The Ted Humphrey-created, and David E. Kelley executive-produced series “The Lincoln Lawyer” finally returns for season 3. Adapted from Michael Connelly’s series of books about the titular Lincoln Lawyer, Mickey Haller, the show is a ratings hit on Netflix precisely because it is both an old-school throwback to network TV legal dramas, with an added sheen afforded to Netflix shows. It almost emulates the “sunny blue-skies era” of the USA Network, which made “Suits” get a gigantic second wind when it dropped on Netflix.
Most importantly after the success of “Bosch” on Prime Video and its spinoff on the sister channel Freevee, Netflix wanted to hop on the Connelly bandwagon. While “The Lincoln Lawyer” isn’t as good as “Bosch,” it has a consistency in terms of story and vibe and perfectly dependable filmmaking that allows it to be a streamable experience, even as the show fumbled majorly in the second season. This third season however seems to be a marked improvement from the second in how streamlined and focused the show is on the core plot as well as its predilection on not badgering itself with too many subplots.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episode 1 – La Culebra Recap:
The Introduction of Neil Bishop
Episode 1 opens with a flashback sequence to happier times, with Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and his wife Maggie (Neve Campbell) meeting on the beach. Fifteen years ago, with Hayley barely a child, to be picked up from daycare, Mickey worried about prelim for defending against Barnett Woodsen.
At court, Detective Bishop (Holt Mcanally) is cross-checked by Haller while recounting the events of having discovered the murder weapon in Woodsen’s car trunk. Except, as Mickey’s cross-checking reveals, while Bishop had served the warrant to search the apartment at 10:30 PM, the National Weather Service report states that it had started raining only at 11 PM, and drops of water on the hood of the car, as seen in the photo, put the car squarely across the street rather than the garage, and thus not under the jurisdiction of the warrant. The case is dismissed. But this results in Haller gaining another enemy in a long list of enemies in Bishop, who warns him that these tricks would ultimately get someone close to Haller killed.
The Murder of Glory Days
As the end of the previous season foretold, Mickey’s old contact Gloria Dayton AKA Glory Days, is discovered to be murdered, though she had been registered under an alias Giselle Dallinger. This coupled with Dayton’s proclamation of the previous season that she would be moving to Hawaii. But as it turns out she had been working at Van Nuys, under the facilitating of one Julian LaCosse, who runs an online portal for escort services.
As LaCosse reveals to Mickey, Dayton has instructed LaCosse to call him if he would be in any sort of jam. As it stands LaCosse being on the rap of Dayton’s murder is enough of a jam for Haller to be contacted. LaCosse tells him he went to Dayton’s apartment that night to collect the money she owed him. When he had reached that location, she had been high, and quite possibly the aggressor, and Julian had only pushed her away but hadn’t been responsible for killing him.
A consequent conversation with mentor and confidante Legal Seigel (Elliot Gould) leads to Haller theorizing that Dayton’s association with cartel boss Hector Moya might have led to her death. But Haller and his team – Lorna, Cisco, and Izzy – research and come up on a dead end as Moya’s name isn’t present in the State Prison database. Haller infers, and perhaps rightly so, that Moya is in federal custody or he has turned witness and is now walking scot-free.
Mickey’s new driver
The opening flashback scene also establishes Hayley’s nanny, Esperanza, and their son Eddie Rojas, who gets caught in a spot of bother due to being mistaken as a valet by a rich guy driving a Lamborghini. Losing his cool, Eddie would take the car and park it four blocks away, but not before also taking it for a joyride.
Mickey decides to argue for notching the sentence down from carjacking, and he manages to dismiss Eddie’s case by cross-checking the Lamborghini car-owner, by confusing him about his physical car keys and the valet key. In questioning as to how he could have his house key which would belong in the same bunch along with the car keys if the car had already been stolen, the man backtracks and tries to plant a story to save face that he had been out with another woman, only for his wife to realize her husband’s two-timing proclivity, thus leading to Eddie’s case being dismissed.
With Edie and Mickey finally rejoining Izzy and Lorna, Izzy mentions that Eddie could repay Haller by trying out as his new driver, with Mickey taking some amount out of his check. Considering he is a fitness freak and also knows Judo, Eddie’s physicality can come to the aid of Mickey while Izzy helps Lorna out in the office.
Details of the Murder
A few details of Gloria’s murder come to light. For one thing, the coroner’s report states the death by strangulation as having been caused between 11 pm to 3 am, with LaCosse having already admitted that he had been in the apartment around 11 pm. The breaking of the hyoid bone in her neck is believed to have been the cause of her death. Meanwhile, Cisco’s investigation into the neighbor reveals a fire had been set at Glory Days’ apartment that night in question.
Further interrogation into Julian by Mickey reveals that Julian had grabbed Gloria by the neck, which infuriates Mickey, but LaCosse desperately convinces him that he is innocent, stating that she had been alive when he had left her apartment. He also points out that out of the two clients she had met with that night – Brad Nelson and Daniel Price – Price had been a no-show. More specifically he hadn’t been present at Room 837 that night, even though LaCosse had called that room number to specify whether the client was legitimate or it was a police raid, akin to standard procedure.
Mickey also confronts with two unwelcome occurrences – that Neil Bishop is now an investigator for the Prosecution’s office. And that night as he enters his house (with Edie protecting his rear), he finds his house ransacked, and a live rattlesnake left on his bed, seemingly a scare tactic from Moya.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episode 2 – Special Circumstances Recap:
The bloody flag
As Mickey recovers from that scare tactic and Cisco installs cameras and additional security measures in Mickey’s apartment, Mickey meanwhile gets to work on a new case, Oscar Guerrero, the habitual robber. However, Mickey’s efforts to “shake” the prosecution’s main witness fail because the witness Mrs. Welton remains unfazed as Haller lets her read her statement aloud, and tries to poke holes in that statement as well as point out how her limited eyesight could have contributed to misidentifying Guerrero.
When none of the procedures succeeds, Haller utilizes an old trick taught by Siegel and used by Siegel and his father: requesting a recess during which he enrages his client with his “incompetence” such that his client pouches him and knocks him out. A few blood capsules in Mickey’s mouth helped seal the teeth. As both Haller and Siegel later point out to Eddie while they are picking up Siegel from the hospital – the event would convince Mrs. Welton to not testify again, leading to the case being declared a mistrial and the prosecution offering a plea deal resulting in Guereero’s sentence being dropped to five years.
The CCTV Footage
Cisco’s investigation into Daniel Price leads him to the Roosevelt Hotel. However, he finds a wall in the form of the Hotel Manager, who refuses to part with the security footage until given a court order, which Mickey refuses to cough up because that would make his moves public, which he is reticent about presently.
Izzy aids him in that endeavor by connecting with one of her old sponsors, who is also an influencer and has connections with the hotel. Mild threats aid in delivering a name to Cisco, who utilizes that to ensnare the hotel manager with a trade: share the video footage, in exchange for the name of the employee who had been leaking information about the hotel guests to the tabloids.
When Cisco finally sifts through the footage, he discovers that not only had Glory Days been telling the truth about Daniel Price being a no-show, but that she might have been followed by a guy in a hat and black trenchcoat from the hotel, who could have been the killer.
Meanwhile, Lorna takes a different route in aiding in the investigation. She meets up with an old friend for a celebration of her promotion, the same friend who coincidentally works for a federal judge in Pasadena. A night of drunken binging results in Lorna returning that night at the office of Haller and Associates with the federal case file on Hector Moya, which revealed that Hector had been busted for a drug-carrying charge that would have sentenced him to five years. However, a gun enhancement charge had been added due to authorities locating an unlicensed gun in his possession, which had been connected to a homicide in Nevada. That had been enough for the feds to slap him with a life sentence, which makes Mickey believe had been sufficient motive for Glory Days to be targeted.
Special Circumstances
Julian’s arraignment at court doesn’t go as smoothly as Haller wanted. He would be blindsided by the prosecution led by William Forsythe, who would come off as non-threatening until he suddenly pivots and refuses to grant bail by revealing a special circumstances allegation had been added. The allegation states that an incendiary device had been used as an arson attempt and that her death is believed to have been caused by the smoke inhalation, rather than the broken hyoid bone.
This inclusion of the special circumstances results in the judge refusing to grant bail, forcing Julian to stay imprisoned for over eight months, until his trial. The bright side would be after that bad day, Mickey connects with Eddie, and more importantly for this season, with Andrea Brennerman, a prosecutor with whom Mickey would go toe to toe the previous season, and who shares a flighty, albeit flirty banter with Haller. When Haller sits at Cole’s to enjoy a French dip sandwich, he invites her to join which which she initially declines, but ultimately acquiesces.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episodes 3 – 5 Recap:
Six Months Later
A major time jump occurs, and when the show moves forward by six months, we see that the night shared between Andrea and Mickey has developed into a casual relationship. On the Lorna front, she is busy with her bar exam, with Izzy finally taking up more of the slack in her role as interim office manager. Then again, with her dance studio in the dumps due to a rival dance studio cropping up at the same apartment complex, and their owners buying the entire area off, she is working in the office or at least forced to.
Cisco meanwhile calls up a friend at a junkyard looking for a green Honda Civic that the man in the black hat might have been driving. Almost six months later, his calls finally bear fruit when his friend tells him about a green Civic with tinted windows being broken, and tires being taken off. More importantly, the primary VIN had been filed off.
But as it turns out, Cisco does have a bag of tricks of his own. Whereby he discovers that VINs would also be written either on the underside of one of the tires or scrawled on the underside of the engine. It’s in the latter that he figures out the VIN. The VIN was eventually discovered by a completely traumatized Lorna, who, after a harrowing exam experience and a full day of sleep on the office couch, found Cisco’s scrawl of the VIN attached to the monitor. Her investigation leads to the car being discovered belonging to one Jack Houlihan that had been stolen, and that Jack Houlihan used to be the ex-partner of one Neil Bishop. Probable cause of suspicion found.
The Interrogation
At the hearing to suppress the police interaction with Julian commences, Haller invites Detective Whitten to the stand. Contrary to Whitten’s testimony of the interaction between LaCosse and himself as just an interview in a closed room rather than an interrogation, the video crops up a lot of inconsistencies.
For one thing, Whitten’s insistence on LaCosse sitting in the chair facing a hidden camera, locking the door from outside while going out to get drinks to stop LaCosse from leaving, the interview room is a literal “hot box”, and finally Whitten re-entering the interrogation room with a firearm on his holster, an effort to look intimidating. All these add up to the interview amounting to an interrogation, but his well-placed arguments hadn’t been enough to sway the judge because her political ambitions would come in the way, making her seem softer on crime, and thus she too shifts the case to trial. Haller even more determined, refuses the offer for a plea deal from Prosecutor Forsythe.
The Hector Moya deposition
In an interesting turn of events, Mickey Haller would be served a subpoena from none other than the imprisoned Hector Moya, represented by Sylvester Funaro Jr, the very green son of disbarred lawyer Sylvester Funaro Sr. Further digging by buttering up the process server reveals that the subpoena had been served to not just Haller, but also an escort named Kendall Roberts, and a DEA Agent named James De Marco.
A conversation with Sly Jr. reveals that while Sly is quite a novice when it comes to being a lawyer, he is being assisted from jail by his father, and through his father, Sly Jr. reveals that he knows Dayton used to be a confidential informant for Haller, and her testimony had been responsible for putting Moya in jail.
But further testimonies from Kendall and later Trina reveal newer wrinkles. Kendall reveals that she used to work in the same line along with Dayton and Trina, but Dayton would keep her away from Moya due to Moya supplying the escorts with cocaine. In exchange for her cooperation, Haller agrees to represent her as her attorney pro bono.
His interaction with Trina on the other hand reveals a much more insidious plot: she had been busted by DEA Agent De Marco and had been presented with a deal to reveal information on Hector Moya that she had refused. Glory Days though, when presented with the same offer didn’t. Instead, she planted a gun on Moya, which would lead to his life imprisonment. So, in turn, what Mickey had thought had been his sole responsibility, was Dayton playing the long game and just using Haller as a shield to execute her own, and to an extent De Marco’s plans.
It still didn’t explain why Moya would send a deposition to Haller, Trina, and De Marco. Siegel’s advice given to Haller, when Haller would be visiting at the old age home sneaking in sandwiches, would be to look at the larger picture, instead of letting his guilt cloud his logic and his ability to play the long game. A further examination into the subpoenas served to Mickey and Kendall reveals that the subpoena served to Kendall had been a fake. More specifically the seal had been fake.
Haller directly confronted Sly Jr. about this news, compounded by the fact that Sly Sr. had been following him, which leads him to drastically theorize that Sly Jr. had subpoenaed Glory Days first, but that resultant subpoena would be responsible for her death. As a result, when the time came to subpoena the others, Sly Sr. issued a fake subpoena to convince Kendall to testify under false pretenses and have Moya’s conviction overturned. Thus Moya definitely needed Dayton as his escape hatch, and he wouldn’t have orchestrated her murder.
Mickey Haller plays his biggest gamble yet, in convincing Sly Sr. that he could represent Moya’s interests as co-counsel with Sly Jr. so that he could overturn the conviction. As he reminds Eddie while on the trip to the federal prison where Moya is held, a person should be imprisoned for the crime he had been convicted of, and this cold logical reasoning is why defense attorneys are required as the opposite of prosecution. However, his meeting outside of Sly Jr’s office with James De Marco had been unsettling. De Marco had calmly entered the Lincoln without looking and had tried to answer his questions before revealing that he knew he was being investigated by Cisco.
At the prison, however, after having a somewhat strained conversation with Sly Sr. Mickey is brought to Moya through a darkened and menacing route via the kitchen. The conversation between Mickey and Moya leads to Mickey recapping the investigation Cisco conducted in Vegas, at the gun store where the fake ID of Reynaldo Satre (that Moya has been known to use) was used to frame him.
Cisco’s investigation into the wife of the gun store owner reveals De Marco’s connection with that woman and leads to Mickey inferring that De Marco had been running the shots for a long time, considering De Marco had been trying to put Moya behind bars ever since he had been a young-un, and coupled with the cowboy attitude that Haller remarks is symptomatic of most DEA agents, this is a man who is going to ensure Dayton’s testimony not see the light of day. When Moya confesses that while the ID belonged to him, but not the gun, Haller agrees to represent him.
Leaving the Victorville prison, however, turns the show on its head (literally), as a tow truck suddenly bashes the Lincoln from behind, causing it to overturn in the middle of the empty road. While Mickey manages to get out of the wreckage, Eddie Rojas is not so lucky. The health and fitness freak as well as a Twitch stream knitter, loses his life as collateral damage in De Marco’s road to tie up loose ends.
Andrea Friedmann’s case
“The Lincoln Lawyer” season 3 takes a bit of a curveball in developing a subplot to such an extent that it almost exists as a separate but also important plot of its own, sharing the theme of corruption. The domestic violence case she had been overseeing concerning Deborah Glass led to her proposing to Deborah to offer her ex a plea agreement, rather than taking this to a trial with a 50-50 chance of the husband going free. Deborah agrees to her proposal.
However, Andrea makes a crucial error. She orders her paralegal Vanessa to draft a Cruz waiver which would entail a guilty defendant to temporarily be released from custody for a legitimate reason, on the condition that the plaintiff be informed about the release. In this case, Deborah’s ex, Scott wants to attend his grandmother’s funeral, but as Vanessa drafts the Cruz-Waiver and sends it off to opposing counsel, Andrea is distracted from calling Deborah by her boss ADA Suarez, where he advises her to not cavort anymore with defense attorneys if she wants the much-attractive job of Head of Major Crimes, that Suarez is angling her for.
The next morning, however, Andrea learns that Deborah Glass had been murdered in the park at around 11 AM, by her husband Scott Glass, and later arrested and sent off to prison. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that Glass’ legitimate reasoning had been a ploy for the real purpose – to murder his wife. And Andrea feels heavily responsible for the incident.
The fallout from the case leads to a reconciliation of sorts between Mickey and Andrea, with Mickey slowly coming around to the fact that maybe he would be open to restarting a full-blown relationship after the last one with his ex-wife just fizzled out. Andrea too begins to warm up to another presence who could handle the work-life balance alongside her. As it turns out, that is far from the easiest thing to be executed. She also decides to take the fall for the Glass case and informs her about her negligence to her superior, to which Suarez advises her to tie up the case with a neat little bow and he would remain mum.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episode 6 – Man on Fire Recap:
The Amended list
Post the accident, Haller has an understandable fallout with his daughter, who blames him for the death of Eddie. Haller’s guilt now reaching a fever pitch, decides to take the case far more personally, resuming his cross-examination with a vengeance. He knows all the playbook of the prosecution, as well as how Forsythe would bring up all his witnesses and in which sequence, until the final curveball, whereby he brings in a male escort working for LaCosse named Miller, who would be expressly put up on the stand to paint an unflattering picture of LaCosse in front of the jury.
Haller, with a flair that could only come from essential research, reveals Miller’s past as a local welterweight boxing champion, questions his fear towards puny LaCosse, before finally revealing him being paid off by the prosecution in exchange for letting the third count of solicitation be removed from the record.
Amidst this newfound vigor displayed by Haller, Haller is also under protection by Moya. Moya unnerved by the attack on his lawyer, not only refits the new Lincoln with armor plating and bulletproof windows but also has him followed by a bodyguard. Izzy meanwhile has resumed her duties as Mickey’s driver.
Izzy also becomes an invaluable player in the new play that Haller designs. He introduces a dummy witness named Peter Sterghos. Firstly Lorna and Izzy manage to locate an area where a double homicide had taken place over a decade ago. As Cisco had obtained from one of his sources, Bishop’s rise in the department had corresponded with the war between the cartels that had spilled towards this side of the border. One such location had been that double homicide area and Mickey’s suspicion of a connection between Bishop and the De Marco slowly comes to light when they see DEA agents sniffing around in the case photos.
Izzy takes the idea of hiring a house opposite the location of the double homicide from her newfound use of her studio space by sub-leasing it to a production studio that had hired her best friend Cat as a lead in a reality television show. She applies that idea here, with her pretending to be the producer, and Cisco as her technical assistant. Paying off the owner of the house handsomely with a vacation to his homeland, Cisco installs hidden cameras in the house.
Now to lay the bait, and to hope that the prosecution swallows the bait, Haller’s team introduces an amended list of 33 names, including half the Sheriff’s department, but more importantly the DA Investigator Neil Bishop. That results in a physical altercation in the bathroom between Bishop and Haller, as well as De Marco flexing his power and further dampening Haller’s overall good day, by involving Homeland Security to arrest his bodyguard and threatening to arrest him as well.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episode 7 – 9 Recap:
Lorna’s first case
As Mickey reinforces his security by this time bringing forth Cisco’s old biker gang buddies, the bright spot in his life is Lorna passing the bar exam and becoming a lawyer. Her first official case begins with her taking on the returning Sam Scales as a new client, now convicted of wire fraud and embezzling money off of hard-earned wages of workers during a strike.
The minutiae of the case for Lorna becomes complicated due to her having to juggle between different floors, attending the LaCosse case, and also having to defend Scales, but with the addition of a broken elevator in the courthouse leading to the remaining elevator becoming overcrowded, and her reaching late after taking over four flights of stairs, Lorna finally is struck by inspiration and breaks the heel of her shoe in the middle of the elevator to make the remaining elevator inoperable as well. That is enough for her to convince the judge to negotiate a favorable outcome for Julian Scales, though that didn’t entail him being very interested in paying the money back.
The Battle for Relevance
Meanwhile, in the LaCosse case, Haller calls Frank Valenzuela, the same process server responsible for serving Haller, Trina, and De Marco the Hector Moya deposition. His testimony reveals that Valenzuela’s serving of the deposition to Glory Days, in the beginning, started this conspiracy. It’s all a plan for Haller: to expose the presence of this conspiracy and bring in De Marco for questioning, and this battle for relevance is where Haller is driving his entire case.
However, this battle for relevance at best results in multiple testimonials that could be argued as hearsay, especially in the case of Sly Jr., and Haller argues that bringing De Marco into this would hone this case into focus. But it’s all for naught, and Forsythe’s cross-examination actually reveals the incompetence of Sly Jr. into light, making him an incompetent witness.
The big blow though comes from bringing Trina Trixx into the stand where she completely denies any involvement with James De Marco and the DEA, and even paints a picture of Haller having paid her off to lie to win this case. It deals a huge blow to his case.
The one silver lining comes late at night when Cisco and Lorna finally see the cameras in Sterghos’ house revealing both Bishop and De Marco entering Sterghos’ house in secret. While Bishop stayed outside and guarded the premises, De Marco would plant drugs in the fridge, all to make this jury member completely irrelevant. But their plans to use this video in the courtroom are cold-cocked by Diesel, who reminds Haller that the most dangerous criminals are the ones with badges and that they won’t hesitate to kill anyone to ensure their crimes stay buried.
The next day, key moments in the courtroom establish the presence of a major conspiracy. For one, callin in Detective Whitten on the witness stand, and then revealing Glory Days having called the DEA hotline number immediately after being served not only highlights the deep-seated corruption within the system but also strengthens the DEA connection. Meanwhile, the security manager of the Roosevelt Hotel is called onto the witness stand, where he brings in the security footage (with multiple copies). By cajoling his expert opinion, Helmsley re-affirms that the man in the black hat had been following her from the hotel. This not only leads to a palpable rift between Forsythe and Bishop outside the courtroom, but it makes De Marco desperate because later in the prison, Julian LaCosse is stabbed by an inmate multiple times and left for dead.
Andy Friedmann’s fall from grace
While Andrea had been confident in her return to the courtroom, the guilt hindered her from being an effective attorney. Moreover, she makes a mistake in pouring out her guilt to her second chair Vanessa, who in a typically ambitious move reveals it to Suarez. Suarez now armed with an excuse removes Friedmann from the case and relegates her to Calendar duty. Her sojourn to Haller’s house yields mixed results as well because she hadn’t been prepared to listen about the systemic corruption in that office, and she shouldn’t have talked about her mistake to the “mentee” in the first place.
It leads to what becomes their eventual break-up, and when they finally meet after the bad day at court for Haller, they admit that this isn’t working, because they aren’t as adept at work-life balance as they had expected themselves to be. They agree to remain friends, even though that statement is more or less left unsaid.
But Andy is disillusioned enough that she chooses to bring in the prosecution’s files on the inmate Lalo Vasquez, who had stabbed Julia LaCosse. The investigation proves Vasquez’s connection to the cartel, as well as a trademark sign on the cocaine pouches, connected him with a cartel that also connects to De Marco.
The Case Must Go On
The attack on Julian came as a massive blow, but Haller, while worried about Julian, is further worried about Forsythe calling for a mistrial, which would automatically give an advantage to the prosecution if they reconvened. His secret weapon in this scenario is Lorna, who having just come off passing the bar, already has theoretical details and bylaws all prepped, and he instructs her to present counter-arguments to the judge regarding cases that had progressed without the presence of the defendant. The meeting of the council with the judges at the chamber would be a charged one.
It also didn’t help that De Marco chose this moment to arrive with his lawyer to be questioned about the case, and when cross-checked by Haller, doesn’t lose a beat and lies through his teeth, brushing himself and the DEA off any implication with the case. He also manages to remember Bishop and states that to the affirmative, and when questioned about Sterghos’ involvement as a potential witness, reveals that he had been at an all-night stakeout that night and that his partner could vouch for that. While Haller would be unable to faze De Marco, that testimony, as well as Haller previously amending the witness list to include only three men, including him, compounds his guilt.
Haller meanwhile takes a daring gamble and first calls Izzy, instructing her to state on the record that Julian is awake, such that they could avert the case from being stated as a mistrial. Then he rushes over to the hospital and convinces Julian’s fiance to side with his wild plan. Managing to grab the signature authorizing the case to continue in his absence, Julian’s partner is further called to the witness stand where he is questioned about the veracity of the signature and he remains steadfast about the case and about justice being served.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Season 3) Episode 10 – The Gods of Guilt Ending Explained:
What does Neil bishop confess to?
Sensing a break in the case, Haller finally confronts Bishop, sitting outside the courtroom. He shows him the CCTV footage of both Marco and Bishop entering the Sterghos’ house. Eaten away with guilt Bishop agrees to take the stand.
Bishop reveals that a decade ago, he would have a meeting with De Marco, who would bribe him to bury a murder case linked to the Juarez Cartel. But once you do his bidding, he owns you, and so did De Marco, who owned Bishop, using him over the years to do his bidding, including finding information and the location of Gloria Dayton, and tailing her on the night of the murder. Bishop would set up a stakeout at night while waiting for De Marco, where he would see Julian LaCosse enter the apartment and later leave as well.
When De Marco arrives, Bishop is conflicted about his position, but De Marco convinces him that this is a routine questioning as he would have to interrogate Dayton due to her having called the DEA looking for him. Bishop sees him stopping a few steps away from the front door, before walking towards the back of the house. He concurs with Haller that he must have taken that route to avoid the cameras, and according to Bishop, De Marco had later told him that Dayton had been already dead.
But Bishop didn’t believe him. He had been conflicted even as he became the lead investigator for the prosecution under De Marco’s puppeteering, and now broken with guilt, he confesses to his complicity. Even though the judge had searched him thoroughly and taken the gun off his holster, Bishop still had a firearm hidden in his ankle, which he finally pulled out and shot himself in full view of the courtroom.
Who killed Glory Days?
What the show ultimately reveals is that Glory Days AKA Gloria Dayton had been killed by Agent James De Marco, and not due to his violent stand on crime. No, he had been connected to a rival cartel, the Suarez cartel, and this would be a way to take out the major shot-caller of the Tijuana Cartel – Hector Moya. To that end, he would include the gun enhancement charge on top of the cocaine bust to introduce a life imprisonment charge, by planting the gun with the aid of Gloria Dayton. Dayton had already been working for De Marco while pretending to work for Haller.
But when Moya finally sends the Haebas writ to Dayton, De Marco would work overtime, and burn Dayton’s apartment, leading the smoke inhalation to kill her. He would further try to put in roadblocks on Haller’s investigation, including the death of his driver Eddie Rojas, and paying off Trina Rafferty. Rafferty would later reveal the truth to Cisco while she is hiding at Kendall Roberts’ though ultimately Haller wouldn’t use that information.
Does Mickey Haller win?
He does win a sort of pyrrhic victory – victory for Julian at the cost of Bishop’s life. The main culprit in question – James De Marco – would also escape and disappear, presumably under the DEA’s protection. Or at least that’s what Haller had been thinking until he would get a parcel from Moya, showing a picture of De Marco hung to the rafters, with a massive rattlesnake slithering around his neck. This is Moya’s way of thanking Haller, as well as delivering cartel justice, and he also promises Haller that he won’t have to worry anymore.
Cisco’s investigation into the stabbing of LaCosse as well as Lalo Vasquez’s connection with the Suarez Cartel that also connects him to De Marco through the cocaine packets he would plant at Sterghos’ apartment, leads to Haller on behalf of LaCosse urging for a settlement, placing the entire onus of this “bullshit” case and the rigmarole of corruption squarely on their shoulders. He also threatens the present District Attorney as well as head of the Law enforcement that he could easily take this to trial, with LaCosse raking in a large payday in the process.
The threat worked as the DA and the government officials finally coughed up a pretty penny for a settlement. Haller’s relationship with his daughter also resumes, with Hayley finally visiting him and spending the night catching up concerning her life.
Whose body is in the trunk of Haller’s car?
The night of celebration for a job well done is marred. Haller’s plan to drive to Baja for a week’s holiday is interrupted that night by a police car topping him for a routine check-up, only to discover blood leaking from the trunk of the car. The police had been following him because of a missing license plate at the back of the car, but when the officer finally opened his trunk, he found the body of Julian Scales.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” (season 3) ends with the set-up for season 4, which is presumably going to adopt the 6th book in the Mickey Haller series “The Law of Innocence”, where Haller would be arrested for murder and he would have to represent himself. It is reasonable to assume from this cliffhanger that the future season will also be a twisty one.
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