"Dead Meat"
When a cop is found murdered in a tub at a motel, the case leads to one of Stone's cases that he lost. But as they always say, the second time is the charm, right?
"Dead Meat" was a perfect episode story between Stone and the man he tried to bring down years ago but never did—a bit of cat and mouse at will.
When the State's Attorney's office gets called of a dead cop in a motel, it leads to them a butcher owner who had previous encounters with mostly Antonio and Stone. But for Stone, he feels like he has gotten him now and not only goes for the case but tries to bring the previous case to court as well.
When a knife from evidence is out, Stone goes by people's accounts and stories. After he questions the suspect in court about how he didn't know that a former worker was in the barn at the time of a fire, he was trying to save the pigs and told of the technique he uses for which Stone remembered how the latest victim had died.
Stone and Anna talk with the suspect and his lawyer and bring in the wife of the previous case to see him say that he killed her husband. Stone throws in a deal and tells them his theory of the murder went down, and after showing photos of the victim, the suspect takes the deal and admits that he had killed the wife's husband, too.
This episode was excellent as we learned more and more about how Stone works in the business and what he had learned from his father. I thought the writing was terrific, and the acting between Winchester was also excellent. Overall, I give this episode an 8/10.
"Double Helix"
In a chilling case, Stone faces an issue that's another flash from the past, and a mother tries to get her daughter back.
When Antonio inspects a warehouse, they find the dead body of a woman in a freezer. Later, they learned that the victim was pregnant, and her baby was stolen. The question relies on who took the baby and whether it is okay.
After searching around, they looked into the victim's workplace and even the yoga class, where a group of friends mentioned an ex-boyfriend. They headed to the boyfriend's apartment, where he explained that he was shut out of her life six months ago but always tried to get back together. They returned to his apartment when they found out that he had connected with her, but it was his girlfriend who linked and mentioned that the victim was with one of her pregnant yoga friends, Dawn.
When they get to Dawn's place, she has the baby, but after she lets them in and puts the baby down, Antonio sees that the baby's face is blue. They arrested her and tried her for murder, but it also opens up the case of genetics because Dawn is the daughter of a murderer that Stone not only convicted as his first high-profile case.
The considerable debate was about genetics and whether it must be passed down to the next generation. In this case, for Stone, it doesn't, and proved that she did. She wanted a child because she couldn't have any. She was convicted of two counts of murder.
Meanwhile, Dawn's father tries to get a new trial as new evidence has come out saying that Dawn killed the woman he was convicted of. When it was Stone's turn to speak, he didn't do much til he let a big got you on him with that if she had committed the murder, his plea deal was a whole lie and not to mention that four other murders were in Indiana that he did for which he asked that he would be tried there because in Indiana there is the death plenty. He was sent.
"Double Helix" was an excellent episode; not only did it open up the genetics conversation (for which it isn't that old of a conversation), but it was an excellent debate on and off screen. Also, Joelle Carter's performance was amazing as we learned about her situation getting her child back and her history of her father being the cause of her pill-popping, which it wasn't. This would be another memorable episode. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.
"Lilly's Law"
This episode might as well be the most conversational this season.
When one of the jury members asked to leave because it had become stressful, she was later found dead in the Chicago River with duct tape around her hands and mouth. This case will go Stone fighting for the victim like any before.
When investigating the victim's death, they found that her ex-husband had been text messaging her over 60 times in three days before she had died, with most of them very threatening and demanding messages about how a lousy parent she is and how she shouldn't be on the jury for the trial.
After reviewing everything they gathered, Stone and the team go after the ex-husband for all the bullying he's done to her and give her the thought of killing herself, which she did. Soon, Stone goes to the one person who would know all, the son. He asked him about his mother and if he loved his mother. Not to mention using his cell phone and showing the jury a video message to his mother about how he hated her and all that, but he confessed that it wasn't he that meant to say those words that it was written out for his dad to make him tell them.
When the jury found the ex-husband guilty, in one of the most shocking twists, the judge changed the jury's verdict and let the husband go free because the jury let their emotions get in the way of this case. My jaw was down to the floor when I saw that happen.
Ultimately, Stone tries to change a law that makes text messaging a rule, calling it Lilly's Law. In the meantime, in the end, he goes to an old friend's place to make amends to her because he didn't speak up about the beatings she got in a previous relationship.
This was one of the most shocking and disturbing episodes yet. The ending to the case was a shock, but I think what Stone did, from proposing a new law to making amends to an old friend, helped settle the "oh my god" moment. I thought the case was terrific in this episode, as everyone played very well. Winchester and Carter's characters stood out in this episode very well. The writing was excellent, too. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.
You can catch Chicago Justice on Sunday nights at 9/8c on NBC.
