History WMG / ColdCase

So far, while they've been shown to be peripherally involved in the history of past cases, none of the ''Cold Case'' team members were ever considered a suspect, major witness, or victim of one; most of the other Creator/JerryBruckheimer shows (especially ''{{Series/CSI}}'') had multiple episodes where its main cast were on [[Main/ItsPersonal the receiving end of an investigation]]. However, both Det. Valens and Jeffries have old cases tied directly to them (Valens has his and his brother's sexual molestation as kids and his girlfriend's supposed suicide, and Jeffries' wife's hit-and-run murder) that could easily be reinvestigated in a later season, and there's still a lot about Det. Rush's own dysfunctional family history to bring something up.

Despite proving herself a competent and determined detective since her introduction in season 3, Kat is still not [[Main/PlugNPlayFriends recognized as part of the Philadelphia homicide team]] by any of the people coming in to get the team to investigate their cold case. Det. Rush is always called the only female on the force, and the team goes through great pains to correct this. Considering the show's in its fifth season now and this trend is continuing, either the general public (including those supposedly interested in women's positions in power, like in the episode ''Torn'') have mass, laser-guided Main/GenreBlindness towards Kat's promotion, or Kat's days on the force have been numbered from the start.

[[WMG:It's not just a metaphor - the team [[TheSixthSense sees dead people]].]]

* There would have been an episode inspired by Theatre/DearEvanHansen, possibly initially framed as a suicide.

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* They'd probably find a way to do a coronavirus-related episode too. The victim would be a nurse, doctor or activist.

* It would have covered a series of police brutality protests. The victim would either be a protestor or a police officer suffering a crisis of faith. Complicating matters would be the suspect's hostile behaviour towards the detectives.
* There would have been an episode inspired by Theatre/DearEvanHansen.

** Other than him finding the body, he wasn't that involved with the case as a witness. There must be a case where they are ''heavily involved.'' In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', Bonnasera was tracked down by the Cold Case people because new evidence popped up implicating her as a suspect, and there have been plenty of times on ''CSI:NY'' where the evidence they themselves are looking at turns out to come from an internal source, or the leads had to step out of a case because one of the suspects is related to them. So far, none of the team members on Series/ColdCase has had that happen to them; there is simply no episode where they or someone they are related to is a suspect in a case they are looking at. Yet.

Rose got pregnant with Jack after all, conceiving a daughter, and gave her for adoption in Philadelphia (de deWitt-Bukaters' hometown according to ''Titanic'''s script) because she had no money to raise her at the time. Eventually she moved to the Midwest where she married her husband, Calbert. Meanwhile, this unidentified daughter (born Dec. 1912) grew up in an orphanage, married in the early 1930s and (as we are told in the episode) went mad after giving birth to another daughter, [[http://www.coldcasepedia.com/victim/nancy-patterson Nancy Patterson]], who was killed in 1962. Eventually, Nancy's daughter [[http://www.coldcasepedia.com/casewitness/rachel-west Rachel]] grew up to look [[IdenticalGrandson just like]] her great-great-grandmother Ruth.

** Other than him finding the body, he wasn't that involved with the case as a witness. There must be a case where they are ''heavily involved.'' In Series/{{CSI:NY}}, Bonnasera was tracked down by the Cold Case people because new evidence popped up implicating her as a suspect, and there have been plenty of times on CSI:NY where the evidence they themselves are looking at turns out to come from an internal source, or the leads had to step out of a case because one of the suspects is related to them. So far, none of the team members on Series/ColdCase has had that happen to them; there is simply no episode where they or someone they are related to is a suspect in a case they are looking at. Yet.

[[WMG: In the episode Daniela, John was the father of Cassie's baby.]]

* It would have covered a series of police brutality protests. The victim would either be a protestor or a police officer suffering a crisis of faith. Complicating matters would be the suspects's hostile behaviour towards the detectives.

Carson Finch was a conservative newspaper columnist who was hiding the fact that he was gay. He was very angry when the victim threatened to out him to the public. At the end of the episode, he is shown typing on a computer who a serious and thoughtful look on his face. It's possible that the investigation made him finally want to reveal his homosexuality.