Maggie's verdict on Judge Holder: he's done something
Maggie reminds Mickey about Hayley's pickup, then sizes up the judge who summoned him and draws her own conclusion.
Maggie McPherson's Best Moments
Every The Lincoln Lawyer moment featuring Maggie McPherson, in story order. Played by Neve Campbell.
35 moments · 50 min · by Favseen
Moments 1–30 of 35
- 01
- 02
Late for Hayley, again
Hayley tries to keep the peace as Mickey arrives late and Maggie lets him have it, then softens.
- 03
Maggie and Lorna clash over Mickey's comeback
Maggie fears the case is too dangerous; Lorna says it is keeping his practice and him alive.
- 04
Maggie warns Mickey about an undefeated prosecutor
Maggie congratulates Mickey on the Elliott case and tells him what he is up against in Golantz.
- 05
Golantz fishes, Maggie McFierce bites back
The Elliott prosecutor pokes at Maggie about her ex-husband, and she shuts him down.
- 06
Mickey and Maggie over a glass of wine
Mickey teases Maggie about a date that was not one, and she asks to rebuild things one step at a time.
- 07
Maggie's grand jury witness exposes the Soto nursing-home workers
A nursing-home employee describes unpaid, frightened immigrant workers; then Maggie learns her target is about to leave the country.
- 08
Mickey meets Detective Lankford, then pushes Maggie for pizza night
Frosty introductions with a detective Maggie works with, then Mickey tries to revive an old family ritual after Hayley's game.
- 09
Maggie and Lankford's stakeout ends in Soto's arrest
The indictment comes through; between digs about Mickey, Maggie and Lankford move in on Angelo Soto.
- 10
Maggie fights for no bail at Soto's hearing
Maggie calls Soto's business slave labor; the judge splits the difference, and a heavy-handed raid has her witness wavering.
- 11
Maggie's frightened witness wants out
Her star witness fears for his family; Maggie offers relocation but he won't leave his community, and the case hangs on him.
- 12
After the win, Maggie's witness is found shot
A sweet drive home with Hayley turns when Maggie is called to a scene and finds her witness wounded as her daughter looks on.
- 13
Griggs at the door, then Maggie comes for comfort
Griggs blames Mickey for losing their only lead; later Maggie arrives shaken over her witness and Mickey holds her.
- 14
Janelle Simmons orders Maggie to make the Soto case airtight
An attack ad stings the DA, who tells Maggie to prove Soto killed her witness or drop the charges.
- 15
Maggie and Lankford squeeze Tanya Cruz
Outside a clinic, Maggie and Detective Lankford warn Soto's pregnant girlfriend she could go down with him, then point her to a lawyer.
- 16
Mickey and Maggie step back from their night together
At her door Maggie apologizes for the other night and asks Mickey for a favor; he calls her McFierce.
- 17
Mickey bargains with Maggie at Janelle's fundraiser
Mickey demands a year of relocation and support for Tanya, then trades barbs with Golantz as Maggie takes the stage.
- 18
Lorna and Maggie share an awkward moment outside
The two meet on the steps; Lorna offers to visit Hayley with cookies and Maggie softens enough to compliment her shoes.
- 19
Mickey's jealousy about Maggie and Golantz
Leaving the party, Mickey fishes about Maggie's drinks with Golantz and gets told off for falling for a DA's mind games.
- 20
Mickey plays hardball for Tanya's deal
Maggie offers two months; Mickey cites a witness funded for seven years and holds out for one year.
- 21
Tanya reveals Soto's trips to the flower shop
Under her deal, Soto's girlfriend tells Maggie how a friend vanished after a visit to a flower shop, and links it to the night before the witness's murder.
- 22
Maggie's partner warns her about Griggs
On a stakeout of the flower shop, Maggie hears that Detective Griggs has been asking about Mickey.
- 23
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.
- 24
Maggie's boss gives her one week
Maggie's superior warns the Soto case will collapse without her witness and that politics come first, so Maggie hunts for a way to get the shooter's phone.
- 25
Police pull over Alvin Aquino
Officers search the parolee and his car, giving Maggie's team a brief window to get at his phone.
- 26
Maggie questions how Aquino got pulled over
The phone puts Aquino near the murder but not enough, and Maggie presses her partner about the convenient tail light.
- 27
Mickey and Maggie clash over putting a wire on Tanya
Maggie wants Mickey's pregnant client to wear a wire on Soto; Mickey trades blows about tactics, then sets hard conditions and decides to trust her.
- 28
Maggie asks Tanya to wear a wire on Soto
Maggie lays out Tanya's choice: walk away, or record Angelo Soto confessing to the murder, and reminds her how young she was when he took her in.
- 29
Tanya gets Soto's confession on the wire
Wired up, Tanya pushes a paranoid Angelo Soto into admitting the killing; when he turns on her, police storm in to arrest him.
- 30
Maggie's fear turns into a second chance
Maggie storms in furious that Mickey nearly died, admits she thought she'd lost him again, and he asks for their family back.