Mickey and Izzy bond over addiction
His new client explains she grabbed a necklace while using; Mickey admits his own oxy habit.
Izzy Letts's Best Moments
Every The Lincoln Lawyer moment featuring Izzy Letts, in story order. Played by Jazz Raycole.
28 moments · 45 min · by Favseen
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The knock-off necklace sidebar
Mickey brings a jeweler to court, exposes the stolen necklace as a fake, gets Izzy's case dismissed and hires her as his driver.
- 03
Teary triumph, then a tail
Mickey tells Lorna he landed the case and hides tears from Izzy, until she notices a car following them.
- 04
Izzy shakes the black SUV
Izzy spots a car tailing the Lincoln and loses it with moves she credits to a video game.
- 05
Hayley rides in the Lincoln office
Hayley catches crime photos in her dad's car, insists she is not a kid anymore and quizzes Izzy on her record.
- 06
Mickey admits he's nervous to be watched by his daughter
Before court Mickey tells Izzy what scares him and explains his tangled history with Lorna and Maggie.
- 07
Goat stew and LA lore: Mickey and Izzy bond over birria
Mickey introduces Izzy to birria and shares how he grew up between Mexico City and Los Angeles.
- 08
The untouched drinks: Izzy and Mickey on staying clean
Mickey orders a beer and a shot and doesn't drink them; in the car Izzy shares her own road to addiction and recovery.
- 09
Mickey plants a lie for the press cameras
Mickey tells reporters Jerry's files were backed up, a performance meant to draw out the killer, then argues the plan with Griggs and Izzy.
- 10
Mickey's unicorn: the innocent client he had to plead out
Mickey tells Izzy about Jesús Menendez, then she calls out his white-knuckle sobriety and hiring her as his sponsor.
- 11
Mickey recruits a card shark to read the jury
Mickey watches a high-stakes poker hand, then quietly hires the winner to read jurors without Trevor knowing.
- 12
Cisco lays out the Anton Shavar alternate-suspect theory
Cisco profiles a jealous security boss with a threatened-restraining-order history; Mickey dubs it the it-could-have-been-this-guy defense.
1m 36sMickey HallerDennis 'Cisco' WojciechowskiLorna Crane#investigation#alternate suspect#defense strategy - 13
Izzy opens up about her ex, then a biker calls in a favor
Izzy admits she got her ex hooked; then a Road Saints biker named Ted asks Mickey to repay an old debt.
- 14
Trevor's convenient story about the missing $100,000
Trevor dismisses Sonia and suddenly remembers a pricey video re-enactment; afterward Mickey tells Izzy people are lying to him.
- 15
Mickey tells Izzy his real reason for using
Mickey admits his addiction was not about the accident but about Jesús going to prison.
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Privilege has limits, and Griggs is still calling
Mickey explains when a lawyer must report a client's crime, then dodges Detective Griggs' questions about Jerry's bribe.
- 17
Golantz opens while Mickey critiques his style
The Elliott trial begins as the prosecutor gives a long opening, intercut with Mickey's rules for quick jabs and the proving ground in front of the jury.
- 18
Carol Dubois lashes out in the courthouse hall
The victim's friend corners someone from the defense side and calls Trevor a monster, only to learn she's picked the wrong target.
- 19
Detective Kinder runs out the clock
The lead detective lists Trevor's omissions and calls them deception while Mickey explains how prosecutors end the day on their strongest witness.
- 20
Izzy learns Mickey's car is bugged
On a mysterious stakeout, Izzy demands answers and learns about the bug and that Cisco has been sweeping her car too.
- 21
The last exception, and the Mickey way
Mickey explains the privilege exception about stopping a crime, then Maggie asks if Griggs has been on his back.
- 22
The safecracker story and Jerry's magic bullet
Mickey thinks on a night drive, tells the story of a safecracker client, then bursts into the office having found Jerry's plan.
- 23
Give the jury a villain: Kinder recalled
Mickey explains why doubt isn't always enough, then shows the detective never questioned Shavar and wins a sidebar to call him.
- 24
Mickey calls in a favor to reach Izzy backstage
Mickey gets Terrell to sneak him backstage, where Izzy admits she came close to using with her ex.
- 25
Izzy's stumble and Mickey's boxing theory of the trial
Waking up in Hayley's room, Izzy owns a near-relapse; Mickey explains why his client taking the stand is a brawl he didn't want.
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Take the win, then a call about Izzy
Cisco tells Mickey to take the win, then a traffic officer calls: Izzy has been pulled over and passed out, and Mickey races to the overlook.
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Griggs reveals he never stopped watching Mickey
After a shaky check-in with Izzy, Mickey learns Griggs kept surveillance on him, and names the dead attacker as Jerry's killer.
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Easter on the drive with Izzy
Riding in the Lincoln, Mickey and Izzy talk law school, church and why his mother said Easter mattered most.