Tonight on NBC their new drama Chicago Justice airs with an all new Wednesday, March 7, 2017, episode and we have your Chicago Justice recap below. On tonight’s Chicago Justice season 1 episode 3 as per the NBC synopsis, “A Muslim grad student is brutally killed, and another Muslim student claims he committed the murder to prevent a terrorist attack.”
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Chicago Justice begins tonight with Peter Stone (Philip Winchester) meeting with Danny’s grieving parents outside the courtroom when Byron Welch (Damian Conrad- Davis) approaches them saying he didn’t kill him.
Mitra Nasiri (Sahar Bibiyan) says to Stone her son never did anything to that boy; when her husband, Amir (Waleed Zuaiter) says except look different. Stone promises them that most American’s would not tolerate the murder of an innocent boy; Anna Valdez (Monica Barbaro) says they need to go.
On the stand, CPD Sgt, Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) is on the witness stand and confirms they found the body in an abandoned building, after receiving an anonymous call from a squatter living in the building.
He reveals that Danny was beaten to death with a tire iron they found in a dumpster and the reason they suspected Byron is because they learned of a recent altercation from campus police. They arrested him after they found a sweater shirt stained with Danny’s blood, under Byron’s dirty underwear.
Some of the college boys begin to laugh and Amir Nasiri stands up furious that they find this funny. He stands up and rushes at them and a full out brawl happens right in the courtroom.
The ASA team discuss the evidence of their case, Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda), Laura Nagel (Joelle Carter) and Anna revealing Byron is a lacrosse player at CCU who brutalized physics student, Danny Nasiri and left him to die. Byron left Danny 6 weeks earlier with a bloody nose, black eyes and broken ribs, but for some reason Danny withdrew the complaint.
It looks like a hate crime, but Stone wants them to investigate it and “dot all the i’s”.
Antonio and Laura ride to the frat house where she joked about the last time she was at one, and free porn on the ‘net.
At the frat house, one of the students says, “why can’t we all just get along?” making Laura ask if he’s implying Byron didn’t like Muslims. His friend covers and says that all it means is the school bends over backwards for a small group of students, implying Muslims get special treatment and awareness week; the more the students talk the more racist it becomes.
Antonio and Laura check out Byron’s room discovering a motive, that his brother was killed in Afghanistan. Laura says she understands the frustration while Antonio shares a story how one coffee changed the police’s relationship with a whole Mosque. They find a Qu’ran in his room and meet with the female student who gave it to him.
She tells them she is the one who convinced Danny to drop the charges and she is sure Byron is not the one who killed him since he was all about learning about peace in the Muslim religion; she reveals she is Bryon’s alibi, but didn’t come forward until now because Byron was only thinking of her and if the truth come out how her father would feel; as proof she gives them a sex video, made the night Danny was killed.
Back in Stone’s office, Anna shows him the recording; Stone feels it doesn’t prove anything. Anna feels it shows he didn’t hate all Muslims. Stone points out there is a gap in the timeline, he tells her they need to find out what this murder was about.
Antonio finds a receipt inside the air conditioner to a dry cleaners used by Jafar Boustani (Wesam Keesh). They go to see Jafar, who says they were great friends and were roommates for 6 years until he moved into his girlfriend’s place. When things didn’t work out he did find it strange that Danny wanted to live alone.
He also reveals he stopped Byron from beating Danny, at that campus fight, any worse than he did, but he wasn’t on the report because it is already tough for him being Muslim and he didn’t want any trouble. When Jafar leaves, Antonio says the guy is lying because there is no way he could have stopped a built lacrosse player from doing anything.
They meet with Jafar’s ex-girlfriend who revealed that Jafar was paranoid and felt Danny was plagiarizing his research and said if Danny did it again, he would hurt him bad. She didn’t report it because she didn’t need to be looked at as racist and an islamophobe.
Antonio and Laura really believe it was Jafar who killed Danny, but Anna says they still have the blood on Byron’s shirt; Antonio says that could still be from the first fight, causing reasonable doubt. Anna asks about Danny’s phone, maybe there is something on there but she is unwilling to change because they already indicted someone else.
Antonio calls in CFD’s Christopher Herrmann (David Eigenberg), who removes Danny’s phone from under a sewer grate. They find someone who witnessed the fight outside her window; she denies Bryon being there; saying both of them were Muslim, the attacker was shorter, thinner wearing a red t-shirt and his hands were around the other one’s throat, shoved him into a car and drove off.
She identifies Jafar; who is jumped by Laura when she arrests him at the school, surrounded by witnesses. Anna and Stone present their case to Mark Jefferies (Carl Weather). They found blood evidence on Jafar’s shoes and believe the motive was jealousy.
Anna is flabbergasted when both Stone and Jefferies discuss how Jafar is a better defendant that Byron, a Muslim who hurt another Muslim… if he gets the right jury. She can’t believe what she is hearing and accuses them of sounding racist and leaves.
Jury selection begins as Peter Stone and William O’Boyle (Gary Basaraba) seem to agree on most of the jurors; Anna is confused as to why O’Boyle would want jurors who might be biased against a Muslim defendant. He reminds her that the victim was a Muslim too. O’Boyle questions them over their lunch on the whereabouts of their star witness, Kalila Rafiq (Mouzam Makker).
ME Joy Fletcher (Lindsey Pearlman) confirms that the cause of death was cerebral anoxia, (strangulation); the beating was definitely postmortem. There were no ligature marks on his neck, so it was manual, causing the victim to empty his bladder causing his DNA to end up on the soles of the defendant’s shoes. She admits it could have happened by accident, but there is no blood.
Kalila arrives in the courtroom wearing her her full Muslim dressing, the judge allows her to testify and O’Boyle could try to testify later if he wanted. She describes exactly what she had told Anna earlier.
O’Boyle starts to question her dressing, to prove that she has diabetes and one of the consequences of that is losing one’s eye sight. He questions what she saw and she swears she saw everything. Stone redirects and she proves that she has perfect vision when she can count the fingers of the guard at the back of the courtroom.
Anna tells Stone he killed it today and the best redirect she had ever seen; he is a bit miffed that she left him naked out there. He teaches her to never ask a question you don’t know the answer to. Stone receives a phone call where they learn Jafar will be put on the witness stand.
Jafar claims Danny began watching videos about joining jihad; Danny’s mother cries out in court. He says that he never witnessed him watching the videos but they were on his phone. Danny’s mother continues to scream at him to tell the truth. Court goes into recess when Jafar reveals he knows how to get into Danny’s phone, the judge agrees they can all see what is there.
Jafar continues to state how evil Danny has become and how he took their peaceful religion and took the Qu’ran all out of context. Jafar says he saw Danny buy a 100lbs bag of fertilizer; but lived in an apartment. He also went to several electronic stores, he bought cell phones, wires, timers, and things like that.
Jafar swears he knew Danny was making explosives, and when he couldn’t talk him out of it, he killed him. He didn’t call the FBI because they never see when a Muslim is trying to stop terrorism. The FBI knew about the Orlando club terrorist and knew he was dangerous but did nothing because they didn’t want to be bigots. Jafar says he did something and is a good American hero; not a criminal.
Jefferies says it looks like they are prosecuting a hero; Stone disagrees that a kid who has a good life and family wouldn’t radicalize like that. Stone is ordered to cut a deal, especially after O’Boyle suckered him into picking this damn jury.
Stone questions Jafar about how could he be a hero if he strangled Danny to death than brutalized him in an empty warehouse. He asks if Danny had storage or a car; Jafar says no; Stone says their search produced no fertilizer nor anything Jafar claimed in his apartment.
He then asks him about the Fleischmann Prize, a prize given to Danny 4 or 5 times by the physics department to the best student, Jafar never won it. Stone implies he was pissed off and he killed Danny out of jealousy, that he always dreamed of being Albert Einstein but it is never going to happen. Jafar says Danny could have gone on to great things but his killing Danny is probably the only great thing he will ever do.
Anna and Stone argue how a jury of patriots will see that Jafar is the murderer and Danny is the victim. While O’Boyle sings Jafar’s praises, Stone tells them, what he did is not what a good American would have done, military or not. The verdict is in, the jury finds Jafar guilty of murder in the first degree; Danny’s parents hug in relief.
O’Boyle meets with Stone at the bar, admitting the jihad was his plan B. Stone says the law should be pure, like physics; it should be better than media and politics and exist outside of race. O’Boyle says when it comes to Muslims, its different, we all bend over backwards avoiding it. Stone says that is a pretty broad brush stroke. He says that everybody wants to be so tolerant, but everyone is racist.
Stone finishes by saying he hated physics!
THE END!
