As Lilly's relationship with Eddie continues, she and the fellow detectives take another look at the unsolved 1973 homicide of college football player Mike "Bad Moon" McShane.
Tropes:
- Academic Athlete: Mike is a promising footballer who also loves to read and got a B+ on his Beowulf essay.
- Bait-and-Switch: The episode was initially leaning towards Mike's asshole of a coach being his killer due to Mike disliking how the coach mistreated his good friend Tom Bernard. Turns out, his mentor Steve Pratt killed him due to Mike learning of his criminal misdeeds.
- Country Mouse: Mike was recruited from Latrobe, PA.
- Like a Son to Me: Mike to his sponsor Steve Pratt.
- He Knows Too Much: Why Mike was ultimately killed; he learned of his mentor's shady dealings, and so was killed before he could speak up about them.
- Jerkass: Coach Watkins is this to the highest order, being more interested in winning games than his players' well-being, even considering showing the smallest ounce of decency as "mollycoddling".
- Mundane Made Awesome: Eddie's trick of balancing a salt shaker on one of its flat surfaces. By the end of the episode, Lilly has also mastered the trick.
- Nothing but Hits: The episode features a treasure trove of popular hits from the early 70s, including Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "Taking Care Of Business", David Essex's "Rock On" and Steely Dan's "Reelin' In The Years".
- Parting-Words Regret: Breeze blamed Mike for reporting him for his bad kidney and getting him cut from the team on the last day he saw him. It's only years later does he admit that Mike saved his life.
- Tragic Keepsake: Mike's book report on Beowulf is given to his mother.
