The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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- Seasons
- 7
- Episodes aired
- 156
- Latest aired
- S07E21
- Total runtime
- 4d 19h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 2003 – May 2004 23 episodes
- Season 2 October 2004 – May 2005 23 episodes
- Season 3 September 2005 – May 2006 23 episodes
- Season 4 September 2006 – May 2007 24 episodes
- Season 5 September 2007 – May 2008 18 episodes
- Season 6 September 2008 – May 2009 23 episodes
- Season 7 September 2009 – May 2010 22 episodes
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S03E01 Family
September 25 · 45min find the promo
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When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenaged boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.
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S03E02 The Promise
October 2 · 43min find the promo
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Lilly re-opens the case of young girl, an overweight college freshman named Laurie, who died in a fraternity house fire in 2004. The fire was deemed accidental at the time, but a cell phone photo e-mailed from the girl's phone just moments before her death prompts a closer examination.
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S03E03 Bad Night
October 9 · 42min find the promo
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The 1978 murder of a young man is re-opened after the victim's mother finds a letter suggesting that his death wasn't random.
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S03E04 Colors
October 16 · 41min find the promo
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Det. Rush re-opens the 1945 case of a baseball player, bludgeoned to death with his own bat.
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S03E05 Commited
October 23 · 44min find the promo
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In 1954, 9-year-old Otis Petrowski last saw his mother in a mental institution. Now over 50 years later, after the death of an elderly woman who had been using Otis' mother's identity, Det. Rush sets out to discover what happened to the boy's real mother.
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S03E06 Saving Patrick Bubley
November 6 · 42min find the promo
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When a mother of five loses her fourth son to gang violence, Lilly sets out the save the youngest, reopening one of her first cases on the homicide squad.
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S03E07 Start-Up
November 13 · 43min find the promo
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Lilly re-opens the 1999 case of a young, healthy woman who nevertheless died of a heart attack. In the late 1990's, she was briefly an Internet millionaire, but due to bad business decisions, her dot.com company eventually went bust.
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S03E08 Honor
November 20 · 45min find the promo
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When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det. Rush re-investigates the 1972 shooting of Carl, a veteran of the Vietnam War.
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S03E09 A Perfect Day
November 27 · 45min find the promo
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When a fisherman finds evidence of a young girl's death washed up on a shore in New Jersey, Lilly re-opens the 1965 case of 4-year-old child who had a seemingly abusive mother.
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S03E10 Frank's Best
December 18 · 43min find the promo
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The team re-opens the 2001 case of a robbed and murdered deli owner when the brother of the man convicted of the crime brings forth new evidence, suggesting the man may have been wrongfully accused.
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S03E11 8 Years
January 8 · 45min find the promo
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Four close high school friends each went their separate ways in 1980. Eight years later, in 1988, one of them was murdered. The homicide team receives a tip about the murder, prompting a re-investigation of the case and an examination of the friends' lives, hopes and dreams after high school.
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S03E12 Detention
January 15 · 42min find the promo
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When a note connected to a supposed suicide is found, the team re-opens the 1994 case of a high-school kid who fell from the roof of the school building after having served detention. In 1994 the death was deemed a suicide, but the newly-found note indicates that the victim might have been fearing for his life.
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S03E13 Debut
January 29 · 41min find the promo
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Lilly re-opens the 1968 case of an 18-year-old girl who died -- apparently accidentally -- at the night of her debutante ball. Now her mother comes forth with new evidence when a local art dealer is accused of murdering his wife in the same manner the girl died.
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S03E14 Dog Day Afternoons
February 26 · 45min find the promo
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The case of a female bank teller shot to death in her work in 2000 is reopened when the same bank is robbed again by perpetrators wearing identical masks and equipped with identical weapons as six years earlier.
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S03E15 Sanctuary
March 12 · 41min find the promo
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The 1998 case of a female drug smuggler is re-opened. The woman was involved with Scotty at the time he was working undercover on a high-profile drug case, and he has been keeping it a secret from the team for all these years.
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S03E16 One Night
March 19 · 45min find the promo
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Lilly and the cold case team will have to decode the clues given by a twisted killer in order to save the life of a young boy who has been left to die alone. But first they must find the boy and for that they need to dig a little deeper into their own pasts.
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S03E17 Superstar
March 26 · 44min find the promo
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When a poison-soaked towel turns up at the station, Lilly re-opens the 1973 case of a murdered female college tennis star.
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S03E18 Willkommen
April 2 · 45min find the promo
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The team re-opens the 2002 case of a murdered amateur actor when the owner of a local community theater finds a gun hidden inside prop furniture.
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S03E19 Beautiful Little Fool
April 9 · 45min find the promo
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Lilly re-opens the 1929 case of a woman found dead in a ravine on Christmas Day when the victim's great-granddaughter comes in asking for help. Meanwhile, Lilly's estranged mother shows up, hoping to re-connect with her daughter.
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S03E20 Death Penalty: Final Appeal
April 16 · 45min find the promo
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The 1994 case of a raped and murdered 16-year-old girl is re-opened when Det. Jeffries gets a call from a prisoner on death-row -- scheduled to be executed in just three days.
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S03E21 The Hen House
April 30 · 42min find the promo
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The 1945 case of a murdered newspaper reporter is reopened when new evidence suggests that the woman was thrown in front of a passing train by someone she knew.
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S03E22 The River
May 7 · 45min find the promo
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When a new witness steps forward, Lilly and the team are prompted to re-open the 1984 shooting of a respected and beloved ER doctor who had a secret he had been hiding from his family.
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S03E23 Joseph
May 21 · 45min find the promo
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When the victim's credit card is suddenly used a year after his death, Lilly re-opens the 2005 case of a counselor at a teens' rehab center who was shot to death just two weeks before he was scheduled to testify in a murder case. During the probe, Lilly feels a strange connection to the victim, and her personal attachment may end up jeopardizing the case.