Martin Luther King Jr. is shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while in the city to support striking sanitation workers. This episode of the British series Infamous Assassinations reconstructs the killing and the manhunt that followed, using archival footage and staged reenactments to walk through the events leading up to that evening and the immediate aftermath. It covers the escape and eventual capture of James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty and later recanted, and the doubts that plea left behind about whether he acted alone. The film sets King's death against the civil rights movement he led, tracing how the assassination landed in the middle of the era's political tensions and the fear that his murder could ignite. As with other entries in the series, the focus stays on reconstructing what happened rather than resolving the competing theories about who was really responsible, leaving the case's unresolved edges intact.