American Crime 1x1 - Pilot

Following the home invasion murder of Matt Skokie - a war vet -and an assault on his wife Gwen, four suspects are broughtinto custody: Tony Gutiérrez, an impressionable teen who gotin way over his head even under the watchful eye of hisdedicated and hard-working father, Alonzo Gutiérrez. HectorTontz, a young man who has lived life on the fringes ofsociety and has made bad decisions just to survive. Carter Nixand Aubry Taylor, two incredibly lost souls whose addiction todrugs and to one another has become destructive and paralyzing.Though the suspects fit a profile, they and their situationsare far more complicated than anyone would have initiallybelieved... as is true for the victims themselves. As Russ andBarb Skokie - divorced and estranged - arrive to both burytheir son Matt, and seek a measure of justice for hiskilling, they discover their son may have been far from aninnocent bystander in his own murder. Told from the points ofview of all those involved, this new drama examinespreconceptions on faith, family, gender, race, class andother aspects of our social experience with an approach andperspectives historically underserved in media.