Things are about to get a little more personal for Cold Case's Lilly Rush. In the third season finale, expect to see her even more invested in her current case than usual. That's because she feels an instant connection to the victim in the 2005 case. The official CBS press release states (WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD) that "Lilly is strangely drawn to the victim, Joseph Shaw, a popular drug counselor" and that could spell trouble for the case because "she breaks some procedural rules, putting herself and the other investigators in danger" (END SPOILER WARNING). TV Guide magazine caught up with the show's star, Kathryn Morris, and grilled her on what we can expect with all of this personal mixing with the show's usual procedural feel. Here's the magazine's interview in the May 15th-21st edition (SPOILERS):Q&A with Kathryn Morris
We're used to seeing Det. Lilly Rush get emotionally involved in her investigations of forgotten victims, but in tonight's third-season finale of COLD CASE (CBS 8/7) she takes it a little too far. She becomes fixated with a popular drug counselor of teens who was apparently killed two days before he was to testify against one of his students. After a year in which Lilly reconnected with her alcoholic mom and an old biker boyfriend who broke her heart, Kathryn Morris wonders if you can really blame her character for abandoning her by-the-book ways...
SO, WHAT'S THE FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE FOR LILLY?
She takes a sick day.
THAT'S GOT TO BE A FIRST.
Nobody knows what to do. This individual appears and throws off her world. It's like I'm investigating someone who is exactly like me. He has cats. He's a crusader and a bleeding heart. We know how Lilly loves to get involved with the dead. But it becomes too real.
AND THIS LEADS TO SOME GREAT PERSONAL REVELATION AND SOME BIG CHANGES FOR THE CHARACTER?
Lilly does some things that are not so professional because her heart is so overtaken. She doesn't want to be alone anymore. But we won't know until the beginning of [next] season. It goes against everything that's forged Lilly's career. It's like when somebody says, 'I don't want to work at TV Guide anymore -- I want to go sailing around the world.'
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME.
-Stephen Battaglio
One of this season's best scenes occurred when Lilly and her mother collided to emotional results. It's a scene that seems to be the catalyst for Lilly's behavior in the finale. In the episode "Beautiful Little Fool," Lilly drunk dials her former boyfriend Kite and admits that she wants to stop living her life alone. And because I love you guys, I found the scene on YouTube, so here it is for your viewing pleasure:
I think the Emmy voters need to see this video clip along with those screen caps from the Veronica Mars finale so I can cross off both Kathryn Morris and Kristen Bell from my list of television's most underrated actors. Cold Case's season finale airs this Sunday, May 21st at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS. Be sure to tune in to Pass the Remote on Monday for the big Cold Case finale blowout! Plus, you'll also get the regular edition with thoughts on the Desperate Housewives finale and all the latest television news!
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Things are about to get a little more personal for Cold Case's Lilly Rush. In the third season finale, expect to see her even more invested in her current case than usual.when she's assigned to "cold cases" -- crimes that have never been solved.
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