"The bad thing that happened to little Lilly long, long ago. I read your 49. You ever dream about it, Lilly?" With those statements from serial killer George Marks (John Billingsley), a season-long mystery began into what exactly happened to Cold Case's Lilly Rush when she was a little girl. But Lilly's past wasn't the only intriguing storyline in this fantastic season 2 outing because it was a gripping, edge-of-your-seat ride from the moment it started until well after it ended. Today, we're going to take a look at one of Cold Case's finest hours with the serial killer shocker "Mind Hunter." All of the screencaps in this edition as courtesy of Kathryn Morris Online and Cold Case Source #1.
When Lilly and co. went toe-to-toe with George Marks, they had no idea what they were up against. The file clerk who was in charge of PPD's "49 reports," crimes where the victim survived ranging from muggings to rapes, had accessed the personal files on all five detectives. He took Stillman to task for not being there for his daughter when she was date raped. Scotty relived his tormented relationship with his former girlfriend who killed herself after suffering from schizophrenia while Jeffries was reminded how his wife died alone on a highway. George tore into Vera for missing the boat on the serial rape case from a few years back, allowing more women to suffer down the road. And then there was George's encounter with Lilly. She expected to enter that interrogation room and get the confession that the team needed. They were up a creek without a paddle because a search of his apartment turned up absolutely nothing. George was 
meticulously clean, but CSU did find deer eyes (black glass marbles used in hunting to replace real eyes in trophy deer) and George told detectives that his didn't hunt. Could the deer eyes be used for his victims' missing heads? The gang thinks so, but they can't prove anything without the heads or a confession from George. What Lilly didn't count on in that room was to fit into the mold of all of George's victims. He liked to choose "fighters," women who fought their attackers, because they proved to be more of a challenge. Of course, George wouldn't admit to any of this -- he was just giving his opinion on the "killer."
Lilly entered the interrogation room and began using her usual tactics until George called her on them. He quickly switched the focus of their discussion from the murders and his possible involvement to her past. He read her 49 Report and he knew it was the reason why she became a cop. Lilly was completely thrown off kilter, but she quickly recovered. She began reading off his less than stellar record, including failing the Police Academy entrance exam and failing the physical for a mall security cop. "You couldn't even cut it as a rent-a-cop," Lilly taunted him. She moved to his mother's murder and closed with calling George "a small, little man." George insisted that he's not "in there," and Lilly thinks that she is close to a confession, but George keeps using the word "he" instead of "I" and the interview 
comes to an end. Lilly desperately tries to get him to talk, but he begins to walk out of the interrogation room. Before he leaves, he asks Lilly if she hunts. She doesn't, but he tells her, "We should do it some time -- together." He waves to the other detectives behind the glass and walks out of the police station while Phil Collins' haunting "Long, Long Way to Go" plays over the closing scenes. It was the first (and only) CC case to not be wrapped up into a nice little package at the end of the hour, and it sent serious chills down my spine. George outsmarted our favorite cold case detectives and he managed to shake each of them at their core. 
John Billingsley was brilliant as George and Kathryn Morris turned in one of her finest performances. It was an outstanding hour of television that left me a little speechless and wondering whether Lilly would go hunting sometime with George in the future. Little did I know that the future would come in the form of that season's finale. If you would like to see this episode, cable channel TNT reruns the older episodes every Tuesday night at 11 p.m. Can't wait for it to cycle around again? Then join the Cold Case DVD Campaign. Help the show land on DVD by letting Warner Bros. know how much you want to see it on store shelves. Click on over to ColdCaseDVDs.com to learn how to help. You can check out other Cold Case Flashback Editions HERE.QUICK CUTS
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