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The Lincoln Lawyer S02E06 — Withdrawal
The Lincoln Lawyer S02E07 — Cui Bono
The Lincoln Lawyer S02E08 — Covenants and Stipulations
The Lincoln Lawyer S02E09 — The Fifth Witness
The Lincoln Lawyer S02E10 — Bury Your Past
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Mickey wakes in the hospital after being beaten in a parking garage, learning his driver Izzy's ex-girlfriend was paid to steal a contract from his car. To force elusive suspect Alex Grant into a subpoena, Mickey and his team stage an elaborate art sting — renting a gallery and luring Grant with a fake painting from an artist he collects. In court, Mickey uses media pressure and a damaging email to get Grant's motion to quash withdrawn. A separate investigation reveals that podcaster Henry Dahl's producer runs a shell company tied to Grant, exposing Grant as the one funding the bail, the theft, and likely the attack. Mickey confronts Henry and flips him to work for the defense. Meanwhile, ex-wife Maggie and daughter Hayley move in during his recovery, but the morning after Mickey and Maggie reconnect, she tells him she has taken a job in San Diego and is leaving for good. This episode establishes Alex Grant as the likely architect of the entire conspiracy against Mickey's client, while showing the legal groundwork still needed to make that case at trial. The Maggie storyline reframes the personal cost of Mickey's work — her departure is not a reaction to the beating but a considered break from a repeating pattern, and her exit lands harder precisely because it comes at a moment of closeness. The layered meaning of the title — Grant's withdrawn motion, Mickey's withdrawal from pain medication, Maggie's withdrawal from his life — ties the case and personal threads into a single thematic statement about the limits of winning. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s02e06-withdrawal/id1888590009?i=1000766574991 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qi19drhJ2Tok1PZklLPXK IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey Haller's defense of chef Lisa Trammell gains unexpected momentum when an FBI target letter addressed to contractor Alex Grant appears on his doorstep the morning trial begins. Detective O'Brien's testimony about Lisa's blood-stained gloves and a missing hammer matching the victim's wounds threatens to sink the defense, but Mickey introduces the letter to establish a damning timeline: Bondurant threatened Grant, Grant received the FBI notice, and Bondurant turned up dead a week later. FBI Agent Vasquez takes the stand to neutralize the letter's impact and instead accidentally confirms an ongoing federal operation involving Grant. After court, Vasquez reveals he planted the letter himself, using Mickey's trial as a low-cost way to extract damaging admissions from Grant. Meanwhile, Izzy loses her dance studio to a sudden rent increase, and Mickey sets a trap by feeding Grant false reassurance through a compromised podcaster. This episode shows the trial shifting from straightforward evidence to a three-way chess match between Mickey, the prosecution, and federal investigators with their own agenda. Viewers come away understanding how a defense attorney can win not by disproving the prosecution's case but by surfacing a more credible suspect, and how institutional actors like the FBI can quietly co-opt a criminal trial for their own investigative ends. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s02e07-cui-bono/id1888590009?i=1000766574990 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YIR7Fx4nySXh9GBzMakxJ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey Haller faces mounting pressure as the prosecution unveils the murder weapon—Lisa's hammer, found months after the crime with the victim's blood on it. Mickey stuns the courtroom by immediately stipulating to its authenticity, cutting off a lengthy forensic presentation. He scores points on cross-examination by exposing a neighbor witness's financial motive and introducing video that reframes Lisa as the victim of Bondurant's aggression. But the prosecution's final move shatters his momentum: true-crime podcaster Henry Dahl plays a recording of Lisa describing exactly where Bondurant parked and that her group would be waiting wherever he went. Cornered, Mickey breaks the cardinal rule of criminal defense and puts Lisa on the stand. This episode is the trial's turning point, showing how physical evidence can be strategically conceded rather than contested, and how a single piece of audio can neutralize weeks of careful defense work. Watching Mickey's calculated dismantling of prosecution witnesses—and then the speed at which one recording undoes it—reveals how fragile a defense case can be when the client has said the wrong things out loud. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s02e08-covenants-and-stipulations/id1888590009?i=1000766575011 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52JWuOOsd8R1QTI8etUUIb IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey puts Lisa Trammell on the stand, where she holds up through direct examination but loses her composure during cross when prosecutor Freemann presses her about her estranged husband. A forensic expert and character witness provide limited support before Mickey calls contractor Alex Grant—born Alex Kazarian—whose organized crime family ties and regular contact with imprisoned relatives prompt Grant to invoke the Fifth Amendment when questioned further. Investigator Cisco then places Grant's courier van at the murder scene during the exact window Bondurant was killed. Freemann's closing strips the defense down to three facts: Lisa's hammer, Lisa's gloves, Lisa's threats. After the defense rests, a restaurant employee mentions that building inspector Walter Kim visited Lisa's garage alone the day before her arrest—and Mickey discovers Kim's signature on every fraudulent inspection Grant ever needed, making Kim an equally motivated framer. Kim is already missing. The episode marks the point where Mickey's alternative theory becomes concrete rather than speculative, with the van footage providing real physical evidence against Grant—but it arrives too late to matter in court. The Walter Kim revelation reframes the entire case: the evidence against Lisa was not incriminating coincidence but a deliberate plant by someone with insider access, a motive, and a reason to disappear. With the defense closed and Kim gone, the episode ends on the gap between knowing the truth and being able to prove it. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s02e09-the-fifth-witness/id1888590009?i=1000766574860 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GRjB9bodZJUHtxgYeATpx IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey delivers a closing argument that frames Lisa Trammell as the real victim of a setup by developer Alex Grant, and the jury returns a swift not-guilty verdict. The win unravels fast: Cisco traces a missing shard from a building inspector's telescoping mirror to the murder scene, confirming Walter Kim as Bondurant's actual killer, while Mickey realizes the man who played Lisa's ex-husband Jeff during trial was a hired actor. Confronting Lisa, he pieces together that the real Jeff filed for divorce, then vanished — buried on the restaurant property she refused to sell. Elsewhere, Cisco and Lorna marry at city hall before a surprise reception, Legal Siegel warns that a newly scorned Alex Grant is more dangerous than ever, and Mickey closes the season at a morgue, identifying a murder victim named Giselle Dallinger as Gloria Dayton — his client from Season 1, who had been living under a false name since testifying in a wrongful conviction case. This finale forces a reckoning with what it means to win a case cleanly. Mickey secured an acquittal for a client innocent of one murder while unknowingly defending her against a charge she was guilty of in spirit — her true secret hidden in plain sight all season. The episode also reframes earlier events: Lorna's theory that Lisa, not Grant, sent the men who attacked Mickey reorders the season's threat map entirely. Gloria Dayton's death and her final gesture of pointing someone toward Mickey's number set the terms for Season 3, where the buried pasts the show has been stacking — Jeff's disappearance, Kim's role, Gloria's alias — will stop staying hidden. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s02e10-bury-your-past/id1888590009?i=1000766574935 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Eo1z1erQ0VfYUm70xf3mp IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 centers on Gloria Dayton’s murder, Julian La Cosse’s frame-up, and Mickey Haller’s fight to expose a DEA-backed corruption scheme tied to cartel protection, planted evidence, and coerced witnesses. A clear, chronological breakdown connects the season’s major clues, trial strategy, betrayals, and reversals, from the Gloria-Moya-DeMarco conspiracy to Bishop’s confession, Julian’s dismissal, and Mickey’s final arrest. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-season-3-the-complete-recap/id1888590009?i=1000766575696 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ecSw1cQs4CaaxKXY062sm IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Every episode of The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 in one file with chapter markers — plus a season recap and cast & creators bonus. Jump between episodes using your podcast app's chapter navigation. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-season-3-collection-chapters/id1888590009?i=1000766575640 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jr0lCjrBTQraJFB8KPj95 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey Haller takes on the case of Julian La Cosse, a tech operator who ran an encrypted escort service and was present in Gloria Dayton's apartment the night she was strangled. Gloria — a former client living under a false identity — left standing instructions for Julian to contact Mickey if anything happened to her. The evidence is already stacked against Julian: he admits grabbing Gloria by the throat during an argument. But Cisco uncovers a fire set 43 minutes after Julian claims he left, suggesting a second person entered and staged a cover-up. By episode's end, Mickey's house is vandalized and there's a live snake on his bed — a warning delivered before the arraignment. The episode establishes the season's central tension between Mickey and Detective Bishop, whose career was derailed by Mickey in a flashback public defender case and who has since landed at the DA's office specifically assigned to Julian's prosecution. Gloria's history as a confidential informant against cartel supplier Hector Moya — the reason for her false identity — introduces an off-screen threat with a plausible motive for her murder. The premiere sets up a case where Mickey's client has damning physical contact with the victim, a powerful institutional enemy running the other side, and a dead woman's unspoken knowledge pointing somewhere no one has looked yet. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s03e01-la-culebra/id1888590009?i=1000766575694 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/538Xs74YZzqCqLlNeosntg IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey Haller takes on Julian La Cosse's murder case as new autopsy findings change everything: Gloria Dayton was alive when the fire started, meaning smoke inhalation — not strangulation — was the cause of death. The prosecution adds special circumstances, eliminating bail, and turns Mickey's own timeline argument against the defense. Lorna pulls Hector Moya's federal record and finds a life sentence tied to a triple homicide weapon — a motive that has had years to harden. Cisco's review of Roosevelt hotel footage reveals an unidentified man who tracked Gloria out of the lobby while keeping his face off every camera, following her to a car with unreadable plates. Mickey also learns that Gloria herself warned a friend never to contact him, believing that Mickey knowing she was still in Los Angeles would unravel something in her cooperation arrangement. This episode establishes the structural problem at the center of the season: the same evidence cuts both ways, and Mickey is defending a client while entangled in a deal that may have contributed to the victim's death. The Moya motive, Gloria's cryptic warning, and the deliberate camera evasion at the Roosevelt together suggest premeditation and outside involvement — but each thread raises questions that implicate Mickey as much as they help Julian. The episode also shows how Mickey operates under pressure, from the Guerrero mistrial to the Cole's diner scene at the end, and makes clear the personal cost of the case before the trial has even been scheduled. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s03e02-special-circumstances/id1888590009?i=1000766575821 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/17eb5erJl0tDUEXPxYTUbA IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799
Mickey argues to suppress Julian La Cosse's police interview on Miranda grounds, but Judge Turner denies the motion under apparent political pressure from an upcoming election challenge. Outside the courthouse, Mickey is served with a subpoena tied to cartel figure Hector Moya's habeas petition — and as he traces the other names on the list, he uncovers that DEA agent DeMarco gave Gloria Dayton a gun to plant in Moya's room, manufacturing the evidence that sent him to prison for life. Mickey, without knowing it, filed the cooperation paperwork that gave the frame job its legal standing. The episode closes with Cisco hunting a tracker on the Lincoln and Lorna leaving a voicemail: she knows who followed Gloria out of the Roosevelt the night she died. This episode reframes the entire foundation of the case. What looked like a standard snitch deal in Season 1 was a federal setup, and Mickey is now legally entangled in it. The Moya habeas thread and the Gloria murder investigation are converging — whoever wanted the frame kept quiet had reason to want Gloria silenced, and the same person may be tracking Mickey now. Understanding this episode is necessary to follow how Julian's defense, Mickey's bar exposure, and DeMarco's motive are all connected going forward. — Part of the Explained Podcasts network. More shows: https://explainedpodcasts.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lincoln-lawyer-s03e03-strange-bedfellows/id1888590009?i=1000766575610 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iEFJD0REB6gb3Zwb0oJVm IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833978/ TVDB: https://thetvdb.com/dereferrer/series/399909 TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/116799