Mickey could become known as the Lincoln Lawyer for a new reason in season four.
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Warning: deep spoilers ahead The Lincoln LawyerThe season three finale is on the horizon.

Oh, Lincoln Lawyer fans (what do we call ourselves? Lincoln Logs? I’m working on that), are we going to get a juicy briefcase for Mickey Haller’s third outing or something? Season two of David E. Kelley and Ted Humphrey’s adaptation of Michael Connelly Lincoln Lawyer novels ended when our favorite LA criminal defense attorney and owner of several Lincoln branded vehicles received a call from a man named Julian LaCosse. He’s just been indicted for a murder he swears he didn’t commit, and it was Gloria Dayton – aka Glory Days, the sex worker Mickey has represented and grown to love (like a brother of sorts) – who told him to call Haller if he was ever in trouble. The unfortunate problem here: Gloria Dayton is also the victim.

See, Julian was a sort of manager for escorts, providing them with a secure website and other security controls. Glory told him that a customer didn’t show up so she couldn’t pay him, but Julian had confirmed this with the man beforehand so he went to her to make sure she hadn’t taken the money she gave him was guilty and spent it on medicine. Glory was found strangled while her apartment was set on fire an hour later.

It becomes clear early on that Julian is innocent – ​​he left before she died – and that Glory’s death is tied to the fact that she once betrayed a high-ranking member of the Tijuana Cartel named Hector Moya (we saw her do this in season two ) and now Hector, who has been locked up for life by the DEA, is trying to get his sentence overturned. A week before she died, Glory was subpoenaed as a witness in Moya’s case. Moya needs Glory Days for his profession – he wouldn’t kill her. And as Mickey discovers, the more he unravels Glory’s murder, the deeper he becomes entangled with some shady, shady members of law enforcement. But even a rattlesnake left in its bed won’t stop old Mickey Haller from getting justice, okay?

Things get twisty, but it’s true Lincoln Lawyer fashion, the truth comes to light at the end of the season. How does Mickey do this time? Below, we answer all your burning questions about how season three is shaping up The Lincoln Lawyer has concluded – and what will happen when the court reconvenes for a season four.

Okay, take it easy, buddy. Everything will be answered. It all goes back to a DEA agent named James De Marco. De Marco is the officer who imprisoned Moya for life. But as Mickey discovers, Moya is right to believe he was set up to get that life sentence. De Marco, who had arrested Glory Days a number of times, made a deal with her to plant a gun in Moya’s house the next time Moya hired her, then instructed her to use Mickey to kill it making it seem like betraying Moya was Mickey’s big deal. plan back in season two; it was De Marco’s plan all along. Apparently the man was targeting Hector Moya and would do everything he could to get him behind bars permanently.

You may think, Hmm, this guy sounds like a complicated man trying to get justice for the cartel any way he can. But De Marco is not complicated. As Mickey and Cisco discover near the end of the season, De Marco is secretly working for the Juarez Cartel, rivals to Moya’s Tijuana Cartel. Do you see where this is going? When Glory Days was subpoenaed, De Marco had the most to lose if she testified that he forced her to plant evidence. That’s what we call motive, honey.

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Does it ever. It takes a while for Mickey to connect all the dots; In fact, Mickey suffers more losses in court than usual, and things look bleak for Julian – especially when De Marco uses another Juarez Cartel associate to try to kill the poor man in prison. (Julian is actually a nerdy IT guy; he can’t survive in these conditions! His dear partner, David, is suffering! Protect David at all costs!) Mickey also suffers losses off the court when De Marco tries to silence Mickey and eventually commits murder. Mickey’s sweet new driver Eddie Rojas. The little boy just wanted to drink his green juice and crochet scarves live on the internet and also be inexplicably happy. RIP to that man!

The breakthrough in Mickey’s bad luck comes from the most unlikely of sources: Neil Bishop (oh, okay Holt McCallany!), the DA’s investigator. Bishop is a retired cop whose career was derailed fifteen years ago when, what do you know, Mickey Haller caught him on the witness stand tampering with evidence. Suffice to say, Bishop hates Mickey and he’s also in cahoots with De Marco. Mickey and the team have security camera footage of the two together. When Bishop hears this, he knows he’s done. But instead of letting things take their course (the prosecutor is very capable), he is eaten away by guilt and wants to open up about his relationship with De Marco. Bishop takes the stand.

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Ten years ago, De Marco bribed Bishop with a ton of money to bury a murder case linked to the Juarez Cartel, and he has owned the former detective ever since. He has used it time and time again over the years to do his bidding, including obtaining information about Gloria Dayton. He followed her the night of her murder. He gave De Marco her address. He watched De Marco enter her house after Julian had already left and then, on De Marco’s orders, arranged for him to become the lead investigator for the prosecution in the case. In the stands, Bishop is a broken man. He tells Mickey that De Marco told him Glory was already dead. “Do you believe him?” Mickey asks. “I wanted to,” Bishop says, tears welling up. “Do you believe him?” Mickey asks again. “No, I didn’t.”

Mickey’s questions end and Bishop doubles over, crying. Suddenly he pulls a gun from his ankle, asks them to tell his son he loves him, and shoots himself in the head.

The charges against Julian are dropped. He is a free man. He’s also a very wealthy man: Mickey helps Julian get a huge settlement from the city of LA, the LAPD, and the DEA. It’s a huge win for Julian and for Mickey (and his team, who all get bonuses).

Once Bishop takes the stand and starts spilling the beans, one of De Marco’s henchmen who had been in the courtroom alerts his boss, and De Marco flees the city (after a motorcycle chase with Cisco, of course). It seems like De Marco may never pay for his crimes… until one day Izzy opens a package sent to Mickey’s office containing a pair of sunglasses that look suspiciously like the ones we’ve seen De Marco sporting and an envelope with a photo of a dead De Marco draped in a rattlesnake. It isn’t long before Mickey gets a call: Hector Moya is out of jail and he owes Mickey. De Marco won’t bother either of them anymore, and Mickey won’t have to worry about a backlash from the Juarez Cartel; Moya has them covered too. Maybe it pays to have friends in low places later?

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I’m so glad you asked. Yes, there is kissing. Not enough by most standards, but by some it is. Mickey Haller and Andy Freeman finally make up for the chemistry they have, and they end up in a full-fledged relationship. Unfortunately, their respective affairs and the drama surrounding them get in the way, and they are separated before the end of the season. Still, I have hope for these two! But what will Andy think when she learns that Mickey was just arrested when a traffic cop found a dead body in the trunk of his car? She won’t be happy, I’m sure.

You read that correctly. In season four, Mickey could become known as the Lincoln Lawyer for a new reason: he drives around LA with a client’s corpse in his trunk. I mean, it’s a nice little advertisement for the ample storage space in those things, but it’s not… Great situation for our favorite criminal defense attorney. He’s on a high and leaves that celebratory dinner with the crew after Julian’s settlement is reached, but things take a wild turn when a cop pulls Mickey over for a missing license plate and then arrests him when he notices blood dripping on the street. . Mickey points out that the cop has no legal right to open the trunk, which you know will appear next season, but it doesn’t matter: he pops the trunk open and Mickey is stunned to find Sam Scales’ body inside .

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He has popped up several times on the show: he is one of the clients Mickey inherited when Jerry Vincent left him his practice in season one. He is involved in fraud and has absolutely no way of paying his fees on a certain schedule, but he is ready to help the team when they needed reinforcement for their own fraud-free schemes. And yes, he is very much dead and was in the very back of the Lincoln.

If The Lincoln Lawyer is arrested for a new season, you can be sure that the consequences of this arrest will color the entire case. You can check out Michael Connelly’s sixth Mickey Haller novel, The law of innocenceas a road map if you’re so inclined. While the Netflix series isn’t shy about changing things up from the events of the novels, The law of innocence finds Mickey being charged for this murder, representing himself and handling the case from a prison cell. If that doesn’t mean “made for TV,” I don’t know what does. I’m already starting to feel sorry for him because (1) he’s clearly been set up and (2) our little foodie from LA is really going to hate what they serve in the prison cafeteria.