'NCIS: New Orleans' Season 7 Episode 8: Is Liam McCall the murderer and rapist? Fans think 'it was too easy'
After weeks of anticipation and speculation surrounding the rape of an NCIS officer and the murder of her therapist, the team is finally closing in on a suspect Liam McCall. He's your typical racist, misogynistic, smug White man who acts exactly the way a guilty man would knowing he got away with it, as Dwayne Pride puts it. After deflecting for most of the episode, McCall finally confesses when Pride offers him a deal he can't refuse. But fans think this was all a tad "too easy".
According to the official synopsis of Season 7 Episode 8, titled 'Leda and the Swan, Part II', "As Pride and the team continue the investigation of an officer's assault and the murder of her therapist, NCIS zeroes in on a prime suspect who's been working the system for years." Agents Khoury and Gregorio had almost cracked the case of McCall, but he refused to confess despite finding the therapist - Amanda's blood on the seatbelt buckle of his car. The night Emily got assaulted, McCall and his colleagues were partying at a nightclub. His alibi was tight at the time, but upon Carter's pressure, McCall's prime witness Angelo gives in how he was unaccounted for quite some time wherein he claimed he was getting a private dance from one of the girls at the club.
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This is where fans pointed out how "idk why but this is sounding too easy here," to catch McCall, and how all the alibis and witnesses fell into place.
idk why but this is sounding too easy here. #NCISNOLA
— Jason Eldridge (@Dueler312) February 15, 2021
In the end, however, it turns out that McCall was indeed the horrible villain, who refused to confess to the murder, even after all the private dancers at the nightclub gave a written statement claiming none of them attended to him. This prompts McCall to even call them bunch of "drug addicts and whores" and that speaks volumes for what would actually get to him. So Pride strikes a deal with him - either McCall gets convicted for murder, or he confesses to raping Emily and get relatively lesser time as a sentence. Of course, he goes for the latter.
In case you were wondering the team might not have gotten the right guy, and there was something lurking deeper, more sinister than McCall, looks like your fears, like Emily's have been offered some respite. It was Gregorio's intense desire to see McCall suffer the consequences of breaking his victim, Emily, and in the end, she got her wish too. They couldn't get him to confess to the murder, but at least Emily got some end of justice after her horrifying ordeal.
'NCIS: New Orleans' Season 7 airs on Sundays at 10 PM only on CBS.
