"Cold Case" The Boy in the Box (2004)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Karen Gaviola

Writers:

Meredith Stiehm (creator)
Meredith Stiehm (writer)

TV Series:

"Cold Case" (2003)

Original Air Date:

15 February 2004 (Season 1, Episode 14)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The team investigates a 1958 case where a dead 6-year-old boy wrapped inside a box was discovered in a field...

Plot Keywords:

Philadelphia | Detective | Cold Case | Homicide | Crime Scene

Cast

Kathryn Morris	...	Lilly Rush
Danny Pino	...	Scotty Valens
John Finn	...	John Stillman
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Nick Vera
Thom Barry	...	Will Jeffries
Samantha Eggar	...	Sister Vivian
Garrett M. Brown	...	Roger
Molly Cheek	...	Gretchen
Bruce Gray	...	Dr. Thayer
Charles Noland	...	Walter Rafferty
Autumn Reeser	...	Sister Grace Ashley
Jacqueline Scott	...	Nurse
Lyndon Smith	...	Arnold Culliver
Johanna Watts	...	Sister Vivian
Jason Frasca	...	Young Man

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

CBS Paramount Network Television

Goofs:

Plot holes: On the grave marker for Grace, it says she was born in 1936. According to the plot of the episode, she was pregnant at 18, and her child was 6 at the time of his death in 1958. If her child was 6 years old, she would have to be at least 24 in 1958, but she was only 22, making her child only 4.

Quotes:

Lilly Rush: [about the computer] Hey, boss, do you want me to do it?
Tom Stillman: That's okay, I have to learn how to use this thing sometime... Is it on?

Soundtrack:

Poor Little Fool

lipstick nuns

I like this series a lot. Most episodes have a good feel for period and many of the stories have genuine feelings and an underlying sense of sorrow and regret. Sometimes I've even found myself quite moved by some of the stories. This particular episode had one of those quite touching stories, excellent B&W photography and the ever reliable Samantha Eggar going for it. Yet I just couldn't get over the sight of young nuns wearing full make up, lipstick gloss and mascara - supposedly back in the '50s!!! Even Samantha Eggar, as the older Sister Vivian, back in the present, was wearing an admittedly more discreet make up for her final scenes. Do nuns really wear make up in the States? What on earth was the make up department thinking about?????