The Rainmaker Episode 3 recap: Rudy discovers the truth about Donny Ray’s death

The latest episode of The Rainmaker was as eventful as it could get. The episode highlighted Rudy’s courtroom brilliance during the Doctor’s deposition, and his sharp investigative skills as he uncovered the existence of another patient in Donny’s room.

Elsewhere, while the Episode gave us a glimpse at Bruiser’s past, it also showed how she was distressed by the FBI’s visit to her and had gone on to make a deal with Leo, agreeing to make her client go for a settlement. Further, Melvin Pritcher got hold of Jackie in the recent episode.

Here’s what happened in The Rainmaker Episode 3.

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The Rainmaker Episode 3 recap: Rudy finds out who could be Donny’s killer

In Episode 3 of The Rainmaker, Rudy showed how excellent a lawyer he is going to be as he memorized all the details about Donny’s case. He almost threw off the Doctor during the deposition, proving that he was an unreliable witness. He also mentioned the Doctor’s addiction problems, resulting in this detail being included in the record.

The deposition also gave Rudy a clue to look more into Donny’s case when Sarah mentioned the Azalea flowers that Donny’s mother brought him. The Doctor revealed that he was allergic to the flowers, and that’s why he remembers treating Donny.

This helps Rudy, as he knew Dot was informed about Donny being in the hospital after his death, so there must be another patient in the room, for whom the flowers were brought. Deck begins his research about all the florists to find out who would have sold the flowers.

With this information, Rudy reaches a frat house where he finds the other patient in Donny’s room. The boy initially refuses to get into the case, but after Rudy tells him about Dot fighting for her son, he reveals that a male nurse had come and visited Donny. He injected something into Donny’s IV.

The patient revealed that a male nurse injected something into Donny’s IV. Rudy immediately connected this to Melvin Pritcher, the only person previously shown using injections, making him the prime suspect.

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The Rainmaker Episode 3 recap: Pritcher kidnaps Jackie

While Rudy tries to find a way to convict Pritcher in The Rainmaker Episode 3, Pritcher finds his next victim. He knows Jackie knows about him being the one who murdered Donny Ray in the hospital, making her his next victim.

While she had been hiding in her ex-boyfriend’s garage, in this episode, she had to leave as he did not want to get involved in the mess. While driving, she had to halt due to a flat tire in the middle of the road.

When she stopped someone to help her out, it turned out to be Melvin himself. He was the one who plotted this whole thing to catch her. At the end of the episode, Jackie is seen in a cabin, unconscious.

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The Rainmaker Episode 3 recap: Bruiser tries to make a deal with Leo

In Episode 3 of The Rainmaker, we get a glimpse of Bruiser's past as we see her father in prison, who will be out in just a month. All her current agitations are discovered to be due to a woman named Rosalie Sutton. Her father had helped the woman flee the country with her baby. This was the reason for his imprisonment.

In the Episode, the FBI visited Bruiser and informed her that Rosalie had been murdered, and they would like to revisit her testimony. This new development distressed her, and she ended up in a secret meeting with Leo.

Without Rudy's knowledge, Bruiser tries to make a deal with Leo to make her client go for a settlement, in exchange for him getting the FBI off her back. Leo initially finds it funny, but when she reveals that she knows about a criminal conspiracy and that Melvin was the one who killed Donny, a settlement is one of the best solutions for them as well.

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