"Cold Case"
A Perfect Day (2005)

Director:

Roxann Dawson

Writer:

Veena Cabreros Sud (writer)

TV Series:

"Cold Case" (2003)

Original Air Date:

27 November 2005 (Season 3, Episode 9)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The remains of a small girl are found under a bridge. The story goes back to the 60's and turns out the girl has a twin sister still alive. A sad family story begins to unravel. |

Plot Keywords:

Dead Boy | Pop Music | Flashback | Murder Investigation | Female Detective

Cast

Kathryn Morris	...	Lilly Rush
Danny Pino	...	Scotty Valens
John Finn	...	John Stillman
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Nick Vera
Thom Barry	...	Will Jeffries
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Betts	...	Dr. Greggs - 2005
Maree Cheatham	...	Nancy Walsh - 2005
Susan Chuang	...	Frannie Ching
Megan Follows	...	Maura - 2005
Olivia Hack	...	Tiffany - 1965
Jessie Jones	...	Tiffany - 2005
Meredith Monroe	...	Cindy - 1965
Marc Raducci	...	Partner
Damara Reilly	...	Mattie - 2005
Michael Rodrick	...	Roger Mulvaney - 1965
Amy Schlagel	...	Maura Mulvaney - 1965
Zoe Schlagel	...	Vivian Mulvaney - 1965
Tuffet Schmelzle	...	Mattie - 1965
Ned Schmidtke	...	Art Balducci - 2005
Kelly Sells	...	Bruised Wife
Charlotte Stewart	...	Cindy Balducci - 2005
Christopher Stewart	...	Art Balducci - 1965 (as Chris Stewart)
Tracie Thoms	...	Kat Miller
Tim Tracy	...	Dr. Greggs - 1965
Tracy E. Wilson	...	Nancy Walsh - 1965

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Art was beating Roger in the car park the car behind them had BFGoodrich tires but this model of tire wasn't released until the late '70s or early '80s.

Soundtrack:

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)

Detective Work

Watching did make one wonder how the cold case detectives were so quickly able to trace a victim based only on the injuries without knowing names, from a time when hospital records weren't kept on computers. Would 40-year-old hospital records in a city the size of Philadelphia really be indexed by victim's age, gender, and type of treatment? There was a case like this on "Unsolved Mysteries" (skeleton of an unidentified young girl with something distinguishing about the bones) where they asked anyone who may have performed such an operation to come forward, and it might have been more believable had they found the attending physician that way. Otherwise, excellent ep, kept one riveted which is a rare enough thing these days.