Conviction Recap 10/10/16: Season 1 Episode 2 “Bridge and Tunnel Vision”

Conviction Recap 10/10/16: Season 1 Episode 2 "Bridge and Tunnel Vision"

Tonight on ABC their new crime drama Conviction airs with an all-new Monday, October 10, 2016, episode and we have your Conviction recap below.  On tonight’s Conviction recap, Wallace’s (Eddie Cahill) career-making case is reexamined by CIU team, but there are unforeseen complexities in this rape and robbery case.

Did you watch last week’s Conviction premiere where Hayes needed to dig herself out of what could be a publicly embarrassing situation?  If you missed we have a full and detailed Conviction recap, right here for you!

On tonight’s Conviction premiere as per the ABC synopsis, “Hayes confronts Wallace head-on, investigating the case that made his career ten years ago: the Prospect 3. Three young white men confessed to the rape and robbery of a young black woman. Hayes hopes to catch Wallace off guard with the team’s investigation, but the complex case serves up a major surprise. When the young woman’s character takes a hit in the press during the investigation, she is victimized for a second time, which Hayes takes personally.”

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There were still a few people that thought Sam Spencer deserved the job as leader of the CIU more than Hayes Morrison. But Sam refused to dish on his new boss and Hayes was finally getting interested in her job even if she still like to be promiscuous with a few waiters at her mother’s fundraiser. So for now Hayes was getting the chance to enjoyed her new position and what she wanted to do for their second case was to go after one of Wallace’s convictions. Wallace was the sitting District Attorney and so it would have been taboo to go after one of his cases yet Hayes didn’t want to let that bother her.

Hayes simply wanted to go after something high profile and so Tess eventually gave her the idea that they should look at the Prospect 3 case. The Prospect 3 case was about three teenagers that supposedly went into the park to drink and create mayhem. Although, the story drastically changes when all three also and allegedly went on to brutally rape and assault Zadie Daniels. Tess however wasn’t so sure about that last part. Tess had said that her previous boss had wanted to look into the case and had never gotten the chance however the both of them thought that the confessions in the case might have been coerced.

Tess said that all three boys were held in a room for over ten years without anything to drink, eat, and they didn’t even get the chance to leave to use the bathroom. So Tess had thought the case was worth looking into and that’s how she was able to convince Hayes to agree. However, the rest of Hayes’s team were apprehensive about taking on the District Attorney. It was Wallace that had hired everyone for the Conviction Integrity Unit and they didn’t want to upset him. Nor did they want him to find out that they were even looking at the case because pretty much everyone thought the boys did it.

Yet, Hayes said that’s the case they were working so the others were kind of forced into going along. So they had all did as Hayes asked by splitting up into teams were the guys interviewed the boys that were now men again and the ladies re-watched the video from that night, but Hayes had sat in when Tess and Mazxine watched the video so she had technically been the first one that caught on to the contamination. Hayes had heard the police feed the boys information about the weapon used to bludgeon the victim so that meant they didn’t know what was used on Zadie until the police feed them the information.

So some of the people that were admittedly skeptical in the beginning began to change their minds about the Prospect 3. Maxine for instance had decided to do the run through of the crime even though she had initially believed that the boys had been guilty and she had found out that there was something completely off with the timeline. The cops had said that Zadie was attacked at 9:22 because that’s when the watch on her hand had been broken and unfortunately that’s not what happened. What happened was that the victim hadn’t been raped at all and that Zadie had broken her watch during consensual sex before she had been attacked.

Zadie apparently didn’t remember having sex with a married coworker when she had woken up at the hospital because her injuries had left gaps in her memory. But the coworker did later tell her before trial what happened and she had perjured herself anyways by saying she was raped at trial because she didn’t want anyone to know about the affair. So Zadie had destroyed the timeline of her attack and she had allowed three possible innocent teenagers to go to jail because she cared more about herself than anyone else. And, frankly, Hayes had astonished Wallace when she told him about that.

Wallace had only recently found out that Hayes was taking on his case because her mother had told him however he had no idea that Zadie had lied about leaving work or that she had still claimed rape despite knowing differently. So Wallace decided to tell Hayes why he thought the boys were all guilty. He said that one of the boys, Brian, had a juvenile record detailing violence against girls and that’s why he thought Brian would have been part of a gang rape. Though Brian’s record had new information for Hayes and she suddenly questioned whether Brian was guilty or not. Hayes had initially thought that all the boys had been innocent and then she talked to Wallace and wondered what if it had just been Brian that had been guilty.

Brian, Seamus, and Mike hadn’t really known each other before that night so they weren’t always hanging around each other and a case could be made that Brian might have done something that no one else knew about. Yet, Wallace had warned Hayes. He said that there would be no way that he could retry Brian and get the other two out. Not with the first trial being such a huge mess. So Hayes had to find a way to prove Brian’s guilt without compromising the other two. And her people ended up finding the best way to do that. The others had found out that Seamus and Mike had gotten back on the wagon and had an alibi during the actual attack while Brian hadn’t been seen until after ten which was when Zadie truly went into the park.

But there was one way to definitively allow Brian to stay in prison and get the others off and that was by getting Brian to confess. Brian had apparently liked to collect trophies from his victim and he had been doing that even when he was younger. So Hayes found the trophy he took off Zadie and she told him that they knew he was guilty yet they couldn’t get his friends out of prison until he finally told the truth and that’s what resonated with Brian. When they had all gone to prison together, they had gotten the chance to become friends and so Seamus and Mike meant something to Brian. They were probably the only people that he had ever cared about so Hayes had told Brian to do the right thing. And with the rape off the table, Brian confessed to what he did to Zadie and he told everyone that he had been the only one to attack her.

So Seamus and Mike were later released from prison however the media crucified Zadie for lying about her rape and that was the news story they were going with instead of what the cops, Brian, and Zadie did to two innocent teenagers.