Warning! Constains spoilers for Presumed Innocent episode 4.

As Presumed Innocent episode 4 progresses, Jake Gyllenhaal’s Rusty Sabich only finds himself deeper and deeper in trouble as more evidence mounts against him. Based on Scott Turow’s novel of the same name, Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent walks through the chaotic trial of a prosecutor who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a former colleague he was having an affair with. In Presumed Innocent‘s episode 3, Rusty unearths some crucial details from a previous case he had worked on, which could help him prove his innocence in his present case.

Unfortunately for him, after making some advances in episode 3, Rusty faces many new setbacks in episode 4. Not only does his relationship with his family become increasingly strained but he also struggles to find concrete evidence to win the case. Meanwhile, his prosecutors make significant progress, making him look even more guilty.

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Kyle Reveals Why He Was Outside Carolyn’s Home On The Night Of Her Murder

Kyle Was Curious To Know Why Rusty Would Cheat On Barbara

When Jake Gyllenhaal’s Rusty confronts his son, Kyle, and asks him what he was doing outside Carolyn’s house on the night of her murder, Kyle initially brushes off the question by saying he was just passing by. However, Rusty does not buy his excuses, pestering him until Kyle reveals he overheard conversations between him and Barbara and wanted to know who Rusty was having an affair with. Even when Kyle honestly tells him why he was there, Rusty only gets more mad at him.

Rusty claims that if he only wanted to see Carolyn’s face, he could just have googled her name. With what follows, he gets even more confrontational and asks him if he was casing out her house. Kyle responds by saying that he himself might not have had a reason to visit Carolyn’s place but was trying to figure out why Rusty visited her. This catches Rusty off-guard for a while, and he soon walks out of his house. Kyle later tells Barbara he only rode his bike around Carolyn’s house a few times out of sheer curiosity.

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Raymond Confronts Rusty For Cheating On Barbara

Raymond Reminds Rusty That He Lost The Right To Defend Himself A Long Time Ago

After his conflict with his family, Rusty finds himself arguing with Raymond the next day. Raymond, too, reminds him how he betrayed both his wife and children by having an affair with Carolyn. He gets sick of Rusty’s excuses and tells him that he can come up with every argument in the world to defend his actions, but that will only make the jury hate him even more. Rusty gets even more defensive and claims he feels both shame and guilt for what happened, even though Raymond does not believe him.

Raymond tells him that shame is self-centered, while guilt stems from one’s empathy towards how one’s actions affect others. He then tells Rusty that he does not feel shame for what he did. This completely shuts down Rusty, making him wonder whether he only feels bad about everything because he got caught.

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Molto Asks Michael What He Knows About Rusty & Carolyn’s Affair

Michael Reveals His Mother Feared Rusty

Molto continues digging deeper into his investigation by asking Michael why he was clicking pictures of Rusty near his mother’s house. Michael discloses that his mother felt threatened by Rusty. Although she never explicitly took his name, she would say she feared one of her coworkers. Michael assumed she was talking about Rusty after learning about their affair. When Molto later tells Guardia about this, he tells him he would need hard evidence to win the case instead of merely relying on character judgment.

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Detective Rodriguez Finds A Hit On The Second Sample From The Bunny Davis Case

Rusty & Rodriguez Question The Man With The DNA Match

In Presumed Innocent‘s episode 2, Rusty learns that the spermatozoa samples of two individuals were found on Bunny Davis after her murder. While one belonged to Liam Reynolds, the other one remained unidentified. As Detective Rodrigues continues her own investigation to help Rusty with the case, she finds the man whose DNA was discovered on Bunny Davis, and the two decide to visit his place. However, to their dismay, instead of answering their questions, the man, Ratzer, gets infuriated when Rusty threatens him and asks them to leave his house.

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Rusty Tells Winslow Why He Visited Carolyn That Night

Winslow Deduces Rusty Was At Carolyn’s Place For Quite Some Time

Later in the episode, Winslow asks Rusty to walk her through the events of the night of the murder. Rusty recalls how he stayed late at the office to work on Raymond’s election campaign but could not focus and kept texting Carolyn. After being ghosted by her, he went to a bar and got drunk. To his surprise, Carolyn finally responded to his texts at 9:24 pm, which prompted him to visit her. He arrived at her place at 9:49 pm, and, as Rusty faintly recounts, he and Carolyn had an argument before he left her place at 10:40 and returned home at 11:00 pm. This makes Winslow wonder what he was doing at Carolyn’s place for 51 minutes.

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Winslow Discourages Raymond From Putting Rusty On The Witness Chair

Winslow Realizes Rusty Can Come Off As An Unreliable Narrator

After talking to Rusty, Winslow realizes he was a little too drunk that night to remember various details of what happened between him and Carolyn. The prosecutors could easily take advantage of this and frame him as the killer. Owing to this, she tells Raymond that it would not be a good idea to have Rusty in the witness chair. Raymond, too, is not surprised by this, but it seems likely he will have to eventually consider the option of presenting Rusty as a witness in court.

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Raymond Tries To Convince Molto & Guardia Their Case Is Circumstantial

Raymond’s Own Plan Backfires On Him

Raymond later arranges a meeting with Molto and Guardia and tries to convince them they do not have any solid evidence against Rusty. He keeps reinstating that they are only working with circumstantial evidence, which will not help them win the case. However, Guardia then pulls out the medical file created by Tommy, which seemingly has a revelation that stuns Raymond. Although the episode does not instantly reveal what this revelation is, Raymond’s reaction suggests Guardia and Molto have finally found concrete evidence against Rusty.

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Raymond Tells Rusty His Skin Was Found Under Carolyn’s Nails

Rusty Accuses Molto & Guardia Of Planting Evidence Against Him

Tensed by this new development in the case, Raymond calls Rusty and tells him that his skin was found under Carolyn’s nails. Rusty claims that is not a possibility, but Raymond assures him that the autopsy confirms it. Rusty suspects foul play, believing that Guardia and Molto are trying to frame him for the murder just to win the case. Raymond, however, does not seem to buy this and grows increasingly concerned about what they can do next.

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Rusty Assaults Ratzer After He Shows Up At His Door In Presumed Innocent Episode 4’s Ending

Rusty Loses His Temper When Ratzer Threatens His Family’s Safety

In Presumed Innocent episode 4’s final arc, Ratzer aggressively knocks at Rusty’s door and confronts him for showing up at his house. When Rusty tries to dissolve the situation by telling Ratzer how he is scaring his family, Ratzer doubles down to remind him of how he did the same at his place. Rusty eventually loses his cool and attacks Ratzer. Since he was only defending himself and his family from an intruder, assaulting Ratzer may not lead to any legal complications. However, the fact that he previously visited Ratzer’s home to talk to him about the details of the Bunny Davis case could complicate things and make him look bad in the central trial.

New Presumed Innocent episodes are released every Wednesday on Apple TV+.