- 9.0/105 votes
#3 - The Plan
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/2004
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.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Veena Sud
- 9.0/101 votes
#4 - A Perfect Day
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2005
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.
Director: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.8/1016 votes
#15 - Six Minutes
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 7/28/2013
Sarah copes with the consequences of past mistakes; Holder wrestles personal demons; Seward is truthful.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.5/104 votes
#16 - Daniela
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/2004
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
- 8.5/102 votes
#17 - Mind Hunters
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2004
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
- 8.1/1018 votes
#18 - Eden
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/1/2014
Linden and Holder are confronted with the shocking truth behind the Stansbury murders.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.0/1018 votes
#19 - Orpheus Descending
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/19/2011
The identification of the mysterious Orpheus provides a vital connection to the case. Mitch and Stan reflect on the past while contemplating their family's future.
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.0/1014 votes
#20 - Blood in the Water
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/2014
While covering up Lt. Skinner's sudden disappearance, Linden and Holder are assigned a new case: the brutal murder of an entire family with ties to a military academy.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.0/104 votes
#21 - Fly Away
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/2003
When a young woman, Rosie (Laura Regan), wakes up from a coma, Lilly re-opens the fall in which her 6-year-old daughter Toya (Aynsley Lemon) died. Things get complicated when the mother remembers very little of that night, and Lilly feels especially motivated to find the killer, as Rosie was poor and living on welfare, reminding Lilly of her own past, and giving her an emotional bond to Rosie.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.0/101 votes
#22 - Strange Fruit
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/2005
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
- 8.0/101 votes
#23 - The Promise
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2005
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.
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Veena Sud
- 8.0/102 votes
#24 - 8:03 AM
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2007
In 2002, two kids were shot in front of two different schools on the same day at precisely 8:03 a.m. It's the fifth anniversary of the shootings, and Kat Miller wants to re-open the murders because she feels the cases are connected.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski
Writer: Veena Sud