Cold CaseThe Dealer
Original Air Date: Nov 2nd, 2008
Angelique – TwoCents Reviewer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
Normally I review NCIS, but this week I am also reviewing 'Cold Case' since our usual reviewer was unavailable. Without further adu here is my review of this weeks Cold Case.
This case brings us back to 1981 where a young single mother named Donna D'Amico vanishes one day after work without any indication of what happened to her. She worked at a car dealership as a secretary, she was uneducated and had a five year old daughter who was counting on her.
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Cold Case
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Original Air Date: Nov 2nd, 2008
Angelique – TwoCents Reviewer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
Normally I review NCIS, but this week I am also reviewing 'Cold Case' since our usual reviewer was unavailable. Without further adu here is my review of this weeks Cold Case.
This case brings us back to 1981 where a young single mother named Donna D'Amico vanishes one day after work without any indication of what happened to her. She worked at a car dealership as a secretary, she was uneducated and had a five year old daughter who was counting on her. She worked every minute she could. And a lot of late nights to make ends meet. And she hopes that one day she can step up and sell cars instead of making phone calls and coffee.
Years later her skeletal remains are found in the trunk of a car, a '73 El Dorado. That is how the case reaches the Cold Case team and they start working the case at the at the junk yard. Where the car has been all these years aparently, they where about to crush the car when they found the remains. With the discovery of her body they find a note with the name 'Lester' on it and a couple of numbers. Because they never found any remains and since Donna cleared out her bank account the day before she dissapeared her daughter Marissa believes that her mother walked out on her. Marissa also believed that her mother choose to work as many hours as she did to get away from her daughter.
Since her body was found in a '73 El Dorado which had been owned by the car dealership the first suspects are the men she worked with. Back in '81 they didn't like a woman working at a car dealership at least not as a saleswoman. The men teased her and made er believe that they would give her a shot if she proved herself.
All of her old colleagues remember her as a strong woman, who dared to take a chance even when she knew that they where probably trying to trick her. At the same time the men she worked with at the seedy car dealership resented her because women shouldn't do their job. And when she with her beauty and flirty ways sells a car which should have been sold by Sanil Hindocha. He gets fired by their boss, because obviously a woman can sell cars which he wasn't able to sell. Sanil is seen as a suspect, afterall he lost his job due to Donna selling the car. However it soon turns out that he hasn't done it either.
Marissa brings Lilly a box with all of her mothers belongings, in them Lilly finds her keychain. One of the keys belongs to a piano, Donna made a down payment on the day before she died. The reason why she cleared out her bank account was for a piano because she knew that her daughter wanted to play the piano. Lilly goes back to Marissa to confront her with this new information. It turns out that 'Lester' was the brand of the piano she bought for her daughter. To proof to her daughter that she wanted the best for her little girl. Finally Marissa realizes that her mother didn't walk out on her, Lilly promisses that she will find the one who was responsible.
Finally they find an old co-worker of Donna who had been dumped off the board because he wasn't selling any cars. He was an older man and because they took pity on him they let him clean the cars. He was a firm believer of handling a client the right way because then they would come back to you when they needed another car. He was as he put it having a streak of bad luck but he would be okay once he could get past it. One night he is cleaning an '73 Impala when Donna tells him that she sold a car and that she received commission for it.
She then tells him that the '73 El Dorado is the one that she traded in. When Frank hears this he is devastated, the car belonged to someone which he sold it too and the customer never even asks for him. Donna tells him that she didn't know and offers to split her commision with him. Frank won't take her charity and in his anger he kills her.
When Lilly and Scotty pay Frank a visit they find a '71 Impala but some of the accesoires are from a '73 El Dorado. The same El Dorado that they found the remains of Donna in. Frank admits that he killed her and he is taken into custody.
Overall I liked the episode, though I have seen better episodes. I have the feeling that there was something missing but I can't quite put my finger on what it was. Don't get me wrong it certainly wasn't a bad episode, I am not saying that at all. Not every episode can be top notch. This will not be one of my favorites, that's for sure.
Thanks for reading my two cents on this Cold Case episode, I hope you enjoyed my review. Next week Amanda will be back with her usual reviews.