Conviction
Working with a team at the new Conviction Integrity Unit, Hayes Morrison (Hayley Atwell) will use her brilliant mind to turn over cases where there is credible suspicion of wrongful conviction, and give her a chance to turn things around with her high-powered political family.
- Metascore45
- 2016-2017
- 1 season
- Disney-ABC Domestic Television
- Drama
- TV-14
Working with a team at the new Conviction Integrity Unit, Hayes Morrison (Hayley Atwell) will use her brilliant mind to turn over cases where there is credible suspicion of wrongful conviction, and give her a chance to turn things around with her high-powered political family.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
Pilot
Mon, Oct 3, 2016 43 mins
Hayes Morrison digs herself out of what could be a publicly embarrassing situation by making a clandestine deal with her adversary, Conner Wallace, to take on the Conviction Integrity Unit and justice system in order to save face for herself and her family. The first case Hayes pushes her team to consider is that of Odell Dwyer, a handsome former high school football player who has been in prison for eight years for murdering his girlfriend.
Episode 2
Bridge and Tunnel Vision
Mon, Oct 10, 2016 41 mins
The CIU re-investigates a case that Wallace personally prosecuted with alarming results.
Episode 3
Dropping Bombs
Mon, Oct 17, 2016 42 mins
The CIU works to clear a political activist who was sentenced to life in prison for setting off a bomb at a mosque.
Episode 4
Mother's Little Burden
Mon, Oct 24, 2016 41 mins
The CIU examines the case of a mother who killed her autistic son, while Hayes is forced to do a prime time interview to save her job.
Episode 5
The 1% Solution
Mon, Nov 7, 2016 42 mins
Hayes launches into damage-control mode following her controversial nationally televised interview, seeking to limit the repercussions within her family and to her mother's Senate campaign. Meanwhile, the CIU takes on the case of a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, convicted for killing a wealthy woman whose privileged family took him in and treated him as one of their own.
Episode 6
#StayWoke
Mon, Nov 14, 2016 43 mins
The CIU investigates the case of Porscha Williams who was convicted and imprisoned for the shooting death of a police woman during a protest. Naomi arrives to work on Connor's defense, but the personal entanglements between Hayes, Connor and Naomi eventually take center stage. Maxine and Tess reveal more of their personal stories, backgrounds and motivations to their co-workers.
Episode 7
A Simple Man
Mon, Nov 21, 2016 41 mins
Hayes and the CIU team take on the case of a man with diminished mental capacity serving time for setting a fatal fire to his family's restaurant. A documentary team follows the case with Hayes throwing roadblocks in their way any way she can
Episode 8
Bad Deals
Mon, Nov 28, 2016 41 mins
CIU revisits the case of a teenage girl who was kidnapped ten years ago and assumed dead, until she managed to escape her captor's home. Meanwhile, Hayes is determined to intercede on Wallace's behalf in an investigation into his professional misconduct.
Episode 9
A Different Kind of Death
Mon, Dec 5, 2016 41 mins
Wallace brings the case of death-row inmate Earl Slavitt to the CIU. Earl was convicted of murdering federal prosecutor Tom Simon, one of Wallace's best friends. Wallace, along with Simon's widow, want to ensure that Earl did in fact commit the crime. When the CIU team looks for possible errors in the case,, they instead uncover cracks in Simon's reputation.
Episode 10
Not Okay
Sun, Jan 1, 2017 41 mins
After Hayes and Wallace share a passionate night together, Hayes cautiously considers sticking her toe into the relationship waters with Wallace. Hayes implores the CIU team to aggressively pursue the case of Sophie Hausen, a young woman serving a life sentence for murdering a popular college basketball player, whom she accused of raping her.
Episode 11
Black Orchid
Sun, Jan 8, 2017 40 mins
While Hayes and Wallace struggle to balance their professional and personal lives, they are summoned to a crime scene that fits the M.O. of the infamous "Black Orchid Killer." As the investigation accelerates, the CIU team closes in on a suspect who may have committed all the murders.
Episode 12
Enemy Combatant
Sun, Jan 15, 2017 40 mins
Former President Morrison pays Hayes an unexpected visit and lobbies her (and CIU) to take on the case of Omar Abbas, a Muslim-American citizen held for years without trial in a military facility for allegedly planning a chemical attack on Manhattan. But taking on the federal war on terror is a hot-button issue, and Hayes and the CIU find themselves battling the authorities in their search for the truth.
Episode 13
Past, Prologue & What's to Come
Sun, Jan 29, 2017 41 mins
Hayes revisits a failed case from her days as a defense attorney, the very case where she met Wallace nearly a decade earlier. Meanwhile, a member of the CIU team is forced to revisit their illicit actions in the controversial Rodney Landon case. In the end, Hayes and Wallace's future, as well as that of the CIU team, hang in the balance.
