Scotty, Kat, Will, and Nick were sitting in a circle around Lilly's desk when John came with Anna, who is holding Buddy's case box.

"I see you went in the archive room." Lilly said while looking Anna put down the box.

"What can I say?" Anna asked with a smile. "Haven't been in there since the Eve Kendall case."

"Good Times." Scotty said as he opened the brown case box and took out a picture of Buddy.

"Now, Buddy Tensmin." Anna read the paper. "Black male, seventeen years old, beaten to death in Red Lion State Forest, brutal force trauma to the chest."

"Lived with his mom and older brother." Lilly continued "Father died of stomach cancer the year he was born."

"Any weapon at the site?" Nick asked. Scotty then rose the photos from the crime scene.

"Well." He started talking. "Cops found a broken lantern at the scene, predicted that the doer bludgeon Buddy's head and chest with it, breaking the glass."

"We'd better tell his family that we're reopening his case." Stillman said holding the map. "They may be familiar with this new lead."

"They're probably thinking the cops ditched their son's case for good." Lilly said looking at Buddy's photo.


Lilly sat down and showed the map Doreen and Heaton Tensmin, living in a small farm in the suburbs in West Philly.

"She's right mom, it is Buddy's." Heaton said as he gave the map to his mother, she tried not to hardly breathe as she looked at it.

"It never made sense." Doreen said sadly "Buddy never mentioned enemies, he was a friendly kid that didn't really make enemies."

"I'm very sorry." Lilly said. Heaton then took and paper and gave it to Lily, it revealed to her to be a list of names.

"I think it might help you." he said "Its a list of Buddy's friends, most of them are alive."

"Did you know any of them?" Lily asked curiously.

"Only three." Doreen answered "Firstly Danby Vine, he and Buddy were best friends since they were kindergartners, Danby would go hiking and horseback riding with him."

"And then there's Field Livingston." Heaton continued "A college researcher who lived four neighborhoods away, but he's dead, he was smoker and died of lung cancer in 2002."

"Who the thrid?" Lilly asked

"Nalanie Strawfields." Doreen said nervously "This little girl that Buddy befriended, her nasty classmates tormented and she really needed friends like Buddy. We first met her at Buddy's funeral, although she was too young to understand at the time, she never forgot Buddy."

Lily looked sympathetically at the woman, trying not to cry. Lily started thinking about how she lost her mother for a moment "Thank You Miss Tensmin, I'll come back when I learn for info."

Lily watched Doreen and Heaton look at the map as she left the house.


In the woods near the stream, Nalanie, now a teenage girl wearing an orange plaid shirt and pink shorts, glared at the river as she sat on a bench, Lily and Scotty joined her.

Nalanie looked up "Buddy was beat to death and robbed?" she asked in a verge of tears "Who would do that?"

"Nalanie" Lily started to talk "Did Buddy have any kinds of problems?"

"He was free-spirited, none at all."

Scotty looked at her briefly "No enemies at all?"

"No" she said again "But there were the white people in our neighborhood."

"They were a problem how?" Lily asked

Nalanie answered as she turned her head "They stilled believed in segregation."

"60's segregation?" Scotty asked confusedly

"Yes" Nalanie said "Sixties Segregation."


("And Still" - Reba McEntire)

Buddy and Nalanie sit on the same bench while Danby bring his milk delivery.

"Would like a surprise, Nalanie?" asked Buddy

"Okay, I loved to." Nalanie answered. Buddy then opened a bag and took out a ship-in-a-bottle.

"My grandfather went on a ship like this when he was a sailor." Buddy explained "When my brother becomes a sailor, he's going the same boat."

"What will you become?" Nalanie asked curiously as she examined the bottle.

"I'll think about it" Buddy replied. Then a white man comes up and pushes Buddy off the bench and tries to strangle him.

"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU go near this white girl!" the man yells "Critter!"

Danby comes running and hits the man's head with a cane, the man angrily retreats and Danby then helps his best friend.

"Are you okay?" Danby asked nervously. Buddy looked at him trying not to cry. "Fine" he finally said "I'm all right."

Nalanie looked at the scene in fear.


"When you live in the country side of a state, you see the daily problem it has." Nalanie quoted "Kansas has windstorms, California has earthquakes. But here, we have racists." Nalanie stood up walked alittle closer to the stream and looked at herself.

"You know." Lilly said "Your friend, Danby probably might know alittle bit more."

"I think so." Nalanie said turning her head around "He knew Buddy way longer then I ever did."


Back at the bullpen, Kat and Nick walked to one of the table to a patiently waiting Danby, now young in his early 20s, Kat gave him the map as he looked at with an almost shocked expression.

"It didn't make sense when cops had no description of this at the scene back then." said Danby still looking at the map

Nick glared at him with a blank expression "We heard you two had racist problems in you're neighborhood." he said "Seems like you two were uninvited outsiders."

"Only to the white people, yes" said Danby "But thankfully some white kids in our school befriended "

Kat's expression became from blank to curious "Anyone who had trouble with Buddy?" she asked

"Well, Field was slowly getting nuts with all the "white" trouble" answered Danby as he gave her back the map.

"Field Livingston?" Kat asked

"Yes" Danby said "After some white boys broke his window, he was getting alittle concerned."


("Halfway Down" - Patty Loveless)

"I mean it, don't go anywhere with them around you." Field told Buddy and Danby as he walked with the two boys in the park.

"What about Vanessa?" Buddy asked as he hanged his head "and Felicity?"

"Now those girls are fine." explained Field "But everyone else isn't capable of letting us mine our business, so remember boys, be careful." As he stopped talking, a teenage white girl with long sunflower blonde hair walks up to Buddy.

"Buddy, good news!" the excited girl said "My parents say its okay if I go hiking with you Sunday afternoon."

"Great Vanessa." Buddy said "I'm still happy your parents are still stand up for us, and the other black people we know."

"No problem." said Vanessa still smiles as Field watches them as he looked behind them, where three white girls looking at them looking upset to see them together and walk off.

Dandy stared at the man.


"Even I could see that he was becoming someone else than who he really was." said Dandy sadly "Day by day, his relationship to all white people became concerning." Kat looked at him.

"You think his concerns turned into hatred?" asked Kat. Danby then turned to her, "Probably not." he said "He, Nalanie, and I were with Buddy when he died."

"So what you doing in a Delaware forest?" Nick asked curiously and suspiciously.

Danby started to talk as he gave Nick the map. "We were going to stay there for four weeks, but after Buddy's death, we only stayed two weeks, after that we went to his funeral."