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The Night Of episode 8 Notes (Series Finale)

So this new series Westworld looks nuts - Anthony Hopkins

Night Of Series Finale _ Buckle Up

Riz Ahmed is Nas - Props to that actor a very interesting role to play

Steve Zaillian - Director

Dennis Box is drinking listening to two other cops talk abut TV show ideas, he leaves bar and goes home to review videos of surveillance

Andrea is looking behind her like she might be getting followed - Now we are focusing more on Andrea through Box’s eyes

Chandra is questioning Trevor — and then Dwayne Reed, who is back in jail for another break in

Dwayne Reed has a lot of potential to have motivation for this crime

Helen isn’t questioning Trevor nor Dwayne - interesting

The Undertaker - is now going on the stand — His name is “Day” - his wife got a restraining order against him and called 911 on him

Chandra does a good job examining him

And now we’re back at the gym with Don, and with John Stone - Stone drags him in an alley - next scene, John Stone is giving Don the finger in the security line

Don takes the witness stand - Don admits — that Andrea was outraged about her mother Evelyn’s will giving him half. He also got fired from Equinox for being a creep and he had two restraining orders

He filed a claim in suragotes court for Andrea’s trustfund - at 8am the monday after the saturday night she died and buried her 2 days later

Box is going back through film - Andrea had a fight with some one on camera at a coffee shop and he then appears to following her

Nas is cutting up Cocaine in jail and doing some as well

Chandra and Stone discuss calling Nas to the stand - Stone is very much against it — She asks Nas to testify and he seems to ask for her to help him bring drugs or something into Rikers Island. and it turns out that he asks her for condoms. And now she’s doing some type of Drug deal on CAMERA (unknowingly) - What is she doing??????????????? My guess is that it’s adrenal or something — THIS IS NUTS

Box is still on this case - running credit cards of people at Locanda night spot the night of andrea’s death

Nas takes the stand — he recants the evening with Andrea

Helen goes for the cross examination - she goes after his character pretty hard. Nas shouldn’t have taken the stand — BONE HEAD MOVE — Helen shreds him

She then quotes Muhammad to end her speech - she crushes him and then he says “I don’t know” when asked on last time if her killed Andrea. Nas may have “thrown” his on testimony to stay in Jail.

Stone tells Chandra that she just “convicted” Nas

Stone is back at the Pet Shelter - Bryan Burton - he’s returning the cat. Nas gets a NECK TATOO - what the heck is he doing — he’s blowing his freedom

Box goes back into work - uncovers Ray Halle’s info/ phone number - Box is at the Golf Course - he couldn’t look more out of place

He the appears to be playing slots in Atlantic City - but he’s actually tailing Ray Halle - he apparently beat up a prostitute — he’s also got a gambling issue, and a picture of her on vacation.

Damn!!!! Ray - Freddy and Nas are recruiting a new dude — Nas has some juice in Rikers now

Box breaks it down for Helen — she’s not impressed. Freddy gets a dvd of film from a guard

Stone received a “package” it’s the CD/ DVD — he plays it — it’s Chandra kissing Nas — this is bananas — times a million

Stone goes to see Nas to convince him to let him go public with the DVD

The Judge basically tells Chandra she’s done — makes John Stone the lead attorney - Stone doesn’t want it - There’s snow on ground but Box was golfing - odd

Stone thinks that Box - sent the DVD to him and asks him how it went

Allison Crowe comes back to basically fire Chandra - damn

This show is taking everyone down with it - Helen paints Nas’ lack of memory as a “redaction” for self-preservation. Box gets up and walks out during Helen’s closing arguments

I think Helen just realized that Nas’ knife wasn’t the murder weapon

Stone’s exema is coming back — he’s a basket case - he’s having a panic attack — this is bad news - he goes to emergency room - Looking grim for Nas

Stone is back in White Gloves giving his speech / closing statement — he’s doing a good job. Talks about the “Rush to Judgement” and about his right to be presumed innocent. That speech is gonna get Turturro an Emmy nomination

There is no verdict from the Jury / Nas has to go back to Rikers/ Stone goes back to Pharmacy/ Chandra goes back to her law firm to pack her desk- Stone is back at Exema anonymous, Nas is cutting up Coke. Freddy give Nas the “I care about you speech” - Tells Nas he smells like “innocence” - calls him the real deal. Calls him a unicorn

They are back in Court and Appear to have a verdict - Nope they are “Deadlocked” — and the judge is heavy fisting the foreman to keep deliberating - the judge dismisses that jury

Helen declines a re-trial - Nas is free - Chandra leaves - Box and Helen exchange a glance - Nas is packing in prison - Freddy isn’t in his room he’s boing - Nas gives him one last look. Freddy gives Nas his “call of the wild’ book - Nas leaves jail. His dad picks him up -

Box joins NYU campus police — Helen tells Box “over an E-cig” that she wants to go after Ray Halle.

Nas’ family home is for sale - family dinner is a tad awkward - has a tough talk with his mom- he “goes out” and he’s meeting with Stone. Nas gives a bad look when his buddy Amir walks into the same place. Stone is back on subway with the chop stick and sandals on.

Nas is buying drugs on the street. Nas goes back to the “beach” aka the Hudson River, and is free basing - that’s tough to see he remembers Andrea - Stone is home and gets a call for more perinct dwellers and he then sees an ASPCA commercial with a kitten oh boy — Stone is back on the case and Andrea’s cat is back in the Apt

Pretty much a cliff hangar ending in terms of Andrea’s killer and Nas’ future, etc — really interesting series