Tonight on ABC their new legal drama For Life inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. airs with an all-new Tuesday, February 18, 2020, episode and we have your All Life recap below. On tonight’s All Life season 1 episode 2 “Promises,” as per the ABC synopsis, “Aaron Wallace’s fight to overturn his conviction to a life sentence continues. Tensions rise between Aaron and his crew when he provides counsel to a white supremacist in order to repay his debt to inmate Wild Bill.
District Attorney Maskins ups his game when Aaron sues the NYPD in an attempt to gain access to his case file. Meanwhile, his daughter’s boyfriend, Ronnie, braces for confrontation as he visits the prison to meet Aaron for the first time.”
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Aaron owes people. He received a lot of help on his first case and so now was the time to repay it. Aaron agreed to represent a white supremacist. He knew that was going to cost him some within his own community and yet he went ahead because that’s how things work in prison. He had to trade one debt against another. He took on some guy named Joey Knox’s case and it seemed pretty straightforward. His client was accused of attacking a guard. There was footage proving it and worse the footage showed that it was unprovoked. Joey had no cause to attack a guard. He did it because he could and so Aaron tried to figure out why.
Aaron first asked for a favor from the Warden. The Warden was married to the woman that was going against Maskins and so Aaron agreed not to go to the press about Maskins. He even said he was going to file paperwork in his own case in a different borough so that it wouldn’t be connected to Maskins. Aaron promised no media. The Warden knew he was a man of his word and so she allowed him to see the footage Joey as well as talk to Joey. Joey was in solitary confinement. He’s been there since he attacked the guard and so Aaron had the chance to ask him questions. Aron asked why Joey attacked the guard?
He asked if Joey had been threatened? He even asked if Joey felt in danger for his life and the big bad Nazi denied being scared! He said nothing happened with the guard. He was basically leaving Aaron with no way to represent him and so Aaron tried to focus on his own case. He took the NYPD to the task. He accused them of withholding information about his own arrests and he said they were doing so spitefully. They had no cause to withhold information. They were doing so because they didn’t want Aaron to see the holes in his own case and he openly accused them of colluding. Their representative tried to say he was dealing drugs from behind bars.
The NYPD also claimed that there was no collusion. Yet, the NYPD went directly to the Bronx District Attorney and they were talks about them working together to deprive Aaron of details about his case. There was just no sound reasoning behind that. They didn’t seem to care if he was innocent or not and so Aaron was right about them. He just didn’t how right he was. Aaron went back to working Joey’s case after he won his motion and he found out the truth about Joey. Joey was threatened. Joey was in trouble with his own people the Neo-Nazis. He tried getting pulled from gen pop because he was scared and when that didn’t work – he attacked a guard.
Joey did that because he wanted to be thrown in solitary confinement. He was scared of what his former gang would do to him and so that Aaron right in the middle. Aaron agreed to get out Joey out of solitary confinement. He made this deal with Wild Bill and he didn’t find out until afterward that WB wanted Joey out so that he could get to him. The man probably even planned on killing Joey the first chance he could and so Aaron had to decide what he could live with. The black community was already mad with him representing a Nazi. The guards were mad at him as well because they thought Joey had crossed a line.
But Aaron owes Wild Bill. WB forged a letter for him and so now Aaron has the moral dilemma of deciding if he was going to let WB kill someone. Aaron had talked to a friend about it. He asked Jamal what he should do and his friend suggested serving up Joey on a silver platter. One less Nazi was fine with him. He also told Aaron that he could more easily sell it to the black community if they let Joey die and, well, Aaron couldn’t go through with it. He got Joey to sign a medical release form. Aaron used that to get information on Joey and that’s how he found out Joey is gay. Joey was secretly seeing his cellmate who was an Asian.
It turns out love is stronger than hate. Joey fell for the wrong race and that’s why his own people want to make a lesson out of him. They even thought they could use Aaron to do it. Only Aaron got Joey’s boyfriend to testify in his defense. He planned on moving Joey to a different prison. A prison where they hadn’t even heard of WB and so Aaron was both fulling a debt as well as protecting Joey. Aaron defended Joey in the hearing. He revealed all the information he had gathered and he showed that a guard had been negligent. Joey had gone to a guard for help. This guard turned him away because he was black and he wanted Joey to be hurt.
Joey had a Nazi tattoo on his face. The guard didn’t care if the other Nazis killed him and so he hid all evidence that Joey talked to him. Aaron proved this all at the hearing. He showed that the guard willfully ignored Joey’s cries for help and he got enough to transfer Joey out. Aaron took a hit to his reputation. He did, after all, help a Neo-Nazi and yet he didn’t regret his decision. Aaron had a much easier time with Joey than he did with his own case. He didn’t get his motion to finally get his file and he was denied it in front of his daughter. His daughter was so distraught that her boyfriend used that to say that she shouldn’t be visiting him all the time.
Jasmine was pregnant. She couldn’t keep making five-hour trips every weekend and so her boyfriend was putting his foot down. But that wasn’t going to deter Aaron. He still wanted to prove his innocence and he wasn’t going to stop until he was free.
And surprisingly his reputation was improved once everyone realized he ticked off Wild Bill.
THE END!