Emergency hearing: the jail can no longer protect Mickey
The sheriff's department admits Mickey is unsafe inside after a riot; Maggie and Berg clash over releasing him, and the judge is left exasperated.
S4E8 · Confirmation Bias
19 moments · 33 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Mickey walks out of jail into house arrest
Maggie meets Mickey on release and explains he will be escorted between home and court by a deputy and allowed nowhere else.
The liquor store tape: the shooter knew where the camera was
Lorna shows Izzy security footage that cuts out just as the shooter arrives, which makes her client Carter look worse hours before his prelim.
Cisco and Lorna bicker over the truck and his Mini
On a stakeout call, Cisco swears he is safe and bored while Lorna complains she needs a booster seat to drive his truck.
Ballistics expert's silencer testimony is turned on the prosecution
The expert says neighbours likely missed a suppressed shot; the defense uses a floor plan to show Mickey could have slept through it too.
Security guard says the dying victim named Carter
A retired NYPD officer breaks down recounting the shooting, reveals the victim's last word, and Lorna's hearsay objections fail.
Izzy admits her fake grad-student cover to Dr. Schultz
Meeting a biofuel scientist under a false identity, Izzy confesses she lied to get to him and actually works for a lawyer.
Former intern testifies Mickey threatened the victim
Jessica Westfeldt recalls Mickey snapping at Sam Scales outside court, a threat the prosecution frames as a promise of murder.
Maggie dismantles the intern as a grudge witness
Maggie reframes the threat as a figure of speech and gets Westfeldt to admit Mickey forgot her name and she was let go.
Maggie and Mickey sense Berg is saving a surprise
Debriefing at home, they wonder why Berg held back her detective, and Maggie presses Mickey about his temper.
Jerk chicken and old memories between Mickey and Maggie
Over takeout, the exes share food, talk about Hayley in Mexico, and Mickey struggles to thank Maggie before a call interrupts.
Detective lays out the money motive against Mickey
Under Berg's questioning, the detective reads Mickey's unpaid-fees letter and explains the lien that would pay out on Scales' death.
Mickey cross-examines the detective himself
Representing himself, Mickey stresses his cooperation with the search and mocks the motive, until the detective hints at more.
Berg springs the scam email on redirect
Mickey opened the door, so Berg introduces a freshly found email in which Scales used Mickey's name to run a fake charity.
Lorna explains confirmation bias to the eyewitness
Lorna walks the stock boy through his masked-gunman story until he concedes it might not have been Carter after all.
Cisco finally serves Gazarian
Cisco catches Gazarian alone and hands over the subpoena, but the man shrugs it off.
Izzy's offhand question gives Lorna a lead
As Izzy shares news about a scientist witness, her remark about the victim surviving just long enough to name Carter sparks Lorna's idea.
Mickey admits his tax question was a bluff
Mickey beats himself up over Berg's trap, then tells Maggie the tax write-off point he raised does not even exist.
Cisco realizes Gazarian is hiding from someone else
Cisco tells Lorna that Gazarian barely cared about being served, then sees the missing bodyguards and understands who he is running from.
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