Legal reads the FBI target letter left on Mickey's doorstep
Over a forbidden drink, Legal sees how the letter turns Bondurant's email into blackmail and warns Mickey to find out who sent it.
S2E7 · Cui Bono
20 moments · 29 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Izzy and Mickey on trial nerves and her new studio
Izzy recognises the jazz Mickey's father played before big cases, then thanks him for the money that lets her rent a studio.
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.
Backstage passes buy a favour from a reluctant insider
A contact five months from retirement refuses to dig up the FBI letter until Def Leppard backstage passes are offered.
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.
Izzy's advice on Hayley's crush at the stable
Izzy holds the office together and, speaking as a daughter, tells Mickey to go easy on Hayley about the boy she likes.
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 stalls, then picks apart the cup and the mirror shard
His lunch-break ploy denied, Mickey gets O'Brien to admit neither the coffee cup nor the glass shard ties Lisa to the scene.
FBI agent Vasquez shows up instead of the contact
Felix Vasquez himself arrives at the lunch meeting, refuses to confirm the letter and advises Mickey's team to leave it alone.
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.
Izzy's dream studio rent jumps to 15,000
The property manager hikes the rent on the dance studio Izzy was about to take, and gives her one week.
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.
Mickey turns Henry into a messenger for Alex Grant
Mickey orders the podcaster to tell Grant's people the defense has nothing on him, so Grant feels safe taking the stand.
Mickey grills Hayley about the boy at the stable
Over bison burgers, Mickey asks about Taylor, and Hayley calmly assures him she's far too busy with school for heartbreak.
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.
The FBI wants Mickey to do its work, Legal realises
Vasquez hints the Bureau wants Grant on the stand, and Mickey admits to Legal he baited the feds with reporters at the subpoena hearing.
Andrea drops a bombshell in chambers
Andrea tells the judge she has new evidence too dispositive to refuse, and Mickey learns what it is.
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