It Was All in the Reaction Shots

In the end, Presumed Innocent did not land on the murder suspect with the most evidence against them, or the perpetrator from the original source material, or any of its tricksy red herrings, or even Tommy Molto’s cat. Yet in a feat of storytelling, the murderer revealed in the show’s final moments did not come entirely out of the blue. There were hints throughout the Apple TV+ legal drama that pointed in this direction, but they weren’t obvious bits of plot development or startling new pieces of evidence.