I know people in the country let their cats wander outside all the time, but it's completely unheard-of in New York. My best guess about the cat is that he was also being cared for by that dude across the street, the one who called the cops on Nas in the first place. . .and he'll turn out to be the person who actually…

The case will generate huge publicity, but is it really helpful for Crowe to be seen losing a highly publicized murder case? As far as she knows, the case against Nas looks airtight. . . and it's not as if Crowe carefully studied the evidence and spotted something crucial that everyone else had missed before she…

Leaving aside whether Miles really had it coming (he probably did) or whether Emily was justified in killing him based on what she actually knew about him at the time (she probably wasn't), I think there's not enough attention being paid to the disservice that she did to Cassidy here.

I wouldn't call Crowe's decision to take the case is a narrative problem, so much as a narrative puzzle. I suppose Crowe could just be acting on a noble impulse, and I suppose that she really could just show up, do a perfect job and set everything right. That's certainly what we're meant to hope will happen: the…

Maybe he thought he'd quickly do a good deed and be on his way. . . before Detective Box made him wish that he'd never even gotten involved himself.

I can't help but wonder, though, why Crowe is even getting involved. Yes, it's high-profile and all. . .but a high-profile loss won't help her reputation one bit, which means she has to win a nearly airtight murder case against a highly motivated District Attorney. For free.

I know. I love that he's worried about one person sneaking up on him while he's alone, and then nobody does, but it turns out that the reason is because the whole cell block wants to kill him.

True, but I can't tell you how much it cuts against the grain of New Yorkers to leave a door to the street unlocked.

Now that Crowe is on the case, I suspect that we'll see a repeat of the scene where Stone tried (unsuccessfully) to get the D.A. to offer him a deal. . . only this time it will be the D.A. begging to plead out the case, to no avail.

True- and it's not as if Stone is done. This isn't Game of Thrones, where they cast a major star just to have the shock effect of cutting him. . .unless, of course, it is. . . but I'm guessing it's not.

Fair point. I grew up in the 80s, but not in rural Indiana, so for all I know it really was that innocent and bucolic.

Half a million doesn't seem completely off-base for hiring someone like Crowe to personally represent a defendant in a murder trial. In the world of the show, Crowe seems like exactly the kind of person who the D.A. was fervently hoping would not get involved: a high-profile, high-status attorney who she's probably…

Good question. At the time I thought he just didn't want to get his friend involved with the police on general principles, but maybe there's a little bit more to it.

I think the cat was being taken care of by Andrea and that neighbor who called the police, which Stone will discover when he goes back to the ASPCA on Day 9 to recover the cat and finds out that it's already been claimed by the dude across the street.

Stone doesn't need to care about the Khans' finances, but he also wasn't especially up front about his experience. He shows some signs of being an extremely talented trial lawyer, but he shows just as many signs that he's a train wreck waiting to happen.

The father never liked Stone to begin with, so turning down the chance to get a high-status lawyer for his son and save $50,000 probably wasn't something that even flickered across his mind.

I enjoyed this show quite a lot, but that seems to put me in a minority of the (apparently small number of) people who watched it. I thought Ryder's performance was oddly endearing. Under the impossible circumstances that her character was dealing with (which I won't spoil), I think she was just the right amount of…

True. In fact, it seems that this design is more like seven things.

Obviously the stripes represent the mirror the "T" is watching itself in. The reflection is discolored and blurry because the mirror is made of polished brass.

Well, they had to operate within certain constraints. To borrow from various posters above. . .if you want to evoke the Axis powers, sexual intercourse, a hand job, toilet paper, a pompous monogram from a bad 1970s hotel, and the flag of a future American dystopia. . . you're pretty much down to just this.