Tonight on ABC their new crime drama Conviction airs with an all-new Sunday, January 8, 2017, episode and we have your Conviction recap below. On tonight’s Conviction season 1 episode 11, “Black Orchid,” as per the ABC synopsis, “The team investigates when a crime scene matches the M.O. of the notorious “Black Orchid Killer,” and try to determine if it’s the work of a copycat since there is already a man serving time for the original murders.”
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Hayes knew something was wrong the instant Wallace called her. Wallace was technically supposed to be in bed beside her because that’s where she had last seen him however he had left the apartment without her knowing and then he had tried waking her up by repeatedly calling her. But Hayes knew Wallace and the fact he knew he was waking her up had meant he couldn’t afford to wait around. So Hayes had did what the text message said. She had gotten dressed, had gone to the address he told her to meet him at, and she had found out that Wallace had called her down to an active crime scene. And seeing as CIU handled cases that had been tried already, she had been a little confused.
However, Hayes hadn’t been confused for long. Hayes had asked Wallace why he had asked her to meet him at an active crime scene and so he had told her about the Black Orchid Killer. The Black Orchid Killer had been this serial killer that had beaten his female victims to death inside their homes and the police had allegedly caught him several years ago. So Hayes had figured out that the recent death had come relation and she had been right. Another young woman had been beaten to death in her apartment and all aspects of the case had matched up with the Black Orchid Killer. The victim had dark hair, dark eyes, and her lips had been smeared with the signature Black Orchid lipstick.
So Hayes quickly understood that Wallace had wanted her to look into the case again and see if the man that had been convicted as the Black Orchid Killer really was their guy though the police working the current murder didn’t like having Hayes’s involvement. The lead detective that was investigating Marla Higgins’s death had also investigated the other murders and Nick Cestero didn’t like having his investigation questioned. Nick had felt that Clark Simms had been the killer several years ago and he still believed it despite Marla’s recent death. Yet, Hayes had had her own people look at the case and Tess who was normally the quiet one had spoken up in Clark’s defense.
Tess had said the evidence against Clark had been circumstantial and she should know because she had been studying Clark’s case for years. So Hayes had allowed Tess to be the one to question Clark and she had gone with Franky to notify the sole survivor of the Black Orchid Killer that they were reviewing the case against Clark, but Hayes’s conversation with the traumatized victim had given her and Franky a reason to believe that Clark BOK. The victim had said that the killer had been wearing overalls and that’s exactly what Clark had been wearing when the police picked him up not long after the last attack.
Tess however, had found evidence that Clark wasn’t their killer. She had spoken with Clark who hadn’t known any of the details involving the murders and more importantly he failed to match the profile for the initial killer. But Tess’s defense was almost destroyed when Clark admitted that he was the Black Orchid Killer. Clark had apparently gotten scared when he thought he might leave prison and so he had confessed in order to stay in a place where he was comfortable. So Tess had had to visit him a second time and that time around she had talked him out of his nerves because she proved to him that he could do some good by helping them catch the real killer.
However, the CIU had been called not after Clark recanted and they had been told that the real BOK had finally been caught. Nick had arrested a Joe Kaplan and Joe had known each of the victims. So Nick did come around in cooperating and he had allowed members of the team to question the suspect yet Nick had also failed to read the Miranda to Joe and that proved to be a problem for Tess. Tess hadn’t felt comfortable with riding roughshod over anyone’s rights much less someone she suspected wasn’t their killer and so she gave Joe some advice. She told him to ask for a lawyer and stop talking to the detective.
So the detective hadn’t happy about that and he later chose to ignore the fact that Joe didn’t match the profile. Yet, Tess and the others had looked into Joe and the first sign that he might be their killer had been Joe’s juvenile records. Joe had been accused of molesting his sister Sonya who was a dead ringer for the victims and so Hayes had wanted Sonya to be brought in though Sonya as it turns out had said that she hadn’t been molested. Sonya had said that she had simply been playing doctor with her brother who had also been a child at the time and that their stepfather had misconstrued what he had seen.
The stepfather had been walking by the door to the room when he had caught the kids playing and so he had gotten so upset that he had nearly torn Joe’s arm off. But Sonya eventually got her stepfather to understand that nothing was happening however that didn’t change the fact that Joe had permanent nerve damage or that the damage in his dominant arm meant Joe couldn’t lift anything much less bludgeoned women. So the investigation had to start back at square one and Franky had helped the guys figure out that there was a reason the killer stopped after his last victim for several years – he must have been in prison.
Prison would explain why the killer had such a gap and fortunately for everyone they had Nick on their side as they went through prison records. However, Tess did end up finding their killer in the files. The real Black Orchid Killer had had a stepmother that had abused him when he was a kid and the woman that looked like the victims had died three weeks before the first the BOK began terrorizing the city. So the killer had wanted to take all of his anger against his stepmother and he started to kill others seeing as he couldn’t do that to his stepmother yet a search of the man’s place had showed that his next victim was going to be the one that got away – May DeFranco.
So it was strange twist that May had been prepared for the Black Orchid came because she had used the weapon she got after he attack her the first time to kill him before he could have killed her, but at least Clark was finally freed from prison in the end.
THE END!