[This story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of The Lowdown on FX .]

The trailer for The Lowdown shows Ethan Hawke ’s character, a crusader and self-described “truthstorian” named Lee Raybon, getting beat up quite a bit. If anything, the preview undersold it.

By the end of the series premiere, Lee has been assaulted in his own home by a pair of skinheads who didn’t like something he wrote about them in a small local paper. By the end of the episode, he’s been beaten worse (by the same guys) and thrown in the trunk of a car, only to witness their murder at the hand of a more polite-seeming but very menacing man, Allen Murphy (Scott Shepherd), who is very likely connected to Lee’s other obsession, the powerful Washberg family.

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