My Guide to Episode Three of Presumed Innocent: Discovery on Apple TV will include an episode summary, and my thoughts about this Apple TV adaptation compared to the 1987 book and 1990 movie adaptation. Spoilers will be marked or protected!
Are you joining me mid-series? Here are links to my prior Presumed Innocent Episode Guides in order:
Introduction to Presumed Innocent on Apple TV
Spoilers and Plot Summary for the book Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Episode One of Presumed Innocent on Apple TV: Bases Loaded
Episode Two of Presumed Innocent on Apple: People vs. Rozat Sabich
Episode Four of Presumed Innocent: The Burden
My Guide to Episode Three of Presumed Innocent: Discovery
- Summary of Events of Presumed Innocent Episode Three AND
- My Thoughts on Presumed Innocent Episode Three
- Comparison of Presumed Innocent Episode Three to the 1987 book and 1990 movie
Summary of Events of Presumed Innocent Episode Three: Discovery
- This episode picks up right where episode two left off: Rusty has received a text from someone who said “You Were There. I Saw You.”
- Rusty immediately calls the number, but the person hangs up. Then he texts.
- Barbara comes outside and Rusty has to admit that yes, he was at Carolyn’s apartment the night of the murder. But not to kill her, honey!!! Barb’s face says it all.
- Then there’s a scene with Rusty whacking Carolyn over the head with what I assume is the missing fireplace poker. What? But it’s just Raymond’s bad dream.
- Raymond is upset that there’s a witness who says they can place Rusty at the murder scene that night.
- Raymond introduces his second chair on the case, Mya Winslow. Here’s a nod to the poor absent Sandy Stern: Mya worked for him. Sandy deserves better. I wish they’d just made Sandy female, but in the spoilers, I will again argue why I think they made this change.
- Barbara has also been demoted from a brainy mathematician in the book and 1990 movie to a 40-something art gallery girl. And, Barbara’s boss tells her to make herself scarce until the unpleasantness is resolved.
- Barbara goes to a bar to drink away her sorrows and flirt with the attractive bartender. Then there’s a scene where Lorraine, Raymond’s wife, suggests Barbara have a revenge fling.
- Tommy Molto attacks Rigo for going to see Liam Reynolds. She pushes back, but Della Guardia says she is off Rusty’s case. Rigo picks up the phone and orders up the Bunny Davis files.
- Rusty gets another text from the mystery witness with a meeting place. He shows up and the tester is Carolyn’s son, now named Michael. He says he has pictures AND videos taken at Carolyn’s place on the night she died. And he gave them to the DA.
- This is only good news because, at the pre-trial conference, Raymond is able to nail the prosecution for not turning over this evidence. The judge is not amused and tells a story about how a trial is like hemorrhoids. And, having done jury duty, I think it’s all the sitting.
- At a family dinner, Rusty’s teen kids interrogate him as only teens can do. There is no better preparation for being on trial! Rusty admits what evidence the state has against him and it’s not great: he was at the scene. He texted her incessantly. Oh, and she was pregnant with his baby. His son asks if he’d consider a manslaughter plea.
- In an amusing piece of acting, Della Guardia psychoanalyzes Molto and wonders if he’s up for trying this case.
- Mya, the new defense lawyer, asks Rusty if he loved Carolyn. She needs to know for her psych profile of him. He gives some weird answer about love creeping up slowly on you.
- In an interesting scene that confirms my hunch about where this could be going, Raymond tells Rusty to stop obsessing about the second semen sample in the Bunny Davis case. Gee, wonder why that could be?
- Rusty receives copies of Michael’s photos and is shocked to see his son Kyle lurking around in one of them.
Comparison of Presumed Innocent Episode Three: Discovery to the 1987 book and 1990 movie
Besides wishing they’d kept Barbara as a woman in STEM and mourning the elimination of Sandy, there aren’t many new differences than the ones I mentioned in my posts on episodes one and two.
But I’m liking where this is going.
Making Rusty have two teen kids instead of one elementary school-aged one is a smart move as we get to see the effect of their father’s betrayal on them. Plus, they were useful in this episode as the “character who gets things explained to them.”
Plus, we get a new suspect: Kyle. I’m calling Kyle as a red herring, though.
My top suspects for the killer in Presumed Innocent (only a spoiler if I’m right):
- Based on this episode, I think Raymond could be the other sperm sample in the Bunny Davis case. We need to learn more about who Bunny was and how this could have happened. I’m counting on Rigo to get to the bottom of this. She is a good Lip replacement!
- Perhaps Carolyn found this out, and maybe Raymond killed Carolyn to keep her quiet
- My other BIG suspect is still Lorraine, Raymond’s wife. She’s very controlling and involved in all Raymond’s work stuff. If, like in the book, Raymond was sleeping with Carolyn, I could see Lorraine killing her.
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