Rectify

- Season 1

(2013)

After 19 years on Death Row, Daniel Holden is suddenly released. Senator Foulkes plots to reopen the case. From the producers of Breaking Bad.

Daniel goes for a walk; Amantha and his attorney, Jon, go looking for him. Amantha wants to continue her affair with Jon, who thinks that's dangerous. Ted Jr. takes Daniel to lunch and levels with him about the family business; later, at a driving range, Daniel tells Ted Jr. a story about prison. At a family bar-b-que, Tawney and Daniel talk, and there may be trouble between Tawney and Ted Jr. Marcy gives Senator Foulkes a tip, and Ted Jr. gives Daniel something, thinking it might engage him.

Daniel rediscovers his teen self, first through clothes and music in the attic, then with Jared at a skateboard park. Senator Foulkes bestows his nasty smile and threats on Jon, he calls on the trial's defense attorney, he talks to Jared about vile texts the boy has received, he and Amantha head to the next county for a beer, then they go to an unlikely place in the woods. We meet the mother and brother of the teen girl Daniel was convicted of killing. With Ted Jr. out of town, Tawney drops by Daniel's with some monkey bread. Who's at risk?

Women come at men. Jon calls on the local D.A. to talk about a retrial, and she bares her teeth. Daniel and his mother visit a big box store and, as they leave, they're ambushed by a TV reporter and her camera crew. Mother drops Daniel off at the church where Tawney works, and she sets about to bring him to embrace Christ. That evening, a woman who was a high-school classmate, sees Daniel looking in a bookstore window and offers him a haircut. Meanwhile, temptation knocks twice while Ted Jr. attends a tire-store conference, and the sheriff drops by Trey's house and ...

It's the sixth day since Daniel's release. At 3 AM, he goes for a walk and hitches a ride with a quirky man who asks Daniel to help him pick up and deliver some goats. Is the man real? Ted Jr. returns from his conference to learn that Tawney has spent time with Daniel, who has decided to be saved. Ted Jr. drops the news on Amantha and her mom, then he spends a fruitless day putting tire-sale fliers on parked cars. Has Daniel embraced the Lord? Ted Jr.'s bitterness spills toward Daniel.

Can Daniel make it on the outside? His mother asks him to help her redo the kitchen, he explains his perceptions to Jon and calls on Amantha at her new place - they go for a walk. He buys a gift at a bookstore, calls Tawney, and walks to a cemetery. Jon listens to Daniel's confession, Senator Foulkes calls on the D.A., someone puts a cherry bomb in Ted and Janet's mailbox, Ted Jr. cleans off his trousers, death row loses a resident, and Trey gets an idea where George might be.