The BEST episodes of Cold Squad
Every episode of Cold Squad ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Squad!
Cold Squad is a one-hour police drama originally on CTV that focuses on 'cold cases'; unsolvable cases that have gone for years without a solution. Each week there is a new 'cold case' brought out of the woodwork to solve, which may date back five years, or could even date back fifty years. The primary personality in Cold Squad is Sgt. Ali McCormick. Although she isn't the official head of the unit, her opinion is invaluable to the other workers. She is backed up by a team of highly skilled professionals who, as it so happens, are also her good friends.
#1 - Picasso's Mistake
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2001
A case from Pawlachuck's past comes back to life and forces him to face up to some personal demons he thought he had escaped for good and from this he learns a few things about himself in the progress.
#2 - Horton Killed a Wu
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2002
While Mickey moves into her new position upstairs supervising all the departments, Ali takes over the case of some recent murders at a massage parlor.
#3 - Career Opportunists
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2002
When Dana Hughes comes into the station to report to Mickey that her estranged husband murdered two hookers three years earlier, they investigate, and when the young woman is beaten, Mickey blames herself because she warned the husband to stay away from his wife. As the case goes on, Dana brings in more and more evidence against Wayne, but what Mickey doesn't know is that someone is pulling all Dana's strings. After modeling for the cover of a local magazine, Ali considers a transfer to Ottawa, where she would be working in a joint American/Canadian anti-terrorist task force. Dan forms a partnership with his uncle so he and Vanessa can go with her, but Ali's mother's past is going to stand in her way. Nicco is forced into a meeting with department psychiatrist Leanne Walker in regards to the death of André, the pimp of a young hooker named Billie that Nicco had gotten involved with and helped clean up her life.
#4 - Ambleton
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/2002
The squad discovers what happened with Billy Wells and Michelle Ripley.
#5 - Enough's Enough
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2002
The Squad continues to work on the Ambleton case, feeling they've hit a break when they arrest a former student, Shelley Mack, who tells Mickey and Ali about parties that used to be held in the Love Shack, with Desmond Cage in attendance. Nicco tries to help Billie beat her addiction and get away from her pimp, but when he can't find her a place in a rehab clinic he tries to help her go cold turkey. Andy has no choice but to turn over the Ambleton files and all evidence on Desmond Cage when a request from higher up comes down.
#6 - Dead Letters
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/2002
mickey stumbles across a potential lead in an investigation that had been leading the squad to a dead end in there investigation.
#7 - The Shed
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/2002
Harper struggles to build a case against a murder suspect, after an investigation that lasted 18 month long.
#8 - Bottom Feeders
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/2001
When a trusted defence attorney crosses Mickey, she vows to exact her revenge, can the squad solve this one?
#9 - The Needle and the Debutante
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/8/2001
The team investigate the death by drug overdose of an up-and-coming artist.
#10 - The Nanny
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2001
Mickey partners up with an old flame to solve a case.
#11 - The One That Got Away
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2001
Ali gets assigned to work the cold case of Jessica Tyson. Gerald Lee had confessed to the murder, but because his confession was a direct result of a cop threatening his life, the case was thrown out of court, and Gerald Lee protected under the double jeopardy law. It isn't long before Ali becomes convinced that the evidence against Lee isn't quite as good as they thought it was. Nicco, Len and Mickey continue to investigate the Ambleton case and Drainie's connection to Desmond Cage, and soon learn that Drainie had been buying computers and computer parts on a regular basis. While trying to further the investigation, they learn the mounties are also investigating Drainie, and have taken the squad's best evidence with them.
#12 - All in the Family
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2001
Ali and the squad try to narrow the field on Sam Drainie, the former Ambleton security guard they believe is responsible for the shooting death of Ken Osborne, and possibly the deaths of Billy Wells and Michelle Ripley. Ali is also trying to juggle her personal life when she repeatedly makes and breaks dates with Vanessa's father, Dan.
#13 - Clean
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2001
A murder investigation leads to dissension in the squad.
#14 - Happily Ever After
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2002
Harper can't let go of his obsession with Viveca Wells. He is convinced that she murdered her last husband, and when he learns she's engaged to be married again, he tries to warn her fiancé, Richard, who tells Harper that he knows all about her past, and he's okay with it. While researching the case with Ali and trying to fight his own attraction to Wells, he learns that Richard has been the man in her life all along. Nicco is upset because in the six weeks since he's been off of suspension, he hasn't worked a single case. Ali finally throws him a bone by having him interview a prospective witness in the case of a racially motivated murder and while Nicco gets the man to ID the suspect, he's not happy with it.
#15 - Family Ties
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2001
When Nicci becomes personally involved in a case after a man who takes drug's asks the squad to find her mother's killer
#16 - Personal Politics
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2001
When the squad investigates the murder of an abortion doctor, old wounds are re-opened for the team.
#17 - Faith
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/21/2001
When Ali's testimony results in the release of a killer (Dean Bulmer), Coscorella takes it too seriously and makes catching Bulmer his sole goal, much to the displeasure of homicide detective Len Harper. Nicco is furious with Ali and believes she should have lied to keep Bulmer in jail, and tries desperately to keep the father of one of the victims from taking justice into his own hands. Cold squad is in danger of being closed down, and the officers absorbed into the homicide division.
#18 - Habeas Corpus
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/14/2001
Cold Squad is convinced they have the necessary ammo to bring down killer Dean Bulmer, and Nicco goes so far as to promise the family of one of his unlucky victims that it's in the bag, but when a body found proves to belong to the man Bulmer is on trial for killing, the Squad realises that Bulmer has been fingered for the wrong murder, and it comes down to the moral question of whether to lie to keep a vicious killer in prison, or to tell the truth and have him set free.
#19 - Vancouver Confidential
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/7/2001
A self-help lecturer may have influenced a prison guard to murder a prisoner.
#20 - The Unsinkable Iwa Gudang
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/2001
A cold case turns warm when a mysterious man collapses near a hospital.
#21 - Predators
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2001
Thirteen-year-old Kevin Lane disappeared on June 6, 1979. Years later, his parents discovered that his former baseball coach Harry Walters was really pederast Martin Woodridge, his mother became convinced that Woodridge murdered her son and hid the body. Woodridge insists that he is all about consenting actions between adults and young adults, insisting that he has never forced anyone to do anything they didn't want to. After the Lanes offer a $100,000 reward for information, Woodridge comes forward and points the finger at himself. Although Ali would love to lock him up and throw away the key, she just can't do it.
#22 - The Box
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2001
The squad tries to break a former officer preparing to leave the country. They're convinced he killed two people while his young daughter, dying of cancer, watched from the back of the car.
#23 - Check Mate
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/3/2001
Two robbery suspects take hostages in the squad room.
#24 - Dead Soldiers
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/24/2001
Frank investigates the death of a forgotten war hero. Ali applies to become a Big Sister after questioning her value as a cop
#25 - Loose Ends (2)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/2001
Frank and Nicco are stripped of their badges over the drug probe.