Tonight on ABC their new legal drama For Life inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. airs with an all-new Wednesday, December 2, 2020, episode, and we have your All Life recap below. On tonight’s For Life season 2 episode 2 “The Necessity Defense” as per the ABC synopsis, “At the urging of Spencer Richardson, Aaron defends a woman charged with holding hospital workers at gunpoint to secure lifesaving treatment for her son.
Aaron and Marie navigate their newly intimate relationship, and a young social justice warrior joins Aaron and Roswell’s firm.”
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Aaron and Marie are sharing a bed. This was a step forward for them. The couple was woken up to a baby’s cries and, for a second, Aaron was taken aback to another time. A time where the baby crying was their daughter and not their grandson. However, Aaron couldn’t go back. He had to go forward. He woke up and he went to go have breakfast with his daughter. Jasmine was happy to see that her parents were sharing a bed again.
She was happy for them and she wasn’t afraid to poke fun at her dad. She knew he could take it and he did. Aaron laughed with his daughter. He was happy to be home again and so going to work was still uncomfortable for him. Aaron felt like he made a deal with the devil when he agreed to work for Richardson.
Richardson is the same man that was responsible for Aaron going to jail. Aaron ran a club back then and Richardson’s daughter had OD at the club. Richardson hadn’t liked that. He was a wealthy and powerful man and he used that to get “justice” for his daughter. Only “justice” turned out to be misguided. Aaron was blamed even though he was innocent and he spent almost a decade in prison because of it. Aaron is out now.
He’s working with Richardson now and Richardson put his firm onto a new case. There was a young woman who pulled a gun at a hospital. This woman was a mother to a little boy named Josh and she knew she needed to take him to the doctors because he suffered a head wound.
The head wound itself didn’t look bad. It was more how her son was reacting to it that made the mother suspicious and so she didn’t take her son to the nearby hospital in the Bronx. She took him all the way to Westchester. She thought if she went to a hospital in a predominately white neighborhood that her son would receive treatment faster and instead she was fobbed off. She and her son were at the hospital for six hours without them seeing a doctor.
All they saw were nurses who thought the kid was fine and that the mother was being too emotional. Alice Martin then pulled out a gun. She pulled the gun because she demanded that her son see a doctor and the second a doctor walked in – they rushed her son to the OR. Her son had needed surgery.
Josh would have been denied such care if Alice hadn’t pulled the gun. She was ignored because she was black and so her lawyer needed to show that she was justified in pulling a weapon at the hospital. Alice wasn’t a violent person. She doesn’t have a history of violence and her case could open doors for racial discrimination in medical care. This is why it interested Richardson.
Richardson wanted both Aaron and Roswell to take this case because this could be a doorway that many others can use to sue an unjust hospital and demand racial equality. Aaron took this case because he works for Richardson. He didn’t realize at the time the problems that might cause for Marie and so Marie pointed it out to him.
Marie is a nurse. She reminded Aaron that anyone can pull a gun on her if they thought she wasn’t providing the best of care and so she was wary of Alice’s case. She didn’t want it to inspire others into doing the same. Marie was weary and Jasmine was concerned. Jasmine was helping her father with the case. She was doing some background info for his new assistant when she found out that women of color were more likely to die in childbirth than white women and she became concerned that she was dismissing too much with AJ. She started worrying that his cries were just general fussiness. She raised her concerns with her mother and her mother said there was nothing to worry about. Jasmine gets her worrying from her father who was the same way with her as a baby.
Sometimes babies just need to cry. There didn’t have to be a reason or a medical concern for it and so Jasmine eased up. She continued to help her father with his case. Marie even helped him as well. She helped him prepare for trial and it came in handy for him. Aaron was connecting Alice’s case with a much larger medical necessity. He proved that Westchester United was taking money from a fund to help Indigenous people and that it was really serving their predominately white clientele. The same white people that came in after Alice and her son and who saw a doctor before he was. A woman came in with a daughter with a broken arm. She came in after Alice and Josh and her daughter received both x-rays and a doctor visit.
A white man came in with a chest complaint. He thought it was a heart attack and it was heartburn. He was still treated before Josh. He still saw a doctor before Josh and so the hospital does have a race problem. There was even an old lawsuit against them that showed they have a race problem. The hospital was known not to hand out pain medication to black people who truly needed it because they suspected black people were there for drugs and so they got sued.
They were sued. They claimed to have changed their policies because of the lawsuit and in truth nothing changed. They still treat black patients worse than they treat white patients. Aaron made such a case that the District Attorney was offering Alice a deal. He’ll give her five years and a lesser charge than what she was currently facing.
Alice could face up to twenty-five years if she lost. Richardson wanted her to keep fighting because again he wanted her case to be a door-opener and so Aaron had to be blunt with his client. He told her that if she lost, she could risk losing her family. If she took the deal, she’ll get out when her son is just starting high school. It was Alice’s decision. She had to pick what was best for her and she chose to take the deal.
Aaron was glad for her. Aaron also talked to Richardson because he couldn’t have Richardson poking his head into legal matters and so Richardson agreed to back off. He was still going to fund Aaron, but he wasn’t going to try and dictate to him like he did before and that worked out great for Aaron. Aaron’s parole officer has been keeping a close eye on him.
The parole officer even showed up in court. He’s been asked to push further with Aaron than he does with his other parolees and so he has. He questioned Richardson. Richardson called him out for being a black man and a part of the problem. He told Scotty to come to court. To see what Aaron was doing and he did. He saw that Aaron was changing things for the better.
Later, Aaron collected some of his things from storage and it had been hard for him to see all his stuff packed up like that because he knew why Marie did it. She packed up his stuff because she didn’t think he was coming home.
THE END!
