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The Best Episodes of Cold Case Season 2

Every episode of Cold Case Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cold Case Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Cold Case Season 2 Episode 1 - The Badlands
    7.8/10(610 votes)

    #1 - The Badlands

    S2:E1

    Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003. Also the other team member have personal reasons to closing the case; Jeffries grew up in the predominantly black neighborhood while Vera was the one assigned to the case when Det. Rush left.

    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writer:Chris Mundy

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  2. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 2 - Factory Girls
    7.6/10(641 votes)

    #2 - Factory Girls

    S2:E2

    On the eve of the 60-year reunion of women who worked in a weapons factory during World War II, Lilly is asked to re-investigate the death of Alice Miller, one of the worker girls. The death was deemed accidental at the time, but her friend pleads to Lilly to look closer into the case.

    Director:David Von Ancken
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 3 - Daniela
    8.4/10(821 votes)

    #3 - Daniela

    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.

    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Veena Sud

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  4. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 4 - The House
    7.9/10(600 votes)

    #4 - The House

    S2:E4

    When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Sean Whitesell

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  5. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 5 - Who's Your Daddy
    7.8/10(592 votes)

    #5 - Who's Your Daddy

    S2:E5

    Det. Rush investigates the 1991 double murder of married illegal immigrants from Cambodia who were shot to death in their apartment and found by their 6-year old daughter. The now-teenage girl brings the case to Lilly after she discovers a bracelet once owned by her mother is for sale on the internet. The probe reveals that the parents had dark secrets unknown to their daughter.

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writer:Tyler Bensinger

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  6. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 6 - The Sleepover
    8.4/10(753 votes)

    #6 - The Sleepover

    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.

    Director:Emilio Estevez
    Writer:Liz W. Garcia

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  7. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 7 - It's Raining Men
    7.7/10(634 votes)

    #7 - It's Raining Men

    S2:E7

    An HIV-positive gay man asks Rush and Valens to re-investigate the case of his dead partner who died of strangulation in 1983. Not only was the victim outspoken in his views about AIDS education within the 1980's secretive gay community, he was also the member of a very prominent family, disowned by his father for his sexual orientation.

    Director:Paul Holahan
    Writer:Jan Oxenberg

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  8. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 8 - Red Glare
    7.4/10(529 votes)

    #8 - Red Glare

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writers:Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin

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  9. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 9 - Mind Hunters
    8.6/10(754 votes)

    #9 - Mind Hunters

    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.

    Director:Kevin Bray
    Writer:Veena Sud

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  10. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 10 - Discretion
    7.6/10(501 votes)

    #10 - Discretion

    S2:E10

    The team re-opens the 2000 case of a prominent Puerto Rican assistant district attorney when rumors about his connection to a large amount of money gone missing at the time of his death start to circulate. However, his widow insists that the claims are not true. The re-investigation reveals that the victim was prosecuting a murder trial and the man convicted for the crime after his death may possibly be innocent.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Henry Robles

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  11. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 11 - Blank Generation
    7.5/10(523 votes)

    #11 - Blank Generation

    S2:E11

    The team re-opens the case of Matthew Adams, a teen-aged cult member who apparently committed suicide back in 1978, when his sister comes forth with new evidence about the deprogrammer her family hired to rescue her brother.

    Director:David Barrett
    Writer:Chris Mundy

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  12. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 12 - Yo, Adrian
    7.3/10(518 votes)

    #12 - Yo, Adrian

    S2:E12

    When a dying boxing referee makes a confession about a 1976 fight, the team re-opens the case in which an underdog fighter, arranged to fight against a much more qualified boxer, took a heavy beating in the match and died only moments afterwards.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writer:Sean Whitesell

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  13. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 13 - Time to Crime
    7.8/10(531 votes)

    #13 - Time to Crime

    S2:E13

    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 tracks back the gun's previous owners until the shocking original owner is finally revealed.

    Director:Tim Hunter
    Writer:Tyler Bensinger

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  14. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 14 - Revolution
    7.6/10(514 votes)

    #14 - Revolution

    S2:E14

    Rush and the team investigate the 1969 murder of a 19-year-old girl whose body was found in her boyfriend's apartment the day he fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Liz W. Garcia

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  15. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 15 - Wishing
    8.3/10(730 votes)

    #15 - Wishing

    S2:E15

    Lilly investigates the 1993 death of a mentally challenged teen who was hit by a train, after drawings appear on his grave that indicate foul play might have been involved.

    Director:Emilio Estevez
    Writer:Karin Lewicki

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  16. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 16 - Revenge
    7.9/10(523 votes)

    #16 - Revenge

    S2:E16

    Lt. Stillman's priest informs him of a long ago confession where a man confessed being involved in the 1998 kidnapping of a 9-year old boy. The case is reopened with this new lead, and it turns out the truth is closer to home.

    Director:David Von Ancken
    Writers:Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin

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  17. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 17 - Schadenfreude
    7.4/10(484 votes)

    #17 - Schadenfreude

    S2:E17

    A man claims that he was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 murder of his rich wife. The case is reopened when the victim's rare ring is discovered worn by a recently deceased junkie.

    Director:Tim Matheson
    Writer:Gina Gionfriddo

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  18. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 18 - Ravaged
    7.7/10(507 votes)

    #18 - Ravaged

    S2:E18

    A woman, who was romantically involved with Nick Vera in high school, claims that members of a fraternity might have been involved in her alcoholic sister's death in 1995. The victim's estranged husband and a bar owner are also viewed as potential suspects.

    Director:James Whitmore Jr.
    Writers:Meredith Stiehm, Henry Robles

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  19. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 19 - Strange Fruit
    8.5/10(642 votes)

    #19 - Strange Fruit

    S2:E19

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

    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:Veena Sud

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  20. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 20 - Kensington
    7.2/10(471 votes)

    #20 - Kensington

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Bill Eagles
    Writer:Sean Whitesell

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  21. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 21 - Creatures of the Night
    7.8/10(629 votes)

    #21 - Creatures of the Night

    S2:E21

    A convicted serial killer will be paroled after 25 years in prison unless Lilly and her team can connect him to the 1977 murder of a young doorman found strangled on a train platform. The killing is eerily similar to other murders committed by the man. Making the case more urgent is the fact that the convicted strangler hints that he will kill again upon release. Elsewhere, Scotty confronts Christina about her past and tries to get her to talk to a New York detective.

    Director:Alex Zakrzewski
    Writer:Tyler Bensinger

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  22. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 22 - Best Friends
    8.5/10(883 votes)

    #22 - Best Friends

    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.

    Director:Mark Pellington
    Writer:Liz W. Garcia

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  23. Cold Case Season 2 Episode 23 - The Woods
    8.5/10(634 votes)

    #23 - The Woods

    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.

    Director:Nelson McCormick
    Writer:Veena Sud

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Badlands" is the best rated episode of "Cold Case" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 610 votes. Directed by Tim Matheson and written by Chris Mundy, it aired on 10/3/2004. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Factory Girls".