[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Sinner” Season 2, Episode 1, “Part I.”]Det.
Harry Ambrose’s arcane knowledge about plants has paid off in his latest case.
In the Season 2 premiere of USA’s “The Sinner,” a young boy has killed his parents at a motel by giving them tea laced with… something.
It doesn’t take long for Ambrose (Bill Pullman) to figure out what the 13-year-old boy used.Jimsonweed (datura stramonium), a.k.a.
devil’s snare, is a member of the deadly nightshade family.
IndieWire spoke to showrunner Derek Simonds about the premiere, including why the show settled on using this particular plant and method for murder.“We did a lot of research.
What would be a deadly poison that occurs in the natural world in upstate New York? There were a few options but Jimsonweed proved to be the deadliest,” he said.
“What we liked… is that it’s a very common shrub.
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