Line #16 Awesome/ColdCase


1	Awesome moments in ''Series/ColdCase''.
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8	* In the later portion of "Look Again", Lilly Rush boldly faces the killer, an abusive spouse. When he tries to shake her down for information on where his wife (who has offered up incriminating information) and family have gone off to, Lilly refuses to tell. She instead goes into a [[ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech speech about his manipulative nature]], with a side dish of her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
9	--> '''Lilly Rush:''' Is this how you handle women you can't control? You're supposed to scare me?\
10	'''Todd:''' It's supposed to make you think.\
11	'''Lilly Rush:''' I'm not like the girls you're used to, Todd. You can't try to charm me, then when that doesn't work, talk down to me. Then when ''that'' doesn't work, get aggressive. I'm not Jill, or Melanie. [[IAmTheNoun I'm the police and we're at the police headquarters]], you moron.
12	* Near the ending of "Gleen", When Lilly and Vera confront the killer. Instead of letting him listen in on his daughter's conversation with his would-be fiancée, he's forced to stay out. It's barely even thirty seconds before he's stewing in frustration, revealing his weakness as a ControlFreak. Lilly and Vera casually point out [[ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech how the killer controls his wives instead of letting them lead their own lives]]. Just when he's a split second from "[[WouldHitAGirl teaching a lesson]]" to Lilly, she calmly drops an ArmorPiercingQuestion about how his wife's flasher was a convenient scapegoat. This leaves the killer speechless, unable to deny what an overall weak person he is.
13	* "Love conquers Al": Seeing how much a [[LackOfEmpathy cold-hearted bitch]] she was through the episode, it is satisfying to see Jane being taken to jail, all for setting up the murder of an innocent girl.
14	* In one of the 1950s flashback scenes in "A Time to Hate", when a GangOfBullies dump their Chinese food on a gay couple, one of the men, Daniel, noodles still dripping off him, marches up to the nearest beat cop to file a harassment complaint, something both his boyfriend and the cop remain impressed by decades later.
15	* During the MedleyExit of "Fly Away", we see Lilly going into an interview room and passing by a long line of young girls. Once inside, a little girl tearfully fingers the [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices arrogant, pedophilic social worker]] who molested her, who sits on the other side of the mirror and knows that his [[OffscreenKarma karma]] is finally coming. Judging by both the evidence and Lilly's expression (who at this point is '''''pissed'''''), you know that bastard's going down.
16	** Earlier on, when Scotty and Lilly confront Mr. Freely in the interrogation room. When they tell him they know what he did, Mr. Freely casually [[ShutUpKirk points out how nobody really cares about his victims]]. In response, Lilly presents case files on every child he ever worked with, remarking that ''their mothers'' cared. And she tells him that they're on the other side of the window, telling "all about Mr. Freely". ...Only, there's nobody there. But ''he'' doesn't know that. It works, and he spills the beans about what happened to Toya and Rosie.
17	* "Greed". The killer is a pure MamaBear, killing the AssholeVictim not because he stole from her, not because he cheated on her, but because he cheated on her son--with her. Even better, she doesn't have any self-pity--"I'm an adult. I've got no one to blame but myself for sleeping with a cold-blooded reptile like you"--reserving all her anger for his treatment of her son.
18	* In "Sherry Darlin'", we have James' half-brother who, while James was away, Sherry tried to seduce. She offered that they could run away to anywhere they wanted. But the half-brother had too much integrity and refused. Oh sure, when he tried to tell James what happened, the latter thought he was lying and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished hit him with a brick that left a scar]]. But not only does it prove the step-brother has character, it later helps Lilly Rush provide evidence of Sherry's other husbands.
19	* "Maternal Instincts" has its small moment. Meaning just about every moment Lilly has with Sean, from her pointing out [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how unbelievable it is Sean is letting people who want to listen to him walk out the door]], to sitting down and telling him you can't just plow through life winging it without any guidance. The latter requires Lilly swallowing her pride and admitting ''she'' was once in Sean's shoes and she needed help as well.
20	** And then there's the big moment: Kyle, Linda's killer, came only because he wanted her to come away and be her lover. After he murdered her, poor Sean/Bobby reached out to him in hopes he would comfort him. His response to the boy was a [[KickTheDog cold]] "[[ItsAllAboutMe Sorry, Bobby, gotta catch a train]]." Over a decade later, what exposes Kyle as the murderer? Sean/Bobby's vague recollection of those words. In the end, Karl's callousness towards someone who needed help [[LaserGuidedKarma comes back to bite him]].
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23	* "The Badlands":
24	** CoolOldLady Della Lincoln faces down a local {{Gangbanger}} and orders him off the street without flinching.
25	** Tre Jackson spends most of the flashback scenes being a pitiful and/or terrifying AddledAddict and terrible brother, but when he sees a CrazyJealousGuy assaulting his little brother, he chases the assailant off by hurling empty bottles at him.
26	* In "Revenge," one of the two cases closed in the episode is that of a pedophile who had raped both his own son and the episode's other victim. As Vera files away his box, he smacks it.
27	* The moment in "Best Friends" when Rose's psychotic brother finds out about Billie. First, Rose stares him down and tells him point blank that she loves Billie, knowing full well how he's going to take it. Then the brother tells Rose she has to choose between him and Billie and then orders her to get the gun from his truck so he can kill Billie. Rose appears to obey, as she leaves and retrieves the gun... to give her brother a ClickHello and force him to let her girlfriend go. What sells it is her cool-as-a-cucumber declaration that he is no family of hers and her direction to her girlfriend to get into the truck so they can leave. It's an especially awesome moment when you consider that Rose is a) afraid of her brother and b) by far the softer and more feminine of the two women.
28	-->'''Rose:''' (''still holding the gun on her brother'') I guess this is goodbye.
29	* The female victim's last words in "Who's Your Daddy?" to the creepy construction foreman who had just shot her husband and tried to force her to orally service him: "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Don't. Exist]]."
30	** Even better is that she actually says it in a dismissive, distracted, ''annoyed'' manner, barely even looking at him (she's trying to tend to her husband). This creep has tried to rape her, shot her husband, and is about to kill her, and she's ''irritated'' instead of scared.
31	** What makes it brilliant, it's a CallBack to an earlier flashback, to when the female victim said the holes in her stockings and the blisters on her fingers did not exist. She not only refuses to acknowledge the foreman, but she's regarding him as little more than a blister or a hole in her stocking. In other words, she [[ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech rightly insulted]] the foreman in ''just 3 words''.
32	** Before that, the foreman only got the wife to submit to servicing him because he had her husband at gunpoint. Even though she's still a princess in her mind, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she nonetheless surrenders her pride and dignity]] to save her beloved husband. She barely begins when the husband makes up his mind to fight the gun out of the foreman's hand. [[ForegoneConclusion It doesn't end well]]. Still, he was willing to sacrifice his own life to protect the woman who's always been a princess to him. He may have married into royalty, but the husband truly had the heart and soul of a brave prince.
33	** Daryl Booker. His CharacterDevelopment from a gruff [[RecoveredAddict former crackhead]] to [[PapaWolf Kara's father figure]] and [[KnightInSourArmor Protector]] to (nearly) becoming [[AntiHero her parents' avenger]].
34	* In "Kensington", there's the RageBreakingPoint where Joe decides to PayEvilUntoEvil by robbing the house of his CorruptCorporateExecutive ex-boss, even if the moment doesn't last.
35	* In "Discretion", Nick manages to coax out a confession out of the DirtyCop by [[ObfuscatingStupidity playing up his drunkenness]], in a room staffed with undercover cops.
36	** The ending montage also counts, when the two real killers of a college girl are caught in a stake-out with some assistance from the victim's WisdomFromTheGutter prone childhood friend. If they had any doubts they'd ever be arrested, those doubts practically ''evaporate'' the second those cops show up.
37	* How Lilly finds out who the killer is in "Blank Generation", by SpottingTheThread on some artwork at the the killer's store, which matches the graffiti left in her apartment. And on time too, as the killer was trying to poison her with laced tea.
38	* At the end of "The Sleepover", a SympatheticMurderer, with Scotty's supervision, has a tearful reunion with his sister in the mental hospital to which he has been committed. When their AbusiveParents (who had, among other things, forced the brother to ''waterboard'' the sister when she disobeyed them) show up, the sister quietly shakes her head and Scotty slams the door to the brother's room in their faces.
39	* The scene in "The Woods", where Lilly rips apart George's god complex and tells him that for all his bravado and posturing that he's god, he's still just the same frightened little boy whose mommy abandoned him to be raped by a pedophile and never loved him. While George was angry once before, this is the only time where his mask completely cracks, reducing him to a screaming lunatic begging her to shut up.
40	* The last words of Jerry Stone in "Yo, Adrian".
41	-->'''Jerry''': I'm not a bum.\
42	'''Sonny''': You're not, kid.\
43	'''Jerry''': I'm not a bum!\
44	'''Sonny''': Good on you, kid.
45	* In "Ravaged," the eponymous dog chases away a man trying to molest Sloan. Later, in the epilogue, that same creep starts to approach another woman and gets chased away by ''her'' dog.
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48	* "A Perfect Day" has the epilogue montage, where Stillman solemnly watches as the victim's late father's picture is taken down from the wall of honor. No matter what he did as a police officer, it hardly outweighs that he [[DomesticAbuse abused his wife and children]] ''and'' [[OffingTheOffspring killed]] one of his daughters, and it possibly speaks volumes of what kind of police officer he ''[[PoliceBrutality really]]'' was. So it's fitting that he's punished by having his title posthumously stripped from him.
49	** The scope of his posthumous punishment takes on a whole new layer when one remembers what's become of his late daughter's memory these past years. Shortly after her death, his wife convinced their remaining daughter that her twin sister was but an [[LyingToProtectYourFeelings imaginary friend]] to spare her any grief. In the present, it's rather fitting that while the daughter he murdered is remembered by everyone again, now it's his turn to be forgotten by all who knew him.
50	* In "The River", Miller has Scotty to talk to a guy who has been hanging around a local playground. Scotty talks to the guy and realizes he's a pedophile. After warning him never to come back to the playground, Scotty returns to find out that not only has the man returned, he's now talking to one of the kids he noticed him eyeballing earlier. Without saying a word, Scotty merely gestures to the kid, who instantly knows to get out of there. The next thing we see is Scotty beating the crap out of the guy.
51	* Det. Jeffries in "Death Penalty: Final Appeal". First, midway through the episode, he delivers a ShutUpHannibal TalkToTheFist reaction to the smug, JerkAss lawyer who railroaded an innocent man just to win the case who then is later [[LaserGuidedKarma fired from the D.A.'s office and has a ruined reputation]]. Also, once we see the real killer arrested by the end of the episode, he is seen roughly handling him in handcuffs. Considering that this is [[GentleGiant Jeffries]] we're talking about, it's so shocking, and well-deserved.
52	* In "Honor", Stillman shames Ken for having impersonated Carl's identity as a Vietnam War veteran, especially when the latter had actually been suffering in a prison camp for years. Stillman spares him no harsh words about how ''wrong'' it is to lie about being a P.O.W.
53	* In "Sanctuary," BadassPreacher Father Peralta marches right up to the front door of a dangerous drug lord to bring the victim, a sanctuary-seeking unwilling drug mule, back to his church when she feels threatened by the dealer.
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56	* "Stand Up and Holler":
57	-->'''Lilly:''' [[IronicEcho Don't move a muscle...]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]
58	** Also, how they arrest the AlphaBitch who was not only the main killer, but had a bunch of {{Jerk Jock}}s rape the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds [[MurderByInaction killer]]: they grab her right out of her ten-year high school reunion, which she was trying to use to relive her GloryDays.
59	*** While Lilly walks away with the arrested [[AlphaBitch Becca]], she [[DeathGlare glares]] at the JerkJock who raped the [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds killer]] and the ManChild gym coach who allowed it. It's almost like she's wordlessly telling the two "Wipe that smile off your faces: you're next."
60	** There's also this:
61	-->'''Becca:''' You don't know how lucky you are! Do you know how many girls would die to shake your pompoms?\
62	'''Rainey:''' ''(smiling calmly)'' Let them.
63	** It's no wonder we get this bit: "My daughter is my hero."
64	** When Becca gives a poor "presentation" in class, Rainey voices how inadequate the presentation was. Bonus points for being a moment of CharacterDevelopment. Earlier, Rainey backed down when Becca told her being smart was "stupid". Here, we see Rainey stand her ground and tell her how school is supposed to be a place for learning, not earning popularity points.
65	*** Also in the same scene, she stands up to the [[{{Manchild}} teacher's]] bias towards pandering the popular kids. She isn't moved by his threats of detention because, as far as she knows, he's no more a teacher than he is a "joke". That day leads to him [[GracefulLoser acknowledging]] that he needed to stop being "one of the popular kids" and start being a ''real'' teacher.
66	* Scotty taking down the BigBad in "Stalker".
67	* Scotty pulling an in-universe version of ShownTheirWork in ''Saving Sammy'' to make a connection with the previously-unreachable Brent Harris and solve his parents' murder.
68	** In the same episode, the Head of the special needs school, who extorted Brent's parents for their money, [[LaserGuidedKarma getting arrested in the ending montage]] (probably for doing the same thing to other families).
69	* Pretty much everything about [[LittleMissBadass the victim]] in "Fireflies," especially the fact that she's one of the only two main victims to survive the attempt on her life, and the ''only'' one of the two to do so under her own power. Also, she's in grade school.
70	** Also, this same little girl was bullied earlier by a young man to hit her own best friend, and instead responds by hitting him in the nose with her ''lunchbox''.
71	* The ballet dancing TrainingMontage in ''Shuffle, Ball Change''. The fact that it's done to "[[Film/{{Footloose}} Heaven Helps the Man]]" makes it all the more amazing.
72	* The end of "Sandhogs." They track down the killer, a bitter old man, in his favorite bar, where he spends his days drinking, smoking, and pining away for his youth in the '40s. The detectives strike up a friendly conversation with him about said glory days, and then Stillman drops ''this'' on him; cue OhCrap:
73	--> "Well, nothing lasts forever... except the statute of limitations on murder."
74	* In "8:03", Lilly and Scotty confront Madison's killer, a SmugSnake who dealt drugs in his youth. Oh he may act cool as a cucumber at first, but it doesn't last. Evidence points to him, especially since he identified [[INeverSaidItWasPoison the gun he purchased from Skill]]. But the true crowning moment of awesome comes when Scotty ''only'' threatens the killer, and the killer turns [[DirtyCoward coward]] and promises to spill his guts.
75	** Also in a similar scene, Miller brings in Toomey for interrogation. The latter tries to sweet-talk his way out, but Miller is livid and will not condone that he essentially lied to her about having nothing to do with Skill's death. This scene gets marks for Miller not playing favoritism.
76	** In an earlier flashback, a rather snide teacher was giving Skill a hard time with a reading lesson and blatantly claimed he'd never make it far in life. But then, just as she says those words, Skill adeptly reads the entire sentence of the book, a sentence that accurately claims [[ArmorPiercingResponse that of course he's not going to learn because she doesn't "see" him]].
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79	* At the climax of "Thrill Kill," Lilly gives an absolutely ''terrifying'' BreakingSpeech to the wife of the killer and mother of the victim, pulling no punches in laying it on how much of a pathetic coward she must be to stand by the man who murdered ''her only child'' in cold blood. Best part? It works, and the wife gives up the murder weapon.
80	* "Justice"
81	** In penultimate flashback, one of the rape victims has her rapist at her mercy when she holds a gun to him. All his other victims are egging her on to pull the trigger. She has every right to kill somebody who should've been jailed a long time ago. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark But she doesn't]]. Why? Because [[HeWhoFightsMonsters she doesn't want to be the monster he is]].
82	** It might have been the wrong thing to do and it was probably traumatizing for him, but the young boy shot and killed the bastard who raped his sister, her friends, and several others. Better still, during their ensuing conversation, when the "[[AssholeVictim victim]]" tries to muddy the waters and say the boy will "[[NoMeansYes understand one day]]", the brother displays the virtue to [[ValuesResonance recognize]] that no amount of "understanding" will ever make rape right.
83	** As Vera puts away the AssholeVictim box (he was a serial date rapist finally gunned down by the younger brother of one of his victims), he sees the victim's ghost staring at him in disbelief (the cops had convinced the now grown man to claim that he acted in self-defense, thus making it a justifiable homicide, meaning that he wouldn't spend a day in jail). Vera simply sneers at him and walks off. It's satisfying poetic justice that since the victim got away with rape in life, his killer gets away with his murder.
84	* "Andy in C Minor" has a small but very notable moment. What ultimately leads the detectives to Andy's killer? Vera caught of glimpse of Andy's parents signing Carlos's name. What makes this impressive is, earlier, [[LaserGuidedKarma Carlos mocked Vera's ability to sign and understand ASL]]. And yet, Vera was able to recognize the killer's name in [=ASL=].
85	* Shamar in "It Takes A Village". He's been starved and basically tortured for four days straight, and he still has the presence of mind to remember that he's being videotaped and leave a clue in the hopes that someone other than his killer will someday see the tape and be able to use it to find the person who hurt him. The clue he provides (the name of the videogame he was playing when he met his killer) turns out to be critical in helping the detectives put the pieces together.
86	* In "Wunderkind":
87	** Jeffries and Vera send the MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll GangBanger, who is partially responsible for the murder, to a supermax.
88	** Nearly every scene with 14-year-old Terrance, between his AwesomeByAnalysis GoodWithNumbers moments counting cards or figuring out a keypad combination to the complete lack of fear he shows right before his death (seeming more sorry for his killer than anything).
89	* Scotty and Vera give the murderer in "Slipping" -- a vile piece of work who not only tried to drive his wife to madness to steal her work (recruiting the gullible and lovelorn housekeeper into helping him) and murdered her when she confronted him, but also allowed her daughter to spend 45 years thinking that she had driven her mom over the edge and might go crazy too, before wrongfully claiming the Nobel Laureate that his wife's work earned -- a massive ReasonYouSuckSpeech outlining just how much of pathetic bag of garbage he really is before arresting the bastard in front of a crowd of people.
90	** What ultimately gets the murderer caught? His own step-daughter's drawing, which turns out to be the evidence to how he stole his wife's work.
91	** In the end, even the killer can't help but bitterly admit he may have been a good writer, but his wife (the victim) was ''better''.
92	--> '''Daniel:''' You still don't get it, do you?
93	--> '''Scotty:''' Get what?
94	--> '''Daniel:''' ''How good'' Nancy was.
95	* In "Spiders", the way Spider's hide-out is busted by the detectives and a SWAT team.
96	** Lilly and Will trick Spider's ex-girlfriend into confessing by simply mentioning a witness saw her helping Spider kill an innocent woman, [[INeverSaidItWasPoison but not that it was nighttime]] when it happened.
97	* Pete not retaliating against constant harassment and going undercover in a sit-by operation to keep his son out jail in "Bad Reputation" before then getting a good FaceDeathWithDignity moment against his killer.
98	* In "Ghost of my Child", Priscilla Chapin is a former drug addict who, against all odds, stayed clean for her son, even [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave in the span of the three years she thought he was dead]].
99	** Another, smaller one: In the flashback, baby Max's abductors read what's sown on the pajamas his real mother made him: "[[ArmorPiercingResponse MY MOMMY LOVES ME]]". It's as though this innocent baby were defiantly telling his abductors, "Just you wait, one day, my ''real'' Mommy will find me!" And years later, she does.
100	** Lilly telling Max's kidnappers that his mother's name is Priscilla when said-kidnapper calls her "[[ItIsDehumanizing that woman]]". Lilly may have issues with druggie moms, but she's [[CharacterDevelopment come to see]] Priscilla is a [[GoodParents cut above the rest]] and deserves to be addressed as Max's rightful mother.
101	* The end of "The Road." Lilly refuses to take the bait when the exceedingly loathsome doer attempts to [[SuicideByCop provoke her into killing him]], as had happened with George Marks three years prior, and instead makes the arrest by the book. The last we see of him, he's being shoved into a tiny, cramped cell - and he just happens to be claustrophobic. For bonus points, it's discovered his most recent victim is actually still alive, and she is rescued and reunited with her fiancé, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments who had never stopped loving her even with the rest of the world believing she was dead]].
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105	* Nadia Kosolov, the victim in "Triple Threat", is standing on a street corner singing Tom Petty's "Free Falling" when her father shows up. When she sees him, she transitions flawlessly into "Va Pensiero" from Verdi's ''Nabucco'', a song about freedom and homesickness, then switches back to "Free Falling". Doubles as SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
106	** What makes this moment even more awesome is that in an earlier scene, Nadia's teacher critiqued her singing because it was all (admittedly excellent) technique and no feeling, and it's suggested that this is how she's sung opera all her life and how her father has instructed her to sing. When she sings "Va Pensiero" with real feeling behind it, it's so incredible that even her father, who presumably spent years teaching her ''not'' to do exactly that, is awed.
107	* Jane Everett, the victim of "Breaking News", gets a posthumous one in the ending montage. She was killed to cover up a health scandal in a plastic company she had uncovered. While she may have not had lived to tell the tale, her work allows the team to arrest not only her killer, but also the CEO and main lawyer of the company for having covered up both of those crimes.
108	* In "Into The Blue," Lilly figures out the case ''in a hallucination''. MindScrew it may be, but it's also a serious testament to her deductive skill.
109	** Additionally, after sitting on evidence of the fate of the episode's victim, a young female cadet in a prestigious military academy, for four years while continuing to be a smug bastard, Moe Kitchener is finally dealt some punishment for his actions. He is not only arrested as an accessory to the crime (he didn't kill the victim, but helped to dispose of the body to protect the school's reputation), but he's also fired from his position and the remaining school personnel and cadets literally turn their backs on him, further cementing his fall from grace. [[LaserGuidedKarma Not to mention]] [[VigilanteExecution what would happen to him in the following season...]]
110	* The kids beating up the bullies in "One Small Step", especially since they were completely insane.
111	** Later, the victim jumping into a river to save his killer.
112	** In the present, Vera giving the suspect a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing tirade]] about how they blindly cover for the killer, like a sheep following the herd. It works, and the suspect finally caves about what happened, lending the detectives the missing piece to solving their investigation.
113	* In "Wednesday's Women", Miriam gets an ObfuscatingStupidity moment and manages to (almost) talk her way out of a confrontation with several members of TheKlan by pretending to be a harmless salesgirl rather than a civil rights activist.
114	* In "Street Money":
115	** It may be a low blow, but BunnyEarsLawyer [=ADA=] Kite gets a gunrunner to confess by threatening to charge his mother as an accomplice. When the dealer accuses him of bluffing, Kite opens the door to reveal he's already brought the guy's mother to the station.
116	** Dexter gets a lot of moments during his campaign, such as giving back a briefcase full of money to a shady contractor rather than accept it as a bribe and having a GoodIsNotDumb moment when he appeals to his opponent that they can be allies rather than tear each other down with scandals, while making it clear that his opponent can't be sure that there aren't copies of the compromising photo Dexter just gave him that won't turn up if ''he'' breaks their truce.
117	* In "November 22nd", relatively minor hustler Patrick beats undefeated pool champion Baltimore Red twice in a row and then walks away from the game (and the hustling lifestyle) rather than keep letting it ride.
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121	* In "Bombers," there's the insulting mural graffiti artist Carlos makes of the person who caused the death of his best friend.
122	* Both scenes in "Read Between the Lines" where 14-year-old Donalyn comes out ahead while BattleRapping with older singers.
123	* Mia Romanov's "human butterfly" aerial act in "Metamorphosis" is a truly spectacular bit of stunt work that wows audiences (InUniverse and out of it) and especially stands out amidst the budget cuts of season 7.
124	--> '''Zelda:''' Mia was way ahead of the curve. She was Creator/CirqueDuSoleil before they were.
125	* Vera and Miller's tag team operation to sneak the deputy commissioner's gun out of his desk in "Shattered".
126	* Lilly and Scotty pull some awesome {{Rules Lawyer}}ing in "Dead Heat" to arrest the evil racetrack owner who had thought he'd beaten the rap for insurance fraud for thirty years.
127	* Scotty visiting his mother's rapist in prison and hugging him as if they're friends, in full view of dozens of prisoners, with his badge visible, thus making the other prisoners think he's a snitch, effectively marking him for death. Indeed, by the episode's closing montage, we see that the man's been stabbed to death in the shower. Even better, the next shot is of Scotty and his parents happily enjoying dinner, indicating that she's recovered from her ordeal.
128	* Former DirtyCop turned low-rent private investigator Harry Denton, the victim in "The Runaway Bunny", was hired by a BlackWidow serial killer to find Bunny, the daughter of her latest victim who witnessed her stepmother poison her father. When Harry found her, instead of following through with the job, he turned on his client and decided to help Bunny escape by faking her death and keeping her safely hidden until he could find conclusive evidence proving the killer's guilt (with the deception holding up decades later). He then found out a [[AmoralAttorney lawyer friend of his helped cover up another of the killer's murders]] and confronted him. The lawyer tried bribing Harry $50,000 to look the other way and killed him after Harry [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules tore the check to shreds]], determined to do the right thing for once.
129	** Adjust for inflation and you find out Harry turned down the equivalent to almost $300,000 in favor of doing what's right.
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132	[[folder: General]]
133	* Several victims get pretty awesome {{Last Stand}}s against their killers. Examples include "Family 8108," "Devil Music," and "Strange Fruit."
134	* The victim of the week often gets one of these in the trailer, or at some point in the episode, just before they turn up dead. Sadly, this is sometimes the very reason they end up dead. (ex: the victim in "Blood On The Tracks" who wanted to confess to a crime committed years ago, but was murdered to ensure his silence, the reporter in "Breaking News" who was about to blow the lid off a scandal, etc.)
135	* The victims in "Witness Protection," "Cargo," and "Chinatown" all get posthumous [=CMOAs=] for essentially the same reason, in that although they're killed in the process, they manage to leave behind clues that ultimately lead to the arrests of [[TheDon seemingly-untouchable crime kingpins]].

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