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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 2.1 Main Cast 2.2 Guest Cast 3 Description 4 Notes 5 Music

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Kathryn Morris stars as Philadelphia homicide detective Lilly Rush, who investigates long-unsolved crimes, otherwise known as Cold Cases. In the pilot episode, Lilly investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate. A maid to a wealthy family, Bonita Jakarta (Lillian Hurst), claims she witnessed the murder of teenager Jill Shelby (Kate Mara). Now dying of cancer, the maid who remained silent, wants the killer brought to justice. Rush reopens the case, in which two brothers were originally suspected but not charged due to their powerful society family. Lilly interviews several witnesses: Jill's best friend Melanie (Lisa Waltz), and her boyfriend, Todd Whitley (D.W. Moffett) (who is now married to Melanie) and his troubled brother Eric (Michael Reilly Burke). The evidence points mostly to Eric, now a troubled alcoholic, but lawyer Todd has secrets of his own. Determined to uncover the truth, Lilly must force the Whitleys to confront their dark past despite resistance from everyone involved in the case, including the victim's mother (Elizabeth Franz).

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• Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush
• Justin Chambers as Chris Lassing
• Thom Barry as Will Jeffries
• John Finn as John Stillman
• Jeremy Ratchford as Nick Vera

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• D.W. Moffett as Todd Whitley (2003)
• Lisa Waltz as Melanie Whitley (2003)
• Michael Reilly Burke as Eric Whitley (2003)
• Sherman Howard as Tim Dorn
• Elizabeth Franz as Evelyn Shelby
• Lillian Hurst as Bonita Jakarta (2003)
• Kate Mara as Jill Shelby
• Tim Choate as Charlie Winters (2003)
• Mo as Burke Kelvin
• Kip Martin as Todd Whitley (1976)
• Finn Wittrock as Eric Whitley (1976)
• Becki Newton as Melanie (1976)
• Diana Burbano as Bonita Jakarta (1976)
• Robert Walters as Charlie Winters (1976)
• Croix Lazzara as Brayson
• Charles Duckworth as Isaac
• Bree Turner as Ellen Pearsons
• Jeremy Dunn as Police Officer

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• First ever episode of Cold Case.
• Thom Barry is billed over John Finn and Jeremy Ratchford in this episode, but after them in all subsequent episodes.
• This episode has no opening credit sequence. Many of the shots in the opening come from this episode, including the case folder with the name J. SHELBY on it, the shot of a pair of hands in handcuffs, and the shot of Lilly in the rain.
• The triple homicide in a restaurant that Lilly, Vera, and Lassing investigate at the start of this episode would later be solved in the second season episode "The Badlands".
• This case was apparently based on the 1975 killing of Martha Moxley, of which brothers Michael and Thomas Skakel (of the Kennedy family) were suspects. Michael was indicted in 2000 and convicted in 2002.

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• Boston "More Than A Feeling"
• Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing"
• 10 cc "I'm Not In Love"
• Soul Hooligan "Soul Searching"
• Closing Song: Creedence Clearwater Revival "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?"