the fact that the victim told the doer to run from the scene because he knew he was going to die and didn’t want the boy to get caught. don’t think i’ve ever seen that on Cold Case
This episode is sad because not only did Carl lose everything he felt was important, so did his son. Just when his son was about to get to know him, he is murdered. I understand Daniel being mad, but don't blame Carl for what the Viet Congs did to your father.
One of Stillman's best, especially when he was telling a suspect in a cold and intimidating voice: "You tell people your a race car driver, a brain surgeon...not a POW"
I'm not American, I wasn't even born during the 'nam war, but this episode really touched me, I was unable to hold back my tears...The story, the song, that guy's life..Everything was so sad... Cold case is really a great show.
Nothing against "The War at Home" (which has a very similar plot, but is also a great episode), but Carl's life was even worse than Dana's. In the end, Dana still would have had her family and her real friends, but poor Carl's wife was cheating on him with a guy who told everyone he was him (which is an absolutely disgusting thing to do; I don't blame Stillman for being angry), his friends all blamed him for his other friend's death and even his son treated the other guy like his father.
To be honest, I was angrier with the wife (Janet) and the kid (Ned) than with Ken. Sure, he was absolutely disgusting but Janet was the one having an affair herself, bringing an imposter into their lives, and letting him abuse her own husband’s title as well as honor. She also deliberately allowed her own son think of Ken more as a father than her own husband. Ned may have wanted a dad around since Carl was away but he was a brat acting like his father didn’t exist when Carl returned and tried his best to be a father. Sure. They might have regretted their own actions and cared more about him after he died but how exactly does placing a bracelet on his grave fix their past wrongdoings? Carl’s murder was solved but it didn’t redeem them as characters. If they were horrible to him when he was alive, then their love for him after his death is just phony and fake or it only comes from guilt.
@@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai I agree on the wife, but not Ned. He was a child, trying to reconnect to a father he didn't know. He was 2 when his father was sent to Nam. I even feel for the wife, because while what she did was wrong, in a warped, twisted way, she still loved her husband, she was so desperate that she settled for a literal Poor Man's Version of him. Even Ken deserves some sympathy. He was a faud, and the woman he was with used him as a subsitute, a cheap imitation. On top of that, he has to live w/The shame of what he did, and knowing that he was never "man enough" to go through what Carl did.
@@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai Ned was a kid when all this happened (he was all of 2 when his father was sent to Vietnam) and he deserves less blame due to that. Hell, Ken and Janet (to a lesser extent than Ken) are less sympathetic than Daniel, Carl's actual killer, which says a LOT (if one thinks about it, Daniel probably became a mentor to troubled teens to prevent them from going down the road he did)...
I was thrilled to discover a Gordon Lightfoot song was used for a Cold Case ending! I didn't know he was that big in the United States because he's so quintessentially Canadian.
My cousin and my stepdad served in Vietnam. Chris (my cousin) was killed in action, he was only 21. Stepdad saw a lot of things that he never shared with us, it affected him quite a bit. He died in 2006.
That was a great ending. I especially liked the music, sure the video was great but together with the music it was an even better combination. I've now played this clip three times just for the music.
Probably thought he could make it up to Rex by not having his son go to jail for shooting him. Or maybe felt he had nothing more to live for. That box of POW bracelets tho; that rentacop steal it or did Carl give it to him in anger.
the fall out of wars and such is like radiation contamination alters all preasent past future so many tragic episodes in 7 seasons cold case this ranks near the top because in this one there really is no clear cut villian
I must confess that I got the onion-eyes watching this video, and the episode it came from. I would like to know what the veterans' community though of Carl, with the passage of time. The song at the end does it, too. And what I realized was that the Carl-ghost returned the salute--that he could raise his hand to return the salute. I feel bad for all of the characters in the story, except for Ken.
@MrsMac5 Thank you, but that's not the song, I'm afraid. The song I'm looking for, "Rock 'n Roll Star", was in the scene after. It's weird, really - I've been looking this song for a while now, and it's like it never really existed.
I'm looking for a song played in the scene where Carl finds out that Ken pretended to be him (with his son at the cafè). It says it's called "Rock 'n roll star" by MasterSource Music Catalog. I tried to look it up everywhere, but it seems to be untraceable. Please help me, and if anyone has it, please contact me :-)
@Pichipichiprincess It would be classed as second degree murder or at least manslaughter, at the time he killed Burton he was only 16 and under the influence of drugs
does anyone know the song im looking for? all i know is IM HANGN AROUND! thats the onlu lyric i know! PLEASE HELP! or the other line! IM FEELING FINE!!
Dear MrsMac5 i search this Song Rock'n Roll Star from MusicSource Music but i dont find him :-( Please can you send me this wonderful Song ? Please Please Please Greetz from Germany ;-)
I watched a lot of the episodes but never saw this one but I saw the clip of Daniel killing Carl. He was angry and hurting cause Carl left his dad behind at the POW camp where they were at, Carl couldn't handle being there anymore, they broke him and he watched the vietnamese tortured his friends to death and left Daniel's tough father to die there. Daniel confronted him with a gun and was on pot, the gun went off in the heat of the moment. Carl told him to run for it, he understood that kid was in pain and when he saw him run off he died with regrets for leaving that poor boy without a father and he felt that he should have died there too or change places
