Tonight on NBC their new drama Chicago Justice airs with an all new Wednesday, March 26, 2017, episode and we have your Chicago Justice recap below. On tonight’s Chicago Justice season 1 episode 6 as per the NBC synopsis, “The murder of a cancer-riddled police officer 30 miles outside Chicago is investigated. Clues point to an old nemesis of Stone, who works to devise a new law to put him away.”
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Chicago Justice begins tonight with a man in bed with his girlfriend, as they are kissing she asks what did she say? He said it’s complicated, and after 6 years together she isn’t going to just give him the “thumbs up” to move on. She gets up and when he questions where she is going, she says its complicated. She is standing in the bathroom when the ceiling collapses.
Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) and his partner Laura Nagel (Joelle Carter) arrive at the motel, where they find a dead man in the bathtub; the officer keeps saying its an obvious suicide but they point out to him there is no knife, the water is still warm, so whoever did it wanted him to decompose. The curious police officer learns the deceased man is actually CPD Officer Ted Cody.
ME Joy Fletcher (Lindsay Peralman) informs them the cause of death was a broken neck. The killer put a knee in the middle of his back and yanked his neck back, but she says he was also “Mike Tysoned”; a grab pull and rip.
He was dead before his wrists were slit, with a bread knife and he was dumped into the tub. Antonio thanks her and then they learn that he had pancreatic cancer and had no more than 6 weeks to live. His chemo was mixed with alcohol, which is a huge “no-no”.
Antonio and Laura go to see his ex-wife, Jessica Cody (Rebekah Ward) who had no idea he was dead. His son, Ted “TJ” Cody Jr. (Trevor Fahnstrom) asks his mom if she is okay but she says she will tell him once she goes back inside.
Laura and Antonio search through Cody’s home, where she finds bags of cash inside the freezer. They go to see his old partner and accuse him of knowing about the money Cody had stashed away. He says he knows nothing about it and leaves; they bring Anna Valdez (Monica Barbaro) everything they know about the case thus far.
Laura gets a call revealing that Cody and his former partner spoke 3 times on the day he died. The officer informs them that they were talking about meat, that he would pick up Cody’s meat order from a butcher once a month. The orders were a couple grand. He says it was totally legit, and he believed Cody was friends with the owner. Laura doesn’t buy it, he says he got the meat from Beckett’s Meats.
Antonio goes to see Anna and Peter Stone (Phillip Winchester), they tell her the story of John Beckett who owned a farm but was so far in debt he burned his farm down, killing one of the farmers. Antonio arrested him, but they claimed it was an electrical fire and in the end the jury acquitted him. Stone sends Antonio to go talk to him.
Laura and Antonio go to the farm, where Beckett is rather defensive; saying Antonio is accusing him of murder again. He says he doesn’t know Officer Cody and they are free to look around. When they walk away Laura wants to go to the nearest bar since there was no minibar in Cody’s motel room.
The bartender (Jude Roche) confirms seeing Cody and Beckett together a couple nights earlier. Beckett reveals Cody was going to end it all, but he thought they were only meeting at the bar to vent. Stone walks in the interrogation room, and wants to know what Beckett was paying Cody off for.
Stone goes to see Gail, the widow of the farmer who died in the Beckett farm fire years earlier. Stone says they are investigating Beckett and she is willing to perjure herself in order to put him in prison. Stone shakes his head no.
At dinner, Anna and Stone talk about the original trial and what went wrong with the verdict. He shares a story about his dad and a case he had back then, saying that one day he will have a case where someone has lost the most important person to them and if you don’t do something to ease their pain, what good are you? Gail Marcus is that case for Stone.
Laura interrupts their dinner informing them an officer found the knife while dumpster diving, with a four point match to John Beckett. Stone tells her to arrest the bastard. Antonio and Laura arrest him in a customer filled butcher shop.
At the courthouse, Stone and Mark Jefferies (Carl Weathers) come off the elevator to learn Defense Attorney Mary Willis (Sofia Milos) there has been a motion to suppress the knife that CPD found. Officer Jonesy claims he found the knife in the dumpster, 45 minutes after the dumpster had been emptied by the city.
Jonesy admits he found the knife around 2 am, and after Stone objects she says they are both knowingly tampering with evidence. Stone asks where the knife was at the time of questioning, it was in his trunk while he spent the night at his ex-wife’s place. Defense motion is granted and the knife is inadmissible at trial.
Stone meets Beckett at a restaurant, saying he can’t let it go; this is the thorn that has been in his side since Beckett killed Thomas, the farmer. He says he cannot let it go. Beckett tells him to look at this as a win for the little guys.
Stone and Jefferies walk down the street, Stone knows in his gut this is Beckett’s second murder and he can’t prove either one. There is no proof of him murdering Cody, only meeting him for drinks that night. Jefferies says WHY did Beckett kill Cody? Beckett beat him on the arson case because he was able to tell a better story; and juries love a good story so tell them one!
Anna learns the room was booked under an email that wasn’t Cody’s, but everything else was. The email was a reference to the book “The Jungle”, about a man who worked in a meat packing plant; Stone smirks that Beckett probably didn’t finish the book because at the end Jurgis Rudkus goes to prison.
Stone receives a package of meat from Beckett with a card of no hard feelings. It gives Stone an idea; Anna confirms that he started getting the money in 2012 right around the arson trial. He realizes that Cody was blackmailing Beckett and they need to get it in front of a grand jury.
Beckett brings in all his financial records, where they discover that Beckett sold a woman his boat that is worth half a million dollars, but only for $50,000. Stone wants to see the boat and he realizes she was one of the women on the jury for his arson trial. She admits it, but it was hard times.
They learn it was Cody who delivered the money, and she was the one who convinced the jury to sway. Stone fights against the double jeopardy law, and shows the judge the proof that she was paid off by Beckett and because of that he really never was in jeopardy and he is going to trail for arson that felony murder of Paul Marcus will proceed.
The fire investigator said the fire was burning for over 30 minutes before Beckett called the fire in. Paul Marcus was asleep in the barn where he died. Antonio tells the story of his part of the investigation in 2012 and then Gail Marcus is on the stand sharing her emotional story of the night her husband, Paul died. She asks Beckett of it was worth ruining 3 lives?
Beckett takes the stand and complains about all the troubles he had to get his business going, hoping to win over the jury saying he ended up owing over $2 million for the farm and his insurance money was used to pay back the government. He swears he didn’t burn down his own farm.
Stone brings up the yacht he bought with the insurance money. Stone confronts him about paying off one of the jurors. He claims he burned himself trying to save the pigs and he had no idea Paul was in the barn. Beckett describes that you need to grab a pig by the back legs, put your knee into their back and yank their heads back, to get them to do what you want. Stone says nothing further.
Beckett, his attorney, Stone, Anna and Gail are in a private meeting; he wants to take his chances in court. Stone says that is fine with him since he has more charges waiting. He repeats what Beckett said in court today; he shows them the photos, saying he wrangled Cody, just like he wrangled his pigs.
Stone says that he will give him 35 years which is a bargain since the minimal for 2 murders is natural life. Stone says he wants to hear him say he killed Ted Cody; he says he did. Stone says he also wants to hear that he killed Paul Marcus; and he admits it. Gail says shame on him!
At Molly’s, Anna tells Stone she is glad she doesn’t eat meat. She admits for a moment she felt bad for Beckett. Antonio delivers a package from Gail Marcus to Stone; it is Marcus’ jersey and he says this is the reason he does what he does. He grabs Antonio by the shoulder and says, “We got him!”
THE END!
