"Okay, this one's from me." "I told you guys, no gifts." "Who ever believes that?" "Come on." "Open it already, Bren." "Now we're spinning empty bottles oh!" "It's the five of us oh, Dana, this is adorable." "I told you you'd like it." "How can you tell it's a girl, mommy?" "'Cause when I do this, she sounds just like you." "Give me a hand, sweetie." "Time to pack it on, girls." "Oh, and I'm supposed to be dieting." "One of the few good perks of being this huge is you can eat like a horse." "Bring it on!" "Right here." "Dana" "Hey." "No boys allowed!" "I told you this was a girls' party, babe." "From the National Guard." "Oh, my god." "I'm being deployed?" "But you have a kid." "How soon?" "Uh, three weeks." "Who's going to take care of Lindsey?" "I will, baby." "Hey, I'm a baker." "Probably get stationed in one of Saddam's old palaces grilling filets for the generals." "Right." "Well, here." "I'll slice the tart." "Here, honey." "You're going away, mommy?" "I'll be back before you know it." "In no time at all." "That Veronica in the car?" "We're on our way to school." "She's pouting because I won't let her come with." "Eight-year-old wants to see a crime scene?" "She's a weird kid." " Hey, boss." " Morning." "We got a floater?" "Not exactly." "Marine unit was doing a trawl of the Delaware, turned this up." "Is that an arm?" "Ran the serial number." "Matches the prosthetic of a missing Iraq war veteran." "Guy couldn't catch a break, huh?" "Gal." "Dana Taylor." "Went missing three months after returning from the Middle East." "How long could someone with a missing arm stay lost?" "You ever see the fugitive?" "These things don't come cheap." "It's a custom fit, titanium." "Not something you'd just toss." "Not on purpose." "So where'd the rest of her go?" "Well, if the arm was in the river, odds are the body is, too." "Divers are coming out." "Not really a "bring your daughter to work day."" "Cold Case Season 4 Episode 02" "Rewritten,re-sync,fixed,andcleaned-upby :" "UNDELETE" "Lady soldier, huh?" "Yup." "As got to wonder." "Wonder what?" "Remember the girl in Iraq, had that guy on a leash?" "Yeah." "What's your point?" "I just don't get these chicks that want to tote guns and take prisoners for a living, no offense." "Dana Taylor, 30." "Three months in Iraq." "Joined the guard to pay for cooking school." "Seven and a half years into an eight-year bid." "Yeah." "Probably never thought she'd get called up." "Lost her right arm in a grenade attack on her truck outside Fallujah." "Ribbon of valor for heroism-- pulled another soldier out of the wreckage." "When'd she get back?" "June 2004." "Disappeared October the same year." "Last to see was the husband, Jeff." "Says she went for a walk that night, never came back." "Lame story." "Yeah, so lame it could be true." "Though he and Dana were going through a rough patch." "So maybe she took a header into the river on her own?" "Or maybe the husband pulled a Scott Peterson." "Valens upstairs?" "Taking lost time." "Didn't say why." "Uncle Scotty's here!" "What's up?" "How you doing, em?" "Oh, you're so big." "Where's your mom and dad, huh?" "Hey, Scotty" "What?" "You run out of corn flakes or something?" "I can't visit my own brother without being abused, hmm" "Orange juice was sour." "We had to throw it away." "No kidding." "Yeah, enough with that, Emilio." " What's up?" " Hi, mommy." "Uh, you know, maybe we could take a walk, or..." "Oh, Papi, a walk." "I won't rough him up too bad, hmm?" "So, something happen?" "you remember coach Fitzpatrick?" "What, the boxing guy who taught classes at the gym around the way?" "Well, he... got picked up." "A lewd act with a minor." "Dave really gunning for him, and he's got a long list of... witnesses." "Are you serious?" "You're on the list, Mikey." "That - that don't make sense." " No?" " No." "But to put this guy away, they're gonna need all the ammo they can get." "Hey, God bless 'em, but I can't help." "Okay." " I just told 'em I'd check with you." " Told who?" "The people who got it wrong, I guess." "Dana never took off that arm." "She wanted to be as normal as possible." "Like before." "Before Iraq." "She come home different?" "If you had your arm blown off, wouldn't you?" "Just asking a question." "Yes." "She was different." "When I got back from Vietnam, my wife and I had some troubles." "Adjusting." "We were working it out." "Till she walked out the door that night and I became a widower." "She happen to mention she was headed toward the river that night?" "She used to go on long walks alone." "Never said where she went." "Any problems with friends, neighbors?" "No way." "Fish-town's a military neighborhood." "Dana went over, did her duty." "People respected that." "I hate to ask, but... suicide?" "I thought we were finding our way back." "Maybe Dana couldn't make it." "Like you said, she came back different." "And it... threw me." "I know you think that I shouldn't still love you" "You know what I miss the most?" "Your leg?" "The chow?" "The danger." "Well, I'd still have felt it where's the sense in that?" " Hey, Linds!" " Mommy!" "I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder they couldn't put your arm back on?" "Or return to where we were no, baby, they couldn't." "It's okay." "Give your mom a hug." "Well, I will go down with this ship" "We're all going to get used to it." "Yeah, sure." "I don't like it." "It's weird." "Lindsey!" "Hey, it's just an arm, okay?" " I got another one." " Okay." "I'm so glad to be back." "We're glad, too." "I know I left too much mess Hey, Tommy." "Neighborhood's been pretty sleepy without you around raising some." "Been busy kicking Iraqi ass." "Whoa, Tommy." "Sorry." "You... forget." "It's okay." "I understand if you can't talk to me again" "When are you coming home?" "In a week." "I'll have a prosthetic by then." "Be 100%." "And if you live by the rules of "it's over"" "well, 90%." "Well, I will go down with this ship..." "I couldn't look at her." "And she knew it." "So, maybe that hurt enough, she put herself in the river." "The person who'd know better than me?" "Tommy." "Tommy from the hospital?" "Yeah, he was just a guy we knew from the neighbourhood, but after what they went through, he was her new best friend." "Was he in the rpg attack, too?" "He was the one she saved." "If Dana had any secrets, it's Tommy who'd know 'em." "Yasas me and Dana fought in Iraq, 93 days and nights." "Brings you together, huh?" "In a way you can't understand." "Her cell phone records show a lot of calls to you, Tommy, after you both got back." "Includes the night she disappeared." "Uh, it's 'cause we talked every night." "It's not what you think." "We talked about the war, rehab." "Frank." "Who's Frank?" "Our friend." "Died in the attack." "That you and Dana survived?" "What'd you talk about the night she disappeared?" "Well, the usual." "Night terrors." "Seeing Frank in our dreams." "How the thanks you get for fighting, is people back here looking at you, like you're a freak." "Sounds hard to live with." "No one else gets it, so we'd tell each other." "This is the straw, final straw in the..." "I wrote the guard." "Yeah?" "Asked them to send me back over." " You're kidding." " Nope." "I'm walking good as new." "Why not?" " You okay?" " Yeah." "It was just... oh, Dana, they're precious." "It's the best I can do at the moment." "They're sweet." " Brenda?" " No." "Look at that face." "I see Frank every time I look at her." "Missed you at his memorial." "I heard it was beautiful." "Out on the bridge..." "I guess you had something better to do?" "I didn't think you wanted me there." "Oh, you got that right." "So what should I have done?" "Just don't act like we're friends." "We're not." "And we never will be again." "Brenda, you've had a few... you blew it off, too, Tommy, so you just save it!" "It's hard on us, too." "You didn't lose anyone." "We lost Frank." "You don't have a baby with no father." "I can't stand to see you alive when he is nothing but ashes at the bottom of that river." "A simple mistake starts the hardest time I promise I'll do anything..." "Why was Brenda laying this on Dana?" "Dana was driving the truck when..." "So she blames her for her husband dying?" "But Brenda wasn't in her right mind." "She was drinking all the time, and half crazy over losing Frank." "Crazy enough to kill someone?" "What, are you trying to smoke us out?" "A nudge would have worked." "I was trying to make breakfast." "Oh, maybe I'll take a rain check." "In my family, "cooked" pretty much meant whatever was spinning under the heat lamp at 7-11, so..." "So I guess this is it then." "Go ahead, pack your bags and leave." "It's been nice knowing you." "Get the door on your way out, huh?" "Yeah, sure thing." "Adios." "Cut and run." "You wouldn't be the first." "Who left you, Lil?" "What?" "My dad." "I was six." "Yeah." "I always thought he'd come back." "My high school graduation, I'm sitting there, looking for him in the bleachers." "Did he show?" "What do you think?" "I'm sorry." "Yeah." "Like I said, you wouldn't be the first." "Yeah, well, you know, maybe I'll stay; see if I can be the last." "We appreciate you taking the time." "You said it was about Dana." "Did you find her?" "Her arm." "We're thinking the rest of her might be dead." "You missed the sensitivity training, did ya?" "Fourth of July, 2004, things got ugly between you two." "I was reeling over Frank's death." "Not for nothing, I was a few glasses into the Chablis." "That can fuel the fire." "I was grieving, not homicidal." "And I was home with my six-month-old the night she went missing." "Well, a six-month-old can't alibi you, Bren." "How would killing Dana help me?" "Wouldn't bring Frank back." "Murder ain't logical like that." "Look, I apologized to her." "After the hangover." "Yeah." "Things got back to normal for us again." "Of course, going "back to normal" not so easy." "No." "Like a lot of guys coming back, it seemed like part of Dana was stuck in Iraq." "said Mr. Dalai Lama another sister's shooting heroin tomorrow..." "How come daddy's not driving me to gymnastics?" "'Cause mommy's home now." "And this was always our thing, right?" "Daddy always lets me sit up front." "Why don't you braid Lucy's hair, huh?" "So I stopped drinking." "Yeah?" "After the way I talked to you..." "Oh, come on." "It was understandable." "I'm going to grief counseling, to talk about Frank..." " missing him." " Sure." "You thought about it?" "Counseling?" "Me?" "For what?" "Jeff says you never even talked about the attack." "No." "I'd like to know what happened." "We were driving." "Like we are now." "Orders are you keep on moving; you never stop." "What was Frank doing?" "He was looking out." "You always have to look out 'cause the one thing out of place can be the thing that..." ""the thing that" what?" "Hey Lady, watch it you freak." "What are you doing?" "Mommy, don't!" "What d' you think, you'd kill me?" "Dana, stop!" "What a freak!" "I'm sorry." "I keep forgetting I can't act like that, here." "It's okay, sweetie." "She's always doing that, making people mad." "From happy homemaker to road-rage case." "That's quite a flip." "Combat vet, classic PTSD." "I realized that day that the Dana I knew was gone." "I wonder who else she went-off on." "Sounds like this daughter could tell some tales." "Do you know where my mom went?" "We're trying to find out." "That's why we're here." "Do you remember when she came back from the war, Lindsey?" "Yeah, she didn't have an arm." "We heard she'd get upset sometimes, make people mad." "Yeah." "Do you remember any of those people?" "No." "You won't get in trouble if you tell us." "Maybe one man." "Okay." "At my school assembly." "He sat behind my mom." "In this time of unrest, we honor our own war heroes," "Who put themselves in harm's way to keep you safe." "There are currently..." "What's with you?" "My petition to go back was rejected." "I got medically discharged." "It was a long shot." "It was also my last shot." " At what?" " I just..." "Got nothing, no one." "Here." "Hold this for me." "And her daughter is in Miss Connor's third grade class." "Please welcome Lindsey Taylor's mom, Corporal Dana Taylor." "I was in Iraq for three months." "I drove a supply truck." "I was scared going over, but was ready to do my duty." "Then, this happened to me." "Now I..." "I have confused feelings about the war." "So instead of giving you a speech, maybe I'll just take some questions." "Did you ever waste anyone?" "No." "But I watched my good friend get wasted." "His name was Frank." "One second, he was telling a joke, and in the next, his... his blood and his insides were all over the truck... all over me." "It's not like a video game or a movie." "It breaks your heart right in half." "Our next guest has been in the navy his entire career." "What kind of soldier are you?" "The kind that tells the truth." "I'm going back for my second tour in a week." "How do you think my kid feels now?" "Maybe we should go, Linds..." "You should have stayed in the damn kitchen." "You know that?" "You got no business trying to do a man's job." "I'm a soldier, same as you..." "His son Charlie is in Mr. Levin's fifth grade class." "Someone ought to teach you a lesson." "So please welcome lieutenant Jamal Ross." "who was this man?" "Penny Kozlowski's dad." "That helps a lot, Lindsey." "Maybe my mom went away 'cause of me." "Why would she do that?" "'Cause maybe she found out I thought her arm was scary." "You know what, Lindsey?" "If you were my girl, I'd be so proud." "You would?" "Yeah, because you're brave." "I know your mom could see that just like I can." "Thanks a lot, sir." "Sounds like this Kozlowski didn't like girls fighting his war." "What say we find out how much?" "Josh Kozlowski?" "Who's asking?" "Philly homicide." "It's about Dana Taylor." "Homicide, huh?" "Not surprised, the mouth on her." "We heard you were a real fan of her speech at your daughter's assembly." "G.I. Janes." "Some jobs women just can't do." "Not disagreeing, but why go after Dana?" "'Cause that bitch traumatized every kid in the place." "So maybe you retaliated." "Aggravated assault does seem to be your specialty." "That Taylor broad needed to be shut up." "And if I was the one who did it, I'd tell you." "All the same, we got to verify your whereabouts when she disappeared." "I keep great calendars." "You tell me the date;" "I'll tell you where I was." "Deal." "They say you're only supposed to cut to the first five-leaf." "Is that right?" "My grandma was a green thumb." "Always said that's how you get double the bloom in return." "That's a good tip." "Got any tips for me?" "You know your husband's temper all too well, I bet." "Got anything to add?" " I knew that woman." " Dana." "Well, I knew of her." " Meaning?" " I knew her husband." "Paula, who's your friend?" "This is Jeff." "His wife, Dana, is a soldier." " Hi, Jeff." "Hi, Jeff." " Hi." "Welcome to our support group." "Tell 'em about her." "Dana-- well, she's been my girl since we were 15." "We got a kid." "Thank God 'cause that's all I have to hang onto right now." "I mean, I'm not even allowed to know where Dana is." "Just that she's... over there someplace." "I worry all the time and..." "I..." "I guess, just feel kind of lost." "Why don't we take a coffee break?" "Time and time again I'm half stalled" "helps to talk, right?" " Feel like a fool." " Why?" "'Cause I'm a man, Paula." "Sitting around expressing feelings..." "I know you're a man." "Just give a second thought what if we don't get caught." "So Jeff had a side dish." "A lot of people have Jodys." "Jodys?" "Someone to keep company with till your soldier comes home." "Meaning it wasn't serious between them?" "Except Paula's husband kept re-upping, so she was alone a lot." "My opinion, she wanted something real with Jeff." "So his wife coming home was a problem." "And when Paula wants something, she's pretty determined." "Your husband's overseas, Paula?" "Ass-deep in the Sunni triangle." "Not exactly a garden spot." "Desert air must appeal to him." "He keeps re-enlisting." "Lonely nights?" "I keep busy." "Like with Jeff Taylor?" "Me and Jeff might've had a thing." "A thing." "Like an affair?" "No, we'd get together and do crosswords." "And Dana, being your friend, didn't count for much." "Wartime." "Rules change." "So you and Jeff are hitting it, then Dana comes home, and he starts flying right." "You're out in the cold." "You know the old saying about the woman scorned." "Except I wasn't." "The affair kept going?" "Jeff was patient." "But a month after she came home, Dana still wouldn't let him touch her." "So pretty soon, he's back in your arms." "And then it all blew up." "Button up already." "Got to get out of here." "My house tomorrow?" "What are we doing, Paula?" "Living." "Yeah." "We could make it permanent." "Sometimes I think..." "What, baby?" "I get dark thoughts." "About changing my life." "No." "I-I thought you were at rehab." "Lindsey's school called." "She has a fever." "Look, Dane..." "So I've been busting my as strying to learn how to brush my teeth again, and this is what you're doing?" " I'm sorry." " Yeah, me, too." "But, hey, let me make it right." "I'll pack up and get lost." "Leave you to it." " That's not gonna happen." " And I'll take Lindsey with me, 'cause there's no way I'm letting this bitch set an example for my little girl." "Dana..." "I can't believe you threw it all away." "You probably think I'm some bimbo home-wrecker." "Pretty much." "He was lonely." "So was I." "And then Dana cleared the way for you." "Once she busted us ,it was over." "Over for her, too." "She disappeared that night, leaving Jeff kind of single." "Like I said, that was the end of him and me." "But no worries, I've got a new Jody now." "Congratulations." "You can go, Paula." "Didn't Jeff say his little girl was all he had to hang onto?" "Yeah." "If Dana was gonna leave and take the kid... maybe those dark thoughts got the best of him." "Didn't tell us about your girlfriend, Jeff." "Excuse me?" "The scank." "Paula." "Sounds like you found out anyway." "Didn't want to share that piece of the puzzle?" "Would you?" "If a murder cop was asking, yeah, I'd come clean." "Ashamed enough of something, you do a lot to hide it." "Not to mention it gives you motive for offing your wife." "I didn't kill Dana." "I loved her." "You loved your daughter, too, and Dana wanted to take her away." "Look..." "Whatever punishment I had coming my way, I was gonna take it." "But something good actually came out of all that crap." "Oh, yeah?" "What?" "We finally talked about it." "About...?" "What happened over there." "How's she doing?" "Fever's down." "Helps her sleep." "She always loved this." "Still does." "You're going, huh?" "What happened, Dane?" "I don't know." "It's like I lost you over there." "I'm so sorry." "Look, I'll go if that's what you want." "But first... tell me... what happened over there, when you got hurt." " You don't want to know." " Yeah, I do." "You'll hate me." "I could never hate you." "that ribbon of valor--I don't deserve it." "Why not?" "What happened to Frank was my fault." "how's that possible?" "We'd just made a delivery." "We were driving back..." "Frank was telling a stupid joke ,and then suddenly, there was something in the road." " Someone." " Who?" "A little girl." "And they tell you, you see anyone in the road, you... you just run 'em down." "Even a kid?" "They use kids to get the convoys to stop." "but I didn't see a trap;" "I saw a little girl, who could've been Lindsey." "So I slowed down, and that's when we got hit." "Dane." "Dane." "Typical girl soldier, right?" "That wasn't a girl thing." "It-it was a human thing." "I would've done the same." "Baby, an rpg killed Frank, not you." "I don't want that ribbon." "It's keeping me in a place I don't wanna be." " So get rid of it." " And Frank we gotta say good-bye to him." "Okay." "Can you stay with Linds for a couple hours?" "Sure." "Of course." "I'll be right here." "Yeah." "Good." "Dane?" "You're my girl." "I was praying she'd come home and want to start over." "But she never made it back." "You didn't go with her?" "No." "So what did she mean by "we"?" "I don't know." "I always assumeds he went on her walks alone." "Tommy." "He didn't go to Frank's memorial either." "And he had the ribbon of valor." "So where would they go to say good-bye?" "Ashes were in the river, right?" "We know why Dana went out that night, Tommy." "Oh, yeah?" "To ditch that ribbon of valor." "Put the war behind her." "Any thoughts how she might've done that?" "Not really." "Want my guess?" "She threw it in the river." "Where Dana ended up, too." "Probably." "Why are you telling me?" "'Cause she called you that night." "Asked you to meet her." "Bring the ribbon." "She knew you both needed to lay Frank to rest." "So what if that's true?" "Seems like something you'd mention, unless something went real wrong that night." "What I don't get?" "Dana saved you." "Pulled you from that truck." "Why would you want to hurt her?" "I wouldn't." "That is the last thing I'd want." "Well, I believe you, Tommy, 'cause I think you wanted more of her than you could have." "What do you mean?" "Iraq." "Rehab." "All those late-night calls when you got home." "Brings you together in a way other people can't understand." "Hard not to get attached to someone after all that." "But she was married." "Jeff was messing around on her." "She told me that night." "And you saw your opening." "seemed like she felt the same." "When we'd talk, you know?" "I got her... and she got me." "And no one else did." "I thought it was gonna bethe start of a new life." "Instead it was the end." "what are you doing?" "Flirting with danger again?" "river looks beautiful from up here." "Yeah." "did you bring it?" "what are you going to do with it?" "Move on." "This is about what was." "Memories,right?" "I guess." "It's time to leave 'em behind." "Rest in peace,frankie." "New chapter,huh?" "Right." "So how about you and me?" "You and me?" "There's a reasonwe talk every night,dane." "Why we never wanna hang up." "Tommy... we went through a lot." "And now it's part of our lives." " I have a family." "I can'T..." " he cheated on you." "I know." "And maybe we'll neverrecover from that,but we're gonna try." "When I'm standing right here?" "Tommy,we almostdied together." "Of course thatbrought us close." "I got nothin' else,dane." "You got me." " As your friend." " No.That's not enough." "We're vets." "That's special." "Oh,bull." "That's nothing." "I can'T... hold on to that." "We're findingour way back,Tommy." "And we're gonna make it." "You will." "Not me." "Not me!" "No...!" "Dana!" "No!" "Dana,no!" "Dana!" "Rewritten,re-sync,fixed,andcleaned-upby :" "UNDELETE"