Ken admits that he stole the bracelets the day Janet broke up with him in order to make him feel better. Back in 1973 the drug house still had renters, and one of them was Ken Westin, Janet's Ken. Ned never heard about his dad following up with Ken, but Scotty and Vera know they would have followed up in his situation.Īt the station, Lilly and Stillman are discussing new developments in the case when Vera stops them. Ned tells his father that Ken is his mom’s friend, the kind that takes him to the zoo and her out to dinner.įlashback to Present Ned regrets telling Carl about Ken. Ned says that whenever he comes to the zoo with Ken, they see the lions first. After he spells out Ned’s name, Carl spells out ”bear” and asks Ned if he wants to see the bears next. Carl is trying to explain to Ned how he communicated with the other prisoners: through Morse code. However, Ned does remember someone who got in the way.įlashback Carl and Ned are at the zoo and Carl explains that the people he was with wouldn't let him write letters. The first week Carl was back he put away the bracelets so Ned has no idea how they ended up where they did. Ned said he’d still wake up early every morning, exercise best he could and start his day. Though he was only seven when his dad came back, he doesn’t ever recall his father behaving as if he was a drug user. Scotty and Jeffries visit Carl and Janet's son, Ned, in his research lab.
But before they could, Carl was gone again.
Janet admitted they stayed together in the hopes of finding what they had lost. After his outburst, Carl leaves to go for a walk, telling his wife not to wait up for him.įlashback to Present Carl would go for walks for hours but nobody knew where. When Carl winces in pain, Janet is afraid to continue dancing but Carl wants to pretend that everything’s fine and forget about the fact that his arms have been broken four times. They really tried, but they just never got to know each other again.įlashback Upstairs in the bedroom, Carl and Janet share a drink and start to dance, reminiscing about times before the war. But in the end she wouldn’t have known if Carl did end up getting involved with drugs. Carl also didn’t seem like the type to get involved with drugs, but she’d rather remember Carl the way he was before he went off to Vietnam: a strong hero. Lilly and Jeffries talk to Carl's widow, Janet, who has no idea how the bracelet wound up where it did. Unfortunately the rain washed away any fingerprints. He was seen a mile away with the gun only a few feet from him and a bag of marijuana in his pocket. He was last seen at the funeral reception for another POW, Rex Potter. He was 35 years old, shot down during his 23rd bombing mission and spent five years in a prison camp, only to return home and die months later. Stillman, Scotty and Jeffries go over Carl’s case in the vault. He wants Scotty and Lilly to treat the Burton case like family. She called them because the police found some interesting things in the house: POW bracelets of Carl Burton, a Navy pilot and a Vietnam War hero, found behind the water heater in the cellar. Stillman, Lilly and Scotty enter a raided drug house and meet Kat Miller, narcotics detective.
A detective files away his cold case box: April 1973. On a rainy, stormy night the body of Carl Burton lies in the road with a gunshot wound to his stomach and a pistol nearby. He tells him he's his father, and Ned says you dont look like the picture. A man walks through the door and asks who the boy is.
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To welcome him home, his son Ned has prepared a special gift for him: a box full of POW bracelets that everyone wore when Carl was in Vietnam. It is all joy as a house party is underway to welcome home Carl Burton, a POW that has just returned from Vietnam after five long years in a prison camp. Rush re-investigates the 1973 shooting of Carl, a Vietnam War veteran.Īugust 16, 1972. When a box filled with POW support bracelets is found in an abandoned drug den, Det.
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