This episode is hard to watch. The word failure is what comes to mind. The cops who investigated each of the boys who died's missing person cases FAILED them and did care. The police FAILED by not letting the community know boys had started going missing. The people who didn't look in on that foster home where that ahole abused those boys who cut off Malik's finger FAILED. The man who was supposed to care for the boys in that home but instead abused them FAILED. Everyone in Malik's life FAILED. The doctors who saw those boys for injuries but did nothing FAILED. Malik FAILED to overcome his past (which judging by the episode, it seems like mentally he was no shape to overcome his past). EVERYONE FAILED except the cold case squad, thankfully.
@@Janvsone Sadly you're 100% correct on that. Next best thing is basically recording the episodes when they air on StartTV and make your own set. I've seen some fan made complete series sets floating around online that way.
Shamar is a hero; even tho his life was cut short, his dying message. Saved the life of another kid and possible others from suffering at the hands of a predator. It gave the cops what they needed to find the killer.
That episode made me cry.The feeling of families who lost them kids, the crual death of those lovely kids, the crual childhood of Malik made tears in my eyes.Great choice of ending song 😢😢
My guy Jamil played one of the best villains in Cold Case lore with his turn as Theseus. If the voice sounds familiar, it’s because he’s a well known voice actor, best known as the voice of Gerald in Hey Arnold
0:40-1:22 The way the mom stares at Detective Scott as well as the crowd that just stare at the three detectives as they enter the yellow tape and after the killer killed himself sends goosebumps up my skin. It seems like the detectives could have prevented those four African American boys' deaths and it just seemed like with the boys' killer being in a body bag just sent an air of anonymosity. It was like the mom and crowd of the murdered boys were saying, "Yes, the monster that killed our boys is gone but we wouldn't have lost them had their killer not be tortured and abused in a bigoted system that allowed all of this tragedy and it's not right, we still have to put up with institunalized racism from authorities that are supposed to protect and serve not continuously apologize and do nothing about it." And the ending where the grandma puts her grandson's headphones on, as well as the lines "You're gonna make it, God loves you, he never hates you" and finally seeing her grandson's smile as he says farewell just seems to emphasize the grandma making peace with her grandson's death and just believing she will see him and his mother up in Heaven.
Wow, good observation! I recently saw this scene and took it as the parents were upset that Malik, now deceased, had gotten away for his crimes and now can't be prosecuted.
There's no institutionalized racism in this. The message in this is that all the adults failed the children who went there. They turn a blind eye to the abuse and mistreatment and misconduct that was going on in that place and chose not to say anything. The doctor being perfect example of that because he only cared about his own career since he was fresh out of medical school. They're looking at the detectives that way because they blame them for not finding the killer sooner for the boys would have been saved but that's not their fault that's missing person's. Whoever they were talking to him missing persons is responsible because they just wrote the off instead of doing their due diligence on the job to investigate and locate these boys. SMH.
You can't blame the cold case detectives for that. The parents look at them with anger and contempt in their eyes because they have no one else to target their anger towards. they didn't take the original missing person's report.
This wasn't a racial thing by the detectives. Although in the earlier cases, the missing persons dept had swept them aside, they would have done it with white or any other color youth. They were deemed runaways and their was no proof of a violent attack. Cold Case the TV show highlights why cases go cold too and here is a problem with the system. If a white teen went missing it would be treated as truancy or a runaway initially, and as an adult most wouldn't even accept a missing persons report for 48 hours. The grandmother in this case moved on, but the families blamed the cops mainly so they don't have to accept that they also did not watch their kids well enough and a black predator was able to kill them.
It just shows that society makes it's own monsters. Had Malik not been treated like that, had someone stepped up and interfered in how those boys were cared for, these kids wouldn't have had to die.
that's because it shatters the fiction that it could never happen 2 me there are lots things out there that go bump in the nite I was a soldier I know iw as the krypronite 4 the bump in the nite
to befair alot of them hit close to home as they could happen hell one episode boy in the box is based on a real case of the same name in the same state the show takes place. but thats the thing about CC the storys for the mst part are made up but since they are all grounded in reality they can happen
This episode makes me cry every time I see it. Especially when the the boy’s ghost comes back to visit his grandma paired with the song choice. It’s even more sad because in one of their final conversations he asked her what would happen to him if he died but they never discussed what would happen to her if he passed. I know this is just a show but it really pulls at my heart strings.
Malik may have been victim of terrible abuse, but it doesn't excuse the atrocities he did to those poor boys. The moment where Shamar's grandmother saw his ghost made me genuinely cry though, easily an episode I loved that I can't rewatch :'(
@@ChristianProtossDragoon I don't think Malik's abusers were around when he decided to take revenge. So, he targeted boys who would win a game he had used to see who was victories-been a long time I've seen this episode-to take out his rage. If the boy won, he'd trick them to come with him and then the child through the same thing he and those other boys had gone through as well as cutting off their finger and slitting their thoats. I get why inciting the finger, but why slit their throats?
@@jacindaellison3363 a year late, but it's an easy way to kill someone first off. but also, in greek mythology, Theseus killed the minotaur by stabbing it in the throat with his sword.
I remember this episode too, the boy who was abused at the institution and he grew up and killed four boys by making them suffer too and he was about to make a fifth victim when they found out and rescued him, the serial killer killing himself before he can be arrested, yes I agree if he lived they should arrest him, but they also arrest the staff who abused him by sending the five boys to beat him and hurt him.....Get it, five boys abused Malik the killer, so he killed four and was about to go down on the fifth, those boys, as innocent as they are, represented the abusers in the institution
i spent a few years in group homes. i saw a kid who was like malik. they beat the breaks off that poor kid. he didnt become a serial killer...he became a SEAL...
Smh they should had arrested Counselor Grimes for making such crime happen, like really he's the one to blame for making Malik act this way, yet they pinned it all on Malik!?
As much as a scumbag as Grimes was. It was Malik who kidnapped those boys and committed the murders. Maybe Malik's life would have been different if the adults in this situation hadn't turned a blind eye to Grime's abuse. That doctor should have said something when Malik told you but he was too concerned about his own career.
As these would be viewed as 'simple' assaults, the statue of limitations would long be over. It would be enough to get him fired if he was still in a similar job, but Grimes had no sexual element in the assault so not much they could do. If Malik had not abducted the fifth boy though, he may have gotten away with it, as Grimes was a perfect scapegoat. But he was demented and had no concept of not finishing his crimes.
If I was Malik I wud go after the counselor grines instead of those kids then look up the kids who cut off his finger.not those inicent kids,,,trust if I lost a finger I wud of had to find the counselor no matter wat
This episode is just so sad. The grandma outliving her grandson and those parents outliving their sons :(. The cops saved Malik’s latest victim but they didn’t bring him to justice for killing the other boys.
I like the way the grandma puts on the music at the beginning. It makes the closing montage a bit less cheesy (I still love the montages but I can see the argument about their cheesiness)
Yeah, this was another one of those really sad episodes where I kind of wish you could stop the murder from happening, but it already did. Felt so bad for the grandmother especially.
I love the call back to the beginning of the episode--them chatting on the porch--and the way he smiles before fading away, as if to assure her that he's at peace.
Cet épisode est triste 😔 ces enfants noirs assassinés qui ont vécus l'enfer.Ces familles déchirées et meurtrie et la geand mère à la fin qui écoute 👂🏿🎧🎶le rap de son fils.Ca touche le ❤.Et le rappeur qui chante KJ52 your gonna make it est une chanson 🎶 🎙 de dingue.
well again society and its cruelty and deliberate unfairness and injustice strikes again malik would never had gone on this spree if he like so many others would be treated like they mattered stead being set out with the trash and being told tough
The episode starts with Shemar and his grandmother talking on the porch, and ends with his ghost appearing to her on that very same porch. How appropriate
Hier après midi ils sont passer a la télévision que des anciens épisodes de cold case affaires classées parce que si ils saurais mis Cold Case dans la fosse / je suis dans un village et bas je serais en train de pleurer😥 devant ma télévision c'est vraiment triste 😥 que c'est épisode et puis que sa nous a vraiment tous toucher cette épisode en 2007 et puis en 2010. Mais quand j'ai vu le petit fils de Lorraine Henderson qui avais 12 ans coucher mort dans ce premier congélateur avec la gorge trancher et puis son doigt coupé franchement sa ma vraiment fait de la peine pour Lorraine et puis pour son petit fils Damont Henderson parais pour les 3 autres garçons qui était Kendrick Malone, Marcus Hollister, et puis Shemar Reynolds.
I know that all of you are not going to agree with me, but I kind of felt sorry for the killer. I know that he dealt with his problems the wrong way, but if I were one of the cops, I would've offered to get him some help - given his own abused background.
That episode got me thinking....everyone is a victim and thats the sadest thing....malik became a killer...to show them that he is not afraid anymore...those boys he killed...didnt deserve any of that....but in a sick society innocent people pay the price...so sad...when i saw him took his own life....it was justice for the boys...and un justice for him that he lived a life without even chosing to be that sick person....cold case makes me think everytime that this world has something wrong....i just hope someday we can live all together in peace....i know its utopic but i will keep on praying everytime when i see these kind of things happen all around us....
Makes one think about iife and how short it really is all about choices the songs exclamate the whole story very good show truths revealed justice finally achieved albeit sometime later
