(Season 6, Episode 16 – “Jackals”)
Phew, finally it’s a cold Cold Case! I know that I threw a thorny snit over the lukewarm recent cold case in the last episode. It’s obvious that CBS listened to me and changed the error of their ways. What? You mean this was filmed before they read my last show review? Well, um … they must have a psychic connection with my mind. They must have realized that I abhor recent cases on the show as that’s not what it’s about. If I want recent cases, I could pick from a gazillion shows. I want my cold cases cold. With a cherry on top, please.
We had a case from 1976 (a fine Bicentennial year indeed), but it was so full of biker gang stereotypes that it was enough to almost make me burn my bra all over again. Yeah, we did that kind of stuff back then. Okay, I’ll admit it — I’ve never been part of a motorcycle gang, nor have I ever hung out with such ne’er-do-wells. I have a brother who owns a Harley, but he also holds doors open for women and has manners.
So, for all I know, the show’s depiction of how biker gangs treat their “old ladies” could be spot on. Oh, but jeez … the lines were straight out of old pulp fiction novels! Y’see, little victim girl became an outcast when her father was convicted of a crime and sent away to prison. She went all agog over a biker dude who promised he could be trusted and was used and abused at the hands of the biker gang. She escaped her outcast high school life to be an outcast second class citizen in a bikers gang. Okay, now if Stephen King had his say in this show, she would have revolted and killed them all. (See Carrie.)
Instead, not surprisingly at all, she got offed. And her biker man whom she trusted just walked away.
But there was the music!
One of the best things about the show when the case is actually cold is the soundtrack. Tonight’s episode was dating back to 1976. When was the music from?
There was another song which sounded like Jack Bruce singing, but I wasn’t quite catching it.
A bit trite, but at least it wasn’t lukewarm. Trite beats lukewarm when it comes to Cold Case.
Clacked by Jackie Schnoop 
on Mar 09, 2009 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
I don’t think I have ever been so nit-picky (and believe me I can pick nits with the best of them) as to look up the actual release dates for music on a show. Hopefully you did not watch Quantum Leap or you would have made yourself nuts.
So I watched and wondered why walking away made him a murderer. I’m confused on that one issue. I thought he would walk. Was it for not telling anyone what he thought must have happened? Please comment if you know.
Next weeks ep will be missing a cold case all together. Since I doubt we’re losing a member and the drama will be for nothing, it will be an off week for me!
I don’t think it makes him a murderer, I think it makes him an accessory before and after the fact. Whether or not this would fall under the statute of limitations I don’t know, but the cops could at least try for the arrest.