Cold Case

The Best Episodes of Cold Case

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Every episode of Cold Case ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Cold Case!

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...
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  1. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Dead Heat

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    S7:E6

    The 1986 murder of a jockey is investigated after his body is discovered in a mass grave for horses. The victim disappeared shortly after losing a race that he had planned to be his finale before retiring.

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    Director:Nathan Hope
    Writer:Adam Glass
  2. 10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Shattered

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    S7:E22

    Valens partners with Rush to locate her abducted, drug-addicted sister, while Jeffries tries to bring justice to the case of a murdered teenaged girl that has haunted him for 17 years.

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  3. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Dog Day Afternoons

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    S3:E14

    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.

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  4. 9.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Torn

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    S4:E21

    The team re-investigates their oldest cold case yet, the 1919 murder of a young woman who was a passionate advocate for women's right to vote.

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  5. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Almost Paradise

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    S7:E21

    Rush tries to ignore her father's appeals to give her troublemaker sister another chance after she suddenly resurfaces.

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  6. 8.8/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Glued

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    S1:E12

    Det. Stillman asks Lilly to re-open a case he couldn't solve, wherein an 8-year-old boy, Tim Barnes, was murdered in 1980. The prime suspects included a catholic priest, three glue-sniffing teenagers, one elusive suspect, and the boy's own parents.

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  8. 8.7/10(7 votes)

    #7 - The Plan

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    S1:E22

    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.

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  9. 8.7/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Superstar

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    S3:E17

    When a poison-soaked towel turns up at the station, Lilly re-opens the 1973 case of a murdered female college tennis star.

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  10. 8.7/10(3 votes)

    #9 - The Hen House

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    S3:E21

    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.

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  11. 8.6/10(680 votes)

    #10 - Mind Hunters

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    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Kevin Bray
    Writer:Veena Sud
  12. 8.5/10(817 votes)

    #11 - Best Friends

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    S2:E22

    When an old truck containing human bones is pulled from the Delaware River, the team re-opens the case of a missing and possibly murdered girl who disappeared unexpectedly in 1932.

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  13. 8.5/10(575 votes)

    #12 - The Woods

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    S2:E23

    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.

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  14. 8.5/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Shuffle, Ball Change

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    S4:E17

    When a body is found in a dumpster, the team re-opens the 1984 case of a murdered teenage boy who wanted to become a dancer against his father's wishes.

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  15. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Mind Games

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    S6:E18

    The team suspect a 2004 arson that killed a psychiatrist may have been caused by her former patient.

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  16. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Flashover

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    S7:E17

    Realizing that the missing Vera has finally hit rock bottom, his worried team members hope that a new twist to a 2006 arson case, which he was secretly obsessing about in recent weeks, might supply leads to his whereabouts.

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  17. 8.4/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Lost Soul of Herman Lester

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    S1:E17

    When the son of a murdered high-school basketball star receives a death threat, Rush and Valens reopen the 1987 case of Herman Lester who was stabbed to death only hours after leading his team to win the state championship.

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  18. 8.4/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Resolutions

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    S1:E18

    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.

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  19. 8.4/10(679 votes)

    #18 - The Sleepover

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    S2:E6

    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. The investigation reveals that the victim of the earlier crime was routinely tormented by a trio of classmates who invited her to a sleepover the night she was killed.

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  20. 8.4/10(576 votes)

    #19 - Strange Fruit

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    S2:E19

    The unsolved 1963 murder of a black teenager, whose body was discovered by the then-young Will Jeffries, is reopened.

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    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:Veena Sud
  21. 8.4/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Commited

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    S3:E5

    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.

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  22. 8.4/10(568 votes)

    #21 - Boy Crazy

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    S5:E9

    The team re-opens the 1963 case of teenage girl who was then thought to have committed suicide. Now, new evidence leads them to believe the girl might have been murdered for acting and dressing like a boy.

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  23. 8.4/10(432 votes)

    #22 - The Road

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    S5:E15

    The team re-investigates the suspected 2007 murder of a bride-to-be who was kidnapped on the day of her engagement party. Lilly and Scotty travel to West Virginia to escort the prime suspect to Philly, and on their way back, they hear his side of the story.

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  24. 8.3/10(6 votes)

    #23 - The Hitchhiker

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    S1:E10

    Rush and Valens investigate the case of a cold-blooded killer who shot a young man trying to hitchhike his way home to Philly from Atlanta.

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  25. 8.3/10(6 votes)

    #24 - Disco Inferno

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    S1:E15

    Construction workers discover a skull with bullet hole under the ruins of a disco club burned down in 1978. 22 people died in the fire. Rush and Valens come to the conclusion that the burning of the club was arson, meant to cover up a murder leaving them with not one, but 23 cold cases.

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  26. 8.3/10(744 votes)

    #25 - Daniela

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    S2:E3

    Lilly and Valens reopen a presumed homicide from 1979 in which an unidentified victim'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.

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    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Veena Sud

Best Episodes Summary

"Dead Heat" is the best rated episode of "Cold Case". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Nathan Hope and written by Adam Glass, it aired on 11/8/2009. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shattered".