The essential episodes of Cold Squad
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Cold Squad — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Christopher Gerald Williams was ten when he was taken from the bedroom he shared with his seven-year-old brother Joey in 1977. Twenty years later when another body is found, Tony realises that David Sawyer was killed in a way very similar to young Christopher, and Ali joins forces with Iredell to uncover the killer. After doing DNA tests, the squad realises that the same man killed both boys, and they begin investigating Victor de Jarre and Jacob Knewling, who were suspects in the first investigation. Ali tries to get what she can out of Christopher's now-grown brother Joey, who has become an alcoholic.
- 02
A skull and a computer-generated image lead the squad to the parents of a 14-year-old rape victim.
- 03
In 1995, Barbara Taggert was found burned to death in her home, and her six-year-old daughter Lisa was missing. Her husband Spencer was their prime suspect, but his business partner had given him an airtight alibi. When Bill Harris rescinds his alibi to try and get off on fraud charges, the squad re-opens the investigation into Barbara's death.
- 04
The Cold Squad begins an investigation after a homicide victim's gun is traced to a 15-year-old unsolved double murder in Chinatown. (source: http://www.coldsquad.com)
- 05
Ali and Logozzo investigate the case of Stephanie Jordan, a debutante who disappeared four years earlier and was presumed, but never proven, to be dead. Her husband, reporter Turner Jordan, is their prime suspect, and he puts a serious crick in the investigation by making a televised plea for anyone with information to phone the police. Logozzo is frustrated because his daughter from his first marriage is not only getting married outdoors, she has invited his third ex-wife Vivian, with whom Logozzo does not get along.
- 06
During a routine traffic stop, an officer arrests a shop-lifting suspect named Amanda Millerd. After she is taken to the station and booked, Ali and Jill realise that her fingerprints match those of Holly Tarrow, a prostitute believed to have burned to death on September 6, 1982. Although initially Holly maintains her identity as Amanda and claims she's in the city with her husband Grant and son Ethan, she soon admits that she is Holly, and that while at a party with her then-boyfriend Wesley Belmont, Amanda was accidentally killed by the owner of the house.
- 07
As an investigation into a 20-year-old killing spree continues, the Cold Squad is rocked by murder and internal strife.
- 08
Ali and Frank are assigned to find out who murdered plastic surgeon Marvin Michaelsen after a drug dealer identifies him as the man who removed his fingerprints, but the tension between the two soon ends up taking a higher priority than the investigation. Nicco and Mickey work together on the case of Dermot Wells, a garbage collector that is believed to have murdered his former co-worker, and make a bet on how soon they'll get a confession.
- 09
Harper struggles to build a case against a murder suspect, after an investigation that lasted 18 month long.
- 10
The squad discovers what happened with Billy Wells and Michelle Ripley.
- 11
The squad gets involved in the world of street racing.
- 12
When Ali is on her way back from a routine prisoner transfer, Winslow accidentally crashes the car (somewhere off highway five between Clearwater and Little Fort), leaving Ali and himself relying on the prisoner they're transporting, Paul King, who is accused of the brutal murders of two men. Ali and the prisoner both beg Mitch to uncuff Paul so that he can help them (Ali has a spike through her arm and Mitch has suffered heavy internal injuries), but Mitch absolutely refuses. When Mitch finally dies from his injuries, Ali begins to talk to the prisoner, who maintains his innocence in the murders and swears that he's only out to save the environment.
- 13
Years ago, Pierre Martin was convincted of murdering Randall Bettinger, but suddenly Bettinger turns up alive and well, making Len, who had busted the case, look very bad. Within 48 hours though, Bettinger is found dead for real, and Casey brings in both Nicco and Len to work the case, and each uses their snitches to help prove who murdered Bettinger. Mickey gets pulled in when the murder of 6-yr-old Jeannie Yan is reopened after nearly ten years, because the girl was the first dead child she ever saw. She asks Ali to investigate, and when Ali begs off, Mickey begins doing some detective work of her own.
- 14
When the sister of a murder victim from a case Ali worked on years before is found dead in an alleyway behind a strip club, Ali investigates the murder even though she's not officially on the police force.
- 15
Harper searches desperately for his missing daughter, praying that he will find her before it is too late. Sam has the perfect suspect, an well-known surgeon, but the only witness against him is very unstable.
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