Stealing Home (12 Apr. 2009)

Gonzalo Luque and his cousin both had a promising career in baseball in Cuba. Both stow away in boats for Florida hoping to touch soil before they can be turned away or caught by ... See full summary »

Director:

Kevin Bray

Writers:

Meredith Stiehm (creator), Danny Pino,

Stars:

Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn

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
Tracie Thoms	...	Kat Miller
Shalim Ortiz	...	Gonzalo Luque
Silvana Arias	...	Piedad Luque
Steven Bauer	...	Osmany 'Oz' Leon
Darius McCrary	...	Eric 'Showtime' Hynes
Nestor Serrano	...	Jaime Reyes
Oscar Torre	...	Juan de la Cruz
Valery M. Ortiz	...	Marisol Acosta
Bambadjan Bamba	...	Eddie St. John '99 / '09
Marcus DeAnda	...	Reporter '98

Storyline

Gonzalo Luque and his cousin both had a promising career in baseball in Cuba. Both stow away in boats for Florida hoping to touch soil before they can be turned away or caught by authorities. Gonzalo makes it to shore but alas his cousin is caught by U.S. authorities and turned back to Cuba. His cousin eventually does make it to the states. Gonzalo has left a wife and son to pursue his baseball career which is going well when he turns up dead in a field, fatally injured with a baseball bat. The team are questioning his agent, his mistress, cousin and anyone who would want to harm Gonzalo.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 April 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 22, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Paramount Network Television, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

User Reviews

who cares about an actual plot

I like Cold Case. Despite the fact it has obvious and repetitive flaws in most episodes (the killers always confess even when there is no evidence, they never have a lawyer, they look 50 when the crime was committed 60 years ago, etc), I like the concept and most cases are interesting. That said, this particular episode is hardly an episode. If you just want to make 45 minutes of largely unfounded, absurd to the point of brain-damage anti-Castro propaganda, just put a "We don't like Castro" sign hovering over the episode. I mean, here you have Cuban people who are trying to escape to the USA and....play baseball! Add a few made up tortures awaiting Cuban baseball players who go to jail(!)* (seriously?) and you got one of the worst episodes of this otherwise good series.

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-spoiler ahead- PS: oh, and of course, the murderer didn't mean to do it, because Cubans who oppose the regime are good people who play baseball and like the USA. Sorry if the review seems too anti-American, but any propaganda-filled show tends to annoy the living hell out of me.

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*that's of course Castro's prisons, not Guantanamo, don't be confused.