I really could have lived without seeing that.

I never watch Cold Case, but since Desperate Housewives was a rerun and the awful Lucy Lawless made-for-tv movie Vampire Bats wasn't on yet, I watched the second half of it.

Best I can tell, the episode was about some guys who murdered a black guy back in the day and are now being prosecuted for it. Most of it was in flashback as some sort of assistant/transcriptionist in the police department relayed her account of the story.

It was bad enough watching the police ridicule a young black girl try to tell the story of how she got raped. It was worse watching the lynching scene at the end. To top it all off, they played Strange Fruit (incidentally, that was the name of the episode).

It's not surprising that all that would be upsetting, but it really caught me off guard. Choked me all up, whatnot. I can't believe people used to do that back in the day.