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[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for<\/b> The Rainmaker<\/i><\/b> Episode 8.]<\/b><\/p>\n
Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman<\/a>) had a choice to make on Friday\u2019s (October 3) new episode of The Rainmaker<\/i>.<\/a> After being confronted with the truth about what her client did \u2014 covering up the murder of multiple patients by a nurse \u2014 Keeley (Hugh Quarshie<\/a>) offered her an off-ramp from the case, and she steered right away from it. Instead, she embraced her place as the zealous advocate for the client, no matter how problematic he is or how consequential his ills, painting a new narrative for what he did.<\/p>\n Show creator Michael Seitzman<\/a> calls their exchange one of his \u201cfavorite scenes of the whole season.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly dynamic. I mean, it\u2019s her last temptation, right? Every step of the way, Sarah has been offered these offerings\u2026 Rudy offers her another one. He says, \u2018You haven\u2019t done anything illegal yet. Do the right thing.\u2019 She keeps getting offered a way out. And so each one of these moments is a character-defining moment for her. What decision is she gonna make? And I think, for me, the character has to have those moments because she has to make a decision. She can\u2019t be forced into anything. She can be cajoled and nudged and seduced, but she can\u2019t be forced into it,\u201d Seitzman told TV Insider.<\/p>\n \u201cShe has to be given these moments where she\u2019s really offered a way out. And that scene with Keeley, what I love about it is that he\u2019s all conscious in that scene. Here\u2019s a guy who\u2019s made some really big mistakes, but in that scene, you get a view of his real conscience, the man he would have been had he not made these decisions, the man he was. She sees it, too,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd when he says, \u2018I\u2019m going to offer you something that nobody offered me,\u2019 she doesn\u2019t take it.. The scene ends as he says, \u2018Are you going to be there?\u2019 She says, \u2018Of course, I\u2019m your lawyer.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s as big a declaration as any she has in the whole season. She\u2019s not just saying, \u2018I am your lawyer.\u2019 What she\u2019s saying is, \u2018I know what I\u2019m doing right now, and what I\u2019m doing is making a conscious choice to cross over the dark side.’\u201d<\/p>\n Sarah isn\u2019t the only one who had to make a big decision in the episode, either. Jackie Lemanczyk (Gemma-Leah Devereux) was also sprung from her storage facility prison by the private investigator hired by Leo Drummond (John Slattery<\/a>) and had to decide whether to trust Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan<\/a>) enough to testify in Dot Black\u2019s court case and put herself back into public view after being imprisoned by Melvin Pritcher (Dan Fogler<\/a>) for so long.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll have to wait until next week\u2019s episode to find out what\u2019s next for Jackie, but if you\u2019re wondering whether she would\u2019ve died in Pritcher\u2019s custody without her unexpected rescue, according to Seitzman, the answer is no.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought about it a lot when we were working on it. I thought, \u2018Why doesn\u2019t he kill Jackie?\u2019 And the answer is\u2026 in Episode 3, when he says, \u2018I always admired you.\u2019 There was something about it, that there\u2019s something about that moment, both on the page and also the way Dan Fogler delivers it that felt so real,\u201d he explained. \u201cHe liked her, and he admired her, and he\u2019s trying to avoid killing her. You even see it in the moment in five when he\u2019s interrogating her in the cabin before she escapes\u2026 When she says that she was on the tissue committee, and he says, \u2018You were on the tissue committee?\u2019 There\u2019s something so innocent in the way he says it, like he\u2019s both impressed and jealous at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think the thing about Melvin is, he\u2019s clearly a bad guy who does really bad things, but he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s doing bad things,\u201d Seitzman continued. \u201cHe thinks of himself as heroic. As twisted as it is, he thinks of himself as heroic. So you have these moments with him that are incredibly earnest. We never wanted the character to be mustache-twirly. We never wanted him to be a cold or overtly psychopathic killer. We wanted him to be the guy next door who\u2019s the killer. The one who you see at the mailbox and say hello to, but little do you know, he\u2019s done really terrible things.\u201d<\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, the actor portraying the character\u00a0does<\/em> think Jackie would\u2019ve been a goner if not for her timely rescue. \u201cYeah, I think that he was tying up loose ends. I think that. But you know what? A little secret. I think he maybe had a thing for her. That\u2019s why she lasted so long,\u201d Fogler said. \u201cIt\u2019s like he couldn\u2019t bring himself to really hurt her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Elsewhere in the episode, Bruiser (Lana Parrilla<\/a>) welcomed home her father, only to have him reclaim his seat at her throne \u2014 er, desk \u2014 and demand that they settle the case with Leo for $1 million. Instead, though, Rudy quit the firm and signed the client over to his solo care, and Bruiser sent Deck (P.J. Byrne<\/a>) packing right alongside him. We also learned more about the woman who died in her dad\u2019s care \u2014 or how Prince (Tommie Earl Jenkins) is involved \u2014 but the scenes of her leaning on Bruiser for help were heartrending to say the least.<\/p>\n The Rainmaker<\/i><\/b>, Fridays, 10\/9c, USA Network<\/b><\/p>\n