7.21 Almost Paradise

[Naj]

Part one of two part season finale airing at a special time 9 pm (ET) on May 2. Season finale to follow at 10 pm (ET)


Sunday, May 2 COLD CASE-Valens (Danny Pino) partners with Rush (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) (Kathryn Morris) to locate her abducted, drug-addicted sister, while Jeffries (Thom Barry) tries to bring justice to the case of a murdered teenaged girl that has haunted him for 17 years. Music by The Rolling Stones will play exclusively throughout the episode


SERIES REGULARS:
Lilly Rush…………………………… Kathryn Morris
Scotty Valens…………………………… Danny Pino
Lt. John Stillman………………………….. John Finn
Nick Vera………………………. Jeremy Ratchford
Will Jeffries…………………………….. Thom Barry
Kat Miller…………………………….. Tracie Thoms

RECURRING CAST :
Christina Rush (2010)………………. Nicki Aycox
Deputy Commissioner
Patrick Doherty ……………… Keith Szarabajka
Detective Pierson (2010)………… James Hanlon

GUEST CAST:
Christina Rush (1978)…………… Campbell Rose
Young Lilly (1978)………………. Harley Graham
A.C. (2010)……………………….. Glenn Plummer
Cliff Harper (2010)………………… Arie Verveen
Wanda Johnson (1993)…………. Erica Hubbard
Althea Johnson (2010)……. Davenia McFadden
Althea Johnson (1993)…………….. Nicole Pettis
Bernie (2010)……………. Michael Ray Escamilla
Brother Olajuwon
(2010)…………………….. Hassan Iniko Johnson
Robert Miggs (1993)…… Daniel Lee Robertson
Dr. Strauss (2010)…………………. Bruce Nozick
Nazir Patel (2010)…………………. Shishir Kurup
Ronnie Tavares (1993)………………. E.J. Bonilla
Ronnie Tavares (2010)……… Ramon Fernandez
Matt Doherty (1993)…………… Matthew Fahey
Matt Doherty (2010)………………….. JR Bourne
Nightstick Joe Mueller
(2010)……………………………. Kevin Chapman
Sal (2010)…………………………. Vince Melocchi
Assistant (2010)……………………… Tiffany Coty

WRITTEN BY: Greg Plageman, one of the series’ executive producers, and Elwood Reid, one of the series’ co-executive producers

DIRECTED BY: Jeannot Szwarc

Source: CBS Press Release




Added note: Season Finale Live Chat [/color]Monday, May 3 @ 8 PM (ET)

[The Reverend Bizarre]

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[eduardo]

I never thought this episode was going to be so epic... I like it way more than Shattered.
First, the doer... I knew that man was suspicious but I never guessed he was the killer.
Also, since I graduated 5 yrs ago I could understand all the teenagers in the episode. How you feel when you remember how great was high school and I LOVED the drama between Felicia and Lee. I know how it feels when a friend of yours change and you cannot do nothing about it. It hurts a lot. Felicia was beautiful and intelligent but not perfect and I like when characters are dimensional. Loved all the characters and the 80's style. Loved when Cole said "80's rules but 90's are gonna rock". I can't believe 90's are gone

Well. I also liked how it shows how your life can change after High School. Look at Cole and the other kid. Conzy?

It was a simple case but I found an emotion on this episode that I only found in 4 other episodes: "Forensics", "WASP", "Metamorphosis" and "Read Between the lines".

Great episode really.

The only thing is that I thought that Lee had to see Felicia and not Susie/Susan.
I mean, The last time Susie saw Felicia alive she was thinking about how to hurt her... Hello?
While Lee was the one that REALLY knew Felicia and was her only real friend... Maybe I feel this way because I have been in this situation. Maybe Lee didn't see her because time changed him. Yes, I mean. Maybe in the present day he never thought of her and Susie said "Felicia brings back a lot of memories"

OMG! I was traumatized by this episode because I miss High School.

Awesome! I'll try to analyze which one will be my season 7 favorite: WASP, Forensics or Almost Paradise... These last 2 give me feeling that I only had with my all time favorite (Shuffle Ball Change)

[stillmanfan]

I really liked this episode and liked how Lilly had reservations about Christina coming back.

Liked the acting with Will and Nick though. Haha..

Liked the ending though, makes you feel bad for Christiana and Lilly.

[Naj]

Being spoiler free for the finale I thought this episode was going to be a two part case but I found it was not. So it was odd to see a whole new case for the second hour. But it worked!

The case was very reminiscent of season two Cold Case which I felt was their best season right up there with season one. Here they had a prom going on and the prom queen shows up dead by the end of the evening and even though the doer was a teacher (classic cc), I didn't suspect him nor could I foresee the motivating factor.

The nerd was still dressed in the 70's or at least the early 80's. That was great. I missed the two early quips from Vera as he and Stillman and Rush discussed the case. No Kat.

The Lilly side story was a good idea. Over the years I've always wondered where did Christina go and now I also know she has the same father as Lilly!

I thought this was a great episode.

[glimmerless]

Case wise, I liked this a lot more than the one in Shattered. Ah Highschool, thank god those dramas are now over I missed Kat in this episode a lot but Lilly and Christina was very very good

[Electrophile]

I thought it was a great episode, honestly. That teacher was such a scuzzball. I didn't see him as the doer coming, nor did I see the motivation for the killing coming either, which is how it should be. You don't want to give everything away before the ending.

[Naj]

Couple of cute things about the episode. Vera was prom king and the pictures of him and Jeffries. I did not get one of Vera's lines early on when he was speaking about the prom but I assume it was some jab at Jeffries because all the actors seemed to be chuckling. If anyone has Vera's line, please do post it.

Lilly catching Scotty on the computer and asking him if he was checking out his Facebook page. There was a shout out to Penn State/Happy Valley!

[eduardo]

Another thing happened here that doesn't happen in Cold Case all the time: The doer was interviewed just at the end and not before... Cool

Awesome episode, really.

[glimmerless]

May 3, 2010 19:12:10 GMT -5 eduardo said:

Another thing happened here that doesn't happen in Cold Case all the time: The doer was interviewed just at the end and not before... Cool

Awesome episode, really.

Oh wow! I've never noticed that before =/ That's pretty cool.

Oh at the end at the dinner table with Scotty and his parents. And he was so smug and happy seeing his mum happy again, did anyone else feel like his happiness was not needed. I mean his mum wouldn't know about the guy's death, and it shows that she moved on past the event by herself with or without her son's interference.

[teh]

May 4, 2010 6:48:17 GMT -5 glimmerless said:

Oh wow! I've never noticed that before =/ That's pretty cool.

Oh at the end at the dinner table with Scotty and his parents. And he was so smug and happy seeing his mum happy again, did anyone else feel like his happiness was not needed. I mean his mum wouldn't know about the guy's death, and it shows that she moved on past the event by herself with or without her son's interference.

I totally agree with you about that! Actually I thought that his happiness was kind of presumption.

Anyway, I just love how this episode ended with Lilly looking to the photo and playing All I Want Is You, I mean the line "You say you want your love to work out right" works both with Lilly and Chris. It was sad but beautiful.

[ccfanka]

I liked the case, I loved the music, but I didn't like Lily story so much. I hated the fact that Cooper turned out to be Christina's father as well. If he was Christina's father, why wasn't it mentioned before? Why ddn't he ask Lilly about her sister?
And how did Christina find her father? It wasn't simple for Lilly, but it seems it was not a problem for her sister.
Christina's story was really forced.