Lorna orders Mickey back into a Lincoln
Lorna tracks down a long-idle Mickey, guesses why a judge wants him and tells him to go in as the full Mickey Haller.
Mickey Haller
Every The Lincoln Lawyer moment featuring Mickey Haller, in story order. Played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
160 moments · 4h 34m
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.
Judge Holder: Jerry Vincent is dead and left you his practice
In chambers Mickey learns a colleague was shot dead and willed him his whole caseload, including the Trevor Elliott murder trial.
Mickey owns up to his addiction before Judge Holder
Holder questions his year away; Mickey admits the surfing injury and the pills, then pitches himself as the best defense lawyer in LA.
Mickey faces down the detective in Jerry's office
Police are searching Vincent's files; Mickey waves the court order, cites privilege and finds himself named a suspect.
Ambushed by a trial he did not know he had
Mickey walks into an inherited theft case, gets one day from the judge and an earful from the victim's husband.
Mickey and Izzy bond over addiction
His new client explains she grabbed a necklace while using; Mickey admits his own oxy habit.
Trevor Elliott's free-throw parable
The grieving tech mogul, days from his murder trial, sizes Mickey up and muses on control and chance.
Elliott tells Mickey not to handle him
Elliott demands a trial next week, refuses any delay and warns Mickey he has not hit the lottery yet.
Cisco ambushes Mickey in a dark garage
With a killer loose Cisco's lurking scares Mickey half to death before they size up the Elliott file.
Late for Hayley, again
Hayley tries to keep the peace as Mickey arrives late and Maggie lets him have it, then softens.
Mickey tells Hayley why he defends people
On a drive Mickey opens up to his daughter about his fears, his rough year and believing in innocent until proven guilty.
The detective's warning: you could be next
A detective shows Mickey the crime scene photos and asks for Jerry's files, warning Mickey he may be a target.
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.
Walking the Malibu murder scene
Mickey and Cisco tour Elliott's beach house and map out the double killing and how bad it looks.
Cisco asks Mickey's blessing to marry Lorna
Cisco confesses the engagement; Mickey gives his blessing with a warning and names the four people who matter most.
Mickey's terms: not guilty, and don't lie to me
Elliott wants his freedom and his name back; Mickey promises only a not-guilty verdict and walks if lied to.
Trevor Elliott: without Lara, I have no magic
Elliott tells how he crossed the uncanny valley with code built around his wife, insists he could not have killed her, and hires Mickey.
Teary triumph, then a tail
Mickey tells Lorna he landed the case and hides tears from Izzy, until she notices a car following them.
Izzy shakes the black SUV
Izzy spots a car tailing the Lincoln and loses it with moves she credits to a video game.
No defense in the file, and court in 41 minutes
Lorna reveals Jerry left almost nothing for the Elliott trial, then drops a forgotten Inglewood hearing on Mickey.
Maggie warns Mickey about an undefeated prosecutor
Maggie congratulates Mickey on the Elliott case and tells him what he is up against in Golantz.
Terrell Coleman and the cop who hates him
In lockup Mickey meets a client charged with battering an officer who, it turns out, is an old high-school rival.
Mickey points Cisco at the yoga instructor
Mickey asks Cisco to dig into Jerry's investigator and the second victim, Jan Rilz, as a possible real target.
His threat is my threat: Mickey talks Holder round
Mickey argues a privilege exception so he can hand police a list of Jerry's threatening clients, and the judge reluctantly signs.
The vanished retainer and Lorna's engagement
Lorna finds Elliott's huge retainer drained, then Mickey gives her his blessing over Cisco with a brotherly caveat.
Jerry was playing hide-the-ball
Mickey and Cisco puzzle over Jerry's odd evidence and witness list and learn his ballistics expert never saw the file.
Mickey's Dream Team speech
Mickey tells Cisco why a high-profile case is not about the money: lose it and his comeback is over.
Trading Jerry's threat list for a lead
Mickey hands Griggs his vetted list, then charms out a detail from Jerry's GPS: repeat visits to a poker casino.
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.
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.
The ATM-camera bluff that frees Terrell Coleman
Mickey threatens to play ATM footage of the arrest, the officer folds, and Coleman walks; the drive holds only his dad's jazz.
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.
Golantz outs Mickey's rehab in open court
At the status conference the prosecutor raises Mickey's addiction, the judge reins him in and Elliott erupts against any delay.
Elliott's ultimatum: this is your one shot
Pressed for his angle, Elliott reveals a company sale riding on a fast verdict and dares Mickey to take the case as scheduled.
Wren reveals Jerry's magic bullet
Jerry's grieving assistant recalls a late-night errand and a secret weapon; Mickey vows to find it himself.
Mickey's momentum rule and a hero's welcome at the courthouse
Mickey explains why you fake confidence until you have it, then old colleagues greet him like a returning legend.
Mickey gets the topless-sunbather case tossed on a technicality
A repeat beach offender with a maths thesis due; Mickey argues the officer created the offense, then gets handed a case nobody has a file for.
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.
Griggs shows Mickey a suspect photo but won't let it go
Detective Griggs accuses Mickey of holding out, flashes a traffic-camera image from the night of Jerry's murder, and leaves a warning.
Cisco's casino footage: Jerry wasn't gambling, and Carlin has vanished
Cisco brings footage of Jerry handing papers to a stranger and news that Jerry's investigator Bruce Carlin has gone to ground.
Cisco stashes a gun in Mickey's desk
Worried about the late nights, Cisco leaves Mickey a pistol 'just for storage' over his objections.
Mickey, the soccer-coach prosecutor and the Eli Wyms hearing
Joanne Giorgetti still holds a sideline grudge; she briefs Mickey on the sniper case, then he wins an order to take Wyms off his meds.
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.
Mickey's toast to Jerry Vincent at the lawyers' bar
Sober among drinking colleagues, Mickey is pushed into an impromptu eulogy for the man who left him his practice.
Lankford needles Mickey about Maggie and an old client
The detective corners Mickey at the bar, mocks his marriage and drops the name of a client serving time.
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.
Trevor Elliott insists on testifying
Mickey drives his client's sports car to the coast, walks through the evidence, and Trevor refuses to stay off the stand.
Mickey makes Trevor relive the murders at the beach house
Mickey times the drive, then forces Trevor through the house to tell exactly what he found that morning.
The cameras question: Mickey's mock cross breaks Trevor
Mickey catches Trevor lying about the affair, then reveals the walkthrough was a rehearsal of what the prosecutor will do.
Mickey cracks it: Eli Wyms is Jerry's magic bullet
Alone with legal pads, Mickey narrates how cases are solved, then connects the sniper's arrest to the day of the murders.
An intruder at the office, and Mickey grabs Cisco's gun
Mickey confronts someone in the dark office, drives him off with the stashed pistol, and calls Cisco in a panic.
Griggs answers Mickey's panic call after the office intruder
The detective arrives gun drawn, confirms the man from his photo is likely a hired killer, and presses Mickey on what he's hiding.
Over steak, Mickey proves Griggs set him up, then becomes bait
Mickey lays out how the detective used the suspect photo to test him and smoke out a leak; Griggs answers with a dangerous proposal.
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.
Lorna out-lawyers the building manager
Facing eviction after the gunfire, Lorna flips the blame onto building security while she and Mickey run the day's docket.
The fake cancer charity and the espresso machine
Mickey's fraud client is exposed in open court for spending charity money on luxuries; in the hallway Mickey lays down the payment terms.
Eli Wyms, off his meds, refuses to talk
Mickey's new client blames Jerry for abandoning him and claims he could have hit those cops if he'd wanted to.
Bruce Carlin calls Mickey from hiding
Jerry's missing investigator sees through Mickey's press stunt and sets a secret meeting with a warning to come alone.
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.
Mickey slips his police tail in Lorna's car
Mickey tells Griggs he's working late, then sneaks out to a borrowed car and Cisco drives him off unseen.
Carlin bolts, and Cisco finds a bug in the Lincoln
The park meeting collapses before it starts; reasoning that someone was waiting, Mickey and Cisco search the car and choose to leave the bug.
Sideline negotiation: Mickey pitches the war-hero defense
At Hayley's soccer game Mickey previews the trial he'd put on for Eli Wyms until Joanne Giorgetti offers a deal.
Eli takes the plea, then tells his story
Mickey bullies Eli into a one-year deal, presses him about the nearby murders, and gets only a sad account of that night.
Bruce Carlin's traffic stop goes fatally wrong
Cisco watches Riverside officers pull Carlin over; Mickey gets Griggs on the radio, but the arrest turns deadly.
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.
Mickey finally speaks up at a recovery meeting
At a late-night meeting, Mickey is the first to stand and introduce himself.
Mickey takes Trevor to Pink's to meet the jury pool
Over chili dogs Mickey explains the Gods of Guilt, swaps Trevor's supercar for a Prius, and Trevor flatly refuses a jury consultant.
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.
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.
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Cherry chews Mickey out for ghosting her
A furious Cherry, left to do two months in County, still takes Mickey's cash to hunt for the vanished Glory Days.
Mickey wants twelve lemmings in a box
Walking Trevor past the press, Mickey explains voir dire: he does not want fair jurors, he wants them biased for him.
Trevor demands a veto over every juror cut
Lorna mocks Mickey's colored pens, then Trevor insists that no juror goes without his say, and Mickey grudgingly agrees.
Anonymous jurors introduce themselves and Golantz strikes first
The judge sets up an anonymous jury, a comedian blurts her name and is excused, and Golantz smokes out three bluffers.
Mickey charms the jury pool with his daughter story
After explaining peremptory challenges as bullets to save, Mickey uses his daughter to ask who blindly trusts cops.
Mickey baits juror one about her cop ex-husband
Mickey probes why her ex left the force early, the judge refuses to strike her for cause, and he burns a challenge on purpose.
The open folder trick that gets Golantz to cut juror five
Mickey stalls for a recess, leaves his notes open, and lets Golantz misread blue as a juror he wants.
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.
Mickey's card shark reads juror seven, 27 and Trevor's tells
With one challenge left each, the poker player weighs the engineer against the Marlboro man and flags Trevor's nervous habits.
Mickey springs a Wheeler motion in chambers
Trevor pushes to cut juror ten; Mickey accuses Golantz of striking women, loses, and gains time instead.
The Prius fiasco costs Mickey his last challenge
Golantz cuts 27, juror ten accuses Trevor of following her in the lot, and Mickey must kick his best juror.
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.
Cisco traces Jerry's missing cash to a possible bribe
Cisco finds Jerry withdrew 150 grand for a boat that does not exist, on the day Carlin made a mystery delivery.
Flashback: young Mickey watches his father fight for an innocent man
Outside court, Mickey's father tells his boy why a free case for an innocent client matters, and gives him a courtroom sketch.
Legal Siegel's advice: pound the table, ask no questions
Mickey floats his bribe theory; Legal says Mickey's father would take it as a sign from God and stay quiet.
Hayley asks Mickey where he draws the line
Shaken after recent violence, Hayley presses her father on whether he would defend a killer and what his limit is.
Mickey's tunnel-vision defense and a judge under suspicion
Mickey frames the Anton Shavar theory, sends the team after Lara's old friend, and asks them to quietly check Judge Stanton's finances.
Judge Holder fines Mickey for lateness and probes his sobriety
Mickey is ten minutes late, so the judge demands a charity check, then gently asks whether his addiction is a problem.
Mickey questions Lara's old friend Sonia Patel
Sonia says Trevor was controlling and that Lara called wanting lunch days before she died; Mickey asks who might have hurt her.
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.
Mickey visits Jesús Menendez in prison
The client Mickey pled out a year ago meets him with contempt; Mickey vows to find the missing witness and asks for a second chance.
Mickey tells Izzy his real reason for using
Mickey admits his addiction was not about the accident but about Jesús going to prison.
Mickey meets Tanya Cruz as her lawyer
Mickey promises to protect Soto's pregnant girlfriend and her baby, and she agrees to write down everything she has seen.
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.
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.
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.
Mickey's underdog lesson for Hayley at Grand Park
Mickey points out the buildings of power around a street vendor, explains why he defends underdogs, and Hayley questions his priorities.
Flashback: why an innocent client is the hardest case
Mickey's father tells his son he would take a guilty client any day, then the jury comes back.
Mickey asks Cisco to secretly unmask juror number seven
Mickey turns up at Cisco's place and asks him to dig into a juror, and they work through where bribery ends and jury tampering begins.
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.
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.
Mickey's tunnel vision opening statement
Mickey needles the long-winded opening, counts how often Golantz said gun, and frames the whole defense as police tunnel vision.
Mickey's cross: handcuffed, locked in, but not under arrest
Mickey walks the rookie deputy through the drawn gun, the cuffs and the locked car until his claim that Trevor wasn't arrested sounds absurd.
Is there a correct way to grieve? Mickey's closing jabs
Mickey challenges the deputy's read on Trevor's emotions and ends by pointing out he was still on probation that day.
Golantz's redirect and a hallway jab about rich clients
The prosecution claws back with Trevor seemingly checking email at the scene, then Golantz tells Mickey why juries won't love his client.
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.
Mickey's two brief questions at 4:27
Mickey squeezes in a late cross and gets Kinder to admit he never questioned Anton Shavar or anyone else close to Jan Rilz.
Cisco unmasks juror seven and warns Mickey off Kosevich
After a tense moment with Hayley, Cisco reveals juror seven's real identity and the Russian oligarch behind Trevor, and warns Mickey to tread carefully.
Steak and a favor from Teddy
Teddy grills Mickey a steak, agrees to help, and makes a quiet threat about debts.
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.
Judge Stanton exposes the fake juror
In chambers, the judge reveals an anonymous tip that juror seven is an impostor and threatens a mistrial, which Mickey argues against.
Trevor panics over the missing juror
Trevor accuses Mickey of blowing up the plan and fears the Russians will come for them both; Mickey insists they'll win fair and square.
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.
Cherry tracks down Glory Days
Over a pre-dawn breakfast, an old contact tells Mickey that Glory Days is lying low in Vegas and names the regular who brings her back to LA.
Sonia Patel testifies Trevor isolated Lara
After a sidebar fight over a surprise witness, Lara's old friend says Trevor cut her off from everyone, and that Lara called to meet days before she died.
Mickey's cross turns Sonia's grudge against her
Mickey reveals Sonia emailed Trevor over 20 times looking for career help and suggests she testified out of resentment.
Mickey's anonymous exhibit blows up in his face
Mickey attacks Loomis with a discredited old report, but the tech reveals a supervisor checks his work and the judge rules against Mickey.
Trevor wishes Jerry were still his lawyer
Furious after the GSR setback, Trevor tells Mickey he threw away a won case and that Jerry at least had a plan.
Lorna's pep talk: you are Mickey Haller
With Mickey stuck late at the office, Lorna reminds him of the impossible plea he once got and tells him he has this.
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.
The videographer and the Topanga shooting footage
Mickey has the crime-scene videographer recall a sniper shooting at deputies the night before, leaving Golantz and Trevor baffled.
Mickey stalls, then calls the Sheriff's mechanic
Mickey buys time until his surprise witness arrives, then shows the shot-up patrol car was repaired but never cleaned.
The magic bullet: patrol car 112
Dr. Arslanian agrees with the GSR finding, then the footage shows Trevor rode in the same uncleaned car as the sniper, explaining the residue.
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.
Mickey asks Anton Shavar if he was Mossad
Mickey grills the security chief about his intelligence past and his wife's affair with Jan Rilz until Shavar snaps.
Shavar's 'careful man' claim meets Cisco's video
Shavar insists he isn't violent, so Mickey plays footage of him threatening Cisco, and Golantz asks Shavar directly if he killed Rilz.
Shavar confronts Mickey after court
Shavar accuses Mickey of dragging his name through the mud; Mickey shrugs that he only asked questions.
Trevor apologises, then insists on testifying
Trevor thanks Mickey for a strong day, then says he must take the stand to clear his name and walks out before Mickey can stop him.
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.
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.
Mickey rehearses a brutal cross-examination with Trevor
Playing prosecutor, Mickey hammers Trevor with the murder scenario, then tells him to give the jury only one thing: his love for Lara.
Lorna tells Mickey his closing isn't him
Lorna gently guts Mickey's forensic-heavy closing; he admits the whole case feels like someone else's clothes.
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.
Trevor takes the stand: Nocturna and how he met Lara
Mickey leads Trevor through his game's star, modeled on Lara, and the grad-school story of how she covered for his mistake.
Trevor confesses his own affairs and denies the murder
On direct, Trevor admits he knew of Lara's affair and cheated too, then breaks down answering Mickey's last question: did he kill his wife?
Golantz dismantles Trevor's surprise-trip story
On cross, Golantz uses Trevor's packed calendar, the camera log and the missing prenup to paint a jealous husband with a motive.
The video game gun: Golantz's ambush with Nocturna
Golantz plays Trevor's own game to show its hero's gun matches the murder weapon; Mickey's sidebar objection fails.
Mickey's closing: seven minutes of math
Opening with his daughter's hatred of algebra, Mickey walks the jury through the timeline and finds only seven minutes for murder and cleanup.
Mickey's closing: where is the gun?
Mickey asks where the real gun and bloody clothes went, calls it impossible in seven minutes, and points the jury at Anton Shavar.
Cisco blows up Trevor's Russian mobster story
Cisco reports that Kosevich never funded Trevor and asks the question that now matters: who has been following Mickey?
The Elliott verdict
The jury returns and the forewoman reads the verdict on both counts of first-degree murder.
Mickey makes it right with Eli Wyms
Mickey hands Eli an affidavit admitting Jerry buried him in a psych ward to win the Elliott case, so Eli can sue the estate.
Trevor: you have to curate their reality
Mickey demands to know who is behind the bribe and Jerry's murder; Trevor shrugs it off and explains his lies through game design.
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.
Ambush at the Griffith Park overlook
Lured out by a fake call about Izzy, Mickey is attacked by a hitman until police guns break up the fight.
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.
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.
Glory Days reveals who made her run
Gloria tells Mickey she didn't flee the man who attacked her: a Vice cop threatened her into skipping town.
Quid pro quo: this is about the one
Mickey asks Griggs to dig into Detective Kyle Winters, and argues for the innocent man still in prison.
Mickey's warning, then shots at Trevor's press event
Mickey warns Trevor he wrote everything down; moments later, Trevor's triumphant merger announcement ends in gunfire.
Griggs explains the Brass Verdict
Griggs names street justice for those who walk free, and Mickey holds the line on privilege before raising a new question about the bribe.
Sunday dinner: the Hallers together again
Mickey, Maggie and Hayley trade family-trip memories, including a prison detour, and bicker gently over a DA candidate.
Glory Days testifies for Jesús Menendez
Gloria tells the court about the left-handed attacker with the kanji tattoo and the Vice cop who scared her off, then refuses to be shamed.
The service elevator footage catches Detective Perez
Perez swears she was camping; Mickey plays hotel footage, her lawyer invokes the Fifth, and the judge erupts at sidebar.
Mickey urges Maggie to take a plea on Soto
Mickey shows up mid-recess and pushes Maggie to deal on Soto without telling her why; she brushes it off.
Perez points to the detective who sent her
Back on the stand, Perez admits threatening Gloria at another detective's request, and points him out in the courtroom.
Maggie walks away from Mickey
With her case against Soto gutted, Maggie confronts Mickey for not trusting her, and they conclude their ambitions make them unworkable.
Mickey tells Hayley why he had to do it
After the family dinner falls apart, Mickey shares Aquinas with Hayley and admits his own guilt over Jesús and the accident.
Mickey unmasks the judge behind the jury bribe
At their final check-in Mickey lays out who rigged the jury, warned McSweeney and sent him to kill, and reveals the trap already sprung.
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.