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"Quillsville Cold Case: From Retirement to Homicide Detective" and "Escape from Erasure: The Story of Albert W" is the eight part season premiere episode of the twelfth season of the American animated television series Queen of the Willis as well as the back-door pilot of Quillsville Cold Case. The episode serves as a 2023 American television miniseries originally aired in broadcast syndication in the United States from August 18, 2023, depending on market as Aeverine Zinn Digial Media Group allowed stations to air one, two or three hour episodes for this episode only. In the episode, Ava becomes a homicide detective for the Quillsville Metropolitan Police Department ("QMPD") after retiring from Craven Gifts after 35 years in the previous episode.

Several stories mesh together in this six-part episode as Quillsville Police reopens the 2019 murder of Fox 11 news anchor Zach Mullins. They soon learn that Zach had just finished working on a big story involving an Fox 11's dangerous working conditions shortly before his death. They also uncover the fact the dog bites Mullins suffered in 2007 did not come from Tabby after all, but also bit Gene Cox in 2009, Ken Owen in 2010, Scott Swan in 2019, as well as killing four Port Melissa/Fort Wayne anchormen in 2020 and Chris Moollooly in 2023.

Meanwhile, Ava is skeptical when she hears that Mayor Pence is considering marrying Ava's brother Albert, due to the problems Albert had before with three abusive ex-girlfriends and an abusive ex-wife whom the Quill County coroner now says killed another man, Rick Cereack, in 2002.

The episode was written and directed by series creator Ava Zinn. The episode features the return of Ava's brother, Albert, who was thought to have been dead in the pilot episode as well as Finola's daughters, Wendy and Electa Atkinson; Angie's Stacie Berg; Connie Rose's daughters Kellie and Lisa; Quill County Coroner Anita Mowery; QMPD Lieutenant Courtney Allen; QMPD Detectives Hunter Arnold, Larisa Mack, Jill Turner and Amy Richards; QMPD Officers Jon Chapman and Cristi Lankenpeel; and Judge Samantha Turner.

Plot

Main articles: Pilot (Queen of the Willis), Quillsville Cold Case: Albert Willis, Revenge of the Male Anchors, Revenge of the Male Anchors 2, Revenge of the Male Anchors 3, Revenge of the Male Anchors 4, and Revenge of the Male Anchors 5

Quillsville Cold Case: From Retirement to Homicide Detective

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Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Escape from Erasure: The Story of Albert W

On August 10, 2002 at the Quillsville Pool, an incidnet involving Ava, Albert, and Peggy Willis over steaks caused resentment after Ava came out as a transgender woman in 1996 making Albert the only remaining son of Harry and Peggy. Peggy and Albert had recently come to terms with Ava, respectively as a daughter and sister. Albert walked away from Ava and Peggy as Tina Craven and then-Quillsville Mayor Lee Kelso witnessed the altercation between Ava and Albert.

An extended flashback seen in "Quillsville Cold Case: Albert Willis" and "Quillsville Cold Case: Something About Loose Ava" shows how Albert and Julie met. At first, Julie was a charming person, until, over time, she started to display raging tempers. She took them out on Albert, telling him all about how her father sexually abused her as a child. Despite the violent outbursts, Albert agreed not to leave Julie. Despite being pregnant with Austen in 1990, she continued to punched Albert in the face and stomach. Albert then went to Quillsville to live closer with her then-brother Frank (now sister Ava) and sister-in-law Angie. Julie found Albert and seemingly humbly apologized for her behavior. In 1993She asked to marry her and promised to settle down in Quillsville. Albert was hesitant, but when Julie promised never to hit him again, Albert agreed, much to the chagrin of Ava and Angie. After they got married, Julie gave birth to Austen. One day in 1994, Julie brings Albert some flowers and a Quillsville Central High School prom tickets. The then 17-year old Albert shows up, but Julie arrives an hour late, angering, angering Albert and worrying Nicole Pence.

When Albert confronts Julie about it, she slaps him across the face, which begins a string of abusive episodes. Later, she shows up at Ava and Angie's house, where Albert had been staying, and apologizes to Albert. As confirmed in "Quillsville Cold Case: Battered Husbands", Peggy abused Harry when Albert and Ava were little boys. Meanwhile, Julie takes Albert to a house she bought, and also gives Albert a new puppy she bought for him named Baxter, and they kiss and make up.

After two years of a seemingly happy relationship in 1990, Albert and Julie have a son, whom they name Austen. However, unbeknownst to Albert, Julie had been stealing cars. When Albert goes to look for Julie at a local bowling alley, she abuses him again by yelling at him and grabbing him violently believing that he is seeing someone behind her back (revealed to be Nicole Pence). The next day, Karol, one of Julie's co-workers, informs Albert about Julie's theft and that Julie had also been abusing drugs; but Albert doesn't believe it.

Later that night, Albert takes Julie to a bar, believing that she is just tired from working. While at the bar, Albert sneaks into the women's bathroom, and catches Julie injecting herself with meth. She hits him violently and leaves. Albert is found by Nicole Pence, who takes him to the hospital. At the hospital, Sheriff Bill Walden advises Albert to get a restraining order against Julie, which states that if Julie bothers Albert again, she will be jailed.

The next day with Ava's help, Albert hires an attorney and files for divorce. She obtains a restraining order against Julie, and the attorney gives Albert a tape recorder to record any potentially abusive phone calls from Julie. Later that night, when Julie calls Albert, threatening to kill him if he divorces her, he records the call. In court, Julie lies and says that she never threatened to kill Albert and that she loved him, but Albert's attorney proves her wrong by playing the tape. The judge then grants Albert a restraining order against Julie and orders her to stay away from him or else she will be arrested.

After the divorce in 1996, Albert begins a relationship with Nicole that would last until 2002 and resume in 2024. One night, as they are driving home, they are pulled over by a car that they think is the police, but it is Julie, posing as a police officer and stalking Albert. Julie knocks Nicole with a blunt object and kidnaps Albert. Julie holds Albert hostage until the next day, when he manages to escape from her at a diner and he hurries to a nearby establishment, and calls 9-1-1. The police then catch Julie, who attempts to escape on a bus, and arrest her. Albert is returned home to Ava, Angie, Baxter, Austen, Tom, Deanna, Heather, learning that Nicole survived the shooting.

Albert's escape from Julie is unsuccessful, as she finds the family there and leaves Albert flowers. Sheriff Walden tries to capture Julie at the hotel room, but the capture is also unsuccessful.

In 2000, on Austen's tenth birthday at Harry's house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Julie calls Albert and tells him to wish her daughter a happy birthday for her. Albert tells Julie to leave him and Austen alone. Albert reports this incident to Sheriff Walden and he decides to put Julie's picture on the TV show America's Most Wanted. People begin to call in about a woman supposedly named Gloria Stamp, who resembles Julie and who is a truck driver. "Stamp" lives in Clearwater, Florida and had kidnapped a man, threatening to kill him if he didn't marry her.

Walden calls the Clearwater Police and asks them to do surveillance of Gloria Stamp's house, where it is revealed that "Gloria Stamp" is in fact Julie Crawford. She had married a man with two children of his own from a previous marriage, and she is pregnant with their first child together.

At the Quillsville Pool in 2002, four people riding on the zip line died at the crash scene: Moica Smith, Elizabeth Erb, Bradley Felver, and a young black-hair man the coroner identified as Albert Willis. A similar looking man who survived but was unable to communicate was identified as Rick Cerack.^[2] For 22 years, the Cereack family kept a bedside vigil over the patient they believed to be their son.^[2] However, in 2024, the identity of the surviving man began to be questioned. He was found to be Albert Willis, not Rick Cereack.^[3]

Some physical similarities existed between the two men but the severity of the injuries, which included severe head trauma and the immediate inability to communicate led local government officials to mis-identify the casualties, the hospital to carry through with the unfortunate action and caused both families to respond in a manner appropriate to the situation of each casualty: Willis was taken care of by the Cereack family in the belief that he was their son. Meanwhile, Albert was interred in a marked grave at a funeral with 1400 people in attendance. Twenty-two years passed before incidents arose that caused suspicion about identity: he made comments about things and people that were inconsistent with facts pertaining to Rick; and a classmate also reported some physical discrepancies. "Rick" confirmed that it was 'Albert Willis' that had survived when asked by hospital staff to write down the patient's name, which was then confirmed by dental records. The tragic mix-up appeared to have been caused by the similarities of appearance of Albert Willis and Rick Cereak, and the confusion at the crime scene.

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