Tonight on NBC their new drama Chicago Justice airs with an all new Wednesday, April 9, 2017, episode and we have your Chicago Justice recap below. On tonight’s Chicago Justice season 1 episode 8 as per the NBC synopsis, “A female juror on Stone’s case winds up dead, leading to an investigation that involves cyber harassment and suicide.”
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Chicago Justice begins tonight with Lily Spencer (Caroline Zavislak) saying they were 5 weeks on trial, now jury deliberations, she cannot go it any more. She says being on the jury is too much pressure and she just wants to go home. Peter Stone (Philip Winchester) objects because he thinks its counter productive to start deliberations over again.
The judge says they are not running a club Med, and this is her duty. Back in court, the jury finds the defendant guilty and he is to be remanded until sentencing. Once the court is adjourned, Lily runs from the jury box.
At a bar, Anna Valdez (Monica Barbaro) asks Stone about the wall at the office that has clothing on it. Stone explains that when an ASA wins their first trial, a piece of their clothing is put on the wall. She laughs at his piece of clothing, a bow tie. Stone gets a call to a crime scene.
Laura Nagel (Joelle Carter) and Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda) reveal it is Lily Spencer, she was in the water, with the summons for jury duty in her wallet. There is no visibly bruising and it appears she was dumped in the water alive. Stone says, “Maybe I should have let you go,” as he kneels beside her corpse.
At the ASA office, Stone meets with Mark Jefferies (Carl Weathers), who says if word gets out that jurors are getting whacked, they will never see another jury. Stone wants to bring in CPD’s Sgt. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe), but Jefferies wants him to run point on the investigation, also ordering for unmarked police cars to stay on the other jurors until they figure this out.
Antonio and Laura go to see Santiago Mendoza (Dennis Garcia), the defendant’s brother. After Antonio unplugs his saw, he informs them that Miguel Lopez is a sick bastard and they should look into him because he was the one who went to extreme measures to make sure his brother, Ricardo didn’t rat them out at trial.
Miguel takes off when Antonio comes to see him, Antonio gives chase, while Laura chases with their vehicle; they handcuff him asking about him threatening Mrs. Mendoza. When they show him a photo of Lily, he knows she is the bitch from the jury. He reveals Lily and another juror were arguing in the parking lot one night.
Antonio and Laura come to see Mr. Evans, who says he was only consoling her when she was crying. Laura tells him Lily is dead and he immediately blames those punk kids. He gets scared because he was the foreman of the jury, but Antonio tell shim protection is already there for him.
He shares that Lily was going nuts over her text messages, when they were asked to turn off their phones, Lily said she had to keep hers on or there would be consequences. He believed it was private business, but clearly it wasn’t. The last text said its either the jury or your kid, last chance!
Antonio and Laura visit Jaxson Clark (Jordan Belfi), who she shares a child with. He learns that Lily died 2 days earlier, he says they were the ones who forced her for jury duty. He wants to know if they have the guy in custody. Laura wants to know why he didn’t find it odd that he didn’t get a text in 2 days from her.
He admits the text may have sounded bad, but they have to understand that he is busy too and he was tired of listening to his kid, Sam not understanding what jury duty is. They discover that Jaxson has a boat and he took it out 2 nights ago. Laura gets a hoodie off the boat, and learn the keys in the pocket are Lily’s.
They use the keys and begin to search Lily’s apartment. Laura quickly finds a photo proving the hoodie is Sam’s. Antonio finds an eviction notice dated for the night she was killed. The manager says Lily was his favorite tenant and it was the owners who were kicking her out because she was 3 months behind in rent; the only reason she got the place is because her sister, Sarah co-signed.
Sarah’s wife reveals Sarah died 3 months earlier. She promised to watch over Lily, who was an assistant professor until Jaxson Clark entered her life. She shares stories of visiting Jaxson and Lily, he was very controlling, refusing to let her work while they were together. They learn that Jaxson was stalking her, and the last time was just before the trial, by the river where they sprinkled Sarah’s ashes.
Antonio and Laura walk along the riverside, where no one seems to have seen anything. A fraternity who dress up, drink and run, record everything. Laura finds Lily in one of the videos, where they watch Lily take a couple steps and jump into the freezing river, killing herself. Stone walks away.
The next day, Anna tells Stone the ME’s report said Lily’s lungs were filled with river water and the cause of death was drowning; there was no bruising. He wants to know how she duct taped her own hands, he wants anything to charge Jaxson Clark with stalking her.
Anna comments that if she had an ex who took her to court as often as Jaxson did to Lily, she might consider drastic measures herself. Laura is furious because she feels Jaxson didn’t even want the kid, but he did it only so Lily didn’t have him. He even filed 5 motions of abuse against her; Antonio says he will talk to Sam, while Laura goes to DCFS.
DCFS worker, Chad Parker (Chris Rickett) says Lily is a good mom but it is his job to protect the child and can’t ignore complaints. He tells Laura that one time he stopped by to do a safety check, Lily had a cast on her arm, claiming she had fallen down the stairs. He has no evidence that Jaxson did it, but he does know Jaxson wanted full custody and she wasn’t giving him up. Laura says he should have done something.
Laura vents to Anna about her own situation with the DCFS, she advises Anna to never get married. Anna says she wants kids less than she wants a husband; Laura is surprised. They drive over to Chicago Med.
Antonio wants to talk to Sam, who says his dad is late like always. He asks Sam if his mom ever hit him? He says no, but before he can say anything else, Jaxson arrives. He roughly grabs Sam, causing Antonio to react. Jaxson shoves him and Antonio drops him to the ground with his arm behind his back. Sam pleads with Antonio to stop.
At the Chicago Med, they learn Lily came in with drugs in her system and she was lucky someone called 9-11 when they did. They ask about the broken arm, and the nurse says she was pretty doped up, and probably broke it falling out of the bath, and she was lucky that is all she broke.
Anna returns to the office, showing Stone all the information she had gathered. She is visibly upset, saying this is harassment, maybe even stalking. He wonders if Jaxson knew about her first suicide attempt. Anna thinks he is an ass and there are stalking and harassment laws for a reason.
Laura and Antonio return to Jaxson’s work to arrest him. He is very cocky telling his assistant he should be back within the hour. At the ASA office, Miranda, Jaxson’s attorney jokes that she has found great restaurants because of Jaxson’s app, so she can’t have him going to prison. He tells them to give him a fine, and let him get home to his kid.
Jaxson produces a video of Antonio putting him down on the ground saying it looks like brutality. Stone says it looks like extortion, Miranda tells him to put the phone away. Stone offers him 2 years and then anger management classes. Anna brings up the 1500 harassing and threatening texts in 3 months.
He says its not his fault Lily finally got it right. He admits he knew about her suicide attempt, making fun of her. Stone tells him he should have taken the 2 years and now he is charging him with Lily’s murder.
Jefferies asks him if he is out of his mind. Stone says he knows he is pushing it but he is the direct cause of her death; he knew she was suicidal, it was like knowing she opened the exploding letter. Stone says he is not writing new law, he is just stretching the old ones.
In court, Stone has an expert who says emotional abuse could directly cause suicide. When Jaxson’s lawyer questions her, she says it is possible that everything in Lily’s life could have caused her to take her own life, and in her expert opinion she cannot say that Jaxson’s behavior is what caused the suicide.
Sarah’s widow, Grace Kelman (Sandra Delgado) takes the stand and reveals that Jaxson is the reason Lily attempted suicide the first time, and it was him who openly said what kind of loser can’t even kill themselves? She is forced to read a text from Lily that said if her sister died, she couldn’t go on living without her.
As Stone and Jefferies leave the office, Stone says he may not have the law completely behind him, but he feels the jury is with him. Stone is worried about tomorrow because 9 -year-old Sam is taking the stand. Jefferies tells him to go lightly on him.
In court, Sam reveals the scar he has is from his dad’s house, but his dad won’t let him call his mother. His reasoning is his mother doesn’t pay the bill, so she isn’t allowed to use minutes. Every time Sam is asked a question, he looks at his father. Stone encourages him to go on and Sam says that snapchat didn’t cost anything. Miranda tries to stop the questioning, but she opened the door for them to view Sam’s phone.
There is a video of Sam screaming how horrible his mother was and he is going to tell the courts he hates her and wants to live with his dad. Sam admits his father was home when he did the video, saying he didn’t really mean it. Stone stands between Sam and his father, so he can’t see him.
Stone rewinds the video, revealing Sam’s arms are down at his side. He tells him he is not in trouble but he needs Sam to answer who was holding the phone. Sam breaks down saying his father made him send it; he didn’t want to but his dad made him. Sam cries asking if he killed his mom. Stone reassures him it isn’t his fault.
The jury finds Jaxson Clark guilty on the sole count of murder; but the Judge stops saying the jury rendered a decision based on emotion; Stone objects and she tells him to sit down. The Judge says they ignored her instructions completely and forced her to ignore their decision. She says the prosecution did not establish that Jaxson knew his actions would result in Lily’s death. She sets aside their verdict and dismisses the jury. Jaxson is all smiles while Anna is furious.
Stone is angry that Jaxson is getting a free pass. He remembers the same thing happened to a college friend and at the time he didn’t do anything. He jumps up saying laws have to change. Jefferies tells him to change it.
Stone meets with the senators and he is there to speak to them about the Illinois murder statute, specifically how one person using emotional abuse causing another to commit suicide. He continues to tell them about Lily Spencer. After he is out of the meeting, he goes to see Cora, the college friend from years earlier. He is there to apologize, she offers for him to come inside.
THE END!
