Hearing Him Out - The Undoing
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Recap

Grace is still on the phone with the police.

Jonathan is in police custody. He doesn't look thrilled.

A helicopter lands on the property. It's the detective riding in style. Damn.

The water is calm now.

Henry practices the violin while Grace gets interrogated by the Keystone cops.

She's being forced to relive Jonathan's reentry into her life because they don't believe her. Grace wants to know what they're driving at.

The detective has great news. Elena's daughter is Jonathan's.

Back in the city, Jonathan is arriving at the jail. Assume it's Ryker's.

Henry is watching the news about his dad on his iPad. It's breakfast, and Grace wants him to turn it off.

Henry is a little lost.

Press is all over the place. Sylvia urges Grace to hire her own attorney because the police will use leverage for her cooperation by charging her with aiding and abetting or harboring a fugitive.

The courtroom is abuzz. Sylvia says Jonathan has The Badger for his court-appointed attorney.

The judge has allowed cameras. No phones or snapchatting or social media nonsense.

Jonathan arrives, eyeing Sylvia, who looks on with some compassion.

Jonathan's attorney argues he doesn't have so much as a parking ticket, but the DA says, murder and rape? He hit the ground running.

Bail is at 10 million, 2 mil cash. Henry remakes that dad looks scared.

Cots in the jail, many to a room.

It's been nearly a week by the time his attorney arrives again. The attorney has no faith in Jonathan's innocence.

Robert meets with Grace after Jonathan asks that he arrange a meeting. Grace tells him that he can't vouch for his innocence, in fact, she can't.

He made up a term -- PTB. In post traumatic betrayal, people might believe murder. He wonders if she believed it before learning that Jonathan cheated. Robert is pleased by his people reading skills. He thinks Jonathan is a dick but not a killer, or so he tells Grace.

Franklin tells Grace she should stay away from Jonathan. She feels she owes it to Henry to believe his father is innocent. She wants the truth. Franklin is shocked. What makes her think she will get the truth from Jonathan?

She tells Henry she doesn't think Jonathan did it.

Grace visits Jonathan and tells him he has a daughter. She's crying. He doesn't even seem surprised, which makes it worse.

He brings up Elena's obsession again. He begs Grace for her help, claiming she knows his heart. But if she never thought he would cheat, then she can't know he wouldn't take a life, either.

Jonathan wants her to bring Henry because Henry needs to hear from Jonathan he's innocent. Well, if he's not, that's the only way Henry will believe it. To hear a lie from Jonathan.

She's constantly reminded of his behavior with his patients.

Grace revisits the doctor again. Jonathan wasn't even discreet, he says. He wanted Elena, and he wasn't letting anything stand in his way. Grace clutches at straws. The doc says that Jonathan thrived on being the center of intense emotion. He had a God complex. Often not about the patients at all, but the emotion he got from it. He calls Jonathan a psychopath, but she says he's not a psychopath.

When Grace meets Sylvia, she's being followed by Elena's husband.

Grace talks to dad about Elena's hero worship. But what if Grace has hero worship?

Franklin admits Jonathan asked her for money, and he gave it to him. $500k. He thought he was helping Grace and Henry. He was thankful to be able to help knowing his daughter would never ask. But that's not how it went.

Franklin thinks what he did somehow helped Jonathan murder Elena. As he sobs, Grace just looks at him, eventually reaching for his hand.

Grace takes Henry to see Jonathan.

Jonathan says he loves Henry and Grace more than anything. Apparently, anything as long as it doesn't interfere with his sex life.

Jonathan tells Henry that Elena wanted to destroy their family. Henry wonders why he ran if he's innocent.

Henry is gutted.

Franklin can't get around the fact that Jonathan, if he killed Elena, bludgeoned her long after she was dead, and that's a monster. Grace refused to believe he's a monster. Franklin arranges for Grace to have a lawyer, and they play the piano together.

A fellow prisoner wants to know what it's like to be so fancy after reading about him on the google. Jonathan doesn't take well to being touched, and a fight breaks out in which Jonathan bites the shit out of the guy's hand.

He had no problem spilling blood or getting a taste of it.

Elena's husband is following Grace again.

Grace meets with Hailey Fitzgerald. Hailey is worried that Grace wants to help Jonathan, who she almost believes is guilty. She says clients believe that she can wave a magic wand and fix what has already been done.

She can win any case, but it won't help Grace. Does mucking up the case so the state cannot win do enough?

Mendoza confronts Franklin, saying he thinks Grace is withholding information or an accomplice. If Mendoza wants what he thinks to be on the record, he'll need a warrant.

Elena's husband catches up with Grace. His name is Fernando Alvez. He wants to talk. She ultimately agrees. He can't stand that Elena's character is being attacked after her death. Their words get ugly.

Fernando is seeing the same images in his head that Grace is seeing in hers.

Grace takes it to Mendoza and friend. She says Alvez has been following her. She's interested to find out how he might have ruled out as a suspect.

She asks about video surveillance. She just wants to know so that she can decide whether she can walk away from Jonathan forever. There was an active camera a block away from the scene. Mendoza gets a laptop to show her what they found.

It's her.

 

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The Undoing
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The Undoing Season 1 Episode 3 Quotes

Jonathan: I am innocent. [pounds table] Do you care?
Robert: Not really. Truth be told, I prefer my clients guilty. Takes the pressure off. I have to say, reading the police report, I would be very surprised if you were innocent. In fact, it would be difficult for an innocent man to present more guilty. Unless he was stupid, which I'm figuring you're not since you cure cancer and all.

Jonathan: I would only tell them that I am innocent.
Robert: Innocent is good, saying nothing is better.