"Forever Blue" is the 79th episode of Cold Case Cold Case is an American hour-long fictional television show about a police division that specializes in investigating unsolved crimes. ...

Synopsis

Trivia

• Although Cold Case has dealt with gay, lesbian and transgendered storylines before, this was the first episode in the show's four year history to feature an on-screen same sex kiss.
• Sonja Sohn (Andre's mother Toni Jameson) receives the "and" credit.
• Although the CBS music page claims that Happy Together by The Turtles was played, the song was in fact not heard in this episode.
• Some of the character names were changed from the original version of the script to the one that aired. Lt. Tom McCree was named Ed Kryter, whereas the Brunos' last name was Innocenzi.
• When Kat Miller (Tracie Thoms) is interviewing Murphy for the case, he asks if she's a lesbian. Tracie Thoms played lesbian attorney Joanne Jefferson in the 2005 film version of the musical Rent.
• The song in the background during the church baptism scene is Daydream Believer by The Monkees. The same song was also featured in episode 3-13: Debut.
• When Coop's case boxes are filed away, there are four of them instead of the usual one. On the shelf above are case boxes for victims named Dennis White, Steven Carter, Alan White, and Pat Olson.
• Goof: Jimmy says to Coop that his wife is taking the kids to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. However, the movie opened in the U.S. in December 1968. By then, Sean Cooper was already dead.

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References

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Jimmy says that his wife Eileen is taking their kids to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The movie, released in 1968 and starring Dick Van Dyke as an eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, is based on the 1964 children's story by Ian Fleming (who also wrote the early James Bond novels) about a magical vintage car named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

• Schindler's List

The flashbacks of 1968 are done in black and white, barring a few colored details (usually in red) in each scene, e.g. the patrol car lights, the red of the U.S. flag, or a red phone on the Lieutenant's desk. The same effect was used in the 1993 movie Schindler's List, although there were only a handful of such details during the course of the over three-hour film.

Quotes

Brogan Cooper: (when Sean finally turns up in the church, late) So what do you think, Jimmy? Brawl or babe?
Jimmy Bruno: Brawl... Then a babe.
Brogan Cooper: Isn't it time he got married?
Jimmy Bruno: You gotta go out on a second date for that, Sarge.

Jimmy: (about his infant son who's about to be baptized) Think he'll be a cop?
Coop: He has no choice. It's in his genes: forever blue.
Jimmy: Someone's gotta break out.

Owen Murphy: You a lesbian?
Kat Miller: You a jackass?

Toni: Officer, I wanna report a robbery.
Scotty: We're, uh, homicide.
Toni: Take this down: suspect is a white man, wearing an ugly-ass tie and a bad attitude.

Jimmy: Everything's always black and white for you. You don't know anything.
Coop: We're cops! That's all I need to know.
Jimmy: I've got three kids. Don't talk to me about taking 50 bucks a week from a piece of crap.
Coop: Then you are just like a crook.
Jimmy: Get off your soapbox, Coop! You go out there and bust shins because it's another good time for you.
Coop: I bust shins because I'm enforcing the law!
Jimmy: You and your John Wayne act.
Coop: We're the law! We're here to put the scumbags away. It ain't fun and games.
Jimmy: Sure it is. Just like the fun you had slaughtering vietcong. You miss that free pass to kill don't you.
(Coop punches Jimmy)
Coop: You're right. That was fun.
(Jimmy and Coop starts fighting) Someone soapboxing in Chinatown, San Francisco. ... John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as The Duke, [1] was an Academy Award winning, American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. ... A Viet Cong soldier, heavily guarded, awaits interrogation following capture in the attacks on Saigon during the festive Tet holiday period of 1968. ...

Lilly: Two guys in the force having a love affair? Serious trouble back then.
Scotty: How 'bout today?

Coop: We got something here. And it ain't going away.
Jimmy: I got a family.

Coop: You think Eileen wants to be married to a stranger? You think if she knew she'd want to keep living a lie?
Jimmy: I ain't leaving my kids, Coop!
(pause)
Coop: I'm not asking for that.
Jimmy: What then.
Coop: Remember what you were talking about? Living a different kind of life? This is our shot!
Jimmy: That was just talk. We're cursed with this thing.(Pause)
Coop: My folks. Been married forever right? But whatever they had died years ago. Now I look around and I see everyone like that. Staying together because of the church. Because it's expected. Because they got nowhere else to go. Cursed?
Coop: We're the lucky ones, Jimmy.