instances when the instigator is perfectly aware of it. Dr. Breslin in "It Takes a Village". Had he actually done something about the abuse going on at the foster home, for example the boys being made to stand naked for days on end, poor Malik might not have been tipped over the edge by having his finger cut off by the other boys and the victims would certainly still be alive. In the present day, he does show some regret, though it only took 21 years and four children dying for it to sink in that he failed. By telling Jerry in "Yo, Adrian" that his fight is fixed, his girlfriend starts the process that leads to his death. By threatening and yelling at him after he had an outburst at a debate, the victim's partner in "Forensics" convinces him to quit debate, which his coach REALLY disapproves of.
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Cold Case / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Cold Case / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: The Central Theme of the show is how the death of the victim changes the lives of everyone involved and how its consequences still reverberate through the years.
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Cold Case / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
Cold Case / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: A few minor examples with the side characters. The victim in "Colors" is almost the first man to break the race barrier in baseball, but then he is killed and the honor goes, as per history, to Jackie Robinson (who appears as a minor character in the episode). Likewise, the victim in "Devil Music" is in the process of recording one of the first demos for American Bandstand and would have been one of the first rock and roll artists to appear on television if he hadn't been killed. The (fictional) 1995 mall shooting in "Rampage" is listed alongside Columbine by Stillman as an example of famous acts of violence that lead to the push for modern gun control laws. There have also been a couple fictional politicians and a fictional first woman to break the sound barrier (it was actually Jacqueline Cochran). There were only two deaths at the famous 1969 Woodstock music festival: a drug overdose and an accident involving a tractor. The episode "Free Love" adds an In-Universe third one: the Victim of the Week, who is shot to death.
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Cold Case / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Cold Case / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Some of the killers are this to the victim or someone else involved. The killer in "Witness Protection" to the victim. They both made mistakes that they are trying to make amends for and have difficult family lives because of this. But while the victim is getting his life together and realizes he canâ€™t let his family pay for his mistakes, the killer wants to hold on to what he has with an iron fist. The gang leader in "The Badlands" is this to Jeffries. Both grew up in the titular neighborhood, the roughest part of Philly, and both aspired to be in the gangs. Jeffries, however, meets the right people, who straightened him out, while the positive influences in the gangster's life, the episode's victims, are killed. Jeffries using this fact to empathize with the gangster, pointing out that he'd likely have ended up the exact same way in the same situation, scores him some critical testimony.
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Cold Case / int_9b60b728	type	Addled Addict
Cold Case / int_9b60b728	comment	A victim's brother in "The Badlands", who has gone from Addled Addict to upstanding military recruit in the year since the murders. It turns out that HE'S the killer and this is his effort to atone for his actions.
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Cold Case / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Cold Case / int_9cad69bf	comment	"It's Raining Men" has a character who is a Depraved Homosexual who deliberately gives other men HIV in 1983, become a kindly pet shop owner by 2004 who is literally seen playing with puppies in the ending montage.
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Cold Case / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Cold Case / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: A couple of the suspects in "Blackout". One of them responds to learning of the Rwandan Genocide with "Isn't that where the gorillas are?"
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Cold Case / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Cold Case / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Knife: How the victim in "Kensington" dies. One wonders why he bothered, since the guy he saved was a Too Dumb to Live Ungrateful Bastard.
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Cold Case / int_9ce7c264	type	Future Badass
Cold Case / int_9ce7c264	comment	Future Badass: A victim's brother in "The Badlands", who has gone from Addled Addict to upstanding military recruit in the year since the murders. It turns out that HE'S the killer and this is his effort to atone for his actions. "Almost Paradise" had the victim's mousy, bespectacled Hopeless Suitor grow up to be a tough martial arts instructor, albeit one who still uses an inhaler.
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Cold Case / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Cold Case / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The opening scenes often drop hints as to what led to the victim's murder. In "Blood On The Tracks", a character declares, "If I died tomorrow, no one would know or even care." By the episode's end, we learn that she WAS killed the very next day and that her killer assumed her identity (they looked very much alike). And indeed, there is no one in her life to notice or care. It also foreshadowed that twist in the Cold Open flashback—the killer's own husband, a longtime friend of both women, confuses her for the victim in a picture; if he can't tell the difference, how can anyone else? In "Almost Paradise", when the victim defends her boyfriend from the vice principal, the camera pans down to her ass. It turns out the VP has a crush on her, and later attempts to make out with her in his car. When she rejects him and runs off, he runs her over.
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Cold Case / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
Cold Case / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: In "The Last Drive-In", Nancy describes her job as covering for slacker loan officers and making empty promises on their behalf. She pointedly says she and her friend Felicity are executive assistants rather than secretaries, before saying it's a nicer way of saying the same thing. When an angry customer harassing a frightened Felicity wants Nancy to put her on the phone, Nancy replies that she wants a better car and a boyfriend who looks like Robert Redford.
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Cold Case / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
Cold Case / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: This show exposes the unseemly sides of every time period, showing there's no such thing as "the good old days".
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Cold Case / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Cold Case / int_9e0c3153	comment	The father of the murder victim the detectives investigate in "Disco Inferno" confesses to this: When the victim decides to defy him on his choice for future life career path, the father says, "I... renounce... you." before leaving, barely hours before the son dies.
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Cold Case / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
Cold Case / int_9ec132e7	comment	The gang leader in "Knuckle Up" is not arrested for running away from the scene of a murder, despite doing so making him an Accomplice by Inaction. Same goes for the girls in "The Promise".
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Cold Case / int_9f80e1da	type	Sarcasm Mode
Cold Case / int_9f80e1da	comment	In "A Perfect Day", Cindy's abusive husband at one point threatens "to take away what she loves the most". One of the women who runs the battered women shelter translates this as: he'll murder their children and make her watch him do it. Nice guy. He does in fact murder one of their children in front of her, but she is able to save the other.
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Cold Case / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Cold Case / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: A short version happens in "The Long Blue Line" when Bell asks Miller out to see a band called The Heartless Bastards:
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Cold Case / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
Cold Case / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Plenty of episodes have a character who's been keeping a secret of the victim's which is related to the case until being found by the investigators. Examples include French from "Runaway Bunny" who knows that Bunny is still alive, having helped her go into hiding, and Harry Kemp Jr. from ''Libertyville whom Julian confessed his mixed race heritage to, something that Harry only ever told his father and Julian's father-in-law about, with the old man taking it far less well than Harry does and urging him to not tell his sister or niece.
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Cold Case / int_a031893b	type	Prom Baby
Cold Case / int_a031893b	comment	The season 3 premiere, "Family", has a teen couple having a Prom Baby in the school's bathroom. The boy is fatally run over after refusing to give his child over to his math teacher desperate for a child, which he had previously said he would. Meanwhile, the girl then abandons her daughter, who is soon discovered and placed for adoption.
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Cold Case / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
Cold Case / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: Most of the time, the killer turns out to be a seemingly minor character who doesn't appear to have any motive until the final flashback.
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Cold Case / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Cold Case / int_a0db7803	comment	The serial rapist from season seven, despite having what is essentially a multi-episode side arc in which he rapes Scotty's mother. Ultimately averted, his name is given in a later episode as Jimmy Mota.
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Cold Case / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Cold Case / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The music playing during flashbacks or at the end is occasionally shown to be playing in-universe. In "8 Years", "Glory Days" is playing on a jukebox in a bar; in "Wednesday's Women", "This Little Light of Mine" is a lullaby Kat Miller is singing to her daughter; and in "Shore Leave", "Taps" is being played on the bugle at the Marine's funeral.
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Cold Case / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
Cold Case / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Averted with French in "The Runaway Bunny", who serves as the PI's muscle, but is fairly resourceful and street-smart.
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Cold Case / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Cold Case / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The more sympathetic killers show this after they've committed the murder, ranging from horrified looks on their faces to tearfully apologizing to the dead/dying victim (such as in "The Red and the Blue", "Torn", and "Read Between The Lines"). Jeffries in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal", when he realizes the convicted man isn't lying...after the titular death penalty has been carried out. This is a common interpretation to even some of the victims, particularly the less-sympathetic ones: the victims in "Maternal Instincts" (ashamed that she kidnapped a baby before she was murdered), "Blackout" (her pedophilia leading to her death) and "Greed" (the killer, a corrupt, manipulative executive, sheepishly thanking Lilly for solving his murder). While not the killer in "Roller Girl", the victim's friend Julie suffers this when she learns that refusing to allow the victim to stay the night at her place in part led to her getting killed.
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Cold Case / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Cold Case / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: All over the place in "Time to Crime", with the same MAC-10. Two kids are playing with guns in a hallway, and an adult is horrified to learn that one of the guns is real and fully loaded. Two college kids get their hands on the gun, and decide to randomly shoot some geese. They also end up hitting a nearby horse. Most heartrendingly, the killer of the episode shoots at a crowded park and not only misses his target, but also kills his little sister.
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Cold Case / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Cold Case / int_a24670a4	comment	John Stillman, the Benevolent Boss to the unit, who will take care of all of them when they need him.
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Cold Case / int_a44cd048	type	Meet the New Boss
Cold Case / int_a44cd048	comment	"Chinatown". Literally everything could have been prevented had one specific cop just arrested the local Chinese mob leader, but he doesn't because he figures someone else just as bad will replace him. Even all three villains — the cop, the mob boss, and the killer — getting theirs at the end doesn't seem to balance out the fact that two innocent lives were lost and several more ruined, all due to the cynicism of one man.
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Cold Case / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Cold Case / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: In "Metamorphosis," the team investigates the death of a teenage circus aerialist.
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Cold Case / int_a5f5b4e0	type	Playing the Victim Card
Cold Case / int_a5f5b4e0	comment	Playing the Victim Card: Played with. Tina Bream in "Revenge" really is a victim. Itâ€™s just that she blames everyone from the police to her husband for her sonâ€™s kidnapping and death. Itâ€™s telling that when everyone found out that it was entirely her fault, her response to the cops calling her out when they find out that she was told who kidnapped her son but didn't act immediately to save him is that she doesnâ€™t have a lot of reasons to trust the police. Sandra Riley from the same episode uses being a Hot Guy, Ugly Wife to her advantage while ignoring her husband molesting her son and kidnapping other children to molest.
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Cold Case / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Cold Case / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Averted; most young killers are very sympathetic. The one exception is apparently John Smith, and even he only starts committing his murders as an adult (though he does let someone die as a kid).
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Cold Case / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Cold Case / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: In "8:03 AM", Miller reopens the cold case of Skill Jones; a young drug dealer who died in her arms when she was working undercover for narcotics.
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Cold Case / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Cold Case / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: Though the majority of the premises are different, there are a few examples: "Family" and "Almost Paradise" have strikingly similar endings because both involve a faculty member or teacher asking a favor from a student during a late 1980's high school senior party, both have the student refusing to comply, and both have the student killed by faculty member running him or her over with a automobile. "Glory Days" and "Forensics" also end rather similarly, with a student being murdered by a teacher after confronting them with both their own wrongdoing and the fact that their glory days at school were in reality anything but. The victims in both the "The Plan" and "Blackout" are killed in the same manner and for mostly the same reason: both get drowned in a swimming pool for being a pedophile. "Static" and "November 22nd" are about money-broke men getting shot by a sentimentally-involved woman because they want to spend more time with their estranged daughters. Both episodes also have the victim temporarily persuading their killers to back down, only for them to kill them anyway. "Daniela" and "Boy Crazy" both end with a boy coming too late to save the girl they love, and both involve a protagonist who is in some way gender-nonconforming — the victim in the former was MtF transgender, while the latter is a girl who preferred to dress like a boy and do "boy" things (the exact nature of that victim's gender-identity is never specified). The victims of "Shuffle, Ball Change" and "Wunderkind" are both killed by their older brothers whom they tried to help chase their dreams. "Fly Away" and "Baby Blues" are both about mothers who try to kill themselves and their child, and are only half-successful. The victims of "A Time to Hate", "Colors", and "Stealing Home" are all baseball players who get killed with their own bats. The victims of "Beautiful Little Fool" and "Street Money" are killed because they refuse to blackmail a public figure. Both "Hubris" and "Triple Threat" deal with teacher-student romances. Both "Family 8108" and "Bad Reputation" deal with fathers in a horrible situation who have sons that feel they are cowards for not making the situation worse than it had to be.
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Cold Case / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Cold Case / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdinis are more common later in the series as well, including the Evil Stepmother from "The Runaway Bunny", whoever stabbed the (in all likelihood innocent) inmate Joe Don Billingsley in "Flashover" and most notoriously Scotty, who arranged for his mother's rapist to be murdered in prison during the final episode.
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Cold Case / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
Cold Case / int_a734c20	comment	Why Caroline/Mandy in "The Runaway Bunny" married and killed both of her husbands. She will do anything to keep her place in the upper-class, including manipulating a lawyer into covering up the first death and trying to track down her runaway stepdaughter Bunny to silence her about the second one.
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Cold Case / int_a78f8506	type	Time-Shifted Actor
Cold Case / int_a78f8506	comment	Timeshifted Actor: Used heavily due to the reliance on flashbacks to tell each case's story, with nifty juxtapositions and actor-switching in between, to demonstrate just how much (or little) each person questioned in the case has changed over the years.
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Cold Case / int_a80ad52c	type	Hanging Judge
Cold Case / int_a80ad52c	comment	Hanging Judge: Judge Alvarez in "Jurisprudence", who sentences young offenders to long sentences for minor crimes in exchange for kickbacks from the reform centre where they are sent.
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Cold Case / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Cold Case / int_a8559a9f	comment	In "Death Penalty: Final Appeal", the crooked DA who gets an innocent man executed simply loses his job.note In Real Life, what he did would get him disbarred and possibly even sent to prison; however, it's possible that he did face more serious consequences after the conclusion of the episode.
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Cold Case / int_a8980828	type	Homeless Pigeon Person
Cold Case / int_a8980828	comment	Homeless Pigeon Person: There is a one-shot character who had known and mentored the victim of the week and is your typical pigeon keeper. He's like this due to depression caused by a mistake in his airplane design leading to several accidental deaths.
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Cold Case / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
Cold Case / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: The killers' relationship to the victims' in "Glory Days" and "Breaking News". Also invoked by the theatre director in "Willkommen".
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Cold Case / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Cold Case / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: As seen in the two-parter "The Thin Blue Line/Into The Blue", as well as stupid, misogynistic and corrupt. The victim, the lone female cadet at a military school, is continuously harassed by her fellow cadets, the instructors and even a parent of a boy who was rejected by the school. The latter example is the most shameful; while the students and teachers have a right to be there and would (and do) protect their own by looking the other way, the father is a visitor who would come by daily in his drunken travels just to pointlessly bitch at her to her face during the flag ceremony practice and to personally blame her for his son not getting in. Whereas she isn't able to speak up for herself or even react to his acrimonious behavior, school officials could have easily kicked the asshole out and have him banned from coming onto the premises.
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Cold Case / int_a99f4468	type	Bigot with a Badge
Cold Case / int_a99f4468	comment	Bigot with a Badge: The victim in "A Time to Hate" was killed because the cops were homophobes who looked the other way as he was beaten to death by three bigots. The Cycle of Revenge killings in "Saving Patrick Bubley" escalated because the investigating cop, Lilly's old partner, was a racist who dismissed the victims as common gangbangers. The cops in "Strange Fruit", set in the 1960s, instantly dismiss a black woman who was sexually assaulted by a prominent white businessman, and actually inform the perpetrator. The episode "Forever Blue" deals with the case of a gay cop named Sean Cooper who was murdered in 1968. The killer is revealed to be Cooper's homophobic police sergeant Tom McCree and flashbacks show Sean getting a lot of flack from his fellow officers for his sexuality.
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Cold Case / int_a9c0f93f	type	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult
Cold Case / int_a9c0f93f	comment	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: In "The Brush Man", one of the suspects is a reclusive Vietnam veteran who keeps any toy that lands on his property. When the police search his home, they find a huge stash of bikes and balls.
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Cold Case / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Cold Case / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In "Shore Leave". One suspect, a former Marine, lies about his age to fight in The Korean War, but becomes the Butt-Monkey of his platoon and attracts the Drill Sergeant Nasty because of his ineptitude. He ends up saving the lives of his comrades by responding quickly to a P.L.A. ambush on the front lines and is awarded the Navy Cross, second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor. Years later, even with proof of his heroism, his old Sergeant still thinks he was only one step up from a total washout. Curtis Bell, the ADA introduced in "Street Money". He appears completely disorganised, and acts like he doesn't know what day of the week it is, but is one of the shrewdest prosecutors around.
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Cold Case / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Cold Case / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: The killer in "Metamorphosis" pretends to suffer from cerebral gigantism and uses the fact that people expect him to be mentally retarded to conceal his true intelligence. The killer in "Shuffle, Ball Change" fakes a career-ending knee injury in order to drop out of wrestling without disappointing his father. One of his crutches turns out to be the murder weapon.
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Cold Case / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Cold Case / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: The father of the murder victim the detectives investigate in "Disco Inferno" confesses to this: When the victim decides to defy him on his choice for future life career path, the father says, "I... renounce... you." before leaving, barely hours before the son dies. The same thing happens in "Superstar": the father chastises the victim for wanting a life of her own outside of tennis. Similarly in "Soul": the father of the victim slaps him after learning he is leaving home and tells him, "They took the wrong son" (in reference to his brother's death). The victim storms off. Similarly, in "Forever Blue", the father of the victim renounces him for being gay. And then sends him to his death without meaning to. He's still haunted by that more than thirty years later. In the episode "Shuffle, Ball Change", the victim and his brother get into a shoving match that results in the brother injuring his knee, possibly derailing his wrestling career. Their infuriated father tells the victim, "God help you, Maurice". The boy disappears soon afterwards, leaving the father thoroughly haunted by the thought that his son had run away from home thinking that his father hated him, and even more torn up when he learns that his son had in fact been murdered, and that either way, those are the last words that he said to him. The last time the father sees his daughter in "Into the Blue", he leaves an award ceremony without honoring her. In "The Key", the victim's daughter lashes out at her mother for embarrassing her and declares she hates her. The next day, she rejects her mother's attempt to explain herself and patch things up between them. That's probably why, twenty-odd years later, she's the one still trying to find out who killed her mother.
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Cold Case / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Cold Case / int_aabe2fb	comment	Abounds in "The Goodbye Room", in an institution driven by nuns for pregnant unwed girls in 1964.
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Cold Case / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Cold Case / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: The victim in "The Brush Man" spent hard time for killing a man who was beating his wife, and later tracks down the wife to give her money on a regular basis as an apology for doing so. He gets killed when, having started a new life as a successful traveling salesman, he intervenes in another domestic abuse scenario involving one of his customers' kids.
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Cold Case / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Cold Case / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: The victims are usually killed because of their own best qualities. "Bombers" - The victim's obsession with honoring, later avenging, his friend. "The Runaway Bunny" - The victim can't help being a Deadpan Snarker even when his life is in danger. "The Brush Man" - The victim's hate towards abusive husbands and fathers. "Street Money" - The victim's devotion to being a completely honest politician, despite everyone from his campaign manager to his opponent telling him this is unrealistic.
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Cold Case / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Cold Case / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Played with in "The Long Blue Line" and "Into the Blue." While at first it seems to be played completely straight with none of the cadets liking the victim because she's a girl, it turns out that that is mostly a mentality held by the teachers. In an effort to prove that she was just as good, she unintentionally shuts herself off, accidentally coming off as a Smug Snake, something she is rectifying when she gets killed. Even then she is killed due to the fact that the other cadets were going to embrace her and not her killer.
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Cold Case / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Cold Case / int_abdf7d09	comment	The target in "Sabotage" canâ€™t comprehend the fact that his brother is trying to kill him. It reaches the point of Weirdness Censor, forcing the police to sit him down and make him see reason.
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Cold Case / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
Cold Case / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: The target in "Sabotage" canâ€™t comprehend the fact that his brother is trying to kill him. It reaches the point of Weirdness Censor, forcing the police to sit him down and make him see reason. Or apparently crazy, as is the case of the victim in "A Dollar, A Dream". After the victim and her daughters wind up homeless due to her husband and sole breadwinner's death from cancer, they all end up living in their car and she befriends a fellow homeless man, who ends up killing her due to his belief that she is holding out on a lottery ticket that is worth a lot of money. She does win, but it's only enough for pocket change for him and enough to buy a birthday cake for her younger daughter. Unfortunately, she has no idea how unstable the man is; he becomes convinced that she won the jackpot and is holding out on him, with tragic results. Several victims end up dying due to having too much trust in their killers. Two examples which at best could be explained by their young ages are "The Sleepover" and "That Woman". The former has a friendly 12-year-old who can't grasp why the "cool" girls would invite her to their slumber party just to make fun of her. The latter has a promiscuous 16-year-old girl who joins her school's Christian Club and is confused about the fellow members considering their "unholy" actions (like premarital sex and exploring their sexuality) to be secrets worth killing her for.
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Cold Case / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
Cold Case / int_ac12cde1	comment	The victim in "The Brush Man", a Bully Hunter who beats up an abusive father, decided to leave him be without checking if he was actually knocked out, leading to said abusive father stabbing him while his back is turned.
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Cold Case / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Cold Case / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: "Red Glare"
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Cold Case / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
Cold Case / int_aca32000	comment	"Torn": The murdered suffragette is accidentally killed by her mother after she tells her, "You're not happy, Mother."
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Cold Case / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Cold Case / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Vera's rudimentary knowledge of sign language in "Andy in C Minor" (which he picked up on advice of Dean Harden) proves useful when he comprehends Andy's parents' conversation, leading them to his killer.
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Cold Case / int_ad902899	type	Constructive Body Disposal
Cold Case / int_ad902899	comment	Constructive Body Disposal: In ''Sherry Darlin'", the Body of the Week was bricked up in the old coal chute in the basement of the house where she lived. The police didn't even know there was a cold case until someone phoned up to confess to murder and tell them where the body was.
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Cold Case / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Cold Case / int_ae3d6438	comment	"The Runaway Bunny" - The victim can't help being a Deadpan Snarker even when his life is in danger.
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Cold Case / int_aec43c5f	type	Thanksgiving Episode
Cold Case / int_aec43c5f	comment	Thanksgiving Episode: "Saving Patrick Bubley" shows the Bubleys having Thanksgiving dinner in 1999 and 2003, as well as murders that follow each time.
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Cold Case / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Cold Case / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Far too often in this show, the killer is the victim's loved one—a friend/relative/spouse—who turns bad.
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Cold Case / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Cold Case / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: It's ultimately what Rush and the detectives sweat out of the suspects (and the killer) after they've hidden it for so many years. Sometimes, it's how the victim's character shines the brightest (when they're not Asshole Victims). And sometimes, it's when you see the killer's weakness in character. In "Sherry Darlin'", James is the one set up to smother his grandmother to death for her money. Instead, he fluffs her pillow and tries to leave her to sleep peacefully. Sherry, on the other hand... Also in the same episode, James' half-brother is left alone with Sherry for a few minutes, before she starts flirting with him. Sherry offers that they run away together, but as it turns out, the brother has more integrity than she anticipated. "Ghost of my Child", where a former drug addict named Priscilla Chapman is at a crossroads between staying clean for her baby and giving him up for adoption. Her ex-boyfriend offers her a fix, to mark the end of her drug hiatus. Ultimately, she declines and goes straight home. "The Plan" has a non-villainous example of failing the Secret Test of Character. Instead of helping the pedophilic swimming coach out of the pool when he's drowning, he allows him to drown once they're alone.
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Cold Case / int_b00498c7	type	Casualty in the Ring
Cold Case / int_b00498c7	comment	Casualty in the Ring: The victim in "Yo, Adrian" is Jerry Stone, an underground boxer who died during a boxing match. On his death bed, the referee confesses that he was bribed to let the fight continue until it became fatal for Jerry.
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Cold Case / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Cold Case / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Rita, the title character in "Pin Up Girl", essentially looks like a live-action Jessica Rabbit, fittingly for her profession. She's not entirely content to keep modeling forever, though. Carrie, the victim from "That Woman", is a lovely teenage girl who wears clothes that show off her figure.
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Cold Case / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Cold Case / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: The mother in "Glued", a burnt out housewife, wishes someone would relieve her of the stress of taking care of her kids. Her son is murdered the same day. The killer in "Pin Up Girl" finally gets to be in front of the camera. Averted in "Bad Reputation". The son of the victim wants to be just like his father. To nip that in the bud, his father pretends to be a jerk. Crumbs in "Colors" would have given anything for one good swing and in a fit of rage, he takes it... killing his friend in the process. The victim in "Lotto Fever", who won millions through lotto, soon became burdened with relatives and friends taking advantage of him, and loses most of his money through frivolous spending.
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Cold Case / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
Cold Case / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: In "Beautiful Little Fool", the 1920s film star Carmela LaFleur is based on Mae West. Lt. Stillman even lampshades this when he describes Carmela as a "Mae West-type actress."
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Cold Case / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Cold Case / int_b0a529cb	comment	The victim and her cuckolded (but innocent) husband in "Maternal Instincts". She's so far out of his league that their pairing seems utterly incomprehensible. It doesn't help that he's an Extreme Doormat when it comes to her —instantly forgiving her for cheating on him, and helping her kidnap a baby to fulfill her dream of having a child. Not even her immediately abandoning him and running off with said child can make him muster up any real anger to her even years later. Though one could argue she married him because she knew how much she could manipulate him.
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Cold Case / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Cold Case / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Sandra Riley ignores the fact that her husband is molesting her son as well as the fact that he kidnaps another boy to molest because she enjoyed Hot Guy, Ugly Wife.
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Cold Case / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Cold Case / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The victim from "Thick as Thieves" receives this. Even as an unlikable victim (while still being the one of the better of these types of victims, she may have been a thief who made her son participate in her crimes, but she wasn't a murderer or a rapist), she is shot at point blank range but doesn't die. Instead, she ends up in a coma for twenty years.
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Cold Case / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Cold Case / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Many of the victims die from being hit on the head (to the point that it's the most common way to die after gunshot wounds). Some of the many items used to kill someone included a hand weight ("The Long Blue Line/Into The Blue"), a wine bottle ("Soul"), a baseball bat ("A Time To Hate", "Colors", and "Stealing Home"), a rock ("The Good-Bye Room"), a hockey stick ("Iced"), a metronome ("Andy In C Minor"), a telephone ("Wings"), and a skateboard ("Hoodrats").
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Cold Case / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
Cold Case / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Played with - the detectives move up close to the screen. Though Vera laments that their station is too poor to have "one of those zoomer things."
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Cold Case / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
Cold Case / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: Played straight in "Rampage". Tina's rape in the mall leads to her encouraging the two killers to commit their massacre, which they do that very day. Played with in at least four episodes: "The Plan" has a pedophile teacher's victims find each other and decide to take revenge on him...only to back out when they've pushed him into the pool. It's actually the other teacher at the school, who has overheard the conversation and knows what he did, who lets him drown. The appropriately named "Revenge" has a grieving father avenge the death of his son, as he believes the victim raped and murdered him. Played with, though, in that the molester actually didn't commit the murder, his abused son - who has no interest in revenge - did. "Justice", which is essentially the Distaff Counterpart to "The Plan", has a date rapist's victims also find each other and threaten him with a gun. They just terrify him — it's actually one victim's brother who finds the gun afterwards and finishes the job. "Blackout" is a similar variation. The detectives suspect it could be the sexually abused son who committed the murder, but it's actually his sister, who knew what her mother had done and finally lost it when she found out that her mother was planning to do the same to her grandson/the murderer's son.
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Cold Case / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
Cold Case / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are: The wife in "Joseph" is a drug rehab counselor who molests one of her students and when he kills a witness, she threatens the person who is going to testify against him. Yet it turns out it's the husband who is the killer. To make matters worse, the wife is shown not to be the least bit grateful as she still keeps the affair behind her husband's back afterwards.
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Cold Case / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
Cold Case / int_b41acf08	comment	In "Forever Blue", the victim's father, a police sergeant, hires another cop to beat the homosexuality out of his son; unfortunately, the guy is completely Axe-Crazy and shoots him instead. He keeps this a secret well into his twilight years, until the detectives persuade him to tearfully give up himself and the killer.
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Cold Case / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Cold Case / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The victim in "Lonely Hearts", in an effort to keep her con-artist boyfriend, gives him the idea of becoming a Blue Beard. While she is freaked out by the murders, she only seems to realize he is a bad guy when she thought she had outlived her usefulness. The first suspect in "The Red and the Blue" doesnâ€™t mind the fact that she was her husband's mistress when they were dating, but shoots him when she finds out he's cheating on her after they get married. Made worse by the fact that she hints that she's cheating on him as well. The victim in "Blackout" has the gall to call her ex-husband a pedophile for cheating on her with a younger woman when she had been molesting her son for years and is killed for attempting to molest her grandson. The serial killer in "Sabotage" would rather kill his young niece than destroy the place his father built. The wife in "Witness Protection" yelling at her husband about relocating, then having an affair with the agent assigned to them.
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Cold Case / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Cold Case / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: "Forensics" uses this trope in an appropriately twisted fashion fit for a murder mystery. The victim is a high school debate prodigy who is seen as this by his teacher, who had himself been an apt debater in high school before, so he tells it, his partner made an embarrassing mistake that cost him the national title. It's eventually discovered that he got the team disqualified by going apeshit on his opponent and is in denial about it, and what's more murders his student for deciding to quit the team.
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Cold Case / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Cold Case / int_b486877f	comment	The pedophile in "Revenge" has a gun pointed at him by the father of a boy he kidnapped and sexually abused, and feels that that is the right time to taunt the shooter, saying the boy was "The best piece of ass [he] ever had".
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Cold Case / int_b496fc2c	type	Troubled Teen
Cold Case / int_b496fc2c	comment	Troubled Teen: "Maternal Instincts" (S1E21) features the son of the murdered victim who, since then, has been getting in all sort of problems, and comes to police to say he saw his mother being murdered.
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Cold Case / int_b49f08c9	type	Gorgeous George
Cold Case / int_b49f08c9	comment	Gorgeous George: One of the wrestlers interviewed in "One Fall" plays an effete, feather boa-clad heel character. He isn't the killer, but he witnesses the crime and does nothing, and so is arrested as Accomplice by Inaction.
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Cold Case / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Cold Case / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: The low point for the three guys in "Kensington" is when they try and fail to steal a chandelier from an empty house.
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Cold Case / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Cold Case / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "The Last Drive-In" contains an arguable dig at Criminal Minds and possibly Mindhunters, which starred Kathryn Morris, in a scene where an FBI agent complains that the profilers always give her useless information like the killer's favorite underwear color. "Slipping" is one to the dysfunctional relationship of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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Cold Case / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Cold Case / int_b5785433	comment	In "Blood On The Tracks", a character declares, "If I died tomorrow, no one would know or even care." By the episode's end, we learn that she WAS killed the very next day and that her killer assumed her identity (they looked very much alike). And indeed, there is no one in her life to notice or care. It also foreshadowed that twist in the Cold Open flashback—the killer's own husband, a longtime friend of both women, confuses her for the victim in a picture; if he can't tell the difference, how can anyone else?
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Cold Case / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Cold Case / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Two examples from "Stalker": The daughter; after literally being sent a stalker's shrine, she responds by saying how romantic it is. When you add to that the repeated threats the guy made on her and her family... Her mother, for using her daughterâ€™s picture in her profile and being the one who was actually writing to the stalker. The two teenage boys in "Thrill Kill", who donâ€™t realize that playing for the camera in a murder trial against three children is a bad idea. To make matters worse, after they reopen the case, the surviving one tries to invoke Never My Fault. The pedophile in "Revenge" has a gun pointed at him by the father of a boy he kidnapped and sexually abused, and feels that that is the right time to taunt the shooter, saying the boy was "The best piece of ass [he] ever had". The mother in "Blackout", who was pushed into a pool, continues to taunt her daughter by saying that she'll groom her son just like her brother, leading to her being drowned by said daughter in anger. Though she was already drunk at that point. The victim in "Jackals" joins a dangerous biker gang because she's mad at her dad, despite everyone, including them, telling her it's a stupid idea. An Arms Dealer in "Time to Crime" is arrested simply for being this, selling a gun to the person who tries to kill him, who just happens to be a 12-year-old-boy. The serial rapist in "Justice". One would think Mike would be smarter than to taunt the younger brother of his rape victim (who has a gun aimed point blank at him, by the way). The victim in "That Woman" following her friend into the woods for a tryst despite discovering they all planned to kill her. The victim in "The Promise" following her friend back into the house, despite the Jerkass frat boys still being in there and her having suggested burning the house down in revenge for their humiliation. A guy in "Ravaged" tries to rape the victim in front of her already snarling Rottweiler. And then he is surprised the dog attacked him. The victim in "The Brush Man", a Bully Hunter who beats up an abusive father, decided to leave him be without checking if he was actually knocked out, leading to said abusive father stabbing him while his back is turned. A lot of victims, when not overcome by rage or concern, continuing to talk to their increasingly furious and/or hysterical would-be killers rather than backing off ("The Dealer", "Libertyville" etc). In "8:03 AM", both victims continue to taunt their increasingly unhinged killers with Reason You Suck Speeches even with guns pointed right at them, leading to the expected results. In "Bombers", the victim decides to confront the leader of a graffiti crew for snitching, in the middle of the night without backup, in spite of his violent outbursts previously. Unsurprisingly, the victim ends up dead with nobody knowing what happened.
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Cold Case / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Cold Case / int_b58c51d8	comment	"Revenge": Tina Bream is a My Beloved Smother who blames her husband for their son getting kidnapped because he let him go to the dressing room by himself. She also believes Police Are Useless so when the ransom fails, she blames him again for trusting them. It turns out the kidnapping is entirely her fault because she told her drug addict brother-in-law about money that was supposed to be kept secret and then told him about the police sting operation, tipping him off. What truly makes her this? After finding out that their son is dead, she manipulates her husband into killing the one they thought was responsible and afterwards, she continues to blame him.
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Cold Case / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Cold Case / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: ADA Danner in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal", who knowingly sends an innocent man to the lethal injection to pretty up his numbers. In the closing montage, he gets disbarred. ADA Thomas in "Sabotage" allows information that reveals the bomber maimed an innocent man instead of his intended target to be released to the public so she can finish her report faster. This leads to the bomber almost killing his target's wife and child.
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Cold Case / int_b61117e7	type	Awkward First Sleepover
Cold Case / int_b61117e7	comment	Awkward First Sleepover: One case revolves around a first sleepover gone wrong - the newcomer is only invited so that the other girls can humiliate her, and when she won't play along, one of the other girls accidentally kills her in a blind rage, afraid that she herself would become the new designated loser in the group.
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Cold Case / int_b661954a	type	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
Cold Case / int_b661954a	comment	Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: MO of the serial killer from "The Road". He keeps his victims in a locked room in an otherwise empty house in a rural area well outside the city limits.
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Cold Case / int_b6927d71	type	Hot for Preacher
Cold Case / int_b6927d71	comment	Hot for Preacher: The chastity club president in "That Woman", who begins a relationship with the teacher/youth counselor in spite of values they both allegedly have in place.
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Cold Case / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Cold Case / int_b7042372	comment	All the Cycle of Revenge killings and senseless waste of life in "Saving Patrick Bubley" started because a gangster wants to steal a scooter off a 12-year-old and murders the boy's brother when he comes to his defense.
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Cold Case / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Cold Case / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The present-day situations of each person involved in the case are interposed with shots of what they were like when the case first happened.
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Cold Case / int_b82676ad	type	Jackie Robinson Story
Cold Case / int_b82676ad	comment	Jackie Robinson Story: "Colors". In fact, a good portion of the victims fall into this category, given that their murder is related to the social issues of the time. Lilly's racist first partner Detective Fulcrum, seen in flashback in "Saving Patrick Bubley." It's implied rather strongly he wrote off pretty much all of his cases where the victim was poor and black as "public service murders" and made no effort to solve them.
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Cold Case / int_b833dbea	type	TheBlueBeard
Cold Case / int_b833dbea	comment	The Blue Beard: "Lonely Hearts" and to a lesser extent "Gleen". The husband in the former episode is initially just a con artist until his girlfriend convinces him to marry several women just so they can kill them and get the insurance money and in the end, has five dead wives. The husband in the latter episode is more of a subversion; he kills the victim who is the wife he has a daughter with, but didn't get the chance to kill the two other women he married because they left him after he got too possessive and in the case of his current fiancÃ©e, he is arrested the weekend they are to get married.
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Cold Case / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
Cold Case / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: The flashback scenes in "Spiders" are terribly drab but the color red is quite vivid.
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Cold Case / int_b9f6cc0a	type	The Bluebeard
Cold Case / int_b9f6cc0a	comment	The victim in "Lonely Hearts", in an effort to keep her con-artist boyfriend, gives him the idea of becoming a Blue Beard. While she is freaked out by the murders, she only seems to realize he is a bad guy when she thought she had outlived her usefulness.
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Cold Case / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
Cold Case / int_ba907fe2	comment	The professor in "Hubris". When we meet him, he's a broken man whose marriage and career were ruined by the murder suspicions and the fact that not only had he had an affair with the victim, she wasn't his first dalliance. Despite his cheating, it's easy to have a little sympathy for him given that he regrets his behavior and just wants to clear his name and get his life back. Until the end of the episode where we learn that he IS the killer, every single thing that happened to him is fully deserved, and he's actually an arrogant bastard who isn't the least bit sorry for what he did. Indeed, he felt completely entitled to seduce his female students and to kill the one girl who dared break up with him rather than him be the one to dump her, to the point where he outright states, "It's her fault. She made me fall in love with her."
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Cold Case / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Cold Case / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: In "Who's your Daddy", one of the two victims was given a choice between accepting visas from another family (and basically condemning them) and allowing himself and his family to be deported (the same as a death sentence). "A Perfect Day", and how! In a fit of If I Can't Have Youâ€¦, an abusive husband forces his wife to choose which of their twin daughters she'll save, and which one he'll throw off the bridge. You can guess what happens next.
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Cold Case / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Cold Case / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Sharon in "November 22nd". In "Our Boy Is Back", the boyfriend of a rape victim who refuses to give a DNA sample because it will prove that he had never slept with the victim.
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Cold Case / int_bbe740e2	type	Tyrant Takes the Helm
Cold Case / int_bbe740e2	comment	Tyrant Takes the Helm: Season 6 introduces Patrick Doherty, a loathsome new Deputy Commissioner who's never worked an actual case in his life and rose to his position by kissing the asses of Philly's crookedest officials. He has a particular axe to grind with Stillman, who sent Doherty's druggie son to prison years before.
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Cold Case / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Cold Case / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Crosses over with N-Word Privileges in "Spiders." The show isn't shy about using mild swear language, but nothing too offensive. Which is why it's so jarring to hear the n-word dropped nonchalantly into conversation by a neo-Nazi white woman on a show that, at the time, aired on Sunday night at 9.
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Cold Case / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Cold Case / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Why the cases in "Hubris", "It's Raining Men", "Frank's Best", "Death Penalty: Final Appeal", "Thrill Kill", "Iced", "Two Weddings", "Flashover" and "Bad Night" are opened.
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Cold Case / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Cold Case / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: ALL of the detectives react very badly while interrogating George Marks, when rather than caving in and confessing, he instead taunts them about traumatic events in their lives—Scotty's schizophrenic girlfriend and her suicide, Vera mishandling a rape case (to the point that Vera needs to be restrained from attacking him), the death of Jeffries' wife (George implies he was the one who killed her, which, though it's not literally true, digs into the wound from his being unable to save her; Jeffries stays calm in the interview but loses it later), Stillman's failed marriage and Lilly's childhood mugging. Scotty Valens: Suspended in an episode after beating the crap out of an inmate that said suicide is cowardly and a result of the loved ones failing to do their work. His childhood love had recently committed suicide. Vera: Used to react very badly to comments about his failed marriage. Is so obsessed with solving the case of a Serial Rapist who had murdered his latest victim that he relentlessly browbeats two suspects (despite the fact that one of them cooperated fully) to the point where the DA has to explicitly tell him to stay away from each man. Five years later not only does the warning still stand, both men are still afraid of him. He really seems to hate rapists in general, possibly due to the effect the above case had on him. Jeffries: Beats the crap out the crooked DA whose obstruction results in an innocent man getting executed (and violently forces the real killer against the wall). It's not wise, if you're a minority suspect, to pull the "I was only arrested because all police are racist" card in front of Jeffries. Reckless drivers, due to his wifeâ€™s death in a hit and run accident, as seen in "Bad Night". He does eventually realize he was being too hard on the victim of that case because of it. Stillman: Just about anything having to do with the armed forces—disrespect, ill-treatment—is this, having been in the service himself. His contempt for a man who falsely claims to have been a POW (like the victim) is greater than that for the killer himself. Lilly: Bad mothers, to the point where she acts extremely cold to two women while investigating their respective child's death/disappearance, until realizing they were genuinely trying to improve as parents. It's Personal for her. Many of the victims get killed because they trip on the killer's button. For example, the victim in Beautiful Little Fool is killed because she called the killer "lowly".
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Cold Case / int_bd5e9702	type	His Name Is...
Cold Case / int_bd5e9702	comment	"Yo Adrian", essentially. An elderly boxing referee on his deathbed confesses that he was paid to rig a match, which resulted in the death of a boxer, but dies before he can tell the detectives who paid him. It's ultimately revealed that the match was fixed in the victim's favor... and the victim himself fixed it back in the other direction in order to prove he could win without his opponent taking a dive. As it turns out, he couldn't, and he dies, so ultimately the investigation was entirely unnecessary.
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Cold Case / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Cold Case / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: A frequent device used to get evidence to reopen a case or even close it at last. Situations have included the following: The victim's prized possession turning up in the hands of someone who would be very unlikely to have it unless they were involved. Something "not quite right" being noticed in a suspect's finances. The murder weapon, by sheer coincidence, being turned in or seized in an unrelated incident. Most prominent in "Spiders": The arrest of four Neo-Nazis and the solving of the disappearance of a Latino woman is originally kicked off by investigating another victim's abusive father as a suspect after he is arrested for beating his stepdaughter into a coma.
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Cold Case / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Cold Case / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Patrick Bubley was scoring in the gifted range on school exams, but after his brothers are murdered, he becomes preoccupied with avenging them and begins to slack off. By the time that Luther has been killed, Lilly discovers that Patrick is flunking out of high school. Thankfully, once she reminds him that his brothers wanted him to have a better life, Patrick is able to find a measure of peace, and he renews his commitment to his studies. The killer of all people in "It Takes a Village" before he becomes a Tragic Monster.
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Cold Case / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Cold Case / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The fate of the victim in "World's End" has become a local urban legend by the time the case is reopened.
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Cold Case / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Cold Case / int_bec0417c	comment	Subverted with Det. Jeffries: he loved his wife dearly and properly mourns her, but not to the point of letting it ruin his life (save for a season four arc where he was searching for her hit-and-run killer, only to ultimately forgive him in the end).
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Cold Case / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Cold Case / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: "Into the Blue". The entire episode, apart from the very beginning and very end, and including all Lilly's efforts to solve the case therein, is a Dying Dream. Granted, the final montage shows that she turns out to be right in her dream-deductions.
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Cold Case / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
Cold Case / int_bf414570	comment	Not surprising that a woman named Sherry Fox turns out to be a con-artist.
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Cold Case / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Cold Case / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The victim's parents in "Revenge", played by Brent Sexton and Brigid Brannagh, respectively. The victim and her cuckolded (but innocent) husband in "Maternal Instincts". She's so far out of his league that their pairing seems utterly incomprehensible. It doesn't help that he's an Extreme Doormat when it comes to her —instantly forgiving her for cheating on him, and helping her kidnap a baby to fulfill her dream of having a child. Not even her immediately abandoning him and running off with said child can make him muster up any real anger to her even years later. Though one could argue she married him because she knew how much she could manipulate him. Paul and Claire Shepard in "The Last Drive-In"/"Bullet". He's an overweight, nerdy, infertile Serial Killer. She's a cute-as-a-button Luna Lovegood lookalike who seems about half his age and has no knowledge of his... extracurricular activities.
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Cold Case / int_bff666b	type	Suicide Pact
Cold Case / int_bff666b	comment	Suicide Pact: In "Detention", three of the kids make one, but two of them back out. The victim gets killed while trying to keep the one who doesn't want to back out from killing himself.
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Cold Case / int_bff82d59	type	CrazyHomelessPerson
Cold Case / int_bff82d59	comment	Crazy Homeless Person: The killer in "A Dollar, A Dream". Although initially seen as a friend of the victim who was showing her and her daughters "the ropes" of surviving in the streets, his delusions and lack of stability become crystal clear as the detectives are interviewing him in the present day, and how he killed the victim due to believing her winning ticket was worth more money than she said it was.
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Cold Case / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Cold Case / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Played with for the first suspect in "The Red and the Blue": a woman who shoots her husband after she catches him cheating. She is sent to jail and is presented as Ax-Crazy. Throughout her interrogation, not only does she hint that she was cheating on him as well (in addition to admitting she was his former mistress), but she sends the cops after him. However at the end of the episode, the two reconcile and embrace each other.
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Cold Case / int_c0ec82a9	type	Lives in a Van
Cold Case / int_c0ec82a9	comment	Lives in a Van: In "A Dollar, A Dream", a car is found at the bottom of a lake with the remains of a woman missing since 1999 inside. The detectives learn the woman had endured dire financial straits after her husband's death and was forced to live in the car with her two young daughters.
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Cold Case / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
Cold Case / int_c145f69b	comment	Patrick Bubley was scoring in the gifted range on school exams, but after his brothers are murdered, he becomes preoccupied with avenging them and begins to slack off. By the time that Luther has been killed, Lilly discovers that Patrick is flunking out of high school. Thankfully, once she reminds him that his brothers wanted him to have a better life, Patrick is able to find a measure of peace, and he renews his commitment to his studies.
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Cold Case / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Cold Case / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Averted. The characters usually go with the no sympathy route with suspects.
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Cold Case / int_c1e2c633	type	Academic Athlete
Cold Case / int_c1e2c633	comment	Mike from "Justice". An Academic Athlete and valedictorian, he also harbored a Dark Secret of being a Serial Rapist who targeted shy, bookish women on campus. One of his victims was Driven to Suicide, another was forced to drop out of college, and Mike continued to engage in Post-Rape Taunt before being killed. His crimes disgusted the detectives so much that the killer was let off for justified self-defense.
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Cold Case / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Cold Case / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Rare heroic example, believe it or not. In "Spiders", the detectives get a former white supremacist to give up her even more evil ex-boyfriend by saying, "It's you or him". After she gives a full statement, they arrest her and say, "We meant you and him."
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Cold Case / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Cold Case / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Two In "Witness Protection," the ex-con trying to get his life together is the one who kills a federal witness. He kills the witness because the man wonâ€™t tell him where his son is, whom the ex-con thinks is with his daughter. The moment he kills him, his daughter calls. In "The Badlands", we realize that what causes a victim's drug addict brother to get his act together and genuinely become an upstanding citizen in the year since the murder is that HE'S the killer and is so horrified by his actions that he's been trying to atone ever since.
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Cold Case / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Cold Case / int_c3c18143	comment	"Static" and "November 22nd" are about money-broke men getting shot by a sentimentally-involved woman because they want to spend more time with their estranged daughters. Both episodes also have the victim temporarily persuading their killers to back down, only for them to kill them anyway.
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Cold Case / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
Cold Case / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: In "WASP", the murderer switches the fuel and coolant lines in the victim's plane.
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Cold Case / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Cold Case / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: The cold opening cuts to a single female voice sliding into a high note which starts off the lyric-less theme song.
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Cold Case / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Cold Case / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Hector in "Sanctuary". He kills the victim too, but not because she is one of his targets; he just wants the drugs she is muling.
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Cold Case / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Cold Case / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The seduction scene in "Blackout". Donna Mills in a backless swimsuit going after a younger guy in a swimming pool. Hot, right? Well, by "younger" we mean "13 years old and also her grandson" so no, not really. The locker room scene in "Stand Up and Holler", where two cheerleaders are forced to kiss by their Alpha Bitch team captain. Two cute cheerleaders kissing is just dandy, except for when one girl really does not want to and it's clearly a form of humiliation and emotional abuse by the entire team of football players in the locker room who demand that they do it with greater intensity.
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Cold Case / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Cold Case / int_c75df49a	comment	"The House" also has many Shout Outs to The Shawshank Redemption, although the main plot itself isn't lifted from the movie. It also seems to lift some of its story from Cool Hand Luke.
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Cold Case / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Cold Case / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: Occasionally, a murder will happen because someone who isn't involved in the crime let it happen either due to ignorance or apathy. A disturbing example comes from "Triple Threat" where a witness takes the purse off of a young woman found in a subway. Even though in the present day, he defends himself to the detectives by saying she was already dying by the time he got there and he became a nurse to atone for what happened, it still doesn't excuse the fact that he stole from someone who was dying instead of trying to call for help, and kept the purse for 20 years instead of turning it in.
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Cold Case / int_c8c2d4a3	type	Parodies for Dummies
Cold Case / int_c8c2d4a3	comment	Parodies for Dummies: The episode "Andy in C Minor" has a book called "Sign Language for Dummies".
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Cold Case / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
Cold Case / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	The Domestic Abuser cop in "A Perfect Day" (that murders his own four-year-old daughter who is the Victim of the Week) is killed a few years after the crime during a police shootout with a gang where he "accidentally" gets caught in the crossfire after his whole squad finds out about his abusive tendencies. The officer that confesses 40 years later is told by Vera and Jeffries that they "have no record" of this revelation.
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Cold Case / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Cold Case / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: "That Woman". The members of the school's "Abstinence-only" club can't comprehend the fact that the "slut" is actually a much better person than they are, and so murder her. Abounds in "The Goodbye Room", in an institution driven by nuns for pregnant unwed girls in 1964. The Asshole Victim of "Justice" is a Serial Rapist, and every girl he targeted suffered this. One started to think it was her own fault for bringing him to her room, even though she said no, while another had her best friend say she must have been asking for it since the victim was the Big Man on Campus who the friend thought "didnâ€™t need to rape anyone." The youngest victim was eighteen, and even her own father blamed her because "nice girls donâ€™t bring boys up to their rooms", making her Driven to Suicide.
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Cold Case / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Cold Case / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The serial rapist from season seven, despite having what is essentially a multi-episode side arc in which he rapes Scotty's mother. Ultimately averted, his name is given in a later episode as Jimmy Mota. John Smith's real name is never uncovered, since the guy was pretty much a ghost (always paid in cash, drove stolen cars, used fake licenses, had no fingerprints or DNA on file). As one of the team put it - "John Smith? More like John Doe."
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Cold Case / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Cold Case / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: What Vera was in high school. "Lovers' Lane", one of the earliest episodes, says he was fat and unpopular. "Stand Up and Holler" and "Almost Paradise", a mid-season and the penultimate episodes, say he was a football star and prom king (he even has a picture to prove it). Jeffries' age seems to change Depending on the Writer, as well.
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Cold Case / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Cold Case / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: This exchange from "Knuckle Up". This is followed by the confession that implicated the one making the threat: Mitch Hathaway tries to do this with Cliff Burrell before his wife tells him to stand down. In the pilot episode, "Look Again," the younger and weaker-willed of the two murderous brothers pulls this. The amoral older brother, who had been the direct killer, decides to throw the cops off his scent and gives a bare-bones statement implicating the younger one, who is actually just a Guilt-Ridden Accomplice. When Lilly (who doesn't fully believe the older brother) goes to arrest the younger brother, he finally decides to stand up for himself and proceeds to give a much more detailed confession, including providing blood evidence and the location of the murder weapon, implicating both of them. The ending of "One Fall" follows much the same formula, with the killer giving a weak testimony in an attempt to pawn the blame off on his accomplice, prompting the accomplice to give a more credible confession even knowing he'll go down, too.
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Cold Case / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Cold Case / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The "apparitions" that appear at the end of every episode.
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Cold Case / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Cold Case / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Such a person is an accomplice in "Breaking News". To his credit, he probably didn't intend anyone to actually die, but that still doesn't save him from the slammer.
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Cold Case / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Cold Case / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Vera becomes suspicious of the victim's boyfriend in "Our Boy Is Back" after noticing that the man is rude and hostile when being questioned and refuses to cooperate by taking a DNA test. While not illegal, it's in stark contrast to how a grieving boyfriend would act. Ironically, the man is innocent.
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Cold Case / int_ce02c84e	type	"Gender-Normative Parent" Plot
Cold Case / int_ce02c84e	comment	"Gender-Normative Parent" Plot: "Shuffle, Ball Change", where the victim's working-class father does not support his son's love of ballet and dance, and wants him to work in the family store. Subverted when he actually watches his son perform and comes to accept the boy's dance aspirations. The Big Brother Bully ends up being the killer, but not related to dance - his brother was going to tell people that he faked his Career-Ending Injury.
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Cold Case / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Cold Case / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: As far as cop shows go, anyway. Karma Houdinis are rare, the victims are usually genuinely good people, and the detectives often manage to solve several other people's problems by solving the case. Granted, there's still plenty of rape, murder, and misery to go around, but compared to, say, CSI (where the victims and killers are frequently equally scummy and the perp gets away with it much more often), there is a much greater sense of hope in Cold Case.
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Cold Case / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Cold Case / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: The killer in "Revolution" murders his sister when she finds out he had committed war crimes in Vietnam and is going to leave him behind to go to Canada with her lover.
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Cold Case / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cold Case / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: "Offender". A man starts killing pedophiles and won't stop until the team solves his young son's 1987 rape and murder.
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Cold Case / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Cold Case / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Averted; while most of the deaths initially classified as suicide turn out to be murder, there are a few cases thought to be murder that turn out to be suicide, i.e. "Two Weddings", "Daniela", "Best Friends".
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Cold Case / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Cold Case / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: The dumb babysitter in "Baby Blues" believes that her daddy can get her out of any problems.
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Cold Case / int_cfeb01b3	type	Title Confusion
Cold Case / int_cfeb01b3	comment	Title Confusion: Contrary to what many fans believe, the main characters are not a specialized team that works in cold cases only. They are average homicide detectives that from time to time reopen old cases, and they often talk about recent cases they closed before they went cold (and are rarely shown through the series). If the cold case is recent enough, there is a chance you'll see one of the main characters themselves putting the box on the shelf in the prologue. Lilly, though, seems to have built an informal fame as "cold case investigator" over the years. A lot of that confusion comes from the episode "Love Conquers Al" in which Det. Valens is introduced. He complains to Lilly about working in cold cases when he would rather be out solving live ones. Lilly then tells him that she chose it because everyone deserves justice, no matter how long it takes.
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Cold Case / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Cold Case / int_d028ca10	comment	Flashback scenes imitate the style and appearance of actual footage from that time period, including Deliberately Monochrome for really old cases, spots on the film, and what have you.
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Cold Case / int_d0c13631	type	Mrs. Robinson
Cold Case / int_d0c13631	comment	Mrs. Robinson: Played for Horror in "Blackout". Being seduced by a hot older woman isn't nearly as sexy when you're only 13 and related to her. In "Joseph", the older woman's lusting after her teenage client is seen for what it is—the actions of a deeply disturbed person. As if her behavior weren't sick enough, it's implied that she's attracted to the boy because he reminds her of her late son. Making you wonder just what the hell she did to HIM. This is almost certainly a deliberate reference to the Trope Namer, as the character is actually named "Mrs. Robinson".
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Cold Case / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
Cold Case / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: "Frank's Best" and "Wings" are set right around Christmastime.
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Cold Case / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Cold Case / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: "That Woman". The killers are all members of a high school chastity club that kill one of their own for accidentally learning about all of their dark secrets.
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Cold Case / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Cold Case / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: How we find out the cops from "Forever Blue" are gay.
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Cold Case / int_d2566b32	type	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
Cold Case / int_d2566b32	comment	Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: The character of George Marks, played by John Billingsley, is shown hunting his victims in forests, much like the real-life serial killer Robert Hansen.
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Cold Case / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Cold Case / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Elena, the victim's mother in "Bad Night". She not only refused to believe that her son was killed by a serial killer and had steadfastly pursued the case ever since, but is also an otherwise kind and empathetic person who even thanked Lilly with a hug for solving his murder. Audrey Abruzzi, the last surviving witness in "Torn", is very elderly, very quirky, and very helpful to the case.
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Cold Case / int_d2ddb362	type	ReasonYouSuckSpeech
Cold Case / int_d2ddb362	comment	A lot of victims, when not overcome by rage or concern, continuing to talk to their increasingly furious and/or hysterical would-be killers rather than backing off ("The Dealer", "Libertyville" etc). In "8:03 AM", both victims continue to taunt their increasingly unhinged killers with Reason You Suck Speeches even with guns pointed right at them, leading to the expected results. In "Bombers", the victim decides to confront the leader of a graffiti crew for snitching, in the middle of the night without backup, in spite of his violent outbursts previously. Unsurprisingly, the victim ends up dead with nobody knowing what happened.
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Cold Case / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Cold Case / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: "Hubris": The killer frames someone else for the crime and then asks the police to reopen the case, hoping to get that person convicted so the victim's family would get off his back. Unfortunately, the detectives are smarter than he thought and his intended patsy cooperates fully with them, allowing the case to lead right back to him. Oops. In "Strange Fruit", the killer punishes his little niece for befriending a black man by making her watch the murder. Guess whose testimony is what puts him away in the end? The boyfriend and killer in "Saving Sammy" kills his girlfriendâ€™s parents when he finds out that they are moving, hoping that would allow her to stay. However, she ends up so distraught over their death that she breaks up with him.
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Cold Case / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Cold Case / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Scotty gets one that lasts for the rest of season 4 and the 1st half of season 5, after he accidentally gives a vigilante murderer evidence needed to work out the identity of his son's murderer (said vigilante nearly throws the murderer off a building as a result).
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Cold Case / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Cold Case / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Subverted in the Grand Finale, "Shattered". The killer attempts to court this reaction from Jeffries; he'd committed the murder, which was more or less an accident, as a drug-addicted teenager and had legitimately become a much better person as he got older. Jeffries's response is to look him right in the eyes and coldly tell him the victim's mother suffered worse than he did.
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Cold Case / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Cold Case / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Jack Galton from "Mind Games"; in addition to being mentally ill himself, knowingly keeps a mentally ill man insane by denying him medication, and he plays on the guy's own schizophrenia to cover his tracks.
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Cold Case / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Cold Case / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: It's implied that this is how the serial rapist from "Lovers' Lane" is able to stay under the radar for so long, as his methods are so outlandish that any victim who reports him runs the risk of having their accusation dismissed as a wild story or else being blamed themselves for getting into such a strange situation in the first place.
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Cold Case / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Cold Case / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: Because of copyright restrictions, the Closed Captioning refers to songs used by genre, rather than by name.
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Cold Case / int_d50f985a	type	Bromantic Foil
Cold Case / int_d50f985a	comment	Bromantic Foil: The killer in "Iced" is pretty much the stereotypical lovable loser best friend of the main character. However, he becomes resentful that his friend has distanced himself from him so he can concentrate on being a good hockey player, so he gets back at him by raping and impregnating his girlfriend.
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Cold Case / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Cold Case / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Ellie in "Revolution" regularly seemed to justify her actions while condemning others for theirs.
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Cold Case / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Cold Case / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Turns up in the episode "Shore Leave". A Marine bound for the Korean War is murdered while on furlough in Philadelphia. He is known to have rubbed several sailors the wrong way, and to have beaten the Navy champion in a shipboard boxing match, so the cold case team wonder if his murder could have been a case of interservice rivalry getting out of hand, especially after they learn he ventured into a Navy bar. However, a flashback reveals that the sailors did resent his presence there and would have beaten him up, only he was threatened by a civilian, which caused all of the sailors to rally behind him.
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Cold Case / int_d6512064	type	De-aged in Death
Cold Case / int_d6512064	comment	De-aged in Death: In a few cases where one of the suspects/people involved in the case died before the cold case was reopened, they will appear in the episode's ending montage as they appeared in the flashbacks, not at the age they actually died. This was particularly true of "Torn", where the murder took place in 1919 and all but one of the people involved had long since passed away. Downplayed, since those who appear are not necessarily literal ghosts.
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Cold Case / int_d6714882	type	EveryoneIsSingle
Cold Case / int_d6714882	comment	Not everyone was single: Vera was married and Scotty had a longtime serious girlfriend named Elisa. Come season three, both men were single, with the former being left by his wife by then and the latter's girlfriend committing suicide.
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Cold Case / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Cold Case / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Using the word "critter" — a neutral word in the real world — for black people in place of, uh... more well-known slurs. This is particularly noticeable in the season four episode "Fireflies", where the word is thrown around with HBO-levels of frequency. Even stranger is the fact the the n-word seems to be the only slur the show won't use; "spic," "faggot," and "mud-people" have all been said on the show.
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Cold Case / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Cold Case / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: How one of the killers in "Late Returns" is let off, due to him being a congressman and the police authorities being concerned about potential political fallout. In "Jurisprudence", corrupt judge Harold Alvarez deliberately give juvenile offenders harsh sentences, in order to send them to a juvenile detention facility ran by his sister. Throughout season 7, corrupt police commissioner Pat Doherty screws with the detectives for getting to close to the people he's protecting, by transferring Kat out of the district. In the finale, the detectives discover that he covered up his son's accidental killing of a teenage girl.
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Cold Case / int_d8e0e9f7	type	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
Cold Case / int_d8e0e9f7	comment	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: The episode "Family". The father is a senior in high school who is killed by his teacher after he decides to not give his daughter to him because he wants to actually raise her. The victim of "Cargo" is killed before he can buy his surrogate daughter's freedom, and since his killer lies to her about his motives, she spends all that time thinking he has simply abandoned her. The victim in "Sandhogs" abruptly breaks up with his girlfriend, telling her that he's going to reconcile with his wife and that their racial difference (she was black, he was white, and Loving v. Virginia was still over 20 years from happening) means they are doomed anyway. He is actually trying to protect her from opponents of his who had threatened her. The woman never even gets a chance to tell him she's pregnant and spends decades thinking he'd ditched her.
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Cold Case / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Cold Case / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Not once during the episode "Knuckle Up" does anyone mention all of the bruises and cuts a number of students have. This is a Berserk Button for the students who fight like that specifically to get attention.
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Cold Case / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Cold Case / int_da12bcfb	comment	"Running Around": You Can't Go Home Again, or can you?
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Cold Case / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Cold Case / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Jeffries is 12 in 1963, a grown adult in 1966, and turns sixty in 2005. Stillman's daughter is said to be born in 1980, and then to be 18 about 20 years ago. Don't even try to guess the age of the killer arrested in "World's End" for a crime he committed in 1938.
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Cold Case / int_daba1b82	type	Finishing Each Other's Sentences
Cold Case / int_daba1b82	comment	Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Sudden Age Cuts often result in characters effectively doing this to themselves. An adult witness will start to say something, and their sentence will be finished by them as a five-year-old, for example.
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Cold Case / int_daf81d3	type	Plain Jane
Cold Case / int_daf81d3	comment	The victim in "Blackout" is an ex-beauty queen who needs to feel sexually attractive to men — all men, including her own son and grandson (which is what gets her killed after her neglected "Plain Jane" daughter catches on).
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Cold Case / int_db15f008	type	ReallySeventeenYearsOld
Cold Case / int_db15f008	comment	Really 17 Years Old: One episode has a subplot involving a witness who's an Army recruit who lied about his age.
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Cold Case / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Cold Case / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Deconstructed in "Running Around". Anna thinks the leather-clad, Tall, Dark, and Handsome Vince is her Jerk with a Heart of Gold Prince Charming. He's actually exactly as dangerous as he looks, being a date-rapist.
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Cold Case / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Cold Case / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In "Offender", one of the prime suspects is the Goth-like teenage boy who often bullied the victim and his friend. When the victim's bicycle, which he was riding when he went missing, is found buried in his backyard, his status as the killer seems certain. Only for his lame excuses—having stolen the bike from the boy in yet another bullying incident and buried it when he heard the boy was dead, knowing that police would naturally assume he was responsible—to be true and for him to be innocent. Ironically, he is still indirectly responsible—the boy is injured during the melee and hobbles off to his friend's house to get patched up—where he encounters his murderer. The man who outright threatens to harm the victim's girlfriend in "Sandhogs" ultimately had nothing to do with the murder. Remarkably averted in at least two episodes where the person presented as the prime suspect is in fact the killer. Subverted in most other cases—all suspects are presented with motives and opportunities before the guilty one is determined. Rarely has it turned out that the most innocent-seeming person is in fact the murderer they've been looking for. Everything up to and including the title of the episode in "Colors" wants you to think race was the motive. The killer is the only non-racist white character in the episode. In cases that involve the team reopening a case because of newly-discovered evidence, it's not uncommon for said evidence to end up being completely irrelevant, serving the sole purpose of giving the detectives a reason to reexamine that particular case. In "Debut", a woman asks the Cold Case squad to re-investigate her daughter's death (she fell down a flight of stairs) after finding out that the man who was with her the night of the murder had a wife who died in the same manner. It turns out that said suspect is in fact guilty, but his wife's death was a legitimate accident. It is complete coincidence she died the same way as the girl he killed. In "Blank Generation", the team is asked to re-investigate the apparent suicide of a cult member after the man his family hired to "deprogram" him is found culpable in the death of another subject. The deprogrammer turns out to be completely innocent in the original victim's death, but the investigation up to that point is enough for the detectives to determine that the victim's death is by murder rather than suicide. The two cases in "8:03 AM" turn out to be completely unrelated, although the investigation does reveal that the victims knew each other. In "Who's Your Daddy?", the case is reopened after the victims' daughter, by sheer coincidence, finds a unique bracelet owned by her mother on an online auction site. The theft of the bracelet and the murder turn out to be completely unrelated. Invoked in "Stand Up and Holler". A friend of the victim anonymously posts a (false) confession to having murdered her, complete with a drawing that matches an image that had been drawn on the victim's leg, because he wants to force the police to take another look. (He knows about the drawing because he is the one who drew it, during a conversation with her shortly before she was killed.)
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Cold Case / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Cold Case / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Ultimately defied in "The Woods".
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Cold Case / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Cold Case / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Quite a few murders are the end result of such coincidences. The Everybody Did It episode "That Woman" deserves special mention, as it features the victim discovering the deepest, darkest secrets of all her friends, within the space of a few days, by complete accident. Agent Yate's entire backstory revolves around how she saw her boyfriend being killed by a Serial Killer, then grew up to be a FBI agent who happens to end up chasing the very same killer that shot her boyfriend decades ago.
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Cold Case / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Cold Case / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: There are a few episodes where the killer turns out to be none of the episode's pool of suspects, such as the brother/lawyer in "Justice", the informant in "8:30AM" and the adult neighbour in "Offender". A non-killer example: Linda Boyka, the community centre receptionist from "Cargo", is the head of the human trafficking ring.
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Cold Case / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Cold Case / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Discussed in "Wednesday's Women," where the fictional murder-of-the-week takes place in 1964 against the backdrop of the very real murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by the Ku Klux Klan. In the present, one of the witnesses laments the fact that, while the three civil rights workers were deeply mourned because they were famous (and two of them were white), the news media of the day didn't even mention the fact that the place they were found was a mass grave containing dozens more victims of the Klan, among them, the witness' missing brother.
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Cold Case / int_ddab9ac8	type	Bad Samaritan
Cold Case / int_ddab9ac8	comment	Bad Samaritan: The killer in "Offender", who lures the victim into his garage under the pretense of helping him patch up his knee (he'd fallen and cut it) and offering him a soda.
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Cold Case / int_ddeaea82	type	Miscarriage of Justice
Cold Case / int_ddeaea82	comment	Miscarriage of Justice: You could consider just about every episode as an example of this, considering how long someone has been able to get away with murder, even if they are finally caught at the end.
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Cold Case / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Cold Case / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: The killers in "The Badlands" and "The Red and the Blue" were high when they shot their victims in a fit while trying to score more drugs, and instantly came to regret it.
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Cold Case / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
Cold Case / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Most of the married couples that become suspects in the show, whether they are still together or divorced by the time of the reinvestigation, are shown to have been miserable together, whether itâ€™s because of Incompatible Orientation, Domestic Abuse, one or both partners having substance abuse or other problems that just cannot be solved. By contrast, many of the couples who donâ€™t get married, like they were having an affair or just not ready, are shown to be very happy and in love.
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Cold Case / int_df5abb48	type	Extremely Cold Case
Cold Case / int_df5abb48	comment	Extremely Cold Case: In "Torn", Lilly and her team investigate their oldest case yet, the murder of an heiress in 1919. They soon learn that she may have been killed because of her activism for women's rights. The only person from the original investigation still alive was a young child at the time of the murder.
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Cold Case / int_df80e640	type	Not Proven
Cold Case / int_df80e640	comment	Not Proven: The very reason George Marks is able to walk is because there isn't a shred of evidence that points to him. Anything that does can easily be explained away, and despite everyone's best efforts, he never confesses. One episode ends with a prominent politician admitting to Valens, off the record, that he committed the murder years ago. Unfortunately, his sister, who is incestuously obsessed with him, has already confessed to everything, and there's no evidence to contradict her claims. "Iced" has Cullen Masters, a disgraced hockey player who gets banned from playing after being arrested for the murder of a rival. The cops have nothing against Masters other than the fact he hated the victim but that was enough for them to try (and fail) to force a confession out of him. While he is released, the league is so sure of his guilt they won't allow him to play hockey again and, years later, this is held as a reason to ban his son from joining the league. The last part motivates Masters to investigate on his own and to ask the police to reopen the case.
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Cold Case / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Cold Case / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The killer in "The Hitchhiker" doesn't really have any noteworthy redeeming qualities, but he can be considered rather pitiable due to what an utter failure he is.
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Cold Case / int_e016e53f	type	Throwing Off the Disability
Cold Case / int_e016e53f	comment	Throwing Off the Disability: The victim's brother in "Shuffle, Ball Change". Aided by the fact that he isn't really hurt in the first place, just looking for a convenient way to get out of a wrestling career he no longer thinks he can handle.
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Cold Case / int_e085feeb	type	Broken Record
Cold Case / int_e085feeb	comment	Broken Record: A literal version in "Static", wherein a gunshot causes a record player in immediate range to be covered in blood.
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Cold Case / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
Cold Case / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Numerous killers and accomplices express views similar to this, but special mention goes to Detective Bianchi in "Chinatown". Assigned to investigate Philly's chapter of the Chinese mob, he quickly discovers who the local boss is and could've arrested him at any time, but instead opts to work with him, feeling that someone even worse would just take his place, and better the devil you know... Both victims would still be alive if Bianchi had just done his job, and the closing montage strongly implies he will finally testify, then still get the book thrown at him.
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Cold Case / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
Cold Case / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: The serial bomber in "Sabotage" lost his young daughter to cancer, with his marriage falling apart soon after.
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Cold Case / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Cold Case / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: One of the suspects in "Thick as Thieves" plans on doing this to the Asshole Victim. Instead of killing her in a fit of rage, he wants to get her sent to jail. Given that she spent all of her life running away from her trailer park past, getting exposed as a con artist would have been a Fate Worse than Death for her.
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Cold Case / int_e1cee453	type	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife
Cold Case / int_e1cee453	comment	Sandra Riley from the same episode uses being a Hot Guy, Ugly Wife to her advantage while ignoring her husband molesting her son and kidnapping other children to molest.
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Cold Case / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
Cold Case / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: "Creatures of the Night", "Triple Threat" and "Willkommen" showed off the guest actors' singing.
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Cold Case / int_e288e579	type	Lying to the Perp
Cold Case / int_e288e579	comment	Lying to the Perp: Done by almost every detective at least once, and especially recurrent in the case of Vera. Discussed in "Blood on the Tracks", where the right to do so is described as a good reason to be a cop instead of a prosecutor.
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Cold Case / int_e2a73e74	type	Quip to Black
Cold Case / int_e2a73e74	comment	Quip to Black: Frequently, and usually Lilly.
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Cold Case / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Cold Case / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Many episodes are based on the plot of certain movies — "Stand Up and Holler" (Mean Girls), "Blood On The Tracks" (The Big Chill), "Yo, Adrian" (Rocky), "Joseph" (Laura), "The Dealer" (Glengarry Glen Ross), "Boy Crazy" (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), "Knuckle Up" (Fight Club), and "Shuffle, Small Change" (Billy Elliot). Subverted with the Dangerous Minds episode; the WPR for that film was actually True Calling, though it's arguably a reference to the "Nice White Lady" type of dramas the film spawned. It's arguably a Deconstruction; see the Save Our Students spoiler above. Ouch. "The House" also has many Shout Outs to The Shawshank Redemption, although the main plot itself isn't lifted from the movie. It also seems to lift some of its story from Cool Hand Luke. "Disco Inferno" combines this (Saturday Night Fever — the victim even dresses in a suit identical to John Travolta's) with Ripped from the Headlines (the Station nightclub fire). In "The Road", John Smith chooses his victims after learning about their lives by editing their home videos, precisely how the killer chooses his victims in Red Dragon.
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Cold Case / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
Cold Case / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: "Stand Up and Holler". The victim's friend is gang-raped as the final part of her initiation into the cheerleading squad. One of the teachers and coach who used to be unpopular in his day had covered up the rapes because he was still desperately trying to be in with the cool kids. The killer in "Who's Your Daddy" is this to an extent. When he accidentally shoots the male victim in an attempt to get the female victim to service him, he snivels and whimpers because now he's "gotta kill [her] too". Almost akin to a child who drops his ice cream, so now he'll have to throw it away.
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Cold Case / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
Cold Case / int_e35bc0f7	comment	The killer of all people in "It Takes a Village" before he becomes a Tragic Monster.
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Cold Case / int_e394c5d	type	Color Wash
Cold Case / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Almost every episode. It is used to distinguish the scenes in the past from those in the present. For instance, scenes taking place in the seventies will have vivid warm colors, scenes taking place in the early nineties are black, white, and grey, while the present-day scenes will have a 'normal'/slightly blue-tinged colour scheme. Taken a step further in a flashback in the episode "Volunteers", set in 1969. A character mentions she was "tripping", and the resulting flashback has a rather odd and slanted look.
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Cold Case / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
Cold Case / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: The closeted cops in "Forever Blue".
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Cold Case / int_e3a7d2e6	type	Karmic Jackpot
Cold Case / int_e3a7d2e6	comment	Karmic Jackpot: Happens occasionally to secondary characters, such as Gene Karnow in "Shore Leave", who meets his future wife when she walks up to him, impressed after he helps his rival Jimmy Tully overpower a jealous longshoreman threatening him with a gun.
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Cold Case / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Cold Case / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: The abandoned baby Vera finds and takes care of until child services comes to get him. He later applies to adopt the child.
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Cold Case / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Cold Case / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Dex Collins, the victim in "Street Money" has an uncanny ability to turn enemies to allies. This gets him killed by an irate shopkeeper when he finds out Dex cut a deal with a corrupt city councilman.
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Cold Case / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Cold Case / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The victim Julian Bellowes in "Libertyville" has a lot in common with George Bailey, right down to a similar name.
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Cold Case / int_e5488c95	type	Taps
Cold Case / int_e5488c95	comment	Taps: The episode "Shore Leave" is about a Marine in the 1950s who is murdered. "Taps" is played at the end.
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Cold Case / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Cold Case / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Naturally when the show regularly has a long dead victim who had a partner, we run into this trope. "Best Friends", "A Time to Hate", "Boy Crazy", "Daniela" and "Andy in C Minor" are just a handful of examples.
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Cold Case / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Cold Case / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Lance Katrola, the egotistical wrestling promoter and one of the killers from "One Fall". He's an overall Hate Sink, but he displays this as well in the interrogation room while being interviewed by Scotty and condescendingly refers to him as (a decidedly offensive) ese, angering him.
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Cold Case / int_e6132e31	type	Old Flame
Cold Case / int_e6132e31	comment	Lilly and her Old Flame Ray were also revealed to be Childhood Friends before running (or rather biking) away together when she was 19.
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Cold Case / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Cold Case / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Oscar Anderson in "The Dealer" denies both killing the victim and stealing her bonus. Thing is, the detectives had only mentioned her money being stolen, not the source of that money.
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Cold Case / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Cold Case / int_e6558beb	comment	Artistic License â€“ Space: Not only is the moon in the wrong phase on the date in "One Small Step", the moon in that phase could not be in the position it is in the sky during the events of that episode.
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Cold Case / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Cold Case / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Played all over the place in the episode "Stalker". The criminal is shot, with a sniper-rifle, through the shoulder, but seems relatively unaffected and is able to carry on until he is finally fatally wounded in the episode's climax. Meanwhile, he shoots Stillman in the shoulder and, despite concern that he's going into shock, he's merely patched up by EMS and is apparently well enough to sit in the hospital waiting room with the others as they wait for word on Lilly, who has also been shot in the shoulder, but is rushed to the hospital for treatment and nearly dies from her wounds, the only one of the three to have her injury taken seriously. Even then, her lingering trauma is emotional rather than physical.
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Cold Case / int_e7502007	type	Pull-the-Trigger Provocation
Cold Case / int_e7502007	comment	Pull The Trigger Provocation: In the episode "Justice", Jimmy Bartram holds a gun to the rapist of his sister, and shoots when the rapist brags that all his victims loved it.
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Cold Case / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Cold Case / int_e83f211c	comment	Detectives Jeffries and Vera are straight versions. Most of the time.
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Cold Case / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Cold Case / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With with each Girl Posse member in â€œThe Sleepoverâ€�. With them, nothing is clear cut. The violent Alpha Bitch with anger issues has a Freudian Excuse, the Beta Bitch has a reason for hating the victim and regrets it an hour later, and the Nice Girl ends up being the killer.
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Cold Case / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
Cold Case / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: Deputy Commissioner Doherty talks like this.
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Cold Case / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Cold Case / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The killer in "Bombers" stands out, as not only is he one of the few, if not the only, suspect to utter a death threat out of anger and make good on it, he does it exactly the way he said he would—by literally emptying a can of spray paint down his victim's throat.
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Cold Case / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Cold Case / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: "Into the Blue"; borderline Dying Dream.
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Cold Case / int_ead0869d	type	Acquitted Too Late
Cold Case / int_ead0869d	comment	Acquitted Too Late: In "Death Penalty: Final Appeal", the murderer is caught one day after the innocent man is executed. Narrowly averted in "Thrill Kill", where one of the people wrongfully convicted ultimately has to hang himself in prison to get the police to reopen the case. Happens in "The River". The man arrested for the murder is acquitted more than twenty years later... unfortunately, he had died in prison two months after being arrested. The victim in "Flashover" has been arrested for starting a fire in his house and murdering his kids. The detectives reopen his case and acquit him... except he's been murdered in prison already.
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Cold Case / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Cold Case / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Plenty, including... The killer in "A Perfect Day", who uses his police connections to cover up his own Domestic Abuse. The killer in "Bad Reputation", who, cleaned out by his ex-wife in their divorce and facing a forced retirement due to his brutal tactics, begins using his informants to commit crimes for him. The finale reveals Deputy Commissioner Doherty is actually crooked, rather than just sleazy, albeit for idealistic reasons— fudging his druggie son's criminal record to omit manslaughter to enable him to rebuild his life. The protagonists, bar Stillman, flirt with this in "Justice" by letting a man who killed a Karma Houdini serial rapist for assaulting his sister walk. "Forever Blue" features two examples: The victim's partner turns out to be in on the take, albeit out of desperation. Lt. McCree, who took kickbacks from Philly's heroin kingpin at the time and cold-bloodedly shot a fellow officer for being gay. The victim in "The Runaway Bunny" is a former Philadelphia cop who was fired from the force for being on the take. He becomes a very disreputable private investigator but eventually performs a Heelâ€“Face Turn that results in his death when he realizes what his Black Widow client is up to.
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Cold Case / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
Cold Case / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: When blood found at a scene in Philadelphia matches NYPD Detective Stella Bonasera's, Scotty travels to CSI: NY to solve it, adding to the whole The 'Verse thing, with the CSI shows and Without a Trace.
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Cold Case / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Cold Case / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	The Jerkass in "Pin Up Girl" who asks the killer out to get close to the victim, even laughing in her face for not realizing that is what he's doing.
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Cold Case / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Cold Case / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: A lot of the victims end up being killed just because they try to do the right thing and it ends up biting them in the butt. Not only does it get them killed but it also has a detrimental effect on their personal lives beforehand. The victim in "Cargo" is killed for trying to save a girl from a smuggling/prostitution ring, going so far as attempting to raise her as his own daughter. The security guard in "Rampage", who repays the two disturbed shooters for treating him with respect by hanging out with them in the camera room. They repay him by shooting him in the gut, leaving him a paraplegic. If Rita from "The Sleepover" had just gone home and not tried to save the Alpha Bitch at the sleepover from her abusive parents, she wouldn't have been killed by her wannabe best friend, who did so hoping to impress said bitch. The victim in "Blood on the Tracks" who wanted to confess to his role in the death of a friend. If only he hadn't been so vocal and insistent about this to several people who are just as adamant that he keep his mouth shut... Missy in "Roller Girl" sees her loose-goose friend, Julie, drugged senseless and about to be taken advantage of by a sleazy skating rink manager. Instead of just turning a blind eye and going home, she protects Julie and eventually helps her home. An embarrassed Julie repays her by breaking off their friendship and refusing to let Missy stay the night at her place, and this ultimately leads to Missy's accidental death. Unlike the similar example in "The Sleepover", though, Julie at least has the decency to feel bad about it and make some serious life changes.
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Cold Case / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Cold Case / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Several perps are quite elderly in the present, though with the mitigating factor that they were young when they actually committed their crimes. Special mention goes to the nonagenarian, Alzheimer-afflicted guy from "World's End", who'd gotten away with his crime for almost seventy years. They still lock up the poor old guy, too, arguably a Kick the Dog for the main characters.
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Cold Case / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Cold Case / int_eba6a077	comment	The victims of "Shuffle, Ball Change" and "Wunderkind" are both killed by their older brothers whom they tried to help chase their dreams.
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Cold Case / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Cold Case / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: Straight example in "Hubris" - the old case is reopened because a prostitute in the present day is murdered in the same way as the original victim... yet this new victim is almost not investigated at all, and she does not appear in "ghost form" when her killer is caught at the end, while the older victim does. The case in "The Letter" goes cold in the first place because the victim was mistaken as a prostitute, so the cops didn't put any effort into searching for the killer.
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Cold Case / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Cold Case / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: One case is about a couple killed in a gas explosion in their home. The husband reveals to their friends that he is going to turn themselves in for the accidental death of another friend. So the wife convinces her ex-lover to make a homemade bomb which she uses to kill her husband (and a friend of theirs whom no one knew was staying over). She then steals said friend's identity because they bear a strong resemblance to each other and she has no family or friends who would notice the difference.
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Cold Case / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Cold Case / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: In "Static," a DJ is shot while broadcasting. His blood splatters on the record he was spinning at the time and causes it to get stuck, much to the irritation of a young couple making out to the radio broadcast.
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Cold Case / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Cold Case / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. For example, one of the suspects who turns out to be the doer in "The Letter" is Nathan Jones, and the accomplice in "Metamorphosis" is Nathaniel Jones (incidentally, neither of them are pro wrestler Nathan Jones). There are also two characters named Rudy Tanner, though one never actually appears on-screen, and two victims named Rita.
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Cold Case / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Cold Case / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Rita in "The Sleepover" is a kind and smart, but bullied and unpopular Lovable Nerd who is murdered for trying to comfort her former best friend who got rejected by the cool girls. Laura in "True Calling", a Harvard graduate who passed up on a high-powered career to teach an inner city school. She genuinely only wants to help her students, but falls afoul of a Jaded Washout co-worker. Dexter in "Street Money" (played by Chadwick Boseman) is an idealistic Yale-educated politician who abides by Screw the Money, I Have Rules!, and refuses to take bribes or engage in blackmail. His refusal to play dirty and penchant to compromise with his opponents got him killed by a jaded supporter who misconstrued this as selling out. We are supposed to believe that the brilliant, creative dancer is this in "World's End", but it's something of a Broken Aesop for the uncritically sympathetic way some of her more asshole-ish behavior is treated. The girl in "The Goodbye Room" is forced to give up her baby... and then murdered by her tragic friend who wasn't able to keep her own baby after going through hell to try to get the child back. Rainey in "Stand Up and Holler" only tries to do the right thing, but is fatally attacked by the Alpha Bitch for deciding to shed her toxic influence, and then left to die by her supposed best friend because she wants to stay cool.
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Cold Case / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
Cold Case / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: In "Jackals", the cold case team investigates the 30-year-old murder of an honor student who fell in with a notorious biker gang called the Jackals.
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Cold Case / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
Cold Case / int_efef300	comment	There is Scotty's girlfriend Elisa, who was Put on a Bus to Hell: To an asylum after suffering a mental breakdown, despite Scotty promising her she wouldn't be interned. And then suffered a Bus Crash: By jumping off a bridge some time after she had been discharged. All this happened off-screen.
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Cold Case / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Cold Case / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: The victim's boyfriend from "Lover's Lane". Although he is now a married father of two, he still openly pines for his long-slain girlfriend to the point of it destroying his current marriage. The victim's widow in "The Runner" is a gender-flipped example. Not only is she still suffering from his death 30 years later, but the shock and stress of his murder caused her to miscarry their unborn child, a girl. An odd occurrence happens in "Maternal Instincts": a witness had a crush on the victim and believed her to be "the one", in spite of her loose character and not being interested in him. In the present day, he's a lot more cynical. Subverted with Det. Jeffries: he loved his wife dearly and properly mourns her, but not to the point of letting it ruin his life (save for a season four arc where he was searching for her hit-and-run killer, only to ultimately forgive him in the end).
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Cold Case / int_f10cc97f	type	Bludgeoned to Death
Cold Case / int_f10cc97f	comment	Bludgeoned to Death: In "Spiders", the Victim of the Week has her head caved in with the hammer the killer had earlier used to break the lock on the basement window so she could escape.
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Cold Case / int_f13643c4	type	Tunnel King
Cold Case / int_f13643c4	comment	Tunnel King: Tommy Harkin in "The House", who knows about an old, undiscovered tunnel that his grandfather dug while a prisoner several decades earlier.
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Cold Case / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Cold Case / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: The reason the victims are killed in "Blood on the Tracks". They want to turn in their friend group (including themselves) to the police for an accidental murder they all committed ten years previously.
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Cold Case / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
Cold Case / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Frannie Ching.
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Cold Case / int_f2097aef	type	Finally Found the Body
Cold Case / int_f2097aef	comment	Finally Found the Body: Some of their cases are initiated by the discovery of the victim's body, even though the victim has been dead for years.
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Cold Case / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
Cold Case / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: How the killer in "Free Love" sees the victim.
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Cold Case / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
Cold Case / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: The Domestic Abuser cop in "A Perfect Day" (that murders his own four-year-old daughter who is the Victim of the Week) is killed a few years after the crime during a police shootout with a gang where he "accidentally" gets caught in the crossfire after his whole squad finds out about his abusive tendencies. The officer that confesses 40 years later is told by Vera and Jeffries that they "have no record" of this revelation. Likewise, in "Justice", where the dead guy is a Serial Rapist murdered by the then-12-year-old brother of one of his victims, Rush and Valens goad the brother into saying he acted in self-defense, with Vera and Jeffries turning off the audio in the interview room and claiming to hear nothing. The case is later closed as a justifiable homicide and he faces no charges.
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Cold Case / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Cold Case / int_f3626b09	comment	A mercy killing, like in "The River", "The Good Death", "Boy Crazy", etc.
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Cold Case / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Cold Case / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Ken Bream from "Revenge" spends his entire life being blamed by his wife for their sonâ€™s death as well as blaming himself. Yet when the police discover that she was solely at fault, he never once calls her out.
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Cold Case / int_f4231181	type	Recycled Script
Cold Case / int_f4231181	comment	The season 7 episode "Almost Paradise" has the prom queen, disillusioned with her popularity and on the verge of growing up and going to college, get struck and killed by the beloved high school assistant principal after prom when he tried to kiss her and she threatened to expose him.
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Cold Case / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Cold Case / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Subverted in "Blood on the Tracks" and "Joseph", where bodies are found, but their mangled state thanks to the method of killing (explosion in the first case, shotgun blast to the face in the second) led to them being misidentified. "Fireflies". The victim never actually dies, she is kidnapped and loses her memory of who she is.
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Cold Case / int_f5d2e441	type	Perp Walk
Cold Case / int_f5d2e441	comment	Perp Walk: Frequently played straight. Even the only episode where they can't break the killer ("Mind Hunters") has a perp walk... but with the perp walking as a free man. Averted a few times. In "A Perfect Day", the killer is already dead. Stillman has his picture taken down from the bar he frequented, though. In the episode with the case from 1919, the perp, and everyone involved except the eight-year-old daughter of the maid, is long dead, so all they can do is write "CLOSED" on the case box.
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Cold Case / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Cold Case / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: "The Boy in the Box"' and his biological mother Sister Grace. This is literally why the lesbian lovers in "Best Friends" opt to drive off the cliff, committing double suicide, rather than be separated. Unfortunately tragically subverted as one lived and the other died, though the survivor continued to mourn her lost love forever.
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Cold Case / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
Cold Case / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: "Revenge", "Offender", "8 Years", "A Perfect Day", and "Justice". In the case of the latter two, the victims are so utterly horrible that the detectives actually let the killers walk.
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Cold Case / int_f67f3a68	type	EvilStepmother
Cold Case / int_f67f3a68	comment	The Evil Stepmother from "The Runaway Bunny", infamously so. While the eponymous "Bunny" is found safe and the killer of the private investigator is arrested, she is still likely the murderer of her husband and Bunny's father, but isn't charged by the end of the episode and mocks Lilly for walking away scot-free not unlike George Marks.
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Cold Case / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Cold Case / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Johanna shows signs of this in "Blood on the Tracks". The only reason she kills her husband is because his confessing would have ruined her life of wealth. The victim's family in "Lotto Fever" in addition to his one-time girlfriend, who soon dumps him after getting what she needs from him. The eponymous Sherry Stephens from "Sherry Darlin'" who tries to convince her ex-boyfriend to kill his grandmother for the insurance money, then commits the murder herself when he can't. In the present day, she is a wealthy doctor's wife who is hated by the rest of the family for this very reason. Why Caroline/Mandy in "The Runaway Bunny" married and killed both of her husbands. She will do anything to keep her place in the upper-class, including manipulating a lawyer into covering up the first death and trying to track down her runaway stepdaughter Bunny to silence her about the second one.
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Cold Case / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Cold Case / int_f76842b1	comment	The school nurse. Aside from being The Fundamentalist who manipulates the young couple into keeping their baby by showing them gruesome pictures of aborted fetuses and gleefully running a woman who works at a clinic off the road, it's also learned that she is carrying on an affair with the married math teacher and murderer.
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Cold Case / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
Cold Case / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: "The Hen House", "Lonely Hearts", "Resolutions", "Saving Sammy", "Wings", "Soul". "Love Conquers Al" is a combination of this and Love Makes You Crazy. The male killer killed his one-time fling, a fellow runner on his high school track team, to "restore" the love between him and his girlfriend, only for them to eventually break up because their "love" was no longer pure.
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Cold Case / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Cold Case / int_f8e010ce	comment	"That Woman". The members of the school's "Abstinence-only" club can't comprehend the fact that the "slut" is actually a much better person than they are, and so murder her.
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Cold Case / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Cold Case / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Steve Jablonski, who is Buried Alive.
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Cold Case / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Cold Case / int_f909b16b	comment	"That Woman", in which the victim is killed after she's unfortunate enough to discover the Dark Secret of everyone in her chastity club.
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Cold Case / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
Cold Case / int_f96f8980	comment	"Love Conquers Al" is a combination of this and Love Makes You Crazy. The male killer killed his one-time fling, a fellow runner on his high school track team, to "restore" the love between him and his girlfriend, only for them to eventually break up because their "love" was no longer pure.
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Cold Case / int_fa3d111f	type	Maternally Challenged
Cold Case / int_fa3d111f	comment	Maternally Challenged: The victim's mother in "Maternal Instincts". She admits that she never wanted children, is cold and distant to her daughter throughout her childhood, and even when she learns of her daughter's death and that the killer is arrested after 15 years, she isn't too bothered by it.
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Cold Case / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Cold Case / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits: Lilly isn't exactly thrilled to learn that Scotty has been seeing her sister and it leads to them being cold to one another for a couple of episodes. She eventually opens up and explains that her disapproval is as much for Scotty's emotional well-being as her sister's; he's still trying to move on from his previous love's suicide and Lilly's addict sister has a multitude of issues that wouldn't be conducive to a healthy relationship.
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Cold Case / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Cold Case / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Brother: Cedric Bubley does this, but changes his mind about killing. His other brothers...
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Cold Case / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Cold Case / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Customarily subverted; often, someone involved in a case will allude to information, just before a flashback containing it.
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Cold Case / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Cold Case / int_fd497706	comment	The Congressman in "Late Returns", if you can even call him a "destroyer" at all. As a teenager, he was taken advantage of by his controlling older sister, and ultimately kills his girlfriend essentially on a reflex when her touch causes him to have flashbacks to his sister abusing him.
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Cold Case / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Cold Case / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The killer in "WASP". She is a commanding officer in the first-ever brigade of female military pilots in the US. When the victim discovers another female pilot has been killed by a male pilot in a prank Gone Horribly Wrong, she threatens to report it to the brass which the CO knows, the '40s being what they were, will likely result in the women's pilot program being shut down, and so kills her to ensure her silence. Even as an old woman in the present, she's totally unrepentant, feeling that her actions were all in the name of giving women a chance in the military.
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Cold Case / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
Cold Case / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: Ellen Rush is this, having been one all through Lilly's childhood. The abusive mother in "Blackout" is this, which is implied to have made her believe it was alright to molest her son and grandson.
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Cold Case / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
Cold Case / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Jeffries' age seems to change Depending on the Writer, as well.
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Cold Case / int_feaf5424	type	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
Cold Case / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: In "Knuckle Up", the victim and his friend address each other as "Buck" and "Ares" respectively. When one of them is about to run from a murder scene, they call each other by their first names before the friend runs away.
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Cold Case / int_fed1c50d	type	Big Jerk on Campus
Cold Case / int_fed1c50d	comment	Big Jerk on Campus: â€œAlmost Paradiseâ€�, â€œKnuckle Upâ€�, â€œBoy Crazyâ€�, â€œStand Up And Hollerâ€�, and â€œJusticeâ€�. Most of the Big Jerks On Campus are shown to have fallen far from their pedestals by comparing them in the flashbacks to them at the time of the reinvestigation. They are unattractive and unsuccessful in life, yet still clinging to their old Jerkass ways.
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Cold Case / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Cold Case / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: The innocent frenemy of the victim in "Factory Girls" at all of 22, thanks to the standards of when the episode is set. The accomplice in "Slipping" was a literal example: a housekeeper bitterly aware that she would end up as this because she's not beautiful like the victim despite their shared poor upbringings. The killer, the victim's husband, manipulated her into helping him under the pretense of one day marrying her. The killer in "Wings" is solely motivated by being this; she was a stewardess close to 32, the cutoff age when the airline would let her go, and hoped the captain she'd been having an affair with would leave his wife for her. She killed the victim after the latter helped get the captain fired for sexually harassing the other flight attendants.
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Cold Case / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Cold Case / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Often occurs in the closing montage with characters who were Jerkasses or criminals but not pure evil. "It's Raining Men" has a character who is a Depraved Homosexual who deliberately gives other men HIV in 1983, become a kindly pet shop owner by 2004 who is literally seen playing with puppies in the ending montage. In "Ravaged", the victim's sexually harassing Fat Bastard boss is revealed to have kept her dog after she died. In "Daniela", the promiscuous and morally-bankrupt first suspect is seen finally turning down the advances of a prostitute. The drug dealer in "Discretion" participates in a sting operation to help the cops bust the initial murderers; the main victim had been killed after discovering the man arrested for that crime had been framed. The Jerkass teacher in "True Calling" proudly looking on at her old student, who, inspired by the victim, became a teacher in the school.
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Cold Case / int_fff67ce9	type	Stacy's Mom
Cold Case / int_fff67ce9	comment	Stacy's Mom: Used in an extremely twisted fashion in "Blackout". The victim, a middle-aged former supermodel, actively tries to get this reaction out of others, including her own relatives.
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Cold Case	hasFeature	Big Jerk on Campus / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Bigot with a Badge / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Bluffing the Murderer / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Booby Trap / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Boomerang Bigot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Break His Heart to Save Him / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Buried Alive / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Bury Your Disabled / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Bury Your Gays / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	But Not Too Black / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Can Always Spot a Cop / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Casualty in the Ring / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Character Name Alias / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cheating with the Milkman / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Children Are Tender-Hearted / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Chocolate Baby / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cigarette of Anxiety / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Circus Episode / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Class Princess / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Class Reunion / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Click Hello / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Closet Gay / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Color Wash / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Confess to a Lesser Crime / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Confessional / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Conspicuous Consumption / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Conspiracy Theorist / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Constructive Body Disposal / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Contrived Clumsiness / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Crazy Homeless People / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Creepy Gym Coach / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Crime After Crime / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Crippling the Competition / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cruel Cheerleader / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Cult / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dancing Is Serious Business / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Danger Takes a Backseat / int_ff2165b
DanielleHarris	seeAlso	Cold Case
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dark Secret / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dead-Hand Shot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dead Person Impersonation / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	De-aged in Death / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Deathbed Confession / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Defector from Commie Land / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Deliberate VHS Quality / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Deliberately Monochrome / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Department of Child Disservices / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Detective Patsy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Developing Doomed Characters / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Did I Mention It's Christmas? / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dies Wide Open / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Disabled Love Interest / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Disposable Sex Worker / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Drill Sergeant Nasty / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Drive-In Theater / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Drowning Pit / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Education Mama / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Embarrassing Old Photo / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Embarrassing Slide / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Enthusiastic Newbie Teacher / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Every Episode Ending / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Everybody Did It / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Everybody Is Single / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Everybody Lives / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Fair Cop / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Fake Ultimate Hero / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Faux Interracial Relationship / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Fiendish Fraternity / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Finally Found the Body / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	555 / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Flashback Cut / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Flashback Effects / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	French Maid / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Funeral Banishment / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Future Badass / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Future Loser / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Gas Leak Cover-Up / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Gayngst / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Gayngst-Induced Suicide / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	"Gender-Normative Parent" Plot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Ghost Reunion Ending / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Girl on Girl Is Hot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Government Agency of Fiction / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Guilt-Ridden Accomplice / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hanging Judge / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Happier Home Movie / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	He Knows Too Much / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hereditary Homosexuality / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Heteronormative Crusader / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hiding Your Heritage / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	High-School Rejects / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hollywood Autism / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hollywood Old / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Holy Backlight / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Homeless Pigeon Person / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hope Crusher / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Human Traffickers / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Can See You / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Coulda Been a Contender! / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Foot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Remember Because... / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I Wished You Were Dead / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	I'm Cold... So Cold... / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Impersonation-Exclusive Character / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Instant Emergency Response / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Insurance-Motivated Murder / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Intercontinuity Crossover / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Internal Affairs / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Introverted Cat Person / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Ironic Nursery Tune / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Jackie Robinson Story / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Jerk Jock / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Jukebox Musical / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	"Kick Me" Prank / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Kids Driving Cars / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Kill and Replace / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Killer Cop / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Kindhearted Cat Lover / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Knife-Throwing Act / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Know-Nothing Know-It-All / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Let Off by the Detective / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Linked List Clue Methodology / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Lives in a Van / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Lobotomy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Locked Up and Left Behind / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Lonely Bachelor Pad / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Long-Dead Badass / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Love Letter Lunacy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mad Bomber / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Make a Wish / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Marathon Running / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mature Work, Child Protagonists / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Meta Twist / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Middle School Is Miserable / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Military School / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Millennium Bug / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Missing Child / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Missing White Woman Syndrome / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pedophile / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	"Mister Sandman" Sequence / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Modesty Towel / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Monochrome Past / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Moon-Landing Hoax / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Motive Misidentification / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Music Video Syndrome / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Musical Episode / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	My Greatest Second Chance / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Mystery of the Week / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Naturalized Name / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nazi Grandpa / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Never Heard That One Before / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Never Suicide / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Never Win the Lottery / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nixon Mask / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	No Bisexuals / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	No Historical Figures Were Harmed / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	No Mercy for Murderers / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	No One Sees the Boss / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nobody Over 50 Is Gay / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Noir Episode / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nostalgia Filter / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Not Proven / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Nothing but Hits / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Obfuscating Disability / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	One-Woman Wail / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Original Flavour / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Out of the Closet, Into the Fire / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pants-Positive Safety / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Parodies for Dummies / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Parting-Words Regret / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pass Fail / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Patched Together from the Headlines / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pater Familicide / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pedophile Priest / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Perp Walk / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Phony Veteran / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pimping the Offspring / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pom-Pom Girl / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Popular History / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Popular Is Dumb / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Post-Rape Taunt / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Post-Support Regret / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Prank Date / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Present-Day Past / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Princess in Rags / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Private Profit Prison / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pro Wrestling Episode / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Prom Baby / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Psychotic Love Triangle / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pubescent Braces / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Pull-the-Trigger Provocation / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Put on a Prison Bus / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Queer Character, Queer Actor / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Quip to Black / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Quitting to Get Married / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Rape Discretion Shot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Rats in a Box / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Really 17 Years Old / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Rebuilt Pedestal / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Red Scare / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Retraux / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Retraux Flashback / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Reunion Revenge / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Revisiting the Cold Case / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Rhyming Title / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Rule of Perception / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Salt and Pepper / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sassy Secretary / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Save Our Students / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Saved by the Church Bell / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Scary Minority Suspect / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Scholarship Student / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Self-Defense Ruse / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Serial Rapist / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Shiksa Goddess / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Shoo Out the New Guy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Shoot the Messenger / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Signature Item Clue / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Significant Birth Date / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Silly Reason for War / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sinister Whistling / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sisterhood Eliminates Creep / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sleeps with Everyone but You / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Smart People Play Chess / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Snow Means Death / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Society Is to Blame / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sound-Only Death / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Splash of Color / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sports Dad / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Spree Killer / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Statute of Limitations / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Strawman News Media / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sub-Par Supremacist / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Success Hallucinations / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Suicide, Not Murder / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Suicide Pact / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_ff2165b
SusannaThompson	seeAlso	Cold Case
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sweet Polly Oliver / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Sympathetic Murderer / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Taps / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Team Title / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Teen Pregnancy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Teens Are Monsters / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Terminally-Ill Criminal / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	That One Case / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Casino / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Chain of Harm / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Corpse Stops Here / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Dead Guy Did It / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Mob Boss Is Scarier / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The One Guy / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Patient Has Left the Building / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Prom Plot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Suffragette / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Tragic Rose / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Un-Hug / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	The Vietnam Vet / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Third-Person Flashback / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Threatening to Cut Ties / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Time-Delayed Death / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tom the Dark Lord / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tragic AIDS Story / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tragic Bigot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tragic Dropout / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tragic Hero / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Trauma-Induced Amnesia / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Traumatic Haircut / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Traveling Salesman / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Troubled Teen / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Twisted Christmas / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Unconfessed Unemployment / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Undercover Cop Reveal / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Unnaturally Blue Lighting / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Vehicle Vanish / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Very Loosely Based on a True Story / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Victim of the Week / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Violently Protective Girlfriend / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Voiceover Letter / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Wacky Cravings / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Was It Really Worth It? / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Watched It for the Representation / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	While You Were in Diapers / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Wholesome Crossdresser / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Wrench Wench / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	Wrongfully Committed / int_ff2165b
Cold Case	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Shoot Me / int_ff2165b
Criminal Minds	seeAlso	Cold Case
Cold Case	hasFeature	I See Dead People / int_ff2165b
coldcase	sameAs	Cold Case

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