A university professor refers one of her young students, Emma Stone, studying the Suffragette movement, to see Lilly Rush, who according to her, is the only female homicide detective in the city. Lilly tells her she is not the only one in the department now. What has brought Emma to seek help involves the murder of her great-aunt Francis Stone, a crime that was never solved.
One can imagine how hard it is to trace back an incident of almost a century ago, but the detectives of this unit are resourceful enough to realize there were forces behind the murder of the young society girl that had just been asked to marry one of the wealthy young men of her circle.
When Francis discovers what men are trying to do to the courageous women asking for the right to vote, she immediately feels attracted to join their cause. Justice is on their side. Her parents are upset at the way their daughter want to resign to a future happiness without anything to worry about and throw herself into an unpopular cause from the male point of view. No one is more negative than Francis' mother, Elizabeth. This lady holds the key to the mystery.
At the same time, Lilly has to deal with getting her mother out of jail. Ellen Rush appears to be lost to the liquor that keeps her going. Ellen is in denial about her addiction, something that Lilly wants to help her to get over, without much luck.
A good episode directed by Kevin Bray. The screenplay was written by Tyler Bensinger who made a few mistakes in the way some facts are mentioned in the story. Prohibition had already passed, so the threat to Mr. Stone's liquor business was already threatened, not because the voting rights were passed to women.
Meredith Baxter is a welcome addition to any show, as she proves here. Erin Cahill is appealing as the dead heroine of the story. Zach Greiner, Carolyn McCormick and the rest of the cast do well under the direction of Mr. Bray.
One other wrong note, wasn't Stardust written a decade later?
One can imagine how hard it is to trace back an incident of almost a century ago, but the detectives of this unit are resourceful enough to realize there were forces behind the murder of the young society girl that had just been asked to marry one of the wealthy young men of her circle.
When Francis discovers what men are trying to do to the courageous women asking for the right to vote, she immediately feels attracted to join their cause. Justice is on their side. Her parents are upset at the way their daughter want to resign to a future happiness without anything to worry about and throw herself into an unpopular cause from the male point of view. No one is more negative than Francis' mother, Elizabeth. This lady holds the key to the mystery.
At the same time, Lilly has to deal with getting her mother out of jail. Ellen Rush appears to be lost to the liquor that keeps her going. Ellen is in denial about her addiction, something that Lilly wants to help her to get over, without much luck.
A good episode directed by Kevin Bray. The screenplay was written by Tyler Bensinger who made a few mistakes in the way some facts are mentioned in the story. Prohibition had already passed, so the threat to Mr. Stone's liquor business was already threatened, not because the voting rights were passed to women.
Meredith Baxter is a welcome addition to any show, as she proves here. Erin Cahill is appealing as the dead heroine of the story. Zach Greiner, Carolyn McCormick and the rest of the cast do well under the direction of Mr. Bray.
One other wrong note, wasn't Stardust written a decade later?