The case against Marcus Webb fits on a kitchen calendar. He was arrested in April. Nobody has died since April.
The government calls that proof. Maya Restrepo calls it something else, and to say so under oath she has to walk into a federal courtroom as a witness for the defense, with her badge in a drawer and her private life about to be read into the record.
She has a woman who died because of something written on the back of a page. She has a man in Salem who is still alive, and she can tell you exactly why.
Twelve strangers listen. One of them never stops watching her.
Then the jury sends out a note.
After the courtroom empties, Maya goes back to the data nobody else is reading anymore, and the silence begins to look like something other than an ending.
In the final episode:
A rented conference room, a banker's box, and a man who has spent his whole career being the most reasonable person in every meeting. He's found something he can't explain. Maya can. Neither of them wants to say it out loud.
Coming Wednesday, September 30th.
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