Episode
Cold Case: Wunderkind
Overview
The team re-opens the 2002 case of a 14-year-old math whiz whose half-brother exploited his unusual talents: card counting and safe cracking.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2007-10-28
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Wunderkind is Episode 6 in Season 5 of Cold Case. It aired on 2007-10-28. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 5: Thick as Thieves
The team re-opens the 1989 case of an unidentified Jane Doe when she dies in the hospital, after being comatose since the day she was shot 18 year ago.
Episode 7: World's End
When human remains are discovered at the bottom of a well, the team opens the 1938 case of a housewife who went missing the night of Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.
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Episode 2: That Woman
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Episode 10: Justice
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