But poisoning Joey does let Michael sustain that precious shadow of a doubt, and he’s got more rigging to do. (Which doesn’t make that much sense given that Jimmy Baxter has goons on the inside willing to kill Kofi without Carlo getting his hands dirty.) It should be obvious, based on Carlo’s motives and the nature of his attack, that he wasn’t acting in self-defense when Kofi stepped into his cell. In addition to Joey witnessing Carlo brag about killing Kofi, he can also testify that Carlo’s mother arranged for her son to be transferred to Kofi’s prison so he could have access to him. There are no big holes in the prosecution’s case, exactly, but Joey’s testimony would have laid the self-defense argument to rest. (To underline the point, this episode also includes an incredible scene where Carlo’s lawyer is gently coaching him through his witness testimony and cannot get him to say non-vicious, non-incriminating things.) Rigging the court in favor of an obviously, flagrantly, remorselessly guilty thug like Carlo would take an incredible effort even without Carlo’s best buddy testifying that he bragged about splitting Kofi’s head open like a watermelon.
YOUR HONOR EPISODES TRIAL
The trial is the big grenade he’s falling on here. He’s entirely in scramble mode now, doing everything possible to save himself and his son from the Baxters and the law. If there was any time when Michael could hope to emerge from this cover-up with his integrity intact, that time has definitively passed.
He is the lonely man suggested by Auden’s poem, living without love, and now even the water is a killer. It’s not as if Joey is a remorseful man seeking redemption here - testifying against Carlo and the other Baxters, and getting a sweet government deal for it, is just a way out another tight corner for him - but he’s in a vulnerable spot. He believes himself to be the sort of learned, high-minded intellectual who can make such a reference, but he has to be relishing the irony that he’s tainted this life-sustaining water. Michael is getting a little cute here, and a little sadistic, too. (“I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass.”) Jackson) likes to recite at a moment of reckoning. But it could also be like that biblical quote from Ezekiel that Jules (Samuel L. It’s tempting to say that Michael had some loftier intent in referencing Auden, perhaps suggesting Joey’s newfound isolation from the Baxters, whom he considered family.
Auden poem “First Things First,” is quoted by Michael Desciato to Joey Maldini, Carlo Baxter’s best friend, as he prepares to become the star witness for the prosecution at Carlo’s trial. “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
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