'Trial & Error' Season 1 Episode 3 Spoilers: Justice Doesn't Stand a Chance Against NBC's True Crime Mockumentary
NBC's newest comedy series, "Trial & Error" is a true crime mockumentary that brings wide-eyed New York lawyer Josh Segal (Nicholas D'Agosto) to the small town of East Peck to take on his first murder case. But how can he hope to defend a man whose every action only seems to prove his guilt?
What was supposed to have been just preliminary representation turns into a full-time job for Josh when his client, Larry Henderson (John Lithgow), gets buried in one incriminating evidence after another. Did the seemingly harmless poetry professor kill his wife of five years, or is there an entirely different side to the story that someone else has been working hard to hide?
In another back-to-back episode, Josh and his team will follow the trail of the new evidence they have uncovered at the end of episode 2. But when this, too, leads to nothing, they turn to a previously unexamined "sex print" on the wall that may lead to a shocking new suspect.
But Josh's own carelessness may put his team's defense in jeopardy when he inadvertently shares a piece of incriminating evidence to the prosecution in episode 3, titled "The Other Man."
Episode 4 follows right away to pick up on the trail of a new suspect, only for said suspect to turn up in a coma. Titled "An Unwelcome Distraction," the episode will turn Josh's enthusiasm to prove Larry's innocence into an incriminating lead that could turn the hapless lawyer into a suspect himself.
On the other hand, a frantic search for the murder weapon ensues after the prosecutor, Carol Anne Keane (Jayma Mays), presents the victim's autopsy report in court. The report reveals that Larry's wife may have been struck by a blunt object prior to being thrown through a plate glass window.
The promo trailer for the show's first season shows that more surprising evidence will be turning up, which could somehow land Larry's own adoptive daughter, Summer (Krysta Rodriguez), in prison in what is promising to be the wackiest murder trial in recent TV.
"Trial & Error" season 1 episodes 3 and 4 airs on Tuesday, March 21 at 9 p.m. EDT on NBC.
