But no one did, it seems, so in episode 8 we see Lloyd, a sweet-natured, semi-pro football player from Dorchester, get marched out of a car in the middle of the night and shot dead by Hernandez. By now deeply paranoid and suspicious of virtually everyone in his life, Hernandez believed Lloyd, whom he’d met just days before, was a snitch and could not be trusted.

Lloyd’s is the third murder we see Hernandez commit in “American Sports Story,” though it’s the only one he was convicted of. A jury acquitted Hernandez of murdering Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in 2012 in a drive-by shooting in downtown Boston.

After Lloyd’s body is discovered in a North Attleborough industrial park, Hernandez, who’s watching the news and smoking pot in the flophouse arranged for him by the Patriots, calls his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, and asks her to retrieve a box from a closet in their house and dispose of it. (At Hernandez’s murder trial, Jenkins testified that she wasn’t told what was in the box and she didn’t look. She said she put the box and a few clothes in a garbage bag, which she placed in a dumpster whose location she couldn’t recall.)

The episode ends with police appearing outside Hernandez’s house in North Attleborough. They ask the NFL player if he knew Odin Lloyd and when he last saw him. The detectives tell Hernandez they’re investigating Lloyd’s murder.

“I gotta talk to my attorney,” Hernandez says before returning inside.

Mark Shanahan can be reached at mark.shanahan@globe.com. Follow him @MarkAShanahan.