Tonight on ABC their new show Forever continues with an all new Tuesday November 18, season 1 episode 9. On tonight’s episode called, “6 A.M.”, the murder of a jazz saxophonist’s son is investigated.
On the last episode, Henry and Jo discovered there was a fine line between pleasure and pain when the death of a successful businessman and devoted husband pointed to a form of ritualized punishment. Henry learned it may be all a question of trust. The man’s “domination therapist” came under scrutiny as a murder suspect, who also wanted to help Henry work through his own issues. Flashbacks revealed Henry’s emotional story of betrayal after he shared his secret with his first wife, Nora. Meanwhile, Abe was flabbergasted when the object of his intense passion –Maureen Delacroix — his two-time ex-wife, reappeared with a tempting offer. Did you watch last night’s episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the ABC synopsis, “Harlem’s jazz community serves as the backdrop for a musical murder probe dealing with the rights to a legendary jazz hit, “6 A.M.” Whoever legitimately penned the chartbuster would be set for life, providing a classic motive. Therefore, jazz history is on the line when Henry and Jo investigate the murder of jazz saxophonist Pepper Evans’ son. Simultaneously, bittersweet memories come flooding back to Henry, Jo and Pepper as they reflect on their father-child relationships. Meanwhile Henry, always a big fan of classical music, and Abe, a jazz enthusiast since he was a youngster, have a keyboard face-off as Abe tries to teach Henry to appreciate a new, more emotional kind of music.”
Tonight’s episode is going to be another great episode, which you won’t want to miss. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of ABC’s Forever Season 1 episode 9 — tonight at 10PM EST!
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Tonight’s episode of Forever begins at a jazz club where a man named Izzy trying to buy drinks, the bartender Rudy cuts him off and says he already owes them too much money. Izzy threatens the owner of the club and heads to his car. While he is sitting in the driver’s seat drinking someone in the backseat jumps up and strangles him.
At the antique shop the next morning Henry and Abe are bickering over what kind of music they will listen to. Henry receives a phone call and is called in to work. He meets Jo at the murder scene where Izzy’s car was apparently lit on fire after he was strangled. Henry looks at Izzy’s charred body and says that he was murdered and then lit on fire after his death. He can tell that the fire was lit after he died because there is no soot inside his mouth or nose – which means he wasn’t breathing when the fire was set.
Henry heads to the morgue to examine the murder victim with Lucas’s help. They are certain that he was strangled, and Henry suspects it was a piano wire. He also finds a reed from a saxophone tucked in the corner of his mouth. Lucas finds a piece of film in the body, which is highly flammable and most likely what the killer used to start the fire.
Izzy’s sister arrives and they show her pictures of the jewelry and personal items, she confirms that they were her brother’s. His sister reveals that their father was a jazz musician named Pepper Evans. Izzy called her the night that he was killed and said that their dad gave him something that was going to “put him on Easy Street.”
Jo and Henry track down Pepper where he is playing his saxophone on a street corner, they break the news to him that Izzy was murdered. He reveals that the thing that he gave to Izzy the night he was killed was a case full of his old jazz cassette recordings. Henry confirms that the film they found was probably from the cassette tapes.
Henry and Jo head to Rudy’s, the club that Izzy was in the night that he died. The bartender lies and says that he doesn’t know if Izzy was in there. Henry notices that the bartender keeps looking at a case, so he grabs it from behind the bar. It’s the case of casettes that Pepper gave to Izzy. The bartender explains that Izzy owed him money and was in the bar bragging that he had struck it rich – so he snuck out to Izzy’s car and stole it.
Lucas and Henry do some math and come to the conclusion that Izzy was killed at 11:58 PM. Rudy tells them that Izzy was bragging that his father is the true writer of the song “6:00 AM,” which was allegedly writer by jazz musician Lionel Hubbard. They pay Al, the producer of the song at Dove Bird Records a visit at his studio, he is the same man that witnesses seen Izzy arguing with before he died. Al insists that
Izzy was lying, he was there the night that “6:00 AM” was recorded and Pepper Jacks was nowhere near the booth.
Henry, Jo, and Lucas decide to take another look at Izzy’s burnt car. They find a piece of evidence that they overlooked the first time, a cuff-link in the back on the floor with the initials “DB” engraved in it. They realize that “DB” could stand for Dove Bird Records.
They bring Al in for questioning and announce they are holding him for 72 hours while they get a search warrant for his house and Dove Bird Records. After going through the saxophone case that Rudy stole from Izzy’s car – Henry finds the original masters to the song “6:00 AM.”
Meanwhile, Izzy’s dad Pepper comes down to the police station to talk to Jo. She explains to Pepper that they think Izzy was killed because he was trying to prove that his father wrote the song “6:00 AM.” Pepper says that he did write the song and he cut it, then his daughter was born and he left the studio for three days to help his wife with the baby. When he returned, Al had re-done the track and cut Pepper out of it completely. Pepper notices the “DB” cuff-link on Jo’s desk. It’s obvious he recognizes it, but he won’t tell Jo where it is from.
Abe helps Henry restore the original master of “6:00 AM” and they notice on it that Pepper calls Lionel Howard “Dough Boy” and that it was the initials on the cuff-links stand for. Lionel Howard is dead, but his son is still alive, his name is Bud Gray – and his jazz band was playing at the club the night that Izzy was murdered.
Henry and Jo head to the club to arrest Bud Gray, and Henry finds Pepper Evans in the crowd with a gun preparing to kill Bud. He manages to talk him out of it and convinces him not to go through with it for his daughter’s sake. Jo brings in Bud Gray, and he caves and confesses to killing Izzy, and he reveals that Al told him to “take care of Izzy.”
Jo calls Pepper’s daughter Ella down to the station and gives her Peppers’ masters of “6:00 AM,” she tells her that her father named the song that because that was what time she was born and he wanted to celebrate her birth.
THE END!
