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First Aired: September 28th, 2003
Status: Ended
Network: CBS
Summary: The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Season 3
Episode 1: Family
Air Date: September 25th, 2005
Summary: When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenaged boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.
Episode 2: The Promise
Air Date: October 2nd, 2005
Summary: Lilly re-opens the case of young girl, an overweight college freshman named Laurie, who died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The fire was deemed accidental at the time, but a cell phone photo e-mailed from the girl's phone just moments before her death prompts a closer examination.
Episode 3: Bad Night
Air Date: October 9th, 2005
Summary: The 1978 murder of a young man is re-opened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random.
Episode 4: Colors
Air Date: October 16th, 2005
Summary: Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.
Episode 5: Commited
Air Date: October 23rd, 2005
Summary: In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.
Episode 6: Saving Patrick Bubley
Air Date: November 6th, 2005
Summary: When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out the save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad.
Episode 7: Start-Up
Air Date: November 13rd, 2005
Summary: Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990's, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.
Episode 8: Honor
Air Date: November 20th, 2005
Summary: When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det. Rush re-investigates the 1972 shooting of Carl, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
Episode 9: A Perfect Day
Air Date: November 27th, 2005
Summary: When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up on a shore in New Jersey, Lilly re-opens the 1965 case of 4-year-old child who had a seemingly abusive mother.
Episode 10: Frank's Best
Air Date: December 18th, 2005
Summary: The team re-opens the 2001 case of a robbed and murdered deli owner when the brother of the man convicted of the crime brings forth new evidence, suggesting the man may have been wrongfully accused.
Episode 11: 8 Years
Air Date: January 8th, 2006
Summary: Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.
Episode 12: Detention
Air Date: January 15th, 2006
Summary: When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.
Episode 13: Debut
Air Date: January 29th, 2006
Summary: Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.
Episode 14: Dog Day Afternoons
Air Date: February 26th, 2006
Summary: The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
Episode 15: Sanctuary
Air Date: March 12nd, 2006
Summary: The 1998 case of a female drug smuggler is re-opened. The woman was involved with Scotty at the time he was working undercover on a high-profile drug case, and he has been keeping it a secret from the team for all these years.
Episode 16: One Night
Air Date: March 19th, 2006
Summary: Lilly and the cold case team will have to decode the clues given by a twisted killer in order to save the life of a young boy who has been left to die alone. But first they must find the boy and for that they need to dig a little deeper into their own pasts.
Episode 17: Superstar
Air Date: March 26th, 2006
Summary: When a poison-soaked towel turns up at the station, Lilly re-opens the 1973 case of a murdered female college tennis star.
Episode 18: Willkommen
Air Date: April 2nd, 2006
Summary: The team re-opens the 2002 case of a murdered amateur actor when the owner of a local community theater finds a gun hidden inside prop furniture.
Episode 19: Beautiful Little Fool
Air Date: April 9th, 2006
Summary: Lilly re-opens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter comes in asking for help. Meanwhile, Lilly's estranged mother shows up, hoping to re-connect with her daughter.
Episode 20: Death Penalty: Final Appeal
Air Date: April 16th, 2006
Summary: The 1994 case of a raped and murdered 16-year-old girl is re-opened when Det. Jeffries gets a call from a prisoner on death-row -- scheduled to be executed in just three days.
Episode 21: The Hen House
Air Date: April 30th, 2006
Summary: The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.
Episode 22: The River
Air Date: May 7th, 2006
Summary: When a new witness steps forward, Lilly and the team are prompted to re-open the 1984 shooting of a respected and beloved ER doctor who had a secret he had been hiding from his family.
Episode 23: Joseph
Air Date: May 21st, 2006
Summary: When the victim's credit card is suddenly used a year after his death, Lilly re-opens the 2005 case of a counselor at a teens' rehab center who was shot to death just two weeks before he was scheduled to testify in a murder case. During the probe, Lilly feels a strange connection to the victim, and her personal attachment may end up jeopardizing the case.
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