Kathryn Morris UK

Is One Night a fan favourite?  It puts you through the emotional wringer, covering some dark ground on the way to the happy conclusion.

The episode, number 16 of Cold Case‘s third season, is one of only 16 written by Veena Sud during her involvement with the show’s first five seasons.  Veena also produced over 60 episodes.  Since Cold Case Veena has gone on to develop, executive produce, and write for the American version of the drama series The Killing, which recently concluded with a short 4th season released on Netflix.  As an aside Veena wrote and directed a short film called One Night back in 2000.  It is not related in any way to this episode of Cold Case.

One Night is markedly different from most other Cold Case episodes in that it becomes a new and active case.  A hot one.  A man who won’t identify himself walks into the squad room and confesses to burying alive a teenage boy in 1980.  His body was discovered and it remained an unsolved crime.  Then he says there is a newly interred boy, likely still alive.  Much of the rest of the episode is just Lilly and “John Doe”, played by the always busy Zeljko Ivanek (Heroes, Damages, Argo), either side of the table in the interrogation room.  Tense stuff.

Will Lilly get the truth out of “John Doe” and rescue his latest victim in time?  Did I mention the happy conclusion earlier?

As well as bringing you a new set of 200 new Full HD (1080p) Lilly screencaps for the KM UK 2014 Summer Of HD there are also 5 HQ promo still photos.  All are now in the Gallery.

A Perfect Day is often cited as one of the fan’s favourite Cold Case episodes.  The US audience figures from the original broadcast back that up with the episode getting over 19 million viewers, the highest the series ever got.  That said, there seemed to be a rise in the figures at that time of year (late November) most years.  My guess would be in coincided with the Thanksgiving holidays, with lots of people at home with family.

A Perfect Day is a perfect storm for Lilly as it includes young sisters with a mother struggling in an abusive relationship.  With her own experience, and the likely reasons she became a police officer, Det Rush is always going to be touched by a story like this one.  Meredith Monroe (probably best known for playing the troubled Andie McPhee on Dawson’s Creek) is the mother in 1965.  It is one of her daughters whose body is found in the present day (2005).  It’s a heart wrencher.

On a positive note Detective Kat Miller (as played by Tracie Thoms) gets offered a permanent position with the squad by Lt. Stillman in this one, having helped out in the previous episode/case Honor.

This, the latest entry in the KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 brings 203 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps to the Gallery.

Ooops.  I made a mistake last week in posting the winner from a poll that hadn’t actually closed at the time.  I meant to post this one last week.  The end result wasn’t effected, just the order of posting.  Sorry.

So, where was I?  Or, where should I have been?  Ah yes, Colors.

American dramas such as Cold Case really like their baseball themed episodes don’t they?  I can see they are a rich vein for stories as it is an American national sport and is played by everyone from young children to highly paid professional athletes.  There is lots of scope for tales of improving ones circumstances (aka ‘The American Dream’™) and over-coming adversity.  They also allow for exploring the darker elements of jealous, hate and greed as well.

Colors presents the case of a murdered young black baseball player from 1945.  Clyde Taylor had been very successful in the segregated Negro leagues and was on the verge of moving to the majors, a big issue in those days.  60 years on can the squad track down his killer?

If only they’d ended the episode (number of four of Cold Case season three) with a montage of the police team playing baseball… Oh well, maybe later

We didn’t quite crack the century with this set of 99 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps for the KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 now in the Gallery.