Warning: SPOILERS for the Fits LA episode “Dexter” are forward!
The sixth episode of Fits LA has been launched onto the 2025 TV schedule, that means we’re now at roughly the midway mark of this debut season’s 13-episode run. Nonetheless, one multi-episode arc has already come to a detailed, as Lester Thompson’s homicide trial ended with him being discovered not responsible. Whereas not as closely concerned within the case as Ted Black, Erica Rollins did present invaluable help on it all through Fits LA’s first 5 episodes. Now that the trial’s out of the best way, actress Lex Scott Davis knowledgeable CinemaBlend what’s subsequent arising subsequent on the NBC sequence, together with how she and Stephen Amell’s character are centered on saving their agency.
Having beforehand spoken with Davis previous to Fits LA’s premiere about matters just like the opening episode’s twist for Erica, I had the pleasure of chatting together with her once more forward of “Dester,” which can be streamed with a Peacock subscription. Now that Thompson received’t be going to jail for the dying of his producing associate, Simon, right here’s what the actress informed me about what this implies for Erica within the latter half of the season:
It positively units her up to have the ability to be in the identical dialog with legal purchasers. There’s clearly an intersection between leisure and legal regulation that occurs with our agency, and since she was additive on this case, I feel transferring ahead, there are new alternatives that may current themselves the place she will additionally assist the legal aspect of issues, although her foremost focus is the leisure regulation.
Erica has primarily been centered on her personal work as head of leisure at Black & Associates on Fits LA, together with pairing The Workplace’s Brian Baumgartner and Patton Oswalt collectively. However in final week’s episode, “You’re on Your Personal,” she found out, with help from Rick Dodsen, that the assertion Lester Thompson gave to the police on the evening of Simon’s dying was nearly word-for-word ripped from dialogue he’d written in a script. This led Kevin, the investigator Ted introduced on to work on the case, to strain Lester into admitting he did certainly kill Simon, quite than him dying by suicide. Extra on that later.
Like Lex Scott Davis stated, delving into such legal regulation issues it outdoors Erica Rollins’ wheelhouse, however dipping her toes into this proverbial pool with the Lester Thompson case will permit her to increase stated wheelhouse. Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply that Ted and Erica woking alongside one another extra typically. Davis knowledgeable me that whereas they’re each working to verify Black & Associates stays afloat, they’ll be doing so with totally different duties, saying:
There’s a bit little bit of each. I feel the actual job at hand is saving the agency. And remembering [when] the the pilot opens up, there is a bomb that goes off. We’re dropping purchasers, this case was an enormous deal breaker for the destiny of our agency as nicely. So she’s nonetheless on the trail of saving [it]. We’ll get her and Ted collectively just a few instances, however for essentially the most half, in nice Ted style, he is sending her off to go deal with one thing on his behalf. And he or she offers some crap for it too, like, ‘You all the time ask me to do your work!’ That is like a operating theme for them. So a bit little bit of them collectively, however for essentially the most half, they’ve totally different duties at hand.
So far as how the Lester Thompson trial ended, Kevin recorded Lester revealing that he shot Simon in self protection after Simon tried to kill him for studying in regards to the stolen cash. Kevin initially saved this info from Ted in order to not blow up his case, however he ended up studying about it anyway. He then switched to the self protection plea for the case, one thing he initially steered clear from, however it proved to be the appropriate name.
Thanks to assist from Stuart Lane, he utilized the transcript from Lester’s divorce negotiations, as Valerie Thompson was on the document saying that Simon wished to kill Lester. That was aided by a witness the prosecution introduced in who noticed the taking pictures from afar that evening and initially thought she overheard somebody saying, “I’m going to kill you lifeless, sir.” That was truly Simon saying to Lester, “I’m going to kill you, Dester,” which was the defendant’s nickname. All this was sufficient to persuade the jury to seek out him not responsible.
In order that concludes this arc for Fits LA, however there’ll be greater than sufficient to maintain Erica and Ted occupied as we enter the latter half of the season. The way forward for Black & Associates stays rocky, so we’ll see how these two get the agency on steadier floor as new episodes air Sundays at 9 pm ET on NBC.