Cold Case: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cold Case Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
The Crossing
Sep 27, 2009 · 44 min
With the team investigating the 1966 shipboard murder of a young woman traveling in steerage on a luxury ocean liner who was believed to have committed suicide by jumping overboard
Hoodrats
Oct 4, 2009 · 44 min
The team re-opens the 1995 case of a skateboarding prodigy who lived on the streets.
Jurisprudence
Oct 11, 2009 · 44 min
The 2004 murder of a teen at a juvenile detention center is investigated. The boy was wrongly sent to the facility and was killed before Valens could get him released. Meanwhile, L
Soul
Oct 25, 2009 · 44 min
The 1970 murder of a musician who was instrumental in creating the Philadelphia soul sound is reinvestigated. The victim tried to keep his involvement in the music scene from his s
WASP
Nov 1, 2009 · 44 min
The 1944 murder of a female pilot who flew noncombat missions for the U.S. during World War II is investigated. The victim was part of a civilian program that assisted the Army and
Dead Heat
Nov 8, 2009 · 44 min
The 1986 murder of a jockey is investigated after his body is discovered in a mass grave for horses. The victim disappeared shortly after losing a race that he had planned to be hi
Read Between the Lines
Nov 15, 2009 · 44 min
The 1991 murder of a 14-year-old girl in foster care who was a promising rapper is investigated. The probe reveals the victim lived in a gang-infested neighbourhood and was recentl
Chinatown
Nov 22, 2009 · 44 min
The 1983 murder of a Chinese-American teen is reinvestigated. The case was originally handled by Stillman. The probe reveals the victim's girlfriend was killed by Chinese gang memb
Forensics
Dec 6, 2009 · 44 min
The 1999 death of a high-school debate champion, which was originally ruled a suicide, is investigated after new evidence suggests he was murdered. The probe reveals the victim rec
Iced
Dec 13, 2009 · 44 min
The 1980 murder of a minor-league hockey player is investigated. The victim was killed on his team's home rink the night the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in the Olymp
The Good Soldier
Jan 10, 2010 · 44 min
The 2005 murder of an Army recruiter who was killed just two days before his scheduled deployment to Iraq is reinvestigated after a soldier comes forward with new evidence.
The Runaway Bunny
Jan 17, 2010 · 44 min
The 1974 murder of a private investigator is probed after his body is discovered in the cement foundation of a demolished building. The investigation reveals the victim uncovered d
Bombers
Feb 14, 2010 · 44 min
The 1983 murder of a graffiti artist who died after spray paint was forced down his throat is investigated. Meanwhile, new details emerge about the person who mugged Valen's mother
Metamorphosis
Feb 21, 2010 · 44 min
The 1971 death of a teen aerialist who fell during a dangerous circus performance is investigated. New evidence suggests her fall wasn't an accident.
Two Weddings
Feb 28, 2010 · 44 min
Lilly and the team attend a colleague's wedding and are persuaded by Jeffries to investigate whether the bride killed her former fiancé two years earlier - just hours after he call
One Fall
Mar 14, 2010 · 44 min
The 1986 murder of a dock worker who moonlighted as a wrestler is investigated. Meanwhile, Valens follows a lead that could result in the capture of his mother's rapist.
Flashover
Mar 21, 2010 · 44 min
Realizing that the missing Vera has finally hit rock bottom, his worried team members hope that a new twist to a 2006 arson case, which he was secretly obsessing about in recent we
The Last Drive-In (1)
Mar 28, 2010 · 43 min
When ballistics tie a recent murder case of Rush's to a serial killer who was seemingly inactive for 27 years, a tough FBI agent with ties to Stillman shows up to enlist the team's
Bullet (2)
Apr 4, 2010 · 44 min
After determining the serial killer's identity - and some of his likely future targets - the team and the FBI work together to apprehend him while trying to locate and protect the
Free Love
Apr 11, 2010 · 44 min
Rush and FBI agent Ryan Cavanaugh discover their attraction for one another while investigating the 1969 murder of a GI at Woodstock, and Vera helps his married ex-girlfriend, Mega
Almost Paradise
May 2, 2010 · 44 min
Rush tries to ignore her father's appeals to give her troublemaker sister another chance after she suddenly resurfaces.
Shattered
May 2, 2010 · 45 min
Valens partners with Rush to locate her abducted, drug-addicted sister, while Jeffries tries to bring justice to the case of a murdered teenaged girl that has haunted him for 17 ye