Maggie and Andy on the dark side
Over drinks Maggie vents about downtown taking her cases; her friend suggests going private or moving to San Francisco.
Andrea Freemann
Every The Lincoln Lawyer moment featuring Andrea Freemann, in story order. Played by Yaya DaCosta.
63 moments · 1h 54m
Andrea and Mickey trade blows in the elevator
Andrea, handling the arraignment, needles Mickey over a past client and Maggie's demotion; he answers the press outside: his client is innocent.
Lisa's arraignment: bail set at two million
Andrea charges first-degree murder with lying in wait; Mickey casts Lisa as her neighborhood's heart and a brisk judge splits the difference.
Mickey's motion to boot Andrea off the case
Mickey springs a conflict motion over Andrea talking about his case in front of Hayley, trading it away for fast discovery; Lorna fumes.
Andrea's surprise plea offer, good for one day
Despite promising no deal, Andrea offers voluntary manslaughter at six years, blaming a department mandate. It expires tomorrow.
Andrea pulls the deal before Mickey can refuse it
Mickey arrives to reject the plea only to learn it's gone, and realizes Andrea now holds something that could sink them.
Mickey strikes the detective's testimony as double hearsay
Detective Long lays out the case, then admits he only watched a video of the witness interview; Mickey gets it struck.
Andrea's ambush: Bondurant's blood on Lisa's gloves
A surprise crime lab analyst testifies the gardening gloves from Lisa's shed carry the victim's blood; Lisa is held to answer.
Mickey keeps Grant's hearing in open court
Grant's lawyer Zimmer wants the hearing in chambers; Mickey asks what Grant has to hide and wins five minutes to question him.
The judge: you caught the car, now what?
In chambers the judge warns Mickey one email won't make Grant relevant at trial unless he connects the dots.
Mickey's secret juror and the bargain over opening time
Mickey shows Lorna the juror with a grudge against developers, then trims his own opening time to throw off Andrea's rhythm.
Andrea Freemann's opening: motive, means and opportunity
The prosecutor walks the jury through the morning of the murder as she sees it, from the coffee shop to the garage pillar.
Andrea warns the jury: don't be fooled by Haller's show
Andrea lands the bloody gloves, then pre-empts the defense by calling it a bag of tricks and pointing at Lisa.
Mickey's opening: Lisa Trammell was framed
Mickey jokes about chefs with tempers, hammers the missing murder weapon and tells the jury not to fall for the setup.
Detective O'Brien and the missing hammer
On direct, the detective describes the bloody gloves and a tool kit missing only a hammer, matching the circular wound.
Mickey springs the Bondurant email and the target letter
Settling for an unconfirmed letter, Mickey confronts O'Brien with Bondurant's threat to Alex Grant and wins a sidebar over the FBI letter.
Mickey accuses Detective O'Brien of tunnel vision
With the letter confirmed and a warning from the judge, Mickey lines up the dates and presses O'Brien on Alex Grant's motive.
Agent Vasquez testifies Alex Grant is not under investigation
Called by Andrea, Vasquez explains target letters as a scare tactic and hesitates over a qualifier before answering no.
Mickey seizes on Vasquez's hedged answers
Through a wall of objections, Mickey gets Vasquez to concede target letters don't go to people the Bureau thinks are innocent.
Andrea drops a bombshell in chambers
Andrea tells the judge she has new evidence too dispositive to refuse, and Mickey learns what it is.
The landscaper who found the hammer, and Mickey's six-month question
Mr. Beltran describes finding a bloody hammer under a hedge; Mickey notes he cleared that hedge weekly and never saw it.
Mickey stipulates to the hammer, then corners O'Brien
Mickey concedes the hammer is Lisa's, then asks the detective whether his search was thorough or sloppy.
Mickey concedes the blood match and argues a frame-up at sidebar
Mickey cuts off the DNA expert by stipulating, and tells the judge the killer planted the hammer just like the gloves.
The neighbour's grudge worth one point five million
Ms. Stern describes the Trammells' fights; Mickey shows a Bondurant offer on her home depended on Lisa selling hers.
A cyclist's helmet camera undoes the inspector's photo
Building inspector Kim's photo shows Lisa pushing Bondurant; Mickey plays video of the moments before it.
A judge with a cracked tooth lets Henry Dahl testify
Andrea's surprise witness is the podcaster, and the judge, nursing a pecan injury, lets his tapes in over Mickey's protest.
Henry Dahl's tapes: Lisa on stalking Bondurant
Lisa's own unused podcast interview describes learning Bondurant's routine down to his parking garage.
Lisa takes the stand: the building that holds her life
Mickey calms a blindsided Lisa, then lets her tell the jury about her father's shop and why she would never sell.
Andrea's cross breaks Lisa's composure
Andrea presses on the protests, the egg and the husband who left until Lisa erupts in court; Mickey's redirect is one question.
Lisa's loyal cook and the old post that undercuts him
Mr. Morales praises Lisa's calm, until Andrea makes him read his own post about her temper.
Andrea restages the expert's demonstration and floats a spider
Andrea tries her own version of the hammer test, then suggests something made Bondurant look up; the expert answers with probabilities.
Mickey exposes the Kazarian name and Grant's father in prison
Grant admits he was born Alex Kazarian and that his father is serving federal time for racketeering and more.
The baklava trail: Grant's prison visits and his uncle's bakery
Photos, visitation and travel records show Grant heading to his uncle's bakery straight after seeing his father.
Alex Grant pleads the Fifth in front of the jury
Mickey accuses Grant of carrying messages for a crime family, and Grant reads a statement refusing to answer.
Legal on the Fifth, and the judge's fury in chambers
Legal explains why a third party taking the Fifth looks guilty, while the judge threatens Mickey with the bar but denies a mistrial.
Cisco takes the stand: the courier truck outside Bondurant's building
Mickey's investigator finds a still camera across the street that caught an Eagle Couriers truck during the murder window.
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Andrea's surprise closing: see through Haller's parlor tricks
With the defense resting, Andrea closes at once, calling Mickey a magician and laying out the hammer, gloves and restraining order.
Mickey's closing argument: the prosecution's fairy tale
Mickey calls the state's case a fairy tale, argues the gloves and weapon were planted, points at Alex Grant and hammers reasonable doubt.
Andy's gift and a rivals' truce
Andy brings the victor a gift, the two trade respect and jabs, and she reveals new evidence pointing to Walter Kim.
Andy teases Mickey's bruised face
In the hallway Andy mocks yet another swing at Mickey's face and shares her bad-day cure, until he brings up the Lisa Trammell loss.
Mickey and Andy's French dip debate at Cole's
Mickey takes Andy's advice and finds her at Cole's, where they argue over who invented the French dip like a court case.
Andrea keeps it casual with Mickey over morning coffee
After a night together, Andrea turns down Mickey's dinner invite for a date, and his driver Eddie swears he won't gossip.
Andrea asks Mickey for the lowdown on Judge Fisher
Andrea trades favours for intel on her new judge, and Mickey's warning steers her toward a deal; dinner is now on her.
Andrea talks a domestic violence victim into a plea
Andrea explains to Deborah why a guaranteed prison term for her ex beats gambling at trial.
Andrea's bath invitation
Andrea's plans fall through and she invites Mickey over; his team catches on instantly.
Mickey surprises Andrea at the DA's office
Andrea reveals she cleared things with Maggie under girl code, then answers Mickey's question about investigator assignments.
Andrea mentors Vanessa on a Cruz waiver
Andrea walks a junior colleague through a temporary release for Scott Glass, then gives her advice on new shoes.
Andrea is put at the top of the Major Crimes list
Andrea's boss asks about Mickey's visit, then dangles a promotion with a warning not to get too close to the other side.
Andrea arrives at a killing in the park
An officer tells Andrea a woman was attacked walking her dog, and the suspect in the cruiser is her ex-husband.
Andrea faces Deborah Glass's grieving father
Deborah's father tells Andrea how they had just reconciled and asks why her killer was let out of jail.
Andrea confesses she never warned Deborah
Andrea tells Mickey she forgot to call Deborah about her ex's release; Mickey reminds her lawyers aren't superheroes.
Mickey proposes a night of stovetop popcorn
Andrea heads back to work; Mickey offers a quiet movie night, and she admits she doesn't hate how domestic it sounds.
Andrea freezes in court
As defense counsel attacks her discovery stance in the Shelby case, Andrea goes silent and the judge calls a recess.
Andrea refuses to let Mickey push her away
Mickey braces for a breakup, but Andrea admits the Glass case broke her, says she took time away and asks him not to ice her out.
Andrea confesses to her boss about Deborah Glass
Andrea tells Adam she never warned Deborah Glass and offers to be fired, but begs to stay on to convict the killer.
Andrea freezes again in court
At the Scott Glass preliminary hearing the judge has to call Andrea's name twice before she answers.
Andrea and Mickey's fight over Suarez
Andrea reveals Suarez pulled her off the Glass case; when Mickey blames her trust and ambition she storms out.
Andrea's parting lesson to Vanessa
Vanessa takes over the Glass case after going to Suarez; Andrea hands it over with a warning about trust.
Lorna misses her own case call and Andrea bails her out
Buried in research, Lorna doesn't hear the judge call her case three times until Andrea, stuck on calendar duty, rescues her.
Mickey and Andrea call it quits over lunch
Apologies over Vanessa and the Suarez demotion turn into a gentle breakup: neither of them is any good at work-life balance.
Cisco is slipped the case file on Julian's attacker
Stuck on hold, Cisco is handed the discovery file on Julian's attacker, Lalo Vasquez, and spots something very good in it.
Andrea consoles Mickey, and he tells her to beat the system
Andrea tells Mickey he only did his job and shares that Suarez is the new DA; Mickey sends her off with a call to fight.
Andrea gives the new DA an ultimatum
Andrea marches in on Suarez's first day as DA: put her back on the Scott Glass case or fire her.