[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for The Rainmaker Episode 2, “Nashville Hot.”]
All the legal professionals on The Rainmaker should get their palms soiled within the second episode of the season, however in very alternative ways.
The episode begins with Melvin Pritcher (Dan Fogler) visiting his mom’s grave after which embarking on a mission to search out out who killed her and get justice. On the similar time, Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) and Deck (P.J. Byrne) are hellbent on discovering out info on him and eavesdrop on his contentious assembly along with his pretrial officer wherein he declares his innocence in her loss of life. They wish to discuss to him straight about what he is aware of in regards to the hospital, however Bruiser (Lana Parrilla) says she’ll want to speak to his lawyer first, as an expert courtesy. She sends them off as a substitute to search out the opposite fired hospital nurse, Jackie Lemancyzk, however they don’t abide by her directions.
As an alternative, they break into Melvin’s motel room, which is already being watched by a pair of personal eyes who witness the scene as Melvin drives his truck proper in via the window to confront his burglars. Earlier than they’re basically run over, Rudy and Deck discover Jackie’s handle in Pritcher’s stuff, and, fortunately for them, the investigators don’t comply with them as they flee. It’s an unfortunate resolution for the PIs, although, as one quickly finds himself entrapped by Melvin, then kidnapped, tortured, and murdered within the woods earlier than his associate can discover him.
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After getting a deserved tongue lashing from Bruiser again at their abandoned-taco-shop headquarters, Rudy convinces her that they need to exhume Donny Ray’s physique to show he was not utilizing heroin on the time of his loss of life. In the meantime, Bruiser units off to get Melvin’s lawyer’s blessing to talk with him — convincing him to take action whereas within the throes of a romantic interlude.
(Lana Parrilla, for one, is a fan of Bruiser’s tactic right here. “Lots of people haven’t seen like that, that grit in me … a lady that may roll up her sleeves and take a punch,” she advised TV Insider. “The exploration of her may be very bodily… She may be very masculine in her method, particularly with regards to intimacy. It’s been enjoyable.”)
The outcomes of their in-house post-mortem show he died of a substance overdose, and Bruiser sends Rudy to inform his mom, Dot, that they don’t have a case and must settle. Nevertheless, Dot nonetheless doesn’t imagine Donny Ray was utilizing once more and sends Rudy away with a promise that she received’t ever settle the case. Plus, she’s misplaced religion in him as her lawyer. When Rudy returns to share the information with Bruiser, he admits he’s “not a superb ambulance chaser,” like her.
“Have you learnt the place the time period ‘ambulance chaser’ comes from?” she replies with hand on hip. “It was utilized by white shoe companies within the ’20s to crap on any lawyer that wasn’t a member of their membership. When the contingency charge legislation was enacted, small companies rose up stuffed with attorneys who have been similar to their shoppers, those on the Statue of Liberty — the drained, poor, the huddled plenty, those self same individuals are our shoppers now, and in case you don’t prefer it, you suppose you’re higher than them, you’re not. You’re them.” She then sends him and Deck to Donny Ray’s condominium to collect intel to make use of as leverage at a possible settlement convention.
Within the rest room the place Donny was discovered lifeless, Rudy and Deck uncover and acquire urine nonetheless in the bathroom that proves he wasn’t utilizing medicine. It’s inadmissible in court docket for a mess of causes, however it is useful through the listening to as Leo Drummond (John Slattery) makes a shock transfer for abstract judgment. As Bruiser struggles to show there’s a real concern of truth about whether or not Donny used medicine, Rudy boldly stands up and takes the lead, revealing the urinalysis as proof that there’s a dispute of truth. Whereas he’ll nonetheless face objections galore over the admissibility of that proof, the movement nonetheless fails.
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After, Leo makes a risk after which a suggestion to Bruiser. He can get his consumer to accept $150,000, although he thinks the case is flimsy. Certainly, his consumer, Keeley (Hugh Quarshie), is wanting to settle after that listening to setback and even raises that determine to $250,000 of his personal volition. When he asks whether or not Rudy will get in the best way of a settlement, Leo turns to Sarah (Madison Iseman) for extra delicate intel about Rudy… and he or she obliges by mentioning his lifeless brother.
When Sarah later meets with Rudy on the bar, she compliments his court docket efficiency however makes no point out of her betrayal by revealing his darkest second to her boss.
That is additionally the primary episode after we meet Kelly Riker (Robyn Cara), Rudy’s neighbor, and see that she is being abused by her husband and squirreling away cash, probably in hopes of an eventual escape. By means of the window, Rudy sees her testing her bruises within the rest room mirror, and the husband sees him watching in. Followers of the e-book upon which that is primarily based will know this isn’t heading anyplace good for Rudy.
On the settlement convention, Dot walks out after the corporate refuses to apologize for Donny’s loss of life. Rudy chases after her, and when she accuses him of not understanding her anguish, he lastly reveals his personal expertise with tragedy and the lack of his brother. He convinces her that Donny would need her to be taken care of, and it’s sufficient to carry her again to the desk. Nevertheless, earlier than Dot can signal the settlement, Rudy decides to name it off. Bruiser, who’d been pushing for the settlement, in the end agrees. “See you in court docket, Leo,” she warns.
After scolding Brad (Wade Briggs) for his very unhelpful and insensitive feedback within the assembly, Leo tells Sarah that she’s about to should get her palms soiled… as if she hasn’t already.
The Rainmaker, Fridays, 10/9c, USA Community