She also claims that Jimmy Baxter was tipped off about the arrest, noting his frantic calls to Carlo’s phone on his way to the hotel. Her deliveries are effective, if you can overlook the excessively dramatic six back-fist bangs to the wooden area behind the judge’s bench. She argues that she has proof to show that Carlo has the “nature, motive, opportunity” to kill Kofi. Prosecutor Fiona McKee (Maura Tierner) addresses the jury first. So, begins the trial, with Judge Desiato informing the involved parties that neither the press nor the public will be allowed in the courtroom.
She tells Michael what he wanted to hear all along, that he should take the case because he is the “only one” in the courthouse who will choose justice over corruption ( Your Honor’s writing room can probably integrate bitter irony into dialogues in their sleep by now). Let with no choice, Sarah will take the settlement. It is an edited clip of her arrest that shows her as the one being confrontational and using profanity to insult the cops (this is also a nice tie-in clarification to why the one cop, in the previous episode, leaned into the car, and with a firm tone, whispered to Sarah, “hands on the fucking wheel!”) This is when Michael resorts to Plan B and shows her a video on his phone. Sarah remains unconvinced, suspecting that she was set up, and wants revenge against the culprits. He states, “that’s your judgeship.” In fact, Judge LeBlanc’s oh-so-worried colleague and friend pleads with her to take the settlement: “Sarah, please, you’ve got to be smart now.” Michael, feigning to be the ‘concerned’ best friend, warns her about the dire consequences of losing if she goes to trial, which would mean that she would have a felony on her record. She opposes settling for rehab in exchange for charges against her dropped and her arrest record expunged. There is a lot of commendable attention to details here, an often-underrated aspect in this era of binging, for which writer Frank Baldwin and director Eva Sørhaug should be praised.Īfter Sarah’s disastrous evening in “ Part Seven,” undoubtedly orchestrated by the Baxter family’s cronies with collaboration from Michael – or should he also be counted as a Baxter crony at this point? To be contemplated – “Part Eight” opens with Sarah confiding in Michael her thoughts on the options offered to her. If you are fan of the show, you should probably invest enough time to view this episode at least twice, in order to discern many of the subtleties in the characters’ behavior, and why they make certain noteworthy remarks that may at first sound trivial to the casual ear. This is an hour of characters with a purpose, dialogues with meaning, and visceral reactions stemming from genuine emotions, the best one Your Honor had to offer since “ Part Two.” It accomplished that in the most preferable manner, via first-rate performances by every actor, and by challenging the audience to carefully observe the ominous courtroom scenes. Baxter case – as the central development, while draining out (and I mean that in a good way) the various plot distractions that seemed to hinder, to some small degree, the organic progress of the show’s main storylines over the last two episodes. “Part Eight” is a standout episode that grounds the court case – that may as well be labeled unofficially at this point, the Desiato vs.
Notice: All episode reviews contain spoilers “ Part Eight” – Aired on January 31, 2021
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