Mickey meets Lisa, the chef who cooked his meal
Packing leftovers, Mickey learns the woman helping him is the chef and owner; she offers a tour of her Latin-Asian kitchen.
Lisa Trammell
Every The Lincoln Lawyer moment featuring Lisa Trammell, in story order. Played by Lana Parrilla.
46 moments · 1h 33m
Breakfast at Lisa's and the developer next door
Over chorizo and eggs, a jackhammer interrupts; Lisa explains she is the last holdout against developer Mitchell Bondurant.
Lisa brings Mickey a restraining order
Lisa turns up at the office: Bondurant got a TRO over her protests. Mickey takes the case for a fee of more pozole.
Raspados and the restraining order with Lisa
Over test drinks Lisa shares her Puerto Rican roots and neighborhood upbringing, then asks Mickey how 300 feet from Bondurant works.
Lisa calls: arrested for Bondurant's murder
As 'Count Your Blessings' by Mattiel plays, Lisa phones from custody: she is charged with killing Mitchell Bondurant.
Lisa in custody: do you believe me?
Lisa says she went to the station thinking Bondurant was the one under scrutiny; Mickey refuses to say if he believes her and lays down the rules.
Lisa's interrogation tape: hate him enough to kill him?
On video O'Brien walks Lisa through her morning near Bondurant's office until she vents about him, realizes the trap and asks for Mickey.
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 offers to sell Lisa's life rights
Lisa can't raise bail and won't risk her restaurant; Mickey proposes selling her story, with a lien that gets him paid when she does.
Mickey vs. podcaster Henry Dahl
Lisa walks in freed on a bond from a true-crime producer; Mickey corners Henry, shows his own contract and calls him a con man.
Lisa brings dinner; Mickey keeps it professional
Lisa apologizes for Henry and offers food; Mickey says they must keep it professional, then she asks him to say he believes her.
Lisa on the lost hammer and why her marriage ended
Lisa can't account for the hammer, says the kit was her ex Jeff's, and explains how her ambition pulled them apart.
Lisa invites Mickey to her pay-what-you-can dinner
Business is down since the arrest, and a shaken Lisa asks Mickey to show up so diners see their chef isn't a killer.
Lisa hears the plea math: six years or life
Lisa refuses to plead to something she didn't do until Mickey spells out the gamble of trial, then asks him what to do.
Lisa's flan sends Mickey into a daydream
Lisa feeds Mickey her flan, explains the three-milk trick, and his mind drifts somewhere very far from the case.
Lisa snaps when Mickey keeps pressing about Jeff
Mickey warns the pulled plea means new evidence and wants her ex as a witness; Lisa explodes, apologizes and offers a lead.
Mickey and Lisa clash over Henry's podcast
Lisa says she wanted to pay her unpaid lawyer; Mickey orders the podcast held until after trial and mocks its title.
Henry confronts Mickey over the podcast injunction
Henry storms in about an injunction; Mickey refuses to negotiate, and Lisa accuses Mickey of trusting no one.
Lisa confesses she really was outside the building
Celebrating the hearing, Lisa admits she parked in front of Bondurant's building that morning, and Mickey absorbs the news.
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.
Lisa: you think I killed him
Outside court Lisa begs Mickey to believe her, claims a setup, and storms off when he says guilt doesn't change his defense.
Lisa brings chicken soup to Mickey's bedside
Lisa blames herself for the attack, admits she stayed away because his ex-wife was there, and promises the soup will heal him.
Mickey unmasks Henry Dahl in front of Lisa
Mickey shows Henry paid to steal the contract and was funded by Grant's man to bail out Lisa, then makes Henry work for him.
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.
Lisa wants to testify; Mickey says he'll tackle her first
After the hammer surfaces, Lisa insists on telling her side, and Mickey explains why juries doubt even honest defendants.
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.
Surprise party and Mama Elena's grand entrance
Hayley throws Mickey a lunchtime party, and his mother arrives to sum up everyone in the office, including his client.
Mickey asks Lisa if she contacted her ex
When Mickey wonders whether Lisa reached out to Jeff, she says he keeps asking for her trust without giving his.
Mickey calls Lisa Trammell to the stand
Over Lorna's warning that he's breaking his own rules, Mickey decides the defense must open with Lisa herself.
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.
Lisa admits she couldn't stand Bondurant, but denies revenge
Lisa explains the podcast's seventh take, the magazine photo of his car, and why she only wanted to save her home.
Mickey and Lisa look back after her testimony
Lisa remembers riding the train with her father as a girl; Mickey warns her Monday's cross will be the hard part.
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.
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.
Lisa panics about prison, and offers Mickey pozole
Lisa struggles to breathe at the thought of a verdict; Mickey promises to do everything and accepts food for the long night.
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.
Waiting on the Gods of Guilt, then the verdict
Mickey sits with Lisa and explains the jury now holds all the power; the jury returns fast with its verdict on the murder charge.
Lisa shows up and Mickey asks to be fired
Lisa arrives with food after her party, and Mickey tells her she has to fire him before he can let her in.
Mickey exposes Lisa's fake ex-husband
Mickey confronts Lisa: Jeff withdrew his divorce and vanished, and the man who posed as him was a former waiter she sent to play Mickey.
Not guilty is not the same as innocent
Mickey lays out the three things that never added up and asks Lisa where Jeff is, then walks away as she pleads.
Lisa Trammell testifies she and Mickey were lovers
Called from prison, Lisa Trammell recounts her past with Mickey and stuns the courtroom by describing a romantic relationship.
Lisa accuses Mickey of betraying her secret over money
Lisa claims Mickey turned on her over unpaid fees; Mickey erupts in court, and the judge threatens contempt.
Cross-examining Lisa: Gazarian and the life rights money
The defense uses Lisa to put Alex Gazarian's name on record and shows Mickey was paid well for her life rights.
Lisa forced to read her hate letter to Mickey aloud
Confronted with one of her prison letters, Lisa pleads memory lapses, then reads her threats to the jury; Berg salvages what she can and rests.