Start-Up

This was a good, solid episode. It wasn't overly "dramatic" as some episodes can be, however, it was well acted and I thought told a good story. There's a good list of suspects which included the murdered woman's business partner, an investor, the investor's secretary, a married man who falls for her and even the dead woman's own sister. Cold Case is usually pretty good at coming up with some good suspects. As I said, there's nothing too overly dramatic about the story (like heartbreak and excessive crying), but this is a good, enjoyable and well acted episode. A very good list of guest actors in this one. I really enjoyed Rodney Scott as the dead woman's business partner. I'll definitely be checking out more of his work on other shows in the future. I also liked the woman who played the secretary.

A partner in a start-up company dies of a heart attack in her 20s. Because of a threatening diary entry gleaned off an old computer, there's significant reason to believe the death was NOT accidental.

I am sure that my watching this re-run of "Cold Case" was made much worse by watching it on a 58" TV, but the show seriously made my daughter and me nauseous! That's because the camera-work was insane. Let me explain. In many of the flashback scenes, the camera literally spun around and around and around the folks. While it was a VERY impressive special effect, it was distracting, annoying and barf-inducing! As for the rest of the show, it was a relatively weak episode--mostly because it relied on a few moments when folks divulged information they did NOT need to divulge and if they'd kept their mouths shut, the crime probably wouldn't have been solved. Not a terrible show but one to watch on a small TV and where you should avert your eyes during these scenes. As for the next show, "Honor", it manages to do even worse things with the camera--so also beware.