so its due tomorrow, here it is if you have any last minute suggestions please tell me i will spell check it tommorrow at school since my computer spell check isn’t working:
The hit TV Show “Cold Case” looks at a murder that happened in 1953. It is the murder of someone who supporeted communism. That person was Elliot Garvey. He was a fourth grade teacher who was found beaten to death. His car was found just a few blocks away with slashed tires and the words “You’re Next” painted in red.
There was part of a knife blade stuck in one of the tires. The blade had part of a logo with a bird and the letter B on it. The two main detectives who looked into the case were Scotty Valens and Lily Rush. There were meetings to promote communism and Elliot went to them because his friend was big into promoting it. Elliot just thought integration was okay. One of those meetings was at Renaldo’s house. Elliot was there exchanging greetings with a women named Reina. She asked him what he thinks of all this. He says the only thing he knows is a nice boy got kicked out of his class and it didn’t seem right. Scotty and Lily go to see if they can find Renaldo but soon find out he is dead. His daughter is there though, and she remembers there were police raids of the meetings all the time, and none of them were legit. The police would also find a way to break up the meetings and if they couldn’t they would call it a drug raid. They wanted to break up the meetings because they were supporting communism. She said they were even one time threatened with a burning cross in there yard.
One day Elliot’s family was having a barbeque, Then two men in black suits came up and gave Elliot an envelope, he never told anybody what was in it. The next day Elliot was sitting at the table when his wife Kate came home with groceries, he told her that he had just lost his job. After they heard about this Lilly and Scotty went to talk to Elliot’s friend Harland. Harland told them about an incident at a baseball game when two teams were warming up, Elliot and his friend Harland showed up to support Harlands brother. Then a man named Wade Ribble got up and told Elliot to go away because communist’s were not welcome. Elliot tried to protest but Wade told him to look around because no body would support him. The next morning everyone looked into Wade’s record and found out that Elliot had filed a restraining order against him. They decided to talk to Kate again thinking she would remember such a big event. She did remember it but told them it wasn’t evidence because Wade had an alibi that night. He was at the state championship baseball game. Kate told the detectives that Elliot was told all he had to do was say yes to a list of people that were at the meeting that night and he would be set free. She said that there was only one name on that list she rememberd, and she had tried to forget, it was Reina. She was always at the meetings, she was also Elliot’s mistress. Back in the office the investigation team noticed that Elliot was killed on June 19th, the day before he was supposed to testify. Reina told them she had invited Elliot to go with some of her friends for drinks that night but he said no, because it was complicated. He told her that Kate thought something was going on between them, Reina said something was. He told her that he believed in marriage, but that made Reina like him even more. He wanted to do the right thing when he testified, and for Reina that meant saying the list was false. Lily asked Reina what the other names on that list were. Back at the office they had the list, Scotty sayd they didn’t need it. Howard said somethign about the scouts, Scotty matched the part of the knife blade they had to the Boy Scouts of America. They ask Howard more about the knife and he keeps his story that he didn’t kill his father he only trashed his car to scare him. Scotty and Lily interragate Harland, they say it must have hurt since Elliot stud up to the feds and got Reina. Harland admits he liked Reina. Then Scotty says if Elliot said the list was real Reina would have gotten deported. Harland says that Elliot hadn’t made up his mind about what he would say yet. So Harland was with Elliot that night. He said he saw Elliot with his car and offered to walk him home. As Elliot and Harland are walking home Elliot tells Harland that he has a lot to think about but not to worry because Harland is not on the list. Harland says he is concerned because Reina is on the list and he doesn’t want Elliot to give her up. Elliot says he would never give up Reina, then starts to walk away. Harland can’t take that chance so he Strikes Elliot on the head with his cane and continues to beat him until he is dead.
The Crucible is very much like this episode of cold case. In cold case they were looking for people that were associated with the communism meetings. Just like in the Crucible they were looking for people that were doing witch craft. Also in Cold Case they were trying to find out who was on the list of people that were at the meeting promoting communism, just like in the crucible they were trying to find out who was dancing in the woods to do witch craft. There was this quote from cold case when when of the detectives working on the case sad “First rule of the witch hunt, don’t limit yourselves to the witches!” This was very much like The Crucible because everyone in the town was accusing or suspecting people of witch craft. They wouldn’t even talk to people except to accuse them of being a witch. They would also just mind there own buisness and hope no one would accuse them of being a witch. Another way that this episode of cold case is like The crucible is one time when one of the detectives working on the case said “Those statues ain’t going nowhere.” Then Elliot’s wife said “Neither is Elliot.” She meant that Elliot would not be going anywhere because he was already dead. This is similar to The Crucible because everyone that was accused of witch craft would not be going anywhere because they were mostly locked up in jail. The final quote I have that makes Cold Case Similar to The Crucible is when Reina said “He was true to her, which made me love him even more” She said this when Elliot told her that he believed in marriage and he would not cheat on Kate with Reina. This also happened in the Crucible when Abagail said that she liked John Proctor more because he wanted to stay true to his wife and not cheat on her again. The final way that this episdoe links to The Crucible is because both John and Elliot wanted to stay true to there name. In Cold Case Elliot wanted to stay with Reina so he wasn’t going to say that the list was correct. In the Crucible John Proctor wanted to keep his name good in the community so he did not want the paper he signed to be hung up on the church door of his town because his name would be ruined in the community, so both people wanted what would work for them best. These storys were both about things that could have happened and the witch hunt story from the crucible really did happen, but I don’t think that this episode of cold case is true.
There were a few differences between Cold Case and The Crucible one of them was that in Cold Case They were trying to find out who murderd Elliot and in The Crucible they were trying to find out who was doing witchcraft and persecute them.
There are other differences but The main story lines were the same and it seemed almost as though this episode of Cold Case was modeled after The Crucible. They were both about witch craft and in both of them someone was unfaithful to there wife. In Cold Case Elliot died because he was going to testify and in The Crucible John Proctor died because he wouldn’t give them the paper that he signed.