The Emmy® award nominated crime drama COLD CASE begins its fifth season on Sky One and Sky One HD on Thursday 21 February at 10:00pm, with an explosive episode featuring the music of Nirvana. The series opens with detective Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris, Minority Report, Paycheck) returning back to work following a gunshot wound inflicted during a dangerous hostage situation. While trying to convince her boss, John Stillman (John Finn, Without a Trace, Law and Order), that she is able to deal with working again, she is assigned to another cold case: the teenagers convicted of fatally beating three 10-year-old boys are suspected of being wrongfully incarcerated.
The only female detective in the Philadelphia homicide squad, Lilly has found her niche with ‘cold cases’ – crimes that have never been solved. Together with her young, strong-willed partner Scotty Valens (Danny Pino, The Shield), Lilly reopens dormant, unsolved homicides that occurred years or even decades ago. Intrigued by the challenges of unlocking secrets from the past, Lilly uses her experience and instinctive understanding of the criminal mind to find fresh clues in cases once thought unsolvable.
This brand new season introduces even more fascinating cases to Lilly and Scotty, including the murder of a woman who made headlines in 1938 by vanishing the night of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast, and a serial bomber whose latest pipe bomb maimed the wrong target and whose three previous bombings collectively blinded a man and killed two others. This series also features COLD CASE’s landmark 100th episode.
Executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman (Without A Trace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), COLD CASE uses flashbacks to weave stories from years ago into current action, so that viewers see suspects and witnesses as they looked at the time of the crime and then how they look today. The programme is famed for its innovative use of music; the flashbacks accompanied by songs from that particular year. Past episodes have featured classics from artists such as Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. The fifth season’s opener, Thrill Kill, is no exception, featuring the music of seminal rockers Nirvana.
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