Cold Case (season 1)


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Cold Case (2003–2010) is an American CBS police procedural television series. The series revolves around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases.

Look Again [1.1]

 * Nick Vera: Rush, your boyfriend's downstairs.
 * Lilly Rush: I'm single. You sure it's not your boyfriend?


 * Todd Whitley: What is the point of all of this, after so many years?
 * Lilly Rush: People shouldn't be forgotten. They matter.
 * Todd Whitley: You're a crusader.
 * Lilly Rush: I guess I am.

Gleen [1.2]

 * Nick Vera: An '83 case can wait. Come on, Lilly.
 * Lilly Rush: No, it can't. It waited long enough.


 * Albert: Compulsive Sexual Behavior. It's a psychological condition, it shouldn't be criminalized.
 * Chris Lassing: You walked naked through a girls' middle school, Albert, and that shouldn't be criminalized?


 * John Stillman: Why do women always have high hopes for men that want to kill them?


 * Gwen Deemer: Why should I trust you, huh? I don't even know you!
 * Lilly Rush: No, you don't, because if you did, you'd know I was just getting started.

Our Boy Is Back [1.3]

 * Carl: I wish we could have met under different circumstances...


 * Lilly Rush: Did we get any prints?
 * Nick Vera: Uhh... this guy doesn't leave prints.

Churchgoing People [1.4]

 * Det. Sherman: It was a typical job during the crack era. Guy comes around looking for some company, ends up robbed and killed by the girl.
 * Lilly Rush: Why'd you think it was a hooker?
 * Det. Sherman: Ever been to Kensington Avenue, darling? It's hookerland.
 * Lilly Rush: Yeah? I grew up in Kensington.
 * Det. Sherman: So what was he doing there? Seeing the sights?


 * Caroline: Mitch didn't use drugs or prostitutes. We are churchgoing people.


 * Tina: Nice families don't talk about these things.


 * Ryan: And you know what, I want you to drop my dad's case.
 * Lilly Rush: When I'm so close to the truth? Not a chance.

The Runner [1.5]

 * Lilly Rush: Garbage dump?
 * Nick Vera: You don't mind a little dirt, do you, Rush?
 * Lilly Rush: I hang around you, don't I?

Love Conquers Al [1.6]

 * Lilly Rush: We're here to talk to you about Bennett Cahill.
 * Jane: Did something happen to him?
 * Scotty Valens: No. Alive and kicking.


 * Al:' [about Paige] I loved her. She ran wild on me, so it hurt. Jealousy ain't against the law.


 * Scotty Valens: [regarding cold cases] So, what, I work a few of these and then go on the line?
 * Lilly Rush: You act like this is the B list, Scotty.
 * Scotty Valens: Ain't it?
 * Lilly Rush: Not to me.


 * Scotty Valens: Who's that charmer?
 * Lilly Rush: A.D.A Kite, he's above cops.
 * Scotty Valens: Ain't above checking you out.


 * Jane: I don't think you're hearing me. He loved me so much, he committed murder.


 * Jane: He got a gun, took her to a field, and got her out of our lives.


 * Lilly Rush: Blood, blood, and more blood.

A Time To Hate [1.7]

 * Scotty Valens: [to Deborah] Did you kill him? Because that would solve our case.


 * Deborah: Danny wasn't cruel. The world was.


 * Daniel: I love you. Nothing has to change.
 * Deborah: What do you mean?
 * Daniel: I mean I do love you. I love you.
 * Deborah: But not the way you're supposed to.

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 * Anthony [the bartender]: Are you sure you're gay?
 * Daniel: Are you sure you're Italian?

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 * Scotty Valens: [about case files] They get jumbled up a lot?
 * Lilly Rush: Things are getting better. People are learning the alphabet. Except Vera.

Fly Away [1.8]

 * Scotty Valens: 9-1-1 call in came in at 11:16 pm, a few minutes after Rosie and Toya hit the ground. Voice was a black male, never ID'd.
 * Lilly Rush: Plus Rosie's landlady reported a black male running from the scene.
 * John Stillman: Black man hauling ass through lily-white Port Richmond? Stands out like Vera in a bikini.

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 * Scotty Valens: People make mistakes. They clean up.
 * Lilly Rush: Your mom ever forget to feed you 'cause she was too drunk or tired or out looking for a man?
 * Scotty Valens: [pause] Nah.
 * Lilly Rush: Toya's a dime a dozen. Unwanted kid. Mom runs out of food stamps, makes an excuse why there's no dinner tonight or, uh, no breakfast, either, so thank God for the free corn flakes at school, if you get there early, and maybe some kid'll give you scraps out of his lunch box later on.
 * Scotty Valens: So your mom was going through bad times.
 * Lilly Rush: Scotty, there was never a good time.

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 * Lilly Rush: You used your position to get in her home and check out her little girl. Knowing the power you had and Rosie wasn't the only one. You were like God to these women. You had the power to give, to take and you did.
 * Josh Freely: Like anyone gives a damn. Trailer park trash. Welfare queens. Like you care what happens to them.

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 * Josh Freely: You just wait for the knock on the door, Rosie. When you least expect it.

Sherry Darlin [1.9]

 * Lilly Rush: She didn't love you, James. And I'm your girl now.

The Hitchhiker [1.10]

 * Lilly Rush: So you want to do me, huh?
 * Henry Floyd: Not sure. Twirl around once.

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 * Scotty Valens: We can't get a car for another hour.
 * Lilly Rush: OK.
 * Scotty Valens: Pretty pathetic, the department don't get enough cars to go around.
 * Lilly Rush: You're just now noticing our crap resources?

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 * Henry Floyd: What are you looking at?
 * Lilly Rush: [whispers] A dead man. And get those feet off my table.

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 * Henry Floyd: [to Lilly] Oh, you've seen Janice? So you know what an upgrade you'd be.

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 * Scotty Valens: I could win ten grand over there, I still ain't paying a cabbie 300 bucks to drive me home.

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 * Lilly Rush: You waste your money on the daily numbers?
 * Scotty Valens: Every morning.
 * Lilly Rush: Five bucks down the drain.
 * Scotty Valens: I can afford it.
 * Lilly Rush: So what do you do if you win? You going to retire?
 * Scotty Valens: Nah, I'd keep doing what I do. I'd just dress sharper if that's possible. And brag a lot more.
 * Lilly Rush: If that's possible.

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 * Matt: What do you say, Dorothy, should I double down?
 * Dorothy: You're showing a four. Book says no, but hey, you're hot.
 * Matt: Me? Or the cards?
 * Dorothy: Both [winks].

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 * Ivan: [to Matt] Die! Just die! A boy like you, no one will miss!

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 * Matt: It's been nice playing with you, Dorothy.
 * Dorothy: You should never quit after a win!
 * Matt: I have the feeling my luck's run out.

Hubris [1.11]

 * Barry: Maybe you could love me...
 * Holly: No. I'll never love you either.

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 * Scotty Valens: So you stalked her?
 * Barry Tepler: I pursued her... with too much enthusiasm.

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 * Monique: [to Holly, about Prof. Minard] ...But there's a new girl every year... and yours is almost over.

Glued [1.12]

 * Lilly Rush: Is there any reason why you're looking back on it now? Today?
 * John Stillman: [chuckles] What am I, one of your suspects?
 * Lilly Rush: Well, you're avoiding my questions like one. Alright, I can take a hint -- be mysterious.

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 * Scotty Valens: Did you ever actually see him or his pals hit the boy?
 * Sean Murphy: If I would've seen something, I would've intervened. I'd have kicked those... African-American young gentlemen's asses.

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 * Prostitute: We gotta make a living same as you!
 * Will Jeffries: That's what we're counting on.

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 * Nicole Barnes: I prayed with all my heart and soul.
 * Lily Rush: For what?
 * Nicole Barnes: For God to take away all my burdens. And he did. He took away Timmy.

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 * Lily Rush: I thought you liked cats.
 * Kite: Cats... not mutants.

The Letter [1.13]

 * John Stillman: You find Blanche, maybe we find out the reason why Sadie was going to New York.
 * Nick Vera: Like the geezer's going to remember.
 * John Stillman: [to Jeffries] You and Mr. Sensitivity track down all the milk companies that delivered to the boarding house, Rush and Valens will be on geezer patrol.

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 * Will Jeffries: [scanning through the records using the microform] This thing's making me seasick.
 * Nick Vera: At least I got my roll on, you couldn't even do yours.

The Boy In The Box [1.14]

 * Sister Vivian: Sister Grace... She wasn't a good nun.
 * Scotty Valens: No kidding.

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 * Sister Vivian: There are no cows in the woods.
 * Arnold: That's what you think!

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 * Fred Banks: Sister Vivian was pretty cruel... but murder?

Disco Inferno [1.15]

 * John Stillman: So, we're talking about a bullet fired 26 years ago for a gun we don't even know exists anymore.
 * Will Jeffries: Registered to a man we can't find.
 * Scotty Valens: Yeah?
 * John Stillman: The word longshot comes to mind.

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 * Nick Vera: Maybe this Benny guy started the fire.
 * John Stillman: Yeah, right after he got shot in the face.
 * Nick Vera: Good point.

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 * Sonya: [to Benny] I should kill you for making a slut outta me!

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 * Doreen: Why you gotta be so selfish? You already got Benny in the sack. Why can't I have him on the dance floor?

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 * Ken: I was gonna deal that to Chaney for thousands!
 * Doreen: You shoulda thought of that before you snorted up all his merchandise.

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 * Mr. Rosen: You better stop talking, young man.
 * Ken: Or?
 * Mr. Rosen: You don't wanna know 'or'.

Volunteers [1.16]

 * Scotty Valens: Do not give out addresses except in emergencies.
 * Lilly Rush: I'd call a double homicide an emergency.

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 * John Stillman: We got the FBI file on Jane.
 * Scotty Valens: They had a file?
 * Lilly Rush: And they gave it up?
 * John Stillman: Public record now.

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 * Elisa: [to Lilly] You're a detective? But you're so beautiful.

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 * Lionel: The way I see it, the white man's got your mind, and the white woman's got your johnson.
 * Gerard: She's a friend.
 * Lionel: Our friends don't come in that color.

The Lost Soul of Herman Lester [1.17]

 * Billy Berkenpass Sr.: So I made a call. Get off my property.

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 * Billy Berkenpass Jr.: No telling what the round ball will make a grown man do.

Resolutions [1.18]

 * Scotty Valens: Should have brought a coat.
 * Lilly Rush: Yup. Want mine? Wouldn't make you any less of a man.
 * Scotty: I'd rather freeze now.

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 * John: Maybe when I'm done here I could buy you a steak.
 * Lilly Rush: I'm vegetarian.

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 * Scotty Valens: We'll protect you, Russell.
 * Russell: I read crime novels. You guys can't do nothing.

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 * John Stillman: Nice or not, no one gets a free murder.

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 * Russell Brinkley: Ah crap, I didn't see anything!

Late Returns [1.19]

 * Scotty Valens: He [David Lake] ain't wearing his glasses.
 * Nick Vera: So?
 * Scotty Valens: So... where'd they go?
 * John Stillman: I lose mine three times a day.

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 * Will Jeffries: You know a guy named Darren Cleeman?
 * Marvin: No.
 * Nick Vera: Really? He called you last week.
 * Marvin: Well, maybe he got a wrong number.
 * Will Jeffries: You talk to wrong numbers for six minutes?
 * Marvin: Well, maybe I got lonely.

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 * Nick Vera: Never found her killer.
 * Lily Rush: Never say never.

Greed [1.20]

 * Randy Price: [to Lilly] You're a homicide detective? I've got to start committing some real crimes.

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 * Lilly Rush: You're in the market, boss?
 * John Stillman: Half of America is, Lil.
 * Will Jeffries: Not my half.

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 * Randy Price: [about the tip] I told you it was good.
 * Lilly Rush: So why didn't you let the cops know about it back then?
 * Randy Price: I wouldn't have profited from that. I was saving it for a rainy day.
 * Lilly Rush: And now it's pouring.

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 * John Stillman: Well, it could have ended up worse, you could have ended up like Danville.
 * Roger Collins: Broke?
 * John Stillman: Dead.

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 * Scotty Valens: You got plans?
 * Nick Vera: Are you kidding? I'm married. I'll take any excuse not to go home.

Maternal Instincts [1.21]

 * Lilly Rush: [about Rebecca/Linda] She miscarried in September of '85 and gave birth in October of '86. She had to have gotten pregnant again fast.
 * Nick Vera: According to the way Silver described her, that would have taken all of an hour.

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 * Scotty Valens: There she is, best and brightest physician in all of Philadelphia.
 * Frannie: Shut up, Vaylens.
 * Scotty Valens: It's Valens. V-A-L-E-N-S.

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 * Rebecca: [to Kyle Silver] Don't you want to put your tongue in my mouth?

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 * Sean: Why should I believe you?
 * Lilly Rush: Look at me. Am I lying?

The Plan [1.22]

 * The Wilkes Military Academy's slogan: "From the child comes forth the soldier."

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 * Dominic LaSalle: You're playing your hand badly, Detective Rush... See in poker, like in business, or warfare, the optimal strategy is not to have one. Or, rather, not to show it. You wear yours like a bad dye job.

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 * [Just after fleeing the pool, the boys realize they've lost the paper outlining Dominic's plan]
 * Dominic LaSalle: Listen, here's what we're gonna do. Never, ever tell. If we're ever caught, each man takes the fall. Alone. Like a soldier.

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 * [Sgt. James Creighton is visiting Dominic in the ICU, holding a Bronze Star medal he earned in the Army]
 * James Creighton: He should have this. What he did; what they all did... took more guts than I ever had.

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 * James Creighton: [to Lilly] I watch boys. Just like Nash did, I watch boys, and I know that I'm becoming him. Please put me away. Stop me. Let them have their lives. Let them become men. Just let them go.
 * Det. Rush: How can I? They killed a man.
 * Sgt. Creighton: No, they didn't.