Jet realizes: She didn’t just withhold evidence in Frankie’s case. She was fed false evidence by Judge Ellison’s late husband, who was covering for Leo. She was a pawn. But she chose to remain blind.
Jet almost laughs. Then Marcus recites Frankie Delgado’s old prison ID number. “Frankie and me, we were in the same shelter once. He told me about you. About the night you framed him.” cast of criminal justice season 2
Flashback: Leo, a charming sociopath, had filmed Frankie finding the dagger in a locked study. Leo threatened to plant it in Frankie’s apartment unless Frankie helped him “disappear” a rival’s car. Frankie refused. Two weeks later, Frankie was arrested for a different murder—one Leo’s father, the judge, helped orchestrate to silence him. Jet realizes: She didn’t just withhold evidence in
– Grieving but unnervingly composed. She presides over Marcus’s arraignment—a conflict of interest she waves away with cold authority. At night, alone in her cavernous penthouse, she speaks to a shrine of her son Leo: a golden boy who wasn’t so golden. Leo had a secret second phone. On it: videos of him tormenting homeless vets for sport, including Marcus. And one more face: Frankie Delgado , whom Leo had hired as a handyman the year before Frankie’s wrongful conviction. Deep Story Synopsis Act One: The Body on the Pier But she chose to remain blind
A December night. Leo Ellison is found stabbed on a rotting pier beneath the Queensboro Bridge. Marcus Thorne is arrested at dawn. The press calls it a “vagrant’s rage.” Jet Raines is assigned as his public defender—not out of mercy, but because her boss wants her to fail quietly.
Detective Amina Shah, demoted after questioning the rushed arrest, secretly hands Jet a file: the dagger’s provenance. It was part of a collection of Ottoman relics owned by Judge Ellison’s late husband. The same dagger was reported stolen three years ago—around the same time Frankie Delgado was hired by Leo to do odd jobs at the Ellison mansion.