r/ColdCaseTV

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I don't know if someone has already posted this, but what do you guys think is the darkest episode of Cold Case?

For me, it could be The Letter (the one about the Black woman in 1939), Spiders (the neo-Nazi one), Rampage (the shooting), or Baby Blues (the baby who was killed by his mother).Wishing (the one about the disabled character and his mother with cancer) is another one that comes to mind.

Those are just a few I can think of. Which episode do you guys think is the darkest?

The title might be a little confusing, so I'll elaborate.

Cold Case has covered a broad range of victims. From doctors to circus performers, athletes to attorneys, the list goes on. So I was thinking about different jobs or career paths that weren't covered by CC. Ones that you think would make for a good episode.

One path that I think would be fun is a magician from the 80's. The opening song could be "Abracadabra" by The Steve Miller band. Maybe they were relatively new and looking to make a name for themselves by pulling off some controversial trick and it pissed a lot of people off or something idk. I just think it would lend itself to being a fun episode, you could have the detectives sift through an array of quirky magicians and making snarky comments about magic throughout.

But enough about my answer, what's yours?

A major appeal of the show was the soundtrack and special camera effects used to reflect the year the crime took place, and it was honestly quite effective.

Some episodes, such as "Baby Blues", "The Sleepover" and "The Woods", are meant to stimulate home video, where the footage is deliberately grainy.

In my opinion, the 80's set episodes had the best lighting, effects and soundtrack. I can thank the show for introducing me to songs and artists that I hadn't known of beforehand.

Which decade had your favourite representation?

Title says it all. David Henrie was in this ep as the past version of the doer, and with his apparent rebrand to being MAGA, he might be more in line with the character he played than we originally thought. He’s also in the news right now for the way that Wizards Beyond Waverly Place ended, the series being a reboot/continuation of Wizards of Waverly Place, a show that he was on. He’s probably one of the more interesting aspects of this episode that breaks from Cold Case convention by revealing that the victim actually survived and just had amnesia. It’s still a good episode despite that though.

Is it just me or does anyone else feels like it’s out of character for Lil to look back fondly on the regulars at the horse track? Even Scotty says that it’s not the best place to leave a kid alone since the people there are compulsive gamblers.

I would think that Lil would have a problem with compulsive gamblers just as much as the drug addicts and alcoholics she’s given a hard time throughout the show.

“The railbirds….they all had one thing in common, dreamers. Always hoping tomorrow’s better than today.”

Idk those lines always rubbed me the wrong way given the history with her alcoholic mom. Lil doesn’t seem the type that likes people who puts things off when they can take control of their lives now, considering that’s what she kept trying to get through to her alcoholic mom.

Even putting Ellen Rush aside, Lil has had cases over the show like “The Hitchhiker” (S1E10) and “The River” (S3E22) where she sees how compulsive gambling ruin people’s lives, especially with the River where it ruins the son’s future with the doctor dad losing all the family’s fortune on poker to the point of desperation that he stages a murder so his family can get the life insurance money.