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'Did you kill Nicole?' John Travolta morphs into Robert Shapiro as Cuba Gooding Jr. is asked the burning question in new teasers for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

Published: 12:17 EST, 22 October 2015 | Updated: 13:52 EST, 22 October 2015

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American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson premieres on FX in February, but the network gave viewers a taste of what's to come in four new teasers.

John Travolta transforms into legal defender Robert Shapiro who asks his client if he did what he's been accused of during a client-counselor conversation in one clip.

Cuba Gooding Jr., as defendant O.J. Simpson, is seen from behind with his head down in a second teaser, pondering an uncertain future - a future that depends on well he responds to the inquisition.

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'I always ask a client the question': John Travolta as defense attorney Robert Shapiro asks O.J. Simpson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) whether he did what he's accused of in a new teaser for American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson

A tense lie detector scene featuring the question: 'Is the person who killed Nicole Brown Simpson in this room?', police arriving to the murder scene and a dramatic exchange of dialogue have also been reveaed.

In the first scenario, Travolta, 61, delivers an impressive performance as Robert Shapiro - one of the first to join Simpson's legal team - with blackened brows, sideburns and combed back hair.

In a carefully controlled voice with minimal facial movements, the actor says: 'Any time that I take on a new criminal case I always ask a client the question. Now I won't be judgmental. So...'

Alone: Cuba Gooding Jr. as defendant O.J. Simpson is seen naked from the waist up and pondering what looks like an uncertain future in a darkened bedroom in this second teaser

Client-counselor discussion: Travolta is transformed into Shapiro complete with heavy black brows and combed back hair

Listen up: The meeting takes place in a conservatively furnished office

'I won't be judgmental. So...' Travolta's Shapiro assures Gooding Jr.'s Simpson that whatever answer he gives won't condemn him in his eyes

Quite a transformation: Travolta, left, had the looks and the nuances down as legal defender Robert Shapiro, right in 1994

And there, the 15-second clip ends, but that's why it's called a teaser.

Another teaser offers a look at Gooding, 47, in a darkened bedroom sitting on the edge of a bed, naked from the waist up as he faces the fight of his life.

The defendant is then seen from the neck down wearing a blue dress shirt while being strapped into the lie detector apparatus, and an actor saying in voiceover: 'Is the person who killed Nicole Brown Simpson in this room?'

Lie detector test: The double murder defendant sits down to take a lie detector test during which he's asked: 'Is the person who killed Nicole Brown Simpson in this room?'

Nice shirt: Gooding Jr. - as Simpson - is strapped to the lie detector apparatus while seen from the neck down - and wearing a very nice blue dress shirt

Pressure: A blood pressure cuff is placed on the defendant's arm

Effects: The cuff is tightened and one can feel the tension with every squeeze of the inflation bulb

A third clip reveals snippets of dialogue from Travolta as Robert Shapiro: 'You have my word and my word is gold'; Sarah Paulsen as prosecutor Marcia Clark: 'He got away with beating her, he is not gonna get away with killing her.'

There is also Courtney B. Vance as defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran: 'I like to win. This case is a loser,' and Gooding as Simpson: 'Tell Lou and Judy I want them to be the guardians of my children.'

The horrendous murders of O.J.'s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman gripped the world's attention 20 years ago.

Long walk: The camear follows Simpson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) as he takes a solitary stroll down a long corridor

Murder scene: The garden courtyard where Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were slain was meticulously recreated; here the actors playing homicide detectives are captured arriving on the scene

Discovery: The tension mounts as the flashlights reveal the horrific scene

The docuseries from Ryan (Glee, American Horror Story) Murphy follows the people involved in the trial of O.J. Simpson who was accused of committing the murders (and was eventually acquitted in the criminal trial that spanned 1994 to 1995.)

David Schwimmer portrays defense lawyer Robert Kardashian and Selma Blair his wife Kris (now known as Kris Jenner).

On Tuesday, Selma was pictured filming scenes with a group of youngsters portraying the Kardashian children, Khloe, Kim and Rob Jr.

Bad news: A detective makes a phone call from the Brentwood, CA condo that becomes a crime scene

Media frenzy: The murders of O.J.'s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman gripped the world's attention 20 years ago

On trial: Cuba Gooding Jr. was pictured in LA on June 10 filming a scene for the Ryan Murphy docuseries that follows the murder trial of American football legend O.J. Simpson, pictured right on June 7, 1994

Murphy, who wrote and is producing American Crime Story, recently recalled what it was like recreating the scene when Simpson was chased down a freeway in a white Bronco by the LAPD who wanted to arrest him.

'It was amazing,' he told Deadline.com. 'The interesting thing about this show is everybody knew what was happening outside the Bronco but in this case we tell people what went on in the Bronco.'

'We shut a couple of LA. freeways down for two days and we really show A.C. Cowlings and O.J. Simpson in that car, what they were doing. It was really tough, it was very emotional and very wrenching.'