Guilt Series Premiere Recap: Whodunit?

If you were looking for the nice tale of an American foreigner finding love and adventure in the bustling city of London, you took a wrong turn. Guilt is the modern day crime story loosely based on the events of the Amanda Knox trial. A large number of layers are included for dramatic intrigue to the story, making it difficult to say definitively if the roommate did it. It is because of these layers that a lawyer comments “there’s plenty of guilt to go around”.

Grace Atwood spends a semester abroad in London partying with her friends. After a night of heavy drinking Grace wakes to find her roommate and best friend Molly murdered in their flat. Grace is horrified, but is immediately a suspect since her best friend’s blood is on her feet. The detectives aren’t initially sure of Grace’s guilt or innocence. She adds new layers to the night’s events through a drunken filter.

Back in the U.S., Grace’s lawyer sister Natalie gets word about what is happening and catches the first flight to London. By the time she arrives Grace’s French boyfriend Luc has already convinced Grace to run. This isn’t necessarily a sign of Grace’s guilt though. She seems genuinely concerned that someone has been following her, just as she says Molly thought someone was following her in the days before she died.

Grace’s stunt doesn’t help her defense. Enter Stan Gutteie, a criminal defense attorney hired by Grace’s stepfather. Gutterie is blunt, a tad crude (hence his inability to practice law in the U.S. anymore), but is a fast talker. He doesn’t seem to care if Molly is innocent or not. Unfortunately Grace’s behavior while she’s been in the UK doesn’t help her defense. Nothing says guilty like an affair with a professor and a violent tire slashing as a result.

In the middle of all this mess is Molly’s brother, who is out for blood. As a proud Irishman he doesn’t trust the British judicial system to get justice for his sister. The special prosecutor believes either Grace or Luc killed Molly, but Detective Sergeant Bruno isn’t convinced. He’s not as quick to dismiss the possibility that Molly could have had a stalker, especially since her things continue to disappear from the flat after her death.

Molly was no innocent though. Her plethora of affairs, as well as a job as a high-priced hooker courtesy of her anything but innocent other roommate mean Molly had plenty of enemies. Molly’s death is even more brutal because she was deliberately stabbed 17 times, and she was pregnant. So the murder mystery adds a new layer: who was the father of Molly’s baby? Perhaps Molly’s French boyfriend Luc, who happened to be sharing both girls. Or it could be the Prince of England, Theo, who Molly was having an affair with. Then again it could be Grace’s stepfather, whose scarf turns up at the girls’s flat without Grace’s knowledge.

Yet for all these options, Grace is the only one smiling at video of Molly the last time they were partying together. Is this a sign of her innocence or guilt?

Is Grace guilty of this crime, or did Molly have a more deadly enemy? Will you tune in to find out?