Regular Cast
Kathryn Morris as Det. Lilly Rush
Justin Chambers as Det. Chris Lassing
Jeremy Latchford as Det. Ronnie Vera
John Finn as Lt. Tom Stillman
Mel Winkler as Det. Will Jeffries

About the Show
COLD CASE is a drama about Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), the lone female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad who finds her niche when she's assigned to "cold cases"--crimes that have never been solved. Previously, she used her instinctive understanding of the criminal mind on current murders. Now, she's interrogating witnesses whose lives and circumstances have since changed, making use of today's new science and finding fresh clues to solve cases that were previously unsolvable, all of which appeals to this smart, driven detective. She's also prepared for the consequences: that her work will open up old wounds and may lead suspects to commit new crimes. When she hits a dead end, Rush seeks advice from her respected mentor, Lt. John Stillman (John Finn). Also on the team are Det. Scotty Valens (Danny Pino), Rush's confident and strong-willed partner; Det. Will Jeffries (Thom Barry), who's been around long enough to serve as Lilly's link to the past; and Det. Nick Vera (Jeremy Ratchford), a tough cop who's considered the go-to guy for getting a confession. Rush sees her assignment as a turning point in her career when she decides to make it her business to make sure that no victim is ever forgotten.

Season One

1. Look Again
   Kathryn Morris stars as Philadelphia homicide detective Lilly Rush, who investigates long-unsolved crimes. In the opener, Lilly probes a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. An eyewitness finally comes forward with new information.
    
2. Gleen
   Lilly investigates a 1983 murder in which a young mother was killed by a homemade bomb packed in a laundry-detergent box shortly before she was to testify in court against a man who exposed himself to her.
    
3. Useless Cats
   A serial rapist who terrorized the city five years earlier, leaving one woman dead, sends a letter to the detective squad letting them know that he is back and ready to strike again.
    
4. Churchgoing People
   Lilly reopens a 1990 homicide, in which a church organist was found stabbed to death in his van surrounded by pornography and drugs in a seedy part of town, after the man's Alzheimer's-afflicted widow begins to have flashbacks about the night of the crime.
    
5. The Runner
   Lilly reopens a 1973 murder case, in which a 21-year-old rookie cop was shot three times in the chest, after a drug addict brings in an audio tape she found on which the fatal shooting is heard. Also on the tape are the victim's final words "Runner! Runner! Runner!"
    
6. Love Conquers Al
   Lilly gets a cocky new partner, Scotty Valens (Danny Pino), just as she reopens a 1981 homicide involving a 16-year-old female track star who was fatally shot. The investigation is renewed after a felon, who is trying to get a reduced sentence, tells officers he saw a student washing blood out of a car the night of the murder.
    
7. A Time to Hate
   Lilly reopens a 1964 homicide case in which a college baseball player who was homosexual was beaten to death outside of a gay club. The dead man's now elderly and ill mother, who seeks closure before she dies, is the reason the investigation is renewed. Lilly's probe soon turns up some disturbing evidence that indicates cops routinely raided gay bars in the 1960s and beat the patrons.
    
8. Fly Away
   Lilly tries to solve a 2001 case in which a woman and her 6-year-old daughter mysteriously fell from an apartment window. The girl died, and the mother survived but lapsed into a coma. When the woman suddenly wakes up, she remembers little of that night except that someone was out to hurt them.
    
9. Sherry Darlin'
   Lilly gets an anonymous phone call from a man claiming he killed an elderly woman back in 1989 and buried her body in the basement of a house. When Lilly checks the dwelling, a body is recovered, but the alleged murderer refuses to identify himself.
    
10. Hitchhiker
    Lilly reopens the 1997 murder of a 20-year-old college student who, while hitchhiking home after a big gambling win in Atlantic City, was taken into a wooded area and shot to death. The case is reinvestigated when a similar homicide takes place in Delaware and matches another one in New Jersey, prompting police to believe that a serial killer may be responsible.
     
11. Hubris
    A college professor, who lost his job and family after being suspected of murdering one of his students in 1995, comes forward with new information on the crime that he hopes will clear his name and allow him to regain his teaching position. He believes the student's death is connected to the recent murder of a prostitute who was killed in a similar manner.
     
12. Glued
    Stillman asks Lilly to reopen a case he originally investigated in 1980 involving an 8-year-old boy who was murdered in an alley while heading home from a five-and-dime store. The probe centers on a priest and a trio of black teens, who may have threatened the boy.
     
13. The Letter
    Lilly reopens the 1939 murder case of a 25-year-old black woman after the woman's granddaughter comes forward with new information about the crime contained in letters the victim wrote stating that she was afraid of a milkman.
     
14. Boy in the Box
    The 1958 death of an unknown 6-year-old boy found in a field inside a cardboard box is reinvestigated after a small suitcase with the child's picture and his old cowboy hat is left in front of a church. The new probe reveals that the rowdy boy lived at a Catholic-run orphanage and was adopted two days before his suspicious demise.
     
15. Disco Inferno
    The body of a champion disco dancer who died in a 1978 club fire, along with 22 others, is found beneath the building's ruins, but with a gunshot wound to the head. The investigation reveals the fire was arson, intended to cover up the murder, and that there are several suspects who had both motive and opportunity.
     
16. Volunteers
    The slain bodies of a white woman and a black man who both went missing in 1969 are discovered wrapped in plastic beneath a building's foundation at a construction site. The investigation reveals the two were involved with an underground abortion clinic and may have been targets of the FBI.
     
17. The Lost Soul of Herman Lester
    The 1987 murder of a high-school basketball phenom is reopened after the victim's son, also a top prospect, receives a phone threat that he'll be killed just like his dad was if he plays in the state-championship game. The caller includes information about the killing that is known only by the police. The investigation focuses on a disgruntled former player who was suspended from the team shortly before the murder.
     
18. Resolutions
    Lilly investigates an unsolved hit-and-run accident from New Year's Eve 1999 that left a man dead, after a recovering alcoholic comes forward and claims she is the one who hit him. But the evidence points to the guy being murdered, not accidentally run down.
     
19. Late Returns
    The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election night. The investigation centers on the relationship the dead woman had with a present-day congressman. Apparently, the victim in the current homicide probed into the earlier slaying and discovered damning new evidence. Elsewhere, Lilly spies Kite flirting with a new ADA and gets jealous.
     
20. Greed
    The 1985 murder of a corrupt stockbroker who swindled thousands of people out of their money is reopened after one of the dead man's protégés comes forward with new information, which he's willing to exchange for a lighter sentence now that he's in trouble with the law. He claims that shortly before the murder, he overheard one of the cheated investors threaten the broker, but the investigation reveals that several people wanted the man dead.
     
21. Maternal Instincts
    The 1989 murder of a young mother is reopened when the woman's teenage son, who witnessed the crime when he was 3 years old, is brought in for petty theft and starts talking. The investigation reveals that the boy's slain mom may not have been who she claimed to be.
     
22. The Plan
    The 1999 drowning death of a military academy's swim coach, which was originally ruled as accidental, is reinvestigated after the homicide division receives a note that suggests it was murder. Back at the office, Valens searches for Elisa after she goes missing.
     
23. Lover's Lane
    DNA evidence reveals that an innocent man was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl (Mae Whitman) in 1986.

Season Two

1. The Badlands
   Lilly re-investigates a brutal triple homicide, the last case she worked before moving to the cold case squad.
    
2. Factory Girls
   Lilly and the team reopen a case from 1943 involving the suspicious death of a World War II factory worker, Alice (Chad Morgan), who was found dead after an apparent accidental fall.
    
3. Daniela
   Lily and Valens reopen a presumed homicide from 1979 in which a Jane Doe's blood-drenched shoes, underwear and sheets were found in a trash bag, but no body. The investigation begins when a battered wife accuses her husband of murdering a girl in 1979 and brings in an amateur film from the time that supposedly shows him committing the crime.
    
4. The House
   In 1968, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to millions of inmates across the U.S. That night, in the melee following the broadcast, an inmate was murdered and quickly disposed of in a prison outside of Philly. Lilly and the team re-open the case when human bones are found at the site of the now shuttered prison.
    
5. Who's your Daddy
   Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in thier apartment and found by thier 6-year old daughter.
    
6. The Sleepover
   Lilly reopens a 1990 murder case in which a prep-school girl was found dead in a local swimming hole, after a present-day victim with similar markings is discovered at the same place.
    
7. It's Raining Men
   A man who first contacted AIDS in 1983 asks Rush and Valens to re-open the unsolved strangulation death of his former partner. When the team begin investigating the murder, they learn that the dead man was one of the early activists in the fight against AIDS and a relentless advocate for AIDS education in the burgeoning gay community. The team also learns that the victim was a member of a prominent family who disowned him due to his sexual orientation.
    
8. Red Glare
   The 1953 murder of a white school teacher, a communist sympathizer who was involved in civil-rights issues, is reopened after the victim's youngest son asks for it to be reinvestigated. The probe reveals that the slain man was killed on the same day that the Rosenbergs were executed and was set to testify the next day before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
    
9. Mind Hunters
   The headless torso of a woman who disappeared in 1985, on the same day she filed domestic-abuse charges against her husband, is found by hikers in a wildlife preserve. The investigation quickly leads to the grisly discovery of 8 more decapitated bodies, the victims of a serial killer.
    
10. Discretion
    The 2000 murder of a prominent, ambitious Puerto Rican assistant district attorney is re-opened when the man's wife insists that recent reports of her husband's connection to a large amount of missing money at the time of his death are untrue. As Rush and the team investigate, they learn the victim was prosecuting a murder trial with a young Puerto Rican defendant whose conviction suddenly becomes suspicious
     
11. Blank Generation
    A cult member's suicide in l978 is re-examined by Rush in light of a new fatality. 26 years later, Beth still doesn't believe that her brother, Matthew, killed himself just days after his family hired a deprogrammer to rescue him from a cult. When she hears that the same deprogrammer has just been accused of killing a cult member while trying to deprogram him, she asks Rush to explore the circumstances Matthew's death. Meanwhile, Valens must deal with tragic news of his own.
     
12. Yo, Adrian
    The deathbed confession of a boxing referee leads Rush and the team to reopen a case involving an over-matched fighter who died moments after a terrible beating in a 1976 bout, which clearly should have been stopped. As the detectives look into why the underdog boxer was essentially allowed to die in the ring, they discover several people with solid motives.
     
13. Time to Crime
    After a murder weapon connected to the 1987 drive-by shooting of a little girl turns up, Det. Rush and her team re-open the case. The team slowly track back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.
     
14. Revolution
    Lilly reinvestigates the murder of Ellie McCormick, a young woman found murdered in her lover's apartment. The victim's aggressive brother, Brian, gathers enough information for Lilly to re-open the case and dig deeper into her relationship with Warren, the prime suspect in the murder. After interviewing Warren, who strongly expresses his innocence and love for Ellie, Lilly and Danny come to a dead end with the investigation. Now they must start from scratch, and find out that they have more than one "prime suspect."
     
15. Wishing
    The unsolved 1993 death of a mentally disabled teen, Colin, is re-opened after drawings recreating the boy's murder are found near his grave.
    During their investigation, Rush and the team learn that Colin's former caregiver, Nathan, was seen leaving Colin's grave shortly after the drawings were discovered, making him the number one suspect. However, several of Colin's ex-classmates emerge as suspects due to their history of taunting and harassing him on a regular basis, causing the investigation to head in a number of different directions.
     
16. Revenge
    The unsolved 1998 death of a 9-year-old boy, Kyle, is re-opened after Stillman's priest reveals that a patron confessed to his involvement in the boy's kidnapping.
    During their investigation, Rush and the team learn that Kyle's uncle hired men to kidnap Kyle in the hopes of extorting a hefty amount of money from his wealthy parents; however, the money was not delivered
     
17. Strange Fruit
    The unsolved 1963 murder of a black teenager, whose body was discovered by the then-young Will Jeffries, is reopened.
     
18. Schadenfreude
    Rush and the team re-open the 1984 murder of a rich Philadelphia woman, Lindsay, when her rare ring is found on the finger of a dead junkie.
     
19. Ravaged
    The case of an "accidental" death of a young alcoholic woman, Sloane, is re-opened when her sister claims she might have been murdered by members of a fraternity.
     
20. Kensington
    The murder case of a young mill worker is re-opened when Rush learns that a recent parolee admitted to stealing money off the victim's body.
     
21. Creatures of the Night
    A serial killer is to be released from a New Jersey prison based on a plea bargain made twenty-five years ago. Philadelphia homicide is asked to locate a potential crime committed while the killer was living in Philadelphia during the summer of 1977. A doorman was found strangled to death in a subway station in full uniform. The plot follows an evening at "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" involving the doorman, his girlfriend and the future serial killer. Valens received word from NYPD that his girlfriend was involved with credit card fraud and there's a warrant out for her arrest.
     
22. Best Friends
    Rush and Valens re-open the 1932 case when a truck containing human bones is pulled from the Delaware River. Marla Gibbs ("The Jefferson's") guest stars.
     
23. The Woods
    The discovery of nine human skulls leads Rush (Kathryn Morris) back to George Marks, the serial killer she was unable to incriminate months earlier, and who walked away a free man. As the detectives reinvestigate his mother's murder from 1972, George is forced to emerge from hiding to face Rush again. This time, their very lives are at stake in their final showdown.