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Cold Squad volume 12
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Nicco and Billie's relationship is becoming more and more complicated as Nicco is forced to deal with the fact that Billie is still working as a prostitute. It's also becoming clear that Billie's recreational drug use is actually more of a fulltime habit. When Billie returns home, she finds her pimp Andre in her apartment. He scolds her for sleeping with Nicco and then gives her the beating of a lifetime. Later that day, a battered and bruised Billie...
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Cold Squad volume 3
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English
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The Cold Squad reopens a case of the 1982 rape and murder of a 14 year-old girl known only as "Tess." By analyzing "Tess's" skull, which is all that remains of the victim, the Detectives hope to match the wounds to a murder weapon.
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Cold Squad volume 9
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English
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With the retirement of coroner, Bart Greenwood, Nicco is passed the torch at a graveyard for unidentified victims. In a favor to Bart, Nicco promises to take a shot at unraveling the mystery of "Highway One," a teenage girl who's remains were discovered along the Trans Canada Highway in the mid 1980's.
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Cold Squad volume 6
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English
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When a gay-basher is found dead, Homicide alerts Cold Squad. It appears that the victim, Ken Reegan, was killed in the same manner as Tron MacLean, another known and previously convicted violent homophobic. MacLean was found dead in the men's room of a gay club, and his murder was never solved. Harper and Nicco take on the task of linking the two murders to discover just who is behind this vigilante-style justice.
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Cold Squad volume 8
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English
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Mitch Winslow, Chief of Police for the small town of Clearwater sits behind the driver's seat of a police vehicle that is travelling through the twisting road of a mountain pass. Next to him is Sergeant Ali McCormick, his chaperone. And shackled in the back is Paul King, self-proclaimed Eco-terrorist and suspected murderer of two lumber industry workers. The drive is tedious, especially since Winslow and Ali just can't agree on their taste in music....
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Cold Squad volume 12
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English
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The first of a two-part Cold Squad season finale, this harrowing episode begins with the brutal murder of a young prostitute, Myra Larson. The carved up body is found in the east side's notorious Blood Alley, placed in a similar fashion to a series of prostitute murders executed over the past seven years. The event sparks huge public outcry. A Prostitute Right's Advocate, Lisa MacIntosh, calls for heightened police attention to a wave of violence,...
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Cold Squad volume 13
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English
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It's morning and Ali finds Harper sleeping in the holding cells. Having split with Wanda, he had no place better to stay the night. Ali sees he doesn't want to talk, so she tries once more to recruit him on the Khallid Fulani case, which has turned into quite the conspiracy theory. But Harper is not moved. He's busy with another case, the death of Sonia Parker. Ali's confused – Parker's death is a matter for Homicide – but sees that Harper is...
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Cold Squad volume 9
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English
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Frank sits in the court, listening to voir dire for the retrial of Kevin Nixon. Convicted of the brutal murder/rape of Laurie McDougall in 1997, Nixon is now claiming that Frank convicted him due to a charter violation. Frank admits that during the original investigation he had very little to go on, but while he admittedly pushed the envelope, he stayed within the rule of law. Well thanks to recent precedent, the rules have changed and the Judge declares...
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Cold Squad volume 10
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English
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Harper is not so good at taking vacations. After stumbling upon information on the unsolved deaths of two marijuana growers while on a fishing trip in Washington state he takes himself off vacation and puts himself undercover. Things get complicated when Harper refuses to work with Narcotics on the case and when he develops a relationship with the sister of one of the growers.
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Cold Squad volume 4
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English
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When the remains of Josh Stokes are found near a trail on Mount Seymour Andy Pawlachuck takes the lead in an attempt to help out his old police buddy, Preston Stokes. But the investigation takes some unexpected turns when Pawlachuck discovers Preston's relationship with his son was far from loving and that Josh had left home to become a male prostitute.
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Cold Squad volume 12
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English
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When Harper finds the body of a six-year-old girl stuffed in a cardboard box in his daughter Kassia's schoolyard the Cold Squad team gets involved to find the pedophile who killed her. But when Kassia goes missing he drops everything in his desperate search to find her.
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Cold Squad volume 20
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English
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Ali arrives at the crime scene as the Forensics team hauls away the murdered night clerk's bloody corpse from Episode 58 "Habeas Corpus". It's obvious from the screwdriver that Dean Bulmer is connected, but Homicide orders Ali off the case. Never one to take orders, Ali continues the investigation, but while she attempts to connect Dean Bulmer on the Sebastian Stone murder, Frank is set on catching Bulmer in the act. Frank begins to tail Bulmer, while...
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Cold Squad volume 9
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English
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A few months back, an up-and-coming local artist Larisa Childs overdosed on heroin and because she had a history of addiction, no one thought twice about it. So when Cold Squad receives an anonymous phone call saying Larisa was murdered by Nimbus, another local artist, Ali and Mickey reluctantly decide to check it out. Surprisingly, Nimbus not only knew Larisa, but displays a vial of her blood in one of her exhibits.
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Cold Squad volume 5
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English
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One night in 1995, a burglar invaded the home of retired teacher Merv Doucette and his wife Bev. A struggle ensued, and Doucette, 54, was bludgeoned to death with his own bowling trophy. Three years later, the assailant is still at large.
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Cold Squad volume 13
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English
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Sam's case against a prominent Vancouver surgeon begins to collapse when the testimony and innocence of her witness - his abused and unstable wife - is put into question.
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Cold Squad volume 4
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English
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Jill Stone uncovers a link between the gruesome murder and decapitation of two nurses committed more than 20 years ago. After launching a full investigation, Stone suggests that they may be chasing a serial killer.
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Cold Squad volume 7
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English
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Ali and Mickey listen reluctantly as Simon, a low-level dealer, offers up "news" regarding a twelve-year-old murder suicide. The original investigators concluded that Barry Walsh shot himself after killing his wife and son, but Simon claims it wasn't a murder-suicide, rather a murder-murder. All they have to do is track down someone called "the Rev" and he'll tell them the rest.
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Cold Squad volume 6
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English
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In 1986, 14-year-old Marcey Bennett was raped and murdered and found in a garden shed at her school. Investigating officer Lance Giffen quickly arrested Matthew Dalton, a "peeping Tom" who worked as a gardener at Marcey's school. Dalton became the prime suspect after UBC Professor Hudson, an esteemed police expert, files a damning psychological profile. After a grueling 15-hour interrogation, the gardener confessed and received a 25-year sentence....
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Cold Squad volume 6
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English
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In 1967, Wilson "Salty" Cheever was found stabbed to death in a hotel room in Skid Row. Just one of many suspicious deaths and in each case, one name keeps surfacing: Theresa Joseph, a 48-year-old prostitute, heroin addict and petty thief. Cheever was stabbed 3 times in the chest by a strangely curved knife with specific markings on the blade and missing its tip. This could be helpful should they find the murder weapon. That's if anyone can remember...
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Cold Squad volume 4
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English
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During a meeting with an old friend, lawyer Jeff Reiser, Sergeant Ali McCormick learns that a recently released juvenile he defended may be a serial killer on the loose. Reiser tells Ali that Randy Benjamin served four years for his part in luring young boys to Simon Willard, the convicted monster behind the notorious Pitt River Murders. Though mindful of lawyer-client privilege, Reiser suggests to Ali that Benjamin may be as much of a monster as...
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