Cold Case · Season 6, Episode 22
“The Long Blue Line” · Season 6, Episode 22
In this episode: Lilly Rush (3), Nick Vera (1), Scotty Valens (1), Will Jeffries (1), John Stillman (1)
Pennsylvania Military Institute, all male for 162 years.
Well, mid-90s Justice Department forced almost every state military academy to admit qualified female applicants. Even Valley Forge and The Citadel are coed now.
PMI was only of the last holdouts till 4 years ago. Can't believe this is still an issue.
Male institutions dragging their feet to admit women? Yeah, glad that's behind us.
Next thing you know, they'll start letting them be detectives.
[Scotty Valens and Lilly Rush are being shown the floor of Echo Company's barracks at the Pennsylvania Military Institute, where Kate Butler stayed in her time there.]
[Reading a plaque on the wall] 'A cadet shall not lie, cheat, or steal, nor shall he tolerate those who do'.
Honor Code; notice they got one in every building.
Single-sanction policy, ma'am; one violation gets you drummed out.
Pretty strict code for most mortals.
[The three have reached the former room of PMI's first two female cadets. Cadet Gardner turns around before unlocking the door; he holds up the gold class ring on his right hand and speaks as if quoting scripture.]
And on the Eighth Day, God created PMI.
[Colonel Murillo, Commandant of the Pennsylvania Military Institute, has been called to the Philadelphia PD's offices for questioning.]
Thank you for coming in, Mr. Murillo.
It's Colonel Murillo. I think I've earned that.
You can have a seat.
You have a problem with Cadet Butler enrolling at PMI, Colonel?
What's this all about? [Looks at Stillman] Lieutenant?
I believe the detective asked you a question.
What I have a problem with is irrelevant in view of what the courts have decided, now isn't it?
It isn't when you allow a student to be assaulted on campus.
That's a bit presumptuous. Am I on the stand here?
You knew Kate was attacked; you should have stopped it from going further.
I knew no such thing.
We have a cadet who witnessed it. Told you what he saw.
What Cadet Keith Henderson told me was hearsay: I chose to go directly to the horse's mouth.
[A flashback scene occurs with Kate Butler reporting to COL Murillo's office; when asked if she was assaulted by an upperclassman in the barracks the previous night, she denies it, despite Murillo reminding her of the Honor Code, which forbids a cadet from lying.]
So that's it? You just let her go?
What the hell would you have me do? The Honor Code is the backbone of the Institute. If she says it didn't happen, it didn't.
She was trying to suck it up. To fit in with the male cadets.
Well, then. She made her choice, didn't she?
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