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"Cold Case" Strange Fruit (2005)
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3 April 2005
(Season 2, Episode 19)
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Jeffries reopens a 1963 case in which he, as a child, found the body of a 16-year-old African American boy who had been planning to attend Martin Luther King's March on Washington. | add synopsis
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A 1963 timepiece portraying B&W racism at home and the job.
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Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Kathryn Morris | ... | Lilly Rush |
 | Danny Pino | ... | Scotty Valens |
 | John Finn | ... | John Stillman |
 | Jeremy Ratchford | ... | Nick Vera |
 | Thom Barry | ... | Will Jeffries |
| Adilah Barnes | ... | Mathilde 2005 |
| Billy Brown | ||
| Dana Davis | ... | Mathilde Jefferson |
 | Paul James | ... | Zeke Williams |
| Chaney Kley | ... | Billy Jones 1963 |
 | Scott Alan Smith | ... | Henry Jones |
| Drew Snyder | ... | Billy Jones 2005 |
 | Dee Wallace | ... | Charlotte Jones (as Dee Wallace Stone) |
 | John Wesley | ... | Clyde |
 | Cyndi Martino | ... | Mary Williams |
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Continuity: Will is 12 years old when he finds the body of another boy. That makes him born in 1951. However, in Best Friends (#2.22) Will celebrates his 60th birthday.
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Good acting,good story, good placement of details. Besides the usual insightful flashbacks ColdCase employs, I found this episode to be well supported by the choice of music and the timing of MLK's speech to the beating and subsequent death of Zeke Williams, a ploy that I would normally find corny and trite somehow works. Touching on all the tough issues of B&W racism, it accurately portrays the 'slightly' more subtle prejudices of the North. Mathilde's rape serves as a steppingstone to illustrate the complexities of relationships between the races. Tough love and self-preservation run neck and neck in a losing race to save family and Zeke's life. This episode is an excellent medium to encourage discussion about racism and how it plays out in real life. I would love to know if anyone knows the name of the last song played and the singer. Simply a beautiful closing to a tragic tale.