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Presumed Innocent pulls off an impressive reveal with carefully deployed clues waiting for the moment their meaning would become clear.

In the end, Presumed Innocent did not land on the murder suspect with the most evidence against them, or the perpetrator from the original source material, or any of its tricksy red herrings, or even Tommy Molto’s cat. Jaden as the murderer is shocking in a way that feels quickly obvious, and Presumed Innocent doesn’t pull that off with a long trail of physical clues. There are so few physical clues, in fact, that Rusty has to introduce or explain the relevant ones in this scene: He found Carolyn’s body and assumed Barbara killed her, which is why he tried to cover it up and implicate someone else.

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