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Presumed Innocent Recap: Reasonable Doubts
Raymond and Mya are way better lawyers than Tommy and Rusty.
These sequences all kind of meld together in the greater rhythm of did-this-happen-or-not scenes, but in the case of Raymond’s head explosion, it was clearly a setup: As he is cross-examining Michael, Carolyn’s kid, who was brought back to the stand despite his father’s best efforts, he loses his balance and falls on the floor with a thud. Chewing Tommy out in the back of their car, Nico puts it perfectly: Kumagai comes across as “an aggrieved, grudge-bearing disgrunt,” one whose analysis of Rusty’s DNA under Carolyn’s fingernails was suspiciously missing from the initial report. I’m not sure that the state of their marriage was telegraphing safety in any way, and this haphazard justification takes away from the impact of Ruth Negga’s “darkest hour” line delivery at the beginning of the episode, as if the writers just had to tack on a motive instead of letting the viewer sink into the mysteries of character.
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