Series 1. Episode 6.
Title: “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia”
During a divorce court proceeding, Marcia becomes explicitly annoyed to a point where the judge calls her out when threatening to hold her in contempt. She then finds herself having to go right across the street to the trial proceedings.
Nicole’s sister, Denise, tearfully testifies about an incident when Simpson publicly humiliated Nicole. Clark gets mistreated by the media, which criticises her clothing and hairstyle. She gets infuriated when her estranged husband, Gordon, seeks primary custody of her two sons, as he feels that her job in the trial is distancing her from them. In his cross examination of Detective Van Atter, Cochran questions whether it is normal for detectives to abandon an ongoing crime scene investigation to go to the home of a victim’s ex-spouse and notify them of their death.
Van Atter replies that all situations are different, especially ones involving children. Clark complains that the questioning made Van Atter sound shady. Detective Lange testifies that he did not book Simpson’s shoes into evidence until the very next day. He instead took them back home in Simi Valley, the same city where the officers who beat Rodney King live.
Television networks preempt their daytime programming for coverage of the trial. Darden and Clark bond at the office after-hours with drinks and dancing. Ito dismisses the jury for the day due to the defense’s issue with securing Simpson’s former maid, Rosa Lopez, as a witness. Lopez was not expected to testify so soon, yet she was threatening to leave the country due to media intrusion. Lopez acts disobediently when cross examined by Clark.
Gordon publicly calls out Marcia for faking a need to end the proceedings early to be with the kids. A reporter from the Los Angeles Times confronts Cochran about the alleged past domestic violence against his first wife.
Clark decides to get a haircuit in response to the media’s criticisms of her. While at a supermarket, she stumbles across tabloids who are still unimpressed with the hair, and a cashier makes fun of her tampon purchase.
Bailey gives his cross examination of Fuhrman, asking him if he has ever used the ‘N’ word in the last ten years, to which Fuhrman strongly denies. Garcetti confronts Clark about tabloid pictures of her and her first husband courtesy of Gordon. Ito adjourns court for the day when she sees Clark in tears. Darden consoles Clark, who bemoans about finding herself being turned into a public personality like the defense lawyers.