Cold Case

Cold case

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"Feel the Pain" by Dinosaur, Jr.

Pretty cool.

Super skater.

He got any special powers ?

He can defenitely go invisible.

- How 'bout flying ? - Only on his board.

Without the board he's normal, like us.

How long they been at it ?

Just started.

I got out like you said. Followed the rules.

Always the same with you.

Yeah ?!

What the hell you looking at ?

Baby, please.

You got something you wanna say to me, boy ?

Oh, want another piece of me ? Come on.

Baby, come back inside, okay ?

I thought so.

Get in the damn house.

Remember the rules, okay ?

It's getting like south beach in here.

Ac busted again?

Cost-cutting measure.

City wants us to make do with fans.

I need you to field this one for me.

Something wrong, boss ?

Besides spending the rest of my morning

filling out budget reports?

- This a grounder or a mystery ? - M.E.'s office

kicked him to us. Thinks he has info

on a John Doe murder in Brewerytown in '95.

Lilly Rush.

My partner, scotty valens.

Hi. Mick simpson.

Told you got information

on a john doe murder.

My brother, Nash. Ran away spring of '95.

I never heard from him again.

Ran away from where?

Gloucester city, new jersey.

Things at home were, uh...

Tough ?

Checked with the coroner,

said you had a white male listed back then

about the same age as my brother.

What makes you think it's your brother ?

My mother just got sent to court-ordered detox

and then jail.

Cleaning out the house to put it on the market and we found this.

Gonna need to connect the dots for us, Mick.

Well, my brother sent this from Philly.

It's postmarked the second week of june.

There's no note in the box ?

Just the skateboard. Must've been for my birthday.

Your mom neglected to give it to you ?

Probably figured I'd use it to run away, like Nash did.

It's not him ?

Pretty extensive decomp.

We're gonna need more than a postmark

and an old photo to reopen the case.

Dental or medical records.

I don't have those.

There's nothing else in the file ?

Brown-bag special.

Miscellaneous evidence found at the scene.

Well, I'd like to see whatever it is ? We don't normally...

It's okay.

My mother had a string of loser boyfriends...

Not to mention problems of her own.

That why your brother left ?

He was older.

It was worse for him.

I always thought he'd come back and take me away with him.

Recognize anything ?

Super skater.

Mean something ?

It's from my sketch book.

I gave that to him the day he ran away.

Well, looks like we might've found your brother.

Cold Case Season 7 Episode 2

Hoodrats

Nash simpson, 17 years old.

ME estimates he was killed the last week of june.

Blunt-force trauma, head and neck.

Body was dumped down a vent pipe in brewerytown.

Wasn't discovered until july.

Filed as a john doe

due to extensive decomp, lack of evidence.

The assigned back in the day hit a quick dead end--

No id, zero witnesses.

Kid jumped by a homeless guy, or a drug score gone bad ?

Tox reports didn't find any drugs or alcohol in his system.

Brother Mick confirmed Nash

ran away from home in march after one too many bouts

with mom's boyfriend.

Spoke to mom in lockup

over in Jersey, a real peach. Chelsey simpson.

Told her what happened to Nash,

got crickets.

What about the boyfriend ?

Croaked Hep-c.

Real tragedy.

The last contact mick had was a box

his brother sent from Philly, postmarked june ninth.

The thing's got some heft.

Blunt-force trauma, huh ?

Have forensics take a look at that, Lilly.

Got a hit on Nash.

Issued a bench warrant for failure to appear

on a summary citation in the ninth district.

City code violation 3261.

Skateboarding on city property, public nuisance.

Arresting officer, Joe Mueller.

Nightstick Joe.

Know him ?

Still on the beat.

I'll have him come in. See what he remembers.

Mijo.

Viejo,what are you doing here ?

- How are ya ? - Fine.

I was in the area, figured I'd bring these down.

Cross-trainers. Buy one, get the second pair half price.

Figured you could use 'em.

Thanks, pops. Uh...

You got a minute ?

Yeah, sure.

Did you want some coffee, or... ?

No, thank you.

Talk to your mother lately ?

Yeah, last week. Why ?

Probably nothing.

You came all the way down here to give me a pair of sneakers ?

Come on.

She's acting funny.

Isn't where she says she is.

And when I ask, she lies.

She's taking tai chi in the park.

For God's sake, does that sound like your mother ?

Tai chi ?

Says it relaxes her.

Do you want me to check on her ?

I don't know.

Maybe call her,

but don't tell her we talked, okay ?

Done all right for yourself, John. Makes me wish I'd taken a few tests.

It's never too late, Joe.

Are you kidding me ?

They just took away all my overtime.

Hear there's a big shake-up going downtown with the brass.

It's above my pay grade.

Yeah, mine, too.

So what can I do for ya, Johnny ?

A citation you wrote for a Nash Simpson,

march, 1995.

Know how many citations I've written, honey ?

It's detective rush.

Ten years on the job.

And this kid ended up dead in Brewerytown.

Runaway.

City chews up runaways.

I remember this kid.

One of those Love Park hoodrats.

Cops ! Cops ! Run !

I.d., numbnuts !

No skate parks in Jersey ?

You got a place to stay ?

No.

You can't sleep in the park.

I know.

- Not supposed to skate here neither. - Run !

Run, run, run !

Son of a bitch !

Yeah, my sergeant ripped me a fresh one

over the damage to my vehicle.

- Who was the other kid ? - Cal...

Something mexican. I can look it up, if you want.

- Bad news ? - Possession,

theft, vandalism.

I caught up with him.

We had a discussion about the error of his ways,

if you catch my drift.

Next week's better for me.

Right. Talk to you then.

Your old man ?

Yeah. Wants me to meet the family.

Yeah.

The one with the ink.

Cal Acevedo ?

Depends.

Nightstick Joe says hello.

Ring a bell ?

More like rang mine a few times. Guy had it out for skaters.

Ever skate in Brewerytown in an old cement factory ?

Nah, nothing to skate there. Love Park was the spot.

How about Nash Simpson ?

Haven't heard that name in a while.

But you guys were buds, right ?

Long time ago, but yeah, we skated.