Kathryn Morris UK

Cold Case Turns 11

CC_Titles_16 Opening scene: A new birth at the CBS TV network

Caption: Sunday, 28th September 2003

It was Sunday then, it’s a Sunday now (unless you are looking at this at a time when it isn’t of course ). Yes, Cold Case first appeared on screens 11 years ago today. Happy birthday.

If Cold Case had continued it would have started it’s 12th season last week. Though I fear that if it’s trajectory of timeslots continued it would have been on at 4am, assuming the late weather forecast didn’t over run, and, with around 250 cases solved by now, there would have been very few boxes left in the file room. I’m not sure we would have wanted to watch the squad solve the 1982 case of little Timmy’s hamster. Did it die of natural causes as it ran in it’s wheel or did the cat scare it to death? Does a just-surfaced mobilephone voice mail message which just happened to catch the family budgerigar squawking “naughty Tiddles” implicate the doer? We will never know now

Actually, I really want to see that episode 😀 Just imagine the final scene as Lilly sees the ghostly figure of ‘Hammy’ giving a grateful wink and hopping back into his wheel for one last spin

Lilly and co. spearheaded the Sunday night female-led dramas, now exemplified by The Good Wife and CBS’s new 8pm starter Madam Secretary. Téa Leoni (Bad Boys) is an academic thrust into the role of Secretary Of State, the position currently held in ‘real life’ by John Kerry. It is a job that several women have had since the late 90s by Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice and, most recently, Hilary Clinton.

Happy 11th Cold Case. We miss you.

The Protocol On IMDb

There has been some movement on a project we haven’t heard about in over a year. It is not much, but it is a sign of progress… Possibly.

Remember The Protocol? Johnny Messner (Kathryn’s partner) Tweeted about in July 2013 as being a movie project his own production company, “Johnny Be Goode”, was creating. I posted about it at the time. Further information suggested that The Protocol was to be a TV series, possibly meaning the film made in 2013 was some sort of pilot or footage to be used in presentations to studios as an example of what the show would be like. We only ever saw evidence of a single set in use so we don’t know how much filming was actually done. Little is known about the plot, beyond the fact it is set in the not-too-distant future where everyone is under the control of the government from birth.

The change is that about one week ago The Protocol appeared on IMDb. It is listed as a TV series. Since then four cast members have been added: Kathryn (as Grace), Johnny (as Jake Chase), Xen Sia (as Amanda Chase) and Max Ryan (as Michael Logan). Key crew members, including writers and the director, have also appeared.

We must take into account that anyone can submit updates to IMDb. Those updates are moderated prior to posting though, and creating a new entry such as for a TV show or film is only possible by a few people. The information was most likely submitted by someone closely connected with the project.

It is a sign of progress in the project. We just don’t know what at this stage.

I was told a little while ago that we will get to see the pilot episode with Kathryn in it but no time scales were mentioned.

As a result of the IMDb update I’ve moved the albums covering The Protocol that were in the Gallery from the film section to the TV section. It’s new home is here.

We will have to keep a eye on this one.

Cold Case S03E20 – Death Penalty: Final Appeal HD Screencaps

Lilly’s hot, and not just in the sense of the word we often use around here 😛 The a/c is broken in the squad room so, technically, every one is feeling the heat

This episode takes a slightly different approach to the normal unsolved case process. This one’s already been solved. A perp is doing time in the big house for this one. But now the arresting officer has been found to be corrupt and cases he is involved in are under question. The jailed man is going to the even bigger house in the sky in three days unless someone takes his continuing claims of innocence seriously. A call to Det Will Jeffries (Thom Barry) pricks his conscience.

Did the man currently on death-row, hired as an ex-con by a house moving company, kill the girl in her new home? ‘Yes’, you say? Do you not understand how these work by now?

As part of the KM UK Summer Of HD 2014 146 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps have been added to the Gallery.

Cold Case S03E17 – Superstar Full HD Screencaps

I really should have found a way to engineer it so that this one got posted back in mid-July. Why? So that I could tie the whole tennis theme of Superstar (Cold Case season 3, episode 17) in with the major tennis tournament happening at the time: Wimbledon. Such a wasted opportunity

The episode opens with a university “Battle Of The Sexes” tennis match in 1973. It’s a charity event mirroring the famous pair of matches held for real in that year under that title. The fictional game is set just a few weeks after Bobby Riggs was beaten by Billie Jean King in the second match. Previously Riggs had won over Margaret Court. The Riggs/King game was televised nationally so is much better remembered. It was not without controversy. Riggs was much older that his female competitors was amongst the issues.

Of course, on Cold Case our tennis superstar winds up dead post-match. Did her on-court rival do it? Of course not, much to obvious. Will the new evidence her sister brings to the squad lead to a game-set-and-match for the killer?

Superstar is the latest entry in KM UK’s Summer Of HD for 2014 and it brings 166 Full HD (1080p) Lilly screencaps to the Gallery.

Cold Case S03E07 – Start Up HD Screencaps

Ah, the good old days. When completely misplaced belief in Internet-based companies fuelled valuations far in excess of any common sense… How much was Instagram? And what’s up with the price of WhatsApp?

With a name like Start Up, the 7th episode of the third season of Cold Case, could be about little else but the death of someone connected with a new company. Jealousies and the potential to make a lot of money quickly can only lead to bad things.

Amy Lind was found slumped at the wheel, well, oars, of a rowing boat on the river in 1999. It was ascribed to heart failure at the time. In the present (or what was the present in 2005) something much like a diary suggesting poison was involved is found on the hard drive of a laptop donated to a school. Then it’s all hands on deck (see what I did there with the boating analogy? clever stuff).

Robin Weigert (Deadwood) makes a final guest appearance (her first of four was in Lover’s Lane, at the end of season one) as Det Anna Mayes. Anna is investigating the death of Scotty’s girlfriend Elisa and brings him some news on a possible lead.

Start Up is the latest entry in the KM UK Summer Of HD for 2014 and there are now 153 HD (720p) Lilly screencaps newly added to the Gallery.