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The House is the 4th case of the second season of the series and is the 27th overall.

Description[]

When human remains are found outside a former state prison, the team re-opens the 1968 case of a dead inmate, murdered on the night Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Concert was broadcast to prisons throughout the country. However, when it's revealed that the bones don't belong to the person everyone had assumed, the team must start the probe anew by first identifying who the victim was.

Synopsis[]

Bobbi is now married to Lyle.

The bones are discovered not to be Hank. The bones found were Johnny's.

Rush realizes Lyle is Hank. She tells how Johnny was in the car with her, waiting for Hank. Johnny makes a pass at her, then regrets it. Bobbi tells him he is her second favorite man in the world. Johnny gets out of the car to see what's keeping Hank. He goes into the manhole to find him. Bobbi grabs a gun from the glove compartment and follows. Johnny declares his love for Bobbi. He swings at Hank. Bobbi tells Johnny she will never be his. Johnny and Hank fight. Johnny swings at Hank, who avoids the hit. He hits Johnny on the head. Bobbi tells Hank to put on Johnny's clothes.

The warden is arrested.

"Valens "sees" Johnny.

Hank and Bobbi sit together on a boat.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

Co-Starring[]

Notes[]

  • Lilly first mentions her old flame Ray Williams, though not by name.
  • The first episode featuring songs by only one artist, rather than many artists from the same era.
  • Blake Clark and Travis Clark - the actors playing older and younger Mike Jaden - are real-life father and son.
  • The episode was remade as the nineteenth episode of No Statute of Limitations.
  • Seamus Dever (young Hank) and Fiona Gubelmann (young Bobbi) later starred together in an episode of Castle (2009) called 'Tone Death' which aired in 2016. Dever was part of the main cast for the entire run on the show, Gubelmann guest starred in this one episode - they did not share any scenes.
  • Johnny Cash's concert at Folsom State Prison was featured as a scene in the 2005 biographic drama film, Walk the Line based on the life and career of Johnny Cash.

Music[]

All songs are performed by Johnny Cash.

  • "Folsom Prison Blues"
  • "Orange Blossom Special"
  • "I Got Stripes"
  • "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog"
  • "Cocaine Blues"
  • "Ring of Fire"
  • "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
  • "Give My Love to Rose"
  • Closing Song: "Flesh and Blood"

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