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Free Love is the 20th case of the seventh and final season of the series and is the 154th overall.
Description[]
Rush and FBI agent Ryan Cavanaugh discover their attraction for one another while investigating the 1969 murder of a GI at Woodstock. Meanwhile, tensions between Miller and Bell begin to ease, Stillman consoles Yates, whose mother is in the hospital, and Vera helps his married ex-girlfriend, Megan, after a home robbery.
Synopsis[]
Annabelle is now a New York congresswoman.
Nick discovered Roy was having an affair. The break in was staged.
It is discovered that Annabelle was an undercover agent of a terrorist hippie commune. The FBI offered her to be undercover after she was arrested with pot. They wanted info on Ruben.
David tells Annabelle the farmer Al will buy his vehicle. He asks her to wait for him while he took care of things so they could run away to Canada together.
Rush finds David Quinn's car under a tarp at the barn.
Al pulls a gun on David. He feels it's David's duty to go back to war. David tells him about the horrors he witnessed in Vietnam. Al shoots him in the stomach. David stumbles back to the tree to meet Annabelle, but can't find her and dies. Al is arrested.
Nick helps Megan fix her broken window.
Annabelle "sees" David after looking at an old picture of him in her office.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush
- Danny Pino as Scotty Valens
- John Finn as John Stillman
- Jeremy Ratchford as Nick Vera
- Thom Barry as Will Jeffries
- Tracie Thoms as Kat Miller
Guest Cast[]
- Sarah Aldrich as Megan Easton
- Richard Blake as David Quinn
- Christa B. Allen as Annabelle Bennet (1968/1969)
- Darren Everett Criss as Reuben Harris (1969)
- Dale Dye as Al Wasserlauf (2010)
- Brian Guest as Al Wasserlauf (1969)
- James Hanlon as Detective Pierson
- Ginifer King as Shelly Hewit
- Mimi Kuzyk as Annabelle Bennet (2010)
- Jonathan LaPaglia as ADA Curtis Bell
- Karl Makinen as Roy Easton
- Johnny Messner as Ryan Cavanaugh
- James Sutorius as Reuben Harris (2010)
- Unknown actor as Jimmy
- Unknown actor as Lenny "Xavier" Franklin
Recurring[]
- Susanna Thomspon as Diane Yates
Co-Starring[]
- Dwight Hicks as Bruce Hurt
- Nick Josephs as Hippie
- Michael Keeley as Mike Keeley
- Tré Moyé as Aide
Notes[]
- The sixth episode in which the victim is a member of the military, after "Honor", "The War at Home", "Shore Leave", "WASP", and "The Good Soldier".
- Thom Barry does not appear in this episode.
- The song "Get Together" by The Youngbloods was also used in the Season 1 episode "Volunteers", which was also set in 1969. It is the second case of an end song being reused in a later episode as a flashback song, the first being "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the end song of "Wishing" being used in a flashback during "The Road".
- As part of the storyline in which Lilly is being considered to join the Federal Cold Case Unit, this case has no connection to Philadelphia, a first in the series. It instead takes place in New York.
- Though never referred to in dialogue, Roy's last name is given in cast lists as Easton, despite that Megan's sister Sloane Easton had the same last name. This means Roy either took her last name, or she happened to marry someone with the exact same last name as her own.
- Last appearance of Jonathan Lapaglia as ADA Curtis Bell.
- This episode recycles several past plot points:
- Just like "A Time to Hate", the case involves a high-ranking city official who was lovers with the victim.
- The story is about a military man who asks the girl he loves to wait for him, just like in "Shore Leave", and they plan to run away to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War, just like in "Revolution".
- There is a subplot involving terrorist hippies, like in "Blood on the Tracks". The leader of those hippies then became an author like the killer in "Volunteers".
Music[]
- Joe Cocker "Darling Be Home Soon"
- Thunderclap Newman "Something in the Air"
- Donovan "Colours"
- Big Brother and the Holding Company "Piece of My Heart"
- The Youngbloods "Get Together"
- The Band "The Weight"
