Cold Case/Late Returns

Late Returns
Season 1, Episode 19
Airdate	April 4, 2004
Production Number	176718
Written by	Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie
Directed by	David Straiton
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Late Returns is the nineteenth episode of the first season of Cold Case.

Starring: Kathryn Morris (Detective Lilly Rush), Danny Pino (Detective Scotty Valens), John Finn (Lt. John Stillman), Jeremy Ratchford (Detective Nick Vera), Thom Barry (Senior Detective Will Jeffries)

Guest Starring: Josh Hopkins (ADA Jason Kite), Laura Allen (Vanessa Prosser), Jade Carter (David Lake (1992)), Kathy Christopherson (Beth Reardon), Terri Garber (Abbey Lake), Lee Garlington (Carol Prosser), James Mathers (Marvin Dobie), Jim Meskimen (PJ Prosser), Blake Robbins (David Lake), Lauren Stamile (Abbey Lake (1992)), Hilary Salvatore (Beth Reardon (1992)), Joel Stoffer (Aaron Dutra)

Co-Starring: Eva Frajko (Reporter), Jon Hershfield (Aaron Dutra)

Plot Overview

The date is November 3, 1992. The body of a young campaign worker is pulled out of a river the day after she attended a political event. Fast-forward to present day 2004, and the discovery of a man found shot to death in his driveway...a man with a shrine of newspaper clips related to the girl's death. The team looks into the current murder in the hope that it will lead to the killer in the previous case. Upon learning that both victims had contact with an ex-con in Reading (the man called him a week before his death, the girl paid him a visit before her death), Lilly and Scotty pay the ex-con a visit, which leads to sordid secrets involving the dead girl's boyfriend, a rising assemblyman then and a state Senator now, and his sister.

Trivia

The Show

Among the songs featured in this episode: "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac (actually a 1977 song, but featured at a celebration event for President-elect Bill Clinton, a Mac fan), "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms, "What's Up?" by 4 Non-Blondes and "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran.